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Essays 601 - 630
This process served to free Cage from the exigencies of the melodic line and traditional harmonic progression, and allowed Cage to...
in its early days was solely the province of black youth, who took a combination of social comment, alienation and African roots t...
Both Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Johann Sebastian Bach are cited among the giants of Classical and Baroque music. This paper exami...
towards him and is immediately attracted to her. He speaks to her and while his plea is a comment on her beauty, it is also a lame...
book has had a significant influence on his characters and destiny (Johnson 9). During World War I, he lived with his mother and...
"Ive lived songs like that" (Billie Holiday, PG). MARIA CALLAS Born to a Greek family, Maria Callas was "American by birth and I...
played slightly louder, i.e. piano. The rhythm of the piece would be uniform 4/4 time, but the overall effect of the rhythm would...
In eight pages this paper charts the musical evolution of Bob Dylan from folk to rock music and then finally combining the two int...
In twelve pages this research paper examines how the orchestra is a significant part of the art of musical composition. Nine sour...
cohesion-one must sense a beginning, a middle and an end. In "This Old Man," the melody follows a simple line that makes it easy...
inspired by the Cuban marimbula (American...Fredericks). Nevertheless, despite these diverse influences, musicologists agree that ...
Luhrmann, "In Moulin Rouge, our ultimate Red Curtain gesture, music and song is the device that releases us from a naturalistic wo...
recorded "Music for Airports" in 1978 (Brian Eno). While this story is certainly appealing, the student researching this topic sho...
cities and castles to defend lands against invasion, and they created bridges and hostelries to facilitate communication. But it ...
Circumstances come to a crossroads for Seymour when he discovers an odd looking plant after a total eclipse of...
way, Mozart helped crystallize and clarify the performing arts for the residents of this city. The purpose of this paper will be t...
(Edgard Varese: Father of Electronic Music, 2002). In many ways, what gives Vareses music is particular structure is his early ...
having some sense of its beauty and understanding rub off on her. I did not argue with her or ask to see her superior. It was as i...
dominant and subordinate ideologies, cultural ideology as a whole is something which exists in a multiplicity and its disparate el...
extending it, varying it. Schubert accomplishes extending the rhythmic motif by added extra beats at both the beginning and the en...
Bach considered music to be "a harmonious euphony to the Glory of God" (Machlis, 1970,p. 288). His primary instrument was the org...
The opening timpani set the stage for this new mood, while simultaneously recalling the main theme of the first movement. This is ...
As this suggests, their styles are quite different. Hawkins monopoly on the tenor sax ended in 1933 when he was playing with the...
ahead of the pop mainstream, as she shapes music that "stabs us in the jugular" (Rule, 1999, p. 69). The 37-year-old released her...
the location of excitation of the string (String Properties). For example, if the violin is bowed close to the bridge (sul pontice...
the employ of the Archbishop of Salzburg to take up a career as a free-lance artist in Vienna, a shadow fell over his career that ...
blending of West African rhythms with melodies from southern Spain (Roberts 4). This created the clave, which is typically a 3-2 ...
by the discussion of sex, and thus make them vulnerable to communist influence(Gordon 2003). The Kinsey sexual research studies ha...
way of using sexuality and gender in various ways. Madonna When people think of Madonna their first thought is often related t...
information not only about how human beings communicate, but also how musical communication works within the context of societal f...