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Scott Joplin & George Gershwin

time," then shortened to "ragtime" (Porter, 1973, p. 2). The innovations that Joplin brought to ragtime were remarkable and uniqu...

1920s and 1930s Jazz Music

In ten pages this paper discusses the jazz pioneers including James P. Johnson, W.C. Handy, Louis Armstrong, and Duke Ellington an...

Jazz Curriculum for Korea

to the advent of jazz, improvisation was an integral part of European music, as the improvisational skills of such composers as Ba...

John Birks 'Dizzy' Gillespie

Pioneering jazz great Dizzy Gillespie is the focus of this research paper consisting of five pages in which jazz elements and the ...

Duke Ellington/Caravan

orchestrate by using this band, an "unrivaled collection of musical eccentrics," as his "laboratory," in which he mastered the art...

Comparing and Contrasting Classical Music and the Blues

The writer compares and contrasts two popular types of music, classical and the Blues. The writer differentiates between the two a...

Miles Davis' and Duke Ellington's Music

In sixteen pages this research paper contrasts and compares the careers of influential jazz artists Miles Davis and Duke Ellington...

Overview of Jazz and Its Legendary Artists

is often "misunderstood, under-appreciated and underestimated. If jazz is the underdog, avant-garde jazz is beneath the underdog"...

Similarities between Classical and Popular Music

works (Kaptainis, 2002). "A paint-by-numbers Mona Lisa is not to be confused with what is hanging in the Louvre" (Kaptainis, 2002,...

Mozart vs. Bach

Both Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Johann Sebastian Bach are cited among the giants of Classical and Baroque music. This paper exami...

Black Poetry and Literature and the Blues

In fifteen pages this research paper discusses the relationship between black poetry and literature with jazz and blues music with...

Herbie Hancock

years playing with the Miles Davis quintet and Davis was a tremendous influence for him (Murph 54). Herbie once observed that Dav...

Unique Style of Duke Ellington

In six pages Ellington's unique and completely individual style is examined in terms of its contributing factors as well as his or...

Art Music Composers and Jazz's Influence

the realm of art music during the course of his career, George Gershwin. While Stravinskys work shows the influence of jazz, it wa...

History Of Leadership Models

considers the times, the Dark Ages, brutality was a common thing. The Hebrew leaders, Abraham, Joseph and Moses are well known to...

Sonata Form, Haydn and Mozart

not always in the allegro tempo. For the purposes of this essay, "sonata form" will refer to the construction of the movement, whi...

Jazz and its Influence

In nine pages this paper discusses the influence of jazz in the US. Nine sources are cited in the bibliography....

Compare and Contrast: Jazz by Toni Morrison and Black and Blue by Louis Armstrong

This 5 page paper compares and contrasts Toni Morrison's book Jazz with Louis Armstrong's song Black and Blue....

Max De Pree's Leadership Jazz

pull up a chair. De Pree correlates the skills of a jazz musician: improvisation, innovation, freedom, and inspiration, with wo...

Impressionism/Music & Art

not explicitly intended to depict any concrete object or situation, but rather seeks to create a "mood or atmosphere," which elici...

Violent Song Lyrics/Teen Aggression

the detrimental emotional and psychological effects that this type of music has on young people. However, besides examining the su...

Evolution Of Gospel Music In America

anthem music spread more rapidly in the South (Tanner, 2006). It was the minstrel shows that were most responsible for this musics...

Jazz Music and its History

comes in many variants: field hollers, levee camp hollers, prison work songs, street cries, and the like" (Gioia, 2005). It is rea...

Korea and Jazz Music

they will not have to repeat those classes when they study at the Berklee later (Jazz popularizer feels upbeat, 2003). The systems...

Jazz as Modernism

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

Jazz and Blues

This research paper describes the relationship between blues and jazz within the context of the history of these genres. The write...

Beneath the Underdog by Charles Mingus

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...

Jazz Legend Billie Holiday

In a paper consisting of ten pages the influence of the legendary jazz performer Billie Holiday in terms of music and society are ...

Folk and Jazz Influences Upon Igor Stravinsky's Compositions

In ten pages this research paper examines how jazz and folk music profoundly influenced this Russian composer as he works clearly ...

Analysis of Latin Music

incorporated into the traditional Spanish flamenco, which originated with the gypsies in the Andalucia region of southern Spain.5 ...