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Motet While Gregorian chants were intended entirely for liturgical and worship purposes, this was not the case for later Renaiss...

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

Discusses various musical instrument classification models. There are 3 sources listed in the bibliography of this 6-page paper. ...

This research paper relies on the work of Margaret Kartomi to analyze the classification systems for musical instruments developed...

This research paper presents an overview of the issues of power that are associated with gender and specific musical instruments. ...

This research paper offers a brief overview of scales, maqamat, and ragas, which derive from Western Arabic and Indian music respe...

insists on separating "aesthetics, religion and medicine" into separate epistemological categories, is so engrained that it become...

melodies.5 The Classical era artists deviated from this example, and their music was considerably simpler in texture. New genres w...

(Machlis 242). A form of counterpoint is music that has a homophonic texture. This is when a single melody line accompanied by c...

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

of any kind. The notes and the instruments within any piece of music represent virtually everything, including inanimate objects,...

five" (Alexander Borodin, Cesar Cui, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Modeste Mussorgsky, and Mily Balakirev) (Ursin). Prior to the Russi...

Circumstances come to a crossroads for Seymour when he discovers an odd looking plant after a total eclipse of...

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...

displaying the familiar bent wrists, arched heads and thrusting pelvises that are characteristic of Fosses style (Kilpatrick, 2003...

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

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...

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

often spoken in interviews of her vengeful neighbors poisoning family dogs and even setting their cars on fire (Peterson, 2000). ...

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

greatly. In addition this figure, this woman, takes the center of the canvas for the most part, starting at the bottom of the pa...

to consume him. The audience could not help but to be drawn into his world for a while. Audience/Atmosphere The audience itself...

her stunning performance in Call Me Madam, many other notable roles followed. She continued to earn an outstanding reputation in ...

the first to rebel against Wagners "oppressive hyperchromatic harmonic language," creating a more flexible and open tonal organiza...

is this feature of sound that allows us to discern between two different in instruments playing the same note at the same amplitu...

When Julies friend Carrie leaves, but Julie lingers near the carousel, she and Billy are now along and can speak freely, if hesita...

Eazy went on to form NWA with Ice Cube and Dre and they released an album in 1987 (Erlewine). The rest, as they say is history. Of...

Robbins conceived, directed and choreographed West Side Story in 1957, which was written by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim...

expanse of this opening tutti as a whole, Mozart also introduces a loud closing cadence, which actually enters long before the tut...