Essays Tagged: "musicians"

APPALACHIAN MUSICIANS

APPALACHIAN MUSICIANS ANDSINGERSAND THE SONGS THEY WRITEGrowing up in Appalachia and around its music hasmade a ... Heritage in the songs(Ergood and Kuhre 189).There are many Nationally known Appalachian Songwriters musicians and singers today. Gospel,bluegrass, country and western or rock whatever thestyle of musi ... In some Appalachian families, like theStonemans every member of the family has a role inAPPALACHIAN MUSICIANS ANDSINGERSAND THE SONGS THEY WRITE theperformance. Although these singers and song writers ...

(2 pages) 55 0 4.5 Mar/1996

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Jazz and Classical Music

ide of the scale are the categories known as Jazz and Classical music. Someof the most accomplished musicians of our time have devoted themselves to a life-long study of Jazzor Classical music, and a ... time have devoted themselves to a life-long study of Jazzor Classical music, and a few exceptional musicians have actually mastered both. A comparison ofclassical and Jazz music will yield some inter ...

(7 pages) 364 1 3.9 Nov/1996

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

On my Time

fton for our show. As usual, we got there way to early, so we did what any fun seeking under aged musicians would do. We searched the allies and found a half passed out drunk and took him to the lo ...

(6 pages) 45 0 4.6 Feb/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Balsam. Essay written on an example of how smells evoke memories

of the harvest, sprinkled with festive trappings and garlands of fall flowers. To the left, several musicians prepared for the night's revelry, arranging their chairs and tuning their instruments; pla ... that he had been taught as a child, not so many years ago.And the memory made him sad.Later, as the musicians played and the dancers spun, the man stood alone, expressionless, in his small room. From ...

(10 pages) 48 0 4.2 Nov/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Descriptive Essays

Analysis of the Music Industry: Describes in detail how the music industry has changed its methods of distribution, promotion and manufacturing.

destination is most of the times well defined. There are a few exceptions that I will discuss later.Musicians come to the record company or music producer with a sample of their music. Than if these s ... They are doing this because music publishers are earning a lot of money from the contracts with the musicians and percent (33% - 50%) of the produced CD's and companies can gain these profits for them ...

(11 pages) 928 2 4.4 Nov/2002

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Concert: The Baltimore Consort, February 11,2003 Type of Concert: Celtic Band

e music began the spirits of everyone was lifted to a lighter level. The seating arrangement of the musicians, I believe, really helped because being in a circular position it allowed the feeling of a ... e atmosphere or something that was very inviting to everyone. After the first string was played the musicians' being so involved and caught up in the moment that for an instant it brought the music al ...

(3 pages) 67 1 4.4 Apr/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Les Paul The Inventor Of The Century.

recording in 1929, after he invented the electric solid body guitar in the late 1928, this allowed musicians to join separate lines of music and lyrics to be blended into one, with sound on sound whi ...

(1 pages) 56 1 3.4 May/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Johann Sebastian Bach's history.

n G Minor ("The Great"), St. Matthew Passion, and Jesu Der Du Meine Seele. He came from a family of musicians. There were over 53 musicians in his family over a period of 300 years.Johann Sebastian Ba ... h in Arnstadt. Here, as in later posts, his perfectionist tendencies and high expectations of other musicians - for example, the church choir - rubbed his colleagues the wrong way, and he was embroile ...

(3 pages) 46 0 4.3 Aug/2003

Subjects: Art Essays

Biography on Johann Sebastian Bach.

in G Minor (The Great), St. Matthew Passion, and Jesu Der Du Meine Seele.Bach came from a family of musicians. There were over 53 musicians in his family over a period of 300 years. Johann Sebastian B ... organist at a church in Arnstadt. Here, his perfectionist tendencies and high expectations of other musicians rubbed his colleagues the wrong way, and he was embroiled in a number of hot disputes duri ...

(3 pages) 64 1 4.1 Oct/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers

History of Jazz and Classical Music.

side of the scale arethe categories known as Jazz and Classical music. Some of the mostaccomplished musicians of our time have devoted themselves to alifelong study of Jazz or Classical music, and a f ... ur time have devoted themselves to alifelong study of Jazz or Classical music, and a few exceptionalmusicians have actually mastered both. A comparison of classical andJazz music will yield some inter ...

(6 pages) 136 0 3.8 Nov/2003

Subjects: Art Essays

Johann Sebastian Bach.

in G Minor ("The Great"), St.Matthew Passion, and Jesu Der Du Meine Seele. He came from afamily of musicians. There were over 53 musicians in hisfamily over a period of 300 years.Johann Sebastian Bac ... rchin Arnstadt. Here, as in later posts, his perfectionisttendencies and high expectations of other musicians - forexample, the church choir - rubbed his colleagues the wrongway, and he was embroiled ...

(3 pages) 36 0 3.5 Nov/2003

Subjects: Art Essays

Recording Engineer.

well as their placement, can have dramatic effects on the final recording.Engineers then record the musicians one track at a time. After each track is recorded, the engineer plays it back to evaluate ...

(2 pages) 38 0 3.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Art Essays

The predecessor or modern chemistry writen by Jay Abgumme

ogy, and mysticism. It has also been an influence on the world view of various writers, artist, and musicians. The focus of this report is alchemy as a pre-chemistry, which gave a new impulse towards ...

(3 pages) 30 0 3.7 Nov/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Black or white. AN ANALYSIS OF THE DETRIMENT OF "PASSING" IN JAMES WELDON JOHNSON'S NOVEL, AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN EX-COLORED MAN

racteristics of the white man. He is an experienced musician whose social life evolves around white musicians, thus forsaking the black race.The principal theme in the novel is the identity of race. I ...

(7 pages) 96 1 3.6 Nov/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Finding Emo: A Comprehensive explanation and look at the evolution and existence of Emo as a music genre as well as cultural influence.

PowerModern music is continuously undergoing change, a viscous conglomeration of the past with what musicians hope will become the future. Never has music been so influential and present in the econom ...

(6 pages) 67 3 4.7 Dec/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Video Killed the Radiostar and MTV Killed Music This paper discusses the "fall of music." It deals with the overexploitaion of artists due to media such as MTV.

used their lyrics as a way to challenge political issues. But now it seems that the only thing that musicians think about while writing an album is 'will it make MTV?'. Money seems to make even the mu ... c lovers. It can be traced to one major flaw that has been repeated time and time again: exploiting musicians instead of their music.Since its first broadcast in 1981, MTV has grown to be the most bel ...

(4 pages) 81 2 3.8 Dec/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Title: Against Censorship in Music This paper is about censorship in music. For those rock 'n'roll music with dirty lyrics.

sorship has been an extremely controversial issue in American society for over fifty years. Various musicians have had their music shelved and banned from videos and the radio just because some people ... to prevent the government from controlling the media. The First Amendment gives everybody, include musicians, the equal right to speak freely about anything, in any way. Creating lyrics is just a way ...

(4 pages) 235 0 4.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Persuasive Writing

Essay in support of music piracy.

y there to distribute artist?s work, and they charge a lot of money for it too. The 273,000 working musicians in America make an average of $30,000 a year, yet the music industry is a $40 billion-a-ye ...

(2 pages) 86 0 4.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Music should be censored so everybody can listen.

Many musicians today use vulgar language in their songs. Some artist use more vulgar language than other ... use more vulgar language than others, but swear words can be found in almost every form of music. Musicians want their audiences to relate to what they are saying, and the best way to do that is by ... a song, they don't want to wait for hours for it to come around on the radio, so they buy albums. Musicians are in the business to make money and in order for them to do that they have to sell album ...

(2 pages) 37 1 5.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

Description of a concert as an operating system with inputs, transformation process and outputs

any other service operation, is predominantly a customer processing operation. The main task of the musicians, and therefore also of the organisers, is to process audience in a way in which satisfies ... usic hall, following the music market sales, should try to have as a guest only the most successful musicians of the moment.The other transformed resources, together with audience, is the building con ...

(3 pages) 55 0 3.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies