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    Music Treatment History

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    wellness calling have experienced nonstop and emotional changes. A moderately new kind of treatment is musical treatment, which joins music into the recuperating procedure. Music treatment likewise is changing, and its ideas, methodology, and practices need steady reconsideration with a specific end goal to meet new ideas of psychiatric treatment. The possibility of music as a mending impact which could influence wellbeing and conduct is as slightest as old as the works of Aristotle and Plato. The twentieth

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    Ap Music History

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    Evolution of the CD After a couple of “failed” attempts of making a device that could be used for mass sharing of music in the late 1800s, an immigrant from Germany had finally come up with an idea that would change everything. Chichester Bell (Alexander Graham Bell's cousin) and Thomas Edison’s idea to record sounds on round cylinders was a good idea except for the sound quality and general effort that was required to make and replicate sound. The Phonograph was one of the earliest attempts at

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    Music Row History

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    houses into studios and offices. This central hub of music industry development in downtown Nashville would form what would come to be known as ‘Music Row’ (Hill 2011, 294). This rush of interest would see session musician and producer Chet Atkins persuade label RCA Victor to construct a studio in 1957, later known as “Studio B”. (Studio B, n.d.)

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    Calypso Music History

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    sea” from the Disney movie, “The Little Mermaid”. Or, maybe you’ve heard the song “Day-O”, also known as the “banana boat song”. Well, did you know that these songs are examples of Calypso music? In this report, I will be explaining, where it came from, what it is, and facts and information. Calypso music originated in Venezuela, Trinidad, and Tobago during the start of the 20th century. It was traced back to West African Kaiso and the arrival of the French planters and their slaves in the 1800s

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    Choir Music History

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    Choral music started during the Middle Ages in Europe (Stevens 1). The singing was limited to unison voice (Stevens 1). It increased throughout the 14th century (Stevens 1). The singers start to be more familiar it music theory (Stevens 1). As money grew in the churches so did choral music and its acts (Stevens 1). Laws were made to allow churches to find capable choirboys (Stevens 1). Soon boys were all soloist in their own way (Stevens 1). Choral music grew and adapted to create what it is today

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    Surf Music History

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    Surf music is a subgenre of rock music associated with surf culture. It was most popular between 1962 and 1964 and was found particularly in Southern California. Surf rock began in the early 1960s as instrumental dance music. The sound was largely attributed to electric guitars which were particularly characterized by the extensive use of a "wet" spring reverb which was thought to sound like waves. Guitarists also began to make use of the vibrato arm on their guitar to bend the pitch of notes downward

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    1930s Music History

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    During the 1930s, major improvements were made in microphone technology. In 1923, the moving-coil, or "dynamic" microphone was developed by Captain H. J. Round in London for the BBC. This was improved in 1930’s by Alan Blumlein and Herbert Holman who released the HB1A. W. C. Wente and A. C. Thuras at Bell Labs continued to improve on the design in the late 1920's, and applied for a patent in 1931. The ribbon, or "velocity" microphone was introduced by RCA in 1931, believed to have been developed

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    among the most important and best recordings produced during the Rock and roll era. Media outlets have ranked the recording one of the best posthumous releases. Tejano music entered the mainstream market when Dreaming of You peaked at number one. Music critics stated that the U.S. general population would not have known about Tejano music if it had not been for Selena's Dreaming of You. The album has sold five million copies worldwide as of January 2015, and remains the best-selling Latin album of all-time

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    Rap Music History

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    Even though many of us are familiar with rap music, most of us don’t know its origin. Rap music began in West Africa. It started out as a story that was turned into rhymes. All they had for a beat were drums and made up instruments. In Africa, griots began telling stories about their home and family. Griots were the West African historians and storytellers who kept all the records throughout the village. In the 1970s, rap music started becoming popular in the U.S as street art among African American

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    1877-1900 history of music and music technology In the years between 1877 and 1900 music and music technology started to spread out and become better known to the people around the world and in their own households thanks to the phonograph. It all started in 1877 when Thomas Edison Invented the phonograph It was the first device that could record sound and play it back. the phonograph helped many musicians make their music known to others around the world and also helped them rise to fame. It also

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