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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"...

Three Brief Essays on Musical Topics

opium. The drug, too weak to kill, plunges him into a heavy sleep accompanied by strange visions. His sensations...are translated ...

Bach's Concerto Number 2 in F Major Baroque Music

demonstrated in collection of pieces, "The Well-Tempered Clavier." With this discovery, the stage was set for Baroque music to flo...

Polish Composer Karol Syzmanowski

homeland focused on the accoutrements of Polish uniqueness. Szymanowski was determinedly pro-Polish homeland in sentiment. He was...

Film Rock and Roll The Early Days

This paper consists of two and a half pages and considers the music and artists that created the rock and roll musical genre. The...

Rock 'n' Roll is Here to Pay by Chapple and Garofalo

In four pages this rock music text is analyzed in terms of the musical form's reflection of 20th century pop culture, the economy,...

Comparing the Styles of Beethoven and Bach

In seven pages the lives and musical styles of Ludwig van Beethoven and Johann Sebastian Bach are contrasted and compared. Five s...

Music as a Character in Meet Me in St. Louis and 42nd Street

the plot development and story. For example, as the movie opens, various cast members pass the song "Meet Me in St. Louis" from o...

Rock 'N Roll and Tin Pan Alley's Influence

In five pages this research paper considers how the rock music genre was developed due to Tin Pan Alley's musical influence. Five...

West Side Story Choreography

This narrative consisting of twelve pages considers Jerome Robbin's innovative choreography in this landmark 1957 Broadway musical...

Poetry of Langston Hughes

has been to continuously "climb" up the socioeconomic ladder in a culture that is set against her. She advises her son, not to gi...

The 1952 Musical, Singin' In the Rain

This essay offers an analysis of the famous 1952 film musical, Singin' In the Rain, which stars Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynbods. Th...

Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera Music

In five pages a musical analysis of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera is presented. Four sources are cited in the biblio...

Classical, Neoclassical, and Romantic Music and Literature

In five pages this report contrasts and compares literary and musical distinctions as illustrated by Voltaire's Candide neoclassic...

Production and Music of Broadway's Les Miserables

In six pages this paper discusses the long running Broadway musical in a consideration of its production, music, and other contrib...

A Romeo and Juliet Sociological Analysis

component. But were they all that different in Shakespeares original version? Many seem to think so and that high schools renditi...

Theater and Contemporary Musicals

In ten pages this report analyzes the musicals Eye of the Storm, Blood Brothersl, Ragtime, and Dracula. There are no other source...

Oklahoma! by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein

the prolific authors inherent ability to pursue even the most complex of concepts that effectively appeal to the innermost recesse...

Comparing West Side Story with Romeo and Juliet

This research paper contrasts and compares the concept of heroism by examining Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and the Broadway mus...

1993 Film Mrs. Doubtfire and Music

this instance, both the choice of music and its enthusiastic delivery helps to create an impression of the character. This is not...

Composer and Lyricist Stephen Sondheim

In six pages this paper examines American musical theater in a consideration of the influence exerted by Stephen Sondheim. Four s...

Music of the Middle East

In five pages this paper examines the musical styles and instruments that are popular in the Middle East along with a consideratio...

In His Own Write - A Creative Look at George Gershwin

In six pages George Gershwin's own vantage point is applied to the American composer's life and musical theater contributions. Th...

Jazz Musician Ann Patterson

In five pages the jazz influences of Ann Patterson and her female band Maiden Voyage are examined particularly in terms of develop...

Jazz Violinist Noel Pointer

In five pages this research paper presents an appreciation of jazz violin virtuoso Noel Pointer whose premature death at age 39 di...

The Impressionism of Claude Debussy

Impressionism is a term usually reserved for painting, but Claude Debussy's work has often been termed impressionistic. This essay...

Russian Ballet Music of Composer Peter Illich Tchaikovsky

In five pages this paper examines Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite and 'Swan Lake in terms of the musical creation and performance. ...

The Rite of Spring by Composer Igor Stravinsky

In six pages this radical 1913 Russian musical ballet is examined in terms of its composer's revolutionary vision and the extreme ...

Gospel Concert Reactions

In four pages this essay consists of the writer's reactions to a two hour gospel concert and also includes subgenre examples of th...

Life and Works of Composer Nicola Vincentino

life. In particular, Venice was already a major factor in the development of music printing which helped to eventually spread Vin...