Essays on Bach.

In research conducted by Rauscher, Shaw, and Ky (1993), the result of listening to music composed by the musician Mozart was an short-term improvement in tasks associated with spatial-temporal reasoning. The researchers hypothesized that higher brain functions correlate with music cognition. Dubbed the “Mozart Effect” by Dr. Alfred Tomatis, subsequent experiments differed on whether the influence is significant. While some studies support the proposed impact (Ivanov & Geake, 2003; Rauscher, Robinson, and Jens, 1998; Rideout & Laubach, 1996), others do not (Chabris, 1999; Mehr, Schachner, Katz, & Spelke, 2013; Steele, Bass, & Crook, 1999). This paper is an analysis of the research by ...

The instrument I have chosen is the flute. It is included in all major orchestras. This can include a standard flute, alto flute and piccolo, which his part of the flute family. Flutes are part of the woodwind family within an orchestra. 1. Manufacturer: Woodwind and Brasswind http://www.wwbw.com/Buyer-Guides-Flute-g25079t0.wwbwThis is a comprehensive buyer’s guide for flutes. It includes a visual diagram of the parts of the flute, including the crown, foot joint and body. There is also a guide for the different kinds of flutes: intermediate, professional and artisan. The interactive component is the actual buying guide, live chat, ...

Introduction

Background In the contemporary business environment, the role of Human Resources has become a crucial and important component. Many traditional perceptions suggest that the HR is only perceived as a department to source and acquired new talents. However, most of the HR activities are far beyond the sourcing and employing the new employees. Human Resources Managers are involved in planning, coordinating, and directing the administrative responsibilities of the organization. According to Bach and Edwards (2013), human resources management allows organization and establishment of employment conditions that allows the employees to achieve the desired productive output while satisfying a wide ...

Technology is the advancement of methods and tools that are used to achieve a particular goal. In a classroom, the advancement can be anything past a pencil, paper or chalkboard. The use of technology in teaching enables a student to deepen the learning experience. The tools of IT used in education are such as tablets, presentation software, conferencing tools and others (Bach, Shirley, Haynes and Jennifer 13). The IT tools used more is the internet. The Internet is used to both manage and motivate the classroom. It pushes students by making the process of expedite of information easier. It ...

The aesthetics of the Baroque era and it's addiction to motion and scale was reflected not only in architecture, sculpture and painting, but it has mainly become obvious in the music. The world of contrasts, contradictions and passion was expressed by major and minor keys. The meaning of the major key is joy, the slightest nuances from tenderness to exultant. The minor key means sadness in melancholy and tragic desperation.

RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE

Musical culture in the XVII and the beginning of the XVIII century has been developed in the frame of Baroque style (Claude 3). It has created new art principles ...

Appreciating culture is one of the most difficult yet rewarding experiences. There are so many pieces of art across so many decades that one does not know where to start unless given some kind of guidance. I chose J. S. Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury and Jonathan Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs in order to evaluate culture and its values. One of the greatest composers of all time was Johann Sebastian Bach. His music is greatly revered as some of the best even to this day. I listened to his ...

Summary

Apple is a technology multinational corporation headquartered in California that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics all over the world. Nokia is a company related to communication and information technology and headquartered in Finland. Both companies are leaders that managed complexity, ambiguity, and change within their organizations but results achieved prove to be beneficial for Apple . Nokia leadership lacks in efficiently applying their relevant strategies that could provide expected outcomes. There are many factors including a collection of information, quick response, analyzing risks, and preparation of alternative strategies that resulted in the success of Apple. Nokia failed to obtain ...

People now struggle to be unordinary as the modern world requires us to be. David Cope is one of those who did managed to compose something that can wow humanity today; fortunately or not, he came into another understanding of the word “creativity”. “In his view, all music — and, really, any creative pursuit — is largely based on previously created works. Call it standing on the shoulders of giants; call it plagiarism. Everything we create is just a product of recombination” (Blitstein). David Cope is the one who combined the artificial intelligence and music. We are told that he tried ...

Hanover Baroque

Type of Concert: Trio Sonata General reaction: I found the concert very smoothing. The venue, at a local episcopal church, was beautiful, and well suited to the small-ensemble, or more chamber style music presented by the trio. There was a sense of both tranquility and ease that punctuated the concert as a result of the combination between the building’s ambiance and the musical genre on display. Concert Summary: The musical concert I attended was a trio, consisting of a violin, a flute, and a harpsichord. Overall, it involved music by eight different composers, each of which took a ...

LIST YOUR INSTRUCTOR’S NAME

LIST THE COURSE LIST THE DATE THE ESSAY IS FILED The Context of the World of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Introduction Creative work in the arts emerges in the context of several elements. These create influences for the artist, painter and sculptor. For example, one’s appreciation of a Claude Monet painting is noticeably enhanced after visiting his garden and home in Giverny, France. The same is true of music composers. This brief essay examines important aspects of life surrounding composer Johann Sebastian Bach in the hope that reviewing general Baroque period influences, especially those from societal practices, visual ...

Individuals with severe symptoms of a mental health condition, which pose a danger to their safety and health and that of others, require treatment in in-patient settings (IPPN & NHS, 2015). Around 23,600 persons were admitted into mental health units in 2014 with a median duration of stay of 23 days (HSIC, 2014). In-patient suicide is a serious adverse event and is defined as intentional self-harm leading to death (DOH, 2014) in the hospital following admission on a voluntary basis or involuntary basis sanctioned by the Mental Health Act (IPPN & NHS, 2015). Despite a significant decline in deaths compared ...

Intro

America’s rising population, shifting demographics and growing epidemics will continue to present urgent challenges for our healthcare system in 2016. The primary challenge continues to be the availability of primary care physicians to meet the continuously growing demand for healthcare services. Expanded insurance coverage resulting from the Affordable Care Act, aging baby boomers and the rise of medical disorders such as diabetes and obesity are cumulatively impacting the need for additional primary care workers. Of particular concern is the fact that, currently, only 9 percent of US medical students will select the two adult primary care careers - ...

Employee Resourcing

Employee resourcing entails HR concern with a range of approaches and methods used by the employers for resourcing the organizations in a manner that enables them to meet the key organizational goals. Thus, it involves the staffing including recruitment and selection as well as retention and the dismissal. Also, it involves, performance management including the appraisal as well as the management of employees performance. Further, it involves administration functions such as policy development, documentation, and procedural development as well as management of change (Beardwell, Holden & Claydon, 2004). However, although there is general agreement regarding what constitutes areas such as ...

Introduction

Domenico Scarlatti is one of the most well known Italian Baroque composers. He is best known for his work on the keyboard sonatas. It is known that most of his life he worked for the royal families in Spain and France. While working for the royal family in Spain, he was able to compose over 500 sonatas. Dominico Scarlatti’s history and time spent in Spain has influenced his famous sonatas compositions that use the Spanish guitar style.

History of Domenico Scarlatti

Domenico Scarlatti was born on October 26, 1685 in Naples and died on July 23, 1757 in Madrid. It is known ...

The article “Tobacco Ties That Bind” was written by Peter Bach, in the New York Times on 10th April 2014. Bach is a pulmonary medical doctor who works at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center as the Director in charge of the Center for Health Policy and Outcomes. This article is for general readership considering it is in the New York Times and also because of the non-technical and accessible language it utilizes. He also employs the first person pronoun as a way of drawing the audience closer. Moreover, Bach makes this piece interactive by using rhetorical questions ...

Causes of Wrongful Conviction

Law leading scholars argue that the courts are the most unexamined public institutions in the world. According to Gould and Leo (2010), nobody keeps track of the cases that are prosecuted on the court or the types of convictions made for whatever reason. This may be responsible to the rising number of wrongful convictions in the court system. Several years ago, the U. S Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia stated that was satisfied with the rate at which innocent people were convicted of felonies. The rate was at 0.27% (Bach 2010). He debated that, for the justice system to ...

An Examination of Style and Performance

Introduction Joseph Haydn may be the most underrated of all the great composers, especially when it comes to his piano music. Music students in every field, remain taught that Haydn is the “father of the Symphony.” It is this fact that keeps the student from seeking out, discovering, and delighting in his brilliant, often difficult, but worth the challenge of playing Haydn’s late keyboard compositions. Haydn’s major keyboard works are sonatas, generally representing his growth from his early years until 1794 with completion of his final three sonatas. According to Gordon (1996), Haydn often set the ...

In this essay, I will compare and critique three different renditions of the same piece by Johann Sebastian Bach, Prelude and Fugue in C major from the Well- Tempered Clavier BWV 864. For making the interpretation, I have pick three different pianists; Glenn Gould is the first one, Samuel Feinberg is the second one and Daniel Ben Pienaar is the third and also the last one. After I will listen to all three interpretations, I will discuss the different performing style of this three pianist approaching music components such as dynamics, tempo, colour and articulation. Furthermore, I will comment ...

Achieving the objective for this particular course can be considered as an important skill to develop, especially having a role of a Family Nurse Practitioner. Several measures are considered in validating the effectiveness of the objectives as against its application in practical Nursing. Moreover, it is necessary to achieve Nursing competencies with interpersonal conditioning before working with its principles in a group or organization. With the help of new learnings, new ways of applying this to one’s self and further enhancing my knowledge base, are developed to fully maximize the benefits of this course. And, with the help of instructional methods, ...

In Yo-Yo Ma’s talk, which he gave in Davos, Switzerland, in January 2008, the famous cellist gives his opinion on globalisation (19).

One passage in particular made me think about what globalization means for the culture of different people around the world. As a musician, Yo-Yo Ma has had many opportunities to travel the world and listen to and play all kinds of music from all kinds of cultures. He explains that this helps him, and all the other international musicians he plays with, to learn about the culture and the music of another country, and so they stop ...

Some people say nurses are somewhat like spies – their work might be invisible, but nonetheless very important to the society. Nursing is a part of the health care sector which centers on the consistent care of individuals, families, and even communities so they may gain, preserve, or recover optimal health and quality of life. Nursing protects health, promotes a healthy way of life and optimizes individual’s abilities. Indeed, nursing is one of the most complex and important parts of the health care system in every country.

Foremost, it requires education, enough basic experience, ethics and honesty (Anderson 2012). Taking ...

No matter the product or service or the country in which a company wants to market, there are a number of components in the plan that will specifically address the local market. However, there are also a few basic elements to the marketing plan than are huge to the ultimate success of the plan. Not every product appeals to every person, in fact, it may be a challenge to market funeral and prearrangement services to someone just completing high school. On the other hand, someone enjoying a well-deserved retirement will probably not be considering going into substantial debt to purchase new home. Knowing the ...

Question 1

Bach Johann Sebastian was a music composer and a musician from Germany within the periods of the Baroque. Through his skills in motivic organization, harmony, and counterpoint, Bach facilitated the formation and establishment of the German style. He also enriched the adaptation of textures, forms and rhythms from the outside Germany countries mostly France and Italy. His work in the field of music has made his music to be reserved for their artistic beauty, intellectual depth, and technical command. Some of his compositions include the golden variation and Brandenburg Concertos. George Frederick Handel was a British Baroque composer born in Germany. ...

Arcangelo Corelli

Arcangelo Corelli is one of the greatest violinists. He is considered to be the founder of modern violin technique. Corelli was one of the key figures of Italian music in XVII-XVIII centuries. Corelli’s works, without exaggeration, can be called masterpieces of Italian classical music. His compositions are embodied rigor, modesty and simplicity. But, at the same time, they are written with the perfect taste, in his exquisite manner. His style is clear and unique. You won’t hear such unnecessary details in Corelli’s compositions like external effects, random notes – each sound has own place. And, at ...

The first movements of piano concertos by J.C. Bach and W.A. Mozart Mozart’s piano concertos are said to among his best compositions. The Piano Concerto in A Major, K. 488 is testament to this. This graceful composition has three movements and uses small orchestra comprised of instruments from all four classes. The instruments are two flutes, two bassoons, two clarinets and two horns as well the instruments from the string section like the violin. One significant difference of Mozart’s concertos was refusing the harpsichord and clavichord. He started to compose sonata concertos only for piano ...

Introduction

United States Nuclear sector is one of the publicly administrated areas that provides wide employment opportunities and employs various recruitment structure and philosophies that can be attributed to general trends in global business world. That said, it is interesting to observe that the sector works with direct employment, community colleges and international programs that brings this sector in line with international Strategic Human Resource Management (HRM) tendencies and trends. This clash, as one could argue, of public organization and bureaucracy with modern trends receives special attention when it comes to the analysis of US Nuclear sector as a place to ...

Diversity Training and Cross-cultural Professional Development is a global trend in the field of human resource management. It affects the direction taken by human resource managers when they are dealing with employees in the organization and the organizational practices adopted by managers when they recruit or recommend individuals based on their skill. Diversity training and cross-cultural professional development is an area of human resource management concerned with all the available opportunities to learn and programs of education offered by the organization to the employees (Bach and Edwards 20). It also touches on the initiatives taken by organization in various parts ...

Revolutionizing the Musical Stage of Northern Italy

Although not as popular as Bach, Claudio Monteverdi, Schutz, Charpentier or Pachelbel. Barbara Strozzi was a representative name for Baroque music. Daughter of poet Giulio Strozzi's servant, born in 1617, she lived an intriguing life, later becoming the most respected and appreciated female composer of the 17th century. She was adopted by her mother's master, a rather famous Venetian intellectual, who saw to her musical education. Her first notable teacher was Francesco Cavalli, already reputable singer and composer. The news of her talent soon spread, and Nicolò Fontei dedicated her no less than two solo songs books, the first one ...

It’s not easy to know what is true for you or me

at twenty-two, my age. But I guess I’m what I feel and see and hear, Harlem, I hear you: hear you, hear me---we two---you, me talk on this page. (I hear New York too.) Me---who?

Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love.

I like to work, read, learn, and understand life. I like a pipe for a Christmas present, or records---Bessie, bop, or Bach. I guess being colored doesn’t make me NOT like the same things other folks like who are other races.

So will my page be colored that I write?

Being me, it will not be white. But it will be a part of you, ...

Please provide me with citation (references) for the information which highlighted in yellow bellow. Thanks

In the modern world of business, learned human resource is considered as a key of success for organizations. Bersin (2013) suggests that in today’s scenario, attracting talent and retaining them is now become a challenge for the organizations as global economic growth pointed towards the scarcity of a skilled workforce. Skill development via training is vital for gaining the advantage of efficient workforce. Training in monetary terms can be defined as investing in people to make them able to achieve strategic objectives of the organization (Bond & McCracken, 2005). Investment in training is considered highly profitable for the organizations in terms ...

In this essay I will respond to Rifkin and Marshal debate regarding “St. Mathews Passion” by J.S. Bach by explaining their positions about this piece and the way of how modern instruments influenced the sonority in the performance of Baroque Music. To sustained my arguments I will use two articles from “The Musical Times,” the first is called “Bach’s Chorus. A Preliminary Reply to Joshua Rifkin” by Marshall and the second one is named “Bach's Chorus: A Preliminary Report” by Rifkin. Johann Sebastian Bach was one of the most important composers from the Baroque period who wrote ...

Von Gierke Disease

Introduction Von Gierke disease or Glycogen Storage Disease Type 1 (GSD-1) belongs to a group of rare metabolic disorders with a reported incidence of 1 case per 100,000 births per year. The clinical condition results from deficiency of key enzymes in the glycolytic pathway resulting in an increase in intermediate metabolites and accumulation of glycogen in the affected tissues. It is a genetic disorder with a natural history of severe developmental abnormalities and long term complications. This paper provides an overview of GSD-1 based on studies published in peer reviewed journals with a focus on its genetic determinants, clinical picture, available therapeutic ...

Abstract

Childhood obesity is a problem that has faced the United States for over two decades. With so many health issues associated with obesity and so many children becoming obese the problem is in need of a solution. It has been found that children from low socioeconomic status areas are more likely to become obese. Between their families and schools lack of ability to provide healthy meals and not enough resources to fix the issue many children are not learning ways to beat obesity for their future. This study aims to find out if there is a strong correlation between low socioeconomic status in ...

Introduction

The Pre-lude and Fugue in C major, BWV is a composition written by J.S Bach. It appears in the book “The Well-Tempered Clavier” as the first prelude and fugue. This book comprises of a set of 48 preludes and fugues that were authored by J.S Bach. The prelude part of this keyboard piece consists of 35 bars and is also characterized by broken chords. It ends with a single C major chord. However, some artists over time have added extra bars inside the piece in order to add a personal touch to the piece or to alter its progression. The fugue, on the ...

There are many books related to the criminal justice system in the United States whose main focus is to highlight the extraordinary cases. Most of them discuss high-profile crimes and breathtaking and thrilling trials. However, Ordinary Injustice: How America Holds Court by Amy Bach is an exceptionally different book. Bach is an award-winning reporter cum lawyer who has given a completely original enlightenment concerning the failing justice system in the United States of America. There is no doubt in the fact that Ordinary Injustice: How America Holds Court is a ground-breaking piece of work by Bach as it is full ...

Domo is a stop motion animation which has been in character since 1998. It is a strange creature, which is believed to have hatched from an egg with its differentiating characteristic being the size and shape of its mouth. The saw-toothed mouth which is always open limits him from making understandable sounds other than one which is close to his name. Domo is the dominating character in the animation with assistance from Mr. Usaji a clever rabbit of old age and Tashana. She is a seventeen-year-old girl who highly desires to join the modeling and fashion world in Tokyo. Domo has been ...

Introduction

In 1724, Johann Sebastian Bach composed a widely acclaimed cantata for Christmas day celebrations. It contained a narrative of words that praised Jesus Christ, and was supported by instrumentals and vocal codes. The cantata is a follow up on the famous hymn by Martin Luther, ‘Praise is to you, Jesus Christ ‘, and that was composed in 1524. The composition was inspired from readings that are located in the bible such as the Gospel of Luke, the book of Isaiah and Titus, which contained readings about the birth and salvation of Jesus Christ.

The composition

The narration uses aspects of repetition in its structure. The ...

Tasks 1, 2, and 3

Introduction The role assigned has been as a recently appointed Human Resource Manager trainee at a UKCBC Hotel and the task is to provide a proposed recruitment planning portfolio. The company is opening a 100-room full service hotel in West End in London with a bar and coffee shop to be used both internally and externally. The recruitment planning portfolio is meant to include the processes and procedures that will be involved in the organization’s human management. Human resource management, in essence, is the management of human being’s relationships and development at work and is an incredibly challenging and dynamic ...

The first movements of piano concertos by J.C. Bach and W.A. Mozart Johann Christian Bach and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart have both influenced the development of classical music. Both of them formed the musical style of sonata – most of the 20th and 21th century composers still hold on to the same structure. J.C. Bach was a son of J.S. Bach. Father influenced him a lot – he taught him the art of music since early childhood, but since he died when Johann Christian was only fifteenyears old, he started to compose is his own way.Style of music he wrote was different ...

Introduction

There are many different musical eras, which have influenced music to be composed the way it is now. The eras are the baroque era, the classical era, the romantic era and the modern era. There have been a number of notable famous musicians and composers of music from various countries across from Europe and the United States of America. These composers came from different periods and have influenced one another in their music. In looking at the composition from all the eras, it is very clear that there is a difference and some similarities of the music.

Baroque era

The baroque period is ...

United Kingdom adopted the market for energy approach in 1982 under the stewardship of Mr. Nigel Lawson the then secretary of state in charge of energy. From that time, the power was to be a traded product, just like other commodities and it supply was to be settled in the marketplace. The adoption of that idea was slow and by the early 1990s, most of the energy parastatals had been privatised. Electricity, coal, gas and the nuclear power were all privatised. The old mechanisms and commands like Central Electricity Generating Board were replaced by many companies for generating and distributing ...

Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most renowned classical musicians whose works are popular even today. He is considered as one of the most important composers of the Baroque period. His nine symphonies have particularly been cited as some of the most brilliant western classical musical pieces of all time. Apart from symphonies, Bach is also recognized for his other compositions such as Cantatas, which are religious pieces of musical composition. Today, some of his works have been performed by various musicians, compiled and then sold in album format to millions of classical music lovers around the world. ...

The canon of classical and contemporary music

Since the dawn of time, music has been one of the most important cultural inventions of humanity. The use of music to convey knowledge and share information is so profound that almost all existing societies today have its own musical heritage. Music has always taken a vital place in the development of human culture. In fact, instrumental music and songs are regarded as one of the highest form of art by any culture at any point in time. From the tribal traditions passed on from generation to generation through songs, to the highly commercialized music industry of today, music is ...

Music is the art of arranging sounds that flows in a unified melody, taking into consideration rhythm and harmony. It is not something that can be seen, but rather is expressed and felt through the soul. For some, music is an expression of anger, love, melancholy, and other feelings and ideas of various cultures and societies. Gustav Mahler was one of the most celebrated composers during his time and was best known as an operatic conductor of symphonies and orchestras. Born in Bohemia which was then part of Austria, Mahler descended from a family of Jewish origins. Soon after, the ...

Comparison of Musicians

Ludwig van Beethoven and Johann Sebastian Bach were two of the most brilliant composers in the genre of classical Western music. The nationality of these two musicians is German. Bach was a composer who lived during the Baroque period. On the other hand, Beethoven was a musical genius who lived during the transition period of Classical period to Romantic era. Beethoven came later than Bach or was born 20 years after Bach’s demise. Beethoven looked up to Bach as his inspiration were he adapted the work of Bach entitled “Well-Tempered Clavier” in one of his musical masterpieces, and regards Bach ...

Born on January 27, 1756, in Salzburg, Austria, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a musician of playing manifold instruments. He started performing in public at the pretty early age of 6. Over the years, Mozart has had a variety of European venues and patrons, composing hundreds of works: symphonies, sonatas, concertos and operas, distinguished as ones with vivid emotion and sophisticated textures. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s was the only living son of Leopold and Maria Pertl Mozart. Leopold was a successful composer, violinist, and assistant of the concert master at the Salzburg court. He also had a sister named Anna Maria. Music as ...

Romanticism was always an important part of the musical revolution and this was made clear in the works of the great masters. One could take as a typical example, the music of Beethoven which Berlioz found entrancing and which he introduced several times into his own works. A great critic who analysed Beethoven’s music to the letter was ETA Hoffmann whose description of the Fifth Symphony as a transition from darkness to light was one of the most important pieces of writing in the 19th century. Nothing is more romantic than the music of Hector Berlioz. One almost cannot ...

Romanticism was always an important part of the musical revolution and this was made clear in the works of the great masters. One could take as a typical example, the music of Beethoven which Berlioz found entrancing and which he introduced several times into his own works. A great critic who analysed Beethoven’s music to the letter was ETA Hoffmann whose description of the Fifth Symphony as a transition from darkness to light was one of the most important pieces of writing in the 19th century. Nothing is more romantic than the music of Hector Berlioz. One almost cannot ...

Mechanics of Prevention and Rehabilitation

Introduction The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is an important ligament of the knee in regards to stabilization (Friedberg, 2013). The function of the ACL is to resist anterior movement and medial rotation of the tibia in relation to the femur (Markolf, Mensch, & Amstutz, 1976). It is the most common injury of the knee and is frequently injured in non-contact; high impact sports injuries such as, skiers, gymnasts, football, and soccer players, where there is quick movement, and changing of position of the feet. Treatment of ACL tears may require surgery or may be treated conservatively in the case ...

This was the blurb which introduced the concert:

“Be there for a triumphant return and an auspicious introduction! MacArthur 'Genius Grant' recipient Alisa Weilerstein, graduated from Columbia University in Russian history, brings a depth of understanding to the concerto Shostakovich originally wrote for the great cellist Rostropovich. LACO principal Kenneth Munday introduces you to a novel bassoon concerto performed with Florey's avant-garde silent film. The music is the creation of talented USC graduate Hugo Gonzalez-Pioli - another LACO first”.The evening's program included:Jeffrey Kahane, conductorAlisa Weilerstein, celloKenneth Munday, bassoonBEETHOVEN - Coriolan Overture, Op. 62HUGO GONZALEZ-PIOLI - The Love of Zero (Bassoon Concerto with Robert Florey's 1927 short silent film) (US ...

Money spend without proper planning is money wasted, therefore, it is inevitable for a personal financial plan, which acts as a blueprint to spending, Ramsey (2007). The purpose of personal financial plan is to direct finances to the three main categories of personal objectives, which are spending, savings and investing. Sources of personal incomes include mainly career remunerations and incomes from personal business incentives. Personal income is highly determined by the career line of an individual, competitive careers result into more personal income. Personal financial choices also play a role in determining the amount of income netted by an individual; this is ...

Business

In the article of Datko, it was reported that Mary Bach, who was shopper from Walmart filed a case against the company after she discovered that she was being charged for an additional two cents, which is more than the actual listed price for one box of sausages (Datko, “Customer sues Wal-Mart over 2 cents”).This happened in one of the Walmart stores located in Delmont, Pennsylvania after the cashier asked her to pay $1 for one box of Brown 'N Serve sausages that was manufactured by Banquet and bears an original priced of 98 cents. The defense of Walmart ...

Gustav Klimt was an important painter in the history of art, and one of the few artists appreciated in their own lifetimes. His portrait of Adele Bach Bauer I in particular illustrates how the flow of his life’s work ran through the Victorian Age, into the Edwardian era and influenced the genres that followed. In part, due to the times in which he lived he was exposed to a world in transition. Born on July 14, 1862 in the Austrian-Hungarian city of Baumgarten during the Victorian era he studied at the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts until 1883. ...

The poem, Theme for English, by the eminent poet, Langston Hughes, gives the impression that it has been penned in a stream of consciousness and the readers readily connect with the speaker who goes on to describe his meandering thoughts and questions. The speaker in this poem is a young black person of 22 years who studies in an institution. In an age riddled with racism, this individual comes across as open-minded and intrepid enough to face the status quo. He stirs the heart of the readers with his challenging question and his courage of conviction looms large all through the ...

INTRODUCTION

Non market strategies are used by organizations around the world to form or gain soft power and to achieve competitive advantage in the industry. The Non-market strategy can by defined as the way to pursue the goals of an organization in the best strategic possible manner. Non-market strategy is the use of the political and the social environment to capitalise on the opportunities from these environments (Baron, 1998, p. 2-3). The political and the social factors of an environment are the major factors which determine the accomplishment of the strategic goal which the company aims at achieving. Traditionally, ...

As I entered the theatre I was quite on the edge feeling very much enthused by the wonderful music that was on offer. The choice of repertoire was indeed varied and included several pieces by a wide variety of composers ranging from the baroque to the modern. I took my seat and waited for the soprano and pianist to make their exit on to the stage brimming with anticipation. Ayodele Cambell, a young but very promising soprano started off the evening with a fine rendition of Parisotti’s aria ‘Se tu m’ami, mi sospiri’. She was also very fine in ‘ ...

As I entered the theatre I was quite on the edge feeling very much enthused by the wonderful music that was on offer. The choice of repertoire was indeed varied and included several pieces by a wide variety of composers ranging from the baroque to the modern. I took my seat and waited for the soprano and pianist to make their exit on to the stage brimming with anticipation. Ayodele Cambell, a young but very promising soprano started off the evening with a fine rendition of Parisotti’s aria ‘Se tu m’ami, mi sospiri’. She was also very fine in ‘ ...

Relevance to the Los Angeles Baroque Performers

“The Los Angeles Baroque Players” is one of the most famous baroque musicians in Los Angeles who played several instruments such as viola, harpsichord, flute, and oboe. The group is founded in 1983 and over the years; they have able to maintain their par level performance. It only shows that they have unique musical approach, interpretation, and execution, as well. They hold several concerts and one of the most remarkable performances they have are last January 6, 2012. It was fun and breathtaking event. Certainly, a night to be remembered. The night started to become amazing, when Anthony Brazier, ...

Introduction

The education sector has tried to catch up with the technological advancements. In a ploy to offer more affordable education and enhance cost effectiveness, learning institutions have embraced the myriad of options that technology offers. As such, virtual learning environments have become the virtual ‘classes’ of the modern era. A virtual learning environment is a software system that is intended to shore up learning and teaching in an education system. The platforms used provide equivalent virtual access to classrooms, class contents, homework, tests, assessments and grades. The marvel of virtual learning environments is the synchrony that allows the participants to meet ...

The Purcell theme is clearly shown in the orchestra at the outset and there is also a great set of interesting variations which have been stated section by section. At the end, there is fugue which is an overlaying of the initial Purcell theme just before the last coda. There is terrific fugue and fantastic variations. Benjamin Britten has used theme and variations while Bach has used fugue. Theme and variations simply indicate after the theme, the composer utilizes the different elements of music in various ways for each variation . For example, the composer can vary the meter, tonal centers, ...