Tag: Music
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo: Musical Play Review
Les Miserables known in English as “The Terrible” is a musical portrayal of the French Revolution. It is a musical tragedy, which served as...
America – Rich Artistic Background
America holds a rich artistic background, expressively reflecting the circumstances and times of their place. Of these creative endeavors, the most cultural and uniquely...
S & M: No Leaf Clover
The talent of an artist rests in the ability to recreate a sense of reality, and to communicate such an experience. When such timeless...
Examination of Music History
A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. " - W. H. Auden....
The Music of Issac Albeniz
Isaac Albniz was a nationalist composer, and one of the greatest composers Spain has ever produced. Among the many musicologists who have researched and...
Rap and Censorship
The beginnings of rap are believed to based on African rhythms which were used as a form of communication by the native peoples. The...
The Offspring Essay
The Offspring have been playing punk rock since 1986 when Holland and Kreisel (Greg K) got together through their high school cross country track...
Rapper Tupac Shakur
Famous rapper Tupac Shakur, who was almost broke when he died last September, now has people fighting over his estate. From the moment his...
Bon Jovi, a popular pop/rock band
Bon Jovi is a popular pop/rock band. The band members are Jon Bon Jovi, Richard Sambora, David Bryan, and Tico Torres. The rock group,...
An Evaluation Of Nullsoft Winamp
Nullsoft Winamp is a fast, flexible, high fidelity music player for Windows 95/98/NT. Winamp supports MP3, MP2, CD, MOD, WAV and other audio formats....
Construction and Playing
The main parts of the violin are the front, also called the belly, top, or soundboard, usually made of well-seasoned spruce; the back, usually...
Music Sharing: A Question of Ethics
It has been around for centuries, possibly one of the most important staple in all cultures. The uses vary between all societies. The importance...
Napster First Amendment right
Napster (http://www. Napster. com) is a company that operates exclusively online as a virtual music forum. Napster not only allows its visitors the ability...
Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin
The song I chose for analysis is Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin. I have looked over the lyrics of the songs and come...
Censorship In Music
Censorship in music is a topic that has brought about much controversy in the past two decades. There have been many different arguments on...
A View on Censorship in Music and the Government
The censorship of music and other forms of entertainment by the government have long been the topic of discussion among social and political circles....
The Online-Music Community – Napster
The Internet is an extremely useful resource. Using it, one can obtain information on nearly any topic. A relatively new item of Internet technology...
Recording Industry Association of America
Napster creates a threat to the music industry, which includes Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and well-known musical groups, because it diminishes their...
The Influence of Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong was the most successful and talented jazz musician in history. His influence and expansive career continues to make waves in the jazz...
Jazz Is Really Big And Popular In Europe
When it comes to music, most people don't say they like it. People say they like heavy metal, pop, rhythm and blues, or any...
The Beatles Paper
There have been more books published about one 20th century icon than any other, this band that is said to have broken down barriers...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
"The classical period produced more instrumental than vocal music, a wealth of serious and comic operas as well as vocal religious music also appeared...
An introduction to ‘The Rite of Spring’
The part I of the Rite of Spring starts with an "introduction". The texture at the very beginning is extremely thin, and the only...
The Doors Biography
From their beginnings during the summer of 1965 at Venice Beach, California, The Doors were a band of creative energy, with most of the...
Censorship In Music
Censorship in music is a topic that has brought about much controversy in the past two decades. There have been many different arguments on...
Online Music Sharing
Will cds and cassettes soon become extinct like the 8 track and vinyl records? Well, that very well may become the case due to...
Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony
It has been called the greatest audio entity one could ever listen to; a song which can pierce the soul of even the most...
Click vs. Brick: An exploration of mp3 file sharing and mp3
In traditional ethical studies, the classic problem is the starving man can a starving man ethically steal a loaf of bread if he has...
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra founded in 1895, gave its first concert the following year under the direction of Frederic Archer. Victor Herbert was the chief...
The new musical “RENT”
There's a scene in the new musical "RENT" that may be the quintessential romantic moment of the '90s. Roger, a struggling rock musician, and...
Are You Experienced
The Jimi Hendrix Experience released its first album in early 1967. Popular music had been leaning towards psychedelics for a couple years already and...
Carl Orff’s philosophies in Music Education
While Carl Orff is a very seminal composer of the 20th century, his greatest success and influence has been in the field of Music...
The Aesthetics of Pop Music
In just about every home in America at just about any given time the words: "It all sounds the same these days! " is...
The Development of Modern Rap
Rap music as a musical form began among the youth of South Bronx, New York in the mid 1970as. Individuals such Kool Herc and...
Napster, The Internet, And Mp3s
The Internet. It is a vast network of millions of users, surfing and sharing billions of files, all day, every day. This scares many...
Jazz and Classical Music
Jazz and Classical Music Upon entering a modern record store, one is confronted with a wide variety of choices in recorded music. These choices...
Johann Sebastian Bach
Regarded as perhaps the greatest composer of all time, Bach was known during his lifetime primarily as an outstanding organ player and technician. The...
The Development Of Jazz
Ragtime was a very influential part of the development of jazz. Ragtime became very popular in the late 1800's. Ragtime's distinct style set it...
Pink Floyd Report
In March of 1994, Pink Floyd released another album after a seven-year break from the music business. The Division Bell set off a US...
Napster Problem or Solution
?In mid-1999, 19 year old Northeastern University student Shawn Fanning designed a computer program that allowed one to log on to a central server,...
Digital-Music Program
If you want to know where a Silicon Valley-ite stands in the ongoing war for the soul of the Internet, just ask him or...
Music Defines Dress
Often I have found myself people watching for the amusement of everyday life. Not by luck or sheer investigation, I have noticed something that...
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)
A battle is being fought over how we access our music. Technology has greatly changed the days of going to the record store to...
The Roots of Blues Music
Blues is a very important type of music. Most music that you hear today has some form of blues in it. If it wasn't...
Napster and Intellectual Property
The Internet. It is a vast network of millions of users, surfing and sharing billions of files, all day, every day. To individuals holding...
Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach was one of the greatest composers in Western musical history. More than 1,000 of his compositions survive. Some examples are the...
The System Of Musical Notation
For a very long time music was not written down. It was sung or played from memory. As it was passed on from person...
Jim Morrison, a drunk musician
Jim Morrison is often thought of as a drunk musician. He is also portrayed to many as an addict and another 'doped up' rock...
The emotional creativity of Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven has been called one of the greatest composers to ever live. His emotionally charged creations of poetry in music are world...
The Philosophical and Sociological Developments for Bebop During the 1940s
When discussing the history of Jazz, an important type of music is developed that changed the music industry. This music, bebop, helped to influence...
