... pitch of the music creates moods in music, using very high or low notes or a mixture. In the Imperial March from Star Wars it changes from low to high pitch giving the effect of a different situation from Darth Vadar to Luke Skywalker and back again ... good tone colour and is used in the imperial march as a "good side" backing. The same melody played by different instruments creates different expressive effects. Star wars main theme is a great example of the use of sound. The performing media is a vital element as the voice an choice of instruments impact ... the John Williams version,...

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... facial expressions that make him appear confident, yet relaxed. From the moment he steps on stage, his attitude tells the audience just how good the show will be. With all eyes on him and the stage silent, Michael's every move is heard as though nothing else matters. Suddenly he pauses with a jerk of his body when a familiar sound is heard. The ... title as an outstanding performing artist. Many of today's up and coming artists have been inspired and influenced by him. Such as R&B artist Usher, young pop group B2K, pop star Justin Timberlake, rap star Busta Rhymes and solo artist Ginuwi...

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... John later called the lyrics a "psycho-analysis set to music". He had just finished a rough world tour with the band and was weary of the "rock star"image. The lyrics do not all focus on John's doubts with his current career. Instead, a lot of the verses are happy memories of his childhood in Liverpool ... Fields Forever Let me take you down, 'cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields. Nothing is real and nothing to get hungabout. Strawberry Fields forever. Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see. It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out, it doesn't matter muc...

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... be employed by the microphone. For women, establishing themselves as female rock, sound, funk or jazz artists was extremely difficult because the standards society held for women didn't include "music star." But there were many women who pulled it off. Peggy Lee was one of these women. She was born Norma Deloris Egstrom in Jamestown, North Dakota on May 26, 1920 ... , and Nash, when she first entered the business. Joni Mitchell was very shocked by becoming famous. She never dreamed of being like that. "I never wanted to be a star. I didn't like entering a room with all eyes on me. I stil...

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... a mirror. Michael and brother Marlon joined a trio of older siblings as the Jackson 5 in 1963 and began playing local clubs. From the get-go it was obvious Michael was the star. When Gladys Knight recommended the Jacksons to Berry Gordy and they became Motown's newest hit-making machine in the early '70s, it was Michael's precocious wail that electrified the No ... 's inside leg measurement. In 1993, we thought we finally had Jackson pinned, as a teenage member of his infantile entourage accused him of a sleepover molestation. There was talk of photographing the star's genitalia as Exhib...

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... have the same experience. When I was alone, no matter sing aloud or just give myself a tempo, I know that these is music in my brain. I can sing with the star, or dance with the wind, or do anything else I like just for enjoy myself. That is the best rest, and I make sure that only a person who survive a pure ... even more, how to conceal your unusual behavior, etc. Selma had done the excellent job. When the world became more and more hazy and milky in her eyes, she hadn't give up herself because she knew her duty very clearly: if she could save enough money to give a operation to her so...

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Tori Amos "The piano is a powerful instrument. You can hide men in it."" A songwriter. A pianist. A singer. A rock star. She's beautiful. I dyed my hair in her honor. Yes, I am a blonde. I have about ten necklaces with her name printed on them. Six hundred pictures of her on my computer. Thirty ... an obsessive journalist? Now I know about nine out of ten of you that just read, or heard me say her name (if you know of her) probably just rolled your eyes. Look, she's more than you might think. Besides my parents, she has to be the most influential person I know, or don't know. You know what I...

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... Presley when he was about nineteen, playing Kiglore, Texas."" What Bob Luman described was a new phenomenon like nothing else at the time; Presley was the first major change in the eyes of the conservative world of the Eisenhower era. Music now existed in a context which opened up a completely new scenario for it (Wicke 49). Continuing through the nineteen sixties, another rock ... , cocaine, and heroin. Drugs were affecting many rock stars also. Popular musicians such as Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix died as a result of recreational drug use. Ken Kesey (Rock'n'Roll star), one of the ear...

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