... about music. That is why he feared and hated it." - Dmitri Shostakovich On November 7, 1917, the Russian Bolsheviks stormed the Winter Palace and created a new form of government they called the Communist Party. In the first years of the revolution, anything and everything seemed possible; not just in politics, but in ... the music for the movie "Counterplan"." the film is about a couple who fall in love while working in a turbine factory. The movie was a box office smash and the theme became one of the nation's biggest hits and Stalin's favorite song. Perhaps it was Stalin's sentimental ...

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... at the bank, which will allow the Helmer family to be able to afford some of the finer things in life. Torvald sees the boxes and reminds Nora that his new job does not start for a while and that she should be thriftier with her spending. From the beginning, Torvald comes across as a man that demands obedience and commands authority. Torvald ... that had happened in the past. Receiving news that he has lost his job, Krogstad comes back to the house and speaks with Nora and leaves a letter in the post box, to which Torvald has the only key. Nora panics. Unsure what to do, she tells Mrs. ...

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... . The rhythm gets more stable but the speed seems varying. As the piece continues, the sound that sounds like a block being hit is almost drowned out by the drums. The box sound then gets a little less high pitched. As time passes the drums rhythm changes suddenly many times and in the background the cymbals can be heard constantly. There's a part where ... for a bit. The music is then altered in some way and the end is punctuated with the 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 almos...

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... . The rhythm gets more stable but the speed seems varying. As the piece continues, the sound that sounds like a block being hit is almost drowned out by the drums. The box sound then gets a little less high pitched. As time passes the drums rhythm changes suddenly many times and in the background the cymbals can be heard constantly. There's a part where ... for a bit. The music is then altered in some way and the end is punctuated with the 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 almos...

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... at the bank, which will allow the Helmer family to be able to afford some of the finer things in life. Torvald sees the boxes and reminds Nora that his new job does not start for a while and that she should be thriftier with her spending. From the beginning, Torvald comes across as a man that demands obedience and commands authority. Torvald ... that had happened in the past. Receiving news that he has lost his job, Krogstad comes back to the house and speaks with Nora and leaves a letter in the post box, to which Torvald has the only key. Nora panics. Unsure what to do, she tells Mrs. ...

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... same musician. They can be taken anywhere, and played on computers, cars, and radios. Though through the growing information technology industry, music has found a new port to be played and downloaded from. This has been mainly through the creation of ITunes on April 28, 2003. This was created by Apple with ... standards and conventions to be met. This includes producing both the track and music video so that it meets the technical requirements. For example in New Zealand the television standard is PAL (Phase Alternating Line). Phase Alternating Line, is a color encoding system for analo...

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... for their files to download, or send private messages to another person who you may be swapping files with. KaZaA is the new most popular alternative to Napster. As soon as this file sharing program is opened a pop up box opens with it that says, "P2P. The way it should be." This clearly shows what the owners of these websites and programs ... as MTV and VH1. This can result in upped CD sales for bands that are not considered mainstream music. The internet is an excellent place to hear and learn about new bands and artists that come out. Rather than buying the whole CD and then realizin...

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... income and a small clientel. Furthermore, the most likely place to find a film scorer would be where most films are being made: i.e. Los Angeles and New York. With the improvement in communication technology, connection between film makers and scorers has become much easier. People are able to be located where they want, ... Wiene such as, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and later went on to be succesful with another German director, G.W. Pabst with the film Pandora's Box. Music for silent films was essential. Imagine how boring a motion picture would be with absolutely no sound. And how oft...

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... quadruple-platinum with sales 4.4 million units in the US and 3.3 million units internationally. In 1984, she broke the box office record at the Radio City Music Hall in New York, with the fastest sellout of any concert ever - 17,622 tickets sold out in 34 minutes. The entire ... two hours. Madonna has successfully merged her pop sensibilities with experimental electronica. She earned a respect as an artist when she produced a brand new sound - hybrid dance-pop. However, some detractor still insists that her musical collaborators direct Madonna's creative output. "Not so", defends Willia...

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... the electric steel guitar. This electric steel guitar was called "Frying Pan" or "Pancake" because of the shape. New models like the National, Gibson, and Martin were shaped like a "Biscuit Box" and stool on four legs. The addition of pedals and knee levers was also a major part of the development ... talked about poverty and hard times, sexuality, street children, lost loves, and oppression. As the musical traditions of various cultures combined a whole new sound emerged. While born out of pain the Blues are liberating. The Blues are also full of joy and exuberance. The slaves eventuall...

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... musicians who came from Memphis and were labeled the Memphis Mafia. They produced a more marketable combination of records using ballads and novelties. Country was also influenced by this wave of new rock musicians and created the Nashville sound. Some rockabilly musicians include Johnny Cash, who was more influential in folk music as he developed his style, Buddy Holly, who could have ... term rock an roll. Chapter eight focuses on soul/mowtown music. This music had great influence around the 1960's which were times of tumult and confusion. Rock music had new messages and new means to ...

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... have a total subconscious affect on any human being, let alone the artist. For all you know, the copy written on the back of the cereal box you opened this morning was written by someone in a miserable, rainy and humid country, working for a corrupt corporation bent on global breakfast domination, who ... bands" are on the downswing due to over-saturation, but a general sense of dismay or a need for escapism amidst a depressing cultural climate could call The New Kids on the Block out of retirement. But I doubt it. 2) Pre-fabricated pop acts discover the creative process. When the Vietn...

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... pop idols have an amazing amount of power over their fans, as you can see by observing the famous Ayumi Hamasaki, on everything from posters promoting Panasonic's new MD Player to a TV commercial featuring Ayumi in a cute Santa outfit singing the "Boss Coffee- song. It has the desired effect too. According to ... Newsweek, when she started advertising for a cosmetics brand called Kose, within two months, mascara sales went from number four to number one. The new lip gloss sold 500,000 units after two days on store shelves (Cullen, 2002). Because J-pop idols are based mainly on appearance...

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... in musical infamy, they will remain legends for different reasons. One of the most important factors in becoming a rock legend is bringing about a revolution, opening people to something bold and new. Kurt Cobain, along with his band, Nirvana, changed rock music forever. In a time when music was becoming mass-produced, emotionless muck, Cobain brought about something that was repulsively beautiful and ... this day, although Hendrix died almost 20 years ago and Cobain passed in 1994. Cobain left a legacy of haunting tunes such as "Come As You Are," "Polly," and "Heart Shaped Box." Kurt u...

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... conch shells to communicate with each other. By the turn of the century, Calypso from Trinidad and Tobago and Samba from Central America were introduced to the Jamaicans to form a new mix of music called Mento. MENTO Mento was the popular music in Jamaica before ska, rocksteady and reggae. It was an established style in both rural and urban areas as ... early as the turn of the 20th century. Mento bands usually include one or more of the following: banjo, guitar, a bass lamellophone called a rumba box, and maracas. They sometimes include the fife, clarinet, violin or saxophone. The song...

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... there and sing about ex girlfriends, and love. They wanted to sing about real-life experiences and how it related to them. This made me think of them in a whole new light. How they were no longer in it for the money, but the fans. AFI's style really stands out amongst the others in their scene now days. When they first ... started, they were dubbed "gothic punk", although their music did not really reflect their type of music. Stereotyping in the music scene, simply based on fashion is nothing new. Davey was very pale white with black eyeliner, and both of his arms covered in tattoos. N...

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... Memorial Auditorium introduced Renaissance music for the first time to me. Although I do not attend concerts frequently, I enjoyed hearing and learning this rendition of early music. I really appreciated hearing something new yet the actual music itself I found unpleasant. I noticed that the concert was less formal than other concerts I have attended, which made the atmosphere very comfortable. Also having the conductor, John ... lack of materials during that time. Even some of the historic recreations use animal gut for the authentic look and sound of the instruments. She brought to cl...

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... that made by machines turn into a kind of rhythm. Based on my intuition, I thought that should be an interesting dream. But, nothing more. Follow the film I know that Selma is a new immigrant who came from Czechoslovakia. She works in a big factory. The noise is made by the die-casting machines. In that noisy shop, they have to work for a long time ... pitied her, she comforted him instead. I can see the brilliance of maternity and flesh is shining in her heart, and bright the audiences' soles. Scatterheart Beautiful sounds come from musical box. It seems like that everything goes to sl...

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