New+vocabulary


 * All definitions are found off of www.d ictionary.com **or were discussed during class

 __//Music Terms//__ 
 * 1) **Venue: ** the scene of any event or action (especially the place of a meeting**)**
 * 2) **Concert:** A concert is a live performance, usually of music, before an audience. The music may be performed by a single musician, sometimes then called a recital, or by a musical ensemble, such as an orchestra, a choir, or a musical band
 * 3) **Concert Promoter:** With duties including ticketing, PR, marketing, and booking, this agency or agent is responsible for concert event promotion
 * 4) **Tour Manager:** A tour manager is the person who organises a schedule of appearances of a musical group at a sequence of venues
 * 5) **Talent Agents:** An agent who represents performers
 * 6)  **Band Rider:** a band rider details everything you will need in the event of a show - this could be specific band gear, instrument accessories, sound equipment, food requests
 * 7)   **Stage Crew:**   place and cable up all the microphones and do any repatching the may be required.
 * 8)   **Backline:** Backline is amps heads, drums, basically any kind of instrument to play.
 * 9)   **Backline Technician:** somebody that travels with the band. They set everything up. Responsible to make sure everything is tuned in and working great. Also they are the ones who take care of everything at the end of the show, like band gear. A subclass of   Stage crew
 * 10)   **Sound Engineer:**   The man standing behind the Front House Sound. This is what the audience hears. Every instrument on stage has a microphone pointing at it or is plugged into a DI box (Direct Injection Box), i.e. Kick drum, snare drum, hi hat.....bass,guitar.....keyboard,violin,...vocals.... Each one of these corresponds to a channel on the mixing desk, and it is his to balance the sound ( make sure everything is audible and pleasing to the ears) via use of gain, EQ, compression, effects (FX) etc. They also work on the Monitor Sound, which will either be done at the FOH desk or on a separate desk at the side of stage. This is what the band hears.

__8 Standards of Critical Thought__ (see Critical thinking packet #1) Precision Accuracy Relevance Consistency Logical Correctness Completeness Fairness**
 * Clarity

__Recognizing Arguments__ (see Recognizing Arguments) Conclusion**
 * Premises

__Disqualifiers of Arguments__ (see Recognizing Arguments)
 * Reports:**convey information about a subject
 * Unsupported Assertions**: statements about what a speaker or writer happens to believe
 * Conditional Statements**: if then's
 * Illustrations**: intended to provide //examples// of a claim, rather than prove or support the claim
 * Explanations**: tries to show //why// something is the case, not to prove //that// it is the case

__Tests for Explanations__ (see Recognizing Arguments)
 * Common Knowledge Test**: is the passage seeking to prove or explain a matter of common knowledge?
 * Past-Event Test**: is the passage seeking to prove or explain and event that occurred in the past?
 * Author's Intent Test**: is the speaker's or writer's intent to prove or establish //that// something is the case?
 * Principle of Charity Test**: interpreting unclear passages generaously, and in particular, that we never interpret a passage as a bad argument when the evidence resonably permits us to interpret it as not an argument at all