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Comparison of Maurice Ravel's Bolero and Claude Debussy's Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun

will be unique to each person who hears the music. "Musically, only two composers represent Impressionism-Claude Debussy and Maur...

Ravel, Villa Lobos and Others Concert Report

movement marked Allero preciso, which suggests its lively and fast tempo. Then it slows during an andante movement and resumes an ...

John Philip Sousa, Jean Sibelius, and Nationalistic Music

From the beginning of a Sibelius work, the listener is immersed in a sound world that is entirely original and which conjures the ...

Content Regulations in Canada

as it has exposed Canadians to the tremendous musical talent available in Canada and ensured a Canadian presence on the airwaves.5...

Piano Concerto Number Two by Rachmaninoff

At this point in his life, Rachmaninoff spent his summers with his fathers wealthy sister, Varvara Satins, and he composed a deal ...

'Praxial Music Education' According to David Elliott

other reason than the fact that the results of human action cannot be adequately understood apart from the motives, intentions, an...

Korea and Jazz Music

they will not have to repeat those classes when they study at the Berklee later (Jazz popularizer feels upbeat, 2003). The systems...

A One Hundred Year Commemoration of September 11, 2001

of adding ominous color, perhaps an oboe or bass clarinet. This opposing theme would be in A minor, which is the relative minor of...

The Alex Blake Quartet in Concert

the floor tom-tom- for dynamic effect" (Alfaro). The group would break into a swing change and bounce back into a "hard Latin chop...

The Jazz Music of the Alex Blake Quartet

more jazz musicians will typically improvise simultaneously (Machlis 413). For all intents and purposes, Alex Blakes biography fo...

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...

Overview of the Chicano Band Los Lobos

began celebrating their cultures and communities in song with the Chicano variations of Woodstock festivals being staged throughou...

Music Education, Performance Skills

students develop advanced performance skills to a higher level of achievement when they have the opportunity to perform in small e...

Baroque, Classical and Romantic/Comparing 3 Works

sense of awe and wonder at the complex beauty of the music. The classical music of Beethoven blends the varied textures of the o...

Friendship in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

between Hobbits Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin is the primary focus of the trilogy, but there is also an interesting dynamic of thei...

Bach/Cantata #61

2, 1714 (Whittaker 146). After examining the scriptural reading for this Sunday lesson, the first question that comes to mind is w...

Gypsy, Etc.

("Gypsy"). Similarly, insight is gained into Roses character when she begins a tentative romance with Herbie. In their duet "Sma...

John Cage/His Impact on Music

"rubber, felt, or wood, as well as screws, nuts and bolts" (Machlis 632). The result of this preparation is that the piano produ...

Significance Of J.S. Bach's Canonic Variations On "Vom Himmel Hoch"

for the era in which Bach had produced these variations (Smith, 1996). The Advent melody is represented in four canonic statement...

Handel/2 Operas

and of the English choral sound" (Thiers). By this point, Handel had realized that in order for his music to be successful in Engl...

Debussy’s Sonata for Flute, Viola & Harp

the classical structure of "Exposition-Development-Restatement" (Machlis 340). There is a story that while attending a concert, De...

Article Summary of Robert Walser’s ‘Out of Notes’

heavily upon Henry Louis Gates Jr.s text The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism and applied the si...

A Concert with Richard Goode at Carnegie Hall

the work, communicating a haunting sense of despair and grief. Two subsidiary themes evolve from the primary motif, and seem to of...

Complying With Japanese Labor Laws

comply with U.S. labor laws, including the EEOC, no matter where their operations are but they must also comply with local laws an...

The Sociological Importance of Timba

the significant cultural role played by the timba musical genre in Cuban society, it is firstly important to understand the politi...

Prelude in C Minor/Chopin

the dominant, using G augmented (V), modulates to G7 on the sixteenth note transition, which returns the melody to Cm (I). Throu...

Beat Goes on for Cuba's Rhythmic Culture of Music

blending of West African rhythms with melodies from southern Spain (Roberts 4). This created the clave, which is typically a 3-2 ...

Sublime and Subjective Romanticism in William Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey”:

natural sublime."2 As is common in the thematic development of the sublime in Romanticism, the sensation is one of rapture and on...

Scott Joplin/Maple Leaf Rag

moved to St. Louis in 1901, which is when he produced a string of hits, such as The Entertainer, which was featured in the 1973 fi...

Mozart vs. Bach

Both Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Johann Sebastian Bach are cited among the giants of Classical and Baroque music. This paper exami...