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Fact, Legend, and Fiction of King Arthur

In five pages this paper discusses the various depictions of King Arthur in the 1960 musical Camelot by Alan Jay Lerner and Freder...

Music Appreciation and the Orchestra's Role

In twelve pages this research paper examines how the orchestra is a significant part of the art of musical composition. Nine sour...

Analysis of Oh, Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison

towards him and is immediately attracted to her. He speaks to her and while his plea is a comment on her beauty, it is also a lame...

Mozart vs. Bach

Both Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Johann Sebastian Bach are cited among the giants of Classical and Baroque music. This paper exami...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

John Cage/His Impact on Music

"rubber, felt, or wood, as well as screws, nuts and bolts" (Machlis 632). The result of this preparation is that the piano produ...

Debussy’s Sonata for Flute, Viola & Harp

the classical structure of "Exposition-Development-Restatement" (Machlis 340). There is a story that while attending a concert, De...

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...

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...

George Harrison's Life and Music

commitment to studying the guitar, which he relentlessly pursued at the Liverpool Institute (Friedlander, 1996). With a new elect...

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...

Harpsichord and its History

In seven pages the history of the harpsichord and its musical complexities are examined. Three sources are cited in the bibliogra...

U.S. Culture and the Blues

the blues is slower and contains much depth of feeling. Later on, the acoustic urban would become electrified, but early on, there...

Images II by Debussy

and II, said that it was rather like staring fixedly at an object for a long period of time, so that the pupils dilate and the pic...

Blues Music History

The blues, in all its glory, is truly a black American phenomenon but it is also an American phenomenon. Davis (2003) writes: "The...

Music School Application Letter Sample

know from personal experience if my training has had this result, but there is no denying that musical scales are very close to be...

Criss Cross Album of Jazz Legend Thelonious Monk

for Columbia in the 1960s have generally been considered to be somewhat of a disappointment when compared to his early work for Bl...

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 ...

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...

Fiddler on the Roof and Les Miserables

of Show Boat, American musical theatre--finally--saw the "complete integration of song, humor and production numbers into a single...

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...

Comparing Romeo and Juliet with West Side Story

ever see a production of the original play. In light of such information we can assume that, in their original context, both stori...

Children's Neurology and the Effects of Music

to examine brain development to a degree that was never before possible (Strickland 100). For example, cerebral blood flow can be ...

Sinfonia in F Major by Georg Philipp Telemann

the recorder and that it appeared in literally hundreds of his works (2003). Holman (1991) verifies this, stating that Telemann s...