Nico Essers Debussy Research Paper Tate December 16‚ 2011 Influences of Claude Debussy Considered to be extremely bizarre‚ the music of Claude Debussy had to have many influences in order to make it that way. All of the aspects that influenced Debussy clearly showed in each of his works. Debussy was an impressionist‚ his music focuses on a suggestion and an atmosphere rather than on a strong emotion or the depiction of a story. Symbolist poets inspired many of his pieces; he would compose the
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sizes arranged in a row (kolintang)‚ a suspended gong with a thin sound (babendir)‚ a drum (debakan)‚ one or two suspended gongs (agong)‚ and a pair of gongs with narrow rims (gandingan).The kolintang is a counterpart of the Malaysian or Indonesian gamelan‚ except that it is an ensemble strictly of percussion instruments. No wind or string instrument is played to accompany it. The principal eight-gong series (kolintang) is used to play a variety of meaningful compositions; the other gongs and the
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Bau Nyale Worm Festival Central Lombok. Many thousand Sasak people from across Lombok flocked to the southern shore at Seger Kuta Beach late on Wednesday 23rd February to partake in the Bau Nyale event and catch as many sea worms as possible. The worms (Nyale) are thought‚ locally‚ to be the reincarnation of Princess Mandalika‚ who in legend‚ to save her subjects from war‚ drowned herself. Mandalika reigned over the Tonjeng Beru‚ a kingdom that included much of the modern central Lombok and
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While Carl Orff is a very seminal composer of the 20th century‚ his greatest success and influence has been in the field of Music Education. Born on July 10th in Munich‚ Germany in 1895‚ Orff refused to speak about his past almost as if he were ashamed of it. What we do know‚ however‚ is that Orff came from a Bavarian family who was very active in the German military. His father’s regiment band would often play through some of the young Orff’s first attempts at composing. Although Orff
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The word music comes from the Greek mousikê (tekhnê) by way of the Latin musica. It is ultimately derived from mousa‚ the Greek word for muse. In ancient Greece‚ the word mousike was used to mean any of the arts or sciences governed by the Muses. Later‚ in Rome‚ ars musica embraced poetry as well as instrument-oriented music. In the European Middle Ages‚ musica was part of the mathematical quadrivium: arithmetics‚ geometry‚ astronomy and musica. The concept of musica was split into four major kinds
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Abstract From "Sabang ‘till Merauke" is the name of a song dedicated to Indonesia’s many islands and its diversity. It’s numerous chain of islands contained in the thirty-two thousand miles dividing two oceans‚ the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean. Sabang is a small island just off the coast of Sumatra; Merauke is a small village near the border of Papua New Guinea. Indonesia’s 13‚677 islands inhabited by 350 different ethnic groups‚ and more than 200 different languages. Consequently this part
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Culture of Indonesia From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Part of a series on the Culture of Indonesia History People Languages Traditions[show] Mythology and folklore[show] Cuisine Religion Art[show] Literature Music and performing arts[show] Media[show] Sport Monuments[show] Symbols[show] Indonesia portal v t e Indonesian children dressed in various traditional costumes. The culture of Indonesia has been shaped by long interaction between original indigenous customs
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Identification. The Republic of Indonesia‚ the world ’s fourth most populous nation‚ has 203 million people living on nearly one thousand permanently settled islands. Some two-to-three hundred ethnic groups with their own languages and dialects range in population from the Javanese (about 70 million) and Sundanese (about 30 million) on Java‚ to peoples numbering in the thousands on remote islands. The nature of Indonesian national culture is somewhat analogous to that of India—multicultural‚ rooted
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A Qualitative Study on Classical Music from the 20th Century to the Present OUTLINE I. Introduction II. Musical Characteristics III. Major Stylistic Developments IV. Chosen Composers of the Major Stylistic Developments V. Conclusion Classical Music from the 20th Century to the Present Music is part of our daily lives. Also‚ no one can deny the fact that music is a language and like language‚ it is subjected to evolution. Music from the 20th century to the
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CAMBODIA Places Siem Reap (literally “Siam Defeated”) is undoubtedly Cambodia’s fastest growing city and serves as a small charming gateway town to the world famous destination of the Angkor temples. Thanks to those Cambodia attractions‚ Siem Reap has transformed itself into a major tourist hub. It is laid-back and a pleasant place to stay while touring the temples. Siem Reap offers a wide range of hotels‚ ranging from several 5-star hotels to hundreds of budget guesthouses while a large selection
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