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Musical Offering to Frederick the Great by Johann Sebastian Bach

the creation of a contrapuntal web. Schulenberg (1992) states that the term "ricercar" can also refer to a type of improvised pre...

Music and Its Role in the Classroom

already been addressed in the UK through "The Project Music in the Secondary School Curriculum." Which was established in 1973 at ...

Life and Song Cycle of Composer Franz Schubert

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

Classical Style Comparison of Franz Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

endlessly variety of moods (Machlis, 1970). Mozarts Music - in general Machlis (1970) comments that there is something of the "m...

Musical Innovations of John Cage

This process served to free Cage from the exigencies of the melodic line and traditional harmonic progression, and allowed Cage to...

Hong Kong and Hip Hop

in its early days was solely the province of black youth, who took a combination of social comment, alienation and African roots t...

Fan Culture Ideology and Music

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

Musical Analysis of Bjork

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...

Musical Instruments and Acoustics

the location of excitation of the string (String Properties). For example, if the violin is bowed close to the bridge (sul pontice...

Influential Jazz Musician Miles Davis

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

Life and Musical Artistry of Johann Sebastian Bach

Bach considered music to be "a harmonious euphony to the Glory of God" (Machlis, 1970,p. 288). His primary instrument was the org...

Beethoven's Ninth Symphony Concert Report

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

Jazz Pioneers Lester Young and Coleman Hawkins

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

Comparative Analysis of Works by Franz Liszt and Franz Schubert

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

Life and Music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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 ...

Society, Communication, and Music

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

Post Second World War Generation and Rock 'N Roll's Impact

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

Mozart's Life and Musical Art

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

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...

Bach/Cantata #61

2, 1714 (Whittaker 146). After examining the scriptural reading for this Sunday lesson, the first question that comes to mind is w...

Notebooks of Melanin Sun

This writer/tutor does not, of course, have any idea how the student feels on this topic, or, for that matter, the specific course...

Overview of the Chicano Band Los Lobos

began celebrating their cultures and communities in song with the Chicano variations of Woodstock festivals being staged throughou...

Music Education, Performance Skills

students develop advanced performance skills to a higher level of achievement when they have the opportunity to perform in small e...

Music of Guide D’Arezzo

1036 (Otten). It was after Guido arrived at Arrezo that he invented his new system of notation, which "brought such order and cl...

Thomas Nagel/”Moral Luck”

that are beyond their control. In other words, there are factors that affect the way in which an event is evaluated morally that a...

Monteverdi’s Orfeo

divisions.vi For twelve years he wrote music as a member of the court of the Duke of Mantua, before being appointed as choirmaster...

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 ...

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...

Patient Falls, Patient Safety and Communication

This paper is made up of three sections, with each section pertaining to a significant hospital administration issue. These topics...

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...