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Finding Contentment

This essay pertains to the writer's experience of contentment, which is derived from listening to and performing music. Three page...

The Djembe, An Overview

This research paper presents an extensive overview of the djembe, which is a drum that originated in West Africa. The paper offers...

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...

Twentieth Century Music, Various Aspects

This research paper/essay consists of two parts. The first half of the paper pertains to three works in which the composer turned ...

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...

Dance Music in Musical History

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

iTunes ; Will it Change the Marketing Tactics of Major Record Labels

position prior to the introduction of iTunes and the way it changes the music industry, Initially the ability to distribut...

Impressionism/Music & Art

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

Golden Mean, Irrational Numbers & Fibonacci Series

a infinite number of decimal places (Sabine). The Fibonacci series is useful in calculating Phi because Phi is "equal to the ratio...

History of the Guitar

guitar were when a hunting bow was paired with a tortoise shell to create a tar or sting instrument that was plucked (Hartmetz et ...

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...

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 ...

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,...

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...

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...

Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture

into the word and lasts for only a few minutes before a decrescendo takes the music into the Russian folk dance theme, which comme...

Poetry, Art, and Music Creativity

conceptions of himself, his fellowmen and his universe" (Fleming, 1974, p. 1). The visages that art can take are many and varied, ...

Performance Anxiety and Music Education

She worked hard and won first chair in both the band and the orchestra; however, when the moment of her first solo performance cam...

Music Interpreted Visually

in imagery born out of MTV that has reinvented how viewers watch film and redefined what is considered entertainment. If you go t...

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...

African American Hip Hop and its Influence

music, or existed in the industry of music, but has actually proven that it is the driving force for a great deal of mainstream cu...

Musical Representations of Various Eras

Robbins conceived, directed and choreographed West Side Story in 1957, which was written by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim...

Analysis of the Carousel Musical by Rogers and Hammerstein

When Julies friend Carrie leaves, but Julie lingers near the carousel, she and Billy are now along and can speak freely, if hesita...

Fictional CD Store Saving

"Retail sales of recorded music dived from $13 billion in 1999--the year Napster launched--to an estimated $10.6 billion" (Keegan,...

Harvard Case Study of BMG Entertainment

Record companies relied on radio stations to give their products airplay so potential consumers could hear them and then purchase ...

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...

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...

Hip Hop: Past, Present and Future

the actual arrival of the movement is often connected to many historical events and conditions. In the case of Hip Hop one can per...

Business Issues in the Music Industry

acquired by larger companies seeking to grow through that route. Traditional retailers have blamed Internet retailers, piracy and...