I like the connection that he made about music and writing. ... Writing and music are also related because it's just like writing and reading. ... Writing is just the same. ... Good writers use different writing techniques to fit their purposes for writing. ... Many students choose to listen to a preferred genre of music when they study or do their homework without understanding the potential harmful effects of such practice. ...

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At a ripe age, just pushing 30, Whiteman is in his prime when it comes to writing music and performing it. ... Paul will only commission the best musicians of all genres of music and all different instruments. ...

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The genres of music that I have enjoyed over the years have changed but no matter what I preferred to listen to, I have always felt a deep emotional attachment. ... I needed the freedom of writing my own music and composing my own songs. ...

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He is known for writing three voice sacred pieces, settings of antiphons, hymns and mass sections. ... One of the most influential and characteristic genre of the Renaissance was the Madrigal which is a vocal composition combining homophonic and polyphonic textures that is set to a short poem. ... Other innovations such as new instruments such as the trombone and the violin came into play as well as new genres including: variations, prelude, fantasia, toccata, ricercare, canzona, and sonata. The genres provided more challenging approaches to playing than was offered in sacred or secular music....

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Part of the experimentalism associated with this style is the fusing of unusual genres. ... He was a friend and colleague of John Cage, a composer of very eccentric ˜music,' who influenced his writing. ...

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In England he continued writing in an Italian style but concentrated most of his efforts on composing English, music, particularly choral pieces such as English oratorios, for which he is most famous. Handel is also esteemed for his English Church music, secular music and various instrumental genres, especially the Concerto. ...

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I am writing this critique to admit that I was wrong. ... I enjoyed being a part of the Dance Kaleidoscope and am very fortunate to have enjoyed the pieces I viewed and make these connections as it has made me more open-minded to the different genres of dance. ...

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This statement implies that Lassus used leaps in his writing style that gave a feeling of arrival as opposed to the Roman's scalewise movement, which encourages harmonic motion. 2. ... A clausula in music is a 13th century polyphonic genre featuring two strictly measured parts. ...

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As with film, television, and other primarily visual media, sound and music are often the forgotten elements in video game design. That may be because sound affects humans more subtly than splashy visuals. In fact, often times the mark of superior sound design is that one does not consciously noti...

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The Music Consort Vera The Music Consort Vera held in the Memorial Auditorium introduced Renaissance music for the first time to me. Although I do not attend concerts frequently, I enjoyed hearing and learning this rendition of early music. I really appreciated hearing something new yet the actual music itself I found unpleasant. I noticed that the concert was less formal than other concerts I have attended, which made the atmosphere very comfortable. Also having the conductor, John Kitts-Turner, speak to the audience to explain the different instruments and pieces was very helpful as we foll...

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Thriller, by genre, is classified as a disco-funk song. ... Thriller was created and recorded in 1982, which was a very strange time to release a Disco/Funk song because during the late 1970's, there was a decline in the entire Disco genre of music. ... So many people showed up due to the growing hate towards the entire genre during the late 1970's. ... During the time this song was dated, Beethoven was also writing many other bagatelles as well, but could be said that it was written towards the end of this time period (11). ...

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Because of this diversity, composers found themselves writing for either end of the spectrum, but never both. ... In 1932, a union was set up, "The Union of Soviet Composers" which was then split up into sections which governs the various musical genres. ... -Stanley Dale Krebs, Soviet Composers Up until the publication of "Testimony: the memoirs of Demitri Shostakovich" edited by Solomon Volkov in 1979, it was unclear what the composers intentions were when writing the Fifth Symphony. ... In the early 1940's, Prokofiev criticized Shostakovich's lack of musical daring, accusing ...

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In 1991, a young man by the name of Ville Hermanni Valo decided to form a band. At the time he was working in his Father's sex shop located in a small suburb in Finland and decided that he needed to do something more creative with his life. He made a few demos with himself playing the guitar parts on a six string bass, with help from a friend, Mige, playing the bass parts, and random friends playing on the drums. After one show the band went their separate ways. Four years later Ville met back up with Mige to form another band. ...

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