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Overture. Overture (from French ouverture, lit. "opening") is a music instrumental introduction to a ballet, opera, or oratorio in the 17th century. [1] During the early Romantic era, composers such as Beethoven and Mendelssohn composed overtures which were independent, self-existing, instrumental, programmatic works that foreshadowed genres ...
The most successful of the Savoy Operas was The Mikado (1885), which made fun of English bureaucracy, thinly disguised by a Japanese setting. Gilbert initially proposed a story for a new opera about a magic lozenge that would change the characters, which Sullivan found artificial and lacking in "human interest and probability", as well as being ...
Portrait of Mendelssohn by James Warren Childe, 1839. Mendelssohn wrote the incidental music, Op. 61, for A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1842, 16 years after he wrote the overture. It was written to a commission from King Frederick William IV of Prussia. Mendelssohn was by then the music director of the King's Academy of the Arts and of the ...
George Gershwin. George Gershwin ( / ˈɡɜːrʃ.wɪn /; born Jacob Gershwine; September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist whose compositions spanned popular, jazz and classical genres. Among his best-known works are the orchestral compositions Rhapsody in Blue (1924) and An American in Paris (1928), the songs ...
Quizlet is a multi-national American company that provides tools for studying and learning. [ 1] Quizlet was founded in October 2005 by Andrew Sutherland, who at the time was a 15-year old student, [ 2] and released to the public in January 2007. [ 3] Quizlet's primary products include digital flash cards, matching games, practice electronic ...
Genre. Children's music. Composer(s) Teiichi Okano. Lyricist(s) Tatsuyuki Takano [ja] Furusato(Japanese: 故郷, 'old home'or 'hometown')is a well-known 1914 Japanese children's song, with music by Teiichi Okanoand lyrics by Tatsuyuki Takano [ja]. Although Takano's hometown was Nakano, Nagano, his lyrics do not seem to refer to a particular ...
Scherzo capriccioso (Dvořák) Scherzo capriccioso. (Dvořák) The Scherzo capriccioso in D ♭ major, Op. 66 (B. 131), is an orchestral work by Antonín Dvořák. [1] Composed in 1883, it was premiered the same year at the National Theatre under Adolf Čech. A typical performance takes approximately 14 minutes. [2]
Rhapsody (music) A rhapsody in music is a one- movement work that is episodic yet integrated, free-flowing in structure, featuring a range of highly contrasted moods, colour, and tonality. An air of spontaneous inspiration and a sense of improvisation make it freer in form than a set of variations . The word rhapsody is derived from the Greek ...