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Beethoven's 8th Sonata: Analysis
Words: 244 / Pages: 1 .... many variety of textures including thick, thin, and light
sound.
Melody - (bar 1-10), there is an introduction of a slower melody
which will lead to a faster melody in the exposition in
bar 12.
Rhythm - The rhythm is fairly straight forward with quite a few
dotted eighths or sixteenths in (bars)................
1,2,3,5,7,8,133,134,135,295,296, and 297.
Meter - The meter is in a common or (4/4) time. However, in the
exposition, it changes into a cut or (2/2) time in (bars
12 - 132), (bars 137 - 294), and (bars 299 - 310).
Tempo - There are two tempos which are: .....
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Jimi Hendrix
Words: 978 / Pages: 4 .... Young Jimi taught himself to play the guitar during his schoolboy
days in Seattle, drawing influence from blues legends like B.B. King and
Robert Johnson. He slung his guitar over his back and left home to enlist
in the 101st Division of the Air Force (the "Screaming Eagles"), where he
served as a parachute jumper until an injury led to his discharge. Hendrix
then began working as a session guitarist under the name Jimmy James,
playing behind such marquee acts as Sam Cooke, Ike and Tina Turner, and the
Isley Brothers. After gigging extensively with Little Richard in 1964,
Hendrix became entangled in a contract dispute with the mercurial artist
a .....
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Bela Fleck And The Flecktones Concert
Words: 391 / Pages: 2 .... mixture. The most amazing part of the instruments was that the percussionist played the drums on a guitar looking instrument that ran through speakers. Then they started to play and I was completely blown away. The talent the band displayed was amazing, I was blown away. The music is a unique mixture of many different genres; jazz, rock, R&B and funk, to name a few. Much of the music had no singing and the songs were very long and complicated, involving different parts and many complicated solos.
In between songs each musician performed solos on their instruments, which proved the talent, they held on their instruments even more. The bassi .....
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Stone Temple Pilots
Words: 796 / Pages: 3 .... which also was a big hit and with the Herion addictions aside,
Stone Temple Pilots is one of the best bandson the planet- or any planet..Early
labels of Pearl Jam Wannabees or Nirvana soundalikes have long since disspated,
and Weiland and the boys have created a wall of sound all their own..Sometimes
an all outfrenzy of driving energy- (Sex Type Thing, Meatplow, Trippin on a
Holein a Paper Heart), to the more subdued tracks of Creep, Pretty Penny, and
Big Empty. The STP trademark sound can be best heard on Plush, and Interstate
Love Song..Classic Rock and Roll for the new generation.. This band has it all-
variety, talent, harmony, lyrics and a grea .....
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2Pac Shakur
Words: 528 / Pages: 2 .... 5, 1993, he assaulted a fellow rapper with a baseball bat.
October 31, 1993, he was charged with shooting two off duty police officers. The
charges were later dropped. November 19, 1993, he was convicted of sexual
assault (“Death”).
In November 1994, Tupac himself was shot during an attempted robbery
outside a music studio in New York. Tupac did, however, mention this; “Thug life
to me is dead. If it's real, let somebody else represent it because I'm tired of
it.” Shakur told Vibe Magazine. “I represented it too much. I was Thug Life”(“
Associated”).
Tupac had a very promising career. His first album “2pacallyps Now” was .....
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Rap Music
Words: 1336 / Pages: 5 .... "Mad loot" (money). Its bad enough we grew up in a
era where the slightiest thing could upset any one,like teaching
masturbation in public schools or teaching about the creation of the world
in christian point of view. We, the society are trying the screen
everything, to protect are children from being harm. But its harm we are
inflecting on are soon to be leaders of the world,for example tring to
banned sex education from the schools,screening the TV from harmful life
scaring scenes of nudity,music being edited because of the used of the word
"NIGGER" "BITCH" "JEW" "HOE" etc. Now rap singers are just telling stories
about drug dealing, getting .....
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The Prodigy
Words: 1080 / Pages: 4 .... triggered the notoriously heated 'is rave dead' debate. Amid all the
furore it was easy to miss the fact that Charly was one of the most
successful dance records of the time, and far better than any of the
opportunist tunes that came in it's wake. Twenty-two year old Liam Howlett
is the musical force behind the Prodigy sound, although there are three
other members who contribute to the live performance - Maxim Reality,
Leeroy Thornhill and Keith Flint Liam was once the DJ for the London rap
act Cut To Kill, but he became disillusioned with the rap scence's
aggressive attitude after experiencing the 'Love, Peace and Happiness' that
dominated the .....
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Basquiat And Davis
Words: 1116 / Pages: 5 .... School, and exhibited watercolors in the Armory Show, which made an overwhelming impact on him. After a visit to Paris in 1928 he introduced a new note into U.S. cubism, basing himself on its synthetic rather than its analytical phase. Using natural forms, particularly forms suggesting the characteristic environment of American life, he rearranged them into flat poster-like patterns with precise outlines and sharply contrasting colors.
He later went on to pure abstract patterns, into which he often introduced lettering, suggestions of advertisements, and posters. The zest and dynamism of such works as Swing Landscape reflect his interest in jazz, wh .....
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Nirvana
Words: 291 / Pages: 2 .... band.
Their names are Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl. They were very successful
in music. They played alternative music.
Their first album was Bleach. It was releases on June 1989. It was a
big hit. From the success of the album the went on tour in England. Then
the released another album called Nevermind. It was released in 1991. The
album just went platinum. For the album they went on tour to Europe.
Nevermind album hits the number 1 charts for the second time. Then one
day Kurt Cobain meets a girl in another band called Hole. Her name is
Courtney Love. The ended up getting married in Hawaii in February 24, 1992.
Then in August 18, 1992 .....
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The Difference Between Punk And Ska
Words: 584 / Pages: 3 .... different, but the ones that are the same are played differently. There are differences in sound effects, methods of playing, and beat. Punk will use a lot of distortion, but not a lot of other effects like flangers and wahs. It is fairly easy to hear what they are playing. Although ska doesn’t really use distortion, they do use a sound gate that makes their guitar sound very snappy. Ska also uses a lot of unusual effects just for fun.
Punk bands have a lead guitar player, and sometimes a rhythm guitarist who backs up the lead guitarist. In ska, all the guitars make quick, snappy, upward strums and quickly palm mute the strings. All .....
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