YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Three Brief Essays on Musical Topics
Essays 541 - 570
"Ive lived songs like that" (Billie Holiday, PG). MARIA CALLAS Born to a Greek family, Maria Callas was "American by birth and I...
played slightly louder, i.e. piano. The rhythm of the piece would be uniform 4/4 time, but the overall effect of the rhythm would...
book has had a significant influence on his characters and destiny (Johnson 9). During World War I, he lived with his mother and...
him or helping him . . . and why. What is likely to happen is that well see what weve pretty much always seen; which is that famo...
other entertainer in history" (117). Her face has adorned the covers of everything from Rolling Stone to the National Review, and...
of confines. The overall metaphor of this movie is the symbol of the rose. At one point a neighbor asks how the roses are grown s...
that she was highly influenced by his style (Gaume, 1986). Additional influential composers on Crawfords development were Adolph W...
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...
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...
dominant and subordinate ideologies, cultural ideology as a whole is something which exists in a multiplicity and its disparate el...
the employ of the Archbishop of Salzburg to take up a career as a free-lance artist in Vienna, a shadow fell over his career that ...
Bach considered music to be "a harmonious euphony to the Glory of God" (Machlis, 1970,p. 288). His primary instrument was the org...
The opening timpani set the stage for this new mood, while simultaneously recalling the main theme of the first movement. This is ...
extending it, varying it. Schubert accomplishes extending the rhythmic motif by added extra beats at both the beginning and the en...
As this suggests, their styles are quite different. Hawkins monopoly on the tenor sax ended in 1933 when he was playing with the...
from all records, it appears as though Mozart was not altogether happy as a child. One author notes the following: "When he was on...
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...
the location of excitation of the string (String Properties). For example, if the violin is bowed close to the bridge (sul pontice...
(Edgard Varese: Father of Electronic Music, 2002). In many ways, what gives Vareses music is particular structure is his early ...
Miles Davis, and many of the works which came from those periods are still considered classics today (Biography of Miles Davis, 20...
way, Mozart helped crystallize and clarify the performing arts for the residents of this city. The purpose of this paper will be t...
way of using sexuality and gender in various ways. Madonna When people think of Madonna their first thought is often related t...
cohesion-one must sense a beginning, a middle and an end. In "This Old Man," the melody follows a simple line that makes it easy...
Circumstances come to a crossroads for Seymour when he discovers an odd looking plant after a total eclipse of...
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...
In ten pages this report analyzes the musicals Eye of the Storm, Blood Brothersl, Ragtime, and Dracula. There are no other source...
In four pages this paper examines the Motet musical composition type that emerged during the thirteenth century. Eight sources ar...
Berkeleys choreography book, he creates mood through unusual camera angles, and heightens the films pace through "speeded-up, step...