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Greek musical instruments have evolved over centuries as Greece was influenced by other civilizations. Early Greek musicians used pipes, lyres, drums and cymbals. Traditional Greek instruments include the guitar, harp, lyre, bouzouki, mandolin, clarinet and baglama. Each instrument has distinct characteristics such as the guitar being constructed of wood or the lyre being a smaller version of other string instruments.
West Side Story is a modern adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, set among rival street gangs, the American Jets and the Puerto Rican Sharks, in 1950s New York City. The story follows star-crossed lovers Tony, a former Jet, and Maria, the sister of Sharks leader Bernardo. Their forbidden romance escalates the tensions between the gangs and puts them in grave danger. With a large ethnically diverse cast and extensive dance sequences, the musical explores themes of prejudice, violence, and the struggle to survive in a world of hate.
West Side Story is a 1957 Broadway musical and 1961 film adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, transposed to 1950s New York City. It tells the story of Tony and Maria, two young lovers from rival street gangs, the Jets (white Americans) and Sharks (Puerto Ricans). The musical was groundbreaking for featuring Latin dance and music styles, showcasing the tensions between immigrant and native groups in 1950s America during the civil rights era. It highlights themes of prejudice, discrimination, and how love can overcome hatred and violence between opposing sides. The creative team of Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Arthur Laurents, and Jerome Robbins brought innovative direction by addressing relevant social issues of their
Serialism is a technique of composition using series of values. Total serialism uses series for all elements of music including pitch, rhythm, dynamics, and timbre. In the 1950s, serialism was developed at the Darmstadt Summer Courses and IRCAM. Pierre Boulez's Le marteau sans maître from 1955 uses serialism and is based on a surrealist text by René Char organized into song cycles. It features solo instruments playing short, punctuated motifs in a complex, through-composed structure. Milton Babbitt's Composition for Piano No. 1 from 1947 also uses serialism and has a palindrome form with the second half being the retrograde of the first.
The document provides a critique of a Carnegie Hall performance featuring young musicians. A 12-year-old pianist, Conrad Tao, performed Kreisler's Tambourin Chinois to critical acclaim. The critique also discusses performances by a clarinetist from South Carolina and Conrad Tao's composition Saturday Morning Tango. The critique praises the talented young musicians and enjoyable performances.
Spanish colonization greatly influenced Cuban culture, especially its music. African slaves brought
their musical traditions which blended with Spanish styles to form new genres like son cubano.
Percussion-driven rhythms from Africa combined with Spanish guitar and song forms. This fusion
created a unique sound that became a core part of Cuban cultural identity and influenced many other
Latin American genres. Cuban music today remains rooted in its mix of African and Spanish
heritage.
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The document lists 10 international standard dances: Tango, Waltz, Foxtrot, Viennese Waltz, Quickstep, Cha-Cha-Cha, Rumba, Samba, Jive, and Paso Doble.
Greek musical instruments have evolved over centuries as Greece was influenced by other civilizations. Early Greek musicians used pipes, lyres, drums and cymbals. Traditional Greek instruments include the guitar, harp, lyre, bouzouki, mandolin, clarinet and baglama. Each instrument has distinct characteristics such as the guitar being constructed of wood or the lyre being a smaller version of other string instruments.
West Side Story is a modern adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, set among rival street gangs, the American Jets and the Puerto Rican Sharks, in 1950s New York City. The story follows star-crossed lovers Tony, a former Jet, and Maria, the sister of Sharks leader Bernardo. Their forbidden romance escalates the tensions between the gangs and puts them in grave danger. With a large ethnically diverse cast and extensive dance sequences, the musical explores themes of prejudice, violence, and the struggle to survive in a world of hate.
West Side Story is a 1957 Broadway musical and 1961 film adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, transposed to 1950s New York City. It tells the story of Tony and Maria, two young lovers from rival street gangs, the Jets (white Americans) and Sharks (Puerto Ricans). The musical was groundbreaking for featuring Latin dance and music styles, showcasing the tensions between immigrant and native groups in 1950s America during the civil rights era. It highlights themes of prejudice, discrimination, and how love can overcome hatred and violence between opposing sides. The creative team of Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Arthur Laurents, and Jerome Robbins brought innovative direction by addressing relevant social issues of their
Serialism is a technique of composition using series of values. Total serialism uses series for all elements of music including pitch, rhythm, dynamics, and timbre. In the 1950s, serialism was developed at the Darmstadt Summer Courses and IRCAM. Pierre Boulez's Le marteau sans maître from 1955 uses serialism and is based on a surrealist text by René Char organized into song cycles. It features solo instruments playing short, punctuated motifs in a complex, through-composed structure. Milton Babbitt's Composition for Piano No. 1 from 1947 also uses serialism and has a palindrome form with the second half being the retrograde of the first.
The document provides a critique of a Carnegie Hall performance featuring young musicians. A 12-year-old pianist, Conrad Tao, performed Kreisler's Tambourin Chinois to critical acclaim. The critique also discusses performances by a clarinetist from South Carolina and Conrad Tao's composition Saturday Morning Tango. The critique praises the talented young musicians and enjoyable performances.
Spanish colonization greatly influenced Cuban culture, especially its music. African slaves brought
their musical traditions which blended with Spanish styles to form new genres like son cubano.
Percussion-driven rhythms from Africa combined with Spanish guitar and song forms. This fusion
created a unique sound that became a core part of Cuban cultural identity and influenced many other
Latin American genres. Cuban music today remains rooted in its mix of African and Spanish
heritage.
This document provides an introduction and summary of the novel "The Vampire Lestat" by Anne Rice. It begins with endorsements of the book from various publications. The contents section then lists and summarizes the various parts and chapters within the novel. The majority of the document consists of the first chapter of the novel, told from the perspective of Lestat. It introduces Lestat as a rock star who emerged from underground after hearing rock music being played nearby.
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This document appears to be a program or script for a school play or performance involving students from the primary school of Torrepaduli. It thanks the audience for attending and promises the students will do their best while also asking for understanding if they are not perfect. It references stories and characters from Pinocchio and introduces songs that will be part of the performance.
Reversed-stress typefaces occupy a funny little corner of the world of typeface design. While most genres have grown organically, these faces intentionally flip conventions on their head, with jarring, amusing, and sometimes even useful results.
These faces can offer more to typography than the novelty of gunslingers and swinging saloon doors. I will explore the history of the genre, take a closer look at some particularly interesting specimens, and detail the drawing challenges that arise when the thick parts get thin and the thin parts get thick.
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This document discusses old and new opera. For old opera, it describes the Baroque era practice of castrating young boys to preserve their high singing voices, known as castrati. Farinelli was the most famous castrato and one of the greatest opera singers in history. The document then discusses several options for new opera, including Hamilton and Blue, an opera about an African American family dealing with police violence against their son. It encourages choosing one of the new operas to discuss in more detail.
This document provides information about the history and origins of several dance styles, including Argentine Tango, Breakdance, Cha Cha, and Disco/Hustle. It discusses how Argentine Tango evolved from earlier dances like the Milonga and Habanera in Buenos Aires bars and brothels in the late 1800s/early 1900s. It traces the roots of Breakdance back to Brazilian dances from 500 years ago, and how it emerged as a street dance in the Bronx in the 1960s-70s. It explains that Cha Cha originated as a variation of the Mambo dance in the 1950s. It also outlines how Disco dances developed from styles like Swing and how the Hustle emerged as a partner
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1. Minimalism is characterized by steady beats without meter, reclaiming diatonicism without tonality, perpetual presents, gradual processes, and listener-derived forms.
2. Terry Riley's 1964 composition "In C" utilizes repeating musical patterns that can be played in any order and allows performers freedom in phrasing, with the goal of creating a blended musical texture.
3. Sol LeWitt's conceptual art emphasizes the idea over the final appearance of the work, with the goal that the concept is understandable even if the viewer does not understand the artist's full intention.
This document discusses three 20th century classical works that incorporate extended vocal techniques: Berio's Circles for soprano and instruments features Cathy Berberian performing vocal sounds to accompany an e.e. cummings text; Crumb's Ancient Voices of Children sets Federico García Lorca poems for unusual vocal and instrumental combinations including toy piano and musical saw, exploring Lorca's concept of "duende"; and Berberian's own Stripsody experiments with the human voice.
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This document contains song lyrics from 5 different folk, country, and gospel songs spanning from the 1930s to the 1980s:
1) "Can the Circle Be Unbroken" by A.P. Carter from 1935 describes losing one's mother and the sadness of her funeral.
2) "So Long, It's Been Good to Know You" by Woody Guthrie from 1940 is about dust storms hitting and people gathering together saying goodbye as the dust blows them away.
3) "It's Mighty Dark to Travel" by Bill Monroe from 1957 is a bluegrass song about a man traveling after losing his love.
4) "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Ton
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The document defines key terms related to the historical avant-garde such as avant-garde, Belle époque, Impressionism, and various musical scales and techniques. It also lists influential figures of the time including Claude Debussy, Claude Monet, Georges Seurat, Josef Danhauser, and provides examples of their notable works like A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, Wild Poppies, and Impression, Sunrise that helped advance Impressionism. Musical excerpts from Balinese gamelan are also mentioned.
2. West Side Story (1957)
(after Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, 1597)
Book and script by Arthur Laurents (1917-2011)
Choreography by Jerome Robbins (1918-98)
Music by Leonard Bernstein (1918-90)
Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim (b. 1930)
Left to right: Stephen
Sondheim, Arthur
Laurents, producers Harold
Prince and Robert Griffiths
(seated), Leonard
Bernstein, Jerome Robbins.
3. ACT I
West Side Story (1957) Scene 1. The Neighborhood
1) Prologue (instrumental)
Musical in 2 Acts 2a) Jet Song (Riff and Jets)
Setting: New York, 1950s 2b) Jet Song Chase (instrumental)
Scene 2. A back yard
Characters
Jets Scene 3. The bridal shop
Sharks Scene 4. The gym
Riff (leader, Jets)
Bernardo (leader, Sharks) 4. Blues (instrumental)
Maria (sister of Bernardo, Puerto Rican) 4a. Promenade (instrumental)
Tony (co-founder, Jets, in love with Maria, Polish-American)
Anita (brother of Bernardo) 4b. Mambo (instrumental)
Chino (a Shark, in love with Maria) 4c. Cha-Cha (instrumental)
Instrumentation 4d. Meeting scene (underscore)
Reed I: piccolo, flute, alto sax, clarinet, bass clarinet 4e. Jump (underscore)
Reed II: eb clarinet, clarinet, bass clarinet
Reed III: piccolo, flute, oboe, english horn, tenor sax, 5. Maria (Tony)
baritone sax, clarinet, bass clarinet Scene 5. A back alley
Reed IV: piccolo, flute, soprano sax, bass sax, clarinet,
bass clarinet 6. Balcony scene (Maria and Tony)
Reed V: bassoon 7. America (Anita, Rosalia and Girls)
2 Horns in F
3 Trumpets in Bb (2nd doubling Trumpet in D)
7a. America to Drugstore (instrumental)
Trombones Scene 6. The drugstore
Timpani
8) Cool (Riff and Jets)
Percussion (4 players): traps, vibraphone, 4 pitched
drums, guiro, xylophone, 3 bongos, 3 cowbells, conga, timbales, snare 8a) Cool Chase (instrumental)
drum, police whistle, gourd, 2 suspended
cymbals, castanets, maracas, finger cymbals, tambourines, small 8b) Under Dialogue and Change of Scene (underscore and instrumental)
maracas, glockenspiel, woodblock, claves, triangle, temple
blocks, chimes, tam-tam, ratchet, slide whistle) Scene 7. The bridal shop
Piano/Celesta Scene 8. The neighborhood
Electric guitar/Spanish guitar/Mandolin
Violin I-VII Scene 9. Und the highway
Cello I-IV ACT II
Contrabass
Scene 1. Maria’s bedroom
Scene 2. Another alley
Scene 3. Maria’s bedroom
Scene 4. The drugstore
Scene 5. The cellar
Scene 6. The neighborhood
4. “America”
ROSALIA ANITA ROSALIA
Puerto Rico, Hundreds of people in each room! I'll give them new washing machine.
You lovely island . . .
Island of tropical breezes. ALL ANITA
Always the pineapples growing, Automobile in America, What have they got there to keep clean?
Always the coffee blossoms blowing . . . Chromium steel in America,
Wire-spoke wheel in America, ALL
ANITA Very big deal in America! I like the shores of America!
Puerto Rico . . . Comfort is yours in America!
You ugly island . . . ROSALIA Knobs on the doors in America,
Island of tropic diseases. I'll drive a Buick through San Juan. Wall-to-wall floors in America!
Always the hurricanes blowing,
Always the population growing . . . ANITA ROSALIA
And the money owing, If there's a road you can drive on. When I will go back to San Juan.
And the babies crying,
And the bullets flying. ROSALIA ANITA
I like the island Manhattan. I'll give my cousins a free ride. When you will shut up and get gone?
Smoke on your pipe and put that in!
ANITA ROSALIA
OTHERS How you get all of them inside? Everyone there will give big cheer!
I like to be in America!
O.K. by me in America! ALL ANITA
Ev'rything free in America Immigrant goes to America, Everyone there will have moved here!
For a small fee in America! Many hellos in America;
Nobody knows in America
ROSALIA Puerto Rico's in America!
I like the city of San Juan.
ROSALIA
ANITA I'll bring a T.V. to San Juan.
I know a boat you can get on.
ANITA
ROSALIA If there a current to turn on!
Hundreds of flowers in full bloom.
5. “Cool”
RIFF
Boy, boy, crazy boy, mm. 1-6 OSTINATO
Get cool, boy! mm. 7-42 REFRAIN (ABAB, Riff, each phrase 8 bars, cut time)
mm. 43-144 FUGUE, development
Got a rocket in your pocket,
Keep coolly cool, boy!
Don't get hot,
'Cause man, you got
Some high times ahead.
Take it slow and Daddy-O,
You can live it up and die in bed!
Boy, boy, crazy boy!
mm. 145-160 REFRAIN (AB, Jets)
Stay loose, boy! mm. 160-73 Coda
Breeze it, buzz it, easy does it.
Turn off the juice, boy!
Go man, go,
But not like a yo-yo schoolboy.
Just play it cool, boy,
Real cool!
6. Natalie Wood (1938-81) as Maria Marni Nixon (b. 1930) (below right) was the
voice of Natalie Wood in 1961 film version of
West Side Story. Nixon picture below with
Deborah Kerr in 1956 (Nixon was the voice of
Kerr in The King and I).