Pipa

The lute is a pear-shaped wooden body with a varying number of frets has many related forms in many different Asian cultures. The most well-known are the Chinese pipa, Japanese biwa, the Vietnamese dan ty, and the Korea bipa. There is confusion and disagreements about the origin of pipa in China. This is due to the fact that the word pipa was used in ancient texts to describe a variety of plucked instrument throughout the era of dynasties well as the differing accounts given in these ancient texts. As a case in point, the artwork Pipa is a stunning musical instrument from the Ming Dynasty during the late 16th and early 17th century. It is made from wood, ivory, silk, and bone. On the back of the pipa, there is hexagonal pictures carved…

play music, an instrument is necessary, of course. One of the most famous instruments used during the Ming dynasty was the pipa. The pipa looked like a big pear with strings on it. It is not a guitar, it is a lute. A lute is a musical instrument like a guitar with a round body, played with the fingers or a small piece of plastic. It was introduced to Eastern Asia during the Han and Sui dynasties. During the Ming dynasty the sides and the back of the pipa had many hexagonal plaques. The plaques…

the internet and allowed to violate copyright laws without any repercussions? Many copyright owners that feel their works of authorship are being broadcasted through the world of the internet without their permissions. This copyright material is being displayed not only on US websites but foreign websites. How can these copyright infringers’ be held accountable? Stop Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) has a few suggestions. Facts Stop Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA)…

rights? While there are a relatively large amount of people embarking to pirate it would be a misuse and abuse of power to internet system, companies that are dependent with the network and people freedom of expression to attacks on foreign domain that traffics copyright infringements. Copyright was not made to be weighted as property but to be a policy to protect “expression” (Vaidhyanathan 25). Work Cited "Copyright Law of the United State." (n.d.): n. pag. Web. Oct. 2014. "Office of…

In this version, it is a Pipa quartet, which means that it is only consisting of Chordophones. This means that each individual player is improvising his or her own ornamentation, specifically trills. The harmonising is only in intervals larger than a perfect 4th and 5th, specifically at 0:56 and so on. The piece is very consonant, and is based around the foundation tone of G. The ornamentation used depicts a river, and each Pipa is using their own ornamentation to depict their own element of…

government to counter internet piracy; the PROTECT IP Act also aimed to stop this illegal activity (ST). The PROTECT IP Act (PIPA for short) was a revised version of COICA. Even with revisions, PIPA was met with a lot of opposition. One key argument against PIPA pointed out that “… the broad definition of an Internet site dedicated to infringing activity could encompass speech protected by the First Amendment” (“History of” 260). While PIPA and COICA both had good intentions to prevent copyright…

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them are amateurs. Shanghai is one of the most prominent places for clubs, as there are many different types of clubs. There are those who meet every once in a while with different members attending each time and those who are specific to a certain group of people. Clubs can be found in a range of places such as offices, auditoriums, homes, as well as other public places. “A typical afternoon session lasts about three hours. Shortly before two o’clock, musicians begin to arrive; the musical…

Even their own government admits that about 20 percent of the people living in Mexico City do not have access to water through their tap faucets. There are residents who wait for over a month to receive clean drinking water from the trucks they hire. The residents often called these large trucks “pipas”. The cost for these trucks can sometimes be expensive, costing more than a wealthy resident would normally pay in a nicer neighborhood. A resident who has experienced this first hand said, “We…

Both bills are essentially the same thing with different names as explained by reputationhawk.com SOPA and PIPA are, “The bill was designed to cut off Internet access to websites which traffic in copyrighted material. The bill authorizes courts to ban advertising networks from working with certain websites and to prevent companies like PayPal and Alert Pay from being able to accept money from, or send money to, infringing sites. Furthermore, courts would be able to prevent search engines from…