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    1930s Music History

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    speaker. It became one of the most widely used microphones in vocal recording. During this same period of time, advances were being made in the way that sound was recorded. Prior to this period, sound was recorded onto a disc or a wax cylinder by a stylus. British and American inventors experimented with the first practical magnetic sound recording system, the magnetic wire recorder, based on an patent by Danish inventor Valdemar Poulsen in 1900. Magnetic tape recording as we know it today was

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    fields of sound, technology, history and culture highlights important turning points within sound reproduction and their cultural impact on our lives of today. Ethnomusicologists will delight in the many varied references and ideas that he puts forward. From the very first page where he asks, ‘So why did sound-reproduction technologies emerge when they did and not at some other time?’. The six chapters and a conclusion amount to a hefty 450 pages explaining about the advent of noteworthy sound devices

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    Originally, people used the horns of animals before they started using metal. The French horn started out as a hunting horn. Its almost human­like sound was used to signal to call to the hounds that were on a hunt. Later on the horn started to be more in the orchestral setting. Its sound would invoke the idea of a hunt. Later on, however, the sound of the horn started to represent royalty. As the instrument developed, it became capable of playing more and more notes and producing melodies. This

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    chatting together and later began watching a movie. Unilateral: I could still hear things that were close by, but the farther the sound source was, the worse the quality of the sound. Things sounded a little more muffled and distant, almost like phone quality. Similar to the concept of a low resolution image versus a high resolution image, I could still tell what the sound was, however, it was very slightly diluted and fuzzy in comparison to normal hearing, although I didn’t find it particularly bothersome

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    found me it demanded growth. Aspiring audio engineers hope for recognition and spotlight, however, we discreetly and softly affect everything in societies lives, our work is almost inaudible. Eyes dance between sound waves while hands wrap around rigid metal nuts and bolts, slithering sound through speakers.

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    (drums), and three chordals; two chordophones (guitar and bass), and an electronophone (synthesizer). The fifth time music is heard is when the women are cooking some form of flat bread. The old man is singing a song that sounds very similar to the second song that is heard in the film. It is another field recording of a standard tribal song, sung in acappella. The tempo is moderato in duple meter. The sixth time music is heard is during the third day of the young girls puberty ceremony. In their song

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    it haunted me day and night” (Poe 39).The narrator then goes on to claim how he had nothing against the old man, perhaps even loved him, but yearned to murder him. The narrator then attempts to blame this on the old man’s eye, which had a pale blue film over it, and resembled a vulture’s eye. This could been seen as a weak effort to solve the problem of how he did not know why he wanted to murder the man. This

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    Felt So Good

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    is from a movie called “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”. To those who are not as too familiar with the synopsis of the film, the plot brings the audience’s attention to a man named Joel (Jim Carrey) and a woman named Clementine (Kate Winslet). In a complementary article that The Artifice wrote in response to the movie, the main gist that can be explored from the film is that it “plays with the ideas of of memory, society, and perception, questioning the balance of association’s effects on a

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    Spring and Fall

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    the popular S.E. Hinton young adult novel, The Outsiders, and Hopkins’ in Vision Quest, a forgettable movie about a young man searching to find himself by taking on the unbeatable state champion in a wrestling match. (Our hero beats him!) In both films, the themes of the pains and triumphs of growing up are presented in familiar formulas, and the poems lend a sense of gravity to that theme. In any case, lots of my friends in high school, who never would have read poetry otherwise, knew these poems

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    Unit 1 Research Paper

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    Research Essay on the Scientific & Technical Innovation of Inventions from the 19th Century: The Impact of the Invention of the Telephone in Society Mr. Allan Algar Grade 8-1 Science Subin Moon Oct 19th, 2014 The telephone is a device designed for both communication and reception of human voice at the same time

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