Henry Purcell 's Dido And Aeneas

I will be analyzing the piece Aeneas and His Family Fleeing Troy. This artwork is currently being displayed at the San Diego Museum of Art, in Balboa Park near downtown San Diego. This painting was made in 1635 during the Baroque Period in France by Simon Vouet. Vouet was the most influential painter of his time and did much to make Paris an artistic center of Europe. Vouet was heavily influenced by Caravaggio who also heavily influenced other painters during Vouet’s time. In this paper, I will be exploring issues such as material, subject matter, scale, historical context, light, human figure, and finally museum context.

Music affects our emotions and has much to do with our everyday lives. Music has always and will be a part of my life. I would have to say that without music there is no life -- something is missing in our lives without music. If there were no music society we would only have people speaking to each other, and there would be no entertainment. The form of musical entertainment that I attended was the opera, La Boheme, composed by Giacommo Puccini and Libretto by Giuseppe and Luigi Illica. The opera took place at The New City Opera on November 10, 2001. La Boheme takes place in 1830, 19th century Paris around Christmas time. This opera tells the tragic love story of a young Bohemian, Rodolfo, who finds a love interest in

Odysseus, the hero in The Odyssey, and Aeneas, the hero in The Aeneid, fought in opposing sides in the Trojan war. Odysseus was the king of Ithaca and was arguably the smartest king and warrior in all of Greece, whereas Aeneas was a warrior from Troy whose destiny was to found the Roman race in Italy. While both men were highly acclaimed by their respective countrymen as heroes, they shared many similarities in respect to their background, their virtue and their struggles. However, amidst these similarities Odysseus and Aeneas were very different in their social status, their innate disposition and in the defining characteristics of their quest.

It is important to make wise decisions. Failure to do so can lead to irreversibly idiotic outcomes, such as in The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. Other decisions that can lead to awful outcomes can be explained in books such as To Kill A Mockingbird and The Odyssey.

These types of reactions by inexperienced audiences make listening to or concentrating on great performances of beautiful music very difficult. Not only do these translate to distractions for the performers, but applause betwixt the movements can interrupt the flow of the work and thwart the intended effect that the composer and conductor wish to have on the audience. This audience reaction can also take away and distract from the atmosphere of the performance, which, in this case was a relatively small and intimate concert hall.

Good Afternoon, and welcome to Big City, USA. Today I will be mentioning 4 concertos that have greatly impacted our time through history. These music pieces are extremely beautiful that no one will never forget. For example; Dido and Aeneas, Spring from The Four Seasons, Water Music, and West Side Story.

The Aeneid was written by Publius Virgilius Maro, also referred to as Virgil. He was a Roman man born in northern Italy, in around 70 B.C.E. Virgil, who known for his poetry, especially his earliest work, wrote The Aeneid which was known as his greatest work. His gained his knowledge from studying Greek and Roman authors. Although Virgil studied both cultures his work was more so influenced by the Greek culture, his work was written with the use of common themes that Greek writers used for so many years. He was especially known for writing method in which he borrowed from Homer. The Aeneid, which was unfinished at the time of Virgil’s death, was crafted from an existing tradition surrounding Aeneas that extended from an ancient Greek poet.

As stated by Burkholder, Grout and Palisca, Weber’s Der Freischutz’s “rustic choruses, marches, dances and airs”; multisectional aria form (influence from Rossini) and florid vocal lines were all common characteristics of the Italian Opera. Meanwhile in Verdi’s Otello, Wagnerian influence could be seen. Verdi used melodic motives to show the characters’ emotions. In Act 4 scene 3, the orchestra was used to heighten the dramatic moment instead of the voice, which was a breakthrough in the history of Italian Opera. It is apparent that both Italians and Germans knew how to blend the musical elements and text well to demonstrate the Romantic traits in their opera.

After finishing and rereading the paper, I realized that the first thing I think I did well is I found a lot of text materials that supports my argument and associates different part of my paper into a whole. Second, I feel that I completed with satisfaction would be the way that I attribute various information and text into different categories, grouping related point and fit them into paragraphs. I would continue to use evidence to back up my point by delving into the texts and examine them carefully. The last thing that I completed with satisfaction would my overall theme and argument. I believe that my topic passed the “so what” and “how and why” test, as I connect the analysis of how Dido and Aeneas negotiate with their public and private

The first roots of modern opera first appeared in Italy in the 17th century from the Camerata (an academy of Florentine poets, musicians, and scholars). The Camerata, inspired by ancient Greek drama, sung dialogues and choruses which were accompanied by musical instruments. The Camerata developed the “stile recitative,” in order to integrate drama, action, dialogue and narration. In this “sung speech,” a singer delivered a recitative melody with an actor’s dramatic and oratorical skills, achieving the goal of providing

In my opinion, I believe that the second performance was very different from the first performance. The second part of the concert had a variety of melodies and more people sung than during the first part of the concert. Some may consist a dramatic, happy, love, suspense, and others melody. For example, one of the play that they sung that really interested me was the end of the opera music that they sung called La Traviata by Giusseppe Verdi during the romantic period. During this performance, it consisted a solo pianist, two soloists singers which is a man and a woman, and a chorus which is all the cast of the Repertory Opera Company. La Traviata by Giusseppe Verdi is a libretto opera that was inspired from the novel by Alexandre Dumas. I believe that this piece fits the style of the romantic period because based on their performance, the play consisted arias which the singer sung the music piece beautifully, lively, and happy. And lastly, the libretto allowed the audience understand what is happening during the play. Having a staged also allowed us to see the play in a more realistic

By attending this opera, I think that I can now have a better understanding of what we are learning in class because I have more experience with musical performances. I came into this class with very minimal knowledge on music, but I can now say that can know have a better feeling for types on instruments, tempo, pitch, volume, and frequency. I think that attending an orchestra should be a highly recommended event for music class students because it has many aspects of music placed into

I don’t think the vocals ever overshadowed the orchestral music, which is not the case in most operas.

During the performance I lost interest in the beginning, but what really brought me back into the performance was the music. It was bold and beautiful at the same time. The singing was well done and the actress who played Electra, Elizabeth Blancke-Biggs sang throughout almost the entire performance which was impressive. In this performance it was clear that the objective was to highlight the music. This could be seen as rational, because a regular opera goer is expected to be wowed by the music. However, does that justify why the performance allowed the visual elements to fall so

On October 24th, 2017, I attended the dress rehearsal for La Traviata at The Winspear Opera House at the AT&T Performing Arts Center in Dallas, TX. The dress code was both formal and semi-formal; some people wore very elegant dresses while others wore slacks and a nice formal shirt. As I was standing outside the venue making my way inside I noticed that most the people attending were either high school or college students. The amount of people in attendance cannot be exactly calculated but if I would have to guess it would have been over 500 people seated just in the grand tier section where students were seated. There were several different performers with equally different voice parts. In total, there were 12 listed singers in the booklet, two of those singers being sopranos, one mezzo-soprano, three tenors, three baritones, one bass-baritone, and one bass singer. The three soprano singers are: Georgia Jarman, Rachel Sterrenberg, and Abigail Levis. The three tenor singers are: René Barbera, Brenton Ryan, and Brian Rosewell. The three baritone singers are: Vladislav Sulimsky, Daniel Armstrong, and Bobby Tinnion. The two bass-baritone singers are Dale Travis and Ryan Kuster. Finally, the bass singer was Kyle Hancock. The solo dancers were Caradee Cline and Ricardo Burgess and the conductor was Carlo Montanaro. There was also an orchestra playing throughout the whole opera, I was only able to see and distinguish a few instruments. Instruments that I saw were: flutes,