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- 61: THe Life and Work of John Keats
- ... illusion with penetrating thoughtfulness, with neither sentimentality nor cynicism but with a delight in the ways in which beauty, in its own subtle and often surprising ways (“Keats” 450). Keats, in many ways, is what Mozart is to music. Both wrote beautiful pieces of work, which are fulfilling to experience in themselves. They are usually both very intelligent works, but incredible emotional and passionate as well. As Mozart became ill and unable to finish his work, Keats became too ill to finish “The Fall of Hyperion” and died of tuberculosis before it could be finished. I believe that if he had lived a ...
- 62: The Queen Of Spades, Pushkin
- ... famous, he also wrote short stories, stage plays and literary criticism. His letters are among the best in European literature. Many literary historians believe that the legend which suggests the composer Salieri may have murdered Mozart can be traced back to Pushkin's play MOZART AND SALIERI. (It is worth noting here that the great nineteenth-century Russian composer, Rimsky-Korsakov, wrote a successful opera based on the play in 1898; and both the play and the opera would later ...
- 63: Atention Defficit Disorder
- ... with giftedness. Where would we would be without science, sports, comedy and music. Look what Magic Johnson did for basketball. Whoopi Goldberg and Robin Williams who doesn’t laugh at their jokes? The music of Mozart and Beethoven is just wonderful. What do all of these folks have in common? ADD. Edison, Franklin, Mozart and Beethoven lived during a time when Attention Deficit Disorder was not known or called something else. The others have been diagnosed with ADD. To some ADD is a gift, a hidden talent that people ...
- 64: Don Giovanni 2
- ... era in which young artists of major operatic potential can develop through intensive training and performance. Fortunately, for the people of Southern California, these professionals came to us. Don Giovanni, a classic opera created by Mozart was performed to its full potential, from beginning to end. The play opens with the audiences favorite and most humorous character Leporello, who is Don Giovanni's servant, serving watch for his master as he ... means that we the audience expect the best. The voices of the performers were on cue with the music, they matched the pitches and tones, and rose and lowered on cue. Being a work of Mozart s I can only expect to be amazed and that I was; not being a fan of Opera at all. My favorite piece of music was of course that of Leporello when he sings of ...
- 65: Article Review
- ... attracts the audience to continue reading the article because the sentence sparks curiosity in why the author pities today’s parents. The article continues, “They [parents] buy child-rearing books, explore over psychology articles, play Mozart in nurseries festooned with alphabet cards and the periodic table.” Parker shows good persuasive technique by describing an exaggerated scenario of what parents are doing these days to try to develop their child’s mind ... they develop their children. Parker states her position clearly when she comments that parenting should not be that challenging nor as ridiculous as parents are making it. She states that by buying books and playing Mozart to children would be going overboard. This argument could offend people who believe that reading and teaching kids early is a better way to develop their minds or people that spend their time following the ...
- 66: Dog Logic
- ... era in which young artists of major operatic potential can develop through intensive training and performance. Fortunately, for the people of Southern California, these professionals came to us. Don Giovanni, a classic opera created by Mozart was performed to its full potential, from beginning to end. The play opens with the audiences favorite and most humorous character Leporello, who is Don Giovanni's servant, serving watch for his master as he ... means that we the audience expect the best. The voices of the performers were on cue with the music, they matched the pitches and tones, and rose and lowered on cue. Being a work of Mozart’s I can only expect to be amazed and that I was; not being a fan of Opera at all. My favorite piece of music was of course that of Leporello when he sings of ...
- 67: Romantic Music: The Ideals of Instrumental Music
- ... If instrumental music is the perfect Romantic art, why is it acknowledged that the great masters of the symphony, the highest form of instrumental music, were not Romantic composers, but were the Classical composers, Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven? Moreover, one of the most characteristic 19th century genres was the Lied, a vocal piece in which Shubert, Schumann, Brahams, and Wolf attained a new union between music and poetry. Furthermore, a large ... such ideas. Writers on music projected their own conceptions of the expressive functions of music into the past, and read Romantic programs into the instrumental works not only of Beethoven, but also the likes of Mozart, Haydn, and Bach! The diffused scenic effects in the music of such composers as Mendelssohn and Schumann seem pale when compared to the feverish, and detailed drama that constitutes the story of Berlioz's Symphonie ...
- 68: Beethoven 2
- ... to academic school for three years. Beethoven s father wasn t the only one who saw Beethoven s talent, Gottlob Neefe (a German Organist) become young Beethoven s mentor. Gottlob thought Beethoven was the next Mozart, so he sent him to Vienna to meet him. But Beethoven s mother got sick so he had to come back home before he met him formally. By the time he came back to Vienna, Mozart had died so Beethoven sought help from Hadyn, another German composer. He became Beethoven s second mentor and taught him new styles of music. Beethoven did his first shows in Vienna in 1795. He was ...
- 69: Review of A Concert of Sacred Music From The Moores Opera
- ... chamber music was played by a small ensemble of nine players, each playing a different instrument. The two parts were balanced and helped emphasize one another. The Coronation Mass, K. 317, composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, was considered to have been written for the anniversary of the coronation of an image of the Virgin. Mozart wrote this composition in 1797 at the age of twenty-three. The six works of the Coronation Mass are: Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Benedictus, and Agnus Dei. My favorite piece was Gloria. It was louder ...
- 70: George F. Handel
- ... 1745) as the well-ordered firmament surrounding the Messiah (1742). Here operistic techinques like that of "Aria grande col da Capo" concurr tio create an unique religious fresco which neverthless, paradoxically sharing the fate of Mozart "Il Dissoluto Punito ossia Don Giovanni" (represented only in Prague in 1787) could only be hosted by the Dublin Catholic Theatre and never saw the glories of the Covent Garden where at those times the ...
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