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Author: S.Koumas
Date: 2000-08-21 20:48
Hi. This question is basically off the clarinet (Sorry) but it's the only forum i know.
Ok, I have a friend who does art. Her project is to look at music written in the late 1800 - early 1900. She has to get the words of a Sad Minor song and the words of a Happy major like song and express them painted in her art work!
Hope you understand what i am trying to say and if anyone can tell me anywhere on the web to look or send me anything, that would be great!
Thanxs
muzic_man@hotmail.com
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2000-08-21 21:32
Seeing your caption, the first thing that jumped out at me was Vissi d'Arte from Puccini's opera "Tosca" [1900!], the soprano's aria just before she stabs him!! Most any large library should have the Libretto, translated into English. The next was the old torch song "Stormy Weather", the words should be easily available, as it still has some popularity. So much for "sad" suggestions, I do recall some tunes which modulate from minor to major, will post if "retrieved". [Paris in the Springtime???] Don
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Author: Kim L.
Date: 2000-08-21 22:18
I'm not sure if she wants something English, but she can find what she wants in Orff's Carmina Burana. The pieces in this song are fabulous. Some are Latin and others German. I'm sure she could find what she is looking for.
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2000-08-21 23:58
Kim L. wrote:
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I'm not sure if she wants something English, but she can find what she wants in Orff's Carmina Burana. The pieces in this song are fabulous. Some are Latin and others German. I'm sure she could find what she is looking for.
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Have you read the translation of the lyrics???? I'm not sure if the teachers would approve of some of them.
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Author: Kim L.
Date: 2000-08-22 02:18
Well...I kinda agree. I've seen the translations! Last year the wind ensemble and choir in my university did a combined performance of Carmina Burana. The professor gave us some of the translations-some sick, others funny. The audience didn't know the translations-we did. In some parts, we had to learn to hold in our laughter.
The piece should be age appropriate though.:)
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Author: Graham Elliott
Date: 2000-08-22 07:57
How about "Plaisier D'Amour". A song of shattered dreams.
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Author: S.Koumas
Date: 2000-08-22 20:53
Hi, just wanted to thank you all for the suggestions and i'll inform her accourdingly!
As for the translations, if they are rude or horrid it doesn't really matter as she is 17 and the teacher didn't say they couldn't!!!
Thanxs again!
S.Koumas
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Author: Lelia
Date: 2000-08-24 17:11
*Some* of the "Carmina Burana" lyrics are dirty enough that reading them aloud in class would probably get a student into trouble at most schools. How about Rachmaninoff's tone poem, "The Isle of the Dead" -- based on a famous painting. I'll let your friend do the research to find out which painting. Hint: There's a reproduction of it in a large volume by Owen Rachleff, _The Occult in Art_. That book would give her a lot of other good ideas, too....
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