As I watched The Rite of Spring and The Nutcracker‚ the music is very different. Knowing time period these two ballets were written in I sort of expected it. The Nutcracker has a lot of musical melodies and themes from the Romantic Period. The Rite of Spring has very aggressive dynamics and very sharp rhythms. The music in The Nutcracker helps the audience set a tone and understand the season that the performance is taking place in as well as what is going on in during the ballet. The music in The
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Another way that Stravinsky was influenced by Rimsky-Korsakov involves his use of diatonic and octatonic scales. Rimsky-Korsakov in his writing would often use diatonic scales to represent human characters while the octatonic scales would represent supernatural beings. As a result‚ Stravinsky utilises this technique in many of his works in the Russian period. This is seen in his ballets‚ The Firebird‚ Petrushka and The Rite of Spring‚ all of which contain the two representations of “diatonic” human
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Cemented in the Western-art psyche from its infamous 1913 premiere‚ Stravinsky’s ballet The Rite of Spring has instigated debate ever since on Stravinsky’s motivations‚ ideological background‚ compositional methods and origins in relation to the work. Created as part of a team‚ including Roerich‚ Diaghilev‚ and‚ of course‚ Nijinsky as a new commission for Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes‚ originally intended for the 1912 Paris season‚ it has often been unclear as to the exact origins of the work’s foundations
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were all key factors to the way music of this time period sounds. Some compositions even received hostility because they had broken so far off tradition. In Paris on May 29‚ 1913 the most famous riot in music history took place. It was the premier of Igor Stravinsky’s ballet Le Sacre du printemps. There were hecklers at this premier that booed and made animal noises as members in the audience tried to watch this ballet
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Myths and cultural past of India has been a favourite choice of Salman Rushdie partly because he has a tenuous link with his land which gives tremendous leaps to his thoughts and fancy and partly because India asa major literary subject helps him win the favour of his western audience by catering to their devious curiosity about Indian ethos. As a literary strategy he mixes the fiction of his mind with the material picked up from the past for for giving such an account of life as may both relevant
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Introduction Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev commonly known as Serge outside Russia‚ was a Russian promoter‚ ballet impresario and art critic. He was the founder and patron of the Ballets Russes‚ which is credited with producing many famous dancers and choreographers. Sergei is remembered all over the world as one of the greatest ballet personalities that have ever lived. He was born on March 31‚ 1872 in Russia in an affluent family with a history in music. He initially studied law at the University
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During the early 20th century‚ musicians and composers were caught in a transitional period of two vastly different styles of music. Though there was a growing number of people who were gaining interest in modern trends that extended tradition‚ there was still a large amount of people who were not ready to explore music outside of 19th century traditions. However‚ there were some composers who‚ rather than choosing one or the other‚ created a culmination of the two styles. Sergei Rachmaninov serves
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the concept of freedom in each; discuss the differences. A passage on a boxing match between Benny Paret‚ a Cuban‚ and Emile Griffith – Analyze how diction‚ syntax‚ imagery‚ and tome produce an effect on the reader. 1985 Contrast stylistic and rhetorical differences between two passages on the Soviet Launch of the first space satellite Discuss the probable reasons for an anonymous writer’s additions and deletions and the ways in which those revisions change the effect of the paragraph. Two drafts
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The Discredited Hero Igor Gouzenko was a Russian who did a great deal of damage to communism and the USSR. Some may see him as a selfish man‚ who betrayed his country for money and personal freedom‚ but others may see him as a selfless man‚ who despite the severe consequences for him and his family‚ did what would ultimately benefit the whole world. My opinion is that he was a great‚ selfless man who sacrificed all he had for the freedoms we enjoy in democratic countries around the globe. Gouzenko’s
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Worksheet One Rhetorical questions activity Read each question and decide whether it is rhetorical or not. 1. Are you planning to talk all lesson young lady? Rhetorical/Not rhetorical 2. How many people are having a school dinner today? Rhetorical/Not rhetorical 3. Is there any need to talk so loudly? Rhetorical/Not rhetorical 4. Does anyone need to
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