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- Toni Morrison (2576 bytes)
6: Morrison was an important player in the battle to open the canon of English an...
12: ...nt household, born poor, working-class, saxophone-playing, McDonald's-and-junk-food-loving boy from Ar...
21: *''[[Playing in the Dark]]'' (1993)
28: ==Plays==
31: ==Libretto== - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...]] [[writer]], [[poet]], [[feminism|feminist]], [[playwright]], and catalyst in the development of mod...
12: ...[Paris]] with her brother Leo, who became an accomplished art critic.
15: ...er portrait), [[Henri Matisse]], [[Andre Derain]] plus other young painters.
17: ...ey returned to France and volunteered to drive supplies to French hospitals; they were later honored b...
23: ...liberal than not, with developed individualism coupled with democratic values based in pragmatism; thu... - Johann Sebastian Bach (31106 bytes)
11: ... we can assume J. S. Bach began copying music and playing various instruments at an early age.
13: ... until Johann Christoph heard the young Sebastian playing some of the distinctive tunes from his priva...
17: ... a unique counterpoint to his unequalled skill in playing it; Bach was equally at home talking with or...
19: ...d Latin school when he was 18, an impressive accomplishment in his day, especially considering that he...
22: ... masterful use of [[counterpoint]] but also for exploring, for the first time, the full glory of keys ... - European-influenced classical music (18917 bytes)
8: ...works are best understood in the context of their place in musical history, for many this is essential...
10: ...val]], generally before 1450. Chant, also called plainsong or [[Gregorian Chant]], was the dominant f...
11: ...erized by greater use of instrumentation and multiple melodic lines
18: ...uch as classical, romantic, or modern. So for example, [[Sergei Prokofiev|Prokofiev]]'s ''Classical Sy...
22: ...he most famous classical composers. For a more complete overview see [[Graphical timeline for classica... - Opera (25153 bytes)
5: ...[[acting]]. However, the words of the opera, or [[libretto]], are [[singing|sung]] rather than spoken. The [...
7: ...ks. The visual arts, such as [[painting]], are employed to create the visual spectacle on the stage, ...
9: Singers and the roles they play are classified according to their vocal ranges....
11: ...a, and [[aria]], during which the movement of the plot often pauses, with the music becoming more melo...
13: ...genre in a context separate from its accompanying play, and has been transcribed for nearly all imagin... - Igor Stravinsky (26622 bytes)
7: ...Time magazine]] as one of the most influential people of the century.
14: ... displayed an inexhaustible desire to learn and explore art, literature, and life. This desire manifes...
23: ... of him as polite, courteous and helpful. For example, [[Otto Klemperer]], who knew [[Arnold Schoenber...
25: ...lectual and professional life in the USA. When he planned to write an opera with [[W. H. Auden]], the ...
35: ...ylistic periods. Most of his compositions can be placed in one of the three.
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