MUSIC Music can be defined in many ways‚ but to summarize all the definitions‚ music can be defined as the art or science of combining vocal or instrumental sounds or both to produce beauty of form‚ harmony‚ and expression of emotion. It is said that a large percentage of old people who sing at the choir enjoy the harmony created and feel at peace. It is not really known from where music originated‚ but most probably the earliest humans
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compose and perform at the same time. Four ingredients that help music swing are steady beat‚ syncopation‚ lilting quality‚ and rising and falling of the melodic line. Charles Mingus was a jazz bassist known for his composing and improvising. Dizzy Gillespie was a modern jazz trumpeter who devised a highly syncopated style of improvising. Jazz musicians usually begin playing a tune they all know and then they make up their own music. Chapter 2 Jazz musicians follow common practices while performing
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Music comes from the Ancient Greek muses‚ who were the nine goddesses of art and science. Music actually began around 500 B.C. when Pythagoras experimented with acoustics and how math related to tones formed from plucking strings. The main form of music during the Middle Ages was the Gregorian chant‚ named for Pope Gregory I. This music was used in the Catholic Churches to enhance the services. It consisted of a sacred Latin text sung by monks without instrumentation. The chant is sung in a
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What Genre of Music is Most Popular in Teens and Why? What makes music popular? Over 90% of responses have said that 3 things make a good song. Those three factors are lyrics‚ a melody line and a catchy rhythm (Forum.emusictheory.com‚ 2014). My survey I created has reached a result to this question that most people said that the best type of music is the one with the most meaning. They said that the lyrics of the song make it good because they like that it has meaning and songs without meaning
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Music From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search For other uses‚ see Music (disambiguation). [pic] |Music | |[pic] | |A painting on an Ancient Greek vase depicts a music lesson (c. 510 BC). | |Medium |Sound | |Originating culture
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Music in my Life While walking today as I normally do‚ I turned around and your face came into my view. I could only imagine what was wrong with her. But at the end I understood what was wrong with her‚ it was music. This is what music does to people and I love it for that. Music makes people feel good inside so much that it might even hurt. Throughout my life‚ music has always been a major influence. It has the power to change my mood when I ’m feeling down. Music is a cure for when I’m down and
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Music is found in every known culture‚ past and present‚ varying wildly between times and places. Since all people of the world‚ including the most isolated tribal groups‚ have a form of music‚ it may be concluded that music is likely to have been present in the ancestral population prior to the dispersal of humans around the world. Consequently music may have been in existence for at least 50‚000 years and the first music may have been invented in Africa and then evolved to become a fundamental
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Should Music be Censored? Once people hear about the United States they automatically relate the country to the word "freedom." Little do they know that this country has many similarities to countries where censorship plays a major role in their daily lives‚ due to their government. One of the major issues that involve censorship within the United States is the question whether or not music should be censored; and how will parents or the government decide at what age it is appropriate to allow
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originality‚ engage listener/emotional impact‚ and meaning from the songs. Comparing the two will make you wonder whose version is better now. Between Hank Williams Jr and Kid Rock‚ the song “A Country Boy Can Survive”‚ play different types of genre of music.
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Chapter One Music in which one tone predominates over the other tones is called tonal. Iteration is an important means of causing one tone to predominate over other tones. In simple tonal music the tone that receives the greatest stress through iteration is often the keynote or tonic. The term tonality means practically the same thing as key. Music in which a single tone predominates over the others is said to be tonal. In tonal music one tone takes precedence over all the others; this tone is
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