who and what else influenced ella fitzgerald's work? how did she arrive at her style?
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Ella Fitzgerald info:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ella_Fitzgerald
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Today's talk will be about Igor Stravinsky, a Russian-born composer.  Although Igor (no relation to Dr. Frankenstein's assistant) composed primitivist, neo-classical and serial works, he is best known for three compositions from his earlier, Russian period: The Firebird, Pétrouchka, and The Rite of Spring. These daring and innovative ballets practically reinvented the genre!!  Amazing,  but true!!   \n\nStravinsky also wrote for a wide range of ensembles in a broad spectrum of classical forms, ranging from opera and symphonies to piano miniatures and works for jazz band. Stravinsky also achieved fame as a pianist and conductor, often at the premieres of his own works.  Too cool, ain't it?\n\nOkay...stop looking at me like that...you started it.
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Yeh Love the Irish music!  My all time favourite irish band was Planxty...  You know I have this theory that nearly all modern music came from the Irish. The influence is obvious. Music was and still is a very big part of Irish culture and the opression in their own country for hundreds of years drove them to all corners of the globe and they took their music with them...  *Raises a Guiness to the old country*
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popular opinion: marilyn monroe was a very talented actress and singer/ songwriter who had a rebellious impact on society and a woman's worth...\n\nimpact on society: marilyn monroe was one of the first women to step out of the soceital box that said that women were expect to look and behave a certian way... she did this by basically dressing sexy and exposing her body to the media\n\n\nyou should alter this.. i was a bit high and typing so0o.. i do and dont know what i wrote at the same time..
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Try the poet Emily Dickenson. She wrote a ton of material, and there is a ton of material about her!
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George Gershwin is an American composer best known for taking his classical musical roots and stepping into the jazz idiom.  He is know for many songs which we now consider musical "standards," most of which he composed  with his brother Ira, who wrote the lyrics.  \n\nHe's become part of the American musical framework with shows like "Porgy and Bess," "Strike Up the Band," and "Crazy for You."  Some of their more memorable songs might be "I Got Rhythm," "Embraceable You," and "Our Love is Here to STay," among many others.  You might best recognize his music by listening to United Airlines commercials...  "Rhapsody in Blue."
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Maybe is  Eva Cassidy  or Judy Garlan...I run a cross examination of their lyrics and are the same....In the Wizard of Oz was Dorothy.  Moreover, a lot of artists have taken Over the rainbow for their own adaptation since it was a smashing hit with movie\n\nHere is the list of female singers who have their version of the song:\n\nPatti LaBelle \nJane Monheit \nMelissa Manchester\nLinda Eder \nJo Stafford \nDoris Day \nMarusha\nMartina McBride \nElla Fitzgerald \nOlivia Newton-John \nAretha Franklin \nSarah Vaughan \nMandy Patinkin \nFaith Hill \nKimberley Locke \nKatharine McPhee \nCéline Dion
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It definitely did.  Jazz during the Harlem Renaissance is the jazz we know today.  It influenced all the more famous jazz artists like Miles Davis.  The style of Jazz influenced the beginnings of rock as well, which eventually evolved into rock as we know it today.
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Debussy - his music is sensual, atmospheric, evocative\n\nYou could start with his "Claire De Lune" or "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun"\n\nHere is Claire De Lune (midi):\nhttp://www.classicalmidiconnection.com/cgibin/x.cgi/mid/debussy/clairdelune.mid\n\nStravinsky - the most influential, innovative classical music composer of this century... \n\nYou could start with the Firebird Suite or his neoclassical Pulcinella Suite, but you must listen to The Rite Of Spring (considered his most influential work)\n\nMessiaen - hard to understand, but his music is exotic, fresh, colorful, unique...\n\nHis most popular works: "Quatuor pour la fin du temps" and the "Turangalîla-Symphonie".\n\nPhilip Glass - minimalist, his music is hypnotic and full of repeating pattern with subtle changes.\n\nBernstein - most popular for composing the music to the musical "West Side Story" which combined jazz influences with classical music. Also famous for "Candide".\n\nIves - American composer... He is widely regarded as one of the first American classical composers of international significance. American folk tunes are found through most of his music... Try listening to his philosophical piece "The Unanswered Question".\n\nSorabji - composer of almost impossible to play piano pieces... his style is like a mix of Messiaen, and Debussy (or Ravel)... but with A LOT of dissonance... his music can be extremely dreamy and sensual, but it can also be acid, violent and "noisy".
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jazz, man.  this is when jazz truly developed as a genre of music separate from blues and took on a life of it's own.  we wouldn't have coltrane, monk, miles, or any of the jazz greats, groups like the yellowjackets or the new up and coming guys like roy hargrove.  jazz music also branched out into other musci genres.  it influences r&b, neosoul, and a lot os rappers.  a tribe called quest, de la soul, and the pharcye used a lot of jazz with hip hop beats in their day.  rappers like common use jazz influences in their beats - well kayne west, who produces for most of these guys samples and uses a lot of jazz influences in their songs.  without the harlem renaissance, jazz wouldn't have evolved the way it did.
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Easy. Frank Sinatra. He's left a long legacy of art and met a lot of beautiful women while doing it.
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Let's see. I've read quite a bit by her:\n\nIN THE GARDEN - by Emily Dickinson\n \nA bird came down the walk:\nHe did not know I saw;\nHe bit an angle-worm in halves\nAnd ate the fellow, raw.\nAnd then he drank a dew\nFrom a convenient grass,\nAnd then hopped sidewise to the wall\nTo let a beetle pass.\nHe glanced with rapid eyes\nThat hurried all abroad, --\nThey looked like frightened beads, I thought;\nHe stirred his velvet head\nLike one in danger; cautious,\nI offered him a crumb,\nAnd he unrolled his feathers\nAnd rowed him softer home\nThan oars divide the ocean,\nToo silver for a seam,\nOr butterflies, off banks of noon,\nLeap, plashless, as they swim.\n\n\nWhat does it mean-\n A gentle observation of a natural moment of Nature pedantic -hmmm, did I spell that right? Many poets professed that to observe Nature is to continually learn profound lessons, and sometimes lessons that simmer over decades before their truths be known. Miss Dickinson recorded life & elements swimming about her in her two story house in Amherst, in her garden, in her heart, her head, her grand and simple analogies abounding. Perhaps the bird was a bird. Perhaps he simply was going about his regular business. Or, perhaps she wanted future readers to consider the bird a symbol of all who toil in their daily labors, of all striving to meet their goals (courageously surmounting any obstacle; a beetle), then encountering a collision with an outside force - life, death, circumstance that "offers a crumb," and the toiler responds by fleeing, dying, being born... Until Emily herself is resurrected, which probably is unlikely, we can only guess her intentions. I will say, that having visited her home in Massachusetts, having walked her garden and having stood by her bed, the thought rings true in me that she simply was a born observer with a gift for description, comparisons and contrasts - ministress of boundless understanding.\n\nOf the ryhme scheme, I have been away from the books too long to remember how her beginning six lines of ABABAB relate to the continuing AABBCCDD lines. PLease read on with answers that will undoubtedly come from more expert knowledge. There are so many of us, Lovers of the Belle of Amherst, that you should get a respectable answer. Use your eyes to read them all, but remember to use your conscience to judge them. Best to you, dear person of quandary.
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Actually f. Scott fitgerald was influenced a lot in his life to write the great gatsby. For example daisy's character is based on his wife zelda who was also very materialistic.Society at the time also influenced him the prohibition,materialism and living the american dream.other of his characters are also based on friends and people of that era.
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Good research and analysis of Charlotte Perkins Gilman\n"The Yellow Wallpaper" at site 1\n\nsite 2: "read Gilman's "Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper"\n\n Site 3: Listen to the Play \n  Synopsis \n  Literary Interpretation \n  Historical and Literary Contexts\n  Further Reading \n  Biography \n  Lesson Plans
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at the time fitzgerald wrote the book, jazz age '20s, it was an ideal love. now most would consider it obsessive since he loves what she represents symbolically rather than her as a person and he goes to great lengths to protect her even when his love is not returned. \n\n"boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly..."\n\ngreat book, huh...
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You can find Emily Dickinson criticism here:\n\nhttp://muse.jhu.edu/journals/emily_dickinson_journal/\n\nLook here for some criticism on "Because I Could Not Stop For Death". Scroll down to the "Eunice Glenn" section:\n\nhttp://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/dickinson/712.htm\n\nAlso, look here:\n\nhttp://capjewels.com/gale/class/stopfordeath.html
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Ella is a beautiful name.  My grandmother's name is Ella Mae.