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Term Papers on Music
Jimi Hendrix And Jimmy Page
Number of words: 1364 - Number of pages: 5.... and burning it. Hendrix became popular overnight, and his shows became standing room only. His stage acts were so wild, Time magazine described it as: "He hopped, twisted and rolled over sideways without missing a twang or a moan. He slung the guitar low over swiveling hips, or raised it to pick the strings with his teeth; he thrust it between his legs and did a bump and grind, crooning: 'oh, baby, come on now, sock it to me.'...For a symbolic finish, he lifted the guitar and flung it against the amplifiers." Time (April 25, 1968). His specialty became the way .....
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Woodstock
Number of words: 1382 - Number of pages: 6.... Pop Festival held in Monterey, California, in 1967 inspired the festival (Sandow, 1). The partners eventually rented a field from a prominent local dairy farmer, Max Yasgur, who owned land about 48 miles from .
Early in the week before the festival, it became clear that the event was going to draw a much larger audience than expected. People from as far away as Michigan and California came to listen to the 24 rock groups ("Age, 1"). Thousands more people would have come if police had not blocked off access roads. By the day before the official openi .....
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Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphony Number Five
Number of words: 1227 - Number of pages: 5.... of this movement into doubt.
The movement opens with a horn call in D, set against a firm base (or bass?) of
octave C's. Could it be that in the great traditions of British musical
'amateurism', RVW got his transposition wrong? Or is this a deliberate feature
of the music, intended to blur the tonality? Musicologists prefer the latter
explanation. This is by no means an unusual feature of his music, when he was
asked what the 4th symphony was about, RVW replied "It is about F-minor",
alluding to his sometimes hazy tonalities, often augmented by his use of modal, .....
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Drugs In The Music Industry
Number of words: 1185 - Number of pages: 5.... admitted use or recovery is staggering:
Smashing pumpkins, Everclear, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Dr. Dre, Blind Melon, Red Hot
Chili Peppers, The Breeders, Alice in Chains, Sex Pistols, Sublime, Iggy Pop,
the list goes on and on. Together, these bands have sold more than 60 million
albums(Newsweek pgs 50 & 53).
Since kids emulate popular musicians, what is there to keep them from
emulating their drug use? Moreover, what's to keep the majority of the
population from doing the same? In the 60's and 70's, drug use was never spoken
of nor did anyone admit that it .....
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Jim Morrison: The Lizard King
Number of words: 4672 - Number of pages: 17.... two man at what was called the Naval Air Special Weapons Facility”(Hopkins, 3). His job had something to do with atomic energy but, of course, it was top secret since it was with the Navy and all. Jim’s mother, Clara, met Steve at a Navy dance that was held when she went to visit her younger sister in Hawaii. Jimmy, that’s what his parents called him while he was young; while traveling through New Mexico with his parents in late 1946, “…experienced what he would later dramatically describe as ‘The most important moment of my life”(6). Steve drove by an accid .....
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Franz Liszt And Kurt Cobain
Number of words: 412 - Number of pages: 2.... on to several relatives after his
parents divorced when he was eight years old. For some time he even lived
under a bridge and was hospitalized for a heroin addiction. It was not
entirely unexpected that Cobain committed suicide. He had had entered a
coma by overdosing on a mixture of champagne and tranquilizers on March 4.
Also, Kurt's family history showed that two of his father's uncles
committed suicide, along with the fact that there were a lot of
dysfunctional marriages and alcoholism present. During a concert, Kurt
would jerk around as if he was being .....
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The History Of Greek Music
Number of words: 1150 - Number of pages: 5.... music and it's instruments. Many of the early myths told of the powerful effects of music. Music played an important part in both the public and private lives of the Greeks. They believed it could deeply affect human behavior. Greek music was built up of a series of distinct modes, each with it's own name. According to the doctrine of ethos, each mode was so powerful that it gave music the ability to influence human actions in a precise way. The Phrygian mode expressed passionate and intimate emotions, where as the Dorian mode produced forceful, rigid feeli .....
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The Beatles
Number of words: 1532 - Number of pages: 6.... band began playing in a Music Hall style that is very effective
for the audiences but was lacking on their albums. Together with Paul, John
began to evolve the band. As the years began to pass, the band was
obviously beginning to grow musically. They had moved from simple lyrics
like "Love me Do" to harshly aware reflections of life in their home
country in "Eleanor Rigby"2. There were attempts, some more successful than
others, to incorporate the other Beatles into the idea stage. George
Harrison made this leap successfully with such tracks as "I want to tell .....
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