Articles related to "Vocal Music"



Billy Idol-Devil's Playground
Billy Idol is back with a new CD, "Devil's Playground" that packs the same punch as his previous efforts while demonstrating a mature side as well.
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Dead Men Walking-Old School Punk Supergroup Is Alive And Kicking
If you like the Alarm, the Sex Pistols, the Cult and/or the Stray Cats, here's a "supergroup" you will definitely want to check out.
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DVD Reviews- Jewel: Live At Humphrey's By The Bay And Live Forever
Here are brief reviews of two new music DVDs. <i>Jewel Live At Humphrey's By The Bay</i> highlights a concert by the folk-pop siren, and <i>Live Forever:The Rise And Fall of Britpop</i> chronicles the popularity of such bands as Oasis, Blur and Pulp in the mid-1990s.
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Fu Manchu, Big Elf, Chelsea Smiles Concert Review
A review of the Fu Manchu/Chelsea Smiles/Big Elf concert at the Knitting Factory, Hollywood CA 5/13/05
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Intelligent Music Versus Big Dumb Rock: A Moral Dilemma
After receiving severe reprimands from several music snob friends for daring to attend a Velvet Revolver concert last summer, I took inventory of my musical tastes,and realized that I am, indeed, torn between liking "intelligent" music and "big dumb rock."
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M83-Dead Cities, Red Seas And Lost Ghosts
<b>M83</b> is a techno dance duo from France with a sound that's fun yet rich in atmosphere and texture. At the other end of the spectrum, there's Brit hard rockers </b>Hurricane Party.</b>
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Music without Lyrics
Music without lyrics is also known as instrumental music. Where good vocal music can stir the soul, instrumental music, without lyrics, can stir very primal emotions.
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Quality Teaching with Vocal Music
Singing is essential to music education but it need not use language. Wordless vocal music and wordless instruction may produce the music teaching methods of the future.
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Reason To Rock-It's All About The Music
Most of the current books and articles about rock music focus on personality and scandal more than the songs that brought the artists to our attention in the first place. Although thoughtful, no-frills treatises on rock’n’roll are harder to find than fluff, they are well worth the search. One such text is Herb Bowie’s web book <I>Reason To Rock</I>.
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Singing: Key to Human Development
The inborn ability to sing evolved in our ancestors well before speech. Language develops from singing capacity. Singing improves relationships, communities and health.
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Some Thoughts On The Tenth Anniversary Of Kurt Cobain's Death
April 8th is the 10th anniversary of Kurt Cobain's death. Here are some of my thoughts and recollections on Kurt, Nirvana and the grunge era.
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Step One: Recording One or Two Tracks
You want to record the acoustic piece you've just created. Let's start!
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Block Scheduling and Music
Block Scheduling:Ideas for handling band, choral, and general music classes on the secondary level
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More Classical Music for Children
Classical music that is sure to delight both young and old.
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Music Education for Global Peace
With quality teachers and more weight in every school curriculum, music education could be a great tool for community building. It could even facilitate global peace.
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Welsh: The Language of Song, Part I
From choirs to cerdd dant to the Gymanfa Ganu, Welsh-language musical traditions are plentiful and widely enjoyed.

DANNY BOY
The true origin of " Danny Boy ", has poised a very controversial question in the mind's of eminent Irish, Scottish and English Musicologists, who veritably, claim the air as their own.
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Ten Operas for First-timers
You want to go to the opera, but you don't know which one to start with. Here is a list of ten operas sure to make you want to come back for more!
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The Legendary Margaret Bonds and her Music
Margaret Bonds was the premier African-American woman composer from the 30's to the 70's. She helped pave the way for many composers of color today.
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Warming-up and My Voice Type.
This is a brief introduction to vocal warm-ups and voice categories, or Fach systems.
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Welsh: The Language of Song, Part II
The major traditions of Welsh vocal music still resonate today, from the choir to the opera, from rugby games to the Gymanfa Ganu. Folk songs, hymns, and choral music are especially popular.
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Chicago - Part 3
The hot guitarists of the late 1950s and the golden era of Windy City Soul.
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April is National Poetry Month
In 1996 the Academy of American Poets designated the month of April as National Poetry Month. According to the Academy, the purpose of National Poetry Month is to bring “together publishers, booksellers, literary organizations, libraries, schools, and poets around the country to celebrate poetry and its vital place in American culture.”
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Ice Dance
Ice dancing is different - it is a combination of a sports activity with the grace and poise of dancing. It calls for agility, technical skill, strength and confidence.
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Is National Poetry Month Good for Poetry?
What could be wrong with trying to promote the innocent art of poetry? Well, the noted poet Charles Bernstein can think of some things.
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Johann Pachelbel Biography
Johann Pachelbel, a master organist, excelled in sacred church music. Today, he is famous for Pachelbel's Canon in D.
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Purcell, Handel, Haydn and Mendelssohn
With Purcell, Handel, Haydn and Mendelssohn all having birthdays or celebrating milestone anniversaries, classical music has a lot to celebrate in 2009.
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Sir William Walton
Brief biography of English composer Sir William Walton - his life, influence and works. Famous for 'Facade.'
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Beethoven's Piano Sonatas
German composer, organist, and pianist Wilhelm Kempff's technical virtuosity and ringing tone bring out the pathos in Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas.
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Biography of Johann Christian Bach
Brief biography of Classical composer Johann Christian Bach (JC Bach), popularly called 'London Bach' or 'English Bach.' He greatly influenced Mozart.
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Composer César Cui Biography
Life and works of César Cui, one of 'The Five' Nationalist Russian composers. Famous for art songs, operas, and his acidic musical criticisms.
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Harvard Study Confirms Value of Music
Many studies have hit the front page recently on the value of playing a musical instrument. This is just more confirmation that music should be strongly encouraged.
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Isaac Hayes Legendary Musician Dead at 65
Isaac Hayes inspired generations of musicians with groundbreaking Soul, R&B, The Memphis Sound and Rap. Hayes overcame a background of poverty to win two Grammy Awards.
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Johannes Brahms
Brief biography of Johannes Brahms, German composer, pianist and conductor of the Romantic period.
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Jules Massenet French Opera Master
Brief biography of Jules Massenet, his life, career, operas and other works. Famous for opera Manon, Le Cid and Thaïs, with the famous intermezzo 'Meditation.'
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Kat Richardson On Seriosuly Pursuing Writing
Genre author Kat Richardson talks about writing for a living, the difference between Great Literature and crap and selling her first Greywalker mystery to ROC.
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Luigi Cherubini Biography
Brief Biography of composer and teacher Luigi Cherubini - his life, career and works. He significantly contributed to the development of French opera.
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Robert Schumann
Life and works of Robert Schumann, a poetic composer whose works relate to literature - poems, novels and plays.
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Sven Birger Sandzén, Kansas Impressionist
Birger Sandzén was a Swedish-born Post-Impressionist painter who settled in Lindsborg, Kansas.
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The Creation of a New Musical - Part 4: Preproduction: The Writi
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The Guitar Capo
Capos are sometimes thought of, even referred to as, cheaters. Nothing could be further from the truth for the bluegrass, country or folk guitarist.
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Various Approaches to Aural Skills in Education
The predominant European styles for teaching developmental music and aural skills in elementary schools are Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, Zoltan Kodaly, and Carl Orff.
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Frederick Reines - Co-Discoverer of the Neutrino
Frederick Reines casts a long shadow on elementary particle physics, as an early participant in the Manhattan Project, as co-discoverer of the neutrino, as founding Dean of the School of Physical Sciences at the University of California at Irvine, and as co-winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize in physics.
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Postwar Los Angeles - Central Avenue and Watts
A look at one of the hottest R&B scenes of the late 40s and early 50s.
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Singing Tips Using Drama
Vocal training is often more effective if it uses the whole body expressively. Try these singing techniques that use dramatic posture, movement and gesture.
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The Counting of the Omer
The counting of the Omer is a 49-day Jewish liturgical season between Passover and Shavuot. It is a time of spiritual preparation for the revelation of the Torah.
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The Role Of Radio - An Overview
How radio transformed a marginal form of American entertainment into a pop-culture wildfire.
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The Spanish Christian Music
Spanish Christian music during the Renaissance. Composers Cristobal de Morales, Antonio de Cabezon and Tomas Luis de Victoria. Villancicos.
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"Up and Coming Children's Writers"
biography of Verla Kay, children's writer of historical fiction
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. . . To the Met -- and Beyond! Part Two


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