... music. The film and incredible score (performed by Joshua Bell) inspired my own playing; I took from it the importance of music in life, especially as the Red Violin passed to communist Shanghai where all things Western, including music, were banned. Xiang Pei receives the violin and is torn between her duty as a Party Official and her love for the instrument. Music ... only entertainment but a communication and an experience, and this film especially showed me the importance of playing with my heart and lending parts of myself and my emotions to the notes. Our immortal legacy is how we...

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... carries an extremely heavy political weight: "Malaysia has a very bad record on communism, especially during the Insurgency years 1946-1960 "the guerilla and destruction warfare tactics used by the communist army unit left bad scars among us in Malaysia."" Thus, it is understandable that the punk/HC movement has been rather reluctant to embrace political activism completely. An overt identification ... malady infecting the Malaysian punk/HC movement. We might be able to call this problem a type of "inferiority complex- affecting the individuals in the scene. For example, Abira Mohd repe...

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... contour is still used mainly in thematic growth though it is of les importance. In most cases Contrapuntal forms were deserted although they were heavily used for particular intention. Repeated notes invented by Monteverdi are adopted by Classical music from Baroque, which have a special meaning, in the early music (prior to 1600); they only appeared in onomatopoeia when the tone ... is divided into syllables. Many Classical symphony movements are composed over stereotypical repeated eighth notes in the basses, which results in a strong feeling of excitement and tension emanating from t...

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... , vocal training, self-assessment and experimental music-making. All they really needed to do was boost up their confidence by picking up a musical instrument and experimenting with the different musical notes it produces. In the modern generation, several musicians have accomplished their goals by following the same methodology. Additionally, the wonders of technology have provided access to an individual for excluding ... the ability to play the treble clef and the base clef by one performer at the same time, creating a melodious and pleasant set of notes. In early times, mastering the...

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... Du Fay (1397-1474). Binchois was noteworthy for his chansons and rondeau as well as using "hemiola" which is a term when there is a cross note of three quarter notes over a compound meter. Like Dunstable, Binchois also experimented with rhythm and used dotted figures and syncopation. Du Fay was the most important composer of his time as he was widely ... exemplified having a sense of humor while having an innate ability for music expression, and a genius for compositions for the stage such as opera. Purcell used suspended notes in his pieces and emphasized the suspended notes on the str...

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... style and his ability to break musical boundaries."(Alsop) For example, Beethoven's late spring quartets, Opus 127 to 135, take on a new avant garde compositional style, including significantly more high notes. Musical Director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Marin Alsop agrees that Beethoven's music took on a burst of creativity in his late period. Beethoven's "complete lack of self-censhorship may have ... slowly returned to his inner music world and earlier composition experiences."(CBC News) However, his early and middle periods used more low and middle frequency notes, compared...

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... dampen her spirits. Often the lovers would secretly meet, but they would quickly separate as if they were committing a horrible crime. This affair went on for four years with many notes written to the other. "Someday my turn will come,"" wrote Schumann, "then you will see how much I love you!- Clara would reply, "I say to you again that my love knows ... the pitches A, E-flat, C, and B, or alternatively A-flat, C, and B) after a town to which Ernestine had departed. Another example is the Abegg Variations after another past girlfriend Abegg, which includes the musical notes A-B-E-G-G. H...

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... dampen her spirits. Often the lovers would secretly meet, but they would quickly separate as if they were committing a horrible crime. This affair went on for four years with many notes written to the other. "Someday my turn will come,"" wrote Schumann, "then you will see how much I love you!- Clara would reply, "I say to you again that my love knows ... the pitches A, E-flat, C, and B, or alternatively A-flat, C, and B) after a town to which Ernestine had departed. Another example is the Abegg Variations after another past girlfriend Abegg, which includes the musical notes A-B-E-G-G. H...

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... as but not limited to tempo, rhythm, counterpoint,dissonance and harmony, push the envelope of modern Celtic music. Beyond the Pale's unusual bagpipe musicianship in "Killworth Hills", with rhythm of 6 notes per measure and tempo allegro, rivals rock songs that would otherwise be written by heavy metal hands such as Iron Maiden. Similiarly, Smithfield Fare's "Fire in The Glen", with a rhythm ... of 6 notes per measure and a tempo of Adante, resembles a song for a marching infantry in time of conflict. On the other hand, harmony is revealed in the music of both of these bands ... the Pa...

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... corners of the globe and then some. From the well-known bass riffs from the four-two-four beat pulsating throughout hits from Peter Tosh, the Marley clan and Jimmy Cliff to the considerably faster, heavier, louder bass lines of dancehall music from artistes like Elephant Man, Vybz Kartel and Bounty Killer, reggae music has made a marked impact on world music ... ...

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... , Arcangelo Corelli, Georg Friedrich Handel and George Phillip Telemann. It contains subtle references to each and every one of these personalities, as small areas from the play are filled with notes of their specific creations, easily recognizable by any person with a decent level of knowledge in the history of music. The second play of the program, "Midnight Fantasy for Orchestra ", was ... orchestra springs from a deep layer of the composer's memory, being a musical landscape of Greece from another time, conserving the musical, rhythmical and spiritual status-quo of rural Greece. The ...

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... boys fight chaotically amongst each other. In a jazz composition, the close harmonies sound like chaos. It is hard to tell one line of notes from the other very easily, however, jazz composers have knowledgeable control over the overlapping notes that are used in a piece in order to give the music it's unique quality. We can say that the white men running this ... ...

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... was a government organization that investigated the influence of Communism in the entertainment business. Seeger was asked to testify because individuals related to HUAC had reason to believe that he was a Communist. Seeger invoked the First Amendment guaranteeing freedom of speech rather than the Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination. In 1961, the House of Representatives found him guilty of ten contempt ... ...

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... employed his primitive idiom, the one now associated with his "Nazi" pieces, in songs predating the Nazi regime, to words by the eventual Hitler refugee Franz Werfel and the eventual Communist poet laureate Bertolt Brecht. With this knowledge, Kowalke attempts to challenge a position that many have taken: "If the musical idiom of "Carmina Burana" derives from settings of Brecht's poetry, can ... ...

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... was supposedly an obvious motive at the time. The other new techniques of Du Fay's mass came from the way it sounded, written for two tenor lines using only 14 notes, as opposed to 15. Finally, throughout the piece Du Fay, uses thirds and triads, a new, sensual sound discovered by the English. In the old masses, like the Mass of Our ... ...

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... will help us identify the neural mechanisms that are specific to music, specific to language and are shared between the two. The finding that there is a right brain region for notes and musical passages that corresponds in location to a left brain region for letters and words illustrates how a neural mechanism may be present in each of the two brain hemispheres becomes ... ...

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... Shirley Brice Heath, researcher at the Stanford University and Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, arts education has an enormous impact on the lives of children." For example, Brice notes that those students who participate in the arts for at least three hours on three days each week through at least one full year are": (Ford & McMahon, 2011) 4 times more ... ...

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... " when it is heard. It has as many incarnations as performers and performances, each one distinctly different. A responsible performer must intimately understand each piece he will perform, not only the notes on the page, but its historical background. Several things must be understood before one can perform a piece successfully. First, a performer must analyze the piece, determine its form and harmonic structure ... ...

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... that spotlight kinky sex and dysfunctional relationships are also proving to cause sexual abuse and sexual problems in society (Steele 336). Although young children "are not interested in sexual material," notes the University of North Carolina's psychologist W. Brown, "but that the media can increase the salience of those topics in their minds even though they are not physically and psychologically ready ... ...

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... and as the dynamic contrast is displayed by the alternating instruments. The melody also becomes powerful and exciting by the different moods, tones and overpowering volume from instruments with high notes such as the violin and flutes. Finally the fourth movement, which in my opinion sounds as if a search is coming to an end, comes to a conclusion by a powerful display of ... ...

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... between fast, slow, and medium. Italian terms used in musical notation denote more than a dozen different tempos, which included allegro, moderato, and lento. Within the changing meter of rhythm, song notes of various pitches were intertwined. Tone color (timbre) distinguished the sound and characteristics that separated one instrument or voice from another. The classical era between 1750 and 1820 was defined ... ...

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... music than in the Baroque era. It articulated a smoother, more synchronized form with flexibility in rhythm, contrast and mood to express more than one emotion. It introduced a balance of musical notes and melodies, which developed the piano that then replaced the harpsichord. An important classical style was introduced in the classical sonata form, which is divided into four sections called exposition ... ...

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... the emotions that generated this form of artistic expression was not on a par with the expression itself This is indicated by the last line of the poem, where the speaker notes that the piano player "slept like a rock or a man that's dead." The key word here is "or," for it denotes the imprecision of the speaker's understanding. What the blues articulates ... ...

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... future musical education, instrumentation, and composition. The intrinsic discovery made by Pythagoras was the potential order to the chaos of music. Pythagoras began subdividing different intervals and pitches into distinct notes. Mathematically he divided intervals into wholes, thirds, and halves. Four distinct musical ratios were discovered: the tone; its fourth; its fifth; and its octave. (Johnston, 1989). From these ratios the ... ...

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... key all the way through until surprisingly the harmonic indecision of the second subject resurfaces and the key changes to G major through into C major and finally rests with the final notes being the dominant chord of F major which leaves the Overture with no real ending but rather leads it straight into the Introduction which is written in F major. The Introduction begins ... ...

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