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In ten pages the directing styles of film musical directors Stanley Donen and Vincent Minnelli are contrasted and compared in term...

Fundraising is the lifeblood of many organizations, particularly not-for-profit ones. This paper presents an analysis of issues in...

In five pages this paper discusses the various depictions of King Arthur in the 1960 musical Camelot by Alan Jay Lerner and Freder...

This paper examines the career of Satchmo, Louis Armstrong. The author argues that Armstrong is one of the great American Jazz le...

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

chords (Osborne 327). This opera is quite famous for containing a great deal of Masonic symbolism, although Osborne stresses that ...

This process served to free Cage from the exigencies of the melodic line and traditional harmonic progression, and allowed Cage to...

towards him and is immediately attracted to her. He speaks to her and while his plea is a comment on her beauty, it is also a lame...

"Ive lived songs like that" (Billie Holiday, PG). MARIA CALLAS Born to a Greek family, Maria Callas was "American by birth and I...

played slightly louder, i.e. piano. The rhythm of the piece would be uniform 4/4 time, but the overall effect of the rhythm would...

in its early days was solely the province of black youth, who took a combination of social comment, alienation and African roots t...

provides color, form and melody throughout the work (Landon, 1956). In general, Mozart employed two types of punctuation tools t...

endlessly variety of moods (Machlis, 1970). Mozarts Music - in general Machlis (1970) comments that there is something of the "m...

book has had a significant influence on his characters and destiny (Johnson 9). During World War I, he lived with his mother and...

independent music publishing giant Rondor Music in the summer of 2000 from its co-founders Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss, it became t...

them - and his brother replied in the affirmative. This seemed satisfying enough an answer to Schubert who passed away later that...

In the various paintings, one can see an appreciation of nature figuring more prominently as well as a celebration of the emotiona...

recorded "Music for Airports" in 1978 (Brian Eno). While this story is certainly appealing, the student researching this topic sho...

already been addressed in the UK through "The Project Music in the Secondary School Curriculum." Which was established in 1973 at ...

Luhrmann, "In Moulin Rouge, our ultimate Red Curtain gesture, music and song is the device that releases us from a naturalistic wo...

inspired by the Cuban marimbula (American...Fredericks). Nevertheless, despite these diverse influences, musicologists agree that ...

observing the ships that crowd the harbor. Their serenity provides an interesting contrast to the business of the ships, and the c...

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...

which are primarily told through an oral tradition, combining the blues with the cultural wisdoms. "The blues are first represente...

cohesion-one must sense a beginning, a middle and an end. In "This Old Man," the melody follows a simple line that makes it easy...

cities and castles to defend lands against invasion, and they created bridges and hostelries to facilitate communication. But it ...

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

having some sense of its beauty and understanding rub off on her. I did not argue with her or ask to see her superior. It was as i...