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marching band, I take Spanish 4 Honors. My favorite class is band and my least favorite is Engineering. I like to listen to music and hang out with friends in my freetime I like to cook when I can and practice cello and flute. I also enjoy playing cymbals in winter percussion. I don’t like doing homework or studying, but I have to do homework. I want to become a doctor or an engineer in the future, but continue playing my instruments. Last year I used the money for many things. I was able to…

oppressive sun and heat. For example, when Meursault describes the moment before he ends the life of the Arab, he exclaims that, “All [he] could feel were the cymbals of sunlight crashing on [his] forehead” (59). In musical composition, cymbals are sometimes utilized to denote the climax of a particular piece of music. By relating the sunlight and cymbals, Camus uses this description to accentuate the intensity of the sun and its tremendous influence on Meursault’s subsequent actions. Camus…

F. Scott Fitzgerald used many different literary details and figures of speech in his novel The Great Gatsby. His use of these literary details and figures of speech adds depth to the novel and allows the reader to see clearly what the author has intended. Throughout The Great Gatsby class and wealth are a common theme showing up frequently all through the novel ("The LitCharts Study Guide to The Great Gatsby." LitCharts. N.p., n.d. Web. 21 Nov. 2015). Fitzgerald draws a person's attention…

inspiring to many people. Danny Carey is a very skilled drummer and has faced challenges and hardships on his own. Danny Carey started playing drums in a school band and got his first kit at 13. In 1986 he started playing the electronic kits with actual cymbals and played in clubs, after that he started to look for a quality kit and started working for Green Jello. “Danny started taking lessons when he was ten or eleven, just on the snare drum in school band, and then again when he got his first…

Unfortunately, students who play double reed instruments cannot march and their only option would to “fake” another instrument or join the cymbal line. I decided to audition for the cymbal line which is not easy to learn. After my audition, the percussion director of the band program, Mr. Chavez, turned me down and I had to learn that some events in life are not fair. After seeing that I was crushed, Mr. Chavez…

So here's a story. Last week was exhausting. Saturday I was scheduled to leave Greenville to go to Augusta to get my girlfriends stuff with a Uhaul and some friends, and pretty much everything that went wrong could. The Uhaul was booked until 3, even though it had been reserved weeks in advance at an earlier time, and this cost us 2 of our helpers due to scheduling conflicts. Long story short, we finished unloading the last of the truck right at sundown, had time to grab a beer and some…

Ever wondered what it’s like to be a part of one of the hardest working groups on campus? Seniors Ian Felter and Chloe Bartholio have been a part of Drumline for two and half years and four years respectively. While Ian plays the cymbals, Chloe is one of the Base 3 players in the battery. Both seniors have loved being a part of such a great group and believed that the experience has had a large impact on them as individuals as well as their future. Hard-working and motivated, these seniors,…

theme. All instruments join in with the piano in the second section. The lead voice of the musical piece shifts to the saxophone. The main melodic theme is varied overall by decreasing the general tempo and playing each note for a greater duration. Cymbal and hi-hat were complimenting the main melody as they were being played timely between each note of the melody. Towards the end of the second section, the saxophone seemed exhibit immediate repetition of the melody played by the piano. In the…

3. Musicians and dancers: Fine arts like music and dance have reached glorious heights during the period of the Vijayanagara rulers. The wide spectrum of music and dance in the Vijayanagara period is attested by testimony of sculpture. An attempt has been made to give an account of different aspects of the musicians and dancers in the Vijayanagara temples of Rayalaseema. The temple walls, pillars, adhisthana, gopura and other component parts display different models of musicians and dancers.…

The sculpture in the Airavatesvara temple may be said to be the best among the enormous mass of extent chola images. In their depth of profundity of the facial expressions and pleasing apotheosis of serenity and dignity, in their technical refinement and excellent modelling and in their sensitiveness and restraint they have few parallels in south India plastic art. The sculptural art of the Airavatesvara temple compared to the great magnitude of the edifice is not prolific nor is it the…