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Essays 271 - 300
In the various paintings, one can see an appreciation of nature figuring more prominently as well as a celebration of the emotiona...
Bach considered music to be "a harmonious euphony to the Glory of God" (Machlis, 1970,p. 288). His primary instrument was the org...
The opening timpani set the stage for this new mood, while simultaneously recalling the main theme of the first movement. This is ...
(Edgard Varese: Father of Electronic Music, 2002). In many ways, what gives Vareses music is particular structure is his early ...
five" (Alexander Borodin, Cesar Cui, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Modeste Mussorgsky, and Mily Balakirev) (Ursin). Prior to the Russi...
way, Mozart helped crystallize and clarify the performing arts for the residents of this city. The purpose of this paper will be t...
way of using sexuality and gender in various ways. Madonna When people think of Madonna their first thought is often related t...
Miles Davis, and many of the works which came from those periods are still considered classics today (Biography of Miles Davis, 20...
Circumstances come to a crossroads for Seymour when he discovers an odd looking plant after a total eclipse of...
of any kind. The notes and the instruments within any piece of music represent virtually everything, including inanimate objects,...
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...
Luhrmann, "In Moulin Rouge, our ultimate Red Curtain gesture, music and song is the device that releases us from a naturalistic wo...
inspired by the Cuban marimbula (American...Fredericks). Nevertheless, despite these diverse influences, musicologists agree that ...
observing the ships that crowd the harbor. Their serenity provides an interesting contrast to the business of the ships, and the c...
recorded "Music for Airports" in 1978 (Brian Eno). While this story is certainly appealing, the student researching this topic sho...
cities and castles to defend lands against invasion, and they created bridges and hostelries to facilitate communication. But it ...
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...
that she was highly influenced by his style (Gaume, 1986). Additional influential composers on Crawfords development were Adolph W...
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...
the intrusion of evil in the form of the Counts illicit desires for Susanna (Till 141). This loss of innocence, which is equated w...
to consume him. The audience could not help but to be drawn into his world for a while. Audience/Atmosphere The audience itself...
her stunning performance in Call Me Madam, many other notable roles followed. She continued to earn an outstanding reputation in ...
the first to rebel against Wagners "oppressive hyperchromatic harmonic language," creating a more flexible and open tonal organiza...
is this feature of sound that allows us to discern between two different in instruments playing the same note at the same amplitu...
of Show Boat, American musical theatre--finally--saw the "complete integration of song, humor and production numbers into a single...
compared to any other group in the world "They have been compared to the Rolling Stones, to rappers, to folk musicians, and to Cou...
shores of the US. It was 1974 and the US government was still allowing Haitians to freely enter the country as immigrants at that ...
debut in the Leipziger Gewandhaus is met with rousing enthusiasm. Age eleven finds the child prodigy composing her first piano pi...
the additional emotional impetus of having united a movement. This movement has not gone unnoticed by filmmakers either. Lee Hir...
displaying the familiar bent wrists, arched heads and thrusting pelvises that are characteristic of Fosses style (Kilpatrick, 2003...