World Of Music Essays and Term Papers

Kubrick Lives

The theory of authorship as applied to film directors is a subject that is argued extensively throughout the film world. The auteur theory was first introduced in the French film journal Cahiers du Cinema. Andrew Sarris who suggested that there are a group of filmmakers who fit into this ...

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A Brief History Of The Blues

Joseph Machlis says that the blues is a native American musical and verse form, with no direct European and African antecedents of which we know. (p. 578) In other words, it is a blending of both traditions. Something special and entirely different from either of its parent traditions. (Although ...

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Madonna

was born on August 16, 1958, in the city of Bay City, located in the state of Michigan. Her real birth name is Louise Ciccone. However, most people know her as simply . She is known as a controversial singer, actress, dancer, songwriter, and has become one of America's biggest and well- known ...

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Metallica

“If you came here to see spandex and big hair, this ain’t your band”, ’s “war cry” throughout the early eighties. While the rest of the hard rock bands wanted to get rich and a lot of women, , as in the words of former lead guitarist Dave Mustaine, “Our hole existence pretty much was guitar, ...

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Madonna

was born on August 16, 1958, in the city of Bay City, located in the state of Michigan. Her real birth name is Louise Ciccone. However, most people know her as simply . She is known as a controversial singer, actress, dancer, songwriter, and has become one of America's biggest and well-known ...

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Beethoven 2

Ludwig van Beethoven was, and remains today, an Olympian figure in the history of classical music. His influence on the last 150 years of music is unequalled; while generaly a member of the Classicist fold, he was in fact the first Romantic, and pre-figured virtually all music that followed the ...

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Bob Marley

was a Jamaican singer, guitarist, and songwriter, and a pioneer of Jamaican reggae music. He was considered one of the greatest artists of his time and was the first Jamaican reggae performer to achieve significant international stardom. Marley’s career stretched back over 20 years. During ...

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Lenonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein was born in Lawrence, just north of Boston, on Sunday, August 25, 1918. Bernstein was named Louis at birth, after his mother’s grandfather, but at the age of sixteen he had it formally changed to Leonard, or Lenny. As a child, Bernstein was sick very often with asthma and ...

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The Influence Of Black Slave Culture On Early America

The Black slaves of colonial America brought their own culture from Africa to the new land. Despite their persecution, the "slave culture" has contributed greatly to the development of America's own music, dance, art, and clothing. Music It is understandable that when Africans were torn from ...

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Mozart: Portrait Of A Genius

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born on January 27, 1756 in Salzburg, Austria. He was a centrally important composer of the Classical Era. On December 5, 1971, at the age of thirty five he died of typhoid fever, and was buried in a pauper’s grave on December 6, 1971. Elias says that for some ...

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The Goal of Movie Trailers

The Goal of Movie Trailers Movie trailers, much like any other text, use techniques through their rhetorical form and frame to catch a viewer’s attention. For example, two trailers advertising the movie “2012” have very different content, while still having the same purpose: to get viewers to ...

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The Blues

If you were choose a genre of music that had the largest effect on the western world, that would most definatly have to be the blues. In this essay I shall asses firstly where the blues came from and secondly the influence of the blues on not only modern day popular music but also the modern world ...

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Comparing Status and Income of Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven

Examine the status of Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven during their lifetime and comment about how the income from public performances and from publishing music gradually allowed them a degree of independence. (refer to specific dealings with their publishers as part of this.) The three composers ...

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Elements Of Romantic Aspect

Stanza 1 Man it's cold out here -- the poem's speaker starts by describing how the night is so frigid that even the animals are feeling it. It's also quiet. Specifically, it's the Eve of St. Agnes. In the meantime, it's not just owls and sheep who are getting cold: we now have a very chilly ...

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Louis Armstrong and Bix Beiderbecke

Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong was born in 1901 in the hub of American jazz and blues - New Orleans. His early years were particularly difficult ones. Poverty, racism and abandonment haunted his youth. His father left his mother when Louis was an infant. His mother also later abandoned the family (which ...

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Baroque Art

Baroque is a style of art that initially started in Italy. This artistic style later spread to other countries such as Spain, Austria, and France in the periods of the following the 17th century. The spread of Baroque was facilitated by its use by the Pope and the Catholic rulers. They further ...

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Elvis

On January 8, 1935 at 4:35 a.m., a little boy by the name of Aaron Presley was born to parents Vernon Presley and Gladys Love Presley in a two-room house located in Tupelo, Mississippi. Little did anyone know that this little boy would forever change the world of music and entertainment. ...

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Political Economy Of The Ancient India

1. India from the Paleolithic Period to the decline of the Indus Civilization 2. The early Muslim period(North India under Muslim hegemony, c. 1200-1526) 3.Early Muslim India (c. 1200-c. 1500). The Delhi sultanate 4. The Mughal Empire, 1526-1761 : The significance of Mughal rule The ...

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Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze" And The 1960s And 70s

The 1960's and 70's were a time of peace and rebellion. The so called "hippies" were creating their own environment. Many people were upset about political issues, Vietnam, equal right, and many other issues. The music of this time period described many of these problems in America. The song I ...

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Woodstock

was a rock music festival that took place near , New York in a town called Bethel. The festival took place over three days, August 15, 16, and 17, 1969. The original plan for was an outdoor rock festival, "three days of peace and music" in the Catskill village of . The festival was expected ...

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