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However, Beethoven’s pursuit of receiving Mozart’s instruction did not stop there. Since Mozart died before he could teach Beethoven, Beethoven returned to Vienna once again to seek a new teacher, Joseph Haydn, who was another brilliant Classical composer. Beethoven hoped he could “receive Mozart’s spirit from Haydn’s hands”, but sadly, Haydn wasn’t such a great teacher. According to Beachy, a previous composition major at West Virginia University who studied Beethoven’s influences from a…

• Sing a greeting song. This is epic! You can enter the room and sing a song to wake the person up! Whether you hit the tone or not, the important thing is your thought of having a nice wake up surprise and good morning greeting for the person. You can even make your own song and play with the lyrics by using the words that are really inside your heart. • Joint exercise. If you are one of those health buff persons, the best way to say good morning to a certain person is probably to have an…

Movie Evaluative Essay Copying Beethoven is a movie, which takes place in 1824. It is a romantic period drama. Beethoven is a legendary musician, and he is stone deaf. In last days of his life, he gets busy in preparing for his latest symphony. Beethoven is desperate to publish his “Ninth Symphony”. Beethoven’s publisher is Schlemmer, who is dying of cancer. Beethoven is in need to complete his symphony. So, Schlemmer sends the student Anna Holtz as copyist to complete Beethoven’s score. Anna…

Dziga Vertov’s conception of montage is defined by a borrowed reference to music called the theory of intervals. In music, an interval is the difference between two notes and can be wide or short. More than a mere parallel montage, Vertov’s montage using intervals consists in extending a filmic movement by using another shot placed in the same filmic continuity, even if this second shot has been recorded elsewhere or in another time. Like in symphonic music, with recurrent themes and patterns…

Sae Koyama Ms. Holdsworth J3 Language Arts Macbeth Literary Analysis In the play Macbeth, Macduff and Macbeth are portrayed as conflicting characters, although both are referred to as “heroes”. These two men are both qualified to be tragic heroes, when following Aristotle’s six principles regarding the qualities a tragic hero needs. This is because both have a fatal flaw, but ultimately the real tragic hero in Macbeth is Macbeth, as there is no reversal of fortune nor nemesis in Macduff.…

to represent or "other" an exotic a non-Western subject, to transcultural composing which is the result of the combination of Western and non-Western styles without any intent to "other" an exotic subject (Lecture). Bizet's Carmen premiered at the Opera Comique in 1875 and was successful because of its violation of the social and operatic norms. The story was considered shocking at the time because it was about Carmen a "rebellious cigarette factory worker who has been arrested" that seduces Don…

Vijay Tendulkar, a great Marathi playwright, was born on 7 Th January, 1928 in Mumbai (Maharashtra).Silence! The court is in session (1967), the first Tendulkar’s play to become part of the New Indian Drama phenomenon of the sixties and the first significant modern Indian play in any language to centre on woman as protagonist and victim. With its production Tendulkar became the center of a general controversy. He had already acquired the epithet of “the angry young man” of Marathi theatre but…

Reflective statement An analysis of Sophocles’ portrayal of fate and destiny in Antigone Interactive Oral took place on 29th October 2013 How was your understanding of cultural and contextual considerations of the work developed through the interactive oral? Antigone is a world renowned play which confirms to us that change is the only permanent thing in the world. Even though it was written in 441 B.C., this play initiates the change in the patriarchal society in a most conspicuous style.…

While cheerful and bright melodies are used to represent Mozart’s early years in his short lives, the prelude of the opera “Don Giovanni” composed by Mozart after the death of Leopold Mozart – Mozart’s father – indicates the relationship between Mozart and Leopold and shows the process how Salieri set his scheme foreshadowing the death of Mozart. First of all, the opera “Don Giovanni” suggests the abnormal relationship between Mozart and his father. In the film, Mozart is illustrated as a…

Language of Sound Now many of you have heard of the same old “My journey with literacy began” kind of crap. Most of us can’t even remember where it began. We all have learned the same basic amount of literacy in our life. In cases such as mine, I have not only taken it upon myself to learn the basics of literacy. But those of music as well. I guess you can say I’ve become a sort of “treble” maker in my life with musical literacy. My cliché journey all started when I was in middle…