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Hilary Duff
Hilary Erhard Duff was born on September 28th,1987 so she is a Libra, in Houston, Texas, to Bob and Susan Duff. Have height 1.57 meters she is short for western ladies normally, have a nickname Hil. Her first part was in the mini-series True Women (1997) (TV), but become a first film star starring role was as "Ellie" in The Soul Collector (1999) (TV), for which she won a Best Performance in a TV Movie or Pilot (Supporting Young Actress) Young Artist Award. Hilary also starred in Casper Meets Wendy (1998) (TV) in 1998, in which she played the young witch "Wendy". Success came again as she took the role of the starring title character "Lizzie McGuire" in the #1 hit Disney Channel series "Lizzie McGuire" (2001). "Lizzie" was extremely successful and spawned The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2003). In 2002, she made the Disney Channel movie Cadet Kelly (2002) (TV). Hilary continues her upward spiral, guest-starring on TV shows, filming movies, recording albums and doing television concerts.

Britney Spears
We are not so surprised if Britney Spears become a Top Starr in this year (2007) because her acting and show is always do every where. Her famous also written in Wikipedia Britney Spears. She was born on December 2, 1981 in Kenwood, Lousiana, USA to Jamie and Lynne Spears. As a child, Britney attended dance classes, and she was great at gymnastics, winning many competitions and the like. She is not just a solo singer but also an actress, dancer and also as songwriter.

Her big break, however, came when she was signed as a Jive Recording Artist in the late 90s. With the release of her debut album, "...Baby One More Time" in early 1999, Britney became an international success, selling 13 million copies of "Baby" and 9 million (as of July 2001) of her sophomore album, "Oops!...I Did It Again," released in May of 2000.

Beyoncé
Beyoncé Giselle Knowles was born on September, 4, 1981, in Houston, Texas, USA. Beside as a singer she is songwriter, record producer, music video director, actress, dancer, and fashion designer. At first she start the singer career join to an American R&B singer.
In early July 2000, Knowles released her debut solo single "I Got That" along with rapper Amil, but it failed to chart or sell noticebly, topping the Bubbling Under R&B/Hip-Hop Singles. In 2003, Knowles released her debut solo album, Dangerously in Love. The album entered the Billboard 200 at number one selling 317,000 copies in its first week, and was certified platinum three weeks later on June 22, 2003.

Paris Hilton
Parris Whitney Hilton was born on February 17, 1981. She was an American Celebutante and business woman. She is best-known through her work in the television series The Simple Life. She has also appeared in several minor film roles, most notably in the horror film House of Wax in 2005. In 2004 she published a tongue-in-cheek autobiography. In 2006, she released her self-titled debut album Paris. Among her many careers, she lists singer, model, actress, author, and television personality. As a result of several legal incidents, Hilton served a widely publicized sentence in a LA.County Jail facility in 2007.

Lindsay Lohan
She was born in New York City, on 2 July 1986, to Dina Lohan and Michael Lohan. She began her career at age three as a Ford model, and also made appearances in over sixty television commercials, including spots for The Gap, Pizza Hut, Wendy's, and Jell-O (opposite Bill Cosby). Lohan made her acting debut in 1996 as the third actress to play Ali Fowler in the television drama "Another World" (1964). Shortly afterward, she was hand-picked by Oscar-nominated writer Nancy Meyers as estranged twin sisters in an adaptation by Walt Disney Pictures of a novel by Erich Kästner, which marked Meyers' directorial debut. Lohan's first feature film, The Parent Trap (1998), a remake of The Parent Trap (1961), was a modest commercial success, earning her widespread critical acclaim, and a Young Artist award for Best Leading Young Actress in a Feature Film, as well as Blockbuster Entertainment and YoungStar award nominations.

After signing a three-movie contract with Disney, she returned to the small screen to star in the made-for-TV movies Life-Size (2000) (TV) (opposite Tyra Banks) and Get a Clue (2002) (TV) (opposite Bug Hall). She also appeared as Rose in the pilot episode of the short-lived comedy series "Bette" (2000), which starred Bette Midler. In June 2001, Lohan took a brief hiatus from acting. Her music career was launched over a year later, when Estefan Enterprises made a five-album production deal with her in September 2002, and she signed a recording contract with the reactivated Casablanca Records.

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Beethoven's Music

Traditionally, Beethoven's works are grouped into early, middle, and late periods. The early works, up to about 1802, show a progressive mastery of the high classical style of Haydn and Mozart. During this period he wrote primarily for the Piano and for chamber ensembles dominated by the piano. His first six string quarters, op. 18, date from 1798 to 1800, the first symphony from 1800 and the second from 1801 to 1802.

A general growth, in the proportions and rhetorical power of Beethoven's work in the period 1798 – 1802 culminates in the highly dramatic compositions that mark the beginning of the middle period in 1803. The earliest of this – the third symphony (Eroica, 1803), the opera Fidelio (1803 – 05), and the Waldstein (1804) abd Aooassionata (1804) sonatas - have a heroic cast that Beethoven's deafness. In the work composed from about 1806 until 1812, this heroic character alternates with an Olympian serenity. The characteristic symphonic and chamber works from this period are the fourth (1806), Fifth (1805 – 07), and Sixth (1807 – 08) symphonies; the fourth (1805 – 06) and Fifth (Emperor, 1809) piano concert; the Violin Concert (1806); the Rasumovsky quartets (1806); the piano trios, op. 70 (1808) and op. 97 (Archduke, 1811); the Coriolanos Overture (1807); and the incidental music for Geothe's drama Egmont (1810).

Beginning in 1815, Beethoven's music became generally less dramatic and more introspective. The first group of works in this new, late-period style includes the song scycle An die ferne Geliebte, op. 98 (to the distant Beloved, 1816); the piano sonata, op. 102 (1815). In these works and in a large group of late sonatas, and string quartets. Beethoven favored looser musical structures and variation and fugal procedures in which the hidden implications of his themes emerge gradually. Hammerklaveir sonata, the Missa Solemnis (1818 – 23), and Ninth (Choral) symphony (completed 1823) are colored by new immediacy of expression. Beethoven then grew more isolated, from both his physical surroundings and the popular stylistic tendencies of the day, his music tended increasingly to expressive extremes. Passages of sublime contemplation join with simple folk melodies, impassioned recitatives, and abstract archaisms in a wholly personal synthesis.

Ludwid Van Beethoven

Beethoven History

The complete name is Ludwig Van Beethoven, he is one of the greatest masters of music, particularly admired for his instrumental works, including symphonies, concert, sonata and chamber music. He was born in Bonn, Germany about Dec. 16, 1770. His father and his grandfather also a musician. Beethoven very talent so that at the age of 12 he was already an assistant to the organist Christian Gottlob Neefe, with whom he studied.

In 1787, Beethoven was sent to Vienna, but his mother was ill, and he had to return to Bonn almost immediately. His mother died a few moth later. Ludwig left Bonn for Vienna a second time in November 1972, in order to study with Franz Josef Haydn. He remained there the rest of his life, leaving only for long summer holidays in surrounding countryside and, in his early year, for occasional concerts in nearby cities. His only extended journey was to Prague, Dresden and Berlin in 1796.

Beethoven never held an official position in Vienna. He supported himself by giving concerts, by teaching piano, and increasingly through the sale of his compositions. Member of the Viennese aristocracy were his steady patrons.

Viennese Career

The last 30 years of Beethoven’s life were shaped by a series of personal crises, the first of which was the onset of deafness. The early symptoms, noticeable to the composer before 1800, affected him socially more than musically. His reaction – despair, resignation and defiance – are conveyed in letter to two friends in 1801 and in a document – half letter and half will – addressed to his brothers in late 1802 and now known as the “Heiligenstadt testament.” Resolving finally to “seize fate by the throat,” he emerge from the crisis with a series of triumphant works that mark the beginning of a new period in his stylistic development.

During this time, Beethoven’s deafness advanced to the stage where he could no longer perform publicly, and he required a slate or little notebooks (conversation book) to communicate with visitors. The dead of his brother Caspar Carl in 1815 led to a 5-years legal struggle for custody of Caspar’s son Karl, then 9 years old, in whom Beethoven saw a last chance for the domestic life that had otherwise eluded him. His possessiveness of Karl provoked final crisis in the summer of 1826, when the young man attempted suicide. Beethoven’s health began to fail, and he died on March 26, 1827 in Vienna.

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The Beatles

Beatles Group History:

This music group is formed in England; this group becomes well known because of their new characteristic that is favored by young people and has a profound influence on the course of popular music. These groups were formed on about 1959 and start their show in Liverpool England.

The guitarists John Winston Lennon, was born October 9, 1940; Paul James Mc Cartney, born June 18, 1942; and George Harrison, born on Feb. 25, 1943; and the drummer Ringo Starr, born in Richard Starkey, July 7, 1940. They all was born and raised in Liverpool. Lennon and McCartney formed the Silver Beatles with Harrison in 1959, and Star joined them in 1962. As the Beatle, they hit the top of the British charts with their first recording, "Love Me Do" (1962) and "Please Please Me" (1963). Their early music infused by the styles of Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley with fresh, cheeky wit, "I Want to Hold Your Hand" (1964) set of mass adulation called "Beatlemania" in the United States.

Lennon and McCartney mostly who wrote of the songs of this group, their song set a precedent for other rock groups to perform their own music. The product of constant experimenting with form and instrumentation, Beatles songs dealt with subjects ranging from children's fantasies ("Yellow Submarine") to social commentary ("Eleanor Rigby") to mysticism ("Within You without You"). Because of its poetic and musical unity, unprecedented in a rock album, Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) is generally considered their finest work; Rubber Soul (1965) and Revolver (1966) can also be considered song cycles.

The group disbanded in 1970, pursuing individual careers thereafter. On December 8, 1980, John Lennon was fatally shot outside his Manhattan apartment by Mark Chapman, a 25-years-old former mental patient.

Musical Instruments

Although vocal performance is common to practically all musical traditions, instrumental performance has a more varied history. Stringed and wind instruments are important functions in the ceremonies and entertainments of the Greek and Roman civilizations. Instruments as harp, lyre, psaltery, and various winds and drums – most of which were derived from oriental models – were, however, employed in small (monophonic) dance pieces. Because only a few instruments from the Middle Ages still exist, much of the present knowledge comes from pictorial and literary sources and from folk music that preserves these traditions.

The comparatively rapid evolution of western musical genres and instruments (in marked contrast to the stability of many other musical cultures) was frequently accompanied by a disdain for those of previous generations. Older instruments were often altered, “improved”, or simply discarded, sometimes surviving intact only in private collections. Renewed interest in the performance of early music, and the revival of such instruments as the harpsichord since World War II, however, have resulted in a growing appreciation for performances on restored instruments or authentic reconstructions of early instruments. Many soloists and ensembles now specialize in early music played on these instruments.

Classification
Musical instruments are popularly divided into the stringed, woodwind, brass, percussion, and keyboard families of the symphony orchestra and concert solo repertoire, but distinction are not adequate for serious study. The piano, for example, is at once a string, percussion, and keyboard instrument. Medieval trumpets and other brasslike instruments were made of wood, whereas such “woodwinds” as the modern flute and saxophone are constructed from metal. Those who study the origins, construction and performance of instruments –including non-western, folk, popular and ancient, as well as those of concert and liturgical music- require a more precise and inclusive method of classification.

Stringed Instruments
The many varieties of stringed instruments are distinguished by the positioning of the strings and resonating box (usually a hollow wooden case), and the manner of playing. String can be bowed, plucked with the fingers, plucked with a plectrum or some other device or hammered, such as Guitar, Mandolin, Harph and many others.


Wind Instruments

The sound of wind instruments result from the vibration of air inside a length of tubing or other enclosed cavity. This vibration can be initiated in several ways, when the player blows through a narrow hole in the instrument, as in flutes, through the movement of reeds as in the other orchestral woodwinds and the pipe organ, by the buzzing movement of the player’s lips as in the brass instruments, or less frequently through direct stimulus from the surrounding air (the so-called “free-aerophones,” mostly ancient and folk instruments).

Percussion Instruments
Usually played by striking or shaking, from the oldest and most universal of instrumental groups. Drum and other membranous-phones were introduced to ancient Greece and Medieval Europe from the orient but generally limited to ceremonial and military function and song accompaniment. The kettle drum (timpani) which originated in the middle east, were introduce into Europe before 1400 and first used orchestral during the 17th century.

Keyboard Instruments
Actually keyboard instruments do not constitute a separate category, since the keyboard itself produces no vibration but, rather, is linked to some external sound source. Keyboard mechanisms have devised for strings (the piano and harpsichord), wind (the pipe organ), idiophone percussion (the celesta) and electrophones (the synthesizer and electronic organ). Despite their differences in action (linkage to the sound source) and resulting differences in playing techniques, these instruments share many common features, so that, it is often useful to consider them together.

Electronic and Computer-Based Instruments
The vibrating source of an electronic instrument is a loudspeaker, driven by an alternating current that is proportional in shape and amplitude to the resulting sound wave. The sound source maybe purely electronic as in the synthesizer and electronic organ, or it may be a live or recorded acoustical sound as in the electric guitar and various of sampling device.

World of Music

This is the world of music, from old generation to young generation. The music words are always grown and developed by the grown of the music itself. There is an integrated between music and dancing, integrated between modern music and traditional music. The words are always changes depend on the situation and condition changes.

Blues tells about painful of live on the discrimination society then create blues, mixing of solo rhythm field holier and work song using with guitar and piano. The blues then grown and seeking for identity, rural blues, boogie–woogie, vaudeville blues and spirituals blues, in the last era was born urban blues.

In the slavery era born special music, the slaves combine the country music and work songs, song in the field and spiritual song and dancing instrumental music. Many music was born in this era, tango from Argentina, rumba from Cuba, samba from Brazil and merengue from Republic of Dominica, ska form Jamaica, mambo from Cuba, bossa nova from Brazil, rock steady form Jamaica, reggae form Jamaica, Salsa form Puerto Rico/Cuba, dancehall from Jamaica and form Europe trance, jungle, break beat, down tempo and then reggaeton from Panama/Puerto Rico.

Moving of the tone of rhythm and new improvisation of ragtime and blues, become a Jazz music, music with the band base can together with people dance. The style remains structure, melody and conventional tone. The jazz music grown vary like swing, bebob, hard bob, free jazz, cool jazz and soul jazz.

Along world war II, rhythm and blues merge from swing and 12 rhythm as dance music the vocal intention. The Billboard magazine said that phrase as the technical term for Black people on 1949.

After the world war then born Rock & Roll music, on the second generation of R & B (rhythm and blues), the black artist compose a gospel part, pop and country music. That music then sell to the young people with name rock and roll music.
The first era of hip-hop was born about on 1970 then follow with the rap existing. Hip-hop was born in South Bronx, hip-hop merge by the effect of Caribbean-Africa. The MC act rap with DJ as the music instrument background. Hip-hop American soundtrack become a new global power for 30 years. Together by this music development then merge new jazz swing, gospel and hip-hop international.

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Introduction of Music

Elements Of Music

The physical qualities of sound include duration; amplitude (a measure of force or strength) and its temporal envelope, or evolution (attack, sustaining, and decay characteristics); and frequency (the fundamental rate of vibration, measured in cycles per second, also called hertz).

A straightforward relationship exists between frequency and Pitch: the higher fundamental frequency, the higher the received Pitch. Loudness depends both on amplitude and on the frequency spectrum, since sound with more higher frequency are perceived as more intense. Timbre is the characteristic tonal quality of a sound, which enable one to distinguish voices of two people, or a clarinet from a flute. Several physical factors influence in the perception of timbre: the envelope; the frequency spectrum; and the formats, one or more regions in an instrument that resonate and amplify any frequency that pass through them.

The most important elements of music are rhythm, melody, counterpoint, harmony, form and tone color. Other element such as dynamics (variation in loudness), texture and density, can also be identified, but these are usually employed to underscore formal or expressive patterns.

Rhythm: a rhythmic pulse marks off division of time. Pulses may be stressed or unstressed. Many early medieval and some Renaissance works are unstressed, with subtly shifting accents determined by the sung text.

Melody: A Melody is a succession of tones in rhythm. Melodies are structured into phrase, each of which ends with a cadence, a relaxation of breathing time. Sometimes a fragmentary but incisive pitch or rhythmic figure of a few notes, called a motive, is repeated several times. Motives, phrases or entire melodies can also be varied (repeated with alterations) or developed (broken into smaller units that are combined in new ways of transposed to as “lines” because of the audible shapes they traces. In large scale works the principal melodies are called themes.

The development of western music, by contrast, has been characterized largely by the combination of tones and melodies in ever new ways, through polyphony (“many sound”) and counterpoint (“point against point”). The separate melodies usually called “voices” even in instrumental work, maintain independent contours and may end at different places, but they are also interrelated to produce a composite formal design.

Harmony: Groups of tones sounded together create Harmony. Harmonic practice, with evolve out of melodic and polyphonic procedures, is among the most distinctive features of Western music. The basic unit of harmony is the chord, two or more tones that fuse into a single musical sound. The harmonic quality of chord is determined by the interval between its tones and by its relation to other chord in a passage.

The basic chord of tonal music is the triad, consisting of tree tones, each two diatonic scale step apart (for example tones 1, 3 and 5 of major or minor scale). Triads and more complex chords with additional tones, can relate to each other in changing ways, resulting in modulation, a temporary shift into some other key.

Form: Form is the architectural structure of music, the process trough which the tiniest details are linked and related through points of tension, climax, and resolution to create the overall design of work. Formal principles can be grouped into two broad categories, outlines and procedures. Outline, or scheme, consists of a general sequences of events. The most important arrival points are full cadences-the point of harmonic repose that mark off sectional divisions. Two-part forms present a statement and a response. The second section may begin with contrasting ideas, or with restatement or the initial material.

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