Jota castro biography of william shakespeare
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NEW YORK, NY.- In , when the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Stratford-upon-Avon unveiled a previously unidentified portrait with strong claims to be the only surviving contemporary likeness of William Shakespeare (), it created an international stir. The Jacobean-era painting had hung unrecognized for centuries in an Irish country house belonging to the Cobbe family, and bore significant resemblance to the famous engraving of Shakespeare in the First Folio of his plays.
In a new exhibition at The Morgan Library & Museum entitled The Changing Face of William Shakespeare, the Cobbe portrait, tillsammans with a recently identified sixteenth-century portrait of Shakespeare's patron Henry Wriothesley, the 3rd Earl of Southampton, is being presented in the U.S. for the first time. Also on view will be three additional portraits of the playwright, including one acquired by Pierpont Morgan in , an original copy of the First Folio, and a kopia of Shakespeare's poem Venus and Adonis, dedica
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Ive been to two new exhibitions in Vancouver (Canada) and while both could be described as mashups, only one uses the word in its title. Before getting to the shows, heres a little bit about mashups for anyone whos not familiar with word.
A mashup definition
Generally speaking a mashup is when you bring together multiple source materials to create something new. Heres a list of different types of mashups, from the Mashup Wikipedia entry,
Mashup may refer to:
- Mashup (music), the musical genre encompassing songs which consist entirely of parts of other songs
- Mashup (video), a video that is edited from more than one source to appear as one
- Mashup (book), a book which combines a pre-existing text, often a classic work of fiction, with a certain popular genre such as vampire or zombie narratives
- Mashup (web application hybrid), a web application that combines data and/or functionality from more than one source
- Mash-Up (Glee), a musical theater performance compos
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History of opera
Aspect of musical history
The history of opera has a relatively short duration within the context of the history of music in general: it appeared in , when the first opera, Dafne, by Jacopo runt om eller nära, was created. Since then it has developed parallel to the various musical currents that have followed one another over time up to the present day, generally linked to the current concept of classical music.
Opera (from the Latin opera, plural of opus, "work") is a musical genre that combines symphonic music, usually performed by an orchestra, and a written dramatic text—expressed in the form of a libretto—interpreted vocally by singers of different tessitura: tenor, baritone, and bass for the male register, and soprano, mezzo-soprano, and contralto for the female, in addition to the so-called vit voices (those of children) or in falsetto (castrato, countertenor). Generally, the musical work contains overtures, interludes and musical accompaniments, while