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Handel/2 Operas

and of the English choral sound" (Thiers). By this point, Handel had realized that in order for his music to be successful in Engl...

Nabokov & Use of Language

that fit with their role within the novels "deck." Martha Dreyer, Nabokovs "Queen," is a calculating woman with sharp intelligence...

Leonardo da Vinci as a Renaissance Man Par Excellence

received by his Florentine father (Craven 83-84). From the earliest age, young Leonardo exhibited what appeared to be an endless ...

Art & Creativity/Elementary Classroom

creativity through art is that it provides an ideal medium for teaching diverse student populations. Through art, elementary teach...

Baroque, Classical and Romantic/Comparing 3 Works

sense of awe and wonder at the complex beauty of the music. The classical music of Beethoven blends the varied textures of the o...

Exploitation of Children in the Art World: Is it Art or Pornography?

nude children as art continued to be deemed socially inappropriate, which is why several photographers of note were the subjects o...

Overview of the Chicano Band Los Lobos

began celebrating their cultures and communities in song with the Chicano variations of Woodstock festivals being staged throughou...

Music Education, Performance Skills

students develop advanced performance skills to a higher level of achievement when they have the opportunity to perform in small e...

Horton Hears a Who

what is "proper." How well have they done it? All aspects of this delightful childrens film are done extremely well. The animatio...

Sublime and Subjective Romanticism in William Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey”:

natural sublime."2 As is common in the thematic development of the sublime in Romanticism, the sensation is one of rapture and on...

Prospero in Shakespeare’s The Tempest

relates to issues of magic and creation, and the identity of Prospero/Shakespeare. In examining this perspective the opinions and...

Friendship in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

between Hobbits Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin is the primary focus of the trilogy, but there is also an interesting dynamic of thei...

Medieval Christianity and the Cathedral

medieval periods, which involved numerous activities of economic import, such as the "quarrying, carving and laying of stone, the ...

Performance Review/"How I Learned To Drive"

identity of who is speaking. For example, in some scenes there is a girl dressed in a schoolgirls plaid uniform. While this writer...

Bach/Cantata #61

2, 1714 (Whittaker 146). After examining the scriptural reading for this Sunday lesson, the first question that comes to mind is w...

Gypsy, Etc.

("Gypsy"). Similarly, insight is gained into Roses character when she begins a tentative romance with Herbie. In their duet "Sma...

Upstage Theater; Explaining the Conflict and Resolution

to find an alignment between the different interests of the board members. The problem does not only occur as a result of the ch...

Visual Art And Brain Development In Children

Art is such a universally recognized method of this statement that there exist no barriers with regard to interpretation. Infants...

A Comparison of the Artistic Style of Children’s Book Illustrators Pat Cummings and Rosemary Wells

were voracious readers not only while they were children but even today. Each states that she was captivated with such things as ...

Chopin, Pianist & Teacher

pianists hand that the "music seems almost to play itself" (Machlis 84). Therefore, it is probably not surprising that so many o...

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...

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...

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...

Artistic Expressiveness

ability to move on, or to move forward. I am suggesting that his preoccupation with death and decay, clouded or immobilized his ...

Musical Overtures in the Nineteenth Century

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

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...

Artistic and Cinematic Postmodernism

In five pages this research paper examines postmodernism as it is reflected in cinema and art. Seven sources are cited in the bib...

Bernini, Michelangelo, and Donatello's Artistic Representations of David

order to provide more accurate representation of the human body. The advances in knowledge made during these years is evide...

Life and Artistic Perspectives of Leonardo da Vinci

In eight pages this paper discusses Leonardo da Vinci in a consideration of his life, art, and perspectives. Six sources are cite...