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Star Wars by John Williams

This essay offers an overview of the melody and harmony used in John William's main theme from Star Wars. The writer compares Will...

Film Review, Cool Hand Luke

This essay uses research to offer an overview of "Cool Hand Luke," a 1967 film directed by Stuart Rosenberg. Cinematic features, s...

The Djembe, An Overview

This research paper presents an extensive overview of the djembe, which is a drum that originated in West Africa. The paper offers...

Dance Music in Musical History

This research paper briefly describes the dance music within the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical periods. Two pages in length, ...

Music and the Sexualization of Women

The number and diversity of those involved in the debate surrounding the sexualization of women is overwhelming. Research abounds...

Falasha Liturgy and Indian Cassette Industry, Reflection on these Issues

were struck by the similarities between Falasha liturgical practices and Judaism and this perspective became so entrenched that in...

Issues in Ethnomusicology, Agawu and McClary

(Agawu, 1992, p. 246). At this point, Agawu states that the purpose of his essay is to critique ethnomusicology writing that has f...

Analysis of Merriam's Preface

were the focus of their analyses (Merriam "Definitions" 193). Furthermore, as Jaap Kunst pointed out in 1950 text, musicology "doe...

Thoughts on Music and Worship

This essay pertains to the debate in Christian churches over what sort of music should be played during services, traditional hymn...

"Music Within," The Story of Richard Pimentel

This essay presents a movie review of "Music Within," (2007, directed by Steven Sawalich). The film stars Ron Livingston as Richa...

Questions on Media, Power and Culture

This paper covers three issues, which pertain to music piracy, radio and analysis of a media image on drunk driving. Five pages in...

Beauty of Byzantine Music

This paper is comprised of two sections. The first section is an annotated bibliography, which describes the source material that ...

When Are Your Creations Yours

Copyright laws have been in force for decades. They tend to be somewhat vague leaving people confused about things like plagiarism...

Score Analysis, "The Temptations"

This paper presents a summary and analysis of a scene in "The Temptations," which is a 1998 TV movie that focuses on the 1960s mus...

Baroque Music, An Overview

This essay presents an overview of the Baroque musical era. The writer talks about the features of the music, defines certain musi...

Dido and Aeneas/Henry Purcell

This paper is on Henry Purcell's opera "Dido and Aeneas." It offers a summary of the plot and discussion of different characterist...

The Theatre of Ancient Greece

This 12 page paper gives an overview of the history of the theatre in ancient Greece and the connection with mythology. This paper...

Black Worship, Relevance of Music

This research paper/essay discusses the significance of music in black worship services. Eight pages in length, five sources are c...

Burning CDs/Ethical Issues

and spread of music, but "bad" in that it could, conceivably, destroy the source of this music, the recording industry. However, i...

Children’s Perceptions of Adults

is presumably himself, as an adult, looking back at the things his father did for him. These are things that the child clearly nev...

Lute in Renaissance Music

woodworkers who practiced their craft in northern Italian cities crafted lutes that generally had "six courses and pear shaped bod...

A Critique on the October, 2008 Ringtone Decision

to royalties for the songs that are used as ringtones. In early October of 2008, the Copyright Royalty Board decided to freeze the...

Blues and James Baldwin’s Short Story “Sonny’s Blues”

their late mother, who was the familys support system. Of her, the narrator would recall, "I always see her wearing pale blue" (B...

Lerner and Lowe's Brigadoon

everything of importance in this musical is conveys via song, music or motion, as these are the vehicles that seem at home on the ...

Music History, Classical Era to the 20th Century

as an example of perfection ("Romantic"). The sociopolitical upheavals of the late eighteenth century created "new social order an...

A Short History of Franco-Flemish and Venetian Schools of Art and Music

of Flemish techniques with established French style became the Franco-French school, with the earliest known innovators being the ...

Music Industry Decision Making

leads both the US and Europe, and by a wide margin (Cieslak, 2007). As digital forms continue to evolve, if CD sales contin...

Music Sharing is Not Unethical

management, as well as the creation and distribution of their CDs. Now, with the Internet, widespread ownership of CD burners and ...

Jazz as Modernism

Jazz breaks free of restrictions of form and structure, melody and harmony. Jazz allows composers to take "freer liberties with a ...

Music in the Films of the Coen Brothers

examined, one could perhaps argue that this is the one film wherein music was almost non-existent. Ethan Coen, in relationship to ...