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    Purcell, Dido and Aeneas

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    1.) Purcell‚ Dido and Aeneas‚ Act III‚ Dido’s Lament (10 September 1659 - 21 November 1695) Purcell was an English Baroque composer. He has often been called England’s finest native composer. Purcell incorporated Italian and French stylistic elements but devised a peculiarly English style of Baroque music. His brief career began at the court of Charles II and on through the turbulent times of James II and finally into the period of William and Mary. Purcell’s music ranks among the finest

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    that phrase is from Prufrock). Well‚ let me assist you by revealing my feelings and analysis on TS Eliot’s issues and concerns. Since I’ve only studied ’The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’‚ ’Portrait of a Lady’‚ ’Rhapsody on a Windy Night’ and ’Preludes’‚ I’ll be relating my explanation to those poems. The human conditions that Eliot represents are trivial‚ struggle‚ pessimism‚ depersonalisation‚ despair and desolation. His views of women are misogynistic and being involved in sordid activities

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    Huma 1102 Concert Report

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    Thesis statement: “This report will simply discuss how Ludwig van Beethoven integrated old and new musical ideas into his work‚ thus creating an unconventional but transcendent and influential quartet‚ based on the String Quartet No.9 in C‚ Op. 59‚ No.3 “Razumovsky” performed on the concert.” On 22nd Nov‚ Shanghai Quartet‚ one of the world’s foremost chamber ensembles‚ performed two musical works. They are Ludwig van Beethoven’s String Quartet No.9 in C‚ Op. 59‚ No.3 “Razumovsky ” and Antonin Dvorak’s

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    The musical example‚ Prelude in E Minor by Chopin was one of his most famous works from his entire catalogue. The Prelude is also known as "suffocation." In Fact‚ Chopin’s last dynamic marking in the piece is smorzando‚ which means "dying away." The piece was played at Chopin’s funeral upon request by himself. There have been many musical pieces that were based on the prelude. Some of these pieces include Antonio Jobim’s "Insensatez‚" and Serge Gainsbourg’s "Jane B." The prelude has also been featured

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    (stanza one‚ line thirteen). It is negative‚ bitter and melancholic. This appears to the readers that Harwood would like to creative a negative view of Australian motherhood. This discourse is evidenced at early as the first line “She practises a fugue‚ though it can matter to no one now if she plays well or not.” (stanza one‚ line one). Harwood uses symbolism techniques to create greater depth to her work which therefore questions the audience and presents a strong and moving impact on the readers

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    Humanities Baroque

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    Manifestation of the Baroque Period Roughly around the 1600s to 1750s‚ the Baroque period came to life bringing heightened nature‚ and more personal and emotional expression to art. It originated in Italy and spread out like a plaque throughout Europe‚ the Americas‚ and Spain. Everything from art to literature and even music was more theatrical and was given more emotions. Catholicism was generally being reflected off of the Baroque arts. Dramatic religious paintings were being made Literature

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    Overview of Music

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    The word music comes from the Greek mousikê (tekhnê) by way of the Latin musica. It is ultimately derived from mousa‚ the Greek word for muse. In ancient Greece‚ the word mousike was used to mean any of the arts or sciences governed by the Muses. Later‚ in Rome‚ ars musica embraced poetry as well as instrument-oriented music. In the European Middle Ages‚ musica was part of the mathematical quadrivium: arithmetics‚ geometry‚ astronomy and musica. The concept of musica was split into four major kinds

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    Shoshana Dunner AP Music Theory Miss. Evans May 3rd 2013 Final Project: Prelude in D Flat major Op.28 Chopin’s Raindrop Prelude was composed during the romantic period (1820-1900) and completed in 1839. During the romantic period‚ most composers portrayed feelings and nature in their work. In addition‚ they used a wide range of dynamics with lots of sudden changes‚ using sforzandos and accents‚ to dramatize their music. The music was more expressive using extra instructions as well as tempo

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    In our increasingly competitive world‚ the key to professional success is linked to our ability to be creative.  Everyone will agree that creativity stems from a well-developed imagination.  Before one can create any one “thing”‚ it must have been imagined by someone. Dr. Montessori opined‚ “We often forget that imagination is a force for the discovery of truth.”1 Imagination‚ like so many other things‚ has its sensitive period in early childhood. However‚ there are no dolls‚ talking animals or

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    JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Johann Sebastian Bach was born in 1685 in the town of Thuringia‚ Germany where he was raised and spent most of his life. Due to a shortage of expenses‚ he was confined to a very limited geographical space‚ as was his career. This greatly affected his‚ in that his music was not as widley known as other composers of the time. On traveling he never went farther north than Hamburg or farther south than Carlsbad. To look back on the life of Bach many have referred

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