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Essays 271 - 300

Overview of the Romantic Age

In the various paintings, one can see an appreciation of nature figuring more prominently as well as a celebration of the emotiona...

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 ...

Edgard Varese's Music

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

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...

Prague and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

way, Mozart helped crystallize and clarify the performing arts for the residents of this city. The purpose of this paper will be t...

Popular Music, Gender, Sexuality, and Cultural Identity

way of using sexuality and gender in various ways. Madonna When people think of Madonna their first thought is often related t...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge

Luhrmann, "In Moulin Rouge, our ultimate Red Curtain gesture, music and song is the device that releases us from a naturalistic wo...

Bob Marley's Reggae Musical Legacy

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

Reaction to the Works of Claude Debussy and Claude Monet

observing the ships that crowd the harbor. Their serenity provides an interesting contrast to the business of the ships, and the c...

Ambient Music of Brian Eno

recorded "Music for Airports" in 1978 (Brian Eno). While this story is certainly appealing, the student researching this topic sho...

Chartres Cathedral Architecture Compared with Music of Valkyrie by Richard Wagner

cities and castles to defend lands against invasion, and they created bridges and hostelries to facilitate communication. But it ...

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...

Music of Composer Ruth Crawford Seeger

that she was highly influenced by his style (Gaume, 1986). Additional influential composers on Crawfords development were Adolph W...

Controversial Musical Artist R. Kelly

him or helping him . . . and why. What is likely to happen is that well see what weve pretty much always seen; which is that famo...

Mozart's Don Giovanni and Figaro

the intrusion of evil in the form of the Counts illicit desires for Susanna (Till 141). This loss of innocence, which is equated w...

Dallas and Fort Worth's 4 Live Musical Performances

to consume him. The audience could not help but to be drawn into his world for a while. Audience/Atmosphere The audience itself...

Musical Theater Legend Chita Rivera

her stunning performance in Call Me Madam, many other notable roles followed. She continued to earn an outstanding reputation in ...

Backgrounds of Musical Composers Igor Stravinsky, Arnold Schoenberg, and Bela Bartok

the first to rebel against Wagners "oppressive hyperchromatic harmonic language," creating a more flexible and open tonal organiza...

Musical Tonal Coloring or Timbre

is this feature of sound that allows us to discern between two different in instruments playing the same note at the same amplitu...

Fiddler on the Roof and Les Miserables

of Show Boat, American musical theatre--finally--saw the "complete integration of song, humor and production numbers into a single...

Los Tigres del Norte

compared to any other group in the world "They have been compared to the Rolling Stones, to rappers, to folk musicians, and to Cou...

Political Culture and Music of Haiti

shores of the US. It was 1974 and the US government was still allowing Haitians to freely enter the country as immigrants at that ...

Biography of Clara Wieck Schumann

debut in the Leipziger Gewandhaus is met with rousing enthusiasm. Age eleven finds the child prodigy composing her first piano pi...

The Film Amandla

the additional emotional impetus of having united a movement. This movement has not gone unnoticed by filmmakers either. Lee Hir...

Broadway Musical Chicago

displaying the familiar bent wrists, arched heads and thrusting pelvises that are characteristic of Fosses style (Kilpatrick, 2003...