... Dreams as well. He shows a few signs of conversion, and also a lot of unconditional love and love for others. At the beginning of this movie Mr. Holland wanted to compose great music, it was his Dream. At the end of the film, about 30 years later, he gets his first song played ... actress achieve her Dream to go to New York City and achieve a bigger Dream. There are a couple of incidents of conversion in Mr. Holland's Opus. The main one was how Mr. Holland at first dreaded the thought of teaching kids, and when they got rid of the music program 30 years later, he didn ... This continue...

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Mr. Holland's Opus This charming motion picture opens in 1965 with one man's dream. It stars Richard Dreyfuss as Glenn Holland, a musician who had a desire to compose a symphony. As a teen, he ... that those constant interruptions to his lifelong ambition are themselves the stuff dreams are made of. The movie doesn't do anything spectacular until the final scene. It is here that Mr. Holland's effect on thirty years' worth of students is finally recognized when he conducts a Holland alumni-performed symphony he's been working on in his spare time. By the end, there ... are tears rolling dow...

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... and coincidents between these two regions was not a relationship between people or traditions, but more simply, a geographic correlation. To begin his presentation Dr. Seck provided a map of the delta area of Senegal and the more commonly known Mississippi Delta region. Not only were these two areas connected ... for its parallelism. In order to help prove many of his historical and cultural arguments, Dr. Seck provided one of the most influential pieces of evidence: the music of Gelel Kumba. Although Mr. Kumba did not speak much English it did not harm the validity of his message. Thro...

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... different instrument, with the exception of David Heinick, the composer and pianist in every movement. Accompanying the program was a sheet titled "Program Notes," which gave members of the audience a lot of information concerning the performers and the composer. One impressive fact mentioned was Heinick composed every piece ... by Timothy McAllister. McAllister, also dressed in all black attire, was a young man whose affiliation to the college was not mentioned in the program notes, yet I assume that he is a member of the faculty here at the State University of New York at Potsdam. Dyna...

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... colors with modern composing techniques. What I could notice from this piece was an exhilarating rhythmic energy and an hallucinatory atmosphere. The Prelude seemed to have some dissonant, fast, high-pitched notes. Another thing that could be appreciated was the motoric rhythm, which presented both the basic pulse and its subdivision. The Creole dance was a representation of his culture and I assume that ... , almost jovial. This, as the name implies it, gives the image of pastorale, being in the open field in a beautiful day. "In the first pentatonic major mode- pitches increase slowly,...

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... colors with modern composing techniques. What I could notice from this piece was an exhilarating rhythmic energy and an hallucinatory atmosphere. The Prelude seemed to have some dissonant, fast, high-pitched notes. Another thing that could be appreciated was the motoric rhythm, which presented both the basic pulse and its subdivision. The Creole dance was a representation of his culture and I assume that ... , almost jovial. This, as the name implies it, gives the image of pastorale, being in the open field in a beautiful day. "In the first pentatonic major mode- pitches increase slowly,...

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... University's Music Building in their recital hall. The concert featured tenor vocalist Chauncey Packer, soprano Dara Rahming, and pianist Dr. Wilfred Delphin who accompanied him throughout the performance. The first two songs Mr. Packer sung, were "Dein ist mein ganzes Herz" and "La vie en rose." ... the timbre, and the rhythm. "Here's One" and "Couldn't Here Nobody Pray" were works that really focused on the contour of Mr. Packer's middle and lower ranges and was held at a largo tempo. "Good News" was colorful within its timbre that constantly switched dynamic markings ... its melody. ...

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"Mr. Officer, I want to see you layin' in a coffin, sir," from The Chronic and "F--- the police," from N.W.A., are few lyrics from the music genre "gangsta rap." This ... of Long Beach Insane Crips, a notorious street gang (Cheevers A1). He was also a drug dealer and user. His music also glorifies violence and demeans women. Andre Young, a.k.a. Dr. Dre, served five months in a halfway house in 1993 for violating his probation for breaking another rap producers jaw in 1992. He was also convicted of hitting a New Orleans police ... TV talk-show host into a wall at a Hollywood club in 1991 (Sims ...

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... , and teaching. He too had a special connection with each and every student. This will be elaborated later. With all the good apples in my basket of friends comes a bad apple. Mr. Vroble, notice I cannot remember his first name, was the worst band director I have seen. He cared for himself and no one else. His love for music had to have died ... fifth graders. All three of these band directors are inspirations to me. Robert and John have shown me how I want to act with the students. Caring and sharing everyday. While Mr. Vroble has shown me that there are band programs that exist that co...

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... ideas can also be found in the scale areas of music, which are called scale intervals. An interval is the distance between two notes. Intervals are always counted from the lower note to the higher one, with the lower note being counted as one. Intervals come in ... , then it is a harmonic interval. The smallest interval used in music is the half step. A half step means that the difference between the two notes is only one chromatic scale degree. For example, a visual representation of a half step would be the distance between a consecutive white and black note on ... W H. In a minor scal...

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... can deal with anything from simple note values to the equation that relates frequency to pitch. In music there are simple equations used to determine the length of notes, like using a " " to add half of the original note value to the note. For instance if you have a quarter note, which is ... to it, it becomes one and a half beats. This is the equation used to determine the value: 1 + (1/2 * 1) = X. This applies to all notes and rests. This is probably one of the simplest math formulas used in music, but it is one of the most important ones. The scale area of music can ... whole step: W ...

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... ", for suicide attempts and other negative behavior in teens. No one listens to a song and then feels the urge to steal or murder, that concept is ridiculous. Commenting on this, Dr. Gail Gross, licensed psychologist and host of the "Let's Talk" radio show states that "although consistently listening to or singing dark, depressing or inappropriate lyrics can have a negative effect, these ... a cause and effect relationship still doesn't exist. Yet, parents still think kids are influenced by what they listen to. Especially after the Kurt Cobain suicide, hearing that several teenagers left...

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... in the labeling of one or the other. There is a great distinction in Apollonian music and Dionysian music. For instance an Apollonian scale would be one with easy to remember notes and order. When heard many times the Apollonian scale can become exceedingly predictable and sometimes incredibly derivative. A Dionysian scale would bring more of a scattered spread out version of the same ... good triumphs over evil and everyone learns a life lesson in the end. Dionysian characteristics can be found in two of my favorite movies, Memento directed by Christopher Nolan and Mulholland Dr. by co...

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... if you had songs by certain artists on your computer, you would be banned. I once started up Napster only to be greeted with this message: "YOU HAVE BEEN BANNED BY DR. DRE". Along with thousands of other people, I stopped using the program. So what was/is the RIAA's deal? What do they have against file-sharing? The RIAA and many artists ... you can't give it away, you certainly can't sell it. There will always be a market for CD's because people, especially music collectors, want something tangible. Something with art and liner notes, that they can put on their shelves. I believe the Ph...

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... volume in this piece keeps changing, while most of the time it is mp or mezzo piano. Sometimes the dynamics gets louder when Parker plays higher notes, as this is his attempt to emphasize those specific notes. By looking at the very first eight bars of this piece of music, hearing the harmonic progression within the linear line of the solo would ... no piano player. Angular points in the solo would make one think that it would be difficult to hear the chord progression; however, even then, the notes involved in the angularity are important and strong notes of the chord with strong resol...

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... piece feel momentous. It'sas if Bach were throwing open the big doors to some enormous building.? As the song progresses, you can hear the counterpoint, including low and high notes. Once the prelude ends, there is a pause, and the fugue begins. The fugue begins with the first melody, with no accompaniment. As the first changes, the second melody is added ... at a slightly higher pitch. Again this happens with the third melody, but this one is easier to hear because they are such low notes. Finally, the fourth melody begins with the highest notes you?ve heard so far. Now all four melodi...

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... trumpeter's solo the violist played a very soothing, yet upbeat solo. The texture of the ending of this song seemed a little grimy at times when the trumpet would chime in a few notes over the saxophone, almost drowning it out. The ending was forte and there was heavy emphasis on the rhythm section to make it very epic.  The next piece, "Cariba ... trumpet solo was forte and triumphant as well. The piano solo, on the other hand, consisted of a few short runs and some dissonant notes, but still triumphant. The climbing trumpets gave way to the short, still dissonant finishing notes of t...

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... called "Sonata"." But Shostakovich's sonata has a hesitant and uncertain feel. No matter how the music begins, it comes to a dead end. Nearly always in the implacable repetition of three fateful notes. In the course of this movement, in fact in the entire symphony, the music arrives again and again at the same dead end. The design is clear from the very ... wrong. The music abruptly breaks off and then continues in a scale, a little wiggle that shrugs its way downward. And then breaks off again, with the appearance of those three fateful notes, the first dead end. So the pattern in the ...

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... "12-bar blues", as it is called, has a standard chord progression. The song never changes, but allows one to improvise. A soloist could play a solo using a blues scale consisting of seven notes and never stop. Jazz is the most significant and highly developed music by African Americans. Jazz has many different features such as rhythmic qualities like swing, blues or flatted ... notes, improvising, and techniques that differentiate the musicians. Swing is a style of Jazz that reminds me of a walking horse. Blues or flatted notes are notes that are lowered a half step. Instead of hearing ...

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... , by Rick Snow, change occurs throughout the entire pieces that enable the listener to keep from falling asleep. In Attitudes, it starts out slow and the notes do not overlap. It starts to quicken and the notes then overlap. The rhythm gets more stable but the speed seems varying. As the piece continues, the sound that sounds like a block being hit is ... cymbals. After, different tunes are played one right after the other and the box sound has a certain vibration sound to it. The drums are played almost throughout this part and notes from other instruments are heard here and there. In R...

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... , by Rick Snow, change occurs throughout the entire pieces that enable the listener to keep from falling asleep. In Attitudes, it starts out slow and the notes do not overlap. It starts to quicken and the notes then overlap. The rhythm gets more stable but the speed seems varying. As the piece continues, the sound that sounds like a block being hit is ... cymbals. After, different tunes are played one right after the other and the box sound has a certain vibration sound to it. The drums are played almost throughout this part and notes from other instruments are heard here and there. In R...

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... lyrics on them. Young children who do listen to this type of music does cause an effect on them. Some of the lyrics in this type of music are unbelievable. "Mr. Officer, I want to see you layin' in a coffin, sir," from The Chronic and "F--- the police," from N.W.A., are few lyrics from the music genre "gangsta rap." This kind of music is ... say, "hey, their rich and money talks." Today most young people think that if a person is rich and famous they can get away with anything. The Chronic, an album by Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dogg, has many explicit lyrics and unnecessary foulmouthing. ...

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... Crawford said, "I don't want to see another nude picture of her. If you have issues to work out with your dad, don't do it in front of the world." And Dr. Sam Jone of the New York Medical College said, "Madonna is a corrupted pied piper, leading impressionable young girls down the primrose path to a depraved and degrading lifestyle." However, the fact ... and fur Barbie's type of dress, which was definitely a fantasy of most girls in the material world. She sings straightforwardly that "the boy with the cold hard cash is always Mr. Right" because "we're living in a material world, and I...

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... bound to rise. The real problems are outside the music, not within (Leland). The problem of urban violence is much bigger than rap. Rappers such as Tupac, Snoop Dogg, and Dr. Dre, who have been publicly criticized for their lyrics, grew up in the ghetto, and their words reflect what they have lived through. It is what is often referred to ... lying." Taneika Archer, another Long Beach teen said, "He tells it like it's supposed to be told" (Leland). When Tupac Shakur was murdered, anti-rap music activist C. Delores Tucker, said, "Mr.Shakur always talks about violence, and now it has come...

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... is music or sports, the excitement that we feel can be addictive and we can be pulled into an obsession to get our fix of excitement over and over again. Notes: The names have been changed to protect the innocent. Music: Impressions of Addiction It doesn't take a stretch of imagination to realize music's impact on our lives. There's ... is music or sports, the excitement that we feel can be addictive and we can be pulled into an obsession to get our fix of excitement over and over again. Notes: The names have been changed to protect the innocent. Music: Impressions of Addiction It doesn't...

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