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Broadway Musical Chicago

displaying the familiar bent wrists, arched heads and thrusting pelvises that are characteristic of Fosses style (Kilpatrick, 2003...

Controversy Surrounding Madonna's Immaculate Collection

other entertainer in history" (117). Her face has adorned the covers of everything from Rolling Stone to the National Review, and...

Eminem's Music

In three pages this essay considers the musical genre represented by the compositions of Eminem. There is no bibliography include...

Detailed Cinematic Analysis of American Beauty

of confines. The overall metaphor of this movie is the symbol of the rose. At one point a neighbor asks how the roses are grown s...

The Film Amandla

the additional emotional impetus of having united a movement. This movement has not gone unnoticed by filmmakers either. Lee Hir...

Political Culture and Music of Haiti

shores of the US. It was 1974 and the US government was still allowing Haitians to freely enter the country as immigrants at that ...

Biography of Clara Wieck Schumann

debut in the Leipziger Gewandhaus is met with rousing enthusiasm. Age eleven finds the child prodigy composing her first piano pi...

Backgrounds of Musical Composers Igor Stravinsky, Arnold Schoenberg, and Bela Bartok

the first to rebel against Wagners "oppressive hyperchromatic harmonic language," creating a more flexible and open tonal organiza...

Musical Tonal Coloring or Timbre

is this feature of sound that allows us to discern between two different in instruments playing the same note at the same amplitu...

Los Tigres del Norte

compared to any other group in the world "They have been compared to the Rolling Stones, to rappers, to folk musicians, and to Cou...

Music of Composer Ruth Crawford Seeger

that she was highly influenced by his style (Gaume, 1986). Additional influential composers on Crawfords development were Adolph W...

Controversial Musical Artist R. Kelly

him or helping him . . . and why. What is likely to happen is that well see what weve pretty much always seen; which is that famo...

Mozart's Don Giovanni and Figaro

the intrusion of evil in the form of the Counts illicit desires for Susanna (Till 141). This loss of innocence, which is equated w...

Dallas and Fort Worth's 4 Live Musical Performances

to consume him. The audience could not help but to be drawn into his world for a while. Audience/Atmosphere The audience itself...

Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge

Luhrmann, "In Moulin Rouge, our ultimate Red Curtain gesture, music and song is the device that releases us from a naturalistic wo...

Bob Marley's Reggae Musical Legacy

inspired by the Cuban marimbula (American...Fredericks). Nevertheless, despite these diverse influences, musicologists agree that ...

Reaction to the Works of Claude Debussy and Claude Monet

observing the ships that crowd the harbor. Their serenity provides an interesting contrast to the business of the ships, and the c...

Ambient Music of Brian Eno

recorded "Music for Airports" in 1978 (Brian Eno). While this story is certainly appealing, the student researching this topic sho...

Chartres Cathedral Architecture Compared with Music of Valkyrie by Richard Wagner

cities and castles to defend lands against invasion, and they created bridges and hostelries to facilitate communication. But it ...

Analysis of This Old Man Folk Song

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...

Moral Dilemmas in Menken's Musical, The Little Shop of Horrors

Circumstances come to a crossroads for Seymour when he discovers an odd looking plant after a total eclipse of...

Musical Differences Between the U.S. and India

of any kind. The notes and the instruments within any piece of music represent virtually everything, including inanimate objects,...

Edgard Varese's Music

(Edgard Varese: Father of Electronic Music, 2002). In many ways, what gives Vareses music is particular structure is his early ...

Russian Ballet and Musical Development and the Impact of the Bolshevik Revolution

five" (Alexander Borodin, Cesar Cui, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Modeste Mussorgsky, and Mily Balakirev) (Ursin). Prior to the Russi...

Prague and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

way, Mozart helped crystallize and clarify the performing arts for the residents of this city. The purpose of this paper will be t...

Influential Black Singers

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...

Popular Music, Gender, Sexuality, and Cultural Identity

way of using sexuality and gender in various ways. Madonna When people think of Madonna their first thought is often related t...

Influential Jazz Musician Miles Davis

Miles Davis, and many of the works which came from those periods are still considered classics today (Biography of Miles Davis, 20...

Society, Communication, and Music

information not only about how human beings communicate, but also how musical communication works within the context of societal f...

Cultural Effects of Negro Spirituals

and so realize their place in the world. Such was the convoluted logic of pre-Civil War America. However, the spirituals were much...