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Essays 121 - 150
a weight problem ("Wilsonweb," 1998). His parents divorced and after remarriage, his mother would encourage his musical career whe...
with Barbarina who is the gardeners daughter. "The Count pursues Susanna but conceals himself when the gossiping music master Don ...
Debussy advocated the "emancipation of dissonance" (Machlis, 1961). A more immediate precursor of electronic music was Edgar Vares...
In fifteen pages this research paper discusses the life of this French composer and analyzes his music in terms of his uses of bir...
In a research paper consisting of six pages the powerful influence Beethoven had on the composers that followed are discussed with...
book has had a significant influence on his characters and destiny (Johnson 9). During World War I, he lived with his mother and...
like the painters and poets of this era, they subordinated emotional expression to an accepted standard of "rules" of form.2. Th...
This process served to free Cage from the exigencies of the melodic line and traditional harmonic progression, and allowed Cage to...
loud" (History of the Piano...Grover). In its shape and general construction, it resembled a harpsichord, however, there were ma...
falls in love with the young Robert LeBrun and befriends the old pianist Mademoiselle Reisz, whose music arouses in Edna "the very...
of Josquin in the manner in which one pair of voices appears to be pitted against another (Machlis 259). Claudio Monteverdis mus...
In ten pages this research paper examines how jazz and folk music profoundly influenced this Russian composer as he works clearly ...
In five pages this research paper considers the music of Heinrich Schutz, often regarded as the greatest 17th century German Baroq...
appreciate; in doing so, he helped to educate the world on the merits of music through such classics as Petrushka. Stravinsky was...
them - and his brother replied in the affirmative. This seemed satisfying enough an answer to Schubert who passed away later that...
is played slightly faster, and the ending return to the original tempo. It begins in F major, with a simple harmony that is build ...
fits with the spiritual title, it also has a slightly Spanish flavor that conjures visions of a sleepy town at sunset and an evoca...
In six pages this research paper focuses upon Wagner's first 2 'Ring' cycle operas and also disputes his influence upon the German...
In six pages this paper examines American musical theater in a consideration of the influence exerted by Stephen Sondheim. Four s...
In five pages this research paper examines Ravel and considers the similarities and differences between his compositions and those...
In five pages this paper examines Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite and 'Swan Lake in terms of the musical creation and performance. ...
In seven pages this paper discusses the life that fueled the creative fires of Leos Janacek. Seven sources are cited in the bibli...
life" that Schumann was leading in 1834 and he described this and other works done at this time, collectively, as his "summer nove...
up and down the keyboard and accompaniments vary from simple chords to arpeggios that span all possibilities (Pniewski, 1999). O...
In five pages Enigma Variations are examined in this report that describes the characteristics of the compositions of Sir Edward E...
particularly influential to this cultural understanding; the functions this artisan had upon the changing landscape was to demonst...
has the reputation of being "the paragon of Renaissance thinkers, engaged as he was in experiments of all kinds and having brought...
on the east and Convent Avenue on the west" ("Songs of the soul" SR1). During the 1920s, a "star-studded group of poet, writer, mu...
Empire was Romes attempt to revive the Western Roman Empire, which was dissolving and being replaced by independent kingdoms in th...
thinking and a new freedom. Perhaps this gave those who were inclined to change the impetus to do so. Many of the well known peopl...