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Analysis of This Old Man Folk Song

cohesion-one must sense a beginning, a middle and an end. In "This Old Man," the melody follows a simple line that makes it easy...

Influential Black Singers

having some sense of its beauty and understanding rub off on her. I did not argue with her or ask to see her superior. It was as i...

Seventeenth Century Puritan Colonization and Nineteenth Century Reconstruction Explored

sue and be sued, as well as testify in court only in cases involving other black people (Anonymous, 1865). These provisions were ...

Edgard Varese's Music

(Edgard Varese: Father of Electronic Music, 2002). In many ways, what gives Vareses music is particular structure is his early ...

Porto Cath as the Twentieth Century's Greatest Invention

members who experienced cancer. One, the elder, did not have the option to receive a port cath due to their non-existence. The mot...

Twentieth Century as 'the American Century'

like anything was possible and the sky was the limit when brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright piloted their homemade plane a short ...

Influential Jazz Musician Miles Davis

Miles Davis, and many of the works which came from those periods are still considered classics today (Biography of Miles Davis, 20...

Friendship in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

between Hobbits Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin is the primary focus of the trilogy, but there is also an interesting dynamic of thei...

Microphones and Their History

a magnetic cap, so in theory this is essentially a speaker in reverse (Microphone History, 2003). Other than the dynamic...

'Jupiter' Symphony 41 of Wolfgang Mozart

nature of the music, and the fact that it does not sound as if the listener is about to embark on a dramatic journey (BBC Radio)....

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...

Life and Musical Artistry of Johann Sebastian Bach

Bach considered music to be "a harmonious euphony to the Glory of God" (Machlis, 1970,p. 288). His primary instrument was the org...

Beethoven's Ninth Symphony Concert Report

The opening timpani set the stage for this new mood, while simultaneously recalling the main theme of the first movement. This is ...

Musical Instruments and Acoustics

the location of excitation of the string (String Properties). For example, if the violin is bowed close to the bridge (sul pontice...

Topics on Music

In four term papers of three pages each musical topics such as music and brain function; anthropology and music; memory, learning ...

Comparative Analysis of Works by Franz Liszt and Franz Schubert

extending it, varying it. Schubert accomplishes extending the rhythmic motif by added extra beats at both the beginning and the en...

Fan Culture Ideology and Music

dominant and subordinate ideologies, cultural ideology as a whole is something which exists in a multiplicity and its disparate el...

Life and Music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

the employ of the Archbishop of Salzburg to take up a career as a free-lance artist in Vienna, a shadow fell over his career that ...

Greek God Apollo's Influence on Ancient Greece

This 5 page paper gives an overview of the Greek god Apollo. This paper includes what areas of life Apollo ruled over and how he w...

Distinguishing Between Musical Genres - Messiah, Dies Irae, and Sicut Cervus

melodic line (that is to say, the voice is the main melodic instrument). This presents a strong monophonic texture, in that the vo...

Power and Gender, Musical Instruments,

This research paper presents an overview of the issues of power that are associated with gender and specific musical instruments. ...

THE CONFLICT OVER MUSICAL INSTRUMENT CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMS

Discusses various musical instrument classification models. There are 3 sources listed in the bibliography of this 6-page paper. ...

Classification of Musical Instruments, Comparing Two Systems

This research paper relies on the work of Margaret Kartomi to analyze the classification systems for musical instruments developed...

Beat Goes on for Cuba's Rhythmic Culture of Music

blending of West African rhythms with melodies from southern Spain (Roberts 4). This created the clave, which is typically a 3-2 ...

Sublime and Subjective Romanticism in William Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey”:

natural sublime."2 As is common in the thematic development of the sublime in Romanticism, the sensation is one of rapture and on...

Scott Joplin/Maple Leaf Rag

moved to St. Louis in 1901, which is when he produced a string of hits, such as The Entertainer, which was featured in the 1973 fi...

Prelude in C Minor/Chopin

the dominant, using G augmented (V), modulates to G7 on the sixteenth note transition, which returns the melody to Cm (I). Throu...

The Sociological Importance of Timba

the significant cultural role played by the timba musical genre in Cuban society, it is firstly important to understand the politi...

The Development of Russian art from the Mid Nineteenth Century to the Mid Twentieth Century

Impressionism 227 Socialist Realism 260 References 267 Table of Figures Figure 1 Tair Salakhov The Shift Is Over 183 Figure 2 ...

Political Practices, Women's Suffrage and Changes in California

5 pages and 8 sources used. This paper provides an overview of the political environment of California in the early 20th century ...