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    Maria Barthélemon: Child Prodigy and Composer When looking through history we can see many composers throughout time. Most early composers were men but in the 1700s a shift was made and women started composing more music. There are many famous men and woman who composed music during the 1700s‚ I am going to focus on Maria Barthélemon. She was not only a composer but was a very successful singer and keyboard player throughout Ireland‚ London‚ France‚ and Italy. She has only a few surviving works

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    Java Love Play Analysis

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    they san poetry‚ the did act singing‚ opera. It was a musical that located in a coffee shop. And the actors on the stage each sang a song about love. The first song they sang called “love in the dictionary “which the name speaking for itself. The only instrument who played throughout was the piano. The piano started off in softly then began to crescendo as the girl singing beginning to sing in a more opera form. Very bold and loud. Super cool I’ve never heard opera live until this show.as for the sing

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    Gustav Mahler

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    Mahler was born in Kalischt‚ Bohemia‚ on July 7‚ 1860. At the time‚ Bohemia (later to form a major component of Czechoslovakia‚ and later the Czech Republic) was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire‚ then enduring its final crumbling decades‚ and the region where Mahler spent his youth was strongly associate with the Czech independence movement. However‚ Mahler also was a Jew‚ and Jews in the region were associated by ethnic Czechs with Germans. Mahler famous quote is: "I am thrice homeless‚ as

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    Amadeus, the Movie

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    course living conditions are fine‚ constant overindulgence and pleasure. The dress is very extravagant‚ very colorful and very thick and layered. The primary source of entertainment shown in the movie is music‚ seemingly more operas than anything else. Most likely because Operas provided the most entertainment at the time; a play set to a score of music. The main character is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart‚ played by Tom Hulce. In the movie Mozart is portrayed as a very immature‚ childish adult; yet unbelievably

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    Madame Bovary Paper

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    Christoph Willibald Gluck‚ a French composer who had made the orchestra more important in Opera‚ developed Operas that held sudden loud dynamics‚ tremolos in the strings‚ chromatic motion‚ dissonant chords‚ and blasts from the brass that was unlike any other Opera of its time.1 Gluck‚ in the year of 1762 produced an opera with the poet Raniero de Calzabigi known as Orfeo ed Euridice‚ which held one of the scenes of the story of Orpheus when he was in a cavernous space in the underworld.2 Gluck had

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    During this time his new opera‚ The Abduction from the Seraglio‚ had great success following his marriage with Constanze. While in Vienna‚ Wolfgang wrote many operas including Don Giovanni and The Marriage of Figaro. Joseph Hayden was a close friend of Wolfgang and they influenced each other’s work. Wolfgang worked closely with Lorenzo Da Ponte‚ an excellent opera librettist. Don Giovanni was an opera that had music by Wolfgang and Italian libretto by Ponte. This opera has both comic and dramatic

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    Grade Details - All Questions Page:   1  2  3  4  Question 1. Question : Which of the following musicals were based on classic plays and literature?   Student Answer:  Showboat‚ South Pacific and The King and I    South Pacific‚ The Sound of Music‚ and Pal Joey    Candide‚ Carousel‚ and Porgy and Bess    Candide‚ My Fair Lady‚ and West Side Story   Points Received: 0 of 3   Comments: Question 2. Question : These small instrumental ensembles were used as military bands in the Revolutionary

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    be an instrumental ensemble providing an introduction to an Opera or it could also be used as an orchestral interlude‚ like that evident in the Pastoral Symphony from Handel’s Messiah. Although‚ the requirements when composing sinfonia were not particularly strict‚ there was no precise form and certainly no absolute. ‘Sinfonia’ would also quite commonly be used as a device to cover the noise when scenery is being changed within an opera. Despite there being no definite form beforehand‚ the early

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    Handel's Messiah Essay

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    this analysis I chose George Friedrich Handel’s Messiah (https://youtu.be/71NCzuDNUcg). Handel‚ a German composer various different forms of orchestral works‚ operas‚ organ concertos‚ anthems and oratorios who accomplished great success in England‚ was born on February 23rd 1685 and died on April 14th 1759. In 1741 he stopped composing operas‚ and focused on oratorios with his greatest composition‚ Messiah. This was during a time when illiteracy was widespread and written copies of the Bible were expensive

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    Individual Dance Analysis

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    Individual Dance Analysis Week 2 Assignment University of Phoenix February 18‚ 2013 Individual Dance Analysis On this paper‚ I will be discussing a theatrical opera from PBS.org called “IL POSTINO” (The Postman); it was adapted by Daniel Catan from the 1994 Oscar-winning Italian film Il Postino as an opera. The play depicts part of the life of Pablo Neruda’s exile to Italy. Pablo Neruda was a famous Chilean writer/poet who wrote mostly about love‚ and had communist ideals and ideas

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