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Amy Marcy Cheney Beach
Amy Marcy Cheney Beach
Introduction
Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (1867-1944), America's first prominent woman composer, wrote about her troubled relationship with her pianist mother, Clara Imogene Marcy Cheney. Clara used music as punishment by playing music that made her child prodigy daughter despondent or limiting access to the piano ...
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Romantic
Beethoven's Symphony and Romance
European classical music and its history cannot be completed without the name of Ludwig van Beethoven. He is recognized as the great composer accepted universally. His music is still performed, discussed and reviewed. His music has great importance and his work is the most influential work. Development ...
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Le Nozze Di Figaro Character Comparison: (Almaviva and Susanna)
Le Nozze Di Figaro Character Comparison: (Almaviva and Susanna)
Le nozze di Figaro or The Marriage of Figaro Marriage of Figaro is an opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, KV 492nd The Italian libretto is by Lorenzo da Ponte and is based on the ...
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Concert Review
Concert Review
I happen to witness the concert of the famous quintessential stadium rock bond U2. The concert was held at the Cowboys Stadium in North Texas city of Dallas in October 2009. The location and the reputation of U2 to make the audience dance on the beat of their ...
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Rhythm and Blues
Rhythm and Blues
Introduction
Rhythm and blues, abbreviated as R & B is a famous genre of African American Music. Initially, the term described the recordings, marketed in the urban areas of African America; during the days when urbane rocking, jazz based music with heavy and insistent beat was quickly ...
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IMPROVISATION IN CLASSICAL AND JAZZ MUSIC
An Analysis Of Improvisation In Classical And Jazz Music
ABSTRACT
Jazz improvisation takes place at several levels, being able to say that all members of a group (or combo ) are improvising in one form or another almost the entire duration of the interpretation. We say almost, not all ...
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ORCHESTRA
West Side Story
West Side Story
Background
A much performed American musical by Leonard Bernstein (1918-90), with lyrics by Stephen Sondheim (b.1930). It was first staged in 1957. The story is an updated version of Romeo and Juliet set in New York's West Side dockland area, with the Montagues and Capulets ...
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War Horse
War Horse
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"The War Horse," the title Movie sound track of Eavan Boland's 1975 collection War Horse Poems, uses a trivial incident—a tinker's horse's blundering away from Enniskerry Road, site of the 200-year-old Fernhill Gardens, and through a resident's yard—as an image of violence, of an ordinary person's reaction to ...
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Music
Music
Music has such strong power and influence that changes the mood of an individual. Same is the case with me, I regularly listen to music of different artist and give me a pleasing effect. I did not have any favourite singer, I opted to listen to whatever I ...
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Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash
Nicknamed 'The Man in Black', Cash, with his distinctive, slightly fluttery, baritone, was one of the few country performers widely known outside country music circles. Though he first achieved success in the rock'n'roll era and became a country superstar at a time when country performers were increasingly seeking ...