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Minuet for String Quartet in D Major by Wolfgang Mozart

In four pages the intentions of the composer, the composition's structure, quality, and listener's emotional response are analyzed...

Symphony Three by Schumann, Piano Concerto 22 by Mozart, and Sarka by Smetana

because of the betrayal of her lover. The story of Sarka is supposed to have taken place in the rocky valley near Prague that bea...

French Composer Darius Milhaud

In five pages this prominent twentieth century composer is examined in terms of his life and more than four hundred works. Four s...

French Composer Maurice Ravel

In five pages this research paper examines Ravel and considers the similarities and differences between his compositions and those...

Russian Ballet Music of Composer Peter Illich Tchaikovsky

In five pages this paper examines Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite and 'Swan Lake in terms of the musical creation and performance. ...

Musical Genre Known as the Blues

In five pages this paper examines 3 influential composers and musical artists in this consideration of the blues genre. Five sour...

Nationalism and Composers Mendelssohn, Chopin, Brahms, and Dvorak

In four pages 4 important composers are considered in terms of their musical history influence with elements of each examined in a...

Fourth Symphony of Gustav Mahler

In five pages this research paper analyzes both the famed composer of the early 20th century and his Symphony No. 4. Four sources...

Polish Composer Karol Syzmanowski

homeland focused on the accoutrements of Polish uniqueness. Szymanowski was determinedly pro-Polish homeland in sentiment. He was...

Conducting an Orchestra and a Conductor's Role

of an orchestra into one cohesive form of musical expression. An examination of the role of the conductor and the intricacies th...

German Composer Heinrich Schutz and His Music

In five pages this research paper considers the music of Heinrich Schutz, often regarded as the greatest 17th century German Baroq...

Musical Structure of Petrushka by Composer Igor Stravinsky

appreciate; in doing so, he helped to educate the world on the merits of music through such classics as Petrushka. Stravinsky was...

Folk and Jazz Influences Upon Igor Stravinsky's Compositions

In ten pages this research paper examines how jazz and folk music profoundly influenced this Russian composer as he works clearly ...

Music of Composer Ruth Crawford Seeger

that she was highly influenced by his style (Gaume, 1986). Additional influential composers on Crawfords development were Adolph W...

3 Essays on Romantic Composers

up and down the keyboard and accompaniments vary from simple chords to arpeggios that span all possibilities (Pniewski, 1999). O...

French Composer Charles Gounod's Life and Music

1937). Gounod was equally gifted in art and for a time seemed torn between the two but a musical epiphany he had at age 13 would ...

The Twelve Tone Scale

recordings listened to at home. On the other hand, Stockhausen argued that the new music, electronic music, which embody new co...

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...

Concerto Grosso Number 4 in A Minor by Charles Avison

This was not an uncommon practice at the time. Bach did virtually the same thing with some of Vivaldis composition. One commentato...

Composition of a Higher Renaissance Religious Mass

the opening, your next task is to turn to a declamatory delivery of the words "ut animalia viderent Dominium natum" (that the anim...

The Renaissance and Female Composers

a woman did have talent and want to compose, Brown tells us her only choice was to enter a convent, where she would "receive the p...

Cultural Icons of Russia

In three pages this paper examines Russia's rich cultural history in a consideration of its dancers, artists, composers, and write...

'Classical' and 'Pop' Gap That Was George Gershwin

a "serious" composer by the critics, they were extremely mindful that Gershwin did not orchestrate the first performance of Rhapso...

Art Music Composers and Jazz's Influence

the realm of art music during the course of his career, George Gershwin. While Stravinskys work shows the influence of jazz, it wa...

Romantic Musical Composer Robert Schumann

life" that Schumann was leading in 1834 and he described this and other works done at this time, collectively, as his "summer nove...

Electronic Music History

Debussy advocated the "emancipation of dissonance" (Machlis, 1961). A more immediate precursor of electronic music was Edgar Vares...

French Composer Oliver Messiaen

In fifteen pages this research paper discusses the life of this French composer and analyzes his music in terms of his uses of bir...

Influence of Beethoven

In a research paper consisting of six pages the powerful influence Beethoven had on the composers that followed are discussed with...

Classical versus Romantic Music and Meaning

like the painters and poets of this era, they subordinated emotional expression to an accepted standard of "rules" of form.2. Th...

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...