From the Paper
"Beethoven spanned the two eras of Classicism and Romanticism. Classicism was, on one level, a preference for balance, while Romanticism was a rage for power. Beethoven used these opposing forces to reshape the symphony as a musicoemotional form, and this was probably the single most important achievement in the development of the Romantic Symphony. Beethoven was also noted for his expansion of the piano sonata and the string quartet. Biographers often emphasize Beethoven as a wretched human being, uncouth, bad-tempered, and often unfair in his business and personal relationships. His personality brought him into constant conflict with publishers, musicians, patrons, family, and friends. His music is highly dramatic, and he was noted for his innovations and the sublimity..."

Tags:biography

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This paper is in two sections. The first part examines Mozart's Symphony no. 39 in E-flat and the second, Schumann's Quartet in A-minor, op 41, no 1. It discusses how Mozart's music was reflective of his life and his friendships and interwoven in this symphony are chords that resonate harmony and plays on the dynamics of sound to create a musical piece that slowly marches into a series of discords. In contrast it shows how Robert Schumann's music has often been identified with his love of poetry, painting and indicative of his personal moods and how many of his compositions mention characters or refer to scenes from poems, novels and plays.

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"E-flat was a one of his favorite keys. As in the rites of the opera, three solemn knocks on the portal of truth are evoked in the commanding chords upon which the Adagio introduction opens the symphony. Certain musical details of this exalted work have been viewed as Masonic elements: parallel thirds, symbolizing fraternity; the striking role of the clarinet, then a newcomer to the symphonic ensemble but commonly heard at Masonic gatherings and in the opera house; and even slurred notes, whose ties suggest friendship."

Tags:e-flat, harmony, syncopation, chords, chamber

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This paper looks at how the 1920s was a huge decade for "jazz" and how due to the closing of the seaport in New Orleans, musicians were forced to travel up the Mississippi to find work. It also discusses the four major types of jazz: boogie-woogie, Chicago jazz, urban blues, and society dance bands and explains the difference between jazz chords and blues chords.

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"To clarify the chord structure between Jazz chords and blues chords, you must first understand that a chord is built on the first, third, and the fifth with an added seventh. A blues song is always centered on three chords, the first chord, the fourth chord, and the fifth chord example, in the key of C the one chord is CEG based on the C scale. The fourth chord is FAC based on the F scale. The five chord is GBD based on the G scale with the added seventh making the chord GBDF. Blues is much more simple because a blues song consist of only three chords. "

Tags:boogie-woogie, urban

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In this paper, the writer provides multiple perspectives on the musical, historical, racial, and personal variations found within the song "Georgia on My Mind" by Ray Charles. The writer discusses that the music techniques used in the song dictate Charles's ability to innovate new gospel vocalizations, but not without the fusion of blues and jazz chords that diversify the moods of this song of yearning for home. The writer discusses that by describing the lyrical content of the song, one can realize the growing sense of home that Charles' felt in his own life, but more so, for a racially equal sense of social awareness on the issue of segregation during the Civil Rights Era.

Tags:blues, race

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The paper states that a spinal cord injury (SCI) affects not only the approximately 350,000 individuals in the United States who are living with SCI, but also the spouses, siblings, sons, daughters and other family members that have to cope with the sudden changes in lifestyle(s) that portends such injuries as well. The paper seeks to ascertain how a SCI affects the quality of life (QOL) for both the individual suffering from the injury and the family caregivers that are associated with the victim as well. The paper defines QOL in an acceptable manner and also observes the positive and negative responses from those individuals who have to cope with the effects that those sudden changes bring about.

Outline:
Introduction
SCI Background
Methodology
Coping
Need and Significance

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"Some of the incurred expenses can include around the clock nursing care; respiratory therapy; modifying an automobile for transportation; adaptive equipment such as a special air mattress bed which will turn and position the individual; a sip and puff wheelchair; physical therapy; adaptive clothing; supplies such as supra pubic supplies; bed bags, etc. These expenses do not include costs to attain a higher level of health, but are only coincidental to maintaining an already reached level. Along with the financial burden that such an injury can induce is the emotional and mental and psychological stress that takes its toll on the victim and surrounding families members."

Tags:normal, roles, stabilized, additional, costs, responsibilities

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"Ludwig van Beethoven is arguably one of the most original composers who ever lived. His composing career began in the last decade of the 18th century and ended with his death in 1827, and thus spanned from the Classical to the Romantic period. In his youth, he studied under F. Joseph Haydn, one of the greatest Classical composers; in his maturity, he anticipated the Romantic style which was later fully realized in the works of Schubert, Schumann, Berlioz and Chopin, among others. Although Beethoven is rightfully acknowledged as a brilliant innovator, he was not without his influences. The goal of this research is to establish the influence of a particular composer, the Italian pianist and composer Muzio Clementi, on Beethoven's keyboard compositions.
Clementi was Beethoven's contemporary; though he was born in.."

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The purpose of this paper is to introduce and discuss the topic of Ernest Hemingway with regard to individualism and self-realization. Specifically, the paper mentions several sources and incorporates information from at least one Roberts and Jacobs short story, poem, or play. Ernest Hemingway embodies his characters with some of his own rugged individualism and search for meaning in life. Many other authors incorporate this theme in their works, because it seems to touch a chord in many readers, who also hope to learn more about themselves as they read and evaluate great fiction.

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"Ernest Hemingway often portrayed a bit of himself in his works, because many of his protagonists were rugged individualists who searched for meaning in their lives and in the world around them, just as Krebs does in "Soldier's Home." Unfortunately, many of Hemingway's characters never find the comfort of self-realization, and so they are empty characters that never really find themselves. This self-realization process is also a common theme in many other fictional works, as the examples in this paper clearly indicate."

Tags:fiction, author, literature, individual, self

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This examines the life, works and death of the famous music composer Wolfgang Mozart, who died in 1791 at the age of thirty five. It concentrates on the theories that have been put together regarding what may have killed the composer. He was one of the most prolific and talented composers in history and his fame at such a young age touched the chord of envy in many. It discusses how modern science has been trying to determine the exact cause of death but it will probably never be resolved and how other theories include a cheating wife, a jealous peer and plain old bad pork.

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"Today rheumatic fever is rare but in the composer's life it was a common ailment(Sleuth, 2000). He died during a historically noted epidemic of the illness around Europe and scientist believe this is what killed the music genius. Because it is known that Mozart had the disease several times as a child it does not surprise the advocates of this theory that scientists have opened the possibility of the disease damaging his heart and then later in his life being the cause of his death. This theory sounds plausible based on the rash and the fever for rheumatic fever and the swollen limbs which point to a commonly known byproduct of heart failure."

Tags:wife, pork, fever, music

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The paper examines "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson - a parable with an unexpected twist. The author of the paper shows how the story is a comment on capitalism in society, the subjugation of women as well as the pointless violence that continues despite our common sense. The paper investigates how, when it was first published in 1948, the book was met with indignation and abuse. In order to understand this reaction, the author of the paper revisits the little village of three hundred people and studies the elements of character, the narration of the story in which it is told, and the plot. The paper shows that only in examining these three elements can we grasp the social chord Jackson touched upon when she wrote "The Lottery."

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""The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson explores the violent (and often irrational) tendencies of Man. She deems capitalism to be the root of society's problems in that it promotes and sustains inequality amongst its citizens, not least of which is the subordination of women. Although Jackson does not offer a solution to the problem, her story does provoke consideration and debate of the subject. Maybe upon identifying the problem as opposed to blindly accepting the status quo as did the townspeople in Jackson's tale, can we hope for change."

Tags:Town, Square, Mr., Summers, Mr., Graves, social, order, Hutchinson, Mr., Dunbar, Jack, Watson

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In this paper the author looks at the characters in this play by Tennessee Williams. The author notes that despite the main character actual absence absent from the play, he has a profound impact on all the other characters and all their actions and emotions are centered on him. The author concludes by suggesting that Williams wrote the play as an outlet for his own emotions.

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?Tennessee Williams uses this play as an outlet for his own pain, and his characters take on a truthful hue that no doubt strikes a chord in the audience. The Glass Menagerie is a play that no doubt has few characters more prominent that Mr. Wingfield, though Mr. Wingfield never once steps on stage. It is Mr. Wingfield's absence from this family that causes their own glass house to break.?

Tags:play, american, pain, emotions, reflection, outlet