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'Ardo e scoprir' Madrigal by Claudio Monteverdi

tonal. However, there is also no denying that this tonality differed from what would come later (Chafe xv). A mode is a specific p...

The History of Modern Music

as the century progressed so did his style and flare. The Rite of Spring was revived by the Russian ballet in 1920...

Historical Significance of the Blues

In five pages this paper examines blues music in an historical overview that considers its significance. Four sources are cited i...

Beethoven's Eroica

goes that Beethoven was inspired by the principles of the French Revolution and, specifically, the person of Napoleon Bonaparte in...

TV Violence and Women

itself appear erotic to the male viewer (Marks, 2000). A report on prime-time broadcast network TV issued in 2002 by the National...

Music of Samoa

significance (Amerika Samoa). These dances are "elegant, vibrant and sometimes erotic" (Amerika Samoa). Author Robert Louis Stev...

Record Labels, Major versus Independent

rock, classics, country, jazz, etc. - may be better served in the environment in which the major labels operate. When music types...

Adolescents and the Negative Effects of Music Lyrics

correlation between risky adolescent behavior and a preference for heavy metal rock music (Sexuality 191). Pediatricians were on...

The United States of the 1920s

nothing makes quite as much of a statement as does a bathing suit, a garment made for the purpose of swimming but something that w...

A Four Cities' Analysis

spread of the educational levels is not representative of the general population levels. In terms of the Black Africans only 21% h...

Babies and Bach

sites, such as GeniusBabies.com, assert that their embryonic learning system, which includes music, can turn the neonate into a ge...

French Composer Charles Gounod's Life and Music

1937). Gounod was equally gifted in art and for a time seemed torn between the two but a musical epiphany he had at age 13 would ...

1960s' Civil Rights Music and Martin Luther King Jr.

all, a wild animal will fight to be free of restraints as well and this does not indicate that they are good, nor does it indicate...

Cinema and the Impact of Music

desperate and louder, so too does the score, until a crescendo of grand proportions is reached. At this point in the scene, a grea...

Comparing Laurence Olivier's 1948 Film 'Hamlet' with William Shakespeare's Play

subject which had been taboo in Shakespeares time - with Ophelia), betrayal (Queen Gertrudes incestuous marriage to her brother-in...

Analyzing John Cage's Changing Music

composed in 1951 New York. The cycle of piano music, for example, had been written as a dedication to David Tudor and within the...

Short Storie Elements in Works by John Updike, Flannery O'Connor, Willa Cather, William Faulkner, Mark Twain, and Nathaniel Hawthorne

like herself. From their initial conversation in the garden, Beatrice reassures him that she is sincere by stating that "Forget wh...

Religious Influences in the Music of Charles Ives

reworked" into passages that frequently sound "hymnic" (Tawa 67-68). As pointed out by Robert Bellah, Christianity, and the Jude...

Americas and the Influence of Latin Culture

Practitioners of Santeria do pray to Catholic saints, but they also venerate animistic gods and goddesses which stem from the Afri...

Elementary Classroom Learning and Music Instruction

level math and science problems. In a subsequent study that replicated this research, again, the results showed that the students ...

Uses of Digital Audio Technology

same every single time you play it no matter how many times you play it)" (Brain). Digital audio recording accomplishes these goa...

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...

Napster

change was to move the company away from the free format to one where there was a fixed fee subscription. This reduced the number ...

Medieval Christianity: Music and Sculptures

liturgy provided innumerable texts, all set to music in the style we call Gregorian chant. The church served as an important patro...

DOWNLOADING MUSIC -- FOR FREE

The group, in fact, leaked its song, "The Shepherds Dog" via a CD advance which was sent to a magazine for review (Eskenazi, 2007)...

Music of Guide D’Arezzo

1036 (Otten). It was after Guido arrived at Arrezo that he invented his new system of notation, which "brought such order and cl...

Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony/An Analysis

motive over and over again in different forms (Grove 149). The lyrical second theme introduces a brief respite of relaxation, bu...

Beethoven, Life, Music and Romanticism

not attached to any one court or one prince. Rather, he received income in various ways, such as in giving music lessons to aristo...

iPod And iTunes; the Potential Impact of Microsoft's Zune

Microsoft with the launch of Zune, or has Apple learned its lessons and will it be able to retain the dominant position. With th...

The Financing of Opera in London in the 1730’s

leading up to it. Heideggers Italian opera company had failed in 1717 due to its inability to control costs and the failur...