Requiem

ask the musicians to play live on stage to include them in the show. Musicians must understand where dancers are located in space not only so that the musicians will not be in the way but also to receive cues. For instance, Patience(ce)- a physical requiem, performed by Company Stefanie Batten Bland, had set the musicians upstage. However, the musicians had to realize where the dancers were in space to get musical cues. Thus, Howard Gardner emphasizes the several ways one can identify…

year he married Constanze Weber (1763-1842). During his marriage to Weber, poverty and illness continually struck the family. While Mozart was working on the singspiel The Magic Flute (1791), an emissary of a Count Walsegg mysteriously requested a requiem mass. This composition was not completed at the time of Mozart’s death, and was his last musical effort. Mozart died, in Vienna on December 5th, 1791. There are currently unsupported arguments that Italian composer, Antonio Salieri murdered…

“There's a sorrow and pain in everyone's life, but every now and then there's a ray of light that melts the loneliness in your heart and brings comfort like hot soup and a soft bed.” Hubert Selby Jr., Requiem for a Dream. Everyone has a favorite place; that place can be in their imagination or a place where they can visit. It brings them comfort and peace. Their favorite place could release stress and sadness that has been bottled up inside them. My home is my favorite place; it indulges me with…

Who we are as a person can be defined as our personality, but where do we attain our unique traits? How we were raised and our environment might be overseeing factors, but it’s also as simple as the order in which we were born. the use of the differing personalities of Biff and Happy Loman in the play Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller, defines the inevitable affects of the birth order theory. As the characters of the two brothers develop, the differences between birth orders are also…

Anna Maria gave birth to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on January 27, 1756. When he was younger, Mozart watched his father, Leopold, teach his sister, Maria Anna, how to play piano. At the age of three, he became a child prodigy. During his childhood, his family traveled around Europe. While on those trips, Maria Anna and Wolfgang performed as prodigies. Mozart became employed as a court musician by Prince-Archbishop Hieronymus Colloredo in 1773. He had the chance to work in many genres: symphonies,…

ARABESQUE no. 1 Title & opus/catalogue no.: Arabesque No.1. Andantino con moto Composer background: Achille-Claude Debussy was a French composer. Him, along with Maurice Ravel were the most outstanding people related to Impressionist music. He was among the most influential composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His music is noted for its sensory and sonic content and the use of nontraditional tonalities. The French literary technique of his period was known as Symbolism. This…

“Under the wide and starry sky/Dig the grave and let me lie,” is engraved on a famous authors tombstone. (Hodges, Jeremy) Do you know what famous author this is? This quote can be found in the “Requiem,” one of many works that Robert Louis Stevenson produced during his lifetime. Robert Louis Stevenson was one of the best authors during his time and captured the hearts of many with his unique way of writing. He had many accomplishments within the writing realm which he had to endeavor. Despite…

that he wants to pursue father’s dreams. I decided to write a goodbye letter that from Happy to his brother Biff shortly before the death of the first one. This hypothetical situation happens approximately twenty five years after the events from the requiem. The letter is written in the same style in which the character speaks…

Brahm began composing. Life for Johannes was good, he did not need much, and he enjoyed helping others secretly almost as much as music. Johannes composed many masterpieces but one in particular took him 11 years to finish. Brahms’ soulshaking German Requiem is based on his Christian faith that through in the reserection and reuinion with God through the redeeming death of Jesus Christ. Brahms music reflected his deeper emotions of a man’s mortal life that in school was where…

Today’s music has evolved tremendously since when music was first discovered in the middle ages. Now we have musicians like Beyonce, Alicia Keys, and Adele who changed the whole sound of music: different messages, beats, and style. Artists today are just as creative as the composers before them; Acapella artists sing with no music, other artists use techno or Dubstep, a type of electronic dance music. However, these artists would not have it so easy like they do today if the people that came…