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    Report Guitar in Jazz

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    Report Jazz Guitar and all about it Intro Jazz guitar term can mean two things: either it’s a type of guitar or a style of playing the guitar. Jazz guitar made an appearance in Jazz in around 1930’s. Due to its predecessor a.k.a. acoustic guitar being too quiet‚ musicians had it hooked up to amplifiers and that’s how the electric guitar was born. Ever since‚ electric guitar has been the standard of guitars in Jazz and it eventually went on revolutionizing the music industry and making it the corner

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    Part 1: Terms The Dunning school of thought was named after William Dunning—a professor at Columbia University (1857-1922). Dunning was the first historian in 1900’s to look at the after civil war and reconstruction era. He came up with the idea that the South was a victim of the—Tragic Era—construction era. Dunning‘s vision depicts the slave holders as honorable men‚ while the “carpetbaggers” and “scalawags” as corrupts and opportunist who took advantage of the weakened South. Moreover‚ Dunning

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    rests on the postulation that deviance is socially created. Similar acts committed at different times‚ or under different conditions may or may not be measured as deviant. What is considered deviant changes based on the time and place‚ and athwart history and cultures. There are four positive functions from deviance that the relativist perspective points out. Retorts against deviance can bring people together. Think back to the Columbine Massacre‚ many people were united in sorrow and grief‚ not

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    Jazz Style Essay

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    The interpretation of jazz style is crucial to the element of rhythmic groove in any jazz ensemble performance. Today‚ many written arrangements for both large and small jazz ensembles are well marked with articulations and expression markings. However‚ in some cases there is nothing to guide the instructor or student. This book addresses some of the articulation and style situations that are commonly found in jazz music. These situations can be generalized into a set of guidelines that can be used

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    Origins of Jazz Dance

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    Origins of Jazz Dance in American Culture The varieties of jazz dance reflect the diversity of American culture. Jazz dance mirrors the social history of the American people‚ reflecting ethnic influences‚ historic events and cultural changes. Jazz dance has been greatly influenced by social dance and desired music. Like so much that is “from America‚” the history of jazz dance commences somewhere else. The origins of Jazz music and dance are found in the rhythms and movements brought to America

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    Jazz In The 1920s Essay

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    What about the nineteen twenties‚ the jazz age? This new sound called jazz is music became recently discovered that’s how it begun. To anyone that lived in this era had a blast en-joying new sound of music. The 1920S were known as the “Jazz Age or era”‚ this dec-ade started when the our American soldiers were coming back home and had won the greatest international conflict in our history and had to be dealt with nervous energy stored up and even in the unexpended into the war. Anew president had

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    Tammy Moran Art History 225 05/17/2014 All the David’s Peter Paul Rubens 1577-1640 David Slaying Goliath Oil on Canvas 123x99 cm ca. 1616 Norton Simon Museum‚ Pasadena CA Ruben’s work is by far the most colorful and vibrant of the nine pieces selected. It is most similar to Michelangelo’s painting (9). Showing David about to decapitate a defeated Goliath. Ruben’s Goliath is not nearly as daunting inn size as Michelangelo’s. David is stepping on the head of Goliath after stoning

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    Jazz Critique

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    "The President’s Own" United States Marine Band performed Monday October 2‚ 2006 at 8pm in the PAC. The director was Lieutenant Colonel Michael J. Colburn and the assistant director was Captain Jason K. Fettig. The different numbers in the performance were "Summon the Heroes"‚ "Guillaume Tell Duo Brillant"‚ "The High School Cadets"‚ "Scherzo and Finale" from Symphony No. 4 in F minor‚ "Semper Fidelis"‚ "Lincolnshire Posy"‚ "American Spirituals"‚ and "The Stars and Stripes Forever"

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    Jazz and Classical Music

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    Jazz and Classical Music Upon entering a modern record store‚ one is confronted with a wide variety of choices in recorded music. These choices not only include a multitude of artists‚ but also a wide diversity of music categories. These categories run the gamut from easy listening dance music to more complex art music. On the complex side of the scale are the categories known as Jazz and Classical music. Some of the most accomplished musicians of our time have devoted themselves to a life-long

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    The CSUN Jazz A Band performed at the Valley Performing Arts Center on February 28‚ 2013 at 7:30 PM. The director‚ John Daversa‚ put together two sections of the show; the first section exhibited the works of Dee Barton‚ a local jazz musician that recently passed away and the second half introduced two renowned vocalists that accompanied the jazz band. The first vocalist was Renee Olstead‚ an entertaining vocalist with a strong and soulful voice. The second vocalist was Tierney Sutton who has an

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