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In ten pages this research paper examines how jazz and folk music profoundly influenced this Russian composer as he works clearly ...
the realm of art music during the course of his career, George Gershwin. While Stravinskys work shows the influence of jazz, it wa...
five" (Alexander Borodin, Cesar Cui, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Modeste Mussorgsky, and Mily Balakirev) (Ursin). Prior to the Russi...
more jazz musicians will typically improvise simultaneously (Machlis 413). For all intents and purposes, Alex Blakes biography fo...
to the advent of jazz, improvisation was an integral part of European music, as the improvisational skills of such composers as Ba...
In nine pages this paper discusses the influence of jazz in the US. Nine sources are cited in the bibliography....
but hopefully an understanding of the issues he raises and attempts to address throughout the book. Overview While well de...
This essay pertains to improvisation and composition in jazz and describes how both of these terms are utilized within jazz perfor...
appreciate; in doing so, he helped to educate the world on the merits of music through such classics as Petrushka. Stravinsky was...
In six pages this radical 1913 Russian musical ballet is examined in terms of its composer's revolutionary vision and the extreme ...
the first to rebel against Wagners "oppressive hyperchromatic harmonic language," creating a more flexible and open tonal organiza...
In 6 pages this paper examines the influential jazz musician John Coltrane in a consideration of his Islam conversion and his ques...
2001). The final movement, which is similar to Symphony K. 338, consists of "lazy gallops" set to a fast-paced tempo, which, again...
pull up a chair. De Pree correlates the skills of a jazz musician: improvisation, innovation, freedom, and inspiration, with wo...
This 5 page paper compares and contrasts Toni Morrison's book Jazz with Louis Armstrong's song Black and Blue....
result blurs the lines of what is real or not but the book makes it clear that for Mingus, at the moment of his telling it, it was...
as well as the lyrics are of course very important to the analysis. Finally, how has the work fared in the long term? These criter...
In five pages this paper discusses George Stubbs' artistry in a consideration of his paintings' composition and line uses....
met. To consider the way planning takes place at all levels the process itself and the approaches can be examined. Mintzberg (et...
In 5 pages this paper examines the common themes shared by 'Civilization and Its Discontents' by Sigmund Freud and 'The Soul of Bl...
also serve to illuminate a lost way of living. In spite of al the missing history, for the last twenty-five years scholars have ...
In eight pages this paper charts the musical evolution of Bob Dylan from folk to rock music and then finally combining the two int...
self through the eyes of others, have become touchstones for thinking about race in America. In addition to these enduring concept...
music, which she may have initially embraced as a kind of personal salvation.3 While male lovers would betray her, seductive jazz...
urban professionals because in Chicago, business reigns supreme. There are numerous transportation, commerce, and financial congl...
In addition the school provides opportunities to engage in off-campus activities because the area of Southern Florida is such a ja...
This 5 page paper analyzes Toni Morrison's novel "Jazz," and argues that Toni Morrison uses jazz and sexual identity as ...
Pioneering jazz great Dizzy Gillespie is the focus of this research paper consisting of five pages in which jazz elements and the ...
In ten pages this paper discusses the jazz pioneers including James P. Johnson, W.C. Handy, Louis Armstrong, and Duke Ellington an...
ongoing, carried in the people, but the symbols and landmarks, of the music and the culture it has influenced. The loss of the bui...