Rap opera Essays

  • Breakin’, directed by Joel Silburg

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    that the group is good enough for the dance contest. James replies by saying, “street dancing is for the streets.” This idea is explained in the article, “The Business of Rap: Between the Street and the Executive Suite” by Keith Negus, when explains that the well-established music genres are referred to as “cash cows”, while rap is classified as a “wild cat” by the industry because they are uncertain of its market value in the future (527). Kelly ends up convincing James to come see them at the street

  • Music In Italy

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    Era, madrigals began to disappear as opera came into play. Inspired by the Greek's staged works with musical context, the Italians created opera. Venice, Rome, and Naples were the three key cities in the start of opera. Musical Baroque also began showing up in the 17th century as well. Musical Baroque, instrumental and orchestral music grew in popularity. Alessandro Scarlatti and Antonio Vivaldi were very important composers during the Baroque Era. Opera houses were constructed in Naples and

  • Don Giovanni Opera in Modern Times

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    Don Giovanni Opera in Modern Times Music has the capability to bring forth many emotions and feelings in a person. Depending on the tone and the melody of the music, emotions such as anger, joy, and grief may arise. For example, rap music, in general, brings forth emotions such as anger, frustration, and rage to a person's mind. Melodies such as Celine Dion's My Heart Will Go On and Aerosmith's I Don't Want To Miss A Thing often arouse emotions of love, sadness, and hope; "lovey-dovey" feelings

  • Music And Stereotypes

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    super high intelligence would additionally discover this music to be informing? Currently after that, I recognize many extremely intellectual individuals that take pleasure in various other types of songs. And even though I actually uncommitted for opera all that

  • Musical Theatre Essay

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    slightly altered songs to appeal to a newer audience, these films brought in much needed money into the industry, with films including: Les Misérables, Phantom of the Opera, Rent, Hairspray, Mamma Mia, Fame- and many more. Together with this, musicals began to push the concept of the songs in them, with a wave of new styles being written. Rap musicals such as ‘Hamilton’ and ‘In The Heights’, Pop musicals including ‘Waitress’ and ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ and Rock musicals of ‘American Idiot’ and ‘Spring Awakening’

  • Compaing Hip Hop and Rock Music

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    differences than similarities. Hip Hop and Rock music are today’s people choice of music. People will find that teens and adults from the age of 20 to 34 listen to these two types of music. Not too often will you see or hear a teen listening to Blues, Opera, Reggae, or Oldies. Reason being is that they were raised up in toady’s society where really all they will here is either Hip Hop or Rock. There is a lot of argument that these two different types of music are the same old sing about money, drugs,

  • Gangsta Rap Research Paper

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    Does gangsta rap have a negative impact on our communities? The crowd grew louder as DJ Renegade screamed, “Rep yo’ city, where you from, rep yo’ city, where you from” around the room and clubgoers chanted their area of the city. Some with excitement and joy while others seemed to be focused on the lyrics of song oozing from speakers all around the room as the request was being made by DJ Renegade. “Fuck them other niggas cause I’m down for my niggas, what; fuck them other niggas cause I’m down for

  • Ludwig Van Beethoven and W.A. Mozart

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    youth. At the age of six, Mozart could play the harpsichord and violin, improvise fugues, write minuets, and read music perfectly. At the age of eight, he wrote a symphony and at eleven, an oratorio. Then amazingly, at the age of twelve he wrote an opera. Mozart's father was Leopold Mozart, a court musician. Both Mozart and Beethoven had help from their fathers in different ways. Mozart's father helped him travel around as a young musician and with this he traveled many places and seen many well-known

  • La Boheme

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    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 his neighbor, Mimi. The opera consists of an extremely talented cast with the accompaniment of an amazing

  • Philip Glass: Music Composer

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    My composer is known as an influential minimalist and has written a variety of works such as opera, musical theater, symphonies, chamber music, and film scores and much more. This composer’s identity is none other than Philip Glass. The major focus in this paper are to give a moderately brief background on Philip Glass, examining his style of music along with how others view it and describe one of Philip Glass’s musical pieces. The background or bio about Philip Glass has information primary associated

  • A Brief Biography of Richard Wagner

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    especially in his operas. The morality of Wagner’s work has always been controversial, at best thought a work of a clearly flawed and tortured genius and at worst it is suspected to be steeped in subtle but deep racial hatred. For the purposes of this article I will present Wagner’s taking them at face value, without examining the theory stating that Anti-semitism was inherent to Wagner’s operas. I will use Wagner’s music drama Parsifal as the lens through which we can frame Wagner’s early operas and follow

  • The History and Future of Opera

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    Atlanta Opera. Tosca is an Italian opera, directed by Tomer Zvulun, accompanied by an orchestra conducted by Arthur Fagen, included a cast of Kara Shay Thomson, Massimiliano Pisapia, and Luis Ledesma (The Atlanta Opera). Opera is an art form in which singers act out drama through a combination of acting and vocal performance. Singers deliver conversation in a musical manner, essentially singing the conversation. Since we recently learned about opera in class, I want to explore the future of opera - where

  • The Genius Career of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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    traveled all over Europe with his family playing for courts and learning many languages. Amazingly at the age of 13, he composed his first opera called “The Fake Simpleton.” And although he was knighted by the pope and popular with the people, the young teenager couldn’t find any work and spent the rest of his young life in Salzburg composing two more operas and the nine movement “Haffner Senerade.” After traveling to Parris in 1778 and then returning, Mozart became the part time organist in the

  • ROUSSEAU AND THE BATTLE BETWEEN FRENCH AND ITALIAN MUSIC

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    this paper, an attempt will be made to explain both Rousseau’s argument for so heavily criticizing the music of his people and what elements of Italian music he prefers; in the second half, an endeavor will be made to defend Jean-Phillipe Rameau’s opera against Rousseau’s criticism by examining an excerpt from Rameau’s Hippolyte et Arcie. In his letter, Rousseau seeks to determine whether France actually possesses its own music by explaining some experiments he conducted concerning “which of the two

  • Fine Arts Performance Review

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    Center here on campus, on Sunday March 2nd. I think this was the perfect introductory display of performance art for someone like me, who is science and math oriented. There were four acts encompassing many areas such as dance, musicals, orchestra, opera, and theatre. Act I was the finale to Act I of the musical “Anything Goes” originally by Cole Porter. Written in 1934, the story about this young guy, Billy Crocker, who stows away on a ship, the S.S. America, in order to be with his love, who incidentally

  • The History Of Opera

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    Opera, as we know it today, with its blend of poetry, music drama and elaborate sets, has its roots in ancient Greek theatre. Great drama and tragedies of ancient Greece were punctuated by musical and lyrical interludes. This was the early conception of operatic ideas in using music and song to reflect characters’ emotions in narratives. The humanist movement in fifteenth-century Florence, Italy held works of the classical civilisations in high regard. The inspiration which stemmed from ancient Greece

  • The Magic Flute Analysis

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    for being a director’s medium. Modern opera criticized for being boring or whatever, but here are three directors who, although they faced criticism themselves, approached opera with fresh perspective and with a desire to change what they felt where stiff conventions that no longer Richard Wagner was supremely interested in the music of other composers, both that of his contemporaries and those who had influenced the operatic stage before him. As an opera composer and librettist himself, he listened

  • Forms of Theater Arts: Melodrama

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    theatrically and developed complexity in character and plot development. When theatre-goers hear the word “melodrama”, visions of mustached villains tying a helpless damsel in distress down to train tracks are conjured up. Thought as cheesy, corny, soap opera-like, these stereotypes give a false representation of what the core of melodrama is. Traditionally, melodrama is written in a two-dimensional world, with a hero who is always “good” and a villain who is always “evil.” Without any ambiguity, it is

  • Analysis Of Phantom Of The Opera

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    Phantom Of The Opera The Phantom of the Opera" the movie, in this essay is about more than just a phantom in an opera causing problems. It's about the world inside an opera house and its real master the Phantom. Also, it is about a love triangle and the struggles of love between the Phantom, Christine and Raoul. The lighting, color and music point to the Phantom as he controls the stage and the characters on it. Through these basic elements and the characters Andrew Schumacher the director shows

  • An Essay About Williband Gluck

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    where he began to create symphonies and sacred music. The Tearro Regio Ducal was the first opera house Christoph visited. He has offered the opportunity to perform some of his pieces at the Milanese Carnival in 1741. Since he was such an amazing composer he was offered to play at the next 4 Milanese Carnivals. Years went by and Christoph was offered by Pletro Mingotti offered Christoph to compose his opera for the Dresden play. This event was for royal weddings. His success and fame began to be noticed