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How war is represented In 1599 Shakespeare wrote a play called “Henry V”. I am going to be using two speeches from Henry V to show how war is presented. These speeches will be, “once more unto the breach” and “Saint Crispin’s day”. Also I will be using three war poems to compare the speeches and poems together, these war poems are: dulce et decorum est pro patria mori; anthem for doomed youth; Futility. These poems are all written by the poet Wilfred Owen.
Write a brief history of opera from Monteverdi to Lully. With its small beginnings lying around the 1600s, opera became the principle genre of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and has remained at the helm of music ever since. In the early stages of opera only a few composers, such as Jacopo Peri and Guilio Caccini, had composed any form opera. It was when Claudio Monteverdi composed his first opera, L’Orfeo that opera took off as an art. Composers such as Luigi Rossi, Jean Baptiste Lully and Francesco Cavalli, who were influenced by Monteverdi’s genius, followed closely behind.
David Cheeseboro May 5, 2011 10:00-10:50 Jean Philppe Ramey was born in Dijon in 1683; he spent the first 40 years of his life in the relative obscurity of the provinces. He made a short but important trip to Milan, and was for a time a violinist in the Lyons Opera. He held organ posts in Sauvignon, Clermont and Dijon and visited Paris from 1706 until 1709 - during which time he held two organ posts, was offered a third, and published his first book of harpsichord pieces. About 1713 he moved to Lyons, where he contributed grinds motets to the Lyons Concert (1714). In 1722 he settled permanently in Paris.
First of all, let us discuss the elements in Beowulf that fairly explicitly seem to give an indication of a Christianoriented view. Immediately noticeable is “…cwæð þæt se Ælmihtiga eorðan worhte:”2, which translates into, “How the Almighty had made the earth.”3 It is this passage of the Beowulf text, from verse 86 and onwards, that relates how the vicious demon Grendel cannot bear the court poet of Hrothgar playing his harp and deeply despises the festivities taking place in Hrothgar’s meadhall. In this song, the poet sings about the inception of the world and how it was created by the Ælmihtiga. Undeniably it represents a reference to Genesis. Then, slightly further, the Beowulf poet makes very explicit mention of another wellknown passage from the bible, notably, “Caines cynne--- þone cwealm gewræc ece Drihten, þæs þe he Abel slog”4, where he makes remarks about Grendel and explicates how the creature’s existence is connected with the biblical figure of Cain.
Saint Crispin’s Day speech is one of the best inspirational speeches in literature, and it was written by the most famous dramatist in the history of the English language. The Battle of Agincourt The battle of Agincourt was a major English battle against the French in the hundreds years war. The battle occurred on Friday, October 25 which is now known as the Saint Crispin’s Day which was lead by Henry V. In result of the battle the English army had walked away with a victory with many dead troops. King Henry the fifth (King of England) lead the battle on Saint Crispin’s Day King Henry was King of England from 1413 to his death at the age of 35 in 1422. He was the second monarch who was a member of the house of Landcaster.
By late1790 the play was brought back to Shakespeare’s original version, with modern language adaptions(Rolfe). Macbeth was the only one who could see Banquo’s ghost in a version written by John Phillip Kemble (Bevington). The Tragedy of Macbeth has been altered many times throughout history, but stays true to reiterating the messages Shakespeare originally addressed. Macbeth is more than a fictional character in one of William Shakespeare’s plays; he is based on a real King of Scotland who ruled equably for fourteen years. Macbeth did kill Duncan, but he did so in battle in 1040, not in Duncan’s sleep.
The Bicycle: Jillian Horton Jillian Horton was born in Brandon, Manitoba. Jillian's journey through medicine and music is startlingly unique. By her mid-teens she was studying at Vermont's renowned Adamant Music School. Dreams that she might become a concert pianist were crushed by the onset of tendonitis, but she continued to write songs while obtaining a masters degree in English, a medical degree from McMaster University, and at the same time publishing stories and writing plays, one of which was mounted at several Canadian theatres. She's a singer whose songs speak of beauty and pain, a pianist of depth shaped through years of rigorous classical study.
At age eighteen, I relocated to Paris to study medicine, but became obsessed with music once more and decided to devote my life and time to music. I began reworking those quintets into an opera, at age twenty-five, and completed it a year later; it was subsequently rejected by the opera company in Paris. For several years henceforth, I tried composing and submitting musical works but was mostly unsuccessful until I wrote the Waverly overture. A year later, I conducted my first orchestral concert, which turned out to be the turning point in my musical career. I composed many pieces, including La Damnation de Faust, Les Ballet des ombres, Cleopatre, Neuf melodies irlandaises, and most notably, Symphonie fantastique, Symphonie funèbre et triomphale and the Roman Carnival scene of Benvenuto Cellini.
In 1931, Robert Johnson allegedly sold his soul to the devil, receiving legendary blues skills in return. He went on to record only twenty-nine songs before being murdered on August 16, 1938. In 1992, however, Johnson suddenly reappears on the Spokane Indian Reservation and meets Thomas Builds-the-Fire, the misfit storyteller of the Spokane Tribe. When Johnson passes his enchanted instrument to Thomas--lead singer of the rock-and-roll band Coyote Springs--a magical odyssey begins that will take the band from reservation bars to small-town taverns, from the cement trails of Seattle to the concrete canyons of Manhattan. Sherman Alexie imaginatively mixes narrative, newspaper excerpts, songs, journal entries, visions, radio interviews, and dreams to explore the effects of Christianity on Native Americans in the late twentieth century.