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This research paper relies on the work of Margaret Kartomi to analyze the classification systems for musical instruments developed...
melodic line (that is to say, the voice is the main melodic instrument). This presents a strong monophonic texture, in that the vo...
Motet While Gregorian chants were intended entirely for liturgical and worship purposes, this was not the case for later Renaiss...
chords (Osborne 327). This opera is quite famous for containing a great deal of Masonic symbolism, although Osborne stresses that ...
the creation of a contrapuntal web. Schulenberg (1992) states that the term "ricercar" can also refer to a type of improvised pre...
(Machlis 242). A form of counterpoint is music that has a homophonic texture. This is when a single melody line accompanied by c...
melodies.5 The Classical era artists deviated from this example, and their music was considerably simpler in texture. New genres w...
inspired by the Cuban marimbula (American...Fredericks). Nevertheless, despite these diverse influences, musicologists agree that ...
of any kind. The notes and the instruments within any piece of music represent virtually everything, including inanimate objects,...
Circumstances come to a crossroads for Seymour when he discovers an odd looking plant after a total eclipse of...
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...
Bach considered music to be "a harmonious euphony to the Glory of God" (Machlis, 1970,p. 288). His primary instrument was the org...
the location of excitation of the string (String Properties). For example, if the violin is bowed close to the bridge (sul pontice...
five" (Alexander Borodin, Cesar Cui, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Modeste Mussorgsky, and Mily Balakirev) (Ursin). Prior to the Russi...
This paper examines the career of Satchmo, Louis Armstrong. The author argues that Armstrong is one of the great American Jazz le...
This 5 page paper discusses the conditions that are necessary for a band or music artist to succeed. There are 10 sources listed i...
In six pages the political statements contained within the Broadway musicals The Wizard of Oz, Porgy and Bess, Hair, and South Pac...
appreciate; in doing so, he helped to educate the world on the merits of music through such classics as Petrushka. Stravinsky was...
In 1947, Armstrong was placed in a group of jazz musicians, and they played a semblance of the old New Orleans style type jazz ("A...
In fifteen pages MP3 digital music technology and its processes are considered in this overview. Twenty one sources are cited in ...
In eight pages this paper charts the musical evolution of Bob Dylan from folk to rock music and then finally combining the two int...
This essay offers an analysis of the famous 1952 film musical, Singin' In the Rain, which stars Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynbods. Th...
In ten pages this report analyzes the musicals Eye of the Storm, Blood Brothersl, Ragtime, and Dracula. There are no other source...
This ten page paper defines nineteenth century overatures and delineates them into specific types. Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Wag...
further nurture African American gospel music through training and a more focused perspective on the elements of their unique gosp...
expanse of this opening tutti as a whole, Mozart also introduces a loud closing cadence, which actually enters long before the tut...
sort of image of things that awe us. Even in these two simple words we are presented with a magical picture of a time of harvest, ...
In five pages this paper discusses the human nature representation in allegories featured in each of these works in a contrast and...
He is. There are several themes in Johns Gospel including: salvation is only through Jesus; John the Baptist preceded Jesu...
In ten pages an exegesis of these verses of the gospel according to John is presented in an examination of translation text differ...