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obvious to those who are involved in the music program that this particular branch of learning is taking a hit. School budgets are being cut and the arts programs are the first to go. Schools are focused on core classes because mandated state tests put pressure on the school to focus on math, reading and science. By cutting what is seen as an “extracurricular” schools are ignoring the benefits that an advanced music program provides to their students. Music programs are an essential part of the…

landscapes that even photography could mimic and adapt. Photography is an art form that differs from other forms, because it communicates with the world through real life. Photography was developed in 1826 when the first photography was made in France by Joseph Nicephore…

Romanticism is a movement in art, literature, music, and various other media that was characterized by its rejection of the ideals that defined traditional Classicism. It spanned a period of roughly 50 years and began in Western Europe, eventually spanning the western world. Many notable authors and composers were either contributors to this movement or were influenced by it, with prominent authors being Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein and whose works are the basis for many modern…

subjects. Music and the arts teach people how to do things that cannot be taught in a classroom, enhancing skills that are inevitably used in other areas. Along with helping students academically, music education improves communication, teamwork, higher cognitive function, and discipline. These abilities are incredibly important for future generations in search of jobs. Unfortunately, many schools receive little funding for the arts, resulting in a select few gaining the benefits that music…

what’s underneath the surface. What should we get into, listen to, read, eat or watch? If there is something in our culture that needs attention that’s our job: Show you the underground things that you need to know about: Books, music, television, movies, comedians, art, and whatever else we can find to get you into something you never knew about. That’s…

The author of Philosophy of The Arts, Gordon Graham, holds the controversial belief that film has contributed surprisingly little to art. Graham claims that this medium has failed, time and time again, to give any significant art, despite it being a super-medium. While he does, in fact, defend the claim that film is an art form, he does not seem to support the idea that film is important, or high, art. As Graham sees it, this medium is one incapable of achieving artistic greatness. This essay…

take a music, a drama, or an art class. Some students have more important classes to take, more important things to do, and some students are not able to afford it. Students need education more than a music, a drama, or an art class. Students need education more than they need elective classes, education is more important. Elective classes should be a choice if students want to take it, they can. Students have more important classes like English, U.S. History, and Chemistry. First, art and…

The Art of Listening Reproduction of originals is a quality that exists in all facets of life. Much of what is created lacks originality, instead, it is a reproduction or reinterpretation of a previous original idea. In Jeff Turrentine essay Why Some Covers Disappoint, he attempts to dissect what makes a good cover song, seeking to find answers about why some ‘copies’ are less impressive than the original. Paul McCartney’s album of covers “Kisses on the Bottom” which Turrentine dismisses as a…

As I drive or walk on the streets of Chicago, I see lots of homeless people around; which are often ignored by people like us. Some beg on traffic signals while others are by grocery stores. I see their torn clothes and scratchy hands. Sometimes I see children begging for some money to get food, while some go to schools wearing the same clothes for many days. It is very appalling to see that many homeless people and children live without an unknown tomorrow. I always get a thought that, what is…

Kant’s distinction between the beautiful and the sublime is very similar to the division Nietzsche makes between the Apollonian and Dionysian tendencies in art. They both claim that there are aesthetic experiences that are oriented towards a form or rational ideal (Nietzsche believes this ideal to be a dream), but there are also aesthetic experiences that expose man to limitlessness and formlessness. However, Kant and Nietzsche are not going to agree on what an aesthetic experience of the…