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that she was highly influenced by his style (Gaume, 1986). Additional influential composers on Crawfords development were Adolph W...
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...
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...
In five pages this essay analyzed how Varese's sound liberation had a profound effect upon music of the twentieth century with thi...
in. She only wants to obey and to serve. In this manner she transcends the one covenant. And, on the other side, she demonstrates ...
for the era in which Bach had produced these variations (Smith, 1996). The Advent melody is represented in four canonic statement...
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 this paper examines Hildegard of Bingen and her music in a consideration of its sacred music genre placement, style o...
In 9 pages the complexities of Janie Crawford's characterization are examined in this analysis of Their Eyes Are Watching God by Z...
to have such a crowd enjoying themselves in her house; its apparent that she enjoys it. We know because she says that shes sorry ...
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...
of his surname) was born on September 10, 1934 in Hibbing, Minnesota. His Austrian grandfather had settled in the town north of D...
anthem music spread more rapidly in the South (Tanner, 2006). It was the minstrel shows that were most responsible for this musics...
meeting with the other man, calling in elders and others to witness the exchange. The other man renounces his claim and takes off ...
the realm of art music during the course of his career, George Gershwin. While Stravinskys work shows the influence of jazz, it wa...
fits with the spiritual title, it also has a slightly Spanish flavor that conjures visions of a sleepy town at sunset and an evoca...
In five pages this research paper considers the music of Heinrich Schutz, often regarded as the greatest 17th century German Baroq...
In five pages this paper examines Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite and 'Swan Lake in terms of the musical creation and performance. ...
falls in love with the young Robert LeBrun and befriends the old pianist Mademoiselle Reisz, whose music arouses in Edna "the very...
book has had a significant influence on his characters and destiny (Johnson 9). During World War I, he lived with his mother and...
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 ...
grief for his homeland in the Revolutionary Etude (Machlis 82). Chopin arrived in Paris in 1831 and the majority of his musical c...
reworked" into passages that frequently sound "hymnic" (Tawa 67-68). As pointed out by Robert Bellah, Christianity, and the Jude...
In fifteen pages this research paper discusses the life of this French composer and analyzes his music in terms of his uses of bir...
Debussy advocated the "emancipation of dissonance" (Machlis, 1961). A more immediate precursor of electronic music was Edgar Vares...
melodies.5 The Classical era artists deviated from this example, and their music was considerably simpler in texture. New genres w...
like the painters and poets of this era, they subordinated emotional expression to an accepted standard of "rules" of form.2. Th...