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timbre as well as an imposing physical presence.” This voice is also the heaviest and most powerful soprano voice which enables it to sing over large orchestras from the top of their range to the bottom of their range. The New Grove Dictionary of Opera defines a dramatic soprano as: A type of soprano voice. The term admits a wide variety of repertory and voice type. Any claimant to it must possess a powerful voice and a style capable of energetic emphasis… whose best roles

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Don Giovanni Act I: Excerpt from Opening Scene (1787). Don Giovani Act I: Excerpt from Opening Scene, composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte. This opera appeared at the original National Theatre in Prague on October 29, 1787. Don Giovanni is a seductive but ruthless nobleman who will stop at nothing to satisfy his sexual appetite. Don Giovanni’s comic servant, Leporello, is a grumbling accomplice who dreams of being in his master’s place.

A woman stands before you, her faced is framed by white gardenias and her body is traced by the shimmer of her white dress in the spotlight. She begins to sing in a voice that is unlike anything you’ve ever heard. You are listening to “the best innovative and thoughtful interpreter of blues and jazz standards,” (Alexander). She is named Billie Holiday, and she is one of the most famous jazz singers in your time. Her life filled with personal trials, fame, racism, and loss shaped her into the influential

What does one imagine when viewing a comic opera? A ornamented opera house? Patrons dressed in black tie apparel? However, would one imagine a comic opera playing in a maximum-security prison? Would uneducated prisoners appreciate the music? In The Shawshank Redemption both of these events occurred. In The Shawshank Redemption, Andy Dufresne plays an duet from Mozart’s comic opera, The Marriage to Figaro, as its Enlightened ideals represent Andy’s prison experience and its Classical characteristics

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again, Mozart’s father disapproved of the marriage, but it went on anyway. Happily, for Mozart, this was a happy marriage. He had four sons and two daughters, but only two sons, Karl and Wolfgang, survived. Of his 769 compositions, symphonies, and operas, Mozart wrote some of his

“Come, you spirits/ That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here…” (Act I, scene V, lines 44-45)      In Macbeth, William Shakespeare writes this passage in order to shape the character of Lady Macbeth. Using only this line, the reader can almost determine Lady Macbeth’s personality and her motives.      Up to the point where this quote leaves off, we have not heard much of Lady Macbeth. When she receives the letter from Macbeth, it seems her fascination

Classical Imagery in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing The romance of history has lured many of the world's greatest authors to search for their subject matter in the pages of time. William Shakespeare serves as a unfailing embodiment of the emotion of days past; yet he also turned to those before him. The comedy Much Ado About Nothing is a poignant love story, riddled with stunning imagery and allusion. An examination of the development of certain characters, the imagery and allusion, diction

In Act One of Candide, there is four scenes, the first scene is entitled Westphalia, when the scene is first introduced the music has a happy sound, similar to that of circus music and as the introduction goes on the music goes from an allegro tempo to a peaceful and dream like piano sound and grave tempo. As the music continues to come in the lights continue to brighten on stage as well as if the music and lights are tied together. As the cast came out they performed the opening song during this

Introduction to World Music Professor Glenn McMillan 1003 M Room gmac@mec.cuny.edu Office Hours Appointments Only 718 270 4929 Music 100 Please leave email Introduction to World Music Syllabus-Spring 2013 This course is an introduction to music and to the musical mechanics from a global perspective. There will be three aims: • to increase the students understanding of music, including its elements, structures