Film Score Music
.... is that a great deal of time and
thought goes into writing the score for a film and choosing the background music
for a scene. None of the music is arbitrary; themes and sub themes have been
created with specific ideas in mind and have been put in place only to add to
the story and the characters. It is also important to acknowledge that the
evolution into the type of film scoring that we are accustomed to today was not
a quick or easy transition. It has taken almost a century to develop the
specifi .....
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Great Rock Musicians: Their Achievements And Effect On Rock And Roll
.... every one who heard it could identify with its message.
This type of Blues later became known as country blues because it was rooted in
rural areas. The Blues became more main stream and popular in the 1920's
because of the recording industry coming into existence. More instruments were
added such as pianos, organs, and wind instruments.
Big Band and Rhythm and Blues stemmed from City Blues.
Rock and Roll then stemmed from Rhythm and Blues, in fact, many of the
first recorded "Rock" songs .....
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Greg Graffin
.... fifteen he started a band with other social outcasts who didn't
quite fit in. They settled on the name BAD RELIGION.
Bad Religion does not pertain to any kind of sacrilegious activities or
the like. Instead it is a statement against any establishment that promotes
dogmatic thinking or punishes individualism and rewards followers. Greg once
said in an interview "Instead of rewarding uniqueness we, for some reason
probably because of cultural and social necessity, we chastise unique behavior
and rewa .....
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History Of Rock And Roll
.... and changed
the face of music, which was named rock and roll by the D.J.'s.
1956-1962
At age 21, in 1956, Elvis Presley was introduced to the public with his
rockabilly style of music. His first record, "Heartbreak Hotel" was recorded.
It was the first of a consecutive 14 records to sell over one million copies.
He inspired other country singers to sing rock and roll. This started a
trend for "cover" recordings. This was when white singers simplified versions
of Black recorded songs. Whit .....
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Origins And History Of The Dulcimer
.... wooden hammer.
It is commonly believed that the dulcimer came to Europe from the East sometime
in the fifteenth century. This cannot be true. The dulcimer is closely related
to the yang ch'in from China. However, the yang ch'in was introduced to the
Chinese around 1800. A similar traditional dulcimer found its way to Korea in
about 1725. The dulcimer originated as the santir in what is now Iraq from a
Greek instrument, the psalterion. The santir was a trapeziodal box covered with
strings. It was .....
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How To Listen To Music, Not Just Hear It
.... them flush
against the wall, but put the back of the speaker into the corner, so each side
of the speaker is against each wall. For this reason, the bass is extended
(louder), and the tweeters, mid-range, and woofers give you their undivided
attention.
Where to sit is simple, but it takes some easy calculations to find the
perfect spot. There is a common rule for a person to experience the full effect
of the music. In order to do this, measure the distance between the two speaker
cabinets. If the s .....
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Paul Simon: I Am A Rock
.... he compares this to an
inpenetrable wall. Inpenetrable walls keep unwanted things out: bad feelings,
love, etc. Then, in the third line of this stanza, he says "I have no need of
friendship - friendship causes pain, It's laughter and loving I disdain." He
said that he doesn't want friendship because it just causes pain, and that the
laughter and loving he hates or despises. He wants to be left alone, like it
says in the third stanza, "Hiding in my room, Safe within my tomb."
He wanted to be shielded .....
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Industrial Music
.... keyboarder and guitarist of the band is Trent
Reznor. For the past two years, Trent has been the artist of the year in Spin
magazine and NIN has been the number two band of the year. In 1994, Nine Inch
Nails was announced MTV's band of the year. This was a great honor because MTV
spends most of it's time with rap and hip-hop. When NIN's first album came out
in 1989, it was mostly rock and roll with a techno twist, containing songs full
of depressing, suicidal lyrics. Then as the next two albums .....
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Instrumental History Of The Drums
.... and it also has no key, used mainly with drums in
playing marches.
The tenor drum is closely related to the snare drum. It is somewhat larger in
size and it has no snares across its lower skin. This drum is played with sofft
felt covered sticks and it produces a huskier sound. While it is occasionally
used in the orchestra this type of drum is found more frequently in military
marching bands.
The largest drum in the percussion family is the bass drum. The bass drum of the
classical era, though not .....
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Jazz And Classical Music
.... periods. The
classical period of music actually spans a time from of 1750 to 1800; thus, the
term Classical is a misnomer and could more correctly be changed to Western Art
Music or European Art Music. European because most of the major composers up
till the 20th century were European. Vivaldi was Italian, Bach was German,
Mozart and Beethoven were Austrian; they are some of the more prominent
composers. Not until the twentieth century with Gershwin and a few others do we
find American composers writing th .....
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Jerry Garcia And The Grateful Dead
.... 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
what attracted him the most were the sounds that .....
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Life's Too Short
.... rules
discussed in his song "Gettin it".
First of all, an important ingredient to the song is how it appeals to
kids. With it's ghetto beat and monster bass the song is something that kids
feel cool listening to. This is his first success ingredient, getting the
attention of his audience so that they will listen to his message. His message
is of course the best thing about the song. It explains to kids to "stop just
hangin out, set your self some goals, think positive, and keep hustling".
Too S .....
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Metallica
.... from Denmark to Newport Beach, California in 1980 to find the
sunny climate to play tennis. After that he met the band as friends and then
began to play.
Hetfeild went to Downey East Middle School where he started playing in the
auditorium on the stage with friends. Three years later his mother died of
cancer. There was a song written in memory of her memory titled "The God that
Failed." Then he moved to L.A. where he met the band. Lars knew Kirk but he
already had enough guitars in the band .....
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Modern Music Composition
.... you fail in the overall goal of the piece of music. Music composition is
a very modern thing these days. It has grown because of the advanced
availability of better technology. Technology, which is changing every day, has
opened up new and more innovative doors. Included with the advanced
technology that has brought music to life, there has also been a steady increase
of musicians. This is in direct proportion with the growing number of music
educators.
Music, by means of instruments, has b .....
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Music Censorship
.... listening to one of their
"questionable" albums, it is easily noticeable how they thrive off of it. All
of these performers do have one thing in common, at one time or another,
censorship made them victims because of their social unacceptable actions or
the content of their music and lyrics. While censorship is slightly more
realistic and open-minded (no more censoring performers from the waist down,
like Elvis Presley on the Ed Sullivan show), it still affects listeners and
their choice of music quite .....
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