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Music of Japan

the musical activities performed in Japan (Futoransky 38). A study of the history of Japanese music reveals that Japan has always ...

Mozart Effect/Beneficial or a Gimmick?

speech and language abilities" (Calkins and Kelley, 2007, p. 151). This is particularly interest in light of the fact that the ori...

The Financing of Opera in London in the 1730’s

leading up to it. Heideggers Italian opera company had failed in 1717 due to its inability to control costs and the failur...

DOWNLOADING MUSIC -- FOR FREE

The group, in fact, leaked its song, "The Shepherds Dog" via a CD advance which was sent to a magazine for review (Eskenazi, 2007)...

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...

Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony/An Analysis

motive over and over again in different forms (Grove 149). The lyrical second theme introduces a brief respite of relaxation, bu...

Beethoven, Life, Music and Romanticism

not attached to any one court or one prince. Rather, he received income in various ways, such as in giving music lessons to aristo...

Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and the Blues of the African-American Experience

a subtle reminder particularly to African-American women of how far they had come as a race and how much further they needed to go...

Music Therapy and Stroke Victims

that "responding to music is an innate human capacity, unimpaired by injury, handicap or trauma" (Case and Else, 2003, p. 43). The...

The Dissemination and Marketing of Music from Tin Pan Alley to the Modern Day

publishing of magazines or stationary (Tawa, 1990). The main method of distribution involved composers approaching the publishers...

iPod And iTunes; the Potential Impact of Microsoft's Zune

Microsoft with the launch of Zune, or has Apple learned its lessons and will it be able to retain the dominant position. With th...

The Humanities

is all very fine, but why bother to study him when we could be learning computers? Because studying the humanities gives us insigh...

Johnny Cash and Love

"go home and sin" which illustrates country music was about doing wrong, and having troubles, not about God and religion (The Life...

Brazilian Samba Music

de enredo" to the more "relaxed guitar and rhythm variant" of song samba (Clifford). Sambas earliest beginnings can be traced to t...

Popular Culture of 1950s America

not something that sprung up in the 1990s or 1980s. Yes, it is a 1950s phenomenon ("Film History of the 1950s"). McDonalds was fra...

Music Sharing is Not Unethical

management, as well as the creation and distribution of their CDs. Now, with the Internet, widespread ownership of CD burners and ...

A Critique on the October, 2008 Ringtone Decision

to royalties for the songs that are used as ringtones. In early October of 2008, the Copyright Royalty Board decided to freeze the...

A Short History of Franco-Flemish and Venetian Schools of Art and Music

of Flemish techniques with established French style became the Franco-French school, with the earliest known innovators being the ...

Jazz as Modernism

Jazz breaks free of restrictions of form and structure, melody and harmony. Jazz allows composers to take "freer liberties with a ...

Burning CDs/Ethical Issues

and spread of music, but "bad" in that it could, conceivably, destroy the source of this music, the recording industry. However, i...

Venice, Italy

be seen both across the expanse of water and reflected in it (Lauritzen 12). San Marco is constructed so as to catch the light. Th...

Music as a Nursing Intervention

the effect of music on preoperative anxiety and postoperative pain with a participant group that listened to "peaceful pan flute m...

Napster

change was to move the company away from the free format to one where there was a fixed fee subscription. This reduced the number ...

Medieval Christianity: Music and Sculptures

liturgy provided innumerable texts, all set to music in the style we call Gregorian chant. The church served as an important patro...

The 24th Annual Arkansas Bean Fest and Annual Outhouse Races

worse as the actual race begins. The music at the festival is the most fun of all. It features an eclectic mix of styles includin...

Impressionism/Music & Art

characterizes both the music and the art of the impressionist movement. As a term, "impressionism" derives from a painting by Cl...

Rap Music: Social Meaning

affair of choppy strophes of braggadocio chanted over an endlessly repeating bass line and drum track. But there is more to the m...

National Standards/Fine Arts

A 3 page research paper that, first of all, briefly outlines the general content of national standards addressing the fine arts: a...

Jimi Hendrix, the Counter Music Revolution, and the 1960s

black colloquialism for sex) and dance (Isserman and Kazin 92). The sexually charged performances of Elvis Presley singing black ...

Time Capsule: Renaissance & The Age Of Baroque

Architectural fetishism came of age during the Renaissance. Classified as a magically empowered inanimate object, a fetish may ta...