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    History Of Delta Guitar

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    Blues guitar originated around the 19th century in the deep south of the United States. In the Deep South, a large black population existed and many of them succumbed to slavery and racial oppressions. In these hard times, music became a common language between them. The blacks that were being culturally oppressed expressed their emotions by playing Blues music. One of the earliest forms of blues was being formed in the Mississippi delta which is known as Delta Blues. It reflected the oppressive

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    Party originated from informal gatherings and is now a regular sight and popular attraction featuring several artists. The first group to perform was the Moore Brothers Band. They are an Americana trio which consists of a mandolin, a guitar and a bass instrument. The mandolin had a smooth, classical sound. The sound of the guitar can be described as harmonious and warm. A low pitched tone was produced by the bass instrument. I think that that these three instruments complimented each other and as

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    Peter Sawchyn

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    External perspectives Peter Sawchyn was in the business more than 40 years and he had seen an affected change in customers’ consciousness for their instrumental options. When he started his business in 1970, very few people were aware of the option of handmade guitars, but then that option had grown, even larger instrument makers had included the handmade option to fulfill the unique requirements of their customers. The growing demand of handmade instrument not only provided more buyers opportunity

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    different styles. I will be comparing two of the artists songs from the instruments, tempos, message, and I chose to compare Son House’s song is called “Walkin’ Blues” and Elvis’s song is “Blue Moon of Kentucky”. “Walkin’ Blues” simply has a guitar and mandolin,

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    Roman Music and Dance Poster Thesis Roman music and dance greatly influenced Roman culture. Rome Legend has it that Rome was founded 753 BCE by two brothers named Romulus and Remus. The two brothers were raised by a wolf. Romulus killed Remus and then founded Rome. Rome was named after Romulus and Romulus was the first king of Rome. Later, when Rome becomes more powerful in 509 BCE, it becomes a republic. Rome is now ruled by senators and has laws. Rome had great armies and one of Rome’s generals

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    There are many Korean dynasties; one is as old as 2,333 B.C. Dynasties from thousands of years ago like Gojoseon, some dynasties like Goguryao Kingdom survived between both B.C and B.C.E other Dynasties like the Joseon Dynasty survived in B.C.E only. This is a document of the history of how Korean dynasties began, their beliefs, and the remains of the dynasties today. Korean dynasties have information that varies from different topics. A bear and tiger living in a cave prayed to Hwanung to make

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    Zac Brown Band History

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    Brown (lead vocals, guitar), Jimmy De Martini (fiddle, vocals), John Driskell Hopkins (bass guitar, guitar, baritone guitar, banjo, ukulele, upright bass, vocals), Coy Bowles (guitar, keyboards), Chris Fryar (drums), Clay Cook (guitar, keyboards, mandolin, steel guitar, vocals), Matt Mangano (bass guitar), and Daniel de Los Reyes (percussion). In 2002, Brown was traveling with a heavy tour schedule of approximately 200 dates a year. The initial Zac Brown Band lineup consisted of Brown, on acoustic

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    Music is important to life even if you don't understand it’s significance. In McCuller’s novel, the youngest of the main characters, Mick Kelly, aspires to learn how to compose and perform music, unfortunately she is incapable because of her family’s financial situation. Additionally, the owner of the New York Cafe, Biff Brannon, seems to remember information about his past after he listens to music. Mick Kelly has been interested in famous musicians her entire life. Until Singer ironically buys

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    compression to the guitars and drums. However it is much more of a ‘less is more’ genre. Without the distinctive and powerful performance use of instrumentation such as the: Accordion, Autoharp, Banjo, Bass, Dobro, Drums, Fiddle, Guitar, Harmonica, Mandolin, Piano, Pedal Steel Guitar, Vocals, Washboard and the Zither, country music, would not sound like country music. the reflection of country music results in the justification that social and cultural elements of what is happening at the time, in particular

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    momentary flashes of inspiration. I began researching the Hirojoshi scale, that in which I had previously looked into within my early high school years, in order to create an authentic oriental feel. Extensive research into instrumentation such as the mandolin, Taiko and Surdo drums was also conducted. Jackie Wiggins alludes to the importance of Taiko drums in her journal, Learning Together: Practice, Pleasure and Identity in a Taiko Drumming World,

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