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Western Music Essays and Term Papers
Chinese Music, the body of vocal and instrumental music composed and played by the Chinese people. For several thousand years Chinese culture was dominated by the teachings of the philosopher Confucius, who conceived of music in the highest sense as a means of calming the passions and of dispelling unrest and ...
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The Renaissance Church and Creation of MusicMusic
This is a two page paper concerning the renaissance church and creation of music. There are three references used for this paper.
Introduction
The early Renaissance church was instrumental in the creation of music. It is interesting to examine three musical elements and how the ...
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Bluegrass MusicBluegrass is a style of country and western music that developed
during the 1940s, based on traditional ballads, fiddle tunes, and gospel
hymnody of the southern Appalachian Mountains in the United States. It
evolved from the backwooks, blue-collar music of the South, particularly
Appalachia. ...
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History Of Western MusicMost of the early music that we have today still in print is primarily sacred music. This music, for the most part, is in the form of sections of the Mass, such as the Gloria, Kyrie and Agnus Dei. Most people of the Middle Ages were poor peasants who worked all day for meager wages and had no ...
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Mrs DallowayWhile writing and revising Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf was corresponding with E.M. Forster, who was working on A Passage to India. In September of 1921, she records in her diary: ``A letter from Morgan [Forster] this morning. He seems as critical of the East as of Bloomsbury, & sits dressed in a ...
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The Misconception Of Classical Music“The term classical is confusing because it has so many different meanings. Many people take classical music to mean anything that is not rock, jazz, folk or popular music.” I used to have a firm belief in the previous statement. I used to believe that all Western Europe concert music not from ...
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Music And The Global PerspectiveThe global perspective of music: we live in an increasingly smaller
“global village.” With advance in worldwide transportation and
communication and with increasingly mobile societies, it seems not only
appropriate but also necessary to develop a global perspective of music. A
global ...
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Major Personalities Behind The Secularization Of MusicMusic has been with us for a very long while. In fact, part of being human is an appreciation of the finer arts. However, music's role has remained anything but constant throughout history. Music has gone from a mathematical science to a synthesis of melody and harmony. Many wonderful pieces have ...
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JapanGeographical Setting
is an island country in the North Pacific Ocean. It lies off the northeast
coast of mainland Asia and faces Russia,Korea, and China. Four large islands and
thousands of smaller ones make up . The four major islands-
Hokkaido,Honshu,Kyushu and Shikoku form a curve that extends ...
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Persian Influence On Greco-romHe stands there, examining a beautiful white column, with perfect curves around it and an exquisite capital that shows detailed architecture. He twists his head to the right just a bit to read the official description. He is in the Louvre museum and a bit surprised. He was expecting to read ...
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Music In TherapyMusic Therapy is the use of music and music related activities to modify ineffective learning patterns, to promote emotional, mental, social and physical growth and to develop non-musical goals. Music Therapy is a creative, flexible and sometimes spontaneous means of using the appeal of music to ...
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History Of Jazz And Classical MusicUpon entering a modern record store, one is confronted with a
wide variety of choices in recorded music. These choices not only
include a multitude of artists, but also a wide diversity of music
categories. These categories run the gamut from easy listening dance
music to more complex art ...
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Jazz And Classical MusicUpon entering a modern record store, one is confronted with a wide variety of
choices in recorded music. These choices not only include a multitude of artists,
but also a wide diversity of music categories. These categories run the gamut
from easy listening dance music to more complex art music. ...
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History Of Arabic MusicArabic music is my favorite musical styling. Although I have come to enjoy classical and contemporary styling as well, Arabic music has almost an innate quality of enjoyment for me. Its songs speak of the life and culture of Arabic countries and its melody is not commonly heard on American radio ...
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Development Of The CarolThe seasonal songs popular in western music, especially in conjunction with the Christmas season, known as carols, have a rich and complex history full of tradition and controversy in the realms of both sacred and secular music.
The concept of singing carols to celebrate holidays developed during ...
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Dimitri ShostakovichDmitri Shostakovich, born on September 25, 1905, started taking piano lessons from his mother at the age of nine after he showed interest in a string quartet that practiced next door. He entered the Petrograd (formerly St. Petersburg, later Leningrad) Conservatory in 1919, where he studied the ...
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Western Filmsare the major defining genre of the American film industry, a eulogy to the early days of the expansive American frontier. They are one of the oldest, most enduring and flexible genres and one of the most characteristically American genres in their mythic origins - they focus on the West - in ...
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Rock MusicIn this essay, I'm going to introduce to the reader a topic not
touched a lot because of its complexity and its avoidance by conservative
adults. This topic is, of course, . During one week, I looked for
information in the library and at my house, and from the information I
gathered and my one ...
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Film Score MusicTo say that music plays a large role in our society would not do
justice to one of the most important and popular art forms of yesterday and
today. We underestimate the effectiveness and power that music, in any form ,
can have over even the most insensitive of people. In almost everything we ...
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