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A Message To Our Readers

This is a message board created so that our team can effectively tell those who read our project our expectations of this project as well as the message we want to communicate to you.

• I want to show my love for art and music and make those who read our website love the arts too.
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Table of Contents

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  Page 1
  This is where our project overview can be found, as well as an introduction of the message that we want to communicate to the readers of this page.
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  The Many Roles Of Music
  This is an overview of the many roles that music plays in our life, from gaining money from charity to giving us an outlet for expression.
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  The Many Roles Of Art
  This is an overview of the many roles that art plays in our lives, from influencing religion to being a part of history.
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  Art and Music's Role In Our Lives: Continued
  Here, you will find more ways in which art and music have influenced our lives, and learn more about how they play a large role in our lives today.
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  Survey of Art and Music In The Modern World
  This is a page describing the results of a survey we have done on a diverse group of 40 people.
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  A Short History of Music
  This is an overview on the history of music.
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  A Short History Of Art
  This is an overview on the history of art and how it has influenced us.
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  Different Genres of Music Today
  These two pages include some videos that our team took in order to illustrate different genres of music to our audience.
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  Different Genres of Music - Part 2
  In these pages, you will find a variety of music genres represented from rock to opera.
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  Art Movements and Styles - A Gallery
  These two pages expkore different kinds of art and will showcase the work of our two, most artistically talented teammates, Ophelia and Nicole.
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  Art Movements and Styles - Part 2
  Also, you will be able to see the work of some other notable artists and the genres they belong to.
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  Some Notable Artists
  Here, you can find the biographies of some of the most influential artists and the role they played in our lives.
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  Some Notable Musicians
  Here, you can find the biographies of some of the most influential musicians and the role they played in our lives.
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  Why We Need Music and Art
  Here, you will find outlined our reasons for supporting a larger role for art and music today.
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  Obstacles To Music and Art Today
  This page is dedicated to making people aware of the arguments against letting art and music play a bigger role.
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  Conclusion
  This is a summary of our project as well as a last overview of our thoughts and feelings about this project.
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  Summary of Citations
  This is a summary of the citations in our project as well as the sources they come from.
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  Bibliography
  This is a summary of our sources of information for this project, as well as some suggestions for further reading on the topic of art and music's role in life.

Project Overview and Introduction

Art is defined in the skill acquired by experience, study, or observation and the the conscious use of skill and creative imagination especially in the production of aesthetic objects.

But to us, art is something much simpler. It is a from of creativity that moves people, that makes people feel and changes their emotions. Art is subjective, one piece with the ability to make people both look away in disgust and make them cry in happiness.

Music works exactly to the same principle. Perhaps you might listen to the raging guitars and incessant screaming of heavy metal music, and say "This is not music. This is noise.". But perhaps a 'rocker' would sit in a classical music concert, hear Mozart and think of it as nothing but boring noise too!
Whatever sound makes you happy, is music.

So that is the point of our project. To promote art and music as a culture of beauty and subjectivity, as something so infinitely broad and complicated, with so many different branches, yet still amazingly simple.

Art and music are the things that intertwine us. And that is their main role, in a nutshell, to unite us all in one love of art and beauty, to strengthen us in the face of adversity and to help us find some peace in our increasingly hectic lives.

My Opinions On The State Of Arts Today

To see how aware people are on the current situation of art and music in the world, and to gather suggestions on what people can do to improve that situation.
We want to hear the feelings of others on how the world could improve its appreciation of art and music.

• Art must become one's legacy and wemust pass it on for generations and generations.
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• Art these days is not really done for one's pleasure, it is just done for college applications or to show off. We should appreciate art just for the sake of it.
  May. 04, 2009

   
  
  

• I think most art today is not actually art. Art, to me, means something that is beautiful, that has MEANING. I for one do not see how square blocks and splotches of color make a "masterpiece". It's disgraceful to real masters like Leonardo or Michelangelo. The same goes for music! WHO can actually LIKE long haired teens "rocking it out" on a guitar while screaming?
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• Music and art is, in my opinion, much better than it was 200 years ago. There are many varieties, and everything is accepted as having it's own type of beauty. However, 200 years ago, only one or two forms-such as classical music or Renaissance Art- was seen as normal. Everything else was frowned upon.
  However, today's music industry has many people who may not be very talented. I think we should change that. Also, some bands are bad influences on younger children. This should also be changed as music is something that should be kept pure for everyone to enjoy
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• I disagree with Renee. I think older people, on the other hand, is appreciated more by the older generation. I myself life classical music, and I think the banging of heavy metal is not music at all. There is no meaning! No emotion except anger. Plus, you cant even hear the lyrics. And what you do hear--well, it's mostly swearing
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Citations and Information

For the sake of conserving space and increasing the amount of content on each page, the citations for the information and media that we have uploaded here are all listed on the "Citations" page near the end of the project.

The full citations are not on the relevant pages on which the images and such can be seen but can be found on the "Citations" page.

However, for our Powerpoint presentations and Microsoft Word documents, we have included a separate citations page and/or short bibliography that can be seen once the file is downloaded.

All the media and information that we have used are from the public domain and/or used under free licensing from the original owners.

Some content in this project has also been originally created by our team mates, and they have also been acknowledged in the 'Citations' area.

Every effort has been made to trace the original creators of all the media in this project, and our group proudly stands behind our work as free of copyright infringement.