Ist't It Ironic: An Imaginative Response To The Song "Ironic" By Alanis Morisette
.... he put them on the table next to his bed.
They talked about how James was getting on at school and how John's grand
daughter was doing at work. John remembered that he needed to get his lottery
ticket, he asked his daughter to get it for him. They joked about it being a
waste of money and even if they tried they would not be able to spend that much
money. She left James talking to John as she went off to buy the ticket. John
told James about the time he used to be a pilot in the RAF James was fascinated
b .....
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The Clifford Ball
.... coolers of beer, soda, food, and more beer, tents, stoves,
lanterns, bug torches, and clothes. At around 12 midnite Friday morning we hit
the road and embarked, on what would be a scared trip. Tom drove the van with
his brother and myself. Tim in his red Festiva with Joe and Sean, and Beau in
his blue Festiva with Alex. Stopping only to piss and re-fuel, we busted up to
Plattsburg, arriving around 6am. It was amazing to see all the VW Westvalias up
I-87 with Steal you Face, and dancing bear stickers .....
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Drugs In The Music Industry
.... pumpkins, Everclear, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Dr. Dre, Blind Melon, Red Hot
Chili Peppers, The Breeders, Alice in Chains, Sex Pistols, Sublime, Iggy Pop,
the list goes on and on. Together, these bands have sold more than 60 million
albums(Newsweek pgs 50 & 53).
Since kids emulate popular musicians, what is there to keep them from
emulating their drug use? Moreover, what's to keep the majority of the
population from doing the same? In the 60's and 70's, drug use was never spoken
of nor did anyone adm .....
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Phish
.... The first person they recruited was a freshman drummer named Jon “Fish” Fishman. One day, Trey walked by Fish’s room while he was practicing, and asked him to join the band. He agreed but he also played in another band at the time. Fish taught himself how to play the drums by locking himself in his room and trying to copy the sound of bands such as Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin. When he moved to college, he started to move toward jazz and hardcore. Now, all they needed was a bass player. The three p .....
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Origin Of Musical Instruments
.... the fact that timbrels were being used at banquets and at religious gatherings. Jacob's father-in-law Laban, lived in Babylonian territory, and when Jacob left him in haste, he said to him: "Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly . . . that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp? (Gen. 31:27). This suggests the possibility that some of these musical instruments as used in Babylonia found their way into the life of the early Hebrews.
Egyptian Musical Instru .....
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Bela Fleck And The Flecktones Concert
.... 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 bassist was the .....
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Peoria Symphony Orchestra: A Regional Outlet For Classical Music In Contemporary Society
.... area. Through the efforts of volunteers and staff, the guild helps make the arts accessible to all, especially area youth. Board of Directors is headed by Joyce Stanisic, President, and Cecile Langford, Vice-President.
In 1989, the Peoria Symphony Foundation was incorporated to provide long term financial security to the symphony. The foundation is a 501Ó3 non-profit corporation. Proceeds after expenses that don’t go to the endowment are added to the Symphony’s Operating income. The Guild donated .....
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The Red Hot Chilli Peppers
.... 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 feels good and we want to do it."
"If .....
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Air Pollution
.... human respiratory system, and brings toxic materials into the body. The small particles cause chronic bronchitis, bronchial asthma, emphysema and lung cancer. The second type is sulfur oxides, which come from the burning of coal and industrial processes. Damage to materials, to vegetation, and to the human respiratory system are caused by the acid nature of oxides. The third type of pollutant is carbon monoxide. Carbon monoxide is a colorless, odorless, tasteless gas against which humans have no .....
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Gregorian Chant
.... background and say “yeah, that CD with the cool beat and the monks singing in the background!” This is not true, simply because it is not signing it is chanting and that’s the big difference. Second, there shouldn’t be any music in the background as in the enigma CD.
So what exactly is Gregorian chant ? A bunch of notes slapped on a paper that people just riddle off in a deep voice so it sounds good? Of course not. Chant is a specific kind of music. The people of that time didn’t really develop .....
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The Misconception Of Classical Music
.... music” would take some time to get used to.
My Music Appreciation class gave me knowledge I needed to understand music that I was not already familiar with. The first couple of weeks in the class, we learned the basic elements of not just “classical” music, but all music in general. The next couple of weeks later we listened to music so could utilize the terms we learned. Works like harmony, melody, key, pitch, and chords became more outstanding to me. Next, we started studying the various time pe .....
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The Beat Generation
.... into drugs, wrote such novels such as Junky, and “Naked Lunch, which made Burroughs an underground celebrity, and is widely considered his best work.3” Burroughs is in fact though, “the only major beat figure not strongly influenced by Buddhist thought.4” Jack Kerouac, who had wrote the great novel, On The Road, contained great reference to jazz. It contained the idea of spontaneous prose which Kerouac thought of while listening to jazz. Spontaneous prose was “the style of being true to one’s be .....
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Hear No Evil: Music Censorship
.... will know and be able to take into account the ways that both groups use appeals to manipulate the audience to take their stance.
One of the founding debates over censorship in music was the Parent Music Resource Center (PMRC) Congressional hearings on September 19, 1985. The PMRC is a Washington women’s group that informs parents about violent or obscene music. The group was founded in 1985 by Tipper Gore, along with three other women (Stolder 30). Mrs. Gore left the PMRC in 1993 (Gowen 20) an .....
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The Difference Between Punk And Ska
.... 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 of the guitarists do the same thing, and occ .....
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Jazz Age
.... roaring twenties that a group of new tonalities entered the mainstream, fixing the sound and the forms of our popular music for the next thirty years. Louie Armstrong closed the book on the dynastic tradition in New Orleans jazz.
The first true virtuoso soloist of jazz, Louie Armstrong was a dazzling improviser, technically, emotionally, and intellectually. Armstrong, often called the “father of jazz,” always spoke with deference, bordering on awe, of his musical roots, and with especial devotion of h .....
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