Essays on Modern Music

Greece culture dates back to ancient times and has an enormous heritage to be saved and protected. Though, everything is changing and developing, so that the Greece culture has to keep up with times as well. As for me, the majority cannot imagine their lives without music. That is why the alterations of Greece music attracted me. Everything started from the songs that were declaring the historical feats and people’s lives. As the time passed, the music was developing and Greeks have invented their national instrument bouzouki which is still being used. In the year 1922 such style ...

The Reformation period is mostly related to Martin Luther’s actions to reform the Catholic traditions (Kulp, 2004) and to the Anglican Church separation from the Roman Catholic Church and these events implied a series of changes regarding the church administration, including changes in the church music (Reese, 1990).

As such, Henry the VIII of England imposed a major shift in in the liturgical upheaval, declaring that all services would be performed in English language (as compared to the previously used Latin language, considered the language of God) and in terms of church music there would be used one syllable ...

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Ethnic music is something magnificent and different. When listening to it, one can feel support, cheering, sadness and sympathy. Sometimes ethnic music can bring a person to the highest tops, as well as reveal the most hidden secrets of a culture. In my opinion, ethnic music is something that makes the modern world not so cold and indifferent. The point is that modern music is alike: songs have the same rhythm lyrics have the same rhymes. Everything is similar. On the other hand, there is ethnic music. Ethnic music is like a breath fresh air. There are so many different kinds of ...

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Theoretical Questions 5 Primary Contacts 6 Other Sources of Information 7 Methodology 9

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Appendix 14 Travel Grant Proposal to Egypt Introduction There are many reasons why Egypt is ideal place to study music. Firstly, Egypt has historical significance in world history and a study of its culture and music would help establish a link between modern culture and the cradle of civilization. Music in Egypt became a much relevant subject during the pharaonic period. Throughout this period, music formed a significant aspect of the Egyptian way of life. Majority of musicians assumed various positions in the Egyptian ...

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China is a country that is located in East Asia that has a very large territory. It has a very huge population. Thus, the country has an enormous ancient history. Its history has been dated back about four thousand years ago. It is regarded as one of the greatest ancient civilizations around the world. In addition, it is one of the few countries that still hold its culture that was inspired by its history. The Chinese culture has been preserved for thousands of years. Thus, the people of China still observe the culture that was founded by the ancient Chinese. These cultural ...

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 ...

The period between the late 20th century especially after the world wars and the evils of capitalism marked a period of skepticism and relativism where a wave of general suspicion emerged. The period elicited non conventional styles and nuances in establishing facts and art forms. As a literary movement, the term marks a period where arts as well as well as the cultural tendencies defined an emerging movement of new conventions. Following modernism as a period of human disillusionment, the phase marked abrasive and ambiguous details of culture in literature and art. In history, different philosophies and criticisms emerged to explain a state of coefficients. ...

The recent three decades have witnessed intensive studies and researches on compositional process. Although the studies on compositional process have been a common state of the affair in traditional musicology, the analysis on this process became relevant in the early 1980’s. In an attempt to understand compositional process, Owen Jessie composed a comprehensive writing, “Evidence of Cipriano de Rore's Compositional Process”. The work presents an intensive analysis and description on some issues, concepts, and facts that define effective music composition. Besides the critics from modern scholars and music experts, Owen has proved her competence on music by presenting reliable facts ...

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Evolution has constantly occurred in the Turkish culture with new things coming up all the time. In a culture with great diversity and heterogeneity, Turkish music faces the pressure to adjust and fit in the lifestyles of the people in the country (Khotani, 2010). Over the last century, the culture can boast of the profound changes and diversifications it has undergone to breed the current trend in the cultural industry. Music is the most relevant beneficiary of the diversifications and changes. The evolution of music traces its roots back to the Islamic influences on the folk music. Evolution took another ...

The medieval period, which is also referred to as the Middle Ages, is basically the period between 400-1400 AD. Historians usually regard this as the longest and the major era in the European history; it separated the Greece civilization that it replaced, with the modern world of today. There were a lot of intellectual, artistic and cultural movements in Europe that spanned the medieval period up to the early modern period of civilization, Scholars usually refers to these movements as Renaissance. During the middle ages, music was not often written down, it was only played in feasts, churches and mostly ...

The concert was a different experience for many people who attended. There were many things to be learnt in the concert. There were many styles of music that we got to learn. This learning of new music styles is an experience I have never learnt and it was a fantastic experience for me. In the music concerts that I have ever attended, one genre and style of music has been the main theme. One theme that came out clearly is innovation and blending music styles of various ages and periods to match together. In the concert new music was created to ...

Modern music is a product of evolutionary inventions in the music industry. Music has undergone a lot of transitions aimed at refining and making it better than it was before. This pepper gives an in-depth analysis of Langston Hughes and Paul influences they contributed in the musical industry.

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World over, music is one of the fastest growing industries apart from acting as a chief source of entertainment, music has been used to inform, educate and warn humanity. In fact as literary work, music is used as mirror of the society; this explains why it becomes popular with all the people o0f all ...