... musicians. It was during this time that the trend for amateurs to make music and entertain themselves and the people around them became increasingly common. Printing music also helped composers as it offered not only a greater sale of their works but also offered a larger dissemination of their ... for his chansons and rondeau as well as using "hemiola" which is a term when there is a cross note of three quarter notes over a compound meter. Like Dunstable, Binchois also experimented with rhythm and used dotted figures and syncopation. Du Fay was the most important composer ... spanned...

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... compositions is a primary tool for understanding musical evolution. Through musical analysis we are able to generalize and say that rock from a certain era has common characteristics. By doing this we are able to see what influences lead rock to where it is today. The chapter then goes on to discuss ... organized sound and is difficult to translate, the other elements are what make the sound organized and meaningful. Melody is an organized set of notes consisting of different pitches. It is basically the up and down motion of the lead singer. Rhythm is those beat of patterns that underl...

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... ball to its modern equivalent a 'fancy dress' party. For this, Romeo's costume is a knight; Luhrman has tried to show the audience that Romeo is in a sense, 'a knight in shining armour'. In both versions, Capulet welcomes everybody and, even though he's too old to dance himself, so he gets everybody else to dance because ... residence to try and confront Juliet. This is the second of the love scenes, and as you go through the play they all have things in common that you notice. For example, when the love scenes take place, the two lovers are always separated from the chaos that surroun...

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... the boom of fortepiano production that could be seen during the late 1800's, making the piano a platform for music more accessible. Due to this increase, the style of bagatelle was common among newly written songs for the piano, Für Elise being one of them.Not much is known about the background of the song due to the only thing left behind ... was the transcribed notes, with no obvious background information other than that the song title heavily implied that it was written for Elise, whose identity has not been confirmed, but has been guessed to ... before this, but none of them were...

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... it. Music is my personal therapy. Getting away from the reality of today is as quick and easy as pushing the play button on my CD player. Listening to the notes and beats of one song, or the lyrics of another takes my mind and imagination to a place with perfect staccato rhythms, where everything is the way it is made to ... me excited and happy. Anytime I need the atmosphere around me to complement my mood, simply browsing through my collection of CDs will do just that. Thus, music becomes therapeutic in a sense. Also, music is thought-provoking. I cannot think of a time when my though...

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I believe the concept of Apollo and Dionysus can be best described in a social sense. Apollo would be the part of a person that wants to spend the night alone in his or her apartment curled up next to a fire listening to some Beethoven or Brahms ... in the heavens with the rest of the gods representing a very serene and peaceful lifestyle. Dionysus on the other hand dwelled on the lower ground with the mortals, in the common. This contrast between heaven and hell can be seen today in our churches. Everything beautiful and calming such as stain glass windows are set up high and out of reach ....

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