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Speaking of free improvisation in his book Improvisation - its Nature and Practice in Music, Derek Bailey writes: Two regular confusions which blur its identification are to associ...

The circulation of opera outside the opera house in the nineteenth century is emblematic of several shifting relationships. In terms of the purely musical, these changes illustrate a ...

For much of the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st century, the United States has enjoyed the status as a dominant player in the international states system, with a "prepon...

There are many different reasons to take music exams. Some advantages of taking exams are that it can be very motivating as it gives something to work towards and can give a sense of ...

Introduction Production capacity is actually defined as the maximum number of output of a production process in a facility in a limited interval of time under standard operating cond...

Betjeman firmly lays the blame for the damage done to the speaker at the feet of the Victorian era itself, reminding us that this was the culture that condemned Oscar Wilde ('she ...

Baudelaire creates the inverse effect in his 'prose poems', by elevating, with occasional flurries of poeticism, mostly un-metrical language - language which does not invite in the re...

The technical sophistication of John Betjeman's poetry is rarely analysed. This is perhaps because Betjeman is not intrinsically associated with any major twentieth century literary m...

To what extent can both Spanish and French far-right monarchism be considered expressions of a reactionary utopian mentality? In the late 19th century and early 20th century the po...

How should we read Apollinaire's Les Peintres cubists? Les Peintres Cubistes was first published in late 1913 and consists of a compilation of brief studies previously published in...