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the maintenance as flooding, avalanches and rockslides were a constant problem. “By 1905, harsh winters and flooding forced settlers to rebuild the road several times to provide a safer and passable road.” In the states effort to promote the 1909 Alaska-Yukon -Pacific Exposition in Seattle the Washington Department of Transportation upgraded the road which helped to promote a automobile race across the…

Alexus Fields Ms. Wernersbach and Mrs. Spears English II April 4 Modern Day Tragic Hero Research Paper:Whitney Houston Born on August 9, 1963, Whitney Houston was an American singer and actress. Whitney Houston was an American singer and actress whose first four albums, released between 1985 and 1992, and amassed global sales in excess of 86 million copies. Whitney Houston began singing in church as a child. Whitney Houston is a modern day tragic hero because she was an amazing singer. She had…

When you hear an amazing singer with a great voice, you might ask yourself what the normal life span of such a voice might be, and whether proper training or certain techniques prevent vocal cords deteriorating with age, and if surgery or some sort of special gel could correct such problems Voice experts believe that one should think of singers as athletes, using muscles in what is, after all a very physical activity. Professional singer, as well as acting as voice instructor at the Minneapolis…

When comparing Claudio Monteverdi’s compositional techniques in his madrigal “Dorinda, ah dirò” to what was traditionally expected in the prima practice, one notices a nonchalant treatment of dissonances, as well as an overall quickened sense of rhythm and far too many liberations in melodic writing. While observing Monteverdi’s madrigal, one notices several instances of note-against note dissonances. The first instance (example 1.1) displays dissonances of a seventh and a ninth between the…

Project Squatch “Now for your final project in my class, you will be going around the United States researching, studying, and exploring different parts of your topic.” explained Professor Mosby. “The topics you can choose from will be displayed on the board momentarily.” What was going through Muhammad Blackwood’s mind was very specific. It was about what topic he would choose if he got the glorious chance to pick first. Groups were chosen yesterday in class. Muhammad Blackwood, Chance…

The 2004 movie, The Phantom of the Opera, is based off the original 1986 musical that was produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber. The actual movie is also produced by Webber and is directed by Joel Schumacher. It was released in the United States in December of 2004 and has been a hit ever since. The musical is still very popular and is performed on stages across the world to this day. Each musical scene in The Phantom of the Opera is sung in opera, so one has to have a special talent to perform. Some…

one and 6 in round two, the number of respondents who agreed with questions asked, increased to a fourth quartile range of 13 and inter-quartile range of 9.5. Overall there was a higher rate of agreement in the first round Delphi, than the second round Delphi. Although, the number of respondents dropped to 6 in the second round, the fourth quartile range was 4, with an inter-quartile range of 2.25 agreements. In addition, assessing the homogeneity of respondents followed an identification of…

Having courage is probably one of the most important things to me. We can refer to it as two different ways. One is it courage to face danger and the second way is having courage to do something you are afraid of. In this case, it’s having the courage to sing publicly. Ever since I was little, singing and dancing has been a talent i’ve had since I was about 5 years old. I grew up wanting to be like other celebrities seen on television and my parents would see how much dance performance and…

response curve (how it responds to different frequencies). Incidentally, each vocalist has unique tonal characteristics about his or her voice. A woman with a strong presence at 5kHz is not wisely matched with a mic that also boosts that same 5kHz range. In short, the ideal situation is one where the mic is not only high quality, but is a good match for the particular vocalist’s. Let’s look at a few examples of some nice vocal…

Where does my identity lie? My identity lies shaped within the continuous chorus and dazzling beats of music, where time seems to fly by and the listener is in a trace of beauty, elegance, rage, fun, happiness, etc. Everything I click and every thumbs up or down I make shapes me. As if I were a block of stone and the song are each a chisel and a hammer chipping away at me till they get their final product. From the time I was born music has been in my life but I have been blind to the way it has…