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Stan Kenton & His Orchestra
Words: 2955 / Pages: 11 .... Impressionists of the day; Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Arnold Schonberg and Igor Stravinsky, all of whom he later celebrated in many of his own classically-inspired compositions: 'Theme For Sunday,' 'Sunset Tower,' 'Concerto To End All Concertos.'
Upon graduation from Bell High School he worked during the day as a rehearsal pianist in dance halls and theaters. At night he paid his dues in a succession of after-hours bars, clip joints and five dollar-a-night speakeasies prevalent throughout the depression-era southwest until he was able to assemble his own 14-piece orchestra in June of 1941. A dominant characteristic of this relatively small Kento .....
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The Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Words: 892 / Pages: 4 .... cast with his arm sticking straight out, affixed to a pole. A widely-publicized drug problem also debilitated him but now everyone appears to be back on the creative track.
"We've been in this weird holding pattern," Smith said. "But now we're all back together again like Humpty Dumpty."
"There have been tragedies and incredibly inspirational experiences along the way," says Kiedis, "but the one thread that has been consistent has been the desire to create something honest, soulful and powerful. When we were making music 12 years ago, we were making it because it felt good and we wanted to do it and we're still making music because it feel .....
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Music In Therapy
Words: 3378 / Pages: 13 .... in becoming a music therapist. First, a minimum of four years of academic course-work plus a six-month internship at an approved facility is required before receiving a Bachelor of Music Therapy degree.
Academic course-work may include a thorough study of music, psychology of music, music in therapy, influence of music on behavior, psychology, and anatomy and physiology. Clinical fieldwork may include patient assessment, designing treatment goals and objectives and evaluating patient progress. After the six-month internship is completed, a music therapist applies to become registered with the National Association for Music Therapy (NAMT). Once .....
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Jerry Garcia And The Grateful Dead
Words: 1736 / Pages: 7 .... Monroe, the principal founder of bluegrass. When Garcia was ten, his
mother, Ruth, brought him to live with her at a sailor's hotel and bar that she
ran near the city's waterfront. He spent much of his time there listening to
the drunks', fanciful stories; or sitting alone reading Disney and horror comics
and pouring through science-fiction novels.
When Garcia was fifteen, his older brother Tiff - who years earlier had
accidentally chopped off Jerry's right-hand middle finger while the two were
chopping wood - introduced him to early rock & roll and rhythm & blues music.
Garcia was quickly drawn to the music's funky rhythms and wild textures, but .....
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Death Of The Superstars
Words: 1262 / Pages: 5 .... neither one of them heard
of. They decided to go down and see if someone could give them directions. They
soon were out of they're car and looking for someone to help them. They both
noticed at the same time that the man behind the counter of the local pub that
they were in looked a lot like John Lennon. They also noted the young lady
singing in the corner looked and sounded incredibly like Janice Joplin. The book
or should I say short story continued on as only King could, people dying ,
strange conversations and just weirdness in general.
Now, I told that little story because I wanted to give you a little
background on why I chose this subject. Wh .....
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The Phonograph
Words: 1562 / Pages: 6 .... across the record. When the stylus moves along the undulating groove of the revolving disk, it vibrates, and the vibrations are converted into equivalent electrical impulses by the cartridge in the tonearm. These impulses are conducted by wire leads to an electronic amplifier and then to one or more loudspeakers.
The first practical phonograph was built by the American inventor Thomas Edison in 1877. Edison recorded sound on a cylinder, which was then rotated against a needle. The needle moved up and down in the grooves of the cylinder, producing vibrations that were amplified by a conical horn. Because of the vertical movement of the needle, this rec .....
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History Of Percussion Instruments
Words: 901 / Pages: 4 .... many
factors of their sound, and playing style. All percussion instruments fall
into two main categories, idiophones and membranophones. Idiophones
produce their sound from vibrations without the use of a stretched membrane.
This could include castanets, rattles, and mallet instruments.
Membranophones are those that produce a sound from the vibrations of a
stretched membrane. These include any type of drum hit with a stick. Both
of these instruments are tunable in many different ways and forms;
therefore, these instruments can be used as melodic instruments (“
Percussion” 653).
Basic idiophones (also refereed to as concussion instruments) are .....
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Woodstock 1969
Words: 1227 / Pages: 5 .... Most of the gates and fences were not put up which allowed many people to enter the festival for free. The mud also created a major cleanup project after the festival ended.
Woodstock gathered an unexpectedly large attendance. Only 50,000 to 100,000 people were expected to arrive at the site. These numbers seemed small compared to the 400,000 to 500,000 people who converged on the area on August 15, 16, and 17 of 1969. Many expected singers and bands could not arrive due to traffic backed up for miles along all the roads leading to the area. It was said that nearly one million people could have attended the concert if it had lasted longer. Many .....
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Influence Of Music: Emotions And Effects
Words: 180 / Pages: 1 .... the way a person can dress. If some one that is listens to
rock&roll will dress outraged and may wear nose rings. Students that listen to
country may dress with a cow boy hat. A person that listens to oldies may dress
with clothes from the past.
Music can also influence the way a person thinks about somthing. People that
listens to rap may think that drugs should be legal. A person that likes country
may think that raggedy cars should be used until it possibly can't run anymore.
A person that listens to oldies think that the fashion should be the way that it
was when it was the fiftys.
This concludes the essay for " music and how it influences." .....
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The Way It Really Was!
Words: 840 / Pages: 4 .... Indies.
The first Rock and Roll hit
The term Rock and Roll was usually used for describing physical sex.
Allen Freed was credited with inventing Rock and Roll but that wouldn't be to
good for him later in life.
The father of Rock and Roll
Alan freed was the first white disc jockey to play Rock and Roll. Alan
show in Cleveland was very popular with teenagers. In 1954, Alan's show moved
to WINS. His nick name “moondog” had to be dropped. He adopted the new title “
the king of rock and roll”. Newspapers ran articles saying Alan was the main
wrongdoer in creating Rock and Roll. A riot broke out at one of Alan Freed's
concert. The .....
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