One was "The Lost World," which was based on a book by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Dinosaur cartoons made their debut around the same period. In 1940, Disney released its movie "Fantasia," which used Igor Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring" as the score for the life and extinction of the...
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What time period was Stravinsky a part of? What instruments did Franz Joseph Haydn compose for? What operas did Mozart compose? What is Neo-Baroque? What musical scale originated in Greece? Describe the music style in the Romantic period and include the composers of the following countries: Ger...
The current five-parter on Stravinsky – a What Hi-Fi? favourite for testing hi-fi – is fascinating. Listen to Composer of the Week Sound of Cinema (Image credit: BBC) The last of our BBC trio is Matthew Sweet’s (the journalist, not the musician) weekly exploration of the world of...
Brisbane’s own contemporary circus group that I last saw cavorting through Gluck’sOrpheusfor the state opera company. I suppose the troupe might be able to make some relevant acrobatic commentary on Stravinsky’s work that deals in complex tribal dances and climaxes in a self-willed human sac...
We play Stravinsky’sThe Rite Of Springon CD next and the SL-G700 sounds right at home, delivering a sound with plenty of scale and authority. Large dynamic sweeps are rendered with confidence and the stereo imaging is as precise and layered as we could hope for. ...
“Gruppen for Three Orchestras” by Karlheinz Stockhausen (1955–1957) “Les noces” by Igor Stravinsky (1923) Seven Examples of Call and Response in Contemporary Music Call-and-response is everywhere in popular music, from rap and pop to rock music and hip hop. There are many different ...
choreograph - compose a sequence of dance steps, often to music; "Balanchine choreographed many pieces to Stravinsky's music" direct - guide the actors in (plays and films)4.make - cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner; "The ads induced me to buy a VCR"; "My children fina...
Who did Claude Debussy work for? Was Claude Debussy an impressionistic composer? What opera did Georges Bizet consider his masterpiece? Was Mozart a Baroque composer? What period of music history was Stravinsky in? What operas did Giuseppe Verdi compose?
Was French classicism after the Baroque period? What period of music history was Stravinsky in? Who is credited with writing the first great Baroque opera? Who were some of the main composers of Baroque music? Name and describe three major stylistic aspects of Baroque music. ...