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Gian Lorenzo Bernini was born on December 7, 1598 in Naples, Italy to a mannerist sculptor named Pietro Bernini (“Gian Lorenzo Bernini”). When Gian Lorenzo Bernini was little, his father would often take him to his projects, which then sparked Bernini’s interest on sculpting. With Bernini now starting to sculpt and being quite good at it, he caught the attention of Pope Paul V and Annibale Carracci (“Gian Lorenzo Bernini”). Since Pope Paul V and Annibale Carracci took interest in

Claudio Monteverdi is between the Renaissance and the Baroque period. Monteverdi is an epoch-making figure in the history of classical music. His creations are the culmination of this renaissance musical genre, and his opera creation is the foundation of this genre. Opera " L'Orfeo " is the first opera of Monteverdi's life creation, but also the most representative of his opera. The opera, which was completed in 1607 and succeeded in Mantua, is not the earliest opera, but the starting point of modern opera, the highest artistic achievement in early opera.

Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti (October 26, 1685 - Jul 23, 1757) was an Italian composer who spent much of his life in the service of Portuguese and Spanish royal family. He is known as a Baroque composer primarily, but his music was very influential to the classical style and he was one of very few baroque composers to transition into the classical style. Today Domenico Scarlatti is known for his 555 keyboard sonatas, but has composed a wide variety of music.

During Monteverdi’s early years, Marc’Antonio Ingegneri and Giaches de Wert influenced the development in Monteverdi’s style people are accustomed to today.. From his teacher, Ingegneri, with whom he started to learn music even before he was ten years old, Monteverdi became skilled at craftsmanship and harmonization of moods through music. From Giaches de Wert, the composer learned passion, and how to express that through musical techniques and harmony.

In this essay I will be exploring the importance of dramatic tragedy in the first 44 lines of Act 4 Scene 1 to show how Iago and Othello are presented in the play. I will also be referring to other parts of the play to do this. In Act 4 Scene 1 of 'Othello', Shakespeare uses aspects of dramatic tragedy to differentiate the two characters and show their dramatic funtion.

Monteverdi’s version of the story of the opera Orfeo it said to be a masterwork and set the operatic tone and the style for decades to follow. However, it was not the first opera written during the late Renaissance; the first supposed opera, Dafne, was written by Jacopo Peri in 1597, but has since been misplaced. Monteverdi was an accomplished composer of madrigal, and many of the arrangements and harmonic devices he employs in Orfeo would have already been familiar to his audiences. However, by imposing form and structure to the often-inconsequential business of early opera, he ensued that ‘plays with music’- as operas were commonly called in the premature days- would provide the basis of Italian musical life for four centuries. Ofreo was

A split occurred in opera between Opera Seria and Opera Buffa mainly as a result of the Arcadian Academy. This literary movement sought to return Italian poetry to its former glory, and by former glory they meant the ancient Greek’s former glory. This movement focused prominently on opera libretti. One such librettist was Piertro Metastasio. Metastasio

The main purpose to write this paper is to introduce, discuss, and analyze the opera “The Marriage of Figaro” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The plot of this comic opera all revolves around love triangles and misplaced affections. The main characters of the play are the Count Almaviva and Countess Rosina, and Figaro, and his bride-to-be Susanna are the other couple in the affair. The Count wants to have an affair with Susanna, and Marcellina wants to marry Figaro. On the other hand, another character, Cherubino is a page in the Count’s household. A prepubescent youth, and he is interested with many of the female.

    In the Shakespearean tragedy Othello the number and description of themes is open to discussion. With the help of literary critics, we can analyze this subject in detail.

The art form known as Opera, originated in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth centuries in Italy. One of the first masters of this art form was Claudio Monteverdi. “Monteverdi believed that opera should convey the full range of human passions” (Fiero). One way that he accomplished this was through the use of pizzicato. Pizzicato refers to the plucking of a bowed stringed instrument, which produces a very different sound from bowing, short and percussive rather than sustained. When a string is plucked, sound waves are generated that do not belong to the harmonic series as when a string is bowed. This complex timbre is called inharmonicity

Widely proclaimed artists such as Beyonce, Michael Jackson and The Beatles are people whose names left lasting impressions in the 20th and 21st century. Similarly, opera composers such as Verdi and Puccini dominated the music scene during their time with significant contributions to opera. When it comes to opera I tend to have a neutral stance on it. For the most part I admire the dedication opera singers put into their work, because it isn’t always easy to sing and act simultaneously. In regards to the genre, I prefer opera buffa due to the comical aspect that it brings. I have a liking for Le Nozze di Figaro by Mozart mainly because of the comic relief the character Cherubino brings, amongst the conflicts that are present within the play.

When the 17th century came to end it seemed as if there was more grandiose form of opera that needed to come into perspective. These ideas would eventually lead to a form of serious opera known as opera seria. Pietro Metastasio was the most successful librettist of this time. As defined in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary a libretto is, “the text used in an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, sacred or secular oratorio and cantata, musical, and ballet.” These librettos written by Metastasio captivated

ending of the myth. According to the Oxford History of Western Music, the librettist edited the

Giuseppe Verdi was one of the greatest and most famous opera composers to live during the Romantic era. His operas, which take place in Italy, perfectly painted a clear description of the events and social life of the time period in which his musical pieces were written. His two most most known operas were La Traviata and Rigoletto. La Traviata follows a woman

This essay aims to show and discuss the ways in which modernist drama is different to realist drama. To do this the essay will focus on the conventions of language and subject identity to show how modernist drama challenges the ways of realist drama. This essay will first outline what modernism is. It will then look at the conventions of both language and subject identity separately, providing examples where needed. Finally, the essay will look at Pirandello’s play and discuss how it relates to the modernist drama style before concluding.