ears” and “No Fortissimo? Symphony Told to Keep It Down” explain how musicians are given the choice to decide to protect their ears by wearing earplugs or not wearing them. Musicians used to never wear earplugs considering they had to listen to the music as well. This would become difficult because lots of people, over time who play instruments in an orchestra, can’t hear as well as they used to. All this noise from the instruments together create hearing loss within these people. Despite the hearing
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was and still is one of the greatest composers to ever live. His name, music, and reputation are known to the world over, and to the majority of people worldwide, despite the fact that most people know little to nothing about Mozart or his music. Mozart’s fame stemmed from his start in composing music when he was just four, as well as his start in writing minuets by the age of five. As Mozart grew, he started to write symphonies around the age of eight or nine. His very
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“Program music is instrumental music that describes some extra musical content be it a picture, a story, or a poem” (L41, 00:50). Program music can invoke an experience beyond listening to musicians play, it relates to Wagner’s idea of Gesamtkunstwerk, a performance synthesizing all forms of art with sound focusing on life’s thoughts and emotions. Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6, Sturm ( ) is a prime example of how expressive content determines the musical composition. Beethoven decided to compose
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jazz music. During his career which lasted more than half of a century, he composed thousands of songs. Duke Ellington created one of the most distinctive ensemble sounds in Western Music, while still playing what he called “American Music”. Duke Ellington will forever remain one of jazz’s music innovators. Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington was born on April 29, 1899. His parents were James Edward Ellington, and Daisy Kennedy Ellington. As a child growing up in Washington D.C, he loved music. At
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In the book Night by Elie Wiesel there is one kid in the book that is always with his violin he never wanted to be away from it. Wherever he went he had his violin when with him. I think that his violin means a lot to him. His violin probably represents his family to him because he probably lost his family in the war or in the concentration camps. Hitler probably killed his family and the violin was the last thing that he had from his family. The violin was the kids motivation to keep moving and
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To begin this assignment, I reviewed the label contents of numerous music CDs that I have in my possession. During my review, I noted the common elements of information listed on the each CD cover. Usually, on the front or back cover of the CD, you can find the title of the CD album, the name of the artist(s), the title of the track(s), the name of the release company, and the name of the album’s producers. In some cases, on the inside of the cover I found the lyrics for each track. And some of the
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this problem, showing he was not the only musician encountering the issue and making his argument more tenable. Overall, Gary Karr is a credible source because he is an internationally acclaimed professional bass player, and has taught at renowned music conservatories including the New England Conservatory of
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The moment the school bell rang everyone stood, faced old glory and recited the ‘Pledge of Allegiance’, and then Misty Fort, a petite fourth grader, walked up on the porch and sang in a professional operatic voice, the ‘Star Spangle Banner’. Next, Reverend Jarvis gave the benediction. In turn Mayor Smiley delivered a short speech and then Sally P. Strong, the Principal and the school’s only teacher for the past thirty years walked to the center of the porch and motioned for Billy Smithton, the
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I went to the 104th Annual Spring Powwow at Lloyd Noble at 7 p.m. It was presented by the American Indian Student Association or AISA which is student organization that promotes Native American culture on campus. The powwow was a celebration with music and dancing where different tribes came together and passed on their own traditions from generation to generation. It wasn’t just Native Americans in the area that went to the powwow, but there were people from all over the U.S. Overall, the atmosphere
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I have taken many roles in the Ledford’s band. I am the principal player of the flute section, librarian, section leader, and woodwind captain. These roles vary from helping Mr. Gibson organize over 130 copies of music to leading the flute section as sitting as the first chair in the Wind Ensemble. From taking these leadership positions on, I learned responsibility. Over the four years in Ledford’s band program, my ideas of responsibility changed drastically. Many
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