Essays on Harmony

Irish Americans have a rich culture, which is rated among the oldest cultures in the globe. The Irish Americans trace their origin from Ireland and they form up to 11% of the American population. They possess a rich culture judging by their education, religious beliefs, and there social life in general. Their Unique culture and strong religious background have influenced the values of ordinary Americans over the years.

Irish Americans cultural Values

The traditional cultural values that characterize the Irish Americans include harmony, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom, honesty, filial piety, and loyalty. These cultural values give Irish Americans a unique identity and psychology despite

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This essay will explore the compositional method and the harmonic innovations that Stravinsky used in his ballet “The Rite of Spring.” In order to capture all the ideas the essay will have three parts; the first part will be linked to the observation for the piece as a whole, the second part will be an analysis of the strategically features with examples from the score and the third part will be a cogent summary of the analysis that will imply the interpretation of the piece.
“The Rite of Spring” by Igor Stravinsky was premiered in 29 May 1913 at

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Both bebop and cool jazz emerged in the middle of 20th century; bebop was formed as a reaction to the mass development of trendy jazz dance orchestras in the early 1940s and cool jazz, in its turn, originated from the bebop in the late 1940s. Although both of these jazz styles arose in the same period and cool jazz as such is considered to be a modification of bebop, there are several fundamental differences between them. These differences lie in the mood of the music, expressivity of sound, causes of styles emergence and purposes of each style.
Developed in

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The enneagram personality in the simplest and most basic sense refers to the aspect through which human being tests his or her personality stance by inquiring on the type and style of that human being. There are nine personality styles and aspects that were raised and discussed by one renowned and established writer and scholar Elizabeth Wagele. From the face value, all the personality types are different from one person to another. They include the personality type of one being a reformer-number one, helper-number two, an achiever-number three, an individualist, a challenger, a loyalist-number four, an enthusiast-number seven, an

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Individual Sustainability

The video delivers a very powerful message about individual sustainability and the way in which all the things are inter-connected in the nature. If one of the connected factors is changed, the entire balance gets disturbed, and it results in an unpredictable change elsewhere. The video provides the example of the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico and how it unbalanced other inter-connected components. On the surface, it was an environmental disaster, but it impacted tourism, fishing industry, socio-economic factors of the region, and the cultural identity of the area residents. It also

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The primary theme here would be the overgrowth of cities that was characterized by lack of will to achieve balance and harmony. This led to a complete destruction of life and civilization by a variety of internal factors stemming from increasing populations, deteriorating housing conditions, and poor town planning towards the end of the empire. (Mumford) Here, the author lays a convincing argument to back his theme, starting from the Rise of Rome to its decay and disintegration with proper illustrations.
The second theme is the manner in which transformations of cities occur as illustrated. Mumford says that cities

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In Music, each eras showcase unique characteristic that distinguishes them from each other. In Baroque Music, introduces grandiosity (living up to its name), it introduces complex and extravagant musical pieces. The simplicity in harmonic textures was replaced with complexity. The era also introduced the use of counterpoint or the playing of two or three melodies played at the same time. Frequent harmony changes were also observed. The concept of Polyphony was further enhanced, the concept is well known as “imitative polyphony”, the sound picked up by each musical instrument in the orchestra. The major musical contribution of the period

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Introduction

Feng Shui is the Westernized term for the word ‘Fung Soy’, which is the correct pronunciation in Cantonese (Si, 2011). In other Chinese dialects the pronunciation of feng shui is quite different as it was originally, ‘Fung Shway’ (Levitt, 2000 p.1). Although there are varied pronunciations for feng shui, the characters remain the same in all dialects. Feng Shui means ‘wind’ and ‘water’ (Levitt, 2000 p.1; Feng, 2014). The field of feng shui was considered the ancient art and science of locating a sacred place on earth (Levitt, 2000 p.1). Originally, feng shui was used by the Chinese emperors

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Music

Background of the music
The song entitled “What a Wonderful World” is written by the two prominent in the world of music, Bob Thiele as George Douglas, the producer and George David Weiss, the composer. Originally, the song was offered to Tony Bennett but was turned down. “What a Wonderful World” song was first recorded by the famous American jazz trumpeter and singer from New Orleans, Louisiana, Louis Armstrong aka Satchmo. The song was released as a single in 1967 as the biggest selling single of 1968 in the United Kingdom and one of the most successful hit songs

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Response to “The Three Little Pigs” by James Finn Garner

I liked humorous interpretation of famous fairy tale “Three Pigs” by James Finn Garner. He depicts the relationship between different layers of our modern society from the political, but rather humorous point of view. As is well known political issues also have concealed economical meaning therefore I will attempt to share my thoughts after reading this story.
We observe how three pigs manage to live peaceful life. They start from transition to settled life and built various dwellings depending on the available materials and construction skills. In spite of stratification of their society they “lived in harmony with their

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The musical education of today is the foundation for a lifetime of passion, inspiration and sensitivity to all forms of music. This course put these qualities into practice and provided me with the musical knowledge and inspiration to appreciate music. The study of the Renaissance Period, the Baroque Period and Classical Concertos and Sonata were of the most interest and value for me.
The Renaissance Period included better usage of notation and composition. It also included new musical genres and the development of old and new musical instruments from the medieval period. For me the most the most important

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Analysis of the “Spirit Reborn” by William Safire

In “Spirit reborn” William Safire demonstrates the power in the limited and careful choice of words by Lincoln during, “The Gettysburg Address” at the commemoration of September 11. Safire persuasively explains how Lincoln uses the word “dedicate” to bring about various but related individual meanings with regard to the nations stage in the freedom process. He talks about how a national spirit of freedom rose from the ashes of destruction, back when thousands of soldiers died fighting for freedom that is enjoyed by the current generation. This brings about the urge for the present citizens to maintain peace and

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Introduction

Color theory is widely defined but in visual art, it is defined as the realistic control in mixing of colors and the effects to vision of specific color combinations. It encompasses a multiple of applications, design and concepts. However, at hand are three classes of the color theory: the context of the usage of colors, the harmony and the color wheel.
The color wheel is based on blue, yellow and red the traditionally primary colors. Isaac Newton developed the first color wheel in 1666. Since then artists and scientists embark on studies for the various concepts and designs of

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Culture forms an integral part of humans. Humans are shaped by their culture and the culture is also shaped by humans. Therefore, culture is inseparable from humans because some behaviors, values and beliefs are deeply rooted in culture. As a result, it is important to understand how cultural aspects regulate the transformation and expression of human psyche. This is particularly important in psychology where interpersonal interaction is required in order to deliver the best outcome to the client. One of the cultures that arouse great academic interest is the Native American culture. This is because Native Americans have a

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- Analysis of the song “Crazy Blues” (Recorded August 10 1920) by Mamie Smith and her Jazz group (arizona.edu)
- What musical elements were executed by the musicians?
In the song “crazy blues” the musicians executed several musical elements such as rhythm, timbre, tempo, pitch and harmony. In the song, the trombone plays first, followed by the clarinet and the violin. The instruments are all in tune and the pitch of the musician combines well with the instruments.
- What style did they play in?
The music style is jazz. This is evidenced by the improvisation, blue notes, polyrhythm’

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Dr. Seuss is one of America’s most revered children’s authors of all time. Nevertheless, his stories aren’t just designed for adults: behind the word play and artistry, they usually contain themes of social interest with a constructed philosophy behind them. This makes his oeuvre highly respected and analyzed by critics, also. Due to his familiarity and popularity, this author is used to introduce and exemplify profound ideas, as they are found all along his works. In “The Sneetches”, this author postulates that, through capitalism, humans can overcome their differences and live in harmony.
In the beginning,

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Although Taoism has principles as any philosophy or religion, these are not strict, as they are subjected to the customization. As there are over 6.5 billion individuals in the world, there could also be 6.5 billion ways to practice it, because everybody can understand it and practice it differently, teaching the others what they have learned about Taoism and in the same time absorbing the Taoism knowledge from others (“Taoism 101: Introduction to the Tao”). Therefore, by its nature, Taoism focuses on individual, having the purpose of enlightening him, putting him in harmony with himself and with the surrounding

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'Globalisation could not have occurred without a degree of global political harmony'. Discuss.
This paper discusses the statement 'Globalisation could not have occurred without a degree of global political harmony'. The focus of this paper is on a critical examination of the topic statement with supplemental support from the readings by Giddens and Cameron. Before launching into a discussion about the topic statement, it would be worthwhile to examine the processes of globalization as they have evolved over the decades. To start with, globalization is a process that involves the free movement of goods, services, and people across the

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Aaron Copland: The Appalachian Springs

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Aaron Copland was a renowned 20th Century American music composer. Copland is widely renowned for his infusion of a distinctive “American style” into his compositions. He is widely credited for putting 20th century American music into an equal platform or footing with the one reflecting the European modernism contemporary development.
One of his most famous compositions is the orchestral suite known as the “Appalachian Spring”. This composition’s background story is actually a spring celebration of 1800’s American celebrating their building of a new farmhouse in Pennsylvania.
This composition is indeed very captivating and I was

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MUSIC PIECE ONE

A symphony is a type of work done by an Orchestra which more often than not has three to four movements. Classical symphony is a determined and extended work of art composition typically taking a period of time of between 20 and 45 minutes, uses a variety of tone color and dynamics of the classical orchestra (Evan, 2001). When we look at Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony no.5 4th movement, the most vital aspect of the symphony is that the movements have some balance and harmonize each other both dramatically and musically. In this symphony, it consists of different emotions

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Pablo Picasso’s remarkable oil on canvas painting Weeping Woman (1937) is both a personally and politically significant painting. It is among the series of weeping women paintings that were painted by Picasso in 1937. Picasso addressed the theme of depicting a woman holding a handkerchief to her teary face in numerous other works of art in different mediums (Léal 396), such as drawings, etchings and paintings, all of which were produced with the intention of standing as voiceless but visual witnesses to an inexpressible modern tragedy. In 1937, after the Spanish Civil War had come to an

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For a woman working in the vein of abstract expressionism in the first half of the 19th century, Lee Krasner is a noteworthy figure. She was an American painter who was married to Jackson Pollock, himself a very important figure in the movement of abstract expressionism, which was the movement that Krasner was apart of. Being a female painter at that time was not always without it’s difficulties, as the Civil Rights movement was being fought in the latter part of her career. Perhaps most telling of the difficulties was when her teacher pronounced that she painted so

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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

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