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    Bix Beiderbecke

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    headstrong in following through with his goal led him to start skipping class to go hear the musicians play in Chicago. Soon after bix was expelled from Lake Forrest and began to his career as a full time musician. Beiderbecke arrived on Chicago’s "hot" jazz scene at about the same time as musicians such as King Oliver and Louis Armstrong. In Chicago Beiderbecke was already gaining a reputation for his improvisational "play around the note" style and his unique tone‚ and he found work‚ first with The Wolverines

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    I decided to write about Claude Debussy because I believe he was an extraordinary composer and his works really influenced the 20th century. Claude Debussy was born on August 22‚ 1862‚ in France. Debussy‚ showed a significant interested in piano since he was a kid. This passion about piano‚ opened the door for a new path regarding music‚ that changed his life in a very good and beneficial way. Although‚ he did not come from a rich family‚ Debussy became a very honorable person. His journey in the

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    Lincoln Theatre History

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    As I was scrolling through the list of possible topics I could research‚ the Lincoln Theatre caught my interest‚ and sparked my imagination. I immediately began to wonder what brought the theatre to fruition‚ and why the theatre became so widely known to many of the people around the Columbus area. With more research as time went on‚ I realized just how interesting the Lincoln Theatre was‚ and still is today‚ with its many significant impacts it has had on just the role of theatre alone. With its

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    African American Leaders

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    One example of a African American artist that was a leader is Louis Armstrong‚ a famous jazz trumpeter and jazz vocalist who was one of the most influential jazz musicians. Him and other musicians had subtle ways of voicing their opinion. In his song “What Did I Do To Be So Black and Blue”‚ the lyrics explain about how hard life was. The cornus “What did I do to be so black

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    blending of musical notes and melodies. Duke is seen in today’s society as a main figure who help developed what jazz music is in today’s musical world. During a time when African Americans were not fully treated equally‚ Duke still manage to expand his career for more than half century achieving many great achievements with the love of his

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    Gordon Thompson's Solo

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    more of an arranged pattern with the same kind of notes. This band would have performed for an audience of older people. This kind of music seems like it is more for just sitting and listening to. The swing jazz sounds like it is more for dancing to than this type of jazz

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    Story reflects the styles of this age- bebop jazz and the blues‚ fused with several Latin American dance rhythms and ideas from opera. The Key of the piece is D major with modulations to C major. Blue notes are used. The metre is ¾‚ although sometimes it has cross rhythms which create irregular accents and syncopations‚ this makes it sound like the metre is 6/8. The tempo is a fast one-in-a-bar tempo of 176 crotchet beats per minute. The piece has a jazz based harmony in which conventional chords

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    Saxophone Research Paper

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    music then developed into jazz in the 1920s and the saxophone was to play a prominent role again. The 1920s is referred to by some as the "golden era" of saxophone production in the United States (Mauk). The music written in the golden jazz era of saxophone production is still very popular to this day. During all of jazz history‚ the saxophone has been one of the major voices of the genre. Because of this‚ saxophone soloists today play both countless classical and jazz recitals every year‚ and saxophone

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    Miles Davis

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    least a smidgen of the music from “the prince of darkness”. Although Miles Davis‚ dubbed the “most revered jazz trumpeter of all time‚ not to mention one of the most important musicians of the 20th century” by Rolling Stone Magazine and known as the birth of cool‚ attitudes and behaviors we never truly kind and the man was notoriously known as a jerk‚ his music was of great importance to the jazz culture as a whole. Without bashing Miles’ credibility or defacing the legend‚ this paper is being used

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    Kevin Fickel MUSC 105.003 An Analysis of “When the Saints Go Marching In” The origins of “When the Saints” have never been fully explained in modern times. It was originally written as a Negro Spiritual hymn sometime near the beginning of the twentieth century. On written music‚ composers usually notate it as a traditional piece‚ but the identity of the original author remains up for debate. Some sources claim that the original lyrics of “When the Saints” were penned by Katherine Pervis and

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