ideas in the words. Word painting generally appears on words that express emotions‚ for example‚ L’Orfeo (1607) by Claudio Monteverdi‚ a recitatives opera‚ it is a Greek mythology about Orpheus‚ a god who’s able to move people with his music and poetry. In this story‚ his wife‚ Eurydice died from snakebite. Orpheus was so distraught he went to the Underworld wanted to retrieve his wife back from Hades with his music. Monteverdi used word painting on ‘morta’ (‘death’)‚ the musical pitch here is lower;
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Anderson was the first African American to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. She also sang for Presidents‚ Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy’s inaugurations. On July 17‚ 1943 in Bethel‚ Connecticut‚ Anderson became the second wife of Orpheus H. Fisher. She had a stepson named James Fisher. They lived happily on a 100 acre farm in Danbury‚ Connecticut. Marian Anderson retired from singing in 1965. After retirement‚ she narrated lots of performances and did
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The Roman Empire was the most widespread administrative and societal structure of Western civilization. By 285‚ C.E‚ the Roman Empire had grown too vast to be ruled from the central government at Rome. The Romans showed a talent of borrowing and improving upon the skills and concepts of other cultures. They borrowed extensively from the Greeks and also from the Egyptians‚ Persians and the Carthaginians. All this was done in an attempt to try to conquer and spread their ideologies throughout the world
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Pyramus and Thisbe Pg.. 43 Line 93: “With the hinge having been turned cleverly‚ Thisbe departs and devieves her own parents (having veiled her face)‚ and she comes to the tomb and sits under the said tree‚ love was making her brave. Behold there comes a lioness‚ having smeared her foaming jaws‚ from the recent slaughter of cattle‚ about to satisfy her thirst in the waters in the nearby fountain. Line 99: Her from a far by the raise of the moon‚ Babylonian Thisbe saw her and fled with timid
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One main difference was the degree of the couple’s separation. Pyramus and Thisbe were separated by a wall‚ “In the wall both houses… two young people discovered the hole and they were able to whisper sweetly back and forth.”‚ (Ovid‚ 488). Romeo and Juliet were separated by city after Romeo was banished to Mantua‚ “Not body’s death‚ but body’s banishment.”‚ (Shakespeare‚ 434). Therefore the two couples had different ways of communicating. Romeo and Juliet had to send letters or
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is exhibited displays that as long as spinning has existed‚ women and storytelling has existed. Women have forever used spinning or weaving as a way of having a voice in a time when they could not have their own. Philomela‚ in the tale as told by Ovid in Metamorphoses‚ was an important figure in this essay as well as in the history of the female voice. She was a woman who was violently and repeatedly raped by her sister’s husband‚ Tereus. After she threatens to tell everybody what he has done to
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CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY Humanities 222 Summer 2013‚ Online Cat Anghelina‚ Ph.D.‚ Instructor Prerequisites: Communication Skills 101 (or equivalent in Basic Composition) Instructor email: cangheli@cscc.edu Office Hours: Available via e-mail; if you do not receive a response from me within 48 hours of sending me an e-mail‚ assume I have not received the e-mail and resend it. Course Description: The course familiarizes students with the world of Classical mythology; the human and
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Greek mythology in western art and literature With the rediscovery of classical antiquity in Renaissance‚ the poetry of Ovid became a major influence on the imagination of poets and artists and remained a fundamental influence on the diffusion and perception of Greek mythology through subsequent centuries.[2] From the early years of Renaissance‚ artists portrayed subjects from Greek mythology alongside more conventional Christian themes. Among the best-known subjects of Italian artists are Botticelli
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them. As a woman‚ if you are abandoned by the victimizer‚ you tend to feel weak and perceive men as predators and ourselves as the bait. Women encourage men to harass them by their beauty and the way they dress--unknowingly making it their own fault.. Ovid illuminates his metamorphoses towards all cases in an interesting way. First‚ Philomela has entered in a room dressed in her rich robes and beauty. Tereus‚ Philomela father would seduce Philomela with gifts and kisses with the absence of his daughter
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received a serious knee injury which ended his life performing‚ though this didn’t end his ballet career. He began to choreograph ballets which led to many beautiful performances performed by his dancers. Numerous years later‚ he made the ballet Orpheus‚ once again after collaborating with Stravinsky and a sculptor Isamu Noguichi. Though it’s only thirty minutes long‚ it led to an invitation of becoming a resident dance company‚ where Balanchine was the ballet master. A few years later‚ Balanchine
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