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.
On the repeat, the soloist joins the orchestra.) VOCAL MUSIC OF THE CLASSICAL PERIOD OPERA 1) 2) 3) 4) DRAMA THAT IS SUNG IT COMBINES VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC WITH PEOTRY AND DRAMA, ACTING AND PANTOMIME, SCENERY AND COSTUMES IT USES A) SOLOISTS B) ENSEMBLES C) CHORUS D) ORCHESTRA E) SOMETIMES DANCING ELEMENTS OF OPERA A) RECITATIVE (EXPLANATIONS NECESSARY TO THE PLOT) B) ARIA (RELEASES THE EMOTIONAL TENSION. THIS IS WHERE THE SINGER SHOWS OFF THEIR VIRTUOSITY C) OVERTURE (USUALLY BEGINS OPERA AND NEW ACTS D) INTERLUDES (KNOWN AS SINFONIAS DURING PERIODBOCCUR BETWEEN SCENES) E) LIBRETTOBTHE WORDS SUNG DURING THE OPERA WERE WRITTEN BY ANOTHER PERSON CALLED A LIBRETTIST) ORATORIO 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) DESCENDED FROM THE RELIGIOUS PLAY-WITH-MUSIC FIRST ONES WERE SACRED OPERAS LATER ONES LEFT THE STAGE LARGE SCALE MUSICAL WORKS (GENERALLY BASED ON A BIBLICAL STORY) PERFORMED IN A CHURCH OR HALL WITHOUT SCENERY, ACTING, OR COSTUMES
Many people’s concept of the “psycho” or psychotic comes from how they have been portrayed in film and literature. One of the more popular portrayals of madness in my generation comes from the film, “The Silence of the Lambs”, directed by Jonathan Demme, and based on the novel by Thomas Harris. Another character from classic literature that fits most people’s definition of madness is R.M. Renfield from Bram Stoker’s “Dracula”. While they are both considered “psycho” or “evil” and could be lumped into the same category, they are in fact two examples of very different creatures.
[11] The Prologue to Romeo and Juliet is also a sonnet, as is Romeo and Juliet's first exchange in Act One, Scene Five, lines 104–117, beginning with "If I profane with my unworthiest hand" (104) and ending with "Then move not while my prayer's effect I take." (117). [11] In the 17th century, the sonnet was adapted to other purposes, with John Donne and George Herbert writing religious sonnets, and John Milton using the sonnet as a general meditative poem. Both the Shakespearean and Petrarchan rhyme schemes were popular throughout this period, as well as many
Popular music began its entry into film scores after World War II. Until this time, most scores still characterized classical film scores with wall-to-wall music and a full orchestra. However, this slowly began to change. Before the 1940s, popular music was rejected due to the difficulty of applying it to the changing moods in films. However, with the growth of the New American Cinema Era, where this style of changing moods was replaced by a single, general mood, popular music became acceptable.
The purpose of this essay was to inform the reader of how the movie didn’t exactly have the same detail like the book. It’s very rare for a movie to have this much similarities to the book because most book and movies doesn’t have a lot of similarities. That’s why most people didn’t pick either the book or the movie they picked both. Anyways, both the book and the movie are great. Once you get out the theater you will bewildered on what you saw.
Two world renown short stories, “The Killers,” by Ernest Hemingway and “It had to be Murder,” by Cornell Woolrich, are original novels that were later then adapted into major motion pictures. “Rear Window,” is a 1954 American suspense film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and written by John Michael Hayes, based upon the short story “It had to be Murder.” This film was not only considered by many filmgoers and critiques to be the one of Hitchcock’s best, but was also considered one of the best short story to film adaptations. Although the film has major differences between itself and the novel, Hitchcock’s adaptation was very well done. With many difficulties upon changing a novel that is completely internalized within the main character’s, Jeffries, mind, the point of view is seen and spoken to the readers on his internal thoughts and gives a suspenseful taste in that he is completely immobile and can only see and hear that of which can be seen from his apartment balcony. In the sense that the readers must travel on a journey in Jeffries’ point of view, there is an intimate connection that the readers can easily obtain while moviegoers must receive near the end of the film after attaching themselves to the story upon being passive onlookers.
Two authors that discuss this method of giving deeper meanings to stories are Stephen King (in his essay “My Creature from the Black Lagoon) and Gloria Steinem (in her essay “Wonder Woman”). By comparing and contrasting the contents, styles, and purposes of King’s and Steinem’s essays, it is evident that both authors believe in this “never judge a book by its cover” attitude. Stephen King knows quite a bit about writing horror novels. After all, he has written over one- hundred books, many of those eventually being transformed into movies or television shows (p.582). In “My Creature from the Black Lagoon” King discusses his thoughts on horror films and challenges the reader to change their initial perception of the term “horror movie.” Most Americans think of a movie with lots of blood and monsters when they think about horror movies.
Not many; that is why Sir Edgar Allen Poe wrote intriguing, short stories, to capture readers minds from people of all ages, for generations to come. One of his most popular stories among readers is titled “The Tell-Tale Heart”. This short story shows how spine-tingling and utterly impressive Poe’s short stories can turn out to be. Edgar Allen Poe, born 1809 to a family of actors
On the other hand, films Rated R can still be seen by people under the age of 17 with parental consent. Another harsh reality of having a film rated NC-17, is that they are also not allowed for rental by many major movie rental companies such as blockbuster. It is not a secret that the MPAA censors sexual content in movies more heavily over blood and gore in horror movies but it is surprising on how they censor homosexual sex. When it comes to homosexuality on the big screens, MPAA tends to give harsher ratings than movies with heterosexual acts. Although there are many opposing view points towards sexual acts in the movies, homosexuality should not be treated any differently than heterosexuality.