Dana Butler 12/08/14 Music of the 18th Century Derived from the Portuguese barroco‚ or “oddly shaped pearl‚” the term “baroque” has been widely used since the nineteenth century to describe the period in Western European art music from about 1600 to 1750. Comparing some of music history’s greatest masterpieces to a misshapen pearl might seem strange to us today‚ but to the nineteenth century critics who applied the term‚ the music of Bach and Handel’s era sounded overly ornamented and exaggerated
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Country Music Origins Faith Hill a well renowned country musician since the early 90’s stated that‚ “Country music is the people ’s music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are.” This style of music originated in Bristol‚ Tennessee on August 1‚ 1927 when Ralph Peer signed Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family to record their music under the label known as Victor Records. Jimmie Rodgers‚ who is known as the father of music was born on September
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Music History 2 Outcome 2 Queen formed in London in 1971 and were made up of four key members‚ Freddie Mercury‚ Roger Taylor‚ Brian May and John Deacon. Brian May and Roger Taylor had been in a band called ’Smile’ from 1968 whilst being students at imperial college London and at that time‚ ’Freddie Bulsara’ was merely a fan of their music. After the lead singer of Smile ’Tim Staffell’ left in 1970‚ Freddie Bulsara (now Freddie Mercury) joined May and Taylor to form Queen. John deacon did not
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now music industry The music industry 10 or 15 years ago is a lot different from the music industry today. The music industry is growing in the world today‚ and in order for music artists to continue making music they have to earn money. Advertising is a good start for small and big artists music to grow and get more popular in the music industry. Advertising can get artists far into a good career‚ and can lead them far in the music industry. "For artists that are serious about there music career
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Music history of India The origins of Indian classical music (marga)‚ the classical music of India‚ can be found from the oldest of scriptures‚ part of the Hindu tradition‚ the Vedas. Samaveda‚ one of the four vedas describes music at length. The two main streams of Indian classical music are Hindustani music‚ from North India‚ and Carnatic music from South India. Hindustani music Hindustani music is predominantly more than its south Indian counterpart. The prime themes of Hindustani music
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revival and doo-wop merged into the great season of soul music. Soul music was enabled by the commercial boom of "race" music‚ that had led to the creation of channels and infrastructures run by black enterpreneurs for black artists. This class of black enterpreneurs hired and trained a generation of session musicians‚ producers and arrangers (not to mention songwriters) who were specifically meant to serve the needs of black music. Sould music was also enabled by an unstoppable trend towards black
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and history of African Music The African continent is the second largest continent in the world‚ and its people constitute a 10th of the world’s population with about one thousand indigenous languages spoken throughout the continent (Stone‚ 1998‚ p.2). In this context‚ it is important that a brief history of African music cannot be conclusive and is more complex than we realize. No scholar managed to offer a perspective about African culture that has not been contested. Given this history‚ we
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2. MUSIC-LINKED TRANSLATION The production of music-linked translation refers to translating a music-linked verbal text of source language into a music-linked verbal text in a target language‚ keeping the music unaffected. In this regard producing music-linked translation is more sophisticated than composing new music‚ since the former has to address itself both to the music and to the source text (Golomb 2005‚ 126- 127). In regard to the history of German music-linked translation‚ one of the first
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Last article we talked all about pop music and its history‚ now we’re going to take a look at the urban and Latin music genres. First up: urban music. Also referred to as urban contemporary music‚ this genre originated in the 1980s and 90s as a solution for “advertisers who felt that ‘black radio’ would not reach a wide enough audience” (Encyclopedia Britannica). Its sound is defined by rhythm-and-blues or soul artists with mass crossover appeal. Today‚ urban music tends to be a phrase referring to
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Rap music is truly an American minority artist creation of which students need to be proud. Unfortunately‚ rap music is not perceived by many Americans as an art form‚ but as a fad which they hope will soon fade away. One of my intentions with my unit is to show that rap music is not a fad‚ but a musical art form that has been around for over 20 years in the United States. In fact‚ one can trace the history of rap back to the West African professional singers/storytellers known as Griots. However
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