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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. ...

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...

Power and Gender, Musical Instruments,

This research paper presents an overview of the issues of power that are associated with gender and specific musical instruments. ...

"Coastal Scene with Shipping and Cattle" by Thomas Gainsborough

This essay provides analysis of Thomas Gainsborough's "Coastal Scene with Shipping and Cattle." describing its artistic characteri...

Greek God Apollo's Influence on Ancient Greece

This 5 page paper gives an overview of the Greek god Apollo. This paper includes what areas of life Apollo ruled over and how he w...

Three Men Walking and Kouros

notes that Noguchis Kouros was created shortly after his release from the internment camp, and quotes him as saying that the const...

Beat Goes on for Cuba's Rhythmic Culture of Music

blending of West African rhythms with melodies from southern Spain (Roberts 4). This created the clave, which is typically a 3-2 ...

Oral Sex in Advertising and the Dehumanization of Women

of Sprite protruding somewhat horizontally at the womans mouth from somewhere off screen. The bottle, of course, is the phallic r...

Washington Crossing the Delaware by Emanual Leutze

damaged state, the work won a gold medal in Berlin and was "much celebrated in Europe."9 It was part of the permanent collection o...

Scott Joplin/Maple Leaf Rag

moved to St. Louis in 1901, which is when he produced a string of hits, such as The Entertainer, which was featured in the 1973 fi...

Political and Religious Aspects of the Seated Gudea

exist before the establishment of literary historical records, are of immense value. Like all art, one can enjoy these works on a ...

Prelude in C Minor/Chopin

the dominant, using G augmented (V), modulates to G7 on the sixteenth note transition, which returns the melody to Cm (I). Throu...

Political Theme in Zhang's Hero

film Hero, released in 2002 and costing $30 million to produce, is the most expensive film in the history of the Chinese film indu...

Overview of Art Career of Tahir Salahov

Salahovs Repair Workers (1960, Baku Museum of the Visual Arts).10 This orientation is also clear in Oil Rocks in the Caspian, w...

The Sociological Importance of Timba

the significant cultural role played by the timba musical genre in Cuban society, it is firstly important to understand the politi...

Moulin Rouge (2001) and Setting a Cinematic Mood

Berkeleys choreography book, he creates mood through unusual camera angles, and heightens the films pace through "speeded-up, step...

The Sleeping Beauty as Performed by the Kirov Ballet and its Elements of Art

1999). These opposites represent a binary universe, in which both sides must learn to coexist even if the alliance proves to be a...

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...

Article Summary of Robert Walser’s ‘Out of Notes’

heavily upon Henry Louis Gates Jr.s text The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism and applied the si...

Nietzsche And Heidegger: Art & Aesthetics

myriad philosophies by which people live their lives that help to maintain order and a sense of direction where otherwise there wo...

A Concert with Richard Goode at Carnegie Hall

the work, communicating a haunting sense of despair and grief. Two subsidiary themes evolve from the primary motif, and seem to of...

Procopius/The Secret History

was a counselor to Belisarius and accompanied him on several of his campaigns and he may have been a prefect of Constantinople (Ha...

Debussy’s Sonata for Flute, Viola & Harp

the classical structure of "Exposition-Development-Restatement" (Machlis 340). There is a story that while attending a concert, De...

2 Questions/Review of a Speech

impact if it was Powerpoint versus a movie clip? No, a Powerpoint presentation would not have had the emotional impact of the m...

Harlem Renaissance

on the east and Convent Avenue on the west" ("Songs of the soul" SR1). During the 1920s, a "star-studded group of poet, writer, mu...

Monteverdi’s Orfeo

divisions.vi For twelve years he wrote music as a member of the court of the Duke of Mantua, before being appointed as choirmaster...

Music of Guide D’Arezzo

1036 (Otten). It was after Guido arrived at Arrezo that he invented his new system of notation, which "brought such order and cl...

Napoleon Bonaparte: The Influences on Him and How He Influenced the World

might say in fact that he was slightly ahead of his time. Yet, in addition to having been an important figure and brilliant strate...

Development & Sub-Sahara

to develop (Terray 38). According to classical evolutionary theory, as argued by early sociologists such as Auguste Comte, socia...

Significance Of J.S. Bach's Canonic Variations On "Vom Himmel Hoch"

for the era in which Bach had produced these variations (Smith, 1996). The Advent melody is represented in four canonic statement...