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	California Wedding music, Find a Wedding ceremony music in CA
		Make sure that the wedding music that you use is the most ideal for the type and style of wedding that you are having.
		Wedding music for your wedding ceremony usually includes music that is playing as guests arrive to see your wedding.
		Then, music at the appropriate parts of the ceremony and finally the wedding march at the end, as you are leaving man and wife.
	bestweds.localwin.com /Wedding-music/California.html (414 words)

	California
		California was poorly settled until modern public health eliminated the endemic outbreaks of yellow fever, malaria and plague, caused because the area lacks frosts to kill mosquitos and fleas.
		California is governed as a republic, with three branches of government, the executive branch consisting of the Governor of California and the other independently elected constitutional officers, the legislative branch consisting of the Assembly and Senate, and the judicial branch consisting of the Supreme Court of California and lower courts.
		California's vast terrain is connected by an extensive system of freeways, expressways, and highways, all maintained by Caltrans and patrolled by the California Highway Patrol, except for the numbered expressways in Santa Clara County which were built and maintained by the county itself.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/c/ca/california.html (5976 words)

	Music of California
		As California's European, Asian and African population increased in the 19th century, the state became the earliest west coast territory admitted to the United States.
		Chinese immigrants came to California to work on the transcontinental railroad and soon became a large minority in the state; the San Francisco Chinese Opera House[?] was built in 1880, though two years later saw the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act in order to prevent more immigration.
		In the 1950s and early 1960s, country music was dominated by the slick Nashville sound that stripped the genre of its gritty roots.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ca/Californian_music.html (755 words)

	California's Missions: Musical History of the Missions
		The sacred music of California that remains in manuscript form is the most extensive and diverse body of plainsong and polyphonic music to survive from any of Spain's colonies in the contiguous forty-eight states.
		Polyphonic music was also widely cultivated in other religious services, especially Vespers and tierce for the patronal feast and for the dedication of a church, where the psalms and Magnificat are to be found in polyphony.
		This music, which often presents translations of well-know prayers such as the Pater noster and Salve regina, was used during processions, the recitation of the doctrina, the Rosary and during Benediction.
	www.californiamissions.com /music/history.html (1855 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: Music (Hotel California) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Music by the Eagles was not allowed due to the "fact" that the song Hotel California was about a Satanic Cult organized in California in the year 1969.
		Its title track, the haunting "Hotel California" continues to entrance listeners even though during its heydey the song was on the charts for only nineteen weeks and in the number one spot for only one.
		The real Hotel California is not a place; it is a metaphor for the west coast music industry and its effect on the talented but unworldy musicians who find themselves ensnared in its glittering web.
	www.snopes.com /music/songs/hotel.htm (1544 words)

	California Mission Music
		In addition, music instrument collections were amassed which involved organs, (barrel, reed and pipe), as well as string (violins, violoncellos, contrabass), woodwind (piccolos, flutes, oboes, clarinets), brass (trumpets and horns) and percussion instruments.
		This music, which often presents translations of well known prayers such at the Pater noster and Salve regina, was used during processions, the recitation of the doctrina, the Rosary and during Benediction.
		A great deal of folk music was sung in California by Spaniards and Mexicans, usually to the accompaniment of the guitar, though small pianos and at least one reed organ were also known to have been used in chapels and private homes.
	www.ca-missions.org /summers.html (2631 words)

	Music of California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the United States, California is commonly associated with the film, music, and arts industries; there are numerous world-famous Californian musicians.
		California also has an official fife and drum band, the California Consolidated Drum Band, which was so designated in 1997.
		This music was distinctively Californian, different from both Mexican and Spanish music of the time (though many elements are found throughout these traditions).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Music_of_California (3156 words)

	Piano Teachers, Guitar Lessons, Singing, Music Teachers
		Piano lessons at California Music Academy are individual for each student, and the private lesson teachers customize a curriculum to fit every students needs and goals.
		Every guitar instructor at California Music Academy creates a planned curriculum based on each student's individual goals and interests. Therefore, students receive the right musical training depending on their own interests and goals. Students can choose to learn on the acoustic, electric, or classical guitar.
		California Music Academy offers a wide spectrum of vocal lessons suitable for singers of all ages and experience levels.
	www.californiamusicacademy.com (773 words)

	Music CD - California Dept. of Justice - Office of the Attorney General
		To address unfair competition in the sale of Music CDs, Attorney General Bill Lockyer, other state attorneys general and private counsel sued five major music distributors and three national chain stores alleging a price-fixing scheme that prevented other retailers from advertising discount prices.
		California is receiving about 665,000 music CDs valued at $8.9 million.
		To make the music CDs available to the widest range of California consumers, these CDs are being given to public libraries, K-12 school districts, colleges and universities throughout California, that signed up to participate in this distribution last year.
	ag.ca.gov /musiccd/index.htm (318 words)

	California Music Awards
		The California Music Awards is brought to you by Miller Genuine Draft.
		The 27th California Music Awards will present special awards to Green Day (Most Downloaded Song for "I fought the Law"), Night Ranger (California Gold) and radio stations LIVE 105 in San Francisco and KROQ in Los Angeles for Music Industry Excellence recognizing their ongoing support of emerging artists.
		Music in schools, mentoring programs, arts groups as well as other non-profits will be featured at CAMA at no cost to the organizations.
	www.californiamusicawards.com /?nav=press (908 words)

	Charity Music of California
		CONTACT US Charity Music Inc is a 501(c)(3) all volunteer, nonprofit organization that provides Musical Instruments on loan, to individuals wishing to explore their hidden musical talents.
		While music education has been linked to higher SAT scores, math grades and future success in life, the survey also found that many students hailing from a ‘Best 100’ community have continued their musical pursuits professionally as educators, or playing for renowned symphonies, opera houses, orchestras and on Broadway.
		The ‘Best 100’ survey was sponsored by the NAMM Foundation, its American Music Conference (AMC) division and a partnership of leading national associations, including Music for All, that are working to promote the benefits of active participation in music and music education.
	www.charitymusic.org /california.html (441 words)

	Thunderation Music \| Artists \| California
		Just a fiddler (OK, a three-time national champion), a flat-picker (well, not just any flat-picker, one of the originators of the style), and a quiet five-string banjo man (who is recognized as one of the finest in the world).
		But they pushed the envelope of traditional bluegrass without abandoning what was essential in the music.
		But when they added a fifth, acclaimed mandolinist John Moore, California was born and the real fireworks began.
	www.thunderation.com /Artists/California/default.htm (274 words)

	UCSB Libraries - Internet Resources in Music
		Formerly known as the Sonneck Society in honor of Oscar Sonneck (1873-1928), pioneering scholar and bibliographer of American music and head of the Music Division of the Library of Congress from 1902 to 1917.
		Explores the full breadth of Puerto Rican music, with descriptions of native music genres including danza, folk music, plena, bomba, and salsa, as well as related genres such as the Cuban son, merengue, bolero, and jazz.
		There are descriptions and photos of native musical instruments and an extensive collection of artist biographies (mostly Puerto Ricans) from all genres, each with a discography, photo, and sample audio clips of their music.
	www.library.ucsb.edu /subj/music.html (5616 words)

	Spanish Language Social Music of 19th Century Southern California (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Travelers to the area were consistently impressed by the secular music and the social dances, commenting often on the propensity of the californios to dance and sing – and particularly at times when the largely Protestant observers thought they ought not to.
		In the same A la California Club fiestas where Luisa Villa was performing, representing a previous generation, young Gabriel Ruiz and his dance troupe, Ruiz California Dancers (formed in 1925), were performing californio dances and music, learning them from the previous generation and ensuring their survival.
		Another source for preservationof this music is in the traditions of southern California’s Native American population, particularly descendants of missionized population.
	www.beardshampoo.com /Loscalifornios/History.html (1731 words)

	Alumni Notes - California Summer Music
		Master of Music from the University of Denver Lamont School of Music.
		Graduated from Mills College and the University of California, San Diego, and is now Columbia University graduate student. He lectured at CSU Fullerton on John Cage and the American Pastoral and at CUNY “Demolished Serious Culture”. Participated in the Soundlab Series in 2002, and “Lecture on Identity”.
		The concert was hosted by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and was broadcast on PBS "From the Top".
	www.csmusic.org /html/alumni.html (1960 words)

	AMC: California School Music in Crisis – A Time for Action (Site not responding. Last check: )
		According to California Department of Education data compiled by the Music for All Foundation, the percentage of kids in that state who have access to music courses has declined by half over the last five years—a slide that is dramatically worse than in any other academic discipline.
		Yet in its draft report to the governor, the California Performance Review is proposing to make the situation even worse—by proposing a second graduation pathway that would remove the arts requirement for high school graduation in California.
		The American Music Conference and several of its partner organizations attended the California Performance Review’s public hearing on September 9 in Los Angeles to support school-based music programs.
	www.amc-music.com /musiceducation/ca-crisis.htm (270 words)

	PopMatters Music Interview \| California Man
		Together with his wife, bassist Jill Pries, and multi-instrumentalist Oed Ronne, Allan Clapp stands tall(ish) against the tide of musical darkness, raging against the dying of the light with a nice line in clever pop hookery, wielding warm summery harmonies with the most delicate of touches.
		Some of the best music from California has this sound; it's something so tangible that when you listen, you can almost feel the desert or the ocean, the fog or the sand.
		When Clapp dropped off his band at the curbside check-in for the flight back to California, he felt frozen by the way their relationships had imploded and came close to bailing on the flight.
	www.popmatters.com /music/interviews/orange-peels-050616.shtml (1728 words)

	California Soul
		Books in the series will examine the wide-ranging music of the African diaspora--including the folk-derived musical styles of the Americas as well as European-influenced concert hall music of the entire fl Atlantic world--by analyzing issues critical to our interpretation of the music itself and exploring the relationships between music and the other fl expressive arts.
		The contributors describe in detail the individual artists, locales, groups, musical styles, and regional qualities, and the result is an important book that lays the groundwork for a whole new field of study.
		The essays draw from oral histories, music recordings, newspaper articles and advertisements, as well as population statistics to provide insightful discussions of topics like the California urban milieu's influence on gospel music, the development of the West Coast blues style, and the significance of Los Angeles's Central Avenue in the early days of jazz.
	www.ucpress.edu /books/pages/6877.html (495 words)

	California Ramblers - Music Downloads - Online
		Secondly, the group was not from California (by all reports they never even played in that state), but formed in Ohio by banjoist Ray Kitchenman in 1921.
		The California Ramblers were one of the very first big bands on record to aim for dance music with strong jazz overtones.
		Although their time in the limelight was brief, with several of their members going on to bigger and better things by decade's end, the California Ramblers stand as the quintessential white dance band of the 1920s.
	musicstore.connect.com /artist/100/716/9/1007169.html (294 words)

	Mission Music
		Music samples on this page are given in two formats.
		Although this intensive education left little time for sophisticated musical training, the priests did have the opportunity to hear great music in the cathedral of Mexico City.
		These indigenous peoples lived in the remote mountain and desert areas of Southern California Originating around four hundred years ago, this song and its companion below are extracts from the "Birdsong" cycle, songs of celebration and commemoration which reminded the people of their migration on this land.
	www.californiamissions.com /music/index.html (384 words)

	California Ramblers - AOL Music
		Here's a photograph of the California Ramblers, A mis-named band, --most of the personnel were from Ohio.
		The name California Ramblers is deceiving as most of the original members of the band...
		The biggest names in music, including Mary J. Blige, Katharine McPhee, John Legend and more perform for the kids to benefit the JCPenney Afterschool Fund.
	music.aol.com /artist/california-ramblers/10263/main (144 words)

	The Music of California Sheet Music. Duggan
		Manuel Y. Ferrer was born at San Antonio, Baja California, in May of 1832 and died at San Francisco, June 1, 1904.
		She wrote the lyrics of "20 Bold Mariners," a poem for the sailors lost at sea, which was set to music by August Mignon and published in San Francisco in 1882.
		Reportedly she was cast in a Williams & Walker musical before retiring to San Francisco in 1902.
	www.ischool.berkeley.edu /~mkduggan/music.html (702 words)

	MUSIC FOR CHILDREN - CALIFORNIA (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Rather, we design our curriculum to bring everything that is music to children through their world of fantasy play, and through their experience with the world of nature.
		We believe that music is essential for human development and we strongly encourage parents to make music a non-negotiable part of their child’s education from the earliest years through high school.
		Children deserve the very best in music and our teachers are highly skilled musicians as well as nurturing teachers with a very strong grounding in child development.
	www.musicforchildrenca.com /about.html (438 words)

	Fresno State Department of Music
		The Department of Music is an accredited institutional member of the National Association of Schools of Music.
		It has long been known for its excellence in music education, performance, and composition.
		Bachelor and Master of Arts degrees in Music Education, Performance, and Composition.
	www.csufresno.edu /music (71 words)

	California Lawmaker Wants Music Contract Law Repealed
		A California state senator on Monday launched a legislative assault against the music industry on behalf of recording stars such as Courtney Love and Don Henley who have been crusading to free artists from record company control.
		California State Sen. Kevin Murray (D-Culver City) introduced the bill this month to repeal an amendment won by the music industry in 1987 that keeps recording artists tied to personal contracts longer than talent in other industries such as film and television.
		Rather than scoff at it, I would suggest that artists use it as a model," Murray told the gathering of musicians, media executives and lawmakers in Washington, noting that it was the industry's clout that got the amendment passed in the first place.
	emusician.com /news/emusic_california_lawmaker_wants_2/index.html (563 words)

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