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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New York: Routledge. Agu‚ D.C.C. (1999)‚ Form and Analysis of African Music. Enugu: New Generation Books. Akpabot‚ S.E. (1998)‚ Form‚ Function and Style in African Music. Ibadan:Macmillan Nig. Pub. Ltd Arom‚ S Brown‚ E.D. (1989)‚’The Africa/African American Idiom in Music: Family Resemblances in Black Music.’ In African Musicology: Current Trends Chernoff‚ J.M. (1979)‚ African Rhythm and African Sensibility: Aesthetics and Social Action in African Musical Idiom Colesman‚ P.L.(1980)‚ Music carries
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Score: 0.2/0.2 3. The new type of opera envisioned by Wagner as a complete art work is referred to as a ______________. Student Response Value Correct Answer Feedback A. absolute music B. The Ring C. musical drama 100% D. musical program Score: 0/0.2 4. The famous opera composer who coined the term leitmotiff was _________. Student Response Value Correct Answer Feedback A. Wagner 100% B. Schubert C. Verdi D. Whiteman
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Lerner got the inspiration for the musical Camelot from the idea based on the King Arthur Legend as adapted from the novel The Once and the Future King. Lerner also wrote the music with Frederick Loewe in the 1960’s. The musical faced criticism because some say it wasn’t as good as My Fair Lady‚ and the musical did suffer from structural problems‚ but it still was able to tour around the country. 2. There were two ways that the economics of producing Broadway musicals changed in the 1960’s. In the
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Stephen Sondheim‚ hailed by many as a genius‚ has had a long and illustrious career in Broadway musical theatre spanning five decades. During those fifty-some years‚ Sondheim has essentially reinvented the Broadway musical. The Sondheim canon shows three distinct ways Sondheim has contributed to musical theatre. First of all‚ the difficulty of Stephen Sondheim’s music has raised the standard of musical theatre. Actors simply cannot stand onstage and sing as they used to in the days of Gershwin and
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sections. New chords and novel ways of using the familiar chords were used to create colorful harmony. More emphasis was given to harmonic instability and less to stability and resolution. Romantic composers characteristically expressed themselves in musical miniatures and monumental compositions‚ meaning that they could last just a few minutes that were to be heard in a home or great works that required many performers‚ last for several hours and designed for large opera houses or concert halls.
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DISSERTATION LITERATURE REVIEW In this literature review we will be looking at reading based around the idea of progression within music. Comparisons between different pieces of text regarding the current position of music‚ and if possible‚ the future of music and how it can progress. The main books in discussion will consist of‚ “Simon Reynolds:Retromania”‚ “David Gauntlett:Making is Connecting”‚ Attali:The Political Economy of Music. A lot of the quotes that will
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The lyrics for Brahms’ “Wie Melodien” Op. 105‚ No. 1 are from a poem written by Klaus Groth. It is a poem that never clearly states its true meaning. Instead‚ it arouses an emotional feeling of one dreaming about something from the past. And‚ these emotional feelings are expressed in Groth’s poem through a variety of images. The poem begins with using “melodies” as an image. In the first phrase‚ “Like melodies draw it to me softly through the mind‚” the word “melodies” seems to be symbolic
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Niobid Painter‚ named after his most famous glazed ceramic vase paintings‚ is one of the most well known vase-painters of classical Athens Greece and is appreciated for his soft and balanced work of art. In the Red Figure Amphora with Musical Scene‚ in the scene that is believed to be the first of the two‚ the women in the woman’s quarter of the house‚ are elaborately dressed and are preparing far a music session. The scene depicts a seated woman relaxing while fingering a barbiton. Directly above
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Formal Analysis A musical company The painting A Musical Company‚ part of the leiden collection‚ painted in 1642 by Dutch painter Gerard ter Borch is now on display as part of the vermeer suite exhibition at the Dallas Museum of Art. The painting depicts a young woman playing the virginal accompanied by two men: the one on her left is plays a viol da gamba and the other plays a violin. Gerard ter Borch is widely known for his small scale paintings of everyday peasant life known as genre scenes
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