... people were creating artworks that expressed themselves or their ideas. The following pieces of art that I will be talking about are those that were found in the Arts in the Park art show that recently came to Memphis, Tennessee. The art show itself was very unique. It was unlike anything I had ever been to ... and clean Balton's appears to be messy and the oil smeared around in short controlled gestures. Both paintings appear to have taken a lot of time to perfect and make the colors go together. The painting "Red Sunset" by Bill Morris is an exquisite piece of artwork. This piece out o...

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... has very little interest in his class studies. This leaves him open to distraction and eventually criticism. Although Paul's outer appearance is that of a perfect gentleman, his teachers find his behavior inappropriate and unacceptable. The narrator draws particular attention to Paul's eyes describing them as "remarkable for a certain ... important. As the plot unfolds, Paul's mental illusions and emotional disintegration become more obvious and are emphasized by the way he sees art and music, and his outer appearance. Flowers are a repeated motive in the story that first illustrates Pau...

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... from Africa to the new land. Despite their persecution, the "slave culture" has contributed greatly to the development of America's own music, dance, art, and clothing. Music It is understandable that when Africans were torn from their homes and families, lashed into submission , and forced into lifelong ... he begins to employ numerous stock phrases and ideas," and, "Midway in the message the preacher begins to chant his words rhythmically." Art 17th-century Africans had art forms that would be considered advanced even today. Most of their expression was religious in nature. But when th...

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... each part's characteristic, 'harmonious' in some sense, rather 'practical' as well, therefore, very 'American'. But its impact as an art was ephemeral, not lasting that long. It is also true that there was an astonishing moment when I searched them and watched their live play online during ... is 'limited' as much as they are showing the American aspects only, which is definitely narrower than representing the 'universal validity' regarding art. This kind of interpretation and conclusion are, however, not explaining all the questions we can harbor regarding the l...

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... 1400-1600, was more than just a movement in the type of music that was playing; it was a movement of ideas in almost every art form of the time. This period is noted heavily for its revival of Greek and roman ideas, hence the name renaissance meaning "revival" ... ;(Sherrane 1). This spanned to all forms of art and generally took people as a whole by the dissemination of information and the pursuit of knowledge. Through this time things like compass and printing ... are exactly the same. This intonation is not well suited for Renaissance music as only the octaves are in perfect inton...

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... gives the listeners a feeling of being cultivated and stylish. However, as said by Adorno, the fact that jazz - and any other type of culture and art - is widespread all over the world because of mass media does not automatically mean that the society's intellectual standard is therefore higher than before. The term ... try to do this by listening to jazz. But as we know now, this is a perfect example for the creation of an ideology that can be marketed. Do we have to conclude then that jazz is no art? I think nowadays much of the passion musicians had put into their music in former tim...

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... Pop Culture It is amazing how in someway we all have prejudices against the so called "modern age". In our twisted little minds nothing is as golden and shinny and perfect as it was in the "good old days". We don't cultivate any family values or keep lifelong friendships anymore We don't study as much as we should, we don't learn ... don't know our neighbors. We don't do anything of the valuable things our grandparents did. I wonder why that approach should be different towards art. Classical music, Renaissance paintings, Barroc sculpture: that is true art. Calling the pop art movement ...

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... have created masterpieces to it, people have timelessly used it to evoke their own creativity, whether that is when writing or creating their own works of art. It's a necessary tool in my day to day and I have always loved music passionately. Although I have no talent with instruments I still constantly ... of sight across a surface. The ease of viewing artwork and how long a piece can attract the viewer's attention relies heavily on how that art work easy or difficult the comprehension of the piece is since the, "observer's attention to be made mobile by the rapidity with which ... exp...

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... American intelligence, not realizing that their lack of financial support is at fault. The government needs to start providing more schools, museums, and performing art centers with the education, funds, and support that they deserve. Music is the perfect art. It has movement, because it progresses over a set period of time. All musical works have a beginning and an end. However, music does not ... restrict the audience in the way that movies or graphic art does. The listener can create whatever image she or he wants to when listening to ... hand in hand. So why does the government wan...

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... American intelligence, not realizing that their lack of financial support is at fault. The government needs to start providing more schools, museums, and performing art centers with the education, funds, and support that they deserve. Music is the perfect art. It has movement, because it progresses over a set period of time. All musical works have a beginning and an end. However, music does not ... restrict the audience in the way that movies or graphic art does. The listener can create whatever image she or he wants to when listening to ... hand in hand. So why does the government wan...

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... development of its respective group of people. Furthermore a people's culture is expressed through its works, whether it be in politics, literature, athletics, or art. Art is a unique form of expression because humans can directly play on three of the human senses, sight, taste, and hearing. Among the three senses ... and worked its way up the River [Mississippi] to Chicago" (Jones 71). and after Chicago, Jazz continued east to Harlem. Jazz was a perfect combination of its predecessors because it was "Ragtime carried over Harmony and orchestration with the same musical sprit and traditi...

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... pupil : more truly, it causes of itself in response to the right objects, & it is in sitting them before his pupils that the true art of the teacher lies. In this there is something of the theory of "Reminiscence" which was propounded by Plato in his dialogue, the Meno. The ... make the soul beautiful must set her in a fair posture. This is the reason of that high place which Plato assigns to art & specially to music as means of education. He found in literature the main instrument of education i.e, studying the standard literature of his country; knowledge ... equal for all. However ed...

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... composers and audiences alike. The baroque era was significant because it solidified the foundations of the standard harmonic structures that all Western music would be based on. The need for perfect musical form was stressed more so than ever before. The reason behind this is that many composers were employed by Christian religious organizations and composers wanted their music to reflect ... as sacred music- was considered an act of homage to God. Quite clearly, it had to be proper if it was to be useful at all; and if it was perfect, [it needed to] please God as well as the player or...

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... I will ever know everything when it comes to music, but I will try to offer my interpretation of this thing called Jazz. Jazz is an art form born in the United States of America. Jazz is the heartbeat for a nation in transition; Jazz is the fuel that keeps society going. ... early age, Ellington wanted to be an artist; so like any other person interested in that field he took on art lessons. Ellington never knew how much demand art lessons required from him so he stopped taking them. Ellington's mother, again worried about her son, thought it would ... polish it acquired later on." (Col...

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... by the fact that [Chopin] is not attacking his pocket [Chopin] is setting [himself] up [there] as being disinterested; [Chopin] [was] an artist for art's sake.""12 On "11 August 1829,"" Chopin had to improvise at his first concert, as the orchestra refused to play the "Kracoviac.""13 Chopin was a great pianist ... it. Chopin did not play music just to make a living. He played music for the love of it. Chopin lived in an "Amazing century when art "no longer a pastime, not yet a therapy "was the breath of life.""19 Before Chopin was born music was already in the hearts ... or transposed t...

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... some respondents used the event to escape form their everyday lives. This shows the need for people to experience different things. Events, like festivals, that occur only occasionally offer the perfect opportunity for a day out of the ordinary and the options to try something new. In another study done of attendees of 1996 Summer Olympic Games, (Deply Neirotti, Lisa and ... , one with higher income can only afford opera tickets, or these audience members attend to fit into their socio-economic class of peers. Each of these different types of art and cultural events have different types...

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... be better understood through Giuseppe Mazzini's interpretation and analytical paper, The Philosophy of Music. Mazzini used Donizetti's work, as an example to help use art (i.e. opera), to help shape the future of Italy. Presumably, Mazzini argued that it is unjust for a composer to seclude himself to one task ... yet being so talented and gifted. But the composer should use his gift to understand the influence their art can have on the mass, that could possibly be exercised on society. Mazzini also argues that one must abandon the rules of the classicist ... collective goal and can cont...

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... he satisfied with just piano music, so in 1840 he switched to lieder music and composed some of the most beautiful love songs in art song literature. As the most important composer in the development of the lied after Schubert, and a genius in capturing the mood of ... the works of Schubert in the ability to weave melody, poem and accompaniment together as one entity with his beautiful expressive lyricism. Larger art forms did not come as easily to Schumann. Much like Schubert, he depended upon lyricism too vastly "at the expense of development and ... rules of structure, Romanticism a...

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... he satisfied with just piano music, so in 1840 he switched to lieder music and composed some of the most beautiful love songs in art song literature. As the most important composer in the development of the lied after Schubert, and a genius in capturing the mood of ... the works of Schubert in the ability to weave melody, poem and accompaniment together as one entity with his beautiful expressive lyricism. Larger art forms did not come as easily to Schumann. Much like Schubert, he depended upon lyricism too vastly "at the expense of development and ... rules of structure, Romanticism a...

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... England and Germany. European composers came here bringing their technical skills, traditions, and ideas. American-born composers generally went to Europe to perfect their craft. Eventually, American-born composers realized they were facing a dilemma: much of the music and art they were producing from the English past was alien to Americans of non-English background. The question then became what to do ... trying to emulate the great European composers in hopes of finding their own identities, they were almost completely blinded to what was happening in their own backyards. A very diver...

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... make no law abridging the freedom of speech."(United States Constitution) However, it seems almost everywhere; many forms of art are being unfairly censored. One such form that is often overlooked as art is music. "Music is probably the most censored of all art forms"(The Economist; p 73) There are hundreds of artists who have been unfairly censored, ranging from popular music from ... or anxious. We can shove it all underground, airbrush it over with a smiley-face finish, and then when we look in the mirror, all objects will appear to be more perfect than they actually are." (Walsh p. ...

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... Sebastian Bach, Joseph Haydn, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Amadeus Mozart, to name a few. Richard Wagner, one of Hitler's favorite composers, stated that art was the only way to restore wholeness to the human condition (Sheehan 838). Wagner believed that the Germans had a special role to play in contemporary culture ... with regard to music and art. Germans artistic talents were able to touch the deepest roots of spiritual and social vitality. The music was what made them the people they ... as they did Jews. Many Jews had very little sense of religious or cultural identity, so they were ...

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... and open minded people realized that "Times Were Changing" as echoed in the Bob Dylan Classic and the younger generation was taking matters into their own hands. Protest is an art form. If done in properly can be the catalyst for change. However, if it is done improperly, the protesters just sound as though they are whining. In the 60's and ... into history as influential music that reflected the psychedelic and turbulent 60's and 70's. This makes one wonder, why has the protest genre been abandoned? Is protest music a lost art from? If art is something that interacts with the viewer or...

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... music offer, referring to very common things, such as dressing, behaving, and even choosing the type of the car they drive. There are no cute and sexy singers in the art of instrumental music that the listeners would want to be like or hang their pictures in their bedrooms. In other words the player doesn't try to create ... a perfect image of him or her so others would become their fan. The star in this type of music is the instrument itself. The audience seems to be drawn more by ... more by looking at the person's fingers hitting the keys or at the bow, which makes that incomparabl...

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Music is a form of art that captures the feelings and emotions of its people. In order to do so, it must interact with the listeners and change with the times. Italy's musical landscape is a perfect example of this. This is seen in the transition from peasant folk songs to commercial pop music during the early nineteenth century to the Nineteen-Nineties. The decline ... world war, during the 1950's, a coalition of "lyricists, composers, and performers called Cantacronche ("New Singers") was formed in Turin"(Baranski 330). This association marked the beginning of the canzone d"autore, art pop ...

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