... still regarded in the 21st century as a remarkable and great musical genius. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria, January 27, 1756 (EarlyMusic.com). His family was not very rich, but he always dreamt about a better life. His father, Leopold Mozart, was a talented violist who recognized ... impacted humankind all around the world. During his life, Mozart composed over 500 pieces of music including sonatas by his 35th year (Mozartsmusic.Blogspot.com). All of his compositions are marvelous, and musicians today appreciate his music even more than musicians in Mozart's time....

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... search engines returned generally the same results, a few did tend to stand out above the rest. These search engines were www.yahoo.com, www.msn.com, and www.lycos.com, and the terms used for these searches were "Cuban son-, "history of Cuban son-, and "Cuban music history-, respectively. The ... difference in these search engines was that they had a few sites that the other search engines, such as www.altavista.com, www.37.com, www.botbot.com, www.google.com, and www.megaspider.com, did not. These select sites on the successful search engines were informative in nature as opposed to th...

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... people of Nine Mile have no running water so they collect rainwater in a giant reservoir located in the center of town. ("Life" bobmarley.com) In 1957 Bob's mother moved him from Nine Mile to live in the capital of Jamaica, Kingston. There, he went to Stepney School where ... Bob's reason for leaving was to make money to fund his new label Wail"n Soul"m. The name honored The Wailers and The Soulettes.("Life" bobmarley.com) bobmarley.com) In 1972 The Wailers signed with the label Island Records. It was a revoulutionary move for an international label to sign a reggae band. Before ... 1972...

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... For as long as the first amendment has protected our right to freedom of speech and expression, elements have tried to undermine that right" (Rosen RIIA.com). Music is a way for people to express themselves. Should this way of expression be restricted? I believe it should not be. For people should be ... of America), "history of our nations music also history of those who would censor that creative expression, afraid of what it explores and exposes"(RIAA.com). Some parents seem to think that messages in certain songs could cause fans to commit violent acts. Such as those seen in school sh...

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... As a result, an average iPod contains $800 worth of pirated music. 70% of online users find nothing wrong in online piracy (go-gulf.com). Online piracy is a serious problem that many people do not pay any attention to and most importantly, are not aware of the gravity of this ... . In July of 2001, Napster was forced to completely stop the sharing of illegally downloaded music without its users paying for it (cracked.com). This ongoing war with Napster and the RIAA marked the beginning of many laws and lawsuits against millions of online piracy websites around the world ... yet illegally...

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... fully purchased or leased for a certain amount of time. Websites have been launched and are becoming more and more popular to market and distribute records. Sites such as Tunecore.com and CDBaby.com have changed musician's lives, allowing them to post such music on digital retailers such as iTunes and Napster, and even have them pressed and sent directly to Best Buy ... the money goes directly to the person who's releasing the music. For example, for every song sold for a dollar on iTunes, artists will receive 70 cents of that using Tunecore.com's program. The Internet has reshaped reco...

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... of Erlangen, MP3 was developed to "create a high quality, low bit rate compression scheme based on the manipulation of the perceptual insufficiency of certain aspects of human hearing" (www.zdnet.com). Actually using the MP3 to download music from certain sites was not available until the "introduction of encoding and decoding tools and players for MP3" came about (www.zdnet ... .com). The audio files of an MP3 cannot even be heard until decoded and played in an Mp3 player, AMP, which was developed by Tomislav Uzelac and is used in Windows ... and Macs. Through the use of technology, Mp...

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... develops automated anti-piracy technologies for the Internet. As with the RIAA, the IFPI also engages in litigation against violations. The consumer-sponsored mp3.com is a good example of an organization solely responsible for acquiring consumer appreciation. Mp3.com has fought a few court battles in the past and has come to terms with the relentless pursuits of the recording industry. They have ... tried to rationalize with the industry groups only to be cast into the spotlight. More recently, the mp3.com organization has agreed to offer digital music services to up-and-coming labels a...

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... develops automated anti-piracy technologies for the Internet. As with the RIAA, the IFPI also engages in litigation against violations. The consumer-sponsored mp3.com is a good example of an organization solely responsible for acquiring consumer appreciation. Mp3.com has fought a few court battles in the past and has come to terms with the relentless pursuits of the recording industry. They have ... tried to rationalize with the industry groups only to be cast into the spotlight. More recently, the mp3.com organization has agreed to offer digital music services to up-and-coming labels a...

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... ? "The right of people to express their opinions publicly without governmental interference, subject to the laws against libel, incitement to violence or rebellion, etc. Also called free speech."(www.infoplease.com/ipd/a0448857.html). With freedom of speech being the first amendment of The Bill of Rights it basically says the we are allowed to say anything we want without the ... the heroin Where were the parents at? And look where it's at Middle America, now it's a tragedy Now it's so sad to see, an upper class ci-ty". (www.ohhla.com/anonymous/eminem/marshall/the_way.mnm.txt) In this sm...

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... rap has "mixed rap, reggae, dancehall, acid jazz, trip hop, and other world styles with local musical traditions, the spoken vernacular, and everyday concerns of Italian youth"(http://www.italianrap.com/masterfr.html). It stems from the 1970's political and cultural movements. The sociali centri, or social center, is said to be a part of an Antagonistic Movement, which is a portion of ... been featured on the television hit, "The Sopranos." Other serious Italian rap artists include 99 Posse, who use this type of music "as a weapon for social justice" (http://www.italianrap.com/masterfr....

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... 't until the music industry put its foot down on the whole matter, that things started to get controversial. Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) According to Brad King of WireNews.com, the RIAA, which stands for the Recording Industry Association of America, is an organization that watches over and represents five major recording companies. Such companies like Columbia records, Motown Records ... the RIAA file a lawsuit but recording artist Metallica was the first music group to file a suit against Napster and to strike against music privacy on the net. According to WireNews...

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... the Cleveland Institute; he was also composer-in-residence with the Dallas SO (1968-9) and professor of composition at Indiana University (1975-6, 1984-7) and Southern Methodist University, Dallas (1981-4). (GroveMusic.com) In the 1960s, he developed his mature style based on exploring the sound capabilities of traditional instruments and electronically synthesized sound. Such works as Fallout (1964), Kyrie (1965), Fission (1968 ... majority of the manuscripts of his musical compositions. Approximately one hundred compositions "mostly orchestral and chamber works written between 1950 an...

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... of the Year" by Rolling Stone magazine. Bob's fame increased as he played a peace concert in front of the Prime Minister of Jamaica and Jamaica's opposing forces.(Boot, Bob Marley.com) Later that year Marley received the Peace Medal of the Third World from the United Nations. This shows how Marley and his music went further than just entertaining. On May ... remembered and honored. Although some of his beliefs may have been unorthodox, such as smoking marijuana to get closer to their god, he was still a great man.(Boot, Bob Marley.com) Marley revolutionized the music industry especially...

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... former; whereas the latter gave me a more theoretical view of the piece as it was more music-theory oriented. In addition of these two websites I also looked up in Laphil.com which was a mixture of theoretical and practical perspectives. As said above, these three sites focused more in the piece itself; therefore they provide more revealing clues to form an opinion ... ...

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On August 18, 2014 Live.com played a Aaron Copland's original Quiet City performed by Christopher Brellochs on their classical music station. Although I only heard the end of this piece, I decided to research the composer of this ... ...

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... that Coldplay has made to present the problem with Britain's large subsidy scandal. Along with that project, Coldplay is also active in improving the environment by teaming up with futureforests.com. With fan donations to "adopt-a-tree" and their revenues they plan to plant 10,000 Mango trees in India to provide food for the locals and for trade with other ... ...

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... could face penalties of up to $150,000 per song, but the Recording Industry Association of America or RIAA has already settled some cases for as little as $3000 (foxnews.com). Another problem Illegal downloading causes is the effect it has on our favorite musical artists. If things keep going the way they are, the record companies might not be able ... ...

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... change the music industry forever? Sean Fanning who is behind the whole operation called his music online service Napster after his own childhood nickname. The Napster software (http://WWW.napster.com), launched early in 1999, allows Internet users to share and download MP3 files directly from any computer connected to the Napster network for free. The software is used by downloading ... ...

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Illegal music Music burning websites like www.napster.com use to burn illegal music. Napster use to be one of the top CD burning web site until they were shut down. Some people don't understand that burning CD's makes ... ...

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... sad thing is that some people actually do make their kids wear a leash.) There will always be offensive material that can not be shut out. Even the webmaster of Rotten.com, a sickening website that will show anything offensive, says "Life is sometimes offensive. You have to expect that. The images we find most obscene are those of burning books." (King Par ... ...

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... Gershwin once was quoted by saying, "True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today "(Quoteproject.com). Although George Gershwin wrote many famous songs for Broadway musicals including Strike up the Band, Funny Face, and Girl Crazy, Rhapsody in Blue is arguably his best composition. The work ... ...

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... singers influence people, and makes malicious doings sound humane. "Let's just kill everyone and let your god sort them out," is part of a song my Marilyn Manson http://www.wickedland.com/manson/lyrics/antichrist.html#2. How is a person who is depressed and mad not get tempted to kill someone? Movies, Video games, and music influences people that are not always good. ...

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... mire of poverty and loneliness, of being broke, and gave them some kind of hope anyway. Make it anything but good news, it ceases to be gospel." (source: www.afgen.com) The misconception of gospel music being considered as church music as time passes, it's not uncommon to see gospel music for non-religious people and it is now more popular ... ...

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... enlightening at least to me as being a newcomer to the jazz concert scene. The concert was brought to my attention by several different advertisements from wall posters, a posting on digitalcity.com and by my Jazz History professor Mr. Wilkinson. At the concert two bands played a total of three sets, the first group "The Unit" started at 7:00 p.m., and "Maynard Ferguson and ... ...

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