Live Music and Festivals

Live Music and Music Festivals The Events Industry MK1001N 5/14/2010 08020220 Table of Contents .0 History and Development 3 .1 Key Moments and Shift over the Last 50 years 3 .2 Timeline of Events 3 .3 Last 5 main events and their historical significance 5 2.0 Analysis of the Live Music and Festivals Sector 6 2.1 C-PEST/PESTLE Analysis of Live Music and Festivals 6 2.2 Political Analysis 6 2.3 Environmental Analysis 6 2.4 Sociocultural Analysis 7 2.5 Technological Analysis 7 2.6 Economic Analysis 7 2.7 Competitive Analysis 7 2.8 Entertainment Analysis 7 3.0 Key Impacts and Ethical Concern 8 4.0 Careers 10 5.0 Future Trends and Challenges 12 .0 History and Development Live Music Events are commonly known as concerts. Concerts come in a range of forms, from Orchestral to Artistic performances. Concerts are becoming more and more popular within social groups and wider audiences, as these offer people days and nights less ordinary, and can also become part of key milestones in peoples' lives. Festivals as well as live music events "have an increasingly vital role in our leisure lifestyles...events and festivals play a very significant part in their whole life." (Frew, E & Robertson, M. (2008) Events and Festivals - Current Trends and Issues, Routledge: London). Festivals and events can be generated the private or corporate sectors. .1 Key

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Compare and contrast the methods of treating thematic material on the part of Goldsmith in Planet of the Apes and Bernstein in On the Waterfront.

0.01.2004 Compare and contrast the methods of treating thematic material on the part of Goldsmith in Planet of the Apes and Bernstein in On the Waterfront. The main theme in on the Waterfront is far more memorable than the themes in Planet of the Apes, as Planet of the Apes relies more on a rhythmic energy than on melody. However, despite the different style of themes used, similar compositional techniques are employed. On the Waterfront begins with a theme based on the blues scale in the horns. At bar 7, it is treated in fugue by the flutes (in octaves) and trombone and then repeated but altered by trumpets from bars 13 to 18 with the clarinets ending it at bar 20. In the first 20 bars, fugue, changes of instrumentation and repetition have been used. Next a more rhythmic orientated theme is introduced involving the timps, piano and other percussion playing quaver based ostinatoes. At bar 42, the alto sax solos over the ostinatoes using semitones and perfect fourths. At bar 54, the wood wind repeat the theme but the note values have been diminished. At bar 64 another theme is introduced using 2 semiquavers followed by long sustained or trilled notes. This is repeated at different pitches and intervalically altered as is the length of sustained note. During the repetitions, a crescendo is implemented. At bar 78 ff has been reached and the entire orchestra

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Duke Ellington

Duke Ellington Edward Kennedy Ellington was born in Washington on April 29, 1899 and died seventy-five years later. His achievements are astonishing, in their richness and importance to American and world music. He is said to have composed, wholly or in part, as many as one thousand pieces. He composed dozens of popular songs, including "Sophisticated Lady," and "In a Sentimental Mood," and he had his hand in the composition of others, such as "Mood Indigo" and "I'm Beginning to See the Light." But the fact remains that Ellington would be the major jazz composer if he had never written a popular song. Because with Ellington, it is not merely a single line of melody here or a pretty turn of phrase there that counts, but a constant and consistent flow of distinctive ideas, perfectly realized and carefully thought out. He played piano effectively, even brilliantly, but his main instrument, as has often been said, was his band. He was a masterful orchestrator. The sounds of his band were unique: full-bodied, sumptuous, mysterious, varied in texture and effect. He broke all the rules-perhaps he was merely unconcerned with them-introducing dissonance to an unparalleled degree in jazz. During an illness, Ellington wrote two pieces, "Soda Fountain Rag," and "What You Gonna Do When the Bed Breaks Down?" He began his music career by playing these pieces at parties. Soon Ellington,

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Miles Davis So What transcription and analysis

Miles Davis' So What transcription and analysis by Bart Marantz Introduction Miles Davis' original tune So What was first recorded in 1959 on his album Kind of Blue (Columbia CS-8163) with the famed "'56 Quintet". For purposes of comparison, this 1959 debut studio recording and a subsequent 1961 live performance recording of the same tune will be transcribed and analyzed. Solo I (CS-8163) The conservative tempo of = 138 lends itself well to the cool icy-blue sound of Miles Davis' playing and to the smooth simplicity of statement he observes in this rendition of So What. (The music is available for viewing at the end of the article) Measures 1-10, including the pick-up beat, firmly establish the tone E, which appears one or more times in every measure except measure 6. Even later in measure 14, where he ventures into polytonality by ascending to the eleventh, he still ends the phrase in measure 15 on the tonic. Despite the danger of too much tonic repetition, Miles manages to camouflage and integrate it into a masterful melodic line. In the first five measures of the B section, beginning at measure 17, Miles uses this same technique of emphasizing the tonic to declare the key change to F dorian. In measure 23, he sets up an anticipation of the return to E dorian with the chromatic interplay of Eb and E. However, in this last A section of chorus one, beginning in

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Private Net Bars Problem

Private Net Bars Problem Li Qianyan 2005.1.8 #5 Can you imagine forty or more teenagers using computers in a small dark room which is full of the guns and cannons sounds from the computer games? This is a real picture of private net bars in China nowadays. In these private net bars, young people spend too much time playing computer games and chatting. At the same time, they learn violence and pornography from them. In my opinion, the government should close these private net bars to avoid these bad influences on both the youth and the society and also popularize public net bars although some people would have some objections. Closing private net bars would be the most efficient way to keep the young away from bad influences caused by indulging in computer games. For example, many teenagers skip class to have enough time to play computer games in the private net bars. Only in those net bars, they can play computers no matter how long it is and nobody will restrain them. As a result, these young people waste their precious time and learn nothing useful. Moreover, staying in such a dark, crowed, noisy room does harm to young people's health. For example, the lack of oxygen in those small rooms causes people to have a headache. In addition, most young people get myopia. Some even get stomach illness because they don't have regular meals when they play computer games for a

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A Critical Review on the Publication of Ethnicity, Identity and Music(TM)

A Critical Review on the Publication of 'Ethnicity, Identity and Music' The consideration of place in relation to music has gained more importance in historical and cultural studies; researchers now examine rural and urban spaces where music is experienced on a day to day basis. Scholars have illustrated the importance of place in many studies which include how place may play a role in fostering genres (DeNora, 1997), how place has influenced work on popular music (Cohen, 1991) and the significance of space and place in relation to national identity (Bailey, 1994). "Ethnicity, Identity and Music" (Stokes, 1994) is just one of the books which contain a wide range of essays that demonstrate the importance of music and place. A selection of three chapters, including the introduction will be used to compare the different analytical methods, theoretical and disciplinary perspectives used in studies related to music and place. Martin Stokes, the editor of the book begins his introduction with a quote from Kerman, who once sympathised with the predicament of ethnomusicologists "as they struggle to make themselves heard in the seemingly tone deaf conclaves and enclaves of anthropology" (1985, p.181). Stokes argues against the lasting tendency of many anthropologists to think that music is a field of a special autonomous experience. The discussion flows onto the monograph by Seeger

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Punk rock in the 70's.

PUNK ROCK IN THE 70's 'Punk', what is it? What brought about the punk revolution? How did punk rock affect progressive/art rock? How did punk influence girls? This article will analyse the following areas of a punks' life; the characteristics of punk rock, the musical, technological and sociological reasons behind the two styles of music in the 70's. PUNK WHAT IS IT? 'Punk', is a term used for the subculture of youth that resonated from the American avant-garde and the British sub cultural roots during the mid to late 1970's. It is difficult to generalise the ground meaning of being a punk, due to the contradictions involved in this subculture. Punks' are against everything that progressive/art rock represents. It is these contradictions that laid the foundations which produced the organised chaos in punk. This adolescent subculture had rampant publicity. Through their style of music 'Punk Rock' and their extreme fashion statements, these punks' were fighting against the politics of boredom using radical extremes to gain social action. Punks' believed that normal everyday people were unchallenged. Punks' speculated that this boredom was a type of social control that hindered massive rebellion by crafting a consensus around the orderly and anticipated. Punks' described this 'rebellion against boredom' as "No Future" and their beyond argument assumptions were indispensable

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Effects of the Reformation on Music

J.S. Bach and the Lutheran Passion Tradition: Assignment One Write an account of the Reformation and its effects on music. To what extent are these effects still perceivable today? On the 31st of October 1517 Martin Luther nailed his Ninety-Five Theses to the door of All Saints' Church in Wittenberg, and thus began the Lutheran Reformation. The theses, which were merely meant as proposed subjects for debate, sparked "a European conflagration of unparalleled violence1". Copies quickly spread throughout Europe, aided by the recently invented printing press, and caused widespread controversy. Luther was charged with heresy because of his nonconformist, disrespectful attitude towards the practices of the Catholic Church, particularly the sale of indulgences, and was excommunicated in early 1521. Luther's reformation was the first successful reformation and resulted in a branch of the Catholic Church breaking away from the main body and forming what we now refer to as the Protestant Church. Subsequent reformations, lead by Calvin, Knox et al, divided the Church again, leaving us with the many denominations of Christianity we have today. Prior to Luther's protestant reformation "the music found in the church was more of a performance than an act of worship."2 During the period directly before the reformation the Church in continental Europe had adopted a simpler approach

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Old man

James Kelly Modern Drama El 365 Dr. K. Monahan A Doll's House Henrik Ibsen wrote A Doll's House in 1879. Ibsen was inspired to write A Doll's House when a woman by the name of Laura Kieler signed a secret- a loan- to raise money for a cure for her husband. Laura was asking Ibsen to recommend the novel she had written to his publisher in hopes that the profit from the novel would help her pay the loan. Ibsen refused to do this and Laura forged a check and was caught. Her husband committed her and she was charged for being an unfit mother, and demanded a divorce. We see the impact of this event in A Doll's House. Instead of the woman being Laura Kieler, the woman is named Nora Helmer. Nora is a woman who gets what she wants. Nora is like Torvald, her husband's child. He plays it safe with the money and is seems to be talking down to Nora with his "little squirrel" or "my little lark" comments. We get the sense that he is a male chauvinist because of these comments. This play was a rallying point for international feminist demands for the vote and for other legal rights and protections for women. One element of the play is the gender roles. Nora, according to Emma Goldman, is to be happy for Torvald's and the children's sake. She is to sing, dance, and play with the children. Goldman, Emma. (Goldman, Emma. "The Emma Goldman Papers.") Nora didn't marry for love she

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Beethoven and his influence on Schubert

Beethoven: His influence on Schubert Major Works of Western Classical Music May 21, 2010 The works of Ludwig van Beethoven have profoundly impressed countless musicians from his own time to the present. Discuss Beethoven's influence on one later composer of your choice, making reference to specific works of Beethoven himself and of the selected composer. Explore the nature of this influence, and whether or not it was explicitly expressed by the composer. Be clear about the genre of your examples. If they are vocal, explore their text (s); if instrumental, explain whether they are programmatic or abstract in nature. Beethoven was one of the most important figures in western classical music composition who had influenced a number of his successors including many great composers. He had put forth roots in the Mozart and Haydn traditions of classical period but went way beyond that. His lifetime covered both the end of the classical period and the beginning of the romantic period. Not just the techniques and his unique style, but also his revolutionary ideas, his passion to liberty of individuals and the ideas of French Revolution generating an integrity with the radical humanistic ideals of his contemporary society were making him distinct from any other composer. "Beethoven's story is one of personal triumph over tragedy and supreme musical achievement. A complex and

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