The Sopranos

For the last few weeks our class has been discussing what it means to be a discourse community as well as what it means to be a part of one. I am writing this paper to impart upon the fellow students in our class, as well our professor that I not only understand the meaning on a discourse community but that I also have been a full-fledged member of one myself. To further verify the extent of my membership I also am able to show the ethos, logos, and pathos that I encountered while within my…

wanted for his astronomical finding, discovered on 13 March 1781. The name didn’t stick, granted that King George III loved it. William Herschel’s career was music. He wrote several symphonies, concertos, and sonatas. His sister became his signature soprano. They were famous in Bath England. Nevertheless, this musically talented man had many interests, astronomy was one of them. His musical career provided him with acquaintances who knew a great deal about astronomy and telescopes. Herschel…

In February 1978, Scottish singer-songwriter Gerry Rafferty released a single called ‘Baker Street’ a direct reference to Baker Street in London, where he often stayed in a friend’s flat when travelling between his family home in Paisley and London. One of the most notable characteristics of the song is the haunting saxophone solo which was performed by Raphael Ravenscroft. Ravenscroft was born in Stoke-on-Trent in 1954 and he studied music, having a great interest in the saxophone. He found…

Strauss returned back to his hometown of Munich, and came back to work at the Munich Court Opera. Strauss later ended up moving away from Munich once again to Weimar, Germany and while he lived there he married Pauline de Ahna, who was a operatic soprano. Years later in 1894, Strauss returned back to Munich once again to assume the role of first Chapel Master.…

won’t believe this - they hear chamber music. They hear violins and cellos. They hear this terrific mama-san soprano. Then after a while they hear gook opera and a glee club and the Haiphong Boys Choir and a barbershop quartet and all kinds of funky chanting and Buddha-Buddha stuff. And the whole time, in the background, there’s still that…

Dora White’s thirteen children. Growing up in Truro, Nova Scotia. She spent her childhood singing in her church’s choir under her mother’s guidance, where a talent for singing was nurtured. As a result, by the age of eight, she was already singing soprano lines in the Lucia Di Lammermoor opera. Determined to pursue singing, she began taking music lessons around the age of eight. However, the distance from her classes caused her to require walking approximately 16 kilometers a week.…

the song was to present the Passion story in music during the Good Friday Vesper services (Jones, 2013). The song still moves audiences all over the world three centuries later since it was first sung at St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, Germany. Aria-Soprano In terms of the form of this excerpt, it is a freely composed verse. The song is structured on multiple levels. The…

Dora White’s thirteen children. Growing up in Truro, Nova Scotia. She spent her childhood singing in her church’s choir under her mother's guidance, where a talent for singing was nurtured. As a result, by the age of eight, she was already singing soprano lines in the Lucia Di Lammermoor opera. Determined to pursue singing, she began taking music lessons around the age of eight. Although the distance of her classes required her to walk approximately 16 kilometers a week.…

Allison Tang Rzendian Chamber Choir 20 September 2017 Joan Sutherland An Australian singer, Joan Sutherland, has been one of the most successful and inpspiring people of all vocalists.. Officially depicted as `La Stupenda', the `Koloraturwunder' or `The Unique', she can think back on a vocation extending over forty years which was soundly based and shrewdly grown; yet regardless of her worldwide eminence, notwithstanding the many…

Cultures are what determine human behavior, social control, and social order. Because the cultures have faith, beliefs, values, norms, and punishments in perpetration. It’s evident that the creator of the culture is human. And society happens because of humans. Culture and society are a together. Society has a culture, and if society is large or complexity. There is more cultural diversity. The similarities and differences between the cultures of Thailand and ASEAN members it’s the result of…