Essays Tagged: "Musical instrument"
The Life and times of Kurt Cobain
rned to drugs at the start of his teens as a way to "leave everything that sucks behind". His first musical instrument was a snare drum, His parents say that he played it non stop after he got home fr ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies
Society
s anadmirable trait for people in any standing. The old blind man singssongs to the others, plays a musical instrument, and adds a sense ofexperience and content to the family. The children do their d ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community
Music as a culture in the Caribbean.
but today it has grown to become an addiction and culture. Nearly every household has a radio and a musical instrument. Music today has been sub - divided into three categories depending on its style ...
Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays
Marching and Concert Band.
cepts. However, many high school students consider the word band as being able to play some kind of musical instrument. Being a five year marching band member and playing in concert band for seven yea ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Performing Arts
This essay is about Plato's Allegory of the Cave and what my interpretation is of the images that dwell in the cave.
learned. Would you be willing to give up that knowledge, be it a foreign language, or how to play a musical instrument, or compute in math, or understand the weather? Once you know something, once you ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Contemporary Philosophy
The Harmony in Education
in schools greatly affects the students' academic progress, and development. The ability to play a musical instrument and/or appreciate the aesthetic qualities of classical music indicates a well edu ... hly underpaid in this society (Dai). Even knowing this, parents will still support their children's musical education in many ways.There have been many studies about music education, and the results a ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies
Genes affect
t. Also I can play a recorder and a short bamboo flute. My mother makes a special effort to provide musical experience to me since when I was elementary school 2nd year. She makes me that I am interes ... kes me that I am interested in play musical instrument. But unlikely me, my brother cannot play any musical instrument. Because my mother doesn't provide musical experience to him when he was young. S ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
The History of Keyboards
anoInventedThe piano was invented by Bartolommeo Cristofori in the early 18th century.ConstructionA musical instrument consisting of a number of wire strings stretched over a metal frame, which are hi ... felt-covered wooden hammers.SynthesiserInventedA device that reproduces the sounds of conventional musical instruments and also produces a variety of artificial tones by means of electronic oscillato ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers
Bali Gamelan performance
gambel" (Bali). Most Indonesian languages define gambel as to make a sound by striking or playing a musical instrument, such as a gong or a drum.FunctionThe use and purpose of gamelan music. Originall ... change of environment gave rise to many of the aesthetic differences between Balinese and Javanese musical styles. Music in Java moved from open-air temples to large roofed platforms within the royal ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Performing Arts
Fill the Cup of Silence: This is a problem/solution paper concerning music education
can certainly testify to that. But as I learned and improved, I came to understand how important a musical instrument can be as an outlet for creativity, for ideas and emotions that only music can ex ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education
Life and Times of Gene Krupa.
n the music store where he and his brother worked. "I used to look in their wholesale catalog for a musical instrument - piano, trombone, cornet - I didn't care what it was as long as it was an instru ... Hot" & "Beat the Band", becoming a sort of matinee idol. His noted likeness to Tyrone Power and musical fame was a magical combination in the eyes of Hollywood. In the summer of 1943, Krupa was ar ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers
An essay describing techno music and history of techno music. Including some aspiring artists.
Techno usually uses computerized sound effects instead of people actually purchasing and playing a musical instrument such as the Guitar. The term "techno" is often used in North America and Europe t ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies
Music in Our Life
People cannot live without music. They listen to music, dance to music or learn to play musical instruments. There is music everywhere: at home, in a concert hall, in the park, at the seas ... compose music, others play music, and others only listen to it. A lot of people who cannot play any musical instrument love to listen to music either at home or at a con-cert. Different people like di ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies
Math And Music
string (such as on a guitar) and the pitch of its vibrating note. By conducting experiments with a musical instrument called a monochord, a stretched string with a movable bridge, Pythagoras found th ... tios which determine the concordant scale in music. From the knowledge that whole numbers determine musical intervals, the Pythagoreans determined that the intervals between the heavenly bodies were a ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies
Photographing Dance as an Art
iew at later times.Other artists are able to observe their instruments such as a musician and their musical instrument and painters and their paint, brushes and finished pieces of art work but for any ...
Subjects: Art Essays
Good Sax
"Do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do…" A relative novice, I started to play my first musical instrument, an alto saxophone, during my sophomore year. Dr. Morrow, our band coordinator, r ... second piece, "Falsetto Moss"… Some say that I am destined to play an instrument, as musical aptitude correlates strongly with my additional skills in the sciences and foreign languages ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
. When the narrator played a sonata by Mozart on his violin to convince the villagers that it was a musical instrument, not a toy, he had to call his piece “Mozart is Thinking of Chairman Mao ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature
Learning Styles Classification Essay 800-1000 words, properly cited.
s). Those who learn by hearing or listening typically tend to have a good singing voice, can play a musical instrument or can easily identify the sounds of individual instruments. Music may invoke str ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays
Tuvan people and the Igil. A formal analysis of a video on mymusiclab about the Tuvan people.
a dream about his horse telling him to hang the horse's skull on an old larch tree. Then to make a musical instrument from the wood of that tree, call it 'igil' and cover it with the skin of the hors ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies
EMA in Hainan and the Northwest
the NorthwestAmong many of Chinese minority groups, and among the Han communities in certain areas, musical activities exist and that are traditionally inseparable from local sexual customs. These act ... are traditionally inseparable from local sexual customs. These activities are referred to as Erotic Musical Activity or EMA.EMA is a type of folk activity whose overall form is vocal and or an instrum ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues