Scott Joplin was born in Linden, Texas on November 24, 1868. At an early age Joplin demonstrated an extraordinary talent for music. With the encouragement of his parents he started playing the banjo, and was beginning to play the piano.

Scott Joplin Scott Joplin was born in Linden, Texas on November 24, 1868. At an early age Joplin demonstrated an extraordinary talent for music. With the encouragement of his parents he started playing the banjo, and was beginning to play the piano. By age eleven and under the leadership of Julius Weiss he was learning the finer points of harmony and style. After years as an traveling pianist playing in saloons and brothels throughout the Midwest, Joplin settled in St. Louis in or around 1890. There he studied and led in the development of a music genre now known as ragtime, a unique blend of European classical styles combined with African American harmony and rhythm. In 1893, Joplin was in Chicago at the World's Fair leading a band and playing the cornet. After the fair he returned to Sedalia and played first cornet in the Queen City Cornet. Staying with the band only a year, he later started his own band. In 1895, he traveled to Syracuse, New York, with his Texas Medlley Quartette, a vocal group. His performances so impressed several businessmen in Syracuse that they issued his first two publications, the songs Please Say You Will and A picture of Her Face. When not traveling he worked in Sedalia as a pianist playing at various events and sites. He also taught several of the local young musicians in town, most notably Scott Hayden and Arthur Marshall whom he later wrote

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What are some of the uses or functions of music?

Music is the organized movement of sounds through a range of time. Music plays a great role in our life, and it exists in a large number of styles, each representing a particular area. Clearly, music is not easy to define, and yet historically most people have or not a given sound is musical. A proper consideration of music should involve the musical sound itself; but it should also deal with the concepts leading to its existence, with its particular forms and functions in each culture, and with the human behavior that produces the sound. Although music has been a historical hit parade, since vey ancient times, modern science testifies to the fact that some of the networks in the human brain seem to be exclusively dedicated to music. This has also encouraged neuroscientists to rethink their ideas on the nature of intelligence. To pick a commonplace example: listening to their favorite tune can help children/adults work better with words, math’s, and also make an improved effort in sport. That’s not all. Expand your creative instincts, boost your IQ/EQ, control pain, motivate etc., too. In other words, music is a great way to manage your psyche for success. What has been most exciting, today, is the discovery of effect of music on the brain. Music, researchers suggest, might derive more cognitive powers from its unique ability to access both the left and right hemispheres

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Evaluation Of Performance - In the performance I played in 12 songs; 4 in Interglactic Grapefruit as a guitarist and bassist.

BTEC Performance Evaluation In the performance I played in 12 songs; 4 in Interglactic Grapefruit as a guitarist and bassist. I was also used a session musician and played 4 songs for Matt Arnold; 1 for Leanne Johns and 3 for Rosa Trivett . On the night I played electric guitar, bass guitar, acoustic guitar, piano, and keyboard. My performance – Intergalactic Grapefruit The songs we played were Take Me Out by Franz Ferdinand, Pumped Up Kicks by Foster The People, All Day And All Of The Night by The Kinks, Are You Gonna Be My Girl? by Jet. The choice of song was good but some of the songs had no change in chords or time and I found myself relatively bored. In “take me out” I played rhythm guitar; we started strongly and then played the song without mistake through to the end. For “pumped up kicks” I played bass and started the song with the bassline. Although the song doesn’t change we spiced it up a bit by adding solos and fills to keep the audience entertained. The next song was ‘all day and all of the night” in which I played lead guitar. The song went to plan and I performed my solo well. Our final song was ‘are you going to be my girl?” for this song I played bass. In my opinion this was our best song. My performance – Session Musician For Matt Arnold The songs played were Changed By You by Between The Trees, Broken Angel and Tonight By Boyce

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Commentary on Handel- And the Glory of the Lord from Messiah

And the Glory of the Lord from Messiah by Handel Comment on how Handel uses the following musical elements in this chorus: Tonality and Harmony, Texture, Melody, Rhythm and tempo, word setting. (10) Tonality and Harmony And the Glory of the Lord begins in the key of A major and there are modulations to the dominant key of E major (b.24) and then to the dominant of the dominant key of B major (b.68) (secondary dominant). The key then returns to E major and the piece finishes, finally, in A major. Minor keys are avoided, as the words dictate the prevailing joyful mood or ‘affection’ of the music. Although perfect cadences are used frequently to signify change in key, the piece ends with a plagal cadence in Bar 137 and can be seen as a grand ‘Amen’. Handel often used plagal cadences as endings to his pieces. Functional and diatonic (notes belonging to the key) harmony is used during the piece. Dominant, tonic and inverted pedal notes are also used. Suspensions (tied notes which do not belong to the chord) are witnessed also in the piece, with the first being in Bars 9 and 10. This adds dissonance and melodic decoration. A chain of suspensions appears in Bars 28 to 31, with dissonant notes being suspended in the Alto. Mainly only root position and first inversion chords appear in the piece. Texture The texture alternates between homophonic and contrapuntal textures

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Mozart's Symphony No. 40 in G Minor Section B

Symphony No. 40 in G minor 1st movement By Crystal Wong 10S Mozart's Symphony No. 40 (1st movement) is written in sonata form which has been used very frequently in the Classical Period. A movement which is written sonata form has three sections, the exposition, development, and recapitulation. In the exposition, there is a "first subject", a theme that is established. It is followed by a transition section, with the end of this section marked by a general pause. The accompaniment in this section is more homophonic and is more by simple chords than in the previous subsections. There is use of imperfect cadences at the end to signify the continuity of the exposition. The last subsection of the exposition is the codetta, which in this piece, is very similar the first subject of the exposition. However, perfect cadences are repeated at the end of the codetta to signify the end of the Exposition. The Development section of a typical Classical-era sonata usually refers to where the first subject of the exposition is further explored and developed. As one can notice, there are uses of contrapuntal texture as well as a variety of key changes which will be explored later. The texture in this section begins as very heavy, with the use of the entire orchestra. However, at bar 140 and until the end of the development section, it begins to be lighter and sparser. The final

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Brandenburg concertos (Bach).

BRANDENBURG CONCERTOS (Bach) Few musical works are as loved--and as often performed--as the six "Brandenburg" Concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach. These six works display a lighter side of Bach's imperishable genius. Yet they came into being as an unexpected gift. That's what happened in 1721 when Bach presented the Margrave of Brandenburg with a bound manuscript containing six lively concertos for chamber orchestra, works based on an Italian Concerto Grosso style. The Margrave never thanked Bach for his work--or paid him. There's no way he could have known that this gift--later named the Brandenburg Concertos--would become a benchmark of Baroque music and still have the power to move people almost three centuries later. On this edition of Performance Today's Milestones of the Millennium, we explore how Bach's genius opened up a vivid new world of music for chamber orchestra. The Brandenburg Concertos are a highlight of one of the happiest and most productive periods in Bach's life. At the time he wrote them, Bach was the Kapellmeister--the music director--in the small town of Coethen, where he was composing music for the court. Since the Margrave of Brandenburg seems to have ignored Bach's gift of concertos, it's likely that Bach himself presided over the first performances at home in Coethen. They didn't have a name then; that didn't come until 150 years later, when Bach's

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American Society In the 1920’s

American Society In the 1920's After the First World War, America became very wealthy due to the large sums of money they had loaned to other countries during the war. Not only did the countries repay the loans; they were forced to pay interest. This meant America did very well out of the war unlike most of the other countries that were in debt and their economies were struggling. With the extra money America was gaining, people could afford to indulge themselves, people went out more, and they didn't want to stay indoors all the time. Housewives discovered a whole new world away from cooking and cleaning, with the new technology chores took less time, women could use dishwashers, washing machines and tumble dryers which gave them time to go out and entertain themselves. With the increasing demand for entertainment the profile of cinema, music and sport soon changed. America suddenly became modern, some people disapproved of this, they were outraged to see short skirts on women in films, and they thought it was setting a bad example for America but this was only the beginning. In the 1920's, when good electronic amplifiers became available cinema changed from being completely silent to having sound, these were nicknamed the talkies. The first well known 'talkie' was The Jazz singer (1927) produced by the four Warner Brothers, since then all the audience wanted to hear was

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An odd medley of jazz and fundamentalism, complacency and indignation. Is this a fair description of America in the 1920s?

Oliver Anthony 10 N History Essay An odd medley of jazz and fundamentalism, complacency and indignation. Is this a fair description of America in the 1920s? The above statement tells us that the USA in the 1920s was a mixture of different things, by using the word medley. Pre 1920 jazz was mainly listened to and enjoyed by the black community, but this dramatically changed after 1920. Fundamentalism is where a person believes in the literal truth of the holy bible and how god created life on earth. In society there were many factions who were complacent and indignant. Jazz music was now ever becoming a white person's music. Young white folk liked jazz as it was radical sexy and explicit. Jazz was popular with young whites because it was promoted by radios, records, magazines and towards the late 1920s in the cinema. With jazz came new dances such as the Charleston, which was created in a casino in Charleston, South Carolina. This was one of the most famous dances of the 1920s; also it is a famous dance of that decade. Jazz music had handfuls of stars in the 1920s such as Louis Armstrong who took the age of jazz to a new frontier by becoming the first ever jazz-soloist. Jazz music came from black African Americans. Jazz in its early days was not sexual or radical to a black person. Jazz music was played in small marching bands. The first place to put jazz music on the map

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Development of Music as a Therapy

Running head: Development of Music as a Therapy Development of Music as a Therapy Lorie Ceal Grand Canyon University Intro to Human Communication Theory June 21, 2009 Development of Music as a Therapy The development of music as a therapy spans a vast amount of time. On the History of Music Therapy website we discover that music has always been used for therapeutic reasons. The evidence lies in; "cathartic and hypnotic uses of music in primitive tribes, Apollo - who was the god of music and medicine, drumming healers of India at Delphi, and cave drawings of musical shamans". (History of Music Therapy, n.d.) There seems to have always been a connection between music and emotion. It has a history of influence on both the emotional and physical aspects of one's health. "Pythagoras, Plato, and Aristotle all wrote about how music affects health and behavior." (United Health Services, 2009) Plato stated that musical training was important because "rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul imparting grace, and making the soul of him who is rightly educated graceful". (History of Music Therapy, n.d.)Even though music was thought of as a healing agent for body, mind and soul in ancient times, according to the History of Music Therapy, It is a "fairly recent phenomenon in Western culture". (History of Music Therapy, n.d.) Dr Richard Brown wrote the

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Media Music Essay Music is split into several sub-genres these include; Reggae, blues & soul, classical,

Music basically means genre. Music is split into several sub-genres these include; Reggae, blues & soul, classical, classic rock pop, dance, experimental, folk, country, jazz, pop, rock & alt, urban and world. Reggae is a style of music developed in Jamaica and is closely linked to the Rastafarian movement, though not universally popular among Rastafarians. It is founded upon its rhythm style, which is characterized by regular chops on the backbeat, played by the rhythm guitarist and the bass drum often hitting on the third beat of each measure-- this is called the "one drop." Bob Marley is the international face of reggae - a title as true now as it was when he died 20 years ago. Marketed as a third world rock star Bob became an icon of the 1970s, his conscious and revolutionary music catching the imagination of millions. Blues is a vocal and instrumental musical form which evolved from African American spirituals, work songs, shouts and chants and has its earliest stylistic roots in West Africa. Blues has been a major influence on later American and Western popular music, finding expression in ragtime, jazz, big bands, rhythm and blues, rock and roll and country music, as well as conventional pop songs and even modern classical music. Nat 'King' Cole is one of the most popular American singers of the 1940s and 50s, with a wonderful, smooth vocal style. A

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