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Many spiritual forms of music pay homage to their respective deities and incorporate scripture or sacred texts within the lyrics of their music. The Sufi Dervishes of the Melevi Order are no different. The Melevi Order’s song and dance have many similarities to the Buddhist chants. Similar to the Buddhist monks using their chants as […]
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The artist I’m choosing to write about is The Cure. They came into circulation around the 80’s with the post-punk wave. They’re often associated with “gothic rock” but lead singer Robert Smith doesn’t like to be placed into categories. The Cure tends to have sad and gloomy lyrics, whether it’s singing about lost love, or […]
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Capoeira originally started off as a martial art that slaves used to practice in order to fuel their want for freedom. Even though it was disguised as a dance, it was still banned all across Brazil and was prohibited by the Brazilian Penal Code. The word “capoeirista” ended up becoming a synonym for outlaw or […]
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Out of all of the concerts and shows shown in class, I’d definitely feel most comfortable at an open venue similar to the Khalid concert shown in class. I’ve only been to two concerts in my life and both of them were at much smaller venues then that of a concert hall. The first was […]
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In the Back to the Future clip, Marty McFly gets stuck in the year 1955 and is looking for someone to help him get back to his original year of 1985. The person who Marty ends up recruiting to help him is the man who sent him back there in the first place, Doc Brown. […]
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Guitars are known to be able to produce many different and varying sounds, through the use of technology the genre of guitar’s sound can be switched almost instantly. One piece of technology that helps accomplish this would be pedals. Pedals add an effect to the guitar that makes it sound different based on what kind […]
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Song: Nude by Radiohead Radiohead makes a lot of alternative rock or just alternative music in general. They sample a lot of different things and tend to use many forms of distortion on their instruments such as pedals for the guitars. They were influenced heavily by 80s alternative artists such as the Smiths, Sonic Youth […]
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The Renaissance Period (1430-1600) of Western Art Music sounds the most interesting to me. It really shows the growth of composing music throughout time. Polyphonic music is starting to be used in much higher levels adding in three or four additional voices as opposed to the one in Medieval motets. During the Renaissance Period other […]
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