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The composition is jammed by clashing colors, which is unlike what we've seen in the balanced, natural, and dramatic colors of the High Renaissance.
The composition of his chamber opera Dido and Aeneas, which forms a very important landmark in the history of English dramatic music, has been attributed to this period, and its earliest production may well have predated the documented one of 1689.
The composition of Dido and Aeneas gave Purcell his first chance to write a sustained musical setting of a dramatic text.
* " Pavane, the Girl with the Flaxen Hair ," a dramatic script written and directed by Wyllis Cooper, inspired in part by Ravel's composition, for the old-time radio series Quiet Please.
Several scenes in the film directly recall Ford's film, most notably Ali's entrance at the well and the composition of many of the desert scenes and the dramatic exit from Wadi Rum.
In his use of dynamic composition, illusionistic perspective and dramatic foreshortening, Correggio prefigured the Rococo art of the 18th century.
In the process his music went through several changes of style ; the most dramatic and far-reaching of these was associated with the composition of his second opera King Priam.
Its dramatic composition is typical of Guercino's early works, which are often tumultuous.
Dramaturgy is the art of dramatic composition and the representation of the main elements of drama on the stage.
He attached himself to the poetic circle of the Pléiade and proceeded to apply the principles of the reformers to dramatic composition.
The metre is not restricted to heroic couplets, but dramatic form of composition is not allowed.
That dramatic composition still entertained the scanty leisure of Tirso's old age is shown by the fact that the fragmentary autograph copy of Las Quinas de Portugal is dated March 8, 1638 ; but his active career as a dramatist ended two years earlier.
This dramatic change in Bukovina's ethnic composition changed the proportion of Romanians from a majority ( more than 85 % before 1774 ) to a plurality majority ( 40. 5 % in 1869 ) and then a minority ( 33. 4 % in 1880 ).
* In response to events of the Third Anglo-Dutch War, John Dryden's topical play Amboyna, about events in the East Indies, is reportedly " contrived and written in a month " — certainly one of the fastest acts of solo dramatic composition known.
The chief interest in Munday for the modern reader lies in his work as one of the chief predecessors of Shakespeare in English dramatic composition, as well as his writings on Robin Hood.
Munday was a very voluminous author in verse and prose, original and translated, and is certainly to be reckoned among the predecessors of Shakespeare in dramatic composition.
He is also known during this time to have experimented with ‘ wide-screen ’ composition, magnifying visual elements in the image for a dramatic, exaggerated effect ( ex.
Monteverdi's Book Eight, of the same year, contains some of the most famous madrigals of the entire epoch, including the enormous Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, a dramatic composition much like a secular oratorio.
In the restless dynamism of his composition, his dramatic use of light, and his emphatic perspective effects, Tintoretto seems a baroque artist ahead of his time.
Although this resulted in a dramatic change in the national composition of Komárno, the majority remained Hungarian.
Jooss and Fritz ( or Frederick ) Cohen shared the belief that choreography and musical composition should evolve together to give expression of the dramatic idea in unified style and form.
Raymond Williams compares Peer Gynt with August Strindberg's early drama Lucky Peter's Journey ( 1882 ) and argues that both explore a new kind of dramatic action that was beyond the capacities of the theatre of the day ; both created " a sequence of images in language and visual composition " that " became technically possible only in film.
" Soon, though, the writers began to craft serials, and Bolland's distinct abilities with subtle facial expressions, dramatic lighting and the dynamic composition of page layout made him the perfect choice to draw the on-going sagas, starting with " The Lunar Olympics.
Consistently with the austere and simple manner he thought the chief excellence of dramatic composition, he excluded from his scene all coups de theatre, all philosophical reflexions, and that highly ornamented versification so assiduously cultivated by his predecessors.

dramatic and Géricault
Both the choice of subject matter and the heightened manner in which the dramatic moment is depicted are typical of Romantic painting — strong indications of the extent to which Géricault had moved from the prevalent Neoclassical movement.

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Their writings assume more than dramatic or patriotic interest because of their conviction that the struggle in which they were involved was neither selfish nor parochial but, rather, as Washington in his last wartime circular reminded his fellow countrymen, that `` with our fate will the destiny of unborn millions be involved ''.
So it is that we relive his opening statement in the first television address with the dramatic immediacy of the present.
In addition, he believed in the `` dramatic unity and separateness of the period from 1702-14, lying between the Stuart and Hanoverian eras with a special ethos of its own ''.
It should have a dramatic form with pleasing language, and it should portray incidents which so arouse pity and fear that it purges these emotions in the audience.
Mostly the scene was crowded with mourners, such as the dramatic Dell'Arca Lamentation in Bologna, where the grief-stricken spectators had usurped Mary's last poignant moment.
As he declaimed the sonorous measures, it was as much as Claire could do to restrain herself from bursting out with her dramatic tidings.
Some of the most dramatic successes of Communism in winning local support can be traced to the identification -- correct or not -- of Communist regimes with personal honesty and pro-Western regimes with corruption.
I knew that both these cynics were waiting with impatience for the dramatic moment when Viola was called to the stand.
Mussorgsky frequently uses liturgical music with considerable dramatic force.
I had come to Chicago from New York early in September with a dramatic production called Ask Tony.
The situation in which we find ourselves is brought out with dramatic force in Arthur Miller's play The Crucible, which deals with the Salem witch trials.
American TV was the setting for the first dramatic portrayal of Miss Marple with Gracie Fields, the legendary British actress, playing her in a 1956 episode of Goodyear TV Playhouse based on A Murder Is Announced, the 1950 Christie novel.
It has also been speculated that this yield reduction will only worsen with the dramatic climate changes expected in the future.
His last group of operas, composed for Rome, exhibit a deeper poetic feeling, a broad and dignified style of melody, a strong dramatic sense, especially in accompanied recitatives, a device which he himself had been the first to use as early as 1686 ( Olimpia vendicata ) and a much more modern style of orchestration, the horns appearing for the first time, and being treated with striking effect.
Taking and developing the landscape style of Lucas Cranach the Elder, he shows the hilly landscape of the Danube valley with thick forests of drooping and crumbling firs and larches hung with moss, and often dramatic colouring from a rising or setting sun.
The topography of the island consists of dramatic rock formations in the north ( unlike the rest of Denmark which is very flat with few hills and no mountains ), sloping down towards “ pine and deciduous forests ” ( greatly damaged by storms in the 1950s ) and farmland in the middle and sandy beaches in the south.
Its first editor, William O. Eaton, just 22 years old, said " The Herald will be independent in politics and religion ; liberal, industrious, enterprising, critically concerned with literacy and dramatic matters, and diligent in its mission to report and analyze the news, local and global.
Herald photographer Stanley Forman received two Pulitzer Prizes consecutively in 1976 and 1977, the first being a dramatic shot of a young child falling in mid-air from her mother's arms on the upper stories of a burning apartment building to the waiting arms of firefighters below, and the latter ( known as " The soiling of Old Glory ") being of Ted Landsmark, an African American city official, being beaten with an American flag during Boston's school busing crisis.
Although Douglas was always second billed under Lancaster in these films, their roles were usually more or less the same size with the exceptions of I Walk Alone, in which Douglas played a villain, and in Seven Days in May, where Douglas ' part was larger than Lancaster's but not as dramatic.
It is a time where shops have sales, often with dramatic price reductions.
Chaplin's childhood was fraught with poverty and hardship, prompting biographer David Robinson to describe his eventual trajectory as " the most dramatic of all the rags to riches stories ever told.
Haydn accordingly wanted more dramatic contrast and more emotionally appealing melodies, with sharpened character and individuality.

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