... found themselves unprovided for by the new statutes. After merging with the Royal School of Singing and Declamation, they became the faculty of a new 'free music school'" (Weiss and Taruskin). This is just one example of how history has affected music out of many occasions. Music has helped to start ... where they would be required to know how to sight read and sing or play the scale in different keys. Individual assessments would be graded on the notes you sing or play correctly. In secondary school, the work is harder than would be in primary school. Students would be required to ...

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... nonverbal in that it communicates through organized sound and is difficult to translate, the other elements are what make the sound organized and meaningful. Melody is an organized set of notes consisting of different pitches. It is basically the up and down motion of the lead singer. Rhythm is those beat of patterns that underlie most forms of communications. It is ... made up of pulsations that follow a consistent pattern. It will sometimes show us the emotional feel of a song. Harmony is the simultaneous sounding of two or more notes at the same time. It provides a texture for the to...

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... by John Syner in his essay "Many Things We Pay for Are Free": "Why would people buy something that they can get for free?" There are dozens of companies that sell water. We pay for TV when there is free programming. We buy books, when we borrow them for free at the library. Why would you pay for a song that you could ... get for free? For the same reason that you will buy a book that you could borrow from the public library or buy a DVD of ... 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 someth...

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... portions to electronic note cards. The note cards helped to organize my information and saved valuable research time that I would have used to take notes my hand. After I finished searching the databases I moved on to the web. The web was more difficult because most information was either irrelevant ... atmosphere, or "vibe". Raves are renowned for people's acceptability and tolerance for others. They are safe havens for people who wish to be free from social pressures. Because of this, many ravers (person who attends these parties) are dressed differently then people you would normally...

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... of the MP3/RIAA controversy. Jenny Eliscu's Rolling Stone article, "The Offspring Go Offline," outlines the story of the band the Offspring, who wished to release their entire album for free off the internet. But just a couple of hours after their announcement on September 15, 2000, Sony Music, which owned the band's label Columbia Records, threatened to sue them for breach ... , would have shaken up the world of internet music. But by stopping the album from being released for free, the music industry firmly put its foot down about free music. But for all the studies on Napster, none ha...

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... point on, his tenor work displayed amazing fire and invention. His music used basic jazz as a starting point, incorporated Eastern ideas and free-jazz tendencies which included multiple or lengthy soloing with boundless energy. With Miles Davis, Coltrane's big tone would help make that group one ... ," "Transition," and others. Coltrane later formed another innovative group, working with his pianist wife, Alice. Together they went ahead with an extremely free and continuous improvising style. Coltrane sought to lead a more healthy life, but unfortunately the excesses of his youth resulte...

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... point on, his tenor work displayed amazing fire and invention. His music used basic jazz as a starting point, incorporated Eastern ideas and free-jazz tendencies which included multiple or lengthy soloing with boundless energy. With Miles Davis, Coltrane's big tone would help make that group one ... Birdland, Transition, and others. Coltrane later formed another innovative group, working with his pianist wife, Alice. Together they went ahead with an extremely free and continuous improvising style. Coltrane sought to lead a more healthy life, but unfortunately the excesses of his youth re...

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The First Amendment states, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech." This law has not been followed through with, especially in the music industry. Religious/moral beliefs have a great impact on how a ... because of one word: freedom. The documentary "Pros and Cons of Censorship points out, "Censorship denies access to vital information. Freedom of speech is compromised; it prevents the free flows of ideas (in which) works against creativity"(pg. 2). Constantly altering an artists song/...

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... when jazz music started to develop. It's a decade that wealthy, white Americans are drawn back to, because it's here that they start to see themselves becoming recognizably careless and socially free. "Americans were speeding up, moving out, buying more, having fun, and dreaming bigger" (Miller). The Cotton Club was an integral part of the Twenties and personified what this period of ... be fast and intense or slow and soothing. The feeling jazz can engender is indescribable. The people of the Twenties were able to relate to jazz; they loved how the notes were so liberated coming from t...

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... he hardly ever made a mistake on his compositions. He did everything perfectly in his mind, never settling for mediocrity. Even when the Emperor told him that there was too many notes in his opera, in Mozart's mind it was perfect. Salieri was a jealous man, and it is hard to find any sympathy for a man like that. Thinking he was bigger than ... caused his own problems, by choice. He was a relatively smart man and had to have realized that he wasn't going to make it rich being free of patrons. But turning that around he was in essence Free, not being chained to writing music for someone ...

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... it possible for anyone to violate them at any time of the day or night which is on of the reasons why music was eventually made ILLEGAL." ---Frank Zappa, liner notes from Joe's Garage, Acts 2&3 (CBS, 1979) The first Amendment to the United States Constitution is as follows: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the ... free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances" ( ... and thoughts. As evidence that ob...

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... weather conditions, Hendrix could not quite win the crowd over. That was until he stepped away from his microphone, looking like a cowboy gypsie and cosmic hitchhiker, sounded out the first notes of the song everyone knew so well: "The Star Spangled Banner." Hendrix's guitar seemed to mock and revere the national anthem's grandiosity. The effects of one of the most electrifying ... visionary when he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on January 15, 1992. Hendrix once told a reporter, "If I'm free, it's because I'm always running-("The Voice of Experience-). He is still run...

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... weather conditions, Hendrix could not quite win the crowd over. That was until he stepped away from his microphone, looking like a cowboy gypsie and cosmic hitchhiker, sounded out the first notes of the song everyone knew so well: "The Star Spangled Banner." Hendrix's guitar seemed to mock and revere the national anthem's grandiosity. The effects of one of the most electrifying ... visionary when he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on January 15, 1992. Hendrix once told a reporter, "If I'm free, it's because I'm always running-("The Voice of Experience-). He is still run...

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... have paved the way for more black rights and the obliterating of racism in the future. However, even under the umbrella of Christianity, being a slave was drastically different than being a free Christian. Because everything was lowered (money- and status-wise), so were the spirits of the African Americans. This made them much more susceptible to religion. Throughout history, a lot of people ... on surface level are very different, actually have quite a few, strong similarities. They are both branches off of traditional African melodies. "The haunting rhythms, the bending and turning of...

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... Ensemble. Most of the audience consisted of friends and family members of the performers, or students who came to watch the performance for extra credit, like myself. The performance was free admission, so people could come and go as they pleased. Although this performance occurred the Monday before Thanksgiving, there was no special occasion for this performance other than it being ... a tenor saxophone solo, piano solo, alto saxophone solo, and back to a piano solo. I was really impressed by the range of the alto saxophone player because he could play really high notes. Overall I enjo...

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... was that there were just too many parts for harmony that sometimes they found themselves struggling with the other parts. My second favorite performing group was the third group, the Free Beer. The group included flute, trumpet, piccolo trumpet, drums, contrabass, and acoustic guitar. The first song was very fast 2/2 meter song. In this performance, flute and the trumpet player showed ... player expressed exceptionally sophisticated and beautiful tone, with a perfectly accurate pitch, and rhythms. Having a very good sense of dynamics, he knew when it was necessary to give accents on cer...

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... they begin to battle. Escamillo's knife breaks and just as Don Jose is prepared to kill him the gypsies prevent him form doing so and advise Escamillo that he is free to leave (Bleiler 44). One of the gypsies happens to see Micaela hiding behind rocks and drag her out. Micaela urges Don Jose to leave with her and go home ... back and forth to each other. Towards the end it retreats back to the chorus and ends up with an astounding ending. Everything is going on all together, clashing of notes, but it sounds clean and clear. Many people have heard this song probably more than any other p...

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... polyphonic genre featuring two strictly measured parts. Notable examples are the descant sections based on the Gregorian Chant melisma (several notes to a syllable), which in the organa of the Notre-Dame school alternated with sections featuring coloratura like passages in relatively free rhythm above a slower-moving cantus firmus. A clausula is a florid passage of Gregorian Chant written out in long note values with ... ...

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... also suggested he wrote and composed many of the melodies. This music was named "Gregorian Chant". The music itself at this time was usually one line, unaccompanied melodies with very free rhythms. It was also sung in Latin. This kind of music was called "Plainchant". It was actually one of the few types of western music without a feeling of a beat or ... "Polyphony" started around 1000 a.d. Polyphony was using more than one line of melodies at a time. This almost gave a whole new texture to music. Later harmony became more sophisticated, using other notes in the chord. Families also us...

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... lyrics. Ken Kesey and the pranksters became a drug influenced rock band. Tom Wolfe wrote the novel, "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test-. The novel used basically a collection of all the notes, audio tapes, and video recordings of Kesey and the pranksters' experiences. Throughout most of the novel Kesey and the pranksters were on some type of drugs. The novel explained what ... the interference of ticket sales. The popular Woodstock Music Art Fair happened to be a three day event where many talented rock'n'roll bands and artists came to play their music free to the public. The starting poi...

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