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Various Formats of Digital Audio

MPEG (Motion Picture Experts Group) format is "a type of audio and video compression with several standards. MP3 is a popular file...

Evaluating Childbirth Pain Management Alternative Proposal

drugs. In reality, pain management in labor delivery can include not only pharmacological approaches but also behavioral approach...

1960s Music and Film Authenticity

truth and the search for meaning in life. It was no longer a time for people to sleep and hide in their supposedly perfect illusor...

Resistance, Subculture, and Hip Hop

on ten characteristic features of hip hop in Australia, that this music genre represents an authentic subculture. Some of these po...

'Classical' and 'Pop' Gap That Was George Gershwin

a "serious" composer by the critics, they were extremely mindful that Gershwin did not orchestrate the first performance of Rhapso...

The Influence of Cultural Developments on Visual Art, from the Mid-19th to the Mid-20th Century

early twentieth centuries established themselves. What this means in terms of how those great philosophers looked at the broader ...

Effects of Music and Alcohol on Female Behavior in Nightclubs

is to observe the evolution of the night, to record the "behavior" of several women visitors to the night club scene, and to quest...

Dvorak and Brahms' Piano Quintets

any of his contemporaries, captured the "intimate communion that is the essence of chamber-music style" (Machlis, 1970, p. 128). T...

Sixteenth Century Keyboard Instruments

the strings.6 The tangents were inserted into the key levers at the lower end, and the top end was flattened for contact with the...

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...

Leisure Music

when I first heard this tune" aspect to it. Or maybe the student has other reasons for why music is a...

The Case of Rap Music and Adorno's Mass Culture Theories

the offering of music or media, but more often this is merely window dressing and is really pseudo individualisation, meaning the ...

'The Old Guard' versus 1920 Avant Garde Music

From this artistic liberation emerged the avant-garde movement, which delighted in breaking the rules through unrestrained experim...

Early 20th Century's Neoclassical Music and its Anti Romantic Elements

codified and structured. Neoclassical forms were, in turn, a reaction against the idealism characterised by the Romantic ...

TV Show Production Plan for Tomorrow's Radio Fare

below. Table 1. The Monday Night Lineup BBC1 BBC2 TV1 London Channel 4 Five 20:30 Ground Force University Challenge Coronation ...

Memory and Brain Effects of Classical Music

two separated mood dimensions - arousal and pleasantness - as they related to mood-dependent memory (MDM), having respondents spea...

Music of Ireland and the Chieftains

Chieftains I in 1964 (Hudson, 2005). According to Moloney, who is acknowledged to be the principal guiding light behind the grou...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Disco Music and History

Vietnam and it fought against social constraints placed upon the individual. It was a time of violent outbreaks for peace and for ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...