...Many scholars have argued that WSO’s debut album “resets the boundaries of the art form” and “contains some of the best young players on the scene”. The band seemed to really connect with the audience, creating a familiar vibe with modern songs with such a balanced touch of salsa sound to grab...
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...Word Count 1759 Music of the United States Midterm When you read the title “America’s Musical Landscape” you can envision the numerous picturesque landscapes of America; every direction you look you will see something different whether it be mountains, deserts, woods, oceans, flatlands, waterfalls, the etched out stones from the glaciers of years ago; the landscapes have evolved and changed over the years. We have gone from primitive lands to modern buildings, numerous homes, and railways to change the look of America. The same concept goes for the music of our wonderful country. Music has evolved from the same people who have made our country what it is now. We have a mixture of influences from all over the world that have molded, created, composed and evolved the music into what we hear today, in our “audible landscape”. In order to fully understand music it is important to know something about the four elements of music; the rhythm refers to the beat and the pace of the music.(Ferris, pp.1) Melody refers to the tone and pitch, the faster it’s played the higher the pitch and vice versa for the slower, and the harmony is the combination of these tones.(Ferris, pp.3-5) How the music is delivered it is the timbre, whether it is through voice or instrument it is how the sound is delivered.(Ferris, pp. 6) There are many different categories or forms of music that the songs fit into, they can include chordal or folk to name a couple. The most used form in music is strophic which...
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...10/31/15 Harmony Healing Introduction Music can be used as a form of psychiatric therapy, according to the article, “Music as Therapy”, written by Dunja Degmečić, Pavo Filaković, and Ivan Požgain (287). These authors published their conclusions in December 2005, in the journal International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music. Music therapy was studied on many people with mental, physical, and emotional disabilities, ranging through a variety of impairments such as anxiety to HIV/AIDS, and through these studies it appeared that mainly scientific and experimental research methods were used on these specific patients (Music as Therapy 291). One study, for example, used music to help troubled patients remember a time of happiness or relaxation, in order to comfort the troubled souls they now bare (Music as Therapy 292). Results demonstrated beneficial consequences that have subsequently helped to deem music therapy as effective. Music is now a vital part of the health industry and is widely used to support patient’s well-being, both psychically and mentally, because of its positive results (Music as Therapy 287). Body of Paper...
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...INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC & TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH VOLUME 2, ISSUE 9, SEPTEMBER 2013 ISSN 2277-8616 Game Development Of Ibong Adarna Visual Novel Celso T. Agos Jr., Mark Lester C. Bal-Ut, Lorraine G. Calam, Relly N. Cantuba, Marlon Heindric M. Vallo. Engr. Mary Regina Apsay Abstract: Computer games are becoming a main entertainment. But this research tackles about Visual Novel a kind of game that has extremely minimal game-play, story-driven, usually have multiple or branching storyline and is commonly developed and released in Japan. The proponents made a game based on a story tackled in high school, after they developed it; the high school students compared it with a Visual Novel that is made and popular in Japan. The results are; the Ibong Adarna Visual Novel has the advantage with a difference of .08 in the over-all weighted mean but after the statistical treatment, this score is not significant with the score of .017. Index Terms: Branching Storyline, Game, Game Development, High School Students, Ren’Py Visual Novel Engine, Story-driven, Visual Novel, ———————————————————— 1 INTRODUCTION In this past decade, computers revolutionized the way of living. Computers make our work faster, more reliable and more accurate. Computers can be in different form like mobile phone, tablet PC, or in the form of desktop computer. Computers help us in numerous ways; communication, transportation, education, entertainment and many more. While computers have entered millions...
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...Spike and Michael The music can be used to intensify the reaction and understanding of the image as well as imagines are used to reinforce the emotional response to the music. The two most recognized producers of this concept are Spike Jonze and Michael Gondry. With styles totally different, Skipe and Michael opened way to a new course of the music and image through their innovative videos, which were rewarded and/or nominated in many occasions for an award. Adam Spiegel, well known as Spike Jonze, was born in 1969. Owner of a good sense of humor showed in his personality. Jonze always claimed to be an heir of the Spiegel magazine fortune which was far away from the reality. In the beginning of his career, being a marker of skateboard videos was the job that could be denominated as the door that opened the road to success. Jonze’s videos can be appreciated many times as ironic, simples or sometimes more complex. For example, “Cannonball”, his first MTV success music video made for the Breeders Band in 1993 and codirected by Michael Gordon, is notable for its creating a bite-sized, juniors version and pan outlandishness. The video shows Kim Deal singing underwater as a metal ball rolls down a suburban street going to different directions. At the same time the band is playing in a place that looks like a garage. Later, at the end of the video the group changed their clothes for clothes that are more colorful and with different style. With this characterizing Jonez wants to show...
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...on creating tap pieces and works with Valley Oak School of Dance in Oakdale California where she originally grew up. Her focus and passion is aimed towards tap choreography and technique because there has always been something about it allows her to truly move and express the joy dance brings her. Taking her experience with commercial dance as well as college training and bringing it back to a location with a small but growing amount of dance and becoming a successful choreographer is what intrigues me the most. Petra Inglis has a few “go to” methods while choreographing tap work. One way she likes to go about creating is by finding music and listening to the rhythm and dynamic of the score as well as locating music changes and accents, then developing the tap steps to correspond with the provided rhythm and adding a specific style or quality of performance and intention. She often asks her self if the dancers in a specific piece attempting to get the crowd to come dance with them or simply allow the audience to observe this group interacting with each other. In other words, is the piece going to be presentational or not? Mrs. Inglis also enjoys processes where she purely creates her own score through the tap movement and rhythm. She explained that a lot of the time music can override the actual tap sounds that the dancers are creating and then the whole point of the tap shoes is lost. That is why she extremely cautious of what songs she uses when choreographing to music. Mrs...
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...the intellectual abilities of the human brain. Also like cancer, there is no cure; however, there is still hope in creating a better quality of life for these victims through the use of musical therapy....
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...Final Strategic Plan The recording industry, as it exists today, is witnessing reduced profits and high barriers in place for new artists. These barriers occur due to the diminishing profit margins and record labels cautious decisions on offering new contracts to artists. The organization that I will be starting is a digital recording and music distribution company. The company will offer recording facilities and internet distribution at a reduced price to new and existing artists. The recording facilities will provide state of the art equipment, professional staff, and worldwide distribution. The company will rely on the use of strategic management and planning. Strategic management is defined as “development of corporate strategy, and the management of an organization according to that strategy. Strategic management focuses on achieving and maintaining a strong competitive advantage” (CBS Interactive Inc., para. 1, 2009). To put it simply, strategic management is focused on creating a solid framework in which individuals and departments within the business will operate at the highest level possible. This type of management is critical to the long term success of a business or firm due to the reliance on strategic planning. According to InvesterWords.com (2009), strategic planning is defined as “The process of determining a company's long-term goals and then identifying the best approach for achieving those goals” (strategic planning, para. 1). Strategic planning...
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...Thornhill: Research Methods for Business Students, 5th edition, Additional Case Studies Case 4a Marketing music products alongside emerging digital music channels Esmée had been working in the music industry as a marketing director for a small and successful independent record label for over fifteen years before deciding to study at university. She had witnessed many changes in the music industry over her career, the most significant of which was the transition from selling cassettes, vinyl records and CDs at retail to selling digital music online. She had observed that the music industry had not taken much notice of the potential for marketing and distributing digital music online until Shawn Fanning developed his peer-to-peer (P2P) file trading application, Napster, in 1999. While the music industry focused on shutting the service down, Napster became even more popular with music fans and consumers who were interested in discovering and sharing new music and creating custom compilations or playlists without having to buy entire albums. Early on, Esmée had decided that she needed to understand why Napster was so popular and consumers so enthusiastic about sharing music online. She decided to download the Napster application and was surprised to find older songs that were no longer available at retail, previously unreleased recordings, alternative studio versions and bootleg recordings made at live concerts. While searching for and downloading music, Esmée also began...
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...had the most significant impact on American society because of his company’s contributions to the tech world: Apple revolutionized music, computing and the cell phone industry. Listening to music before the twentieth century was complicated, exasperating, and dull until the creation of digital music. If a person was interested in new music, he/she would have to “go to a local music store, buy a CD of the whole album, take it home, and play it on the stereo system [...] if he wanted to listen to the album away from home, he would take the CD with him and play it on a portable CD player” (“iTunes changes the model for music distribution”). The stereo system was...
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...Introduction: We live in a society where music and talk shows have become an important part in our everyday life. We listen to music/talk shows throughout different mediums, such as TV and radio. Radio has been around for a very long time. It was first invented by Guglielmo Marconi in 1895 as a wireless telegraph to send Morse code through the air, so people can send messages from a country to another (Stephens, 1995). However, in 1912 the first radio act was passed (Crawford, 2008). In addition, after the first world war, people started using radio for a different reason. They started broadcasting music or reading the news to anyone who is tuned in (Stephens, 1995). As time passed, we still use the radio for the same purpose, whereas it is mostly for music now. Nowadays, we can find various radio stations to tune to programs and one of them is XM Satellite Radio. This radio is one of the satellite radios and also an online radio service that is in USA and Canada. It is provided by pay-for-service radio and cable television....
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...Music is both an aural and temporal combination. All its elements are likened into a tapestry moving in time. Ronald Thomas (2016), in his book “A Structure for Music Education” articulate that the nature of music is expressive, ongoing and creative. He further states that music conveys ideas and feelings in a way that addresses the human spirit and has great value in its communicative process. Music is therefore a continuing art. At the heart of music’s importance is its ability to provide a student with a true aesthetic experience. Experiencing this aesthetic sense through singing or playing an instrument alone or with others is an activity as old as human kind. Learning about and participating in music teaches critical thinking, problem...
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...sources of inspiration for 20th century music? (.7 point) Composers of the 20th century drew inspiration from an enormous variety of sources, including folk and popular music; music of Asia, Africa, and Latin America; and European art music from the Middle Ages through the 19th century. Many composers reacted to the influences of Post-Romantic and Impressionist styles and wrote works from it. 2. Name and describe the characteristics of twentieth-century music before 1945; for full credit include information on tone color, harmony, alternatives to the traditional tonal system, rhythm, and melody. (2 points) Tone color became a crucial element creating variety, continuity, and mood. New sounds on old instruments and uncommon playing techniques became the norm. Percussion instruments became prominent and numerous, reflecting the interest in unusual rhythms and tone colors. Harmony brought changes to in the way chords were treated. The traditional relationship between consonance and dissonance was challenged. New chord structures were created such as the polychord, the fourth chord, and the tone cluster. Alternatives to the traditional tonal system, known as tonality or key, governed the organization of pitch. Use of scales other than major and minor and chords other than triad were used as the central tone. Rhythm drew it new ideas from jazz, folk music from all over the world, and older European art music from the Middle Ages through the 19th century...
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...herself during screening, where it became known that the patient stopped taking appropriate dosages of her medication and became unable to appropriately care for herself as a result. When EP is doing well with her medications, she is able to live a very independent and healthy lifestyle, but this lasts only temporarily as this is not the first time that she has been admitted here. Her independence is very important to her. EP was born and raised in lower- middle class New Jersey, used to be a nurse, was previously married only once, has two kids and several grandkids. It seems that she does not maintain close ties with anyone in her immediate family because they don’t ever seem to answer her phone calls or come to visit. She enjoys jazz music and not much...
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...Strategies of SME Sony Music Entertainment, in collaboration with BMG, focused on two things. SME would aggressively pursue its digital distribution strategy and exploit new opportunities in packaged media from formats such as UMD and Blu‐ray disc. The goal was synergy. They want to link all the segmented digital music efforts such as in the hardware, online sales, and software units to assist the company in creating a more user‐friendly digital music system. By working closely together, it will make it easier and more efficient to innovate MP3 formats. In addition, pursuing the digital distribution method will also help SME cut down on its manufacturing costs. At the same time, the company also aims to take full advantage of its core competence and exploit its wealth of unique artists to the audiences—the differentiation strategy. By creating a large pool of in‐demand and irreplaceable performers, it will secure SME’s place within the industry and make it harder for competitors to follow suit. To be different is good, but to be different and good at what you do is even better. Consumers would be more willing to spend money on something if they deem it more worthy of their time and money than some other average thing. So the point is to have artists who are good, unique, and popular enough to drive and sustain demand. The implementation of new marketing strategy with a keen focus on digital distribution strategy and the need to make use of emerging opportunities in the packed...
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