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Piano's Development

loud" (History of the Piano...Grover). In its shape and general construction, it resembled a harpsichord, however, there were ma...

Composer Frederic Chopin's Life and Music

falls in love with the young Robert LeBrun and befriends the old pianist Mademoiselle Reisz, whose music arouses in Edna "the very...

Life and Song Cycle of Composer Franz Schubert

them - and his brother replied in the affirmative. This seemed satisfying enough an answer to Schubert who passed away later that...

American Composers George Gershwin and Aaron Copland

is played slightly faster, and the ending return to the original tempo. It begins in F major, with a simple harmony that is build ...

Le Nozze di Figaro by Wolfgang Mozart

with Barbarina who is the gardeners daughter. "The Count pursues Susanna but conceals himself when the gossiping music master Don ...

English Composer Sir Edward Elgar

In five pages Enigma Variations are examined in this report that describes the characteristics of the compositions of Sir Edward E...

Musical Differences Between Classical and Romantic Eras

melodies.5 The Classical era artists deviated from this example, and their music was considerably simpler in texture. New genres w...

Chopin, Beethoven, and Debussy

alternation provides a canvas to the "rich ricercar" variation technique, which Debussy employs (Schmitz 102). The second "image...

Musical Analysis of Bjork

ahead of the pop mainstream, as she shapes music that "stabs us in the jugular" (Rule, 1999, p. 69). The 37-year-old released her...

Religious Influences in the Music of Charles Ives

reworked" into passages that frequently sound "hymnic" (Tawa 67-68). As pointed out by Robert Bellah, Christianity, and the Jude...

Life and Works of John Cage

also began to develop an interest in electronic devices such as variable speed turntables. He "invented the prepared piano, placin...

Romantic and Classical Music Compared and Assessed

The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars had a great effect throughout Europe and the patronage system of the Baroque was soo...

Billy Budd and Tommy Contemporary Operas

When he recover his senses, yet it still marked by his Uncle Ernie as a phenomena, the public revolts, but it is nevertheless true...

The Life and Works of Puccini

music and his family had a lot of musical talent. He was not the first to exhibit this unique gift and his desire for a musical li...

Vivaldi's The Four Seasons

at heart. Some speculate that because his family had been poor, becoming a priest was his only way to get an education ("Antonio V...

Trumpet Music and 20th Century Composer Karl King

fits with the spiritual title, it also has a slightly Spanish flavor that conjures visions of a sleepy town at sunset and an evoca...

Leonard Bernstein

West Side Story, which is also a well-known film. Bernstein believed whole heartedly in the "universal language of music and in mu...

Herbie Hancock

years playing with the Miles Davis quintet and Davis was a tremendous influence for him (Murph 54). Herbie once observed that Dav...

Structure in Music

the element of chance, such as the chance imperfections that are seen in a finely produced piece of paper, such as one having a wa...

The Recorded Music Industry In The UK

There is an increased use of MP3 players, and new mobile phone models are entering the market which are capable of downloading mus...

Baroque Music, An Overview

This essay presents an overview of the Baroque musical era. The writer talks about the features of the music, defines certain musi...

Josquin des Prez's Motets

often described as the "greatest composer of the Renaissance," with some scholars ranking him alongside Back, Mozart and Beethoven...

Twentieth Century Music, Various Aspects

This research paper/essay consists of two parts. The first half of the paper pertains to three works in which the composer turned ...

Wagner's Rienzi

both the music and the libretto for his stage works. This may have emerged from his of literature (Everett, 2004). He loved Greek ...

Richard Goode's Bach Concert Performance

Bach Partita No. 2 in C minor (BWV 826). Bachs Partitas are large, expansive musical compositions, which are comparable in length ...

Babies and Bach

sites, such as GeniusBabies.com, assert that their embryonic learning system, which includes music, can turn the neonate into a ge...

Illusions by Richard Bach

In five pages this paper examines the thematic elements of this novel. There are no other sources listed....