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Harvard Case Study of BMG Entertainment

Record companies relied on radio stations to give their products airplay so potential consumers could hear them and then purchase ...

Music School Application Letter Sample

know from personal experience if my training has had this result, but there is no denying that musical scales are very close to be...

Musical Representations of Various Eras

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

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...

The Recorded Music Industry In The UK

There is an increased use of MP3 players, and new mobile phone models are entering the market which are capable of downloading mus...

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 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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Johnny Cash and Love

"go home and sin" which illustrates country music was about doing wrong, and having troubles, not about God and religion (The Life...

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 ...

Jazz as Modernism

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

Popular Culture of 1950s America

not something that sprung up in the 1990s or 1980s. Yes, it is a 1950s phenomenon ("Film History of the 1950s"). McDonalds was fra...

Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and the Blues of the African-American Experience

a subtle reminder particularly to African-American women of how far they had come as a race and how much further they needed to go...

Music Therapy and Stroke Victims

that "responding to music is an innate human capacity, unimpaired by injury, handicap or trauma" (Case and Else, 2003, p. 43). The...

The Dissemination and Marketing of Music from Tin Pan Alley to the Modern Day

publishing of magazines or stationary (Tawa, 1990). The main method of distribution involved composers approaching the publishers...

Napster

change was to move the company away from the free format to one where there was a fixed fee subscription. This reduced the number ...

Medieval Christianity: Music and Sculptures

liturgy provided innumerable texts, all set to music in the style we call Gregorian chant. The church served as an important patro...

Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony/An Analysis

motive over and over again in different forms (Grove 149). The lyrical second theme introduces a brief respite of relaxation, bu...

Beethoven, Life, Music and Romanticism

not attached to any one court or one prince. Rather, he received income in various ways, such as in giving music lessons to aristo...

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...

The Financing of Opera in London in the 1730’s

leading up to it. Heideggers Italian opera company had failed in 1717 due to its inability to control costs and the failur...

DOWNLOADING MUSIC -- FOR FREE

The group, in fact, leaked its song, "The Shepherds Dog" via a CD advance which was sent to a magazine for review (Eskenazi, 2007)...

The Humanities

is all very fine, but why bother to study him when we could be learning computers? Because studying the humanities gives us insigh...

iPod And iTunes; the Potential Impact of Microsoft's Zune

Microsoft with the launch of Zune, or has Apple learned its lessons and will it be able to retain the dominant position. With th...

Brazilian Samba Music

de enredo" to the more "relaxed guitar and rhythm variant" of song samba (Clifford). Sambas earliest beginnings can be traced to t...

Mozart Effect/Beneficial or a Gimmick?

speech and language abilities" (Calkins and Kelley, 2007, p. 151). This is particularly interest in light of the fact that the ori...