The symphony orchestra‚ Peter and the Wolf by Sergei Prokofiev is a story based concert with a variety of instruments. Sergei Prokofiev constructed this orchestra to help teach young children about what certain instruments sound like together and by themselves. A narrator instructs the audience what instruments represent each character or mood. The concert begins with a lento and mezzo-piano type of mood because the string family starts playing first. These elements combined with the beautiful blend
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on the piece and in some cases details about the composer. It also allows the audience to retrieve some sense of what to expect when listening to the work that is being offered. The reaction that I received in regards to Beethoven Fifth Symphony‚ First Movement; was that I immediately noticed the very catchy but strong opening that was displayed in my ears. In the beginning it was as if there were knocking on a door or someone running through a dark corridor of some sort. Then later there
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An isolated Lifestyle: [The Kafka Analysis] Born In Prague‚ Franz Kafka‚ a man regarded as one of the most influential authors of the late 19th century to early 20th. His work captivating‚ remarkably powerful‚ surreal and significant gains its own special term called "kafkaesque;" examples of this tag are prominently portrayed in his more popular pieces such as "The Metamorphosis" and "The Judgment.". His work had many themes portrayed but most unmistakably seen is the notion of isolation. Not
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emotional experience while offering a technical structure intelligent enough to sate most musicologists. This can especially be seen in Movement One of Brahms’ Third Symphony‚ where he clearly uses a specific pattern to encapsulate both of these aspects. First and foremost‚ it is important to understand that Brahms’ symphonies (as well as much of his music) fits the definition of absolute music. This is similar to composers of earlier times in the romantic
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The phantom of the opera is a long lived novel written by Gaston Leroux in the early 1900’s with a French background. This classic work enjoys worldwide fame as a tragic love story containing amazing special effects on film and on stage as well as stunning music. Gaston Leroux wrote the horror novel "Le Fantome de l’Opera‚" published in 1911. Leroux had heard stories of ghosts haunting the Paris Opera House and decided to base a novel around these tales. He even boasted having researched the opera
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Not only is there much pressure to conform to mainstream society in order to be acce[ted and belong‚ but there is often pain associated with not belonging‚ Individuals who choose to remain true to themselves may find the relationshop between individuality and conformaty difficult. We are constantly “constructing‚ demolishing and redrawing boundaries in order to create new places of belonging”. Belonging to a group of people‚ opposed to ones Self Belonging are two different concepts. One defines conforming
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The Stony Brook Symphony Orchestra and Fady Deeb Saturday‚ October 6‚ 2012 Lontano by György Ligeti This piece has an eerie and dissonant aura throughout the piece‚ without having much musical resolve in its sounds. The entire orchestra was included in this piece‚ except for the percussion section. These polyphonic sounds of this piece were played extensively‚ reflecting no noticeable tempo or rhythm‚ therefore creating ambiguous sounds. However‚ the dynamic range was wide enough to create
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Beethoven’s use of Sonata form in his 1st Symphony Beethoven‚ in common with his predecessors Haydn and Mozart‚ uses the Sonata form in the first movement of his first symphony. This was Beethoven’s first attempt at the symphonic form having composed chamber music and two piano concertos. Beethoven made the sonata form more expressive through his use of dynamics and more extreme key relations. Beethoven started this piece with a slow introduction. It is not unknown
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reading or to back out over the threshold. The beginning of a novel or play as David Lodge‚ The Art of Fiction (London: Vintage‚ 2011‚ pg 5) exemplifies ‘is a threshold‚ separating the real world we inhabit from the world the novelist has imagined.’ Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis opens a climatic effect‚ as the reader is thrust upon the predicament of an overnight occurrence‚ unaware of any recognition of the protagonist’s transformation. The opening of Metamorphosis establishes an unconventional‚ activist
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lived tensions and thus war ensues. Such was the case in WWI with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. There were many tensions that existed prior to his assassination‚ but it was his assassination which triggered the war‚ his assassination that served as an excuse‚ and perhaps the last straw‚ so to speak‚ which led to the First World War. The following paper examines the assassination of Franz Ferdinand and its relationship to the start of WWI. Under the rule at the time of the assassination
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