According to Elizabeth Scott’s “Is Music a Good Tool For Health?,” music affects the body and mind and is a helpful tool for us to improve our health. Furthermore, music therapy is a growing field of health care using music as a therapeutic tool. Many hospitals take on music therapists in order to help with mental and physical illness. The author concludes music is a good tool for health, and I strongly agree with the author when she claims that music influences the body and mind in many ways
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Introduction to World Music Professor Glenn McMillan 1003 M Room gmac@mec.cuny.edu Office Hours Appointments Only 718 270 4929 Music 100 Please leave email Introduction to World Music Syllabus-Spring 2013 This course is an introduction to music and to the musical mechanics from a global perspective. There will be three aims: • to increase the students understanding of music, including its elements, structures
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Evan (August Rush) throughout the entire movie, as he was on his journey in search of his parents, inspired so much people through his talent in music. People such as Arthur, Wizard, Hope, and many others whom he encountered during his journey. Not only he is an expert in hearing any kind of sound and music, but he can pick up whatever any kind of instrument so quickly, such as when Evan played Wizard's guitar, which he named "Roxanne" or "Roxy", is not the way it is usually played. Instead, Evan
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aspects. I had the pleasure of listening to The Jameson Sanagin Aaron Wolf Duo and The Cuesta Night Band one night after the other. The differences between these concerts could not have been greater and while I closely observed the performers, their music, the venue and the audience, I found few commonalities between the two. Each was very intriguing to listen to, and the large range of differences between the concerts made it easy and interesting to compare and contrast them. Upon my arrival at these
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expenses increasing by a greater rate than income, this will have a detrimental effect on the symphony organization’s financial outlook. Now the leadership strengths and weaknesses will be addressed. The strength is having Keith Lockhart as the music director. He is known as a top rate conductor and also cares deeply what happens to the Symphony. His leadership is shown in the fact that after being hired in 1998, by 2001 the Symphony had a year-round schedule with over 200
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The Aesthetic Pleasure of Art: The Elements of Art 1. Line- Can be endless, diagonal, horizontal, thick, thin, way or straight. A line is made using a writing tool such as a marker, crayon or pencil. 2. Space- The distance around, above, below, between and inside of things. 3. Value- The lightness or darkness of an object or color. 4. Texture- How the object (art) looks or feels. 5. Shape- Natural or geometric. Can also be the length or height of an object. 6. Form- The depth
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class. A few minutes after 8 PM the conductor walked out, and then he talked about the program that was going to be played. He then got into his position and picked up his stick and began to conduct Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major. The music starts off slow and smooth as it felt like doves flying the sky in a Disney movie. About two minutes into the piece Ingrid Fliter begins to play her piano solo. While she was playing she looked so calm and poised. I tried to picture myself in the
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Assessment in music classrooms” As many American students have a difficulty to reach a goal of testing standard makes music teachers are required to add the reading and writing skills in their classrooms. Maria Stefanova has provided some options to solve this problem in the article called “Developing Critical Thinking and Assessment in music classrooms”. It was published in May, 2011 by American String Teacher. In the article, she presents five classroom strategies to fill the gap between music and literacy
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The Genius Trane "[Charlie Parker] winked at Coltrane, and said, 'I like your name, my man. It reminds me of a quality brand of English muffins" (Thomas, 37). J.C. Thomas, in his book Chasin' the Trane: the Music and Mystique of John Coltrane, provides the reader with a background of the life and times of John Coltrane, going through various aspects of how he got started, his influences, his conflicts, and other pertinent areas. Throughout the book, Thomas supplements his commentary with hundreds
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genre known as performance art. Instead, it is a mix of all three forms.’ (Breslauer 1994). STOMP is a group of artists, who uses simple building blocks and every-day objects to create something complex, a strong effect performance which involves music and movements. Through sinks, stiff-bristle brooms and garbage bins as percussions they give rise to intense rhythms and energetic choreography. The idea behind ‘Stomp’ is universality. The show has no words, no traditional melody. They communicates
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