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    to discern both the violin and harp in the music‚ mimicking each other. The lullaby has so many precious memories for me‚ I cannot help feeling joy with this music. Moving on to the Classical Period I chose to listen to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Requiem‚ conducted by Karl Bohm (2007). This piece had much more depth in texture and tonality. Mozart raised and lowered the power of the piece using both instrumental diversity and note volume to emphasize the piece. Listening to this piece brought

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    Witold Lutoslawski‚ Siegfried Matthus‚ Winfried Zillig‚ Gottfried von Einem‚ and Aribert Reimann (mwolfe.de/). There were many composers who wrote works specifically for Fischer-Dieskau. The most memorable one was Benjamin Britten who wrote the War Requiem for Fischer-Dieskau in 1962 (Schrott). He also played Papageno in The Magic Flute (Lewis). Over the years‚ Fischer-Dieskau’s repertoire changed. After he became well known on stage‚ Fischer-Dieskau began digitally recording many works. He recorded

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    Show how the playwright creates tension and how this increases your appreciation of any aspect of the play. Arthur Miller’s modern tragedy Death of a Salesman is rife with tension regarding the protagonist‚ Willy Loman‚ a salesman eluded and deluded by the American Dream. The play follows Miller’s reworking of the Aristotelian hero in the final twenty-four hours of his life. Willy’s obsession with his Dream and all associated with it – personal attractiveness‚ business success and family success

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    For a story to be a tragedy it has to follow the principles set by Aristotle‚ a Greek philosopher‚ or those of Arthur Miller who is a twentieth century playwright. A tragedy‚ in Aristotle’s view‚ usually concerns the fall of an individual whose character is good but not perfect and his misfortunes are brought about by the tragic flaw. This flaw is the part of the character that personifies him as being tragic. Miller uses this definition of a tragedy but also broadens it including the common

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    William Suitt 9th grade band Final Essay: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 6/18/13 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born on January 27th‚ 1756; in Salzburg Austria. Born with the full name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart‚ he quickly shortened it to Wolfgang Mozart by his early teenage years. His father‚ Leopold Mozart‚ was the assistant concert master in the Salzburg royal court. While his mother‚ Anna Maria Pertl‚ was born into a family of

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    1 Annexure ‘I’ M.A. English Part-I & II The Appendix ‘A’ (Outlines of Tests) and Appendix ‘B’ (Syllabi & Courses of Reading for M.A. English Part-I and Part-II shall be effective from the Session 2002-2003. The class admitted in the year 2002 will take their M.A. English Part-I Examination of 2003 according to new syllabus in the year 2003: - M.A. (English) Part I Examination of 2003 Appendix ‘A’ (Outlines of Tests) Marks Paper I (Classical Poetry) Paper II (Drama) Paper III (Novel) Paper

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    magic and silliness of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute‚” this singspiel is just as mystical as Mozart’s Requiem. After all‚ the opera is the spiritual journey of a searching young prince‚ whose life is altered by falling in love and by encountering a wise but deeply flawed mentor. Still‚ that first festival offered a rich and unusual range of programs‚ from performances of Brahms’s “German Requiem‚” to a Chinese martial-arts-inspired dance work‚ to a telling of the biblical story of Judith using

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    Stanley Kubrick’s science fiction film‚ 2001: A Space Odyssey connects the past with the future in terms of life‚ while also having a sense of ambiguity to leave the film up to the interpretation of the viewer. In David W. Patterson’s “Music‚ Structure and Metaphor in Stanley Kubrick’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’‚” he argues that “2001’s soundtrack is comprised of two mutually exclusive harmonic streams – the atonal and the tonal – and that in their perceptive and nuanced empathy with the narrative

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    Benjamin Britten Benjamin Britten was an English composer‚ conductor and pianist. He was born on November 22‚ 1913 in Suffolk. Britten’s best works were the operas War Requiem which he wrote in 1962 and Peter Grimes which was written in 1945. His most famous orchestral piece was The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra which was also performed in 1945. Britten had a very unusual past but as any other famous composer‚ pianist or conductor‚ Britten started at a very young age. The main theme of

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    According to The Gift of Music‚ “He was interested in Hungarian music and used many folk song tunes in his compositions” (Smith and Carlson 140). This shows that Nationalism and its emphasis on culture had affected Brahms. In addition‚ his German Requiem does not use the traditional Latin Catholic text‚ but instead is very Protestant‚ and uses Luther’s translation of the Bible. According to The Encyclopedia of Music‚ “…during the Franco-Prussian War he was hailed as a ‘patriot’‚ having used material

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