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Opera Essays and Term Papers
The Life Of BeethovenBeethoven was on of the greatest composers in history. He wrote many sympho-nies and compositions. He was most famous for the Third (Eroica), Fifth, Sixth (Pas-torale), Ninth Symphonies, an opera, Fidelio, and his religious composition Missa solem-nis. Beethoven had a great influence on ...
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The Queen Of Spades, PushkinRussians hold Pushkin in such high esteem that his place in Russian literature can reasonably be compared to that of Shakespeare in the literatures of the English language. Pushkin's literary genius seems to have been almost limitless: in addition to the long narrative and short lyric poems for ...
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The Baroque EraSocial and Cultural Background
Baroque is a term borrowed from the visual arts and one that is used
in many different senses. applies to the years between
1600 and 1750. The most famous composers of this time were Bach, Handel,
Vivaldi and Teleman.
Politically it was an age of magnificent ...
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George Frideric Handel, certainly one of the founding fathers of music, introduced new types of music and affected the many composers who followed him. Handel was born on February 23, 1685 in Halle, a town in Germany. He was a very bright man not only was he a prodigy in music, but he also was trained in law. Handel ...
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Chinese Music, the body of vocal and instrumental music composed and played by the Chinese people. For several thousand years Chinese culture was dominated by the teachings of the philosopher Confucius, who conceived of music in the highest sense as a means of calming the passions and of dispelling unrest and ...
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Soap OperasWhether you admit it or not, everyone has seen at least fifteen minutes of a soap opera in their lifetime. Who hasn't had one of those days where they're sitting at home, flipping through channels when they sort of pause to take a peek at what's happening on the latest episode of Days of Our ...
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Review Of Citizen KaneCitizen Kane was written and directed by Orson Welles. This
classic masterpiece was completed in the 1940’s. It uses film as an art
form to energetically communicate and display a non-static view of life -
its components include unconventional lighting, inventive use of shadows,
deep-focus shots ...
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MozartIn 1756, a child prodigy was born, one that would influence music throughout the course of history. The child prodigy was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. He would become a musician and composer that influenced culture during his life, after his death, and his cultural influence is still present today. ...
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AustriaTable of Contents
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Defending Pro-wrestlingAs people flip through the channels on Monday nights they pass over at least two
different professional wrestling shows. When people notice the wrestling the most common thing for them to do is to keep flipping the channels. Why? Because the common view of professional wrestling is that it is ...
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Peter TchaikovskyPeter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, also spelled Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, was born in Votkinsk, in the city of Vyatka, Russia, May 7, 1840. Second in a family of five sons and one daughter, to whom he was extremely devoted. Once in his early teens when he was in school at St. Petersburg and his mother ...
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Igor Stravinskyis considered by many the greatest composer of the 20th Century. Several composers have made breakthroughs and great accomplishments in the past 100 years, but Stravinsky has dominated nearly every trend set. He was born near St. Petersburg, Russia in Oranienbaum, on June 17, 1882. He was born to ...
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E.t.a. Hoffmann His Life, HisE.T.A. Hoffmann, often also called the “Ghost Hoffmann”, was one of the important writers and artist of the romantic era in Europe. He was a genius, who had the ability to write, compose and draw with his own characteristics and to catch the attention of many other artists and thinkers from his ...
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RAP CENORSHIP*.INHEAD* *.AD* Music and Censorship Victor Lombardi December 1991 Second Reader: Alan Stuart Instructor: Richard Hixon Introduction Our society today largely views censorship as a method that has disappeared from liberal cultures since the enlightenment with the exception of restrictions in time ...
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Defending Pro-WrestlingAs people flip through the channels on Monday nights they pass over at least two
different professional wrestling shows. When people notice the wrestling the most common thing for them to do is to keep flipping the channels. Why? Because the common view of professional wrestling is that it is ...
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Igor Stravinskyis considered by many the greatest composer of the 20th Century. Several composers have made breakthroughs and great accomplishments in the past 100 years, but Stravinsky has dominated nearly every trend set. He was born near St. Petersburg, Russia in Oranienbaum, on June 17, 1882. He was born to ...
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Austriais a small country in central Europe famous for its beautiful mountain scenery and delicious wines. They take great pride in the fact that their country has long been leading cultural center of Europe. About 75 percent of ns are Roman Catholic. The rest are made up of Protestants and ...
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Guilt, Duty, And Unrequited Love: Deconstructing the Love Triangles in James Joyce’s The Dead and Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure
"It’s no problem of mine but it’s a problem I fight, living a life that I can’t leave behind. But there’s no sense in telling me, the wisdom of the cruel words that you speak. But that’s the ...
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Citizen Kane: An Accurate Portrayal Of William Randolph Hearst??
Many have called Citizen Kane the greatest cinematic achievement of all
time. It is indeed a true masterpiece of acting, screen writing, and
directing. Orson Welles, its young genius director, lead actor, and a co-
writer, used the best talents and techniques of the day (Bordwell 103) to
tell ...
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AmadeusAt the age of the Enlightenment, Antonio Salieri becomes the most triumphant musician in the city of Vienna, however, without any warning his harmonious universe comes to an utter halt. Salieri’s absolute faith in the world, in himself, and in God is all at once diminished by this ...
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