... the hip-hop culture, more specifically in rap music. One of the most moving characteristics of rap music is rhythm. Rhythm deals with sound in time, long and short sounds combined to create a well-balanced rhythmical effect (Stewart, 1998). Rhythm includes aspects such as beat, which is simply a division of a measure marked by a beat; meter, which is a grouping of beats; accent ... spoken words. This group uses techniques of blending or concordance of specific element; mainly, the different member of the quintet. There songs range from being monophonic to polyphonic with different varia...

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... is made up of three main sections where various themes are presented, followed up by a conclusion. The exposition introduces the first theme, or conflict. Next, the conflict is developed and 6 combined with new themes. Then, the resolution appears during recapitulation, and finally, the coda section brings about the powerful ending. The theme and variations form is exactly what it says it ... is. A single theme is introduced and repeated until it is changed into different variations over the course of the piece of music. The same basic melody appears in each variation, and yet it is uni...

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... works with the help of songs. How music is composed of different notes while to Lucretius objects are made of different atoms and create different sensations. Different musical notes are combined to make a song that evokes a unique sensation with harmony just as the different atoms in an object function together to create a sensation specific to that object. Harmonious and inharmonious sounds ... illness. The first form of synesthesia is being able to have the ability to feel the sensations of seeing color or tasting colors when eating and drinking. The second common variation is the ab...

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... , Schoenberg wrote of the 5 Orchestral Pieces: "The pieces are certainly not symphonic, they are the absolute opposite of this, there is no architecture and no build-up. Just a colourful, uninterrupted variation of colours, rhythms and moods" This is consistent with his ideas on "the elimination of the conscious will in art". The Five Orchestral Pieces are filled with frenzy, violent dissonance ... " Both Schoenberg and Kandinsky were interested in the synthesis of the arts. A "Gesamtkunstwerk" is a total work of art for the stage, where music, colour and movement (theatre) are to be comb...

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