there bored. My mother always told to just go read a book and I’ll just be looking at her like are you serious. So when she tells me to do that I just say forget it I’m just going to listen to my music. She always told that I’m so quick to go learn lyrics when I don’t show that same excitement for reading. When my mother told me that, I started to realize that it seems like the majority of the kids in my generation are doing the same thing. My mother always asked me why I prefer music over reading
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My passion for music and the arts started at a very young age. I was a member of a gospel music organization called the West Virginia Mass Choir. I was fortunate enough to have parents and grandparents that believed in my talents and they enrolled me in a professional children’s chorus in the city of Charleston, West Virginia called the Appalachian Children’s Chorus. I was able to have that as an outlet to not only learn more about music, but learn more about myself on a personal level. Of course
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Music in my Life Tina Austin Kaplan University 10/16/12 I have a love for music, all types of music. Music has many different effects on me, from happiness to sadness and it can bring me peace or make me feel wildly crazy. Music is really never boring to me. I live my life through music. The song that immediately pops into my mind when I think of my childhood is Belinda Carlisle’s ‘She’s got the Beat’. This song had a fun, upbeat tempo to it and my childhood best friend and I used to dance
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it out. I stretch my fingers and place them on the piano’s familiar ivory keys. After I scan my music, I shut my eyes and play the first note or chord. The music takes me on a journey, and allows me to transform from scared and nervous to completely relaxed and confident in the music I am playing. The first sounds of the piano lead me into a place of serenity, and prepare me for the vocals, which I begin shortly after the piano introduction. As I take another breath, I produce my own vibration and
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Growing up in a small, Catholic school alongside the same thirty kids my entire life didn’t make individuality the easiest task. Go to school, go to church, and go home. From first grade to sixth grade, I lived through the same exact cycle -- week to week. My class consisted of nine boys and twenty-one girls; a surprisingly larger-sized class for my tiny, private school. Out of the thirty kids I went to school with, all but one was white. We all lived in a bubble – a white, middle-class, catholic
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associated with reading and writing, but in reality, it defines a plethora of things in our daily lives. Literacy’s true definition can be found within yourself because literacy and music are related, and you decide what music means to you and what kind of music you will listen to. Regardless, whether it is listening or creating music, it inspires people to express and reflect on their emotions. The person I interviewed is a college freshman and creates electronic beats on Soundcloud during his free time
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Introduction The focus of my ethnographic research is in the subculture of music festivals. Music festivals are a remarkable community event that attracts people to attend all over the world and has been around for many years as a celebration for any occasion. The atmosphere created at these events has shaped attendees to act differently compared to the ‘real world’ causing them to be more socially confident within the community. The attendance of music festivals has grown exponentially recently
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H.W. Longfellow once said, “Music is the universal language of all mankind.” I was about twelve years old when I first heard this quote, and it has stuck with me throughout these past six years of growing as a musician. In my life there have been many people who have been influential in my choice of wanting to be a music educator. The biggest influence has been my own band director Scott Pries. He has shown to me that to be a good musician and educator you need to have passion about what you’re teaching
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From my perspective of life, I can say there are several things that makes me unique. Every step I take in my life, and each moment that goes by makes me unique. It’s fair to say, everything that happens either it is good or bad, is a learning lesson to make me stronger. In fact, there are other things in my life that give me the strength to go on such as my family, my church life, music, electronics, and most of all my grandmother in her absence. In fact, each day that passes by and I examine my
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Music Therapy Essay Eliza B. Johnson Box Elder High School Abstract This essay outlines my current understanding of music therapy and different ways that music affects the brain, including research from Oliver Sacks, Jodi Picoult, and Laurence O’Donnell. It also includes my personal experiences relating to music therapy, including experience with special needs populations that I have worked with, experience with instrumental/ensemble work, and any other qualifications I may have that
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