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    I 'm sure every young musician has had the thought of pursuing a music career at one time or another. Most up us grow up being told that if you follow your passion in life you will in one way or another become properous in what you do. But follwing your passion can be hard infact (Rowe;) suggests that following your passion isn 't always the best way to have a sucessful career Many talented musicians are being encourged by there peers to pursue a music career, while their parents or family members

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    Many people are in discord with the polemical statement, music piracy should be legalised. It is a topic that provokes arguments, as some believe that it should be free and accessible whereas others believe that it should be paid for and should remain illegitimate. Music piracy is the act of illegally downloading music for free, bilking sites such as iTunes and iMesh that lawfully sell music to millions of people worldwide. It is one of the most frequently committed crimes. According to an article

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    reader learns that although it may not seem like a big deal to copy what someone else said online or in a book, it is actually breaking the U.S. law. For example, if a music composer wanted to write a new piece of music they would research and spend time trying to think about what their piece is going to consist of. If the composer were to take words from another piece

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    Musorgsky was undoubtedly the most original composer of the Five. Continuing Dargomyzhsky's search for musical realism, he combined an instinctive flair for the nuances of folk music with flexible, textually motivated rhythmic practices and unusual harmonic juxtapositions in his many songs, his operatic

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    American composers, like William Billings, were able to write, for the most part, free from existing patterns. It wasn’t until the mid 1800s that word came from Europe about these high-art composers, perhaps scaring these once-free New World composers. From then on, the trend of aspiring American composers was to make the pilgrimage to Europe for training. Composers such as George Chadwick were some of the first to make the trip. Chadwick

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    Vivaldi December 12, 1717 As noted in a previous journal entry, I had made a trip to Cöthen where the great composer, Johann Sebastian Bach, is under the service of Prince Leopold. There I heard a recent keyboard transcription of Bach’s. The transcription was of a piece called Concerto in D minor for Oboe, Strings and Basso Continuo. Bach listed the composer as the well-known Venetian composer Benedetto Marcello. As I listened to the piece, I was captured by the simple yet eloquent melodies that were

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    1.Brief introduction to Witold Lutosławski Polish composer Witold Lutosławski (1913-1994) was one of the most outstanding composers and conductors of the 20th - century and one of the preeminent Polish musicians during the last three decades.1[Wikipedia : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witold_Lutos%C5%82awski] He began learning piano at the age of 6, with Helena Hoffman then with Józef Smidowicz after 1924. Later he took violin classes in 1926, private lessons in theory and composition with Witold

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    European-trained, Edward MacDowell is known as one of America’s prominent composers during the Gilded Age. With the rise of musical nationalism in America, MacDowell composed Woodland Sketches in 1896, which comprised of ten piano pieces whose titles refer to the American landscape and his personal experiences. The most well-known piece of the ten is “To a Wild Rose.” “To a Wild Rose” highlights MacDowell’s skills as a composer to harvest deep emotions and impressions from the listener from a simple

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    Russian Composers When asked to name a countries that influenced both classical and modern music, most people would respond, “France,” “England,” or even “Germany,” or “Austria.” Not many people think of Russia as a major contributor to the development of music. However, modern music and pop culture as we know it today would not be the same without the major accomplishments of many Russian composers. For instance, everyone has heard of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, otherwise known as the composer of “The

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    Originals Vs Convallaria

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    The avant-jazz trio Thumbscrew, a collaborative project co-led by guitarist Mary Halvorson, bassist Michael Formanek, and drummer Tomas Fujiwara, augmented their discography with the release of two new complementary if conceptually distinct albums, suitably entitled Ours and Theirs. Following the example of their second album, Convallaria, these sessions were born from a residency at Pittsburgh’s City of Asylum and demonstrate the strong sonic chemistry of musicians who have been regular presences

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