Germaine Tailleferre was one of the most active and prolific female French composer in the 20th century. She was a member of the French composer group “Les Six” and was the only female member in the group. Tailleferre studied with Maurice Ravel during the 1920s and was closely related to the famous French painter Marie Laurencin. “Jeux de plein air” (Outdoor Games) in two movements was composed in 1917 during her study at the Paris Conservatory. This piece is described by Tailleferre as “musical out-of-door impressions” which portrait scenarios of games played out of doors. The first movement is a morning serenade which is inspired by the old French game Le Tirelitentaine while the second movement portraits an exciting game of hide and
Rachel M. Harper’s The Myth of Music intentionally weaves together 1960s era jazz music and a poor African American family via metaphor and allusion to show a deep familiar bond between father and daughter.
Both the book and film are set in Los Angeles and tell a story of a homeless paranoid schizophrenic named Nathaniel Ayers. Throughout the film The Soloist directed by Joe Wright, it explains what happened to Nathaniel and his love for music; some of those events happen in the book; The Soloist by Steve Lopez. Nathaniel loves music but has a mental illness, while Mr. Lopez is a columnist for LA Times. While both the book and the film tell the same story, it is the book that is far more effective because it gave more characterization and detailed plot.
I would say that the mood in John Prine's music is basically depressing. The two songs that I could relate to were Sam Stone and Grandpa was a Carpenter. The first song on the Prime Prine album, which is called Sam Stone, would make people very depressed and think of some instance in their own life when something similar has happened. The music seems to remind me of people who live in poverty and need to turn to drugs to ease their failure. When you think of the lyrics in the song you think about how this happened in so many different cases. It wasn't just this one guy and his family. This song relates to many different families at the time.
With a shock of dyed red hair, statement glasses, and colourful sweaters, Lorna Jean Crozier dresses as eccentric as she writes. Although she never considered writing as a career when she was young, at 68 she has authored 15 books. Crozier has lived everywhere from Victoria to Toronto, but to me, her poetry shows that her heart has never left the Saskatchewan Prairies where she was born. Her works often showcase her interests, including cats, gardening, and sex--sometimes rolled together.
The music for Le martyrdom comes from an advanced stage in Debussy’s career. As a point of reference, Pelléas et Mélisande had already been written in TK. There is a brief spoken introduction [excerpt TK], in which the narrator entreats the audience to silence and attentiveness, followed by the Prélude to Mansion One , or Act One, The Court of Lilies. The music calls to mind Pelléas, but with an even more restrained orchestration and leaner texture, which if anything serves to heighten the sensuality of the music.
The life of Joan Baez starts in Staten Island, New York City, NY. She was born on January 9, 1941. Baez was part Mexican and Scottish and thus no stranger to racism. Bob Dylan’s story begins in Duluth, Minnesota on May 24th, 1941. However, Dylan’s real name was Robert Allen Zimmerman. Dylan and Baez were both Folk singers and rose to stardom in their respective ways. Baez started her musical career as a vocalist in the Folk genre and was an integral part in keeping the genre alive in the 1960’s. Because of the discrimination and racism that Baez faced growing up, a lot of her songs were devoted to social and political reform. Not only a singer and songwriter, Baez was well known as a social activist. Dylan, also a folk singer and songwriter
In the article “ From Fly to Bitches and Hoes” by Joan Morgan, she often speaks about the positive and negative ideas associated with hip-hop music. Black men display their manhood with full on violence, crime, hidden guilt, and secret escapes through drugs and alcohol. Joan Morgan’s article views the root causes of the advantage of misogyny in rap music lyrics. In the beginning of the incitement her desires shift to focus on from rap culture condemnation to a deeper analysis of the root causes. She shows the hidden causes of unpleasant sexism in rap music and argues that we need to look deeper into understanding misogyny. I agree with Joan Morgan with the stance that black men show their emotions in a different way that is seen a different perspective.
The immediate nostalgia of the classic 1969 musical, Hello, Dolly!, is combined unexpectedly with extensive beauty of space as WALL-E begins descending into an even more unexpected image of life on Earth.
The films The Jazz Singer and Brighton Beach Memoirs have a different sense of Jewish values. The two films are in two different decades, the ‘20’s and ‘30’s respectively, so the biggest difference is going to be the generation, where in The Jazz Singer there were mostly immigrants, and in Brighton Beach Memoirs there were second generation immigrants. From this, it is determined that the first generation Jewish immigrants was focused on being Jewish while also successful, and the second was about being successful while also Jewish.
Joan Jett also known as Joan Marie Larkin has a passion for music that she discovered early on. She earned a guitar when she was 14 years old and and formed her first band, the Runaways when she was only 15. She produced songs like “ I Love Rock n Roll “ and clearly she does love rock and roll because she has been making music for 40 years. She says “ Music is what gets me off “ and she wanted to keep making music because she says if anything music doesn't make us feel alone. It wasn't long before she became the lead singer in the Runaways. It only inspired her to do more. Jett wasn't the ideal woman with the ideal music at the time. She taught the world that it is okay for her to not only think but to live outside the box and just be herself.
Each movement of the work corresponds accordingly to a different country in Europe at the time known for a particular style of dance. The Intrada would be the opening of the program, followed by the French Basse Dance, the English Pavane, the Italian Saltarello, the Spanish Sarabande, and finally concluding with the German Allemande. Even though the work was performed by a modern ensemble, where many instruments had not even been invented when music of this type was originally composed, the instrumentation of the brass section versus the woodwind section and the artistry of the musicians performing are able to recreate a much older style. Overall, the piece Courtly Airs and Dances, is an emulation of a style dating back to the Renaissance period of music, with each movement reflecting a particular style of dance characteristic to the culture of individual European
The jazz band I observed played a series of six different songs. Although all the songs were categorized as jazz, each song had its own special style and sound to it. The band consisted of three different players. Paul Meyers, the guitarist and composer, Andy Eulau, the bassist, and Dave Rataczak, on drums. The songs performed were entitled “Love for Sale” by Cole Porter, “Once I Loved” by Antonio Carlos Jobim, “Stars” by Paul Meyers, “Blues for Mel” also by Paul Meyers, “Last Night When We Were Young” by Harold Arlen, and “Samba Novo” by Luis Eca.
2. Keefe, Terry: Simone de Beauvoir - A Study of Her Writing, Harrap Limited, 1983.
Music is like the back of a playing card. Each deck has its own design on the back, from bicycle cards to Worlds greatest dad cards that you can find at a gift shop just about anywhere. Music varies throughout the world and changes over time, and is unique within each culture. During the 1960’s, music seemed to have a role in every social and political matter as far as the ear could hear. Rock in America gained popularity during a time known as the British invasion, the sudden blast of British rock bands gaining popularity in the United States. By the assassination of Kennedy in 1963, there were 16,000 military personnel in Vietnam fighting to eliminate sparks of communism throughout that nation (Candaele). Rock music, created in the 1950s, developed and evolved in the 1960’s. It had the biggest impact when used as protest music displaying protesters’ disgust for America’s involvement in Vietnam.
Sophie Calle, professor of film and photography at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, is a renowned contemporary French artist. Sophie Calle is also a photographer of considerable acumen. As an educationist she has taught photography since 2005 at post-graduate level. Born in Paris, France in October of 1953, Sophie Calle is daughter to the also renowned Robert Calle. In her biography posted on the university page (www.egs.edu), it is claimed that the early associations and integration into her father’s social circles exposed her to a number of artists who influenced her decision to become an artist herself. Sophie Calle became an artist back in the 70’s and has since then recorded a myriad of artworks that includes writings, poetry, pictures and paintings. This essay will try to examine the underlying theme existent in the works of Sophie Calle as a means of better understanding her person. For the purpose of this essay, mainly the photographic works of Sophie shall be discussed.