Vince Lombardi‚ head coach of the Green Bay Packers during the 1960’s‚ stated‚ “Perfection is not attainable‚ but if we chase perfection‚ we can catch excellence”. This holds true for many aspects of life‚ whether it be writing an essay for an English class‚ maintaining an image in society‚ or progressing a career‚ quality of life is a constant struggle. As humans‚ we are constantly evolving and making changes‚ most of them to supplement society. The need to be strive for greatness is thrumming
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History: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg‚ Austria on January 27‚ 1756. He was born into a musical family being the son of a successful composer‚ violinist and assistant concert master. He learned at the young age of three how to play the piano and by the age of five had mastered multiple instruments. At the young age of six he was touring European concert halls and opera houses dazzling the audiences with his works that included sonatas‚ symphonies‚ masses‚ concertos and operas‚
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While walking through an art museum‚ one might stop and read the artwork labels for more insight or details on a piece. Too often‚ these descriptions will point to the political and social climate as heavy influences of the specific artist or movement. It is natural to generalize a time period and attribute historical events to new elements of art. Like the visual arts‚ music is no such stranger to academics drawing weak links between historical events and new music styles. In our case‚ the origins
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their music which highly helped in the spread of jazz. It became popular and more and more people wanted it. Chicago and New York became the places where jazz thrived best and was most popular.In the early 1920’s jazz mainly was made of the cornet‚ clarinet‚ trombone and rhythm. There was a lot of racial dispute at the time which had cause some African American musicians to leave New
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Borrowings from French language The English language has been shaped by a number of other languages over the centuries‚ and many English speakers know that Latin and German were two of the most important. What many people don’t realize is how much the French language has influenced English. Without going into too much detail‚ I want to give a little bit of background about the other languages which shaped English. It was born out of the dialects of three German tribes (Angles‚ Jutes and Saxons) who
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tragedy play to reflect his feeling about love through music. The music is divided into three parts‚ “Friar Laurence theme” “Montague- Capulet conflict” “Love” according to Shakespeare’s play. In the first part/ introduction‚ I heard bassoon and clarinet playing counterpoint melody. It makes me think of the sad scene in church that Juliet drank the medicine pretended to be death‚ Romeo did not realize the truth and kill himself. Later on‚ the harmony sounded sorrow and darkness when string come in
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For my concert review I went to see the Buford high school jazz performance i asked some of my friends to join and they agreed. Everyone was relaxed and were enjoying their evening except me‚ as I was worrying about writing this paper. If I were to use one word to describe their performance that word would be astonishing. At first‚ hearing that I was required to attend a concert I was completely turned off. I am very closed minded and automatically thought to myself it would be dreadful. That is
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Dai Ethnic Minority Homeland The Dai is one of the 56 official ethnic minorities in China‚ with a popu-lation of about 1.2 mil-lion‚ mainly live in Dai Autonomous Region and Dehong Dai-Jingpo Autonomous Region in Xishuangbanna‚ known as "The Land of Peacocks" in south part of Yunnan Province‚ south-west China. In the past‚ they were called ’Baiyue’‚ meaning a vast living area. Dai is the name the nationality calls itself‚ which means freedom . History The history of contact between the Dai and Han peoples dates back to 109 B
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Soldier’s Home: Harold’s simple life When looking at the title Soldiers Home by Ernest Hemingway‚ you can tell that the story will be about Harold coming back home after many dramatic events in world war I. He moves back to his parents’ house while trying to figure out what to do with the rest of his life. When he came back home from war‚ his war experiences changed his intentions of life. Even though Harold Krebs faced many dramatic events throughout his life his perspective of the future changed
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Every melody in a piece of music is different in how it moves up and down. The distance between two pitches is called an interval. The parts that make up a melody are called phrases. The climax in a melody usually represents a high point in the piece of music. In harder pieces of music there can be more than one melody playing at the same time. Melody is the basic piece of the puzzle between the person that wrote the music and listener. Rhythm is what moves music forward in time. A Meter
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