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Moulin Rouge (2001) and Setting a Cinematic Mood

Berkeleys choreography book, he creates mood through unusual camera angles, and heightens the films pace through "speeded-up, step...

Prelude in C Minor/Chopin

the dominant, using G augmented (V), modulates to G7 on the sixteenth note transition, which returns the melody to Cm (I). Throu...

Scott Joplin/Maple Leaf Rag

moved to St. Louis in 1901, which is when he produced a string of hits, such as The Entertainer, which was featured in the 1973 fi...

Friendship in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

between Hobbits Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin is the primary focus of the trilogy, but there is also an interesting dynamic of thei...

Sublime and Subjective Romanticism in William Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey”:

natural sublime."2 As is common in the thematic development of the sublime in Romanticism, the sensation is one of rapture and on...

Beat Goes on for Cuba's Rhythmic Culture of Music

blending of West African rhythms with melodies from southern Spain (Roberts 4). This created the clave, which is typically a 3-2 ...

Disco Music and History

Vietnam and it fought against social constraints placed upon the individual. It was a time of violent outbreaks for peace and for ...

Musical Representations of Various Eras

Robbins conceived, directed and choreographed West Side Story in 1957, which was written by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim...

Ravel, Villa Lobos and Others Concert Report

movement marked Allero preciso, which suggests its lively and fast tempo. Then it slows during an andante movement and resumes an ...

Andre Young and 'Dr. Dre's' Musical Success

Eazy went on to form NWA with Ice Cube and Dre and they released an album in 1987 (Erlewine). The rest, as they say is history. Of...

Comparison of Maurice Ravel's Bolero and Claude Debussy's Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun

will be unique to each person who hears the music. "Musically, only two composers represent Impressionism-Claude Debussy and Maur...

Significance Of J.S. Bach's Canonic Variations On "Vom Himmel Hoch"

for the era in which Bach had produced these variations (Smith, 1996). The Advent melody is represented in four canonic statement...

Handel/2 Operas

and of the English choral sound" (Thiers). By this point, Handel had realized that in order for his music to be successful in Engl...

Article Summary of Robert Walser’s ‘Out of Notes’

heavily upon Henry Louis Gates Jr.s text The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism and applied the si...

THE CONFLICT OVER MUSICAL INSTRUMENT CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMS

Discusses various musical instrument classification models. There are 3 sources listed in the bibliography of this 6-page paper. ...

Classification of Musical Instruments, Comparing Two Systems

This research paper relies on the work of Margaret Kartomi to analyze the classification systems for musical instruments developed...

Power and Gender, Musical Instruments,

This research paper presents an overview of the issues of power that are associated with gender and specific musical instruments. ...

John Philip Sousa, Jean Sibelius, and Nationalistic Music

From the beginning of a Sibelius work, the listener is immersed in a sound world that is entirely original and which conjures the ...

Content Regulations in Canada

as it has exposed Canadians to the tremendous musical talent available in Canada and ensured a Canadian presence on the airwaves.5...

Piano Concerto Number Two by Rachmaninoff

At this point in his life, Rachmaninoff spent his summers with his fathers wealthy sister, Varvara Satins, and he composed a deal ...

'Praxial Music Education' According to David Elliott

other reason than the fact that the results of human action cannot be adequately understood apart from the motives, intentions, an...

Film Genre Known as 'The Musical'

diegetic music and spoken/sung dialogue (Altman 297-298). This film genre has historically consisted of three evocative forms. F...

A One Hundred Year Commemoration of September 11, 2001

of adding ominous color, perhaps an oboe or bass clarinet. This opposing theme would be in A minor, which is the relative minor of...

The Alex Blake Quartet in Concert

the floor tom-tom- for dynamic effect" (Alfaro). The group would break into a swing change and bounce back into a "hard Latin chop...

The Jazz Music of the Alex Blake Quartet

more jazz musicians will typically improvise simultaneously (Machlis 413). For all intents and purposes, Alex Blakes biography fo...

Greek God Apollo's Influence on Ancient Greece

This 5 page paper gives an overview of the Greek god Apollo. This paper includes what areas of life Apollo ruled over and how he w...

A Concert with Richard Goode at Carnegie Hall

the work, communicating a haunting sense of despair and grief. Two subsidiary themes evolve from the primary motif, and seem to of...

Chopin, Pianist & Teacher

pianists hand that the "music seems almost to play itself" (Machlis 84). Therefore, it is probably not surprising that so many o...

Eminem's Music

thing, Eminem has an "intuitive sense of how to flow smoothly from the measured cadence of ordinary speech to the discursive inten...

Musical Overtures in the Nineteenth Century

This ten page paper defines nineteenth century overatures and delineates them into specific types. Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Wag...