Essays 691 - 720
chords (Osborne 327). This opera is quite famous for containing a great deal of Masonic symbolism, although Osborne stresses that ...
post-World War II African-American music was growing up and into the mainstream, the white mainstream, of American consciousness. ...
to try heroin in the first place. To him it must equate with a death wish. The irrationality of Sonnys habit is quite evident at t...
Council Chairman Dr. Ian Bogle claimed that there is a cult of "bodily perfection" that is perpetuated by media (2000). Recommenda...
his genre, but his music made pop charts in the United States. He was able to break through barriers that other musicians could no...
far more closely aligned to the established traditions of the avant garde in Europe. It is not too far of a reach to even refer to...
In six pages the argument is presented that using celebrities in product advertising does not provide the advantages it previously...
In fifteen pages this research paper discusses the life of this French composer and analyzes his music in terms of his uses of bir...
like the painters and poets of this era, they subordinated emotional expression to an accepted standard of "rules" of form.2. Th...
music, and then with Stockhausen (Whiteall, 1977). In 1956, many of the younger composers were moving away from serialism in favo...
In eight pages relieving employee stress is discovered and suggested methods include holiday parties, fitness center access, music...
Debussy advocated the "emancipation of dissonance" (Machlis, 1961). A more immediate precursor of electronic music was Edgar Vares...
put into words the experience for people to identify with. In many ways a critic is there to let the consumer know, who will pay ...
In six pages United Kingdom's music industry is examined in this historical overview of the British Phonographic Industry. Six so...
India is broken into a multitude of cultural groups and social institutions. Essentially, however, there are two basic divisions:...
the "breakbeats" (Beau PG) and other natural vocal rhythms. It was not until within the past several years that they took on a ne...
200,000 violent acts on television alone" (Chatfield, 2002; p. 735). The study indicated that "Between the ages of two and 18, an ...
to downplay the drawbacks and imperfections of the recording medium. Naturally, this fact influenced what music was selected for r...
independent from Arab roots, thus making Spain a Muslim country, but without the interference of Muslim rule from afar (Spain, 199...
but amusing chatter among themselves, laughing at times and it is this apparent joy that draws in the crowd causing them to share ...
self realization, self expression and self reliance were all an aspect of the awareness of the self within the natural world. The ...
ways to evoke feeling and mood. This was an important aspect of the plays he wrote and the inclusion of music was standard for hi...
melodies.5 The Classical era artists deviated from this example, and their music was considerably simpler in texture. New genres w...
incorporated into the traditional Spanish flamenco, which originated with the gypsies in the Andalucia region of southern Spain.5 ...
United Paramount Network (UPN), Showtime Networks, Infinity Broadcasting and Simon & Schuster publishers (Hoovers, 2002). It has h...
common between music of the world. The student can, for example, quote musicologist Bruno Nettl and his works, that basically stat...
with the other, there still exists a definite sense of individuality that serves to distinguish each one from another. The very n...
or in any number of ways that reflect the current concerns of black male youth. Female rappers, on the other hand, tell stories fr...
of music is the inference of influence from similarity. For example. Nettle (1986) uses the example of a Jamaican song that has rh...
the emission of harmonics(Courtney, 2001). Musicians play the tabla (or a smaller one at least) by placing it in their la...