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The Reich Chamber of Culture used the “German national opera” heavily in their propaganda. Music from the opera was used in the “inaugural celebrations of the Third Reich in 1993” and in propaganda films by Leni Riefenstahl. Wilhelm Furtwängler also conducted Die Meistersinger on film “to symbolize the greatness of Germany’s war effort”, and it was the only opera played at Wagner’s theatre in Bayreuth during World War II (Service). The opera’s widespread use by the Reich Chamber of Culture to…

Greek tragedy is most definitely defined as a tragedy, because of the common knowledge that everyone dies at the end. However, the question between artists and fellow art appreciators is what defines a tragedy? At the Academy Awards how is it possible to pick one film over all of the others? Aristotle answered this question back in his lifetime of 384-322 B.C. Aristotle’s opinion of a true Tragedy is still effective to this day. His favorite play, and best example of a tragedy, is Oedipus Rex,…

Claudio Monteverdi is an Italian composer from the Baroque period who was influential in the transition between Renaissance and Baroque music. Despite composing in all musical styles and genres of his time, Monteverdi defied past generation 's standards of composition. For example, he did not follow the rules governing the resolution of dissonances in that period. Like other composers of the Baroque period, Monteverdi had a big impetus to imitate reality through his music; he tried to humanize…

who sang in operas and composed them; Claudia Rusca, a nun who was a music teacher and organist; Maria Xaveria Peruchona, a nun also from Navarro who composed sacred concertos of motets; and Maddalena Lombardini, a violinist who was the most famous composer trained in Venetian Conservatories. Women had a hard time making a career during the Baroque Era but so many have survived throughout history. Women opera singers competed with castrati making it almost impossible to sing in operas. Many…

“Cutting Through Racism With Opera”. He said Leontyne price, Nina Simone and several others had sung opera before me and therefore I could not speak of Opera as a told against racism. He said the topic was inappropriate because racism is only a subcategory in class warfare. Even though he is a fellow activist on police brutality I declined all his offers to preserve my right to define who I am and what singing opera means to me. My grandmother was the first to sing opera in my family. The…

Austin 1Lesma Taylor-AustinHumanities 1101- 41751Final Research Project Part 3Dean FeldmanApril 12, 2016Ludwig van BeethovenA Composer, Pianist, moody, brilliant musician, one name comes to mind… LudwigVan Beethoven! A protégé of a musical family, Beethoven has a natural touch inexploring the ins and outs of music that will be hard for anyone to follow in years tocome. He has transformed music by exploring the passionate and romantic side incontrast to the classical music (Sayre, 407). Beethoven…

Research questions As I want to investigate how to develop vibrato, how do singing techniques affect vibrato, and what are the effects of emotional expression on vibrato, here are my research questions: 1.How does vibrato will be developed in singing training? 2.What singing techniques would affect vibrato? 3.What are the effects of emotional expression on vibrato? And why? 4.How do people experience vibrato? Research design Methodological approach The methodological approach I will use in this…

During a session in the House of Commons during the 1930s, Winston Churchill remarked to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin that “history will be kind to me for I intend to write it.” The idea of history being written by the victors has existed for centuries, with original phrase attributed variously to figures ranging from Niccolò Machiavelli to Walter Benjamin to Napoleon Bonaparte. Historical revisionism—history rewritten—is a theme that is discussed in John Gardner’s Grendel in the form of the…

Arrigo Boito once told Giuseppe Verdi that “an opera is not a play” and that “eight bars are enough to restore a sentiment to life; a rhythm can re-establish a character; music is the most omnipotent of all arts.” It can be argued that Giuseppe Verdi’s Otello may be a greater work of art than Shakespeare’s play Othello. Otello is so much more than just a translation from Shakespeare’s play. Verdi took Shakespeare’s 3,500 line play and turned it into a masterpiece of operatic literature with…

Volpone is an English comedy written by Ben Johnson in the early seventeenth century. The story takes place in Venice, Italy and revolves around the farcical story of con artists Volpone and his assistant, Mosca. Volpone is a piece with neoclassical elements structured in five acts and takes place all in one day. In 1606, it was performed by the King’s Men in Roman comic form with English stock characters. Volpone would have been performed on a public playhouse with simple staging. The play…