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book has had a significant influence on his characters and destiny (Johnson 9). During World War I, he lived with his mother and...
In fifteen pages this research paper discusses the life of this French composer and analyzes his music in terms of his uses of bir...
time," then shortened to "ragtime" (Porter, 1973, p. 2). The innovations that Joplin brought to ragtime were remarkable and uniqu...
"rubber, felt, or wood, as well as screws, nuts and bolts" (Machlis 632). The result of this preparation is that the piano produ...
In five pages this paper discusses the connection between Oliver Wendell Holmes' life and works....
his era, as his compendium of work transverses boundaries, "fusing the three great national traditions of his time," which are "G...
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...
friends with the three other musicians in Stalag VIIIA: cellist, Etienne Pasquier; clarinettist, Henry Akoka and a violinist, Jean...
In five pages this essay analyzed how Varese's sound liberation had a profound effect upon music of the twentieth century with thi...
and be a part of it, she feels her connection with "everything" (line 11), which means she perceives the world in terms of connec...
for the era in which Bach had produced these variations (Smith, 1996). The Advent melody is represented in four canonic statement...
falls in love with the young Robert LeBrun and befriends the old pianist Mademoiselle Reisz, whose music arouses in Edna "the very...
1937). Gounod was equally gifted in art and for a time seemed torn between the two but a musical epiphany he had at age 13 would ...
In six pages this paper examines Hildegard of Bingen and her music in a consideration of its sacred music genre placement, style o...
years playing with the Miles Davis quintet and Davis was a tremendous influence for him (Murph 54). Herbie once observed that Dav...
In six pages George Gershwin's own vantage point is applied to the American composer's life and musical theater contributions. Th...
its pointless...misfortune rules the world" (Rosselli, 2000, p. 30). In later life, Verdi admitted that in a "sudden moment of des...
noted novelist George Sand (women novelists in the nineteenth century often wrote under male pseudonyms). One of his most signific...
seems to be unable to really remain and listen to the lonely song, stating, "in truth I couldnt wait to see if another would come ...
the detrimental emotional and psychological effects that this type of music has on young people. However, besides examining the su...
not explicitly intended to depict any concrete object or situation, but rather seeks to create a "mood or atmosphere," which elici...
anthem music spread more rapidly in the South (Tanner, 2006). It was the minstrel shows that were most responsible for this musics...
the realm of art music during the course of his career, George Gershwin. While Stravinskys work shows the influence of jazz, it wa...
a "serious" composer by the critics, they were extremely mindful that Gershwin did not orchestrate the first performance of Rhapso...
the strings.6 The tangents were inserted into the key levers at the lower end, and the top end was flattened for contact with the...
reworked" into passages that frequently sound "hymnic" (Tawa 67-68). As pointed out by Robert Bellah, Christianity, and the Jude...
grief for his homeland in the Revolutionary Etude (Machlis 82). Chopin arrived in Paris in 1831 and the majority of his musical c...
Debussy advocated the "emancipation of dissonance" (Machlis, 1961). A more immediate precursor of electronic music was Edgar Vares...
In ten pages this research paper examines how jazz and folk music profoundly influenced this Russian composer as he works clearly ...
like the painters and poets of this era, they subordinated emotional expression to an accepted standard of "rules" of form.2. Th...