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time," then shortened to "ragtime" (Porter, 1973, p. 2). The innovations that Joplin brought to ragtime were remarkable and uniqu...
In ten pages this paper discusses the jazz pioneers including James P. Johnson, W.C. Handy, Louis Armstrong, and Duke Ellington an...
to the advent of jazz, improvisation was an integral part of European music, as the improvisational skills of such composers as Ba...
Pioneering jazz great Dizzy Gillespie is the focus of this research paper consisting of five pages in which jazz elements and the ...
orchestrate by using this band, an "unrivaled collection of musical eccentrics," as his "laboratory," in which he mastered the art...
The writer compares and contrasts two popular types of music, classical and the Blues. The writer differentiates between the two a...
In sixteen pages this research paper contrasts and compares the careers of influential jazz artists Miles Davis and Duke Ellington...
is often "misunderstood, under-appreciated and underestimated. If jazz is the underdog, avant-garde jazz is beneath the underdog"...
works (Kaptainis, 2002). "A paint-by-numbers Mona Lisa is not to be confused with what is hanging in the Louvre" (Kaptainis, 2002,...
Both Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Johann Sebastian Bach are cited among the giants of Classical and Baroque music. This paper exami...
In fifteen pages this research paper discusses the relationship between black poetry and literature with jazz and blues music with...
years playing with the Miles Davis quintet and Davis was a tremendous influence for him (Murph 54). Herbie once observed that Dav...
In six pages Ellington's unique and completely individual style is examined in terms of its contributing factors as well as his or...
the realm of art music during the course of his career, George Gershwin. While Stravinskys work shows the influence of jazz, it wa...
considers the times, the Dark Ages, brutality was a common thing. The Hebrew leaders, Abraham, Joseph and Moses are well known to...
not always in the allegro tempo. For the purposes of this essay, "sonata form" will refer to the construction of the movement, whi...
In nine pages this paper discusses the influence of jazz in the US. Nine sources are cited in the bibliography....
This 5 page paper compares and contrasts Toni Morrison's book Jazz with Louis Armstrong's song Black and Blue....
pull up a chair. De Pree correlates the skills of a jazz musician: improvisation, innovation, freedom, and inspiration, with wo...
not explicitly intended to depict any concrete object or situation, but rather seeks to create a "mood or atmosphere," which elici...
the detrimental emotional and psychological effects that this type of music has on young people. However, besides examining the su...
anthem music spread more rapidly in the South (Tanner, 2006). It was the minstrel shows that were most responsible for this musics...
comes in many variants: field hollers, levee camp hollers, prison work songs, street cries, and the like" (Gioia, 2005). It is rea...
they will not have to repeat those classes when they study at the Berklee later (Jazz popularizer feels upbeat, 2003). The systems...
Jazz breaks free of restrictions of form and structure, melody and harmony. Jazz allows composers to take "freer liberties with a ...
This research paper describes the relationship between blues and jazz within the context of the history of these genres. The write...
result blurs the lines of what is real or not but the book makes it clear that for Mingus, at the moment of his telling it, it was...
In a paper consisting of ten pages the influence of the legendary jazz performer Billie Holiday in terms of music and society are ...
In ten pages this research paper examines how jazz and folk music profoundly influenced this Russian composer as he works clearly ...
incorporated into the traditional Spanish flamenco, which originated with the gypsies in the Andalucia region of southern Spain.5 ...