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Carlee Heinz Mr. McGraw Concert choir May 19th, 2017 For KING & COUNTRY For KING & COUNTRY is the warmhearted contemporary Christian band of brothers, Joel and Luke Smallbone. Born in Sydney, Australia to their father, David Smallbone, who was involved in music, and siblings to Rebecca St. James who was also a contemporary Christian singer/songwriter. The brothers moved to Nashville, Tennessee in 1991 because of their father’s job relocation as a music promoter. During high school,…

Many people believe that elite social status and acquiring expensive materialistic possessions are possible in a prosperous country like America. As a result, countless Americans by the name of Abraham Lincoln, John D. Rockefeller, and Henry Ford have set an example and were able to rise to financial and social success. In the same way, the characters Jay Gatsby, Myrtle Wilson, and Daisy Buchanan, in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, are clear examples of the pursuit of the American Dream,…

Gamelan Music (Gam-a-lawn) is the traditional ensemble music of the islands of Java and Bali in Indonesia. These ensembles consist largely of percussive instruments. With different variations of gongs, mallet instruments, and drums, each instrument is struck with a mallet to produce a metallic/percussive sound. Each Gamelan Ensemble has a different style and can incorporate different percussive instruments, string instruments, and voice. This gives each Gamelan a unique texture. Gamelans…

After the final cymbal rolls die out, Rotten famously says at the end of the song “ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated? Good night.” Number Twelve: Malcom McLaren Initially Wanted Syl Sylvan to Front the Band. When the lead singer of the Strand, the band which preceded…

I was sceptical at first when I began reading Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, because I always judge books by their covers, even though I really shouldn’t. I have also found that as I got older I’ve had less and less time to read during the day, so finding time to be able to sit down and read the entire book book was a little bit of a hassle. While I started reading this book I slowly fell in love with it, because It just gelled with me really easily. I figured out the genre as teen fiction…

Romani and Egyptian culture are much more than what the western general public perceives. Romani culture is more than just being nomads that go wherever they please. They have their own set of values and traditions, just like any other culture, as do the Egyptians. Egyptian culture is very different than Romani culture, yet they are comparable. Their religion, geography, traditions, and some ideologies are extremely different, but some parallels can be drawn from their music and dance. Even…

What truly is the “American Dream”? The answer to this question may vary from individual to individual but most would say good health, success, wealth or a luxurious life with much worry. In the definition of the American Dream by James Truslow Adams in 1931, "life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement" regardless of social class, race, gender or other circumstances one had been born into. This is a major theme within…

jazz is full of distinct sounds and voices. Miles Davis’s trumpet being played in a muted whisper, Charlie Parker’s sharp edge saxophone being played incredibly with fast pace and variety, and Jo Jones’s creation of an entire symphony, strictly with cymbals, were just a few unique characteristics of some jazz musicians (Defining Jazz: The Swingin’ Thing). These were all things unheard of by most people before the Jazz Age. The qualities that jazz possesses are one-of-a-kind qualities that are…

the violins. Once the ensemble is in unison, Haydn creates perfect openings for soloists. The second movement opened up a new world for listeners and composers around the world. Instruments that were only used in operas such as the bass drum, crash cymbals, and triangle, were used in the second movement of Haydn’s Military Symphony. The audience loved it and had never seen those kinds of instruments incorporated into a Symphony. The whole symphony is an exquisite work of art, from the second and…

The Ottoman empire was first found in the thirteen hundreds. The empire stretches much further back, but it was under the leadership of Osman that this great empire succeeded in moving out from its territory in northwestern Anatolia and started conquering and taking over other territories. The first main victory took place in the Balkans, and these conquests led them to return to western Anatolia flush with money and men. In the middle of the fifteenth century they had already took some…