Enjoy some Magic! - Page 2


© Deborah Jeter
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  • Pineapples are first planted in the Sandwich Islands, later known as Hawaii.
  • The French Revolution has been raging out of control for two years. Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette have been arrested while fleeing for their lives.
  • The Bill of Rights is passed on December 15, 1791. Ten days earlier, Mozart dies in poverty of typhoid fever at the age of 35. His Requiem remains unfinished.
  • Want to be a composer?

    Try this site to do a little composing with Mozart! And you don't even have to know how to read music!
    Mozart's Musikalisches Würfelspiel

    If Mozart's Magic Flute still doesn't ring your "operatic bell," at least you can say you gave it a chance, but just so you don't leave feeling empty of operatic enthusiasm, why not try this link -- it's PURELY for FUN!

    Another clever and fun site about Mozart among other things.

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    Here's the follow-up discussion on this article: View all related messages

    6.   Jul 14, 2005 4:17 PM
    found an answer!:

    "OVERTURE TO THE OPERA, "THE MAGIC FLUTE"(K. 620)
    by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    The opening three chords, emphasized by three trombones, and repeated one time later in the overt ...


    -- posted by allcityfreak


    5.   Jul 14, 2005 4:04 PM
    what hapens or what to the first the chords in the orchestra score mean? please reply ASAP!!!

    -- posted by allcityfreak


    4.   Aug 11, 1997 5:13 AM
    Interesting comments, Thomas. I have never analyzed the Magic Flute in such a way. I just always accepted it at face value and weighed it by it's appeal to my students and of course, it's great music. ...

    -- posted by Deborah_Jeter


    3.   Aug 10, 1997 8:52 PM
    I like everything about The Magic Flute except the plot.

    Gripe number one: To explain how the hero gets sent on the mission, the librettist has him rescued from a monster by the Ladies of the Que ...


    -- posted by ThomasR


    2.   Apr 19, 1997 12:45 PM
    The Mozart Composing place was fun. What's needed next is a Beethoven site where you can re-write the Ninth ...

    -- posted by chuckn





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