If you chose to study music or just live your life with music as your main goal, chances are you made the choice because you love music, however the question about whether or not it can give you a good job and a stable income, will come from many people around you, yourself included. As a way to ease that little voice in your head telling...
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If there is a part of music that remains to be extremely important in music whether it is classical, rock, or electronic music, it's percussion. There are many forms it can take, ranging from cymbals, kettledrums, to tamborines. Percussion is the heartbeat of music. In addition to providing rhythm to music and keeping time, many percussion instruments also produce tones, pitches, and melodic sounds. Catherine King,...
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There aren't that many people in the world that haven't hear anything about Elvis Presley, the king of rock n' roll, and there are a few reasons as to why he became such an important figure in music history, more specifically rock. Context in America First of all it's important to have in mind the context at the time, which was around the 1950s, this was a...
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A little over a year ago I started practicing the harp – an instrument that I had never touched before receiving a kit to build one for Christmas of 2018. By April of 2019 I had finished putting it together, installed the strings, and started working in a curriculum series. In late July of 2019 I bought a book of “easy” Christmas songs with the intention of playing a selection...
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Ludwig Van Beethoven is one of the most important musicians in history, and it's hard not to know his name or recognizing some of his work as something "familiar" but few people really get into how he did the things he did, and why did he become so famous and such an important part of history. A lot of this can be answered through his composition...
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