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Innovation Strategy as NEC and Acquisitions

That Cisco the paper is written in two parts. The first section looks at a case study of NEC and the development of a research and...

Dance Music in Musical History

This research paper briefly describes the dance music within the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical periods. Two pages in length, ...

Musical Systems: Scales, Maqamat, and Ragas

This research paper offers a brief overview of scales, maqamat, and ragas, which derive from Western Arabic and Indian music respe...

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. ...

Preface to Musical Experience in Tumbuka Healing by Steven Friedson

insists on separating "aesthetics, religion and medicine" into separate epistemological categories, is so engrained that it become...

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...

Theater and Contemporary Musicals

In ten pages this report analyzes the musicals Eye of the Storm, Blood Brothersl, Ragtime, and Dracula. There are no other source...

Musical Overtures in the Nineteenth Century

This ten page paper defines nineteenth century overatures and delineates them into specific types. Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Wag...

Musical Structure of Petrushka by Composer Igor Stravinsky

appreciate; in doing so, he helped to educate the world on the merits of music through such classics as Petrushka. Stravinsky was...

The Circumstances Necessary for a Band or Musical Artist to Succeed

This 5 page paper discusses the conditions that are necessary for a band or music artist to succeed. There are 10 sources listed i...

Are Broadway Musicals Merely Entertainment Forms?

In six pages the political statements contained within the Broadway musicals The Wizard of Oz, Porgy and Bess, Hair, and South Pac...

Musical and Libretto Contributions of Wolfgang Mozart's The Magic Flute

chords (Osborne 327). This opera is quite famous for containing a great deal of Masonic symbolism, although Osborne stresses that ...

Musical Evolution of Folk Rocker Bob Dylan

In eight pages this paper charts the musical evolution of Bob Dylan from folk to rock music and then finally combining the two int...

Louis Armstrong, An American Musical Genius

This paper examines the career of Satchmo, Louis Armstrong. The author argues that Armstrong is one of the great American Jazz le...

Louis Armstrong's Musical Influence

In 1947, Armstrong was placed in a group of jazz musicians, and they played a semblance of the old New Orleans style type jazz ("A...

Digital Musical Technology and MP3

In fifteen pages MP3 digital music technology and its processes are considered in this overview. Twenty one sources are cited in ...

Bob Marley's Reggae Musical Legacy

inspired by the Cuban marimbula (American...Fredericks). Nevertheless, despite these diverse influences, musicologists agree that ...

Musical Differences Between the U.S. and India

of any kind. The notes and the instruments within any piece of music represent virtually everything, including inanimate objects,...

Moral Dilemmas in Menken's Musical, The Little Shop of Horrors

Circumstances come to a crossroads for Seymour when he discovers an odd looking plant after a total eclipse of...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Mozart's Life and Musical Art

from all records, it appears as though Mozart was not altogether happy as a child. One author notes the following: "When he was on...

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...

An Examination of Baroque Musical Forms

Motet While Gregorian chants were intended entirely for liturgical and worship purposes, this was not the case for later Renaiss...

John Dryden's 'Absalom and Achitophel' and John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress

In five pages this paper discusses the human nature representation in allegories featured in each of these works in a contrast and...

John Keats, John Donne, and Robert Browning's Uses of Imagery

line in every stanza is shortened by two metric beats to create a sense of temporary suspension before the story continues (Abrams...

John's Gospel on Jesus

He is. There are several themes in Johns Gospel including: salvation is only through Jesus; John the Baptist preceded Jesu...

John's Gospel 1, Verses 1 through 18

In ten pages an exegesis of these verses of the gospel according to John is presented in an examination of translation text differ...