just means you’re not looking hard enough. You can find it everywhere; you just need to have the right attitude. Am I happy? The answer is a definite yes. Since I was a young kid my Mom has taught me how to appreciate the things we do have rather than harp on the things we don’t. I’ve never been much on material things but instead building close relationships with people, especially family. This brings me great happiness. The people that I admire most in life are the ones that are given every reason
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These songs played as much a role in the creation of the singing cowboy archetype as did wide-brimmed hats and bolo ties. Consider “Goodbye, Ole Paint,” a song written for jaw harp by freed slave and Morris Ranch cowhand, Charley Willis. According to family history, Willis kept a steady companion in a horse called Old Paint. That truth lends credence to the heartbreak embedded within: In the middle of the ocean there grows a
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De’Veon Smith Professor Ampene AAS 366 Sept 15, 2015 Reflection Paper 2 Before I started reading Music in a Uganda Court, I was thinking about what I knew about music in Africa and then thought about is there a difference between Music in Africa and music in Uganda. I know the Africa is a continent and there are different parts in Africa, but I didn’t know if all the different parts of Africa had the same types of music. After reading Music in a Uganda Court I learned that there are different
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On Friday September the 27th, I attended a concert by the New York Philharmonic. The performance took place at the Lincoln Center, more specifically David Geffen Hall. They played Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No.3 in D minor, as well as Symphonic Dances. The performance was conducted by Ludovic Marlot. And Daniil Trifonov played the Piano. The Piano concerto No.3 was composed in 1909, dedicated to the Pianists Josef Hofman. The Symphonic Dances was composed in 1940. Sergei Rachmaninoff composed
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On Monday, march 12 2018, at about 7:30pm I attended a musical concert at Chabot college in building 1300. The concert was tithe “Chabot wind symphony”. It was a concert that was conjoined with Chabot wind ensemble and Tennyson high school jazz ensemble, Patricia Hurtado was the director of Tennyson High School while Beverly Johnson was the director of Chabot wind ensemble. Tennyson high school jazz ensembles and the instrument they played were, CLARIENT, which was played by Charles Hingco
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fact that music and visual pictures affect Kids. At Day Care they use music and pictures to teach kids, singing ABC’ s for instance. They also use pictures to teach kids animals, truck, cars, etc. You can even go back to biblical times, David played a harp to calm a vicious animal. Studies have shown that certain love songs help dolphins mate, has a slow sweet love song ever put you in the mood. So in my opinion I believe it is hard to dispute that music has some effect on all people, but in a youth
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How colonial music relates to our day music while helping us form a united country and patriotism. It has been found that music of the Colonial age wasn’t written in America; but, inclusively transported to help define the colleagues and for founders of this country. The music that early Americans have chosen to sing and play helps to clarify the understanding of the colonist themselves. 1 “Their music included ballads, dance tunes, folk songs and parodies, comic opera arias, drum signals, psalms
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wanted to do something special for you and was planning to do something for you when you became a nun even though I didn't completely agree with it all. Like what you did for Martha the day she took her final vows, with having a lady coming to play harp. I bought a
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Chapter 1 questions 1. What do ethnomusicologists mean when they say, “Music is universal, but it is not a universal language”? Music cannot convey specific meanings though specific symbols and it is questionable whether music can really can transcend linguistic barriers. 2. What are the potential problems in classifying music as “classical,” “folk,” or “popular”? They assert a hierarchal value system in which classical is typically considered highest, folk of a much lower value, and popular
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“Entertainment is in art like color in pictures,” Martin Kippenberger express his thought that without color the pictures would be boring and he compared this to how art and people’s life would be boring without entertainment. Entertainment is a very diverse category and entertainment such as sports, games, music, dance, and literature had been popular throughout the history and present. The nineteenth century was a period of huge growth and change in Britain, which had a profound effect on art and
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