On the Benefits of a Free Enterprise How many of us haven't experienced the benefits of today's computer technology and with its help obtained and downloaded music? It is convenient, cheap and probably the easiest way ... we go to a record store can we have the entire piece of art an album is, think about all the artwork, the lyrics for the songs and all the liner notes. That peer-to-peer networking would be a threat to the music industry can really be doubted - new technology has always caused concern. When Sony released the first video cassette recorder ... ...

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... Pale's use of bagpipes in the song "Killworth Hills", as apposed to the usual slow funeral like tempo of bagpipe playing, demonstrates the free-style use of this instrument at a unusual tempo of allegro. On the other hand, Smithfield Fare's combinaton of acoustic guitar and counterpoint ... 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. Similiar...

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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 ... music as we know it today. In the birth of jazz music, the majority, if not all the musicians were black. The South had a long tradition of both slaves and free black musicians entertaining audiences of both races. Jazz music,...

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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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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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... 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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... 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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