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    2014 1 Blues, a creation of slavery Blues music generally invoke pictures of misery, suffering and woeful emotions in a person’s mind. Misery that prevailed in the lives of the African-American slaves from the 19th century Deep-South of The United States. Extreme sufferings in the life of those slaves of the plantation era helped create this raw music in forms of chanting, rhythms and mere work songs. But there is a lot more to this particular genre. In over a hundred years, blues music has

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    Fred Estaire's "Day and Night"

    emphasis on improvisation, and swung syncopated rhythms. It often utilizes elements of the blues, and often uses standard show tunes as improvisational vehicles. However it goes beyond the blues in both its melodies of its harmonies. Jazz has more swinging beat with a kind of old fashioned sound to it so it is kind of more classical whereas R&B is more modern. R&B in its original form, is based on the blues, and it contains a few of the same characters, such as the occasional use of shuffle (similar

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    Clown & Blond Guitar

    close friend. The clown's short yellow hair, made of yarn, covers its ears but is parted above the eyes. The blue eyes are outlined in black with thin, dark lashes flowing from the brows. It has cherry-red cheeks, nose, and lips, and its broad grin disappears into the wide, white ruffle around its neck. The clown wears a fluffy, two-tone nylon costume. The left side of the outfit is light blue, and the right side is red. The two colors merge in a dark line that runs down the center of the small outfit

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    Music Trends in Popular American Culture

    The turn of the century arrived and there was a period of excitement for the American Music Scene. During this time the “Western” musical genre spreads throughout western states and featured steel guitars and singing cowboys (Johnson, 2007). The Blues were also created during this time by ex-slaves that sang work songs filled with irony, imagery and love, offering relief from the tensions in their lives. Jazz was also developed in the 1900s in New Orleans brothels and honky-tonk bars and was based

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    Music

    Name: Course: Tutor: Date: Music of Tin Pan Alley Popularity of Tin Pan Alley music The popularity of the music of these artists (Tin Pan Alley) can be said to have maintained popularity for such a long time due to its structure building, the laying of lyrics is awesome and the form makes the music flow well. The performance is totally in its own compared to the latest versions of music. There is creative which follows along and make it enjoyable. The dance rhythm of the music “kills” other

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    Conneri

    Chapter 1 The twins Madame Benetton wore a suit blouse and her long straight hair was loosened on her shoulder. She had dyed her hair into yellowish-brown to cover her growing graying brown hair. She walked up the stairs to reach her children. She walked into her daughter’s room. Her room was a square studio size with purple-painted wall. A white plastic table with a laptop in a sleeping mood was sat in front of the window. There were tons of books stacked beside her laptop with a book opened on

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    Roots of Blues and Country Music

    Running head: Roots of Blues and Country music Roots of Blues and Country music Marc A. Cañas Brandman University Roll Over Beethoven: A Survey of Rock and Roll Professor: Jeanne Mayer, Ph.D April 11, 2010 Blues & Country The Blues and Country Music Blues and country music both developed in the 19th century in the Southern United States. They share a similar history. For this reason, they share many of the same

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    Comment on the Technology, Structure, Harmony, Texture and Melody of Steve Reich's Electric Counterpoint

    Electric Counterpoint, by an American composer named Steve Reich, is a Minimalist piece which was written in the 1980s. It is the last in a series of three compositions for soloists playing along with pre-recorded multi-track tape loops. These loops being repeated leaves the note addition and resultant melody to the performer and the performing of it has been compared to playing in an ensemble with yourself. The piece is in binary form (AB) with 4 sections within the A and B sections and it ends

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    Scientific Processing

    due to the presence of non glandular hairs which at their base contains a spheriodal cystollith of calcium carbonate while on the other sample of marijuana seeds I observed the lacy and hair like. During the Chemical Test of the Fast Blue Salt or FBS Test on the Marijuana seeds, hashish cake and hashish candy I observed that there was a reaction on the test conducted due to the appearance of purple color or violet. On the Marquis test conducted for Morphine, Shabu and Ephedrine

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    Alines Journey

    Aline do not really see the problem of living in Haiti and therefore she does not really understand the fast decision. “For the trip, I pick out my favourite light blue dress” (p. 13, ll. 1) as we see in the text there is one special things that Aline really cares about and it is her blue dress, which is a symbol of hope. The blue dress is not the only thing Aline care about, she also cares a lot about her family and want them all to be together and feel well. “I miss Manman being well” (p. 15

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