Music! Its Role and Importance in Our LivesChapter 8:
Musical CreatorsWeb Links
| Careers in Music | | Ever wonder what it might be like to have a career in music? Check out this fun site that provides several pages of discussions on careers involving music performance, education, or the music industry. This site has it all: whether you’re curious about a career as a lounge singer, film scorer, music therapist, composer, or publisher, you’ll find the answers you’re looking for here!
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http://www.menc.org/careers/
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| Diane Warren Official Web Page | | Elton John, Barbara Streisand, Whitney Houston, Celine Dion, and many, many more have recorded Diane Warren’s songs. Listen to many of her top hits; you’ll probably recognize more than a few! She has received countless awards, and dozens of her songs have become top 10 hits.
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http://www.realsongs.com/
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| Easy Songwriting for Aspiring Musicians | | If you’d like some sage advice on songwriting, check this site out. Dave Byers has compiled 21 tips and the basics for writing a song. The “Lyrics Directory” will allow you to read lyrics written by many different artists, and the “Site Map” link will take you to articles about writing songs. One article, in particular, “Hook, Line & Sinker: Tips for Writing Great Hooks,” will be very helpful in completing the activity in Chapter 8.
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http://www.easy-song-writing.com/default.asp
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| Porgy and Bess: An American Voice | | When the opera Porgy and Bess premiered in 1935, it revolutionized American opera. Go behind the scenes of the production and meet the artists. Included is a short video of Maya Angelou discussing her experiences touring with Porgy and Bess and Todd Duncan recalling when George Gershwin asked him to play Porgy
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http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/porgy/
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| George & Ira Gershwin: Official Web Site | | The brothers George and Ira Gershwin were influential in bringing popular music into the concert hall and making it respectable. Find out about this team and the well-known songs they wrote. The “Jukebox” link will let you hear many of their famous songs. The “Anthology” link will take you through the many films for which they composed music.
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http://www.gershwin.com/
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| Electronic Music Interactive | | Follow this interactive tutorial through the basics of electronic music. Investigate waveforms, filters, and MIDI through the diagrams, illustrations, and audio examples found on this interactive site.
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http://img.uoregon.edu/emi/emi.php
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| NPR’s Top 100 | | Listen to NPR radio programs about the 100 most important American musical works of the twentieth century, including Copland’s Appalachian Spring; Gershwin’s “I’ve Got Rhythm,” Porgy and Bess, and Rhapsody in Blue; and Bernstein’s West Side Story.
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http://www.npr.org/programs/specials/vote/list100.html#A
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