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Music
Dynamics refers to the volume of what a listener hears or what a performer is directed to produce. Form refers to the structure of music; a common example is twelve-bar blues. Form almost always...
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Music
A listening chart is a regular chart that has been adapted to row and column labels specifying music selection types, titles, artists, and music elements. For "The Sound of Music," your chart will...
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Music
Opera seria is a genre of opera. It was common in the 18th century. The term itself is Italian, but opera seria was performed in many European countries in addition to Italy. The style of this kind...
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Music
Released in 1966, "Eleanor Rigby" is a popular song by The Beatles that explores, in a straightforward manner and with a haunting tone, the loneliness and isolation experienced by the elderly. The...
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Music
Popular music can most certainly be a force of change in culture! While music reflects the thoughts, feelings, and values of the person or people who created it and therefore comes from culture,...
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Music
Let’s take a visual approach to answering this question. If you look at a piano keyboard, you’ll see a repeating pattern of white keys and black keys—in this pattern, you’ll notice that...
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Music
Your question refers to musical intervals, i.e., the distance between musical pitches. An interval, in music, is "the inclusive distance between one tone and another." A fifth is one of three...
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Music
This is a wonderful question! Since "inspiring" is a word that is conceptual, you do need some concrete way of showing that music inspires people. And since I am someone who loves music and can't...
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Music
Bruno Mars' popular "Just the Way You Are" includes several examples of figurative language. Here are two to get you started. In the first verse, Mars says: Oh, her eyes, her eyesMake the stars...
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Music
Music is part of the culture and “personality” of a country (or even a geographic region). As such, it is part of the “biography” of that area, part of the changes brought about by other...
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Music
There seem to be two long-term trends in music today: minimalism and non-western orchestra sound. I am not speaking of “popular” music (rap, etc.), but music composed, as Arvo Part says,...
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Reference
Music has been existence since virtually the beginning of time, both in the animal and the human world. Music is enjoyed by both individuals and groups, and it can be experienced both as a...
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Music
The relationship between music and mood has long been established. In preparing a research paper on the subject, therefore, a useful starting point would be a review of the literature – an...
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Essay Lab
You are writing an essay which, I assume, makes the case that music has the power to change a person's mood, both positively and negatively. When you are making an argument for something (which is...
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William Wordsworth
Any song that could be chosen to create a link between Lucy Gray by Wordsworth and the modern era needs to be reflective, somber and even perhaps tinged with regret. However, it does depend on who...
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Music
The most important thing to keep in mind when you're writing a college application essay is that everything about it represents you to people who don't know you. It should sound like you (be...
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Music
Music has become a ubiquitious presence in the lives of many people, especially those in modern, consumer-oriented societies. We listen to music without even realizing it when shopping, strolling,...
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Music
The lyrics of this famous and extremely popular song by Coldplay describe the opposite of a rags-to-riches story. Instead of beginning from a place of poverty, the speaker of this song "used to...
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Coldplay
The title of this very popular song is actually taken from a painting by Frida Kahlo, a famous Mexican artist, who lived an extraordinairy life in spite of suffering from polio and many other...
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Music
When preparing a paper on the history of jazz, there are a number of points that should be discussed. The first such point involves the relationship of jazz to the history of African-Americans and...
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Reference
Because music is an effective form of expression and communication, song writers often write (and singers often sing) songs expressing their outrage about all kinds of things. Songs which claim...
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Music
Let us define modern music as 20th and 21st. century music, which can be divided into at least two kinds: “popular music”, which is the widely broadcast, bought, and sung music of iTunes and...
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Music
Modern music is often a reflection of many people's perceptions of the world around them. The protest music of the 1960s and early 1970s, for example, grew out of the growing disenchantment among...
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Music
Let us begin by clarifying and limiting some terms. First, we will limit our response to “fine art” music, let us say Western orchestral instruments. Second, we will expand the definition of...
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Benson, George
The multi-talented George Benson is known for his accomplishments on the guitar as an innovative jazz artist, but he has made a name also in the pop,swing, and rhythm and blues world. As a young...
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Music
When listing top female singers for each decade between 1920 and 1969, two considerations must be kept in mind: 1) "Top" singer may refer to most records sold, or it may refer to the far more...
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Music
Of course, there are many different ways to measure the popularity of recording artists. One way is to look at all-time record sales. According to the Recording Industry Association of America...
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Music
Che Guevera is the well-known, famous or infamous Argentinian who became the leader of the Cuban revolution. The Motorcycle Diaries, adapted from his own journals, tracks the start of his...
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Music
While Baroque and Classical music historically refer to two distinct periods of time (the former from around 1600 to 1750; the latter from 1750 to about 1820), and while they represent different...
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Music
More than the later Baroque music, Renaissance era music was more limited in terms of orchestration. While musical instruments were being invented and refined, there were, quite simply, fewer...
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Music
Two differences between Renaissance and modern music are in notation (writing music down). The primary basic note value was larger than the modern value being the equivalent of modern whole note...
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Music
These terms – medieval music and modern music – need a little clarification and subdivision. Secular medieval music forms (ballads, love songs, etc.) are best compared to modern music (Top 40?...
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Social Sciences
Dead Meadow is a psychedelic rock band formed in the 1990s. It is a popular pastime to analyse and interpret lyrics much like a person interprets poetry. The title of this song Indian Bones...
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Music
Tempo: the speed at which a passage of selection is played. The tempo variation moves from initial slow instrumentals with slow vocals to double-time vocal over slow percussion.Dynamics: the...
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Music
Chapin's song is a testament to the intricacies of parenthood. The song operates as an example of how daily life's routine can preclude the elements of life that make being worthwhile. The birth...
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Music
Let's take a well reasoned look at the lyrics of the original and those of the satirizing parody. To start, let's define satire. Satire: The use of exaggerated humor to expose the folly in society...
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Music
A wide array of songs could fit in answering this question. Yet, for me, the immediate connection I made was to The Beatles' "A Day in the Life." It features a strong shift in musical dynamics...
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Arts
Music is almost always performed for the purpose of conveying a particular meaning. Music composers, lyricists, conductors, think in terms of the meaning they wish to convey when they write the...
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Music
The song suggests that people listen to the television and do what it says, and that television is not a good example for society. The song mentions several examples of society not working right...
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Teachers
For younger children, for example music beginners in grade two, the best tool for learning the beat or pulse is the student's own body. Rhythm must be kept distinguished from beat (and taught after...
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Music
Integrating music into the student’s other learning can strengthen both the music learning experience and the learning of other subjects. However, if there is not enough time devoted to teaching...
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Teachers
A world music approach teaches the music of different time periods and genres, of classical and other styles, as a dynamic process that effects every aspect of society and culture within different...
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Music
In other words- If the interval is too large to be major sounding, it is augmented. If it is too small to be perfect sounding, it is minor. If it is a semitone smaller than minor, it is...
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Music
The first division in your analysis is internal vs. external distinction; in other words, are you going to examine the details of rhythm, harmony, instrumentation, etc. inside a musical “kind”...
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Music
The history of reggae music dates back to the era of slavery in Jamaica. It is a music that has its roots in the folk music of the slaves. Newer influences in the 1950s and 1960s moved the...
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Music
William Channing Woodbridge’s role in music history was as a proponent of music education in the 19th century. Woodridge made a name for himself as a geographer, specializing in teaching...
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The "Mozart Effect" was something generated out of research published in Nature 1993. The researchers found that a specific amount of time listening to Mozart's Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major, K...
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Music
It's a tie between Stevie Wonder and Michael Franks. Michael Franks has the most romantic lyrics ever. He takes me to far away places and brings a sense of serenity. Stevie Wonder is an amazing...
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Music
It depends on the requirements of your project, but you might consider looking at the lyrics for some of the top songs on the charts right now. I really enjoy the intricacy of Ed Sheeran's song...
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Music
The important thing to focus on when incorporating any additional aspect into the curriculum is to consider these questions: Will incorporating this lesson complement the required curriculum by...