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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...

Musical Systems: Scales, Maqamat, and Ragas

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

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...

Twentieth Century Music, Various Aspects

This research paper/essay consists of two parts. The first half of the paper pertains to three works in which the composer turned ...

Opening Sequence Analysis of the 1979 Film Apocalypse Now

foundation, upon which the subsequent action and characterizations are constructed. The mise-en-scene, which is featured in the o...

Analyzing Milos Forman's Film Amadeus

film, which is told via flashbacks by Salieri, who is in an asylum after attempting suicide, and concentrates on the final ten yea...

Pain Management and Music Therapy

a role, as well as the elements of the music itself. Studies show that slow rhythms tend to be calming, while faster tempos tend t...

Music Considered in 4 Brief Essays

iridescent beauty. Bergs "Wozzeck" Alban Bergs opera "Wozzeck" is considered by many to be his masterpiece. Each scene of Act II...

Punk Rock's Political Influence

the seventies. It had to have gained some attention for itself and the issues that were being addressed simply because it was new,...

An Aesthetician's Perspective on Art

did my spirit seal; / I had no human fears: / She seemed a thing that could not feel / The touch of earthly years."1 Romance expr...

Grade Point Averages and Music Education

music as it relates to the basic cognitive and emotional systems that are the foundation of thought, feeling, and behavior" (2000,...

Issues of Emotional Identification in Film

Hitchcocks movie, Vertigo. This whole movie is centered around one man and his inability to let go of an old love. The story, in b...

National Identity and Ethnic Music

band Yothu Yindi, has asserted that popular music provides a useful tool to propagate Aboriginal political awareness: (Dunbar-Hall...

Aural Training and Music Education

to call "yoo hoo" to each student and have each student answer back (Junda, 1994). Aural training is an integral part of the Ya...

Life and Short Stories of Ring Lardner

who they had both known was sent to the hospital after the game that day. Grimes, not realizing the Lardner is a reporter, and Lar...

Connection Between Sexuality and Pop Music

many different perceptions of morality. Therefore, without necessarily discussing the morality aspects of sexuality in music, the...

Copyright Law and Music Piracy

networks had in fact learned the game from Napster ("Music" PG). They operate today without legal challenges (PG). Napster of cour...

1960s and 1970s Music Photography

of a burned-out blues singer named Janis Joplin, clutching her constant companion, a bottle of Southern Comfort, backstage after a...

Analysis of the Fourth Act of Aida by Giuseppe Verdi

Radames will be condemned as a traitor! Yet, a traitor he is not!" (p. 259). The piano accompaniment that is given with this score...

Russian Ballet and Musical Development and the Impact of the Bolshevik Revolution

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

The Minute Waltz by Frederic Chopin

grief for his homeland in the Revolutionary Etude (Machlis 82). Chopin arrived in Paris in 1831 and the majority of his musical c...

Popular Music, Gender, Sexuality, and Cultural Identity

way of using sexuality and gender in various ways. Madonna When people think of Madonna their first thought is often related t...

Interests in Immigration, Sky Diving or Rap Music

This illustrates that even if one is not incredibly interested in rap music, one can appreciate it for many different things. A...

TV Violence and Women

itself appear erotic to the male viewer (Marks, 2000). A report on prime-time broadcast network TV issued in 2002 by the National...

Research Proposal; Why Do Collage Students Have a Permissive Attitude Towards Piracy?University Students, Permissive Attitudes and Piracy

as acceptable this will give a greater insight to how the problem may be solved in the future and the best approach to take that m...

Beethoven's Eroica

goes that Beethoven was inspired by the principles of the French Revolution and, specifically, the person of Napoleon Bonaparte in...

Babies and Bach

sites, such as GeniusBabies.com, assert that their embryonic learning system, which includes music, can turn the neonate into a ge...

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 ...

Music of Samoa

significance (Amerika Samoa). These dances are "elegant, vibrant and sometimes erotic" (Amerika Samoa). Author Robert Louis Stev...

1960s' Civil Rights Music and Martin Luther King Jr.

all, a wild animal will fight to be free of restraints as well and this does not indicate that they are good, nor does it indicate...