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born during the 1920’s to a loving mother and mentally unstable father. Hank was influenced by country music stars like Jimmie Rodgers and Roy Acuff, but his mentor was Rufus Payne. Rufus was a poor black street performer that taught Hank guitar chords and chord progression for food. Hank credits Rufus as being his only music teacher. Hank Williams started his career playing in honky-tonk bars but it…

memorable for the average user” (Analysis: The many faces of Apple advertising: “ Dan Moren.” Macworld.com). The bandages showed an unstable side of PC that is undesirable to consumers while Mac remained strong and unchanged due to the different power chords the computers used. In ad three, the use of a counseling session acted as an analogy to show how the two computers were trying to find common ground to be civil and become unified. Referring to a counselor exhibited the attempted…

The most common version of the blues has three chords in a twelve-bar form, a distinctive chord progression. Compared with the then-widespread European or Western styles of music, blues musicians began to vary the length of a song form, violating the traditional view that “a song must have a predetermined length.” This innovative…

(Paton 221). Although John Kumalo is gifted with a bull voice, he does not employ it to its full potential. While he could sacrifice his life for martyrdom, he is blinded by materialistic motives. John Kumalo plays chords of music to excite the people, but he never combines these chords of emotion to create a song that causes the natives to “rage against the dying of the light” (Thomas 3). Although God has granted him the gift of speech, John Kumalo chooses to neglect the cause of revolting…

homorhythmic; the prefix "homo" means "the same". This is a term that describes a process of when two or more parts with a single melodic line move about simultaneously in unison. This creates a harmonic tone that is quite necessary for the support of the chords. The second is polyphonic; the prefix "poly" means "many". This term describes a musical composition that uses two or more simultaneous but independent melodic parts, lines, or voices. The third and last one is an imitation or…

has over us. There are many ways that this quote can be applied in real life. The first thing that comes to my mind is when I played the guitar for the first time. My grandmother introduced me to that instrument and since I learned the basic chords, every day at least I…

For example, “If I don't exercise my vocal chords every three minutes, there’s a good chance I’ll never swallow again.” (Cohan, 367) This situations appears in a context where the main character was caught red handed doing something weird so they had to come up with an excuse. The humor interacts…

shown by the increasing speed and volume of the music until there is no melody all instruments play to a certain rhythmic pattern. Shortly before the end, the timpani is the only instrument playing, starting very quiet and ending very loud. The final chord is played by the whole orchestra to show the Mountain King loudly throwing Peer out of his…

There's no denying that John Legend is one of the strongest standing balladeers left that made modern mainstream music still susceptible to pure emotions of love and feelings. It is with John Legend that we heard songs reminiscent of the effect that Boyz II Men and Babyface showered us during the bountiful industry of the 1990s---saccharine-rich tracks that's certainly difficult to go unnoticed. In just a couple of years, John Legend managed to establish his own placement as a respected and…

biological research that demonstrates the importance of interventions that encourage healthy relationships between the child and the primary caregiver. What are your thoughts? http://vimeo.com/33231528Links to an external site. This video struck a chord with me because I was a stay-at-home dad for the first three years of my daughter's life, and it was a really amazing time for me. Due to a series of knee injuries and subsequent surgeries, I was unable to work for almost a year and so I was…