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 __MUSIC__  Music is an art. It involves creativity, inspiration and a little bit of yourself. Music has been around for thousands of years. Music effects everyone in a different way. For some it can cheer them up and for others music can make them cry. For us music is a big part of our lives. Music is part of daily life,music has been incorporated to many different things from like dance, so take a look around our page and enjoy

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=Genre=  there are many different types of genres of music. a genre is a category based off sounds, it is a style of composition marked by content.

Jazz
 "jazz is a type of lively music with strong, complex rhythms. It was first played at the beginning of the 20th century by black musicians in New Orleans, Louisiana. Jazz musicians often accent or add notes or beats in unusual or unexpected places. They make up tunes as they play. Jazz music has changed, and today there are many different forms of Jazz. Harder - Shortly after the turn of the 20th century, the earliest documented jazz music style emerged in New Orleans. Jazz began with a basic trio of musicians: a cornet, trumpet, or violin to carry the melody while a clarinet played ornate countermelodies, and the trombone provided rhythmic slides and the root notes of chords or simple harmonies. Below this group, there was a guitar or banjo sounding out the chords, sometimes a piano and/or a string bass, and drums supplying a rhythmic accompaniment. In theory these musicians and their instrument roles are the same as in other kinds of music, but jazz depends more on interpretation by individuals than on reproducing a fully annotated score. Jazz blends in improvisation and other elements of black music such as blues and ragtime to make a unique American music form. In jazz, musicians often play solos that they make up on the spot, or they reinterpret a given melody or chord sequence. When more than one musician is playing, the rhythms often become very complex. There is tremendous variety in jazz; the music is rhythmic, has a forward momentum called "swing," and employs "bent" or "blue" notes. One can often hear "call and response" patterns where one instrument, voice, or band section answers another. With a few exceptions found in some styles, most jazz is based on the principle that an endless number of melodies can fit the chord progressions of a song. Musicians improvise new melodies that fit the progressions. Other featured soloists follow with their improvisations for as many choruses as desired".



Contemporary
"During the mid 20th century, music evolved in many different directions. Some composers took Schoenberg's "serial" system to new limits. The rise of jazz, as well as an increasing awareness of non-Western music, provided additional inspiration for many, while others ventured into electronic music by manipulating sounds and noises recorded on tape - a style known as //musique concrète//. Yet another route was that of "chance" music, notably in the work of John Cage, in which the elements of a composition or performance could be determined by, say, "the throw of the dice". In the 1930s and 1940s, many composers returned to forms and techniques of the Baroque and Classical eras. This "Neoclassical" style was a reaction to the emotional, dramatic character of Romanticism. The Neoclassicists turned to past models as a vehicle for expressing their ideas. The Neoclassicists wrote for small chamber ensembles and preferred a tightly knit treatment of thematic material. They did not copy 17th and 18th century forms, but took elements, such as the fugue, and added their own modern harmonies and rhythms. An example of this is Stravinsky's opera //The Rake's Progress// (1951). The rapid advances in technology during the late 20th century are partly responsible for the emergence of a wide variety of musical forms. Electronics played an important role in the development of music, both classical and popular, from the 1960s onward. The ability of the synthesizer to generate artificial tones and sounds attracted composers such as John Cage, Edgard Varèse, and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Beginning in the 1970s, the use of computers, with their ability to memorize and play back whole compositions, discouraged live performances. Many composers turned to writing film scores, for which the precision of computerized music is ideally suited. Minimalism, which emerged in the 1960s, focuses on the development of a single aspect of music, such as pitch or rhythm, while keeping other elements constant. This approach owes much to Indian raga music, in which the pattern of music changes very little. Computers play a large part in minimalist music because they can make fine, precise alterations. Steve Reich, for instance, made tiny changes in pulse by playing two identical patterns at the same time and slightly altering the speed of one of the patterns."[|Link]

Rock
 "Rock music is a loosely defined genre of popular music that entered the mainstream in the mid 1950s. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rhythm and blues, country music and other influences. In addition, rock music drew on a number of other musical influences, including folk music, jazz, and classical music. The sound of rock often revolves around the electric guitar or acoustic guitar, and it uses a strong back beat laid down by a rhythm section of electric bass guitar, drums, and keyboard instruments such as organ, piano, or, since the 1970s, synthesizers. Along with the guitar or keyboards, saxophone and blues-style harmonica are sometimes used as soloing instruments. In its "purest form", it "has three chords, a strong, insistent back beat, and a catchy melody.In the late 1960s and early 1970s, rock music developed different subgenres. When it was blended with folk music it created folk rock, with blues to create blues-rock and with jazz, to create jazz-rock fusion. In the 1970s, rock incorporated influences from soul, funk, and latin music. Also in the 1970s, rock developed a number of subgenres, such as soft rock, glam rock, heavy metal, hard rock, progressive rock, and punk rock. Rock subgenres that emerged in the 1980s included New Wave, hardcore punk and alternative rock. In the 1990s, rock subgenres included grunge, Britpop, indie rock, and nu metal. A group of musicians specializing in rock music is called a rock band or rock group. Many rock groups consist of an electric guitarist, lead singer, bass guitarist, and a drummer, forming a quartet. Some groups omit one or more of these roles and/or utilize a lead singer who plays an instrument while singing, sometimes forming a trio or duo; others include additional musicians such as one or two rhythm guitarists and/or a keyboardist. More rarely, groups also utilize stringed instruments such as violins or cellos, or horn sections of saxophones, trumpets or trombones."Link

Soft
 Soft music is relaxing and comforting music. This music is very soothing and helps people relax and rest. Some people even fall asleep when they listen to this music. This music helps relieve stress and helps you forget about your problems.

R&B
**Rhythm and blues** (also known as **R&B**, **R'n'B** or **RnB**) is the name given to a wide-ranging genre of popular music first created by African Americans in the late 1940s and early 1950s. The term was originally used by record companies to refer to recordings bought predominantly by African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a heavy, insistent beat" was becoming more popular.The term has subsequently had a number of shifts in meaning. Starting in the 1960s, after this style of music contributed to the development of rock and roll, the term //R&B// became used - particularly by white groups — to refer to music styles that developed from and incorporated electric blues , as well as <span class="wiki_link_ext">gospel and <span class="wiki_link_ext">soul music. By the 1970s, the term //rhythm and blues// was being used as a blanket term to describe soul and funk. Since the 1990s, the term //contempery r&b// is now mainly used to refer to a modern version of soul and funk-influenced pop music.

Rap
<span style="color: rgb(42, 157, 234);"> Rapping can be traced back to its African roots. Centuries before Hip Hop music existed, the griots of West Africa were delivering stories rhythmically, over drums and sparse instrumentation. Such connections have been acknowledged by many modern artists, modern day "griots", spoken word artists, mainstream news sources, and academics. Blues music, rooted in the work songs and spirituals of slavery and influenced greatly by West African musical traditions, was first played by blacks (and some whites) in the Mississippi Delta region of the United States around the time of the Emancipation Proclamation. Grammy-winning blues musician/historian Elijah Wald and others have argued that the blues were being rapped as early as the 1920s. Wald went so far as to call hip hop "the living blues." Jazz, which developed from the blues and other African-American and European musical traditions and originated around the beginning of the 20th century, has also influenced Hip hop and has been cited as a precursor of Hip hop. Not just jazz music and lyrics but also Jazz poetry. According to John Sobol, the jazz musician and poet who wrote Digitopia Blues, rap "bears a striking resemblance to the evolution of jazz both stylistically and formally." During the mid-20th century, the musical culture of the Caribbean was constantly influenced by the concurrent changes in American music. As early as 1956, deejays were toasting (an African tradition of "rapped out" tales of heroism) over dubbed Jamaican beats. It was called "rap", expanding the word's earlier meaning in the African-American community—"to discuss or debate informally." The spoken word jazz poetry of the United States was a predecessor for beat poetry, as well as the rapping in hip hop music. Gil Scott-Heron, a jazz poet/musician who wrote and released such seminal songs as The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, H2OGate Blues Part 2: We Beg Your Pardon America and Johannesberg, has been cited as an influence on many rappers. His collaborational work with musician Brian Jackson (Pieces of a Man, Winter in America) have been cited as major influences on hip hop, in terms of sound and lyrical style. Similar in style, the Last Poets who formed in 1969 recited political poetry over drum beats and other instrumentation, and were another predecessor for rap music. They released their debut album in 1970 reaching the top ten on the Billboard charts. One of the first rappers in the beginning of the Hip Hop period, in the end of '70s, was also hip hop's first DJ, Kool Herc. Herc, a Jamaican immigrant, started delivering simple raps at his parties, inspired by the Jamaican tradition of toasting.

Quotes
<span style="color: rgb(19, 133, 216);"> quoets are things people say that have meaning to them....some of the ones we picked out were things said that had an impact on people or even one particular person.

Inspiring quotes
<span style="color: rgb(54, 158, 226);"> Anon A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.

Charlie Parker Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

Zimbabwe Proverb If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.

Bonnie Raitt I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

Simon Rattle If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

Kevin Richardson It was called the Backstreet Market, and it was just like a local hangout. That was where the kids would drive their cars, hang out with their convertibles and listen to music. That's how we got "Backstreet." We put "Boys" on it, because no matter how old we get, we'll always be boys.

<span style="color: rgb(82, 179, 244);"> Robbie Robertson Music should never be harmless.

<span style="color: rgb(85, 152, 231);"> Gioacchino Antonio Rossini Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.

<span style="color: rgb(73, 161, 233);"> Johann G. Seume Music is the key to the female heart.

<span style="color: rgb(26, 124, 219);"> John Philip Sousa Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

<span style="color: rgb(10, 158, 235);"> George Steiner The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud.

<span style="color: rgb(45, 151, 230);"> Igor Stravinsky A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(89, 169, 243);"> George Szell Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience. <span style="color: rgb(54, 137, 231);"> Jeffrey Tate The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.

<span style="color: rgb(78, 149, 239);"> Frank Zappa Remember, information is not knowledge; knowledge is not wisdom; wisdom is not truth; truth is not beauty; beauty is not love; love is not music; music is the best.

<span style="color: rgb(31, 142, 244);"> James Taylor I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it in front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.

<span style="color: rgb(96, 168, 235);"> Paul Whiteman Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

<span style="color: rgb(61, 147, 235);"> Oscar Wilde Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Ron Wood There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.

Yoko Ono All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

Joseph Addison (1672-1719), English essayist, poet, statesman Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

George Gordon Byron (1788-1824), [Lord Byron] English romantic poet There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

Truman Capote (1924-84), American novelist, short-story writer, Breakfast at Tiffany's To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make. Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.

Agnes de Mile (1905-93) The truest expression of a people is in its dance and music. <span style="color: rgb(61, 147, 235);"> Henry Ward Beecher (1813-87), American clergyman Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

<span style="color: rgb(61, 147, 235);"> Phillips Brooks (1835-93), American Episcopal bishop, wrote O' Little Town of Bethlehem The earth has grown old with its burden of care But at Christmas it always is young, The heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair And its soul full of music breaks the air, When the song of angels is sung.

<span style="color: rgb(61, 147, 235);"> Samuel Butler (1612-80), English poet, author Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often. <span style="color: rgb(61, 147, 235);"> Howard Dietz Composers shouldn't think too much — it interferes with their plagiarism. <span style="color: rgb(61, 147, 235);"> Placido Domingo The high note is not the only thing. <span style="color: rgb(61, 147, 235);"> Lawrence Durrell Music was invented to confirm human loneliness. <span style="color: rgb(61, 147, 235);"> Antonin Dvorak Mozart is sweet sunshine. <span style="color: rgb(61, 147, 235);"> T. S. Eliot You are the music while the music lasts. <span style="color: rgb(61, 147, 235);"> Liam Gallagher Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don't get it. <span style="color: rgb(61, 147, 235);"> George Gershwin True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today. <span style="color: rgb(61, 147, 235);"> Billy Gibbons Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.

Tipper Gore Your talking to someone who really understands rock music.

Benny Green A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

Steven Halpern When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that fire alarms could be given verbally, by a shouting watchman mounted on top of St. Stefan's Cathedral. In twentieth-century society, the noise level is such that it keeps knocking our bodies out of tune and out of their natural rhythms. This ever-increasing assault of sound upon our ears, minds, and bodies adds to the stress load of civilized beings trying to live in a highly complex environment.

Sir John Herschel Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended as innocent or safe amusements, a very great change of ideas must take place.

Albert Einstein (1875-1955), German-born American theoretical physicist, theories of relativity, philosopher He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Full credit for inserting pictures goes to Luis Hernandez, Partial credit to Jonathan Roman

=History of music=

<span style="color: rgb(53, 171, 248);"> Music is an art form whose medium is sound organized in time. Common elements of music are pitch (which governs melody and harmony), rhythm (and its associated concepts tempo, meter, and articulation), dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture. The word derives from Greek μουσική (mousike), "(art) of the Muses".The creation, performance, significance, and even the definition of music vary according to culture and social context. Music ranges from strictly organized compositions (and their recreation in performance), through improvisational music to aleatoric forms. Music can be divided into genres and subgenres, although the dividing lines and relationships between music genres are often subtle, sometimes open to individual interpretation, and occasionally controversial. Within "the arts", music may be classified as a performing art, a fine art, and auditory art. To people in many cultures, music is inextricably intertwined into their way of life. Greek philosophers and ancient Indians defined music as tones ordered horizontally as melodies and vertically as harmonies. Common sayings such as "the harmony of the spheres" and "it is music to my ears" point to the notion that music is often ordered and pleasant to listen to. However, 20th-century composer John Cage thought that any sound can be music, saying, for example, "There is no noise, only sound." According to musicologist Jean-Jacques Nattiez, "the border between music and noise is always culturally defined—which implies that, even within a single society, this border does not always pass through the same place; in short, there is rarely a consensus.… By all accounts there is no single and intercultural universal concept defining what music might be, except that it is 'sound through time'."

Famous artist
<span style="color: rgb(0, 132, 255);"> There are many famous artist, important to the world of music. many we find in our history books today. each one had their own unique style of writing and own way of music. these people went down in history because they reached out and spread their talents with the world. to many, that is the way to live dream big and you can accomplish anything. if you want to become a famous music artist or producer, go for it. =Instruments=

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<span style="color: rgb(236, 126, 19);">By:Demetrios, Jonathan, Sarah, Janiah, and Luis <span style="color: rgb(205, 37, 212); font-size: 120%;">