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Chinese Opera The Peony Pavilion

encounter between the young heroine and the dream-image of a young scholar. In similar scenes throughout the production, the lack...

James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex Colored Man and Identity

go in terms of his adherence to one race or another. He admires both African and white cultures and people in different ways. For ...

Critical Thinking, Elementary Grades, and Music Education

the research linking music instruction with developing higher-order reasoning skills is still controversial. Therefore, there is a...

Social Problems of Child Prodigies

the Tonight Show audience with a blazing solo (Jerome, Cheakakos and Horsburgh 131). At ten years old, Jacob signed a contract wit...

A Letter Evaluating the Work of Beethoven

the world until I had produced all that I felt called upon to produce, and so I endured this wretched existence (Machlis, 1970, p....

Finding Contentment

This essay pertains to the writer's experience of contentment, which is derived from listening to and performing music. Three page...

Star Wars by John Williams

This essay offers an overview of the melody and harmony used in John William's main theme from Star Wars. The writer compares Will...

Film Review, Cool Hand Luke

This essay uses research to offer an overview of "Cool Hand Luke," a 1967 film directed by Stuart Rosenberg. Cinematic features, s...

Jazz and Blues

This research paper describes the relationship between blues and jazz within the context of the history of these genres. The write...

Comments on Freedoms

This essay discusses several articles that deal with freedoms. Topics include: the responsibilities of parents, music censorship, ...

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...

When Are Your Creations Yours

Copyright laws have been in force for decades. They tend to be somewhat vague leaving people confused about things like plagiarism...

Beauty of Byzantine Music

This paper is comprised of two sections. The first section is an annotated bibliography, which describes the source material that ...

"Music Within," The Story of Richard Pimentel

This essay presents a movie review of "Music Within," (2007, directed by Steven Sawalich). The film stars Ron Livingston as Richa...

Questions on Media, Power and Culture

This paper covers three issues, which pertain to music piracy, radio and analysis of a media image on drunk driving. Five pages in...

Thoughts on Music and Worship

This essay pertains to the debate in Christian churches over what sort of music should be played during services, traditional hymn...

'Rainbow' Piano Etude 5 by Gyorgy Ligeti

music, and then with Stockhausen (Whiteall, 1977). In 1956, many of the younger composers were moving away from serialism in favo...

Methods of Stress Reduction Access Report

In eight pages relieving employee stress is discovered and suggested methods include holiday parties, fitness center access, music...

Electronic Music History

Debussy advocated the "emancipation of dissonance" (Machlis, 1961). A more immediate precursor of electronic music was Edgar Vares...

Score Analysis, "The Temptations"

This paper presents a summary and analysis of a scene in "The Temptations," which is a 1998 TV movie that focuses on the 1960s mus...

Music Theory, Why Learning it is Important

Tis essay pertains to why learning music theory is important. Five pages in length, two sources are cited. ...

Dido and Aeneas/Henry Purcell

This paper is on Henry Purcell's opera "Dido and Aeneas." It offers a summary of the plot and discussion of different characterist...

The Theatre of Ancient Greece

This 12 page paper gives an overview of the history of the theatre in ancient Greece and the connection with mythology. This paper...

Black Worship, Relevance of Music

This research paper/essay discusses the significance of music in black worship services. Eight pages in length, five sources are c...

India, Africa, and the Effects of European Music

of music is the inference of influence from similarity. For example. Nettle (1986) uses the example of a Jamaican song that has rh...

Mariachi Music of Mexico

with the other, there still exists a definite sense of individuality that serves to distinguish each one from another. The very n...

Black Noise by Tricia Rose

or in any number of ways that reflect the current concerns of black male youth. Female rappers, on the other hand, tell stories fr...

World Music of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

common between music of the world. The student can, for example, quote musicologist Bruno Nettl and his works, that basically stat...

Infamous Reputations of Rap Music Artists

the "breakbeats" (Beau PG) and other natural vocal rhythms. It was not until within the past several years that they took on a ne...

Critic's Role

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 ...