written by Australian prolific writer‚ Louis Nowra‚ is a play set in 1971 at a mental institution situated in Melbourne. The central protagonist‚ Lewis Riley‚ a young inexperienced director‚ endeavours to direct the inmates in a performance of Mozart’s opera‚ ‘Cosi Fan Tutte.’ Throughout ‘Cosi’‚ Nowra displays characters that are characterised as normal‚ but display rare various degrees of “insanity”. Over the course of the play‚ the playwright has encouraged his audience to question and understand the
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orchestra to play it because at the time Bach was the court conductor for the Prince of Cothen. The greatest contribution that Johnathan Sebastian Bach had given society was his musical work. All his works in the Baroque Era were masterpieces except operas and he made these masterpieces by fusing the technical mastery aspects with the emotional depth of what art is supposed to be to make perfection. Another notable accomplishment that Bach pioneered was the fact that he transitioned the next generation
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The tempo is fast throughout the song. Second Selection: “ Nessun Dorma” from Turandot- Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) First Hearing: Strong‚ very pretty‚ calm Second Hearing: The composer wrote this piece about a hero for his last opera comique. The song is very pretty that gives me a moment of calmness just by listening to it. Third Hearing: A Romantic orchestra is being played that guides a tenor voice singer and a chorus of female voices. I love how each of the instruments makes
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Debussy was really known for being one of the first to master the incorporation of the chromatic scales in the Phrygian modes. It’s shown in his 1893 String Quartet in G Minor. Later on in 1894 Debussy wrote not only one of his favorite but famous operas‚ it’s called Prelude a l’apres-midi d’un faune‚ in English it is pronounced “Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun”. Debussy was already a well known person‚ but in 1895 he completed
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THE USE OF DRAMATIC ELEMENTS IN THE DIES IRAE SEQUENCE OF THE REQUIEMS OF BERLIOZ AND VERDI Berlioz’s Grande Messe des Morts (1837) and Verdi’s Messa da Requiem (1874) are two of the most important and frequently performed requiem settings of the 19th century. Both are large-scale works calling for an enormous amount of instrumental and vocal musicians. These requiems caused controversy over liturgical bounds‚ with respects to both the rearranging of text and the numerous references to operatic
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Test 1 1) A primary purpose of this course is to become a more perceptive listener. * a) true * b) false 2) A primary purpose of this course is to improve your ability to listen to music ____________. * a) loudly * b) slowly * c) intelligently 3) A primary purpose of this course is to cultivate an awareness and knowledge of musical traditions from West Tennessee only. * a) true * b) false 4) A goal of this course is to gain an understanding of the structure
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Ludwig van Beethoven was a deaf German composer; he was a big predominant figure of the musical arts. He was in the eras between the Classical and Romantic. Beethoven was baptized in the year of 1770‚ on the 17th day‚ of the month in December in the city Bonn‚ Germany. Beethoven was man who kept widening the scopes of sonata‚ symphony‚ concerto and quartet. He would also combine his music with vocals and instruments in a whole new way. During the life of Beethoven‚ he had the struggle of deafness
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The piece that I have chosen to write about is called Firebird written by: Igor Stravinsky in 1910. Stravinsky Grew up around music since he was a young boy‚ his father was Fyodor Stravinsky‚ who was the principle at Imperial Opera‚ St Petersburg‚ and his mother Anna was an amateur singer and piano player. Though Igor did not jump right into music he actually began to study law at St Petersburg University in the year 1901. He still kept his hands in music as he worked with a mentor. By the time
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written in the 1930s many would say. For many listeners‚ Sammuel Barber’s expertly crafted‚ deeply felt scores‚ helped fill an emotional void left by the onslought of modernism. Barber‚ in his youth was sort of a prodigy. By age 10 he wrote a short opera entitled ’The Rode Tree’. By age 14 he was one fo the first students to attend New Curtis Institute of Music. By the age of 28 he had written Adagio for Strings. Beginning with a soft single note- a B flat‚ played by two violins. Then moving to the
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Ludwig van Beethoven was born on December 17‚ 1770 and died on March 26‚ 1827. He was born in Bonn‚ Germany. Beethoven’s father was a bad alcoholic and while in his teens‚ his mother passed away and he ended up having to take charge of his household. Beethoven was a slow composer during his time. He was deaf the last ten years of his life‚ which was very unfortunate but it didn’t stop him from his passion. He was never married but he did have a bunch of love affairs. While in Vienna‚ he was
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