TPOK Jazz

Informative Outline: The Evolution and Psychology of The Modern Music Festival Experience Topic: How music festivals have transformed since the 1950s and the psychology behind why Organization: Chronological/Topical Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about how modern music festivals emerged and how/why they have completely transformed globally 1. Introduction Attention Getter: When we think of the beginning of music festivals it takes us back to 1969, when 400,000 hippies gathered at a 600-acre

This piece is a jazz standard that was composed by Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz. Schwartz was born in Brooklyn, New York on November 25, 1900 and died on September 3, 1984. He began playing piano and harmonica at a very young age and also wrote silent films at the age of fourteen. Dietz was born on September 8,1896 and died on July 30, 1983. He was a publicist and lyrists. Him and Schwartz first started working together when they teamed up for a Broadway show in 1929. They composed Alone Together

There are numerous theories as to what factors may affect one’s ability to perform adequately. The Mozart Effect theory was established by Rauscher, Shaw, and Ky (1993). The Mozart Effect refers to a set of research results indicating that listening to Mozart’s music may stimulate a short-term enhancement on the enactment of certain assignments. This theory supported that listening to music composed by Mozart would increase their ability to perform accurately on a both mathematical operation and

actual full-blooded Zulu who served with the 15th New York. On the contrary, characters such as: Colonel William Hayward, Captain Arthur W. Little, Captain Hamilton Fish, Sergeant Noble Sissle, General Henri Gouraud, James Reese Europe, “The King of Jazz”, Eugene Jaques Bullard, who was a boxer, a nightclub owner, an activist, a pilot, and a veteran of both World Wars, and Henry Johnson, who was the first American (black or white) to receive the French Cross of War, were all nonfictional. Throughout

Music is one of the biggest topics that revolve around our society today. The claim of the author is that all teens with an MP3 player are at risk of doing drugs or alcohol. He also gives percentages of certain music genres that they listen to. The percentages after added up are very well past the one hundred percent mark. He didn’t have correct data from wherever the data was attained. “Today, the mentioning of drugs and alcohol contained in each genre of music is 14 percent for rock songs, 20 percent

As children, our minds are filled with wonder and imagination, allowing pieces of art such as books, cartoons, or movies to influence us starting at a very young age. It was no different for myself as I was growing up as many pieces of art contributed to how I thought about things; none more so than the Transformers Universe. Since my mother was a teacher at a school in Anchorage, I grew up spending more time with my father and his influence of entertainment up until I was six years old. At the

Birdland; You’ll Have to Swing It (Mr. Paganini), Parts One & Two; Hard Hearted Hannah; Let’s Do It(Lets fall in Love); Just A-Sittin’ and A-Rockin’; A Fine Romance; Blues In The Night. Summary: First lady of Song, Ella Fitzgerald, became top female jazz singer in the 50s and 60s. I actually had chosen this album because of one particular song that came across in a game. Undecided is a

There are all kinds of feeling that are transpiring throughout my mind when think of the term cultural analysis. In executing the communication concepts of African American culture, I found that the Chinese and African American culture are strongly tied to their beliefs and family concepts. I define myself through my culture as being an African American male, thought out religions, education, and family is very essential in my culture. Also, being limited to making lifestyle changes, and the different

People say that music has the ability to heal a person mentally and spiritually. But to me, music is much more than just healing. It is a way for me to escape this world called reality and enter a world with in my imagination through the different beats, harmony, and chorus. Only when listening to music, I can truly feel all my emotions with each song having the power to make me remember, from painful to happy memories. As I grew up to be the person I am today, my music journey also grows with me

was frustrated with the progress I had made over the past couple of months in my quest to learn the art of playing jazz. This new form of music puzzled me; after analyzing chord progression after chord progression, I felt like I hadn’t progressed since I started. My fanatical obsession with jazz started just as the school year was ending. I had already been in my middle school’s jazz ensemble for some time now, but all we played were monotonous blues charts where my fellow bandmates and I would haphazardly