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(Machlis 242). A form of counterpoint is music that has a homophonic texture. This is when a single melody line accompanied by c...

slang and colloquialisms (of the world) smack of American English (1), and that this is true even in England. He credits this fact...

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...

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...

from all records, it appears as though Mozart was not altogether happy as a child. One author notes the following: "When he was on...

in these traditional groups try to retain their language and keep their heritage alive to an extent. Their native languages of cou...

pairing of Burton and Taylor in the lead roles was certain to result in a box office success for virtually any movie. Add Shakespe...

The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars had a great effect throughout Europe and the patronage system of the Baroque was soo...

a magnetic cap, so in theory this is essentially a speaker in reverse (Microphone History, 2003). Other than the dynamic...

As this suggests, their styles are quite different. Hawkins monopoly on the tenor sax ended in 1933 when he was playing with the...

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

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

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

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...

by the discussion of sex, and thus make them vulnerable to communist influence(Gordon 2003). The Kinsey sexual research studies ha...

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

The opening timpani set the stage for this new mood, while simultaneously recalling the main theme of the first movement. This is ...

nature of the music, and the fact that it does not sound as if the listener is about to embark on a dramatic journey (BBC Radio)....

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...

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

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

dominant and subordinate ideologies, cultural ideology as a whole is something which exists in a multiplicity and its disparate el...

In four term papers of three pages each musical topics such as music and brain function; anthropology and music; memory, learning ...

extending it, varying it. Schubert accomplishes extending the rhythmic motif by added extra beats at both the beginning and the en...

which are primarily told through an oral tradition, combining the blues with the cultural wisdoms. "The blues are first represente...

them - and his brother replied in the affirmative. This seemed satisfying enough an answer to Schubert who passed away later that...

of music is the inference of influence from similarity. For example. Nettle (1986) uses the example of a Jamaican song that has rh...

In the various paintings, one can see an appreciation of nature figuring more prominently as well as a celebration of the emotiona...