Rent is personally one of my all time favorite productions. It is a Broadway musical and motion picture that is set in New York City’s East Village during a time period when HIV and AIDS was a common issue. This musical expresses many other issues through its content. Most of these issues are things that the characters must learn to deal with and try to fix throughout the span of the film. Some of the problems depicted are the characters struggling with drugs‚ understanding sexuality‚ paying their
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similar compositional techniques. Though there are differences found amongst the techniques of Whitacre and Lauridsen‚ a connection can be drawn between their composition styles. Through clever uses of harmonic and dynamic techniques‚ sonorities‚ and musical color‚ a connection is easily heard in both composers’ beautiful music. Each composer’s style remains present in each individual composition‚ such as Whitacre’s Sleep and Cloudburst and Lauridsen’s O Magnum Mysterium and Madrigali; and though similarities
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Select 3 musical examples of Renaissance music‚ and describe their musical form. How do these pieces differ in texture from the Medieval period? In “Greensleves”‚ the musical form would be binary with two parts that both relate to each other such as a statement and a counterstatement also known as the AB form. “Country jig” also has a binary musical form with part A being repeated after part B. “ La girometta” has a ternary form with a statement‚ contrast‚ and return or ABA’. These pieces each
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play‚ All Shook Up‚ on July 30th 2:30 p.m. at our very own Baker University Broadway Theatre. The musical play by Joe DiPietro find inspiration and features the Songs of Elvis Presley. The play All Shook up‚ takes place in 1955‚ and into a little square town with a little square state rides a guitar-playing roustabout who changes everything and everyone he meets. In this hip-swiveling‚ a lip-curling musical fantasy that’ll have the audience jumping out of their blue suede shoes with such classics as
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Monteverdi’s Lamento della ninfa is an excellent example of what a lament should be. A lament is always an expression of grief or sorrow and usually over a loss of love. This loss of love may be due to the death of the loved one or betrayal (such is this case). The lament is not a complaint about unhappy or unrequited love‚ but it is a manifestation of sadness. In most cases‚ Lamento della ninfa included‚ the lamenter is tormented simultaneously by the past‚ present‚ and future: the memories
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performances. There were many different instruments‚ costumes‚ and music expressing the different cultures. There were a few musical instruments that seemed out of the ordinary‚ and also wasn’t very pleasing to the ears‚ but they did a great job. The UH students in the Chinese‚ Japanese‚ Korean‚ and Hawaiian music courses performed at this concert. Composition I liked best: The musical piece that I enjoyed the most was the Japanese Koto‚ Edo- komoriuta and Sunayama. Edo-komoriuta is a well- known traditional
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that night was comprised of five works‚ including: “Fantasy for Two Pianos in A Minor”‚ “Six Studies in English Folksong”‚ “Melody in A Minor”‚ “Dance Preludes”‚ and “Suite for Violin‚ Clarinet and Piano Op. 157b.” After listening to each of the musical compositions in person‚ I formed my initial opinions‚ researched their historical backgrounds and characteristics to provide an informative concert review. Furthermore‚
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melodies were sweet and pleasing to my ears. The soloist on the piano led the musical piece as the cello and violin played along to make a wonderful and marvelous sound. The musical notes also helps to bring about an atmosphere fill with a mood which was lovely‚ soothing and peaceful. The piece was loud and fast in tone. Brahms (1833-1897)
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the creative mind do not always go hand in hand when trying to create a musical‚ which Miranda found out the hard way. After two-years of writing for Hamilton‚ Miranda had composed two songs‚ so with the use of a periodic deadlines‚ the music was crafted and ultimately the play had gone onto production. The production process of making a musical was interesting to me from a business analytical perspective because for most musicals it is difficult to make it but even more difficult to stay. With Hamilton
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the complete picture at the end. Goldsworthy provides a table of contents with the sections of the novel labelled. The second section is called ‘Intermezzo’ which is a short piece of music that is performed between longer movements of an extended musical composition‚ usually for solo piano. While this introduces the idea of music within the table of contents the other sections are time and place based. Language features Some language
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