... a better life in the future, to go to college, and have a prestigious job. Since her mother did not have money for the piano, she traded in her cleaning services for piano lessons for Jing-Mei, but her daughter does not seem to appreciate it because she feels like her mother forgot to ask her opinion on ... the piano lessons, instead her mother just comes one day and lets Jing-Mei know that from this day she will be taking piano classes in order ... Jing-Mei learned that she has the right to not to live up to her mother's standards and follow her own pass. That little victory over the ...

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... 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 ... 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 total song. Lyrics are the words used in the song and usually tell us what the song and mood of the s...

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... as Charlie "Bird" Parker (alto sax), Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet), Thelonious Monk (piano), Bud Powell (piano), Miles Davis (trumpet), and Charles Mingus (bass). The standard ensemble became a quintet, consisting of piano, bass, drums, reed instrument, and trumpet. (Erenberg). The distinguishing factors of the bop style were: notes that were more far-reaching, and which Garner 2contained a rhythm that was looser ... synthesizes the attitude that the Beats held towards the abject lifestyle prescript to black jazz musicians. The Beats, overwhelmingly white, and college-educated, foregoed thei...

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... , the correlation, between the lullaby sung by Zulu women, and the performance of blues singer, Bessie Smith, is striking in its similarity. Also, the African scale, which contains notes flatted on the 3rd, 7th, and sometimes 5th degrees, is directly translated into blues music, which also incorporates slides into its instrumental form. The inception of this particular singing style ... into the mainstream, blues was also being combined with another African influenced genre, ragtime, to create early jazz style in New Orleans. Primarily instrumental, ragtime was commonly performed on pia...

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