Leitmotif

express ideas like political transformation. The names involved with Neecha Nagar -- like Chetan Anand, Khwaja Ahmad Abbas,Pandit Ravi Shankar and Zohra Sehgal -- were all part of this wave. The references to freedom struggle in the film -- through leitmotifs like the Gandhian cap, the charkha and the mashaals (torch-lights) in the climax carried by the inhabitants of the shantytown which congeal into an image of India -- were all a result of this radical thinking. It was this wave that…

Wagner: Die Walkure, Act III Leitmotifs: “Leading Motive”. or basic recurring theme, representing a person, object, or idea; widely used in Wagner’s dramas. Gesamtkunstwerk “Total art work” makes use of all or many art forms Music Drama: Wagner’s term of his opera. Debussy:Prelude to…

Eyre’s time in the Red Room becoming the reality that Bertha Mason lives and the death of the previous wives in Carter’s The Bloody Chamber – they are the outcome of living in the estate – are not only structurally significant, they are thematic; a leitmotif throughout both novels. Bertha is a wife who has been ruined in the estate…

COMPOSER COMPARISON HANS ZIMMER’S PROFILE

Zimmer was 1st introduced to film music in London during collaboration with Stanley Myers for the film “My Beautiful Laundrette”. He then started working on his own solo projects which became a success, mastering the use of combining old and new musical technologies. He got his 1st break in 1988 when he was asked to score Rain Man for Barry Levinson. This was his 1st film to win an Oscar for Best Picture of the Year and earned him his 1st nomination…

Each has a leitmotif representing them running through the ballet, serving as an important thread to the underlying plot. The later part of the work however, takes a complete break from the two motifs and instead places focus on the individual characters of the various…

In a radical kind she calls autohistoria, which offers an inventive approach to compose history, Gloria Anzaldua presents a nonlinear history of both the geological and mental scenes of Borderlands. Anzaldua's autohistoria is a class of blended media—individual story, testimonio, true records, cuento, and verse—that disproves stasis pretty much as the Borderlands from which Anzaldua comes. As indicated by Anzaldua, the Fringe is a "third nation" whose history as been told on Anglocentric terms,…

Jerome Robbins' suggested the idea of developing a musical based off of the story of Romeo and Juliet to Leonard Bernstein in January of 1949 (originally proposed title: East Side Story, set in the less privileged areas of New York at the concurrence of Easter-Passover celebrations). In August of 1955, a gathering with Arthur Laurents took place where another idea emerged -- two teen-age mobs as the conflicting groups, one of them newly-arrived Puerto Ricans, the other self-styled…

The thematic transformation is when music changes the theme, or leitmotif to capture the different moods of the piece of music. While a cue is anything spoken or taken action on stage, or in this case within the film. In the beginning of the cue, Ellie runs across an empty field and spots clouds with Carl in the meadow…

(2000). Retrieved September 12, 2016,fromhttp://healthysleep.med.harvard.edu/healthy/matters/consequences/sleep-performance-and-public-safety Van Dongen HP, Vitellaro KM, Dinges DF. 2005. Individual differences in adult human sleep and wakefulness: Leitmotif for a research agenda. Sleep,…

Musical Analysis of “The Beatles”, the self-entitled White Album The first song of the album, “Back in the USSR”, written by Paul McCartney, directly parodies and references the Beach Boys, with subtler allusions to Chuck Berry and Ray Charles. It is set in the key of A major and has a 4/4 meter. Song form consists of an intro, four verse sections, each followed by a refrain, a bridge that follows only the second and third refrains, and an outro. The melody is undoubtedly bluesy, but…