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Music Considered in 4 Brief Essays

iridescent beauty. Bergs "Wozzeck" Alban Bergs opera "Wozzeck" is considered by many to be his masterpiece. Each scene of Act II...

An Aesthetician's Perspective on Art

did my spirit seal; / I had no human fears: / She seemed a thing that could not feel / The touch of earthly years."1 Romance expr...

Grade Point Averages and Music Education

music as it relates to the basic cognitive and emotional systems that are the foundation of thought, feeling, and behavior" (2000,...

Opening Sequence Analysis of the 1979 Film Apocalypse Now

foundation, upon which the subsequent action and characterizations are constructed. The mise-en-scene, which is featured in the o...

Analyzing Milos Forman's Film Amadeus

film, which is told via flashbacks by Salieri, who is in an asylum after attempting suicide, and concentrates on the final ten yea...

Punk Rock's Political Influence

the seventies. It had to have gained some attention for itself and the issues that were being addressed simply because it was new,...

The Minute Waltz by Frederic Chopin

grief for his homeland in the Revolutionary Etude (Machlis 82). Chopin arrived in Paris in 1831 and the majority of his musical c...

Russian Ballet and Musical Development and the Impact of the Bolshevik Revolution

five" (Alexander Borodin, Cesar Cui, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Modeste Mussorgsky, and Mily Balakirev) (Ursin). Prior to the Russi...

Connection Between Sexuality and Pop Music

many different perceptions of morality. Therefore, without necessarily discussing the morality aspects of sexuality in music, the...

Analysis of the Fourth Act of Aida by Giuseppe Verdi

Radames will be condemned as a traitor! Yet, a traitor he is not!" (p. 259). The piano accompaniment that is given with this score...

1960s and 1970s Music Photography

of a burned-out blues singer named Janis Joplin, clutching her constant companion, a bottle of Southern Comfort, backstage after a...

Beethoven's Eroica

goes that Beethoven was inspired by the principles of the French Revolution and, specifically, the person of Napoleon Bonaparte in...

TV Violence and Women

itself appear erotic to the male viewer (Marks, 2000). A report on prime-time broadcast network TV issued in 2002 by the National...

Interests in Immigration, Sky Diving or Rap Music

This illustrates that even if one is not incredibly interested in rap music, one can appreciate it for many different things. A...

Popular Music, Gender, Sexuality, and Cultural Identity

way of using sexuality and gender in various ways. Madonna When people think of Madonna their first thought is often related t...

The History of Rock Music in Mexico

well known simply for their Mexican remakes of songs favored in America, such as those songs popularized by Elvis and others. Now,...

American Appeal of Blues Music

both in terms of musicality and lyrics. This paper will examine the roots of the blues, what has made it very appealing...

Music During the Elizabethan Period of William Shakespeare

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...

Raising Children in America Today

200,000 violent acts on television alone" (Chatfield, 2002; p. 735). The study indicated that "Between the ages of two and 18, an ...

Analysis of Latin Music

incorporated into the traditional Spanish flamenco, which originated with the gypsies in the Andalucia region of southern Spain.5 ...

Overview of the Entertainment Industry

United Paramount Network (UPN), Showtime Networks, Infinity Broadcasting and Simon & Schuster publishers (Hoovers, 2002). It has h...

Contemporary Classroom Invention of Music and Montessori

childhood education. She would not only enact an educational methodology which would directly aid the societally disadvantaged ch...

Music Philosophy

well-being but our physical well-being also. For instance, Terry (54) tells us that music has been widely recommended as a techni...

East and West Coast Rap Wars and the Deaths of Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G.

for example (Kinnon, 1997). However, the genre changed around 1988 with the emergence of a sub-genre termed gangsta rap (1997). A ...

1960s' Culture

come around, Americans were frantically attempting to launch a man into space, more to keep up with the Soviets (who had already l...

Entertainment Industry and Technology

In six pages this paper examines the online gambling, film, and music entertainment industries in a consideration of technological...

Ambient Music of Brian Eno

recorded "Music for Airports" in 1978 (Brian Eno). While this story is certainly appealing, the student researching this topic sho...

Overview of Music Therapy

and moving to, creating and playing music to decrease pain and stress and improve heart rate, blood pressure, muscle tension, resp...

Black Spiritual's Significance

time on their own to form cultural groups (1988). Piersen contends that New Englands black population was the most assimilated out...

Academic Curriculum and the Importance of Music Education

how to be creative. While some critics of public school want the "back to basic" criteria to extend into elementary school -- el...