Henry Purcell (1659-1695) 
.... He was clearly "a born
opera composer in search of an
opera house" and had he lived longer he might have found it. Had a major English ....
(2128
9
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Monteverdi and Opera
.... As a
composer of
opera, Monteverdi combined technique and passion. Compared to his efforts, Monteverdi's contemporaries were emotionally restrained. ....
(2563
10
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Romanticism in music
.... Berlioz, organist and
composer Cesar Franck (1822-1890), and
opera composer Charles Gounod (1818-1893) all devoted attention to creating Catholic church music ....
(2471
10
)
Britten's Opera Paul Bunyan
The
opera Paul Bunyan (1941) is an early work by Benjamin Britten that met with little success and was consequently set aside by the
composer until, 35 years ....
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Benjamin Britten's Opera Paul Bunyan
The
opera Paul Bunyan (1941) is an early work by Benjamin Britten that met with little success and was consequently set aside by the
composer until, 35 years ....
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4 Short essays on Music
.... Through a melding of leitmotifs, the
composer sought to ascribe certain musical expressions to certain things within the
opera such as the ring or Valhalla. ....
(1042
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3 Essays (Music. Advertising. Marriage & Parenting)
.... Vivaldi's music was in the Baroque tradition, but the
composer adopted a number .... tragedie en musique with the melodic brilliance of Italian
opera seria" (Henry ....
(1707
7
)
Andrew Lloyd Webber
.... into the scenery of his musical theatre productions, including The Phantom of The
Opera. Another occupation of Webber's outside his role as
composer is his ....
(2076
8
)
Verismo Puccini Tosca
.... Crawford 1). With respect to the verismo style in Italy, the work of
composer Giacomo Puccini represents the pinnacle of the verismo form of
opera. ....
(1285
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Bel Canto Composers
.... bel canto
composer's work is restaged and reviewed. In a recent review of Bellini's "I Puritani" one critic wrote, "In the world of competitive
opera, this is ....
(2423
10
)
Mozart's Opera, Don Giovanni
.... his servant and the dying man all express their feelings,
opera provides a .... an abundance of dramatic elements of which the far less powerful
composer Gluck had ....
(3071
12
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The American composer John Cage
.... For example, "Charles Ives, the turn-of-the-century American
composer, had written .... Regulated anarchy: The Europeras and the aesthetics of
opera." John Cage ....
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13
)
Brief Bios of Seveal Prominent Musicians Vivaldi was an ordained ...
.... that affected Italian
opera, and Verdi embraced this idea in his work (Grout and Palisca, 736). Tchaikovsky was the image of the Romantic
composer, and in part ....
(1537
6
)
Women Classical Composers
.... vocal work led to composition in
opera and other genres during the Baroque era. Typically, she was the daughter of an eminent singer and
composer (Neuls-Bates ....
(2706
11
)
Mozart's Last Year
.... As Harris (1991) noted, although he was still court
composer for the Emperor, this .... difficulty, Mozart composed his most child like and simple
opera, The Magic ....
(1532
6
)
Handel
.... Also true to the
opera seria form, Handel often conveyed his dramatic themes by .... As a Baroque
composer, Handel made effective use of rhythm, and "dance rhythms ....
(1459
6
)
The Symphonic Poem & Lizst
.... example of how the
composer revised older, formal forms to met his aesthetic goal of creating a new music language. Liszt produced Gluck's
opera "Orpheus" in ....
(2535
10
)
Music Questions
.... In the fourth movement of the
opera, "March to the Scaffold," Berlioz "introduces .... Berlioz' work is known for its "realism" as the
composer avoided "prettifying ....
(686
3
)
Renee Fleming
.... As another
composer of the bel canto style, Bellini, once stated: "
Opera, through singing, must make one shudder, weep, die" (Wang 1). Many of Fleming's vocal ....
(500
2
)
Beethoven
.... sonatas for violin and piano, 5 sonatas for cello and piano, an
opera, 2 masses .... Yet, the
composer could also be as critical with himself as he was with others ....
(1832
7
)
Characteristics of the Boroque Period of Music
....
Opera originated in Florence, but acquired various characteristics of style and .... improvise notes around chords written (figured) by the
composer, not unlike how ....
(2455
10
)
Instrumental Baroque Music
....
Opera originated in Florence, but acquired various characteristics of style and .... improvise notes around chords written (figured) by the
composer, not unlike how ....
(2552
10
)
The Life of Arturo Toscanini
.... In the case to be examined herein, that of Italian born
composer and conductor .... When he was 19, Toscanini joined an Italian
opera company, serving as principal ....
(2930
12
)
Leonard Bernstein as a Conductor of Beethoven
.... it was supremely important for a conductor to be a communicator of the
composer's intent .... He first conducted the
opera at the Vienna State
Opera in 1970 where it ....
(3070
12
)
Schopenhauer's Views on Music The purpose of this rese
.... of music is, on this view, such that it calls and calls to the
composer's wish to .... indeed, is what he is arguing when he says that the libretto of
opera must be ....
(1893
8
)
Music in Terezin Ghetto
.... Haas wrote a tragicomic
opera and suites for piano, many of which were performed .... Victor Ullmann was a music critic and
composer in the camp, ultimately writing ....
(966
4
)
Two Operas by Verdi
.... The old man, now lionized as the great
composer, who had refused to attend his .... would have been consistent with his career: a final great tragic
opera by the ....
(3944
16
)
Duke Ellington
.... noted that Ellington was the first jazz
composer to write out solos for his instrumentalists, just as "Puccini might fashion an aria for an
opera" (George 103 ....
(1688
7
)
Carmen Jones (produced 1944)
.... Bizet, who believed "that a
composer should find his subjects for himself .... and Carmen's transgressive nature alone was enough to ensure the
opera's rejection--in ....
(3498
14
)
Playwrights Christopher Marlowe & Moliere
.... Music and drama have always complemented one another,
opera being the most obvious .... Wagner, the German operatic
composer, said that "Music is the soul of drama ....
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