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- 6561: Gregorian Chant
- ... boat, this was often dangerous. People were often attacked on trails by thieves or if they became sick or hurt no one could help them since the distance from town to town was usually very great. If some one crossed an ocean by boat they ran the risk of falling victim to pirates or storms. So most people never really had any reason to leave town to go out and explore ... tape recorder. It was even done before they had an organized system to record the chant. This specific chant appealed to me because as a religious person this Gregorian chant is something that has a great sound and idea behind it. The notion that Gregorian chant has survived is a amazing. The idea that something so old still exists, and not as a relic but in actual form, meaning that monks ...
- 6562: Louis Armstrong
- Louis Armstrong Louis Armstrong was famous around the world for his jazz interperitations on the trumpet and the many styles of jazz he produced and played. Not to mention, he also had many great accomplishments throughout his allustrious career. "Armstrong was the seminal artist of jazz history -- the first to combine trumpet virtuosity and an original musical vision with an entertainer's sense of presence and persona". (www.downbeatjazz ... of Europe since the early 1930s. "Another tour followed taking him to Africa, which was filmed by the CBS "See It Now" unit and became both a television profile and feature film documentary 'Satchmo The Great'. The international tours in the political context of the Cold War earned him the title 'Ambassador Satch' ". (www.foppejohnson.com/armstrong/home.html) "In the mid-1950s he recorded his last unmitigated jazz masterpiece work ...
- 6563: Music In Video Games
- ... the life of the industry from 1972 to the present. These progressions can be seen as improvements in quality which includes an increase in the number of output channels, an increase in song length, a great improvement in the quality of timbres, and also a general shift from non- programmatic music to programmatic music which fits a game. If one takes a close look, one can see that all of these ... frequency modulation to digital sampling, and the use of compact discs for playing music during a game. By closely examining the contribution of the preceding technological advancements, one can see that technology has indeed caused great improvements for music in the video game industry. The first technological enhancement which greatly enhanced the quality of music in video games is the number of bits which a sound Central Processing Unit (CPU) has ...
- 6564: Music Censorship
- ... censorship, the music a person chooses is still, and always should be, his choice. Some children are too young for the exposure to certain types of music. Albums containing sexually explicit lyrics depicting sexualacts in great detail are not good for young children to hear. Also, sexual content within the albums, as in their artwork, is unacceptable. For example, the Frankenchrist album by the Dead Kennedys, which portrays an extremely sexual ... approximately 25, 000 songs are released every year in comparison to only about 325 movies per year (Zucchino 9). Although the idea of printing lyrics in the albums and cassettes has the endorsement of the great Frank Zappa and John Denver, this is not possible (Zucchino 9) . The record companies, who print the albums, do not own the rights to the lyrics, the music companies do (Zucchino 9). Providing printed lyrics ...
- 6565: Modern Music Composition
- ... did not learn music so quickly. It takes time, just as everything else does. In the end, they, for the most part, became very famous. Even the most basic composition, if produced correctly, can bring great satisfaction. Not to mention, it can bring great wealth. If a composer chooses the wrong level at which he or she would like to compose the piece of music, he or she could be making a total-career choice. For, whenever he or ...
- 6566: Metallica
- ... have gone through many changes over the years. The original members of the band were James Hetfeild, Lars Ulrich, Dave McGovney, and Dave Mustain. Hetfeild was the rhythm guitarist and singer. Lars is a very great drummer. McGovney was the original bass player. And Dave Mustain was the original lead guitarist. Lars first began playing at the age of 13 when his grandmother brought him home a cheap set of drums ... and struggling to be best. Metallica have overcome many tragedies over the years andcame out on top. The moral of this book is practice makes perfect because Metallica spent many years practicing to become as great as they now are. I like the whole book because it always seemed so interesting.
- 6567: Jerry Garcia and The Grateful Dead
- ... to his mother and told her that he wanted an electric guitar for his next birthday. During this same period, the beat period was going into full swing in the Bay Area, and it held great predominance at the North Beach arts school where Garcia attended and at the city's coffeehouses, where he had heard poets like Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Kenneth Rexroth read their best works. By the early Sixties ... religious experience. Among those taking these drugs was Garcia future songwriting partner Robert Hunter. Another that later joined the band was Ken Kersey, author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Sometimes a Great Notion. Kersey had been working on an idea about group LSD experiments and had started a loosely knit gang of artists, called the Merry Pranksters, dedicated to this adventure. This group included several rebels including ...
- 6568: History of Rock and Roll
- ... with the emergence of female singers such as Diana Ross and the Supremes. Other Motown singers such as the Temptations used dance and music together to enhance their popularity. Stevie Wonder was also another Motown great. This started the trend of soul music. During the 1960's hippies, drugs (LSD and Acid), and protests filled the air of this time. Groups such as The Mamas and The Papas, Country Joe and ... 1971), The Song Remains the Same (1976), and In Through the Out Door (1976). Their most famous song was `Stairway to Heaven' (1971). With the death of Bonham in 1980, the band was at a great loss, and band members (Plant and Page) went on to solo careers. The reunion of the remaining band members was in 1985, for a Live Aid benefit concert in Philadelphia. Another reunion took place in ...
- 6569: Greg Graffin
- ... automatically think of spiked hair and leather jackets and violent people. And that has nothing to do with what I thought of it in the early days, (which was) really thought-provoking music with a great melody," says Graffin. In fact he considers the music he and his band make as folk music. "The music is very sparse, the guitars aren't Multi-layered or processed. It's not elaborate; it ... our career. We've been around 16 years and we plan on being around 16 more!!!" So hopefully they will be around to inspire more people to use their minds for exploration and to create great music.
- 6570: Can Manufactured Bands Ever be Classified as 'Good' Art? The Effect of the Market on the Construction of Music
- ... go to a concert?" The answer is, having experienced the reaction to Take That, Boyzone etc., that they want young boys, in nice clothes, very good looking, very sexy looking, who are going to look great on their bedroom walls when they get their posters out of Smash Hits. So this is exactly what the managers design and produce for them. The four boys that were eventually chosen were picked from ... absolutely not - I don't like his style," ; "Pity about him, he's got a good voice but look at his skin - we won't be able to do anything with his acne," to "Looks great - bad voice, but nothing the studio can't fix," or "Yeah, he's not bad, but I don't know about his hair. Maybe with some dye and matching coloured contact lenses
." If the band ...
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