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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...

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 ...

'Jupiter' Symphony 41 of Wolfgang Mozart

nature of the music, and the fact that it does not sound as if the listener is about to embark on a dramatic journey (BBC Radio)....

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...

Life and Music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

the employ of the Archbishop of Salzburg to take up a career as a free-lance artist in Vienna, a shadow fell over his career that ...

Mozart vs. Bach

Both Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Johann Sebastian Bach are cited among the giants of Classical and Baroque music. This paper exami...

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 ...

Analysis of Oh, Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison

towards him and is immediately attracted to her. He speaks to her and while his plea is a comment on her beauty, it is also a lame...

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...

Music Appreciation and the Orchestra's Role

In twelve pages this research paper examines how the orchestra is a significant part of the art of musical composition. Nine sour...

Musical Innovations of John Cage

This process served to free Cage from the exigencies of the melodic line and traditional harmonic progression, and allowed Cage to...

Maria Callas and Billie Holiday

"Ive lived songs like that" (Billie Holiday, PG). MARIA CALLAS Born to a Greek family, Maria Callas was "American by birth and I...

Music and Poems

played slightly louder, i.e. piano. The rhythm of the piece would be uniform 4/4 time, but the overall effect of the rhythm would...

Life and Music of Composer Oliver Messiaen

book has had a significant influence on his characters and destiny (Johnson 9). During World War I, he lived with his mother and...

Hong Kong and Hip Hop

in its early days was solely the province of black youth, who took a combination of social comment, alienation and African roots t...

Piano Concerto in A Major by Wolfgang Mozart

provides color, form and melody throughout the work (Landon, 1956). In general, Mozart employed two types of punctuation tools t...

Classical Style Comparison of Franz Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

endlessly variety of moods (Machlis, 1970). Mozarts Music - in general Machlis (1970) comments that there is something of the "m...

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...

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...

Creation and Development of the Universal Music Group, Formerly Known as MCA

independent music publishing giant Rondor Music in the summer of 2000 from its co-founders Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss, it became t...

Musical Differences Between Classical and Romantic Eras

melodies.5 The Classical era artists deviated from this example, and their music was considerably simpler in texture. New genres w...

Cultural Impacts of Jimi Hendrix and His Music

of the most integral components of human expression. We must admit that the role of Hendrixs art and the precise type of impact i...

Life and Song Cycle of Composer Franz Schubert

them - and his brother replied in the affirmative. This seemed satisfying enough an answer to Schubert who passed away later that...

Counterpoint Musical Technique Used by J.S. Bach

(Machlis 242). A form of counterpoint is music that has a homophonic texture. This is when a single melody line accompanied by c...

Blues Music and The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

which are primarily told through an oral tradition, combining the blues with the cultural wisdoms. "The blues are first represente...

Musical Offering to Frederick the Great by Johann Sebastian Bach

the creation of a contrapuntal web. Schulenberg (1992) states that the term "ricercar" can also refer to a type of improvised pre...

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...

Music and Its Role in the Classroom

already been addressed in the UK through "The Project Music in the Secondary School Curriculum." Which was established in 1973 at ...