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This essay presents an overview of the Baroque musical era. The writer talks about the features of the music, defines certain musi...
demonstrated in collection of pieces, "The Well-Tempered Clavier." With this discovery, the stage was set for Baroque music to flo...
through the performance of ecclesiastic music because of their contributions within that context. Johann Sebastian Bach pro...
Motet While Gregorian chants were intended entirely for liturgical and worship purposes, this was not the case for later Renaiss...
In five pages this paper considers Baroque and Romantic music and visual arts from a social perspective with the music of Purcell ...
Baroque" age in his music (Machlis, 1970, p. 277). Monteverdi is credited with composing the first actual opera (Felon, 1986, p. 2...
his era, as his compendium of work transverses boundaries, "fusing the three great national traditions of his time," which are "G...
the detrimental emotional and psychological effects that this type of music has on young people. However, besides examining the su...
not explicitly intended to depict any concrete object or situation, but rather seeks to create a "mood or atmosphere," which elici...
anthem music spread more rapidly in the South (Tanner, 2006). It was the minstrel shows that were most responsible for this musics...
used two themes, which were contrasted by the composer within a homophonic texture. In other words, the fugue depended on theme ...
tonal. However, there is also no denying that this tonality differed from what would come later (Chafe xv). A mode is a specific p...
In five pages this research paper considers the music of Heinrich Schutz, often regarded as the greatest 17th century German Baroq...
This research paper briefly describes the dance music within the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical periods. Two pages in length, ...
of Josquin in the manner in which one pair of voices appears to be pitted against another (Machlis 259). Claudio Monteverdis mus...
Both Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Johann Sebastian Bach are cited among the giants of Classical and Baroque music. This paper exami...
Architectural fetishism came of age during the Renaissance. Classified as a magically empowered inanimate object, a fetish may ta...
period saw one of the most important changes in all of music history-the "transition from the medieval church modes to major-minor...
time," then shortened to "ragtime" (Porter, 1973, p. 2). The innovations that Joplin brought to ragtime were remarkable and uniqu...
physical differences between a modern cello and the typical eighteenth century instrument. For one thing, there is a wedge under ...
This was not an uncommon practice at the time. Bach did virtually the same thing with some of Vivaldis composition. One commentato...
In many ways the terms Baroque and Rococo can be interchangeable as "Baroque and late Baroque, or Rococo, are loosely defined term...
the accompaniment of the "Indian sitar, the rebab or bowed choraphone, the suling or bamboo flute, the gendang, kenong and saron o...
disturbing since music has been shown to be important to child development "physically, emotionally, intellectually, socially and ...
the element of chance, such as the chance imperfections that are seen in a finely produced piece of paper, such as one having a wa...
the case for most cultures, voice accompaniment occurs in some traditional Pakastani music but is absent in others. My preference...
In ten pages this research paper considers the music of the aboriginal peoples of Australia in this informational overview that di...
This 4 page paper gives an overview of how African beats and music have influenced dance. This paper includes Fela Anikulapo's mus...
This 8 page paper gives an overview of the position of both secular and sacred music within the African American Church. This pape...
This essay presents a detailed overview of the career of Thomas A. Dorsey, the Father of Gospel Music. Also, the writer describes ...