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As for a floor routine, music can make it more pleasurable, by facilitating graceful movements and by refreshing repetitious exercises. Gymnastics competitions, on the other hand, absolutely require floor music, the whole choreography of floor exercises depending on music, for coordination and alternation of movements, for evidencing the particular abilities of the gymnast, their style and originality.

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If you are interested in music, you probably already know about the great appeal and characteristics of the guitar. This instrument is extremely popular among people of all ages, and many of them are learning to play it as a hobby. However, the results aren’t always satisfactory, as music requires lots of time and a dash of talent as well. If you are interested in how you, too, can become a better guitar player, read on.

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The keyword which opens the Carnegie Hall is practice. This one word - practice - is jocularly reported to have been a musician’s answer to the inquiries of a tourist looking for a way inside, wanting to visit the Carnegie Hall. The rather old joke has an obviously serious side in Carnegie hall being a global icon of persistence in good will and the way in which prejudice is overcome by art.

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Between a person and the guitar she plays there is always a very special connection. It is the companion you need in rainy days when you feel all alone, it allows you to set your feelings free and it is the best friend able to entertain you and your colleagues when you want it to. Because it becomes important to your life it requires something back from you. What you can do to enjoy for a longer time the company of your guitar is to take good care of it. Like any other instrument it can’t play properly without being taken care of.

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Popular music has seen a raft of changes over the last five decades. As well as the most popular genres of music changing, the devices we use to listen to music and the ways we buy music have also changed dramatically. Yet despite all the new developments and changes to the way we interact with music, artists from the past are still widely known today and their music is often used as inspiration to create the sounds we hear today.

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The 20th century brought about a dramatic shift in classical music and, as such, in its appeal to the public. Whereas Shostakovitch or Prokofiev added dissonance to harmony and melody just for its intriguing or humorous potential, and Debussy or Ravel added some dreamy distortion to it, just for originally expressing their classical nostalgia, twelve-tone musicians like Schoenberg or Alban Berg actually killed tonality and, therefore, both melody and harmony. John Cage’s identification of noise with music seemed to had become the rule, even with the following century musicians, like Oliver Knussen or Michael Daugherty.

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Grease was a hugely popular film that was released in the seventies. It remains a popular film now. In the 1970s, men across the world wanted to look like John Travolta, who played the main male character Danny, and women idolised Olivia Newton-John, who was Grease’s leading lady and Sandy. People of all ages love Grease, which is why it has been appreciated for decades.

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For many females, the 1970s was an era of maxi dresses, flares, mini dresses, hot pants, platform shoes, as well as opaque tights and knee high boots. Sporting bell bottomed trousers, funky hair styles and body suits, men were equally fashionable.

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Celebrities from the 1980s were admired for their talent in the film, television and music industries. They were also admired for their sense of fashion.

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Fashion Week is the internationally-recognised fashion event that takes place twice a year and gets everyone in the fashion world excited. Fashion Week takes place in the world’s four major cities; London, New York, Milan and Paris. Fashion Week in all four cities involves top fashion designers coming together to display their signature pieces to the fashion world. The event attracts celebrities, fashion writers and fashion critics from all around the world.

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