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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...

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...

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...

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...

Forms of Treatment for Parkinson's Disease

In nine pages this paper provides a description of Parkinson's disease and then examines various types of treatment and therapeuti...

American Psycho/In Bruges

A 3 page essay that contrasts and compares American Psycho (2000, directed by Mary Harron) and In Bruges (2008, directed by Martin...

IS DOWNLOADING MUSIC STEALING?

problem with this argument, however, is that, as mentioned above, people lend out albums, tape off them and enjoy the music. Furth...

Ragtime Music as a Societal Phenomenon

"Youve Been a Good Old Wagon but Youve Done Broke Down" (Ketch, 1993, p. 182). Sensing a popular music form, the New York song pu...

Lanza/Elevator Music

or artistic merit that might be associated with his music genre. He argues that decades of rock music that sound more like car cra...

Music in the Films of the Coen Brothers

examined, one could perhaps argue that this is the one film wherein music was almost non-existent. Ethan Coen, in relationship to ...

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...

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 ...

Black Worship, Relevance of Music

This research paper/essay discusses the significance of music in black worship services. Eight pages in length, five sources are c...

Score Analysis, "The Temptations"

This paper presents a summary and analysis of a scene in "The Temptations," which is a 1998 TV movie that focuses on the 1960s mus...

Music Theory, Why Learning it is Important

Tis essay pertains to why learning music theory is important. Five pages in length, two sources are cited. ...

Dido and Aeneas/Henry Purcell

This paper is on Henry Purcell's opera "Dido and Aeneas." It offers a summary of the plot and discussion of different characterist...

Indian and Sikh Music

the classical Indian vocal music that comprises Sikh services (Singh and Singh). As this indicates, in Sikhism, music constitutes ...

Michael Jackson, The King of Pop

of Pop. He wanted the title. There are musicians who are dubbed one thing or another by fans, and then, as in the Michael Jackson...

THE DOORS, DAVE MATTHEWS BAND AND BUSINESS MODELS

around, its no longer the sure path to stardom for a band. Furthermore, there are a variety of musical magazines, segmented to eve...

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...

Analysis of Merriam's Preface

were the focus of their analyses (Merriam "Definitions" 193). Furthermore, as Jaap Kunst pointed out in 1950 text, musicology "doe...

Issues in Ethnomusicology, Agawu and McClary

(Agawu, 1992, p. 246). At this point, Agawu states that the purpose of his essay is to critique ethnomusicology writing that has f...

Falasha Liturgy and Indian Cassette Industry, Reflection on these Issues

were struck by the similarities between Falasha liturgical practices and Judaism and this perspective became so entrenched that in...

"I'm Sexy and I Know It" - An Examination of Feminist Themes

more aware of themselves than they are of one another. Finally, at the behest of their leader, they begin to walk down the boardwa...

Dance Music in Musical History

This research paper briefly describes the dance music within the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical periods. Two pages in length, ...

Music and the Sexualization of Women

The number and diversity of those involved in the debate surrounding the sexualization of women is overwhelming. Research abounds...

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...