...The Italian and German opera was the most influential of the nineteenth century. The Italian opera was grounded in the traditional and commercialism. The German opera was grounded in modernizations. The nineteenth –century Italian opera began in the early nineteenth century. Italian opera is the highest manifestation of art of song. Its primary purpose is to delight and move the hearer with music that is tuneful unsentimental spontaneous an in every sense word popular. This opera style is called Bel canto. Which means beautiful song and by extension beautiful voice. (Greenberg, 2014) There were vital three composer of the Bel canto which is the following Gaetano Donizetti he was born in the year of (1797) and died in (1848). He composed seventy operas, one hundred songs as well as various oratorios, cantata and chamber works. Vincenzo Bellini was born in (1801) and died in (1835) he was the most modest of the three. “He only composes ten sierra opera compared to Donizetti”. The first one is called Adelson e Salvini in (1825). (Greenberg, 2014) Gioacchino Rossini was born (1792) and died in (1868). He wrote his first his first opera when he was 18 years old. His most famous opera is The Barber of Seville. He suffered from some type of mental disease other than depression, had bouts of gonorrhea and was a hypochondriac. He was known to have been the most quotable composer of all times. The last opera he wrote was William Tell in (1829) that was at age thirty-seven and...
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...INTRODUCTION The plays and prefaces of Bernard Shaw deal with many and diverse themes. At least four, however, concern themselves with evolutionary themes and ideas: Man and Superman, Back to Methusalah, The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles, and Far-fetched Fables. In Man and Superman, especially the third act, the preface, and The Revolutionist's Handbook and Pocket Companion, Shaw touches on two main themes: the pursuit of man by woman and the direction of evolution, which Shaw sees as leading towards the development of the mind and brain. In Back to Methusalah, Shaw carries forward his vision of evolution as proceeding in the direction of mental development but introduces a seemingly new idea in the last play of the cycle, the antithesis of mind and body. Shaw's dualism receives its most explicit statement in the last play of the cycle although there may be indications of it in the earlier plays. The mind-body antithesis, however, derives as a philosophical problem from Descartes,1 although the antithesis also appeared in the Manichean and Gnostic heresies, the spirit, or mind, being regarded as good and the body as evil. Although the antithesis of body and mind makes its first open appearance in the Methusalah cycle, it is present, at least as an implicit assumption in Man and Superman. Don Juan continually expresses his longing for the life of contemplation, a life which is to be achieved at the expense of the body. We will deal with the presence of the mind body antithesis...
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...P LA T O and a P LAT Y P U S WA L K I N TO A B A R . . . Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes < T H O M A S C AT H C A RT & D A N I E L K L E I N * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * P l at o a n d a P l at y p u s Wa l k i n t o a B a r . . . PLATO and a PLAT Y PUS WA L K I N T O A B A R . . . < Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes Th o m as Cat h c a rt & Dan i e l K l e i n A B R A M S I M AG E , N E W YO R K e d i to r : Ann Treistman d e s i g n e r : Brady McNamara pro d u c t i on m anag e r : Jacquie Poirier Cataloging-in-publication data has been applied for and may be obtained from the Library of Congress. ISBN 13: 978-0-8109-1493-3 ISBN 10: 0-8109-1493-x Text copyright © 2007 Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein Illlustration credits: ©The New Yorker Collection 2000/Bruce Eric Kaplan/ cartoonbank.com: pg 18; ©Andy McKay/www.CartoonStock.com: pg 32; ©Mike Baldwin/www.CartoonStock.com: pgs 89, 103; ©The New Yorker Collection 2000/ Matthew Diffee/cartoonbank.com: pg 122; ©The New Yorker Collection 2000/ Leo Cullum/cartoonbank.com: pg 136; ©Merrily Harpur/Punch ltd: 159; ©Andy McKay/www.CartoonStock.com: pg 174. Published in...
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