Rock opera

markets can only be stimulated by creating needs`. With the overproduction of music it is creating a uniform into what music should sound like or we cannot listen to it, like the opera. The Chinese opera to Europeans doesn 't sound aesthetically pleasing due to it not conforming to the set tones and ideals European opera accept. Pierre Bourdieu`s book A social critique of the judgement of taste also believes taste is formed by society, thus strengthening the idea music taste is a social…

of the New York Times wrote the piece creates “an uneasy, shifting suspension as the melody begins a stepwise motion, like the hesitant climbing of stairs.” This could easily be compared to the climate in the 1930’s. With the world economy being at rock bottom, the people had a large uphill battle to get back to a good life. With the threat of another war on the horizon, continuing up those “stairs,” meant more fighting for a world’s population that was already weakened by the years of…

evening the third act of Siegfried, well played by Herr Rubinstein, pleases both him and us. "That is Gobineau music" Richard says as he comes in, "that is race. Where else will you find two such beings looking at each other! Here is just forest and rocks and water and nothing rotten in it."” [http://solomonsmusic.net/WagHit.htm] This racial metaphor is not the only mention of his politics in music. In the Ring of Nibelung Wagner links the Jews to Nibelungs, goblins, and the lust for gold…

I am a singer, composer, songwriter, and recording artist. I trained as a classical singer in San Francisco after earning my undergraduate degree and performed for two years with the Marin Opera Company. Since that time, my work has expanded. My performances and writing encompass classical art song, opera, rock, pop, oldies, jazz, and cabaret and original material in venues as divergent as CBGB to Lincoln Center. My studio work is vast, including recording and producing my own material (two…

Music There are many types of genres of music! A few are classical, pop, rock, country and reggae. Through out all types of music, there are over 97 million songs. From the 1500’s up to now there have been many artists and bands to be famous from singing. In the 1500’s, some popular composers were, Thomas Tallis, Josquin Des Prez, William Byrd, and many more! Thomas Tallis was most known for his piece called “ If Ye Love Me”. This song is about if you love God then you will keep his…

Last Thursday night, I attended Indiana Wesleyan University’s production of The Pirates of Penzance. This is a romantic comedy that is performed as an opera. This show was first created during the Victorian Age and intends to bring you back to this time period. The show was written by Sir WS Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan in the year of 1879. The Pirates of Penzance was first produced in the Fifth Avenue Theater in New York City on December 31, 1879. The show portrays the theme of moral duty.…

quite inspiring for these performances, like seeing the costumes for the Nymphs in Afternoon of a Faun gave me chills. Though the video of the restaged version of the ballet with Nureyev as the title role seemed overdramatic to me, and the Paris Opera version I learnt the ballet from was much more subtle with the characteristics. Our version of Afternoon was updated for a modern audience since we were in the east building of the Gallery, with white sheer dresses for the Nymphs, a black…

After losing his father at a young age he was raised by his grandmother in Little Rock, Arkansas listening to spiritual music. At a young age William studied violin, cello and oboe, on which he became a solo performer. Even though he entered college and try to have a different career, his love for music was so strong that he left school…

Through sonic, visual, and textual means, Kenneth Branagh’s The Magic Flute explores two contrasting themes: strength and weakness. Throughout the entire opera film, we witness both the afore mentioned themes from a variety of characters, and the fate to which these attributes lead each individual. Mozart’s beautifully written music backs up this intriguing storyline, with well-placed arias, leitmotifs and an excellent score. As the story follows the adventure of Tamino and Papegano, many…

The trumpet can be traced back around 1500 B.C there were silver and bronze trumpets found in king tuts grave. There were different versions of it found in china that look like the trumpet. Instrument design, as well as metal making, improved tremendously over the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, which made these "natural trumpets" more suitable for creating actual music However, these trumpets did not have valves and could only produce a small amount of notes. Also, changing the key meant that…