June 21‚ 2013 Music Appreciation Writing Assignment #3 Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas Henry Purcell offered us sadness with minor keys and happiness with major keys. I really do not have much experience nor really understand keys but‚ I think Purcell’s uses of the minor and major keys makes since because minor means low and unimportant and that is how you feel when ever you are sad. While‚ major stands for important and significant and when the feeling of happiness domains your spirit‚ you
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sitting in the Ed Landreth Building for the first time since the summer before my junior year of high school‚ when I attended the TCU All State Choir Camp. I reveled in the sights and sounds of the music department; every sound felt familiar to my entire high school choir career. It became fifteen minutes until the recital began‚ and my friend Taylor and I quickly walked into the Pepsico Music Hall. “Just wait!” She told me with excitement. “You’re going to love it.” Time went on‚ and I spotted
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Music and books are active ingredients in our lives. They possess so much influential power which we use those influences everyday of our lives without even realizing it. We all have a favorite book that we read in elementary school or high school that taught us a lesson or that we related to. With that comes this influence that stays with us throughout our lives‚ we are able to take that influence and turn it into the reason we are the way we are or why we tend to make the decisions that we make
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Though the delight of listening to a brand new track on a compact disc with a big name artist has a similar emotional feel for modern day people‚ as it would have felt for people listening to a live symphony during the Classical era‚ the ability the artists‚ and those involved with them‚ have with the increase of new technology and business schemes has allowed their base of listeners to be on a global scale for millions‚ if not yet billions. During the late 17th century to early 19th century‚ the
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West and East of America. Rap from this period is now called ‘Old School Rap’. Rap started by people rhyming in poems and using beats with it‚ poetry was a great influence on rap‚ mostly Old School Rap. They typical instruments in the Rap beat could basically be any beat‚ usually a short 4-8 loop with alot of base. Some of the most famous rappers include‚ Tupac Shakur‚ Biggie Smalls (Notorious B.I.G) Nas‚ Jay-Z and Eminem. Old School Rap is basically words with a beat‚ basically telling a story
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Classical Music vs. Modern Music Classical and Modern music have many differences as well as similarities. In this paper‚ I compare classical and modern-day music through a means of artists‚ performances‚ and specific pieces. Although modern and classical music have different meanings‚ for example classical music back in the early 19th century was only played for the rich and royal and took some composers multiple months to compose‚ while modern music can be created in just hours with electronic
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possession using music mostly from the hand-held mbira. British rule highly disapproved of this‚ and in turn left many Zimbabweans alienated form their ancient culture.[1] There are several different types of traditional Shona musics‚ including mbira‚ singing‚ and drumming. Very often‚ this music is accompanied by dancing and participation by the audience.[2] In Shona music‚ there is little distinction between the performer and the audience; both are actively involved in the music making‚ and both
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New Kid Being the new individual to join a group is‚ most likely‚ an unenjoyable experience. When the group being joined is one in which there is no option to remain distant from‚ becomes even worse. Specifically‚ in my life there was the dreaded task of changing schools my junior year in high school. Being forced into a new group of people‚ a group that one must interact with on a daily basis is a difficult task. However‚ those that reach out and make sure that the transition goes smoothly‚ make
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of different school systems in different parts of the world‚ particularly America and Asia. The American system consists of approximately thirty-five hours of school each week with about an hour of homework and no school on weekends. The Asian system of learning is comprised of around fifty hours of school each week including a half day on Saturday with four hours of homework each night. The better learning system for me would most definitely be the American system. The Asian school system would
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Pop Music 73% of teens in America listen to popular music‚ which is also known as ‘pop’ music (Murray). There are so many different music genres in the world and it’s amazing how pop music can capture 73 percent of the teen’s attention. Pop music offers an endless variety of styles and meanings to the listening audience. Although I listen to many other music genres‚ I listen to pop music a lot more often. And there are reasons why 73 percent of other teens do too. Pop music is such a diverse genre
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