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    Antonio Lucio Vivaldi was born in Venice‚ the capital of the Republic of Venice. He was baptized immediately at his home by the midwife. It is not known how the life of the infant was in danger‚ but the immediate baptism was most likely due to his poor health or to an earthquake that shook the city that day. Vivaldi’s official church baptism (at least‚ the rites that remained other than the actual baptism itself) did not take place until two months later. His father‚ Giovanni Battista‚ a barber before

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    Java Love Play Analysis

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    they san poetry‚ the did act singing‚ opera. It was a musical that located in a coffee shop. And the actors on the stage each sang a song about love. The first song they sang called “love in the dictionary “which the name speaking for itself. The only instrument who played throughout was the piano. The piano started off in softly then began to crescendo as the girl singing beginning to sing in a more opera form. Very bold and loud. Super cool I’ve never heard opera live until this show.as for the sing

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    Performing Arts and Culture

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    1 Middle East • 3.2 Iran • 3.3 India and Pakistan • 3.4 China • 3.5 Thailand • 3.6 Cambodia • 3.7 Japan 4 Philippines performing arts • Theatre • Dance • Music Performing arts include dance‚ music‚ opera‚ theatre‚ magic‚ Spoken word‚ circus arts and musical theatre. Artists who participate in performing arts in front of an audience are called: Performers - including actors‚ comedians‚ dancers‚ magicians‚ musicians‚ and singers Performing arts

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    Handel's Messiah Essay

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    this analysis I chose George Friedrich Handel’s Messiah (https://youtu.be/71NCzuDNUcg). Handel‚ a German composer various different forms of orchestral works‚ operas‚ organ concertos‚ anthems and oratorios who accomplished great success in England‚ was born on February 23rd 1685 and died on April 14th 1759. In 1741 he stopped composing operas‚ and focused on oratorios with his greatest composition‚ Messiah. This was during a time when illiteracy was widespread and written copies of the Bible were expensive

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    1. A cantata is a result of the Reformation movement and its creation is accredited to the Lutheran Church. The cantata is the result of many composers and poets of the time elaborating and modifying the Lutheran chorales‚ congregational hymns that were specific to every Sunday service of the Lutheran church‚ by incorporating their own lines of poetry or ornamenting the melody in order to express and elaborate the message from the original hymn. A very well known adopter of the cantata was Johann

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    tour of Europe was at the age of six. On his first tour‚ he played harpsichord‚ organ‚ and violin. He published numerous compositions before reaching adolescence. Mozart composed over six hundred musical compositions. His most notable works are his operas‚ symphonies‚ quartets‚ and piano concertos. He died at the age of thirty-five. Although he was born in 1756‚ Mozart’s accomplishments in music seem remarkable even today. At the age of six‚ he made his first concert tour of Europe‚ playing the harpsichord

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    Individual Dance Analysis Week 2 Assignment University of Phoenix February 18‚ 2013 Individual Dance Analysis On this paper‚ I will be discussing a theatrical opera from PBS.org called “IL POSTINO” (The Postman); it was adapted by Daniel Catan from the 1994 Oscar-winning Italian film Il Postino as an opera. The play depicts part of the life of Pablo Neruda’s exile to Italy. Pablo Neruda was a famous Chilean writer/poet who wrote mostly about love‚ and had communist ideals and ideas

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    Gustav Mahler

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    Mahler was born in Kalischt‚ Bohemia‚ on July 7‚ 1860. At the time‚ Bohemia (later to form a major component of Czechoslovakia‚ and later the Czech Republic) was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire‚ then enduring its final crumbling decades‚ and the region where Mahler spent his youth was strongly associate with the Czech independence movement. However‚ Mahler also was a Jew‚ and Jews in the region were associated by ethnic Czechs with Germans. Mahler famous quote is: "I am thrice homeless‚ as

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    Composed in 1945 Benjamin Britten’s Peter Grimes was his first opera to receive popular success and is still widely performed in the United Kingdom and across the world at large. The opera is based on a narrative poem Peter Grimes from George Crabbe’s book The Borough and follows the life of the title character‚ a misanthropic fisherman Peter Grimes. Peter Grimes is portrayed as lone fisherman with a questionable reputation in the coastal village where he lives and is naturally the first suspect

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    During this time his new opera‚ The Abduction from the Seraglio‚ had great success following his marriage with Constanze. While in Vienna‚ Wolfgang wrote many operas including Don Giovanni and The Marriage of Figaro. Joseph Hayden was a close friend of Wolfgang and they influenced each other’s work. Wolfgang worked closely with Lorenzo Da Ponte‚ an excellent opera librettist. Don Giovanni was an opera that had music by Wolfgang and Italian libretto by Ponte. This opera has both comic and dramatic

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