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» Deborah_Jeter - Well, one can never know, I guess, whether or not the server tha
Well, one can never know, I guess, whether or not the server that the wav files and gifs are located on is going to be up or down, BUT, I have corrected the problem with the files involved with this week's article and I hope anyone that has tried to access the "Magic" article will try again because everything should be working now. That is unless the other server that has the files decides to malfunction. Sorry for any inconvenience or deflated enthusiasm in regards to this minor set back. Geez! And I was really looking forward to the feedback on how much fun some of you thought the links were too!Try again, please???
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» ThomasR - I like everything about The Magic Flute except the plot. Gr
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 Queen of the Night. Their only reason for choosing him for the mission is that he is very handsome, and he is fit for the mission if he is as courageous as he is handsome. I think that if anyone should be sent on a couragenous mission, it's the Ladies of the Queen of the Night!
Gripe number two: The hero changes his mind and decides that the heroine's captor is wise, not evil. What's his evidence? Why, one of the captor's henchmen says so!
Gripe number three: Papageno plays both the Pan-pipe and the magic bells. I think it's rather sloppy to endow one character with two trade marks.
I understand that the plot is fraught with Masonic symbolism. Perhaps I should study up on the Masonic symbolism, and then maybe I could appreciate the plot a little more.
This is off the subject, but two other plots which I think are jam-packed with improbabilities are Othello and the rock opera "Tommy."
One thing I can say for plot of The Magic Flute, though: I notice that "Oklahoma!" also deals with a dignified couple and an undignified couple. Could Rodgers and Hammerstein have been influenced by The Magic Flute?
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» Deborah_Jeter - Interesting comments, Thomas. I have never analyzed the Magic Fl
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. I would be interested in learning more about the masonic element that you spoke of and if you should discover any more info on this, I'd be interested.Thanks for the input. You're a deep thinker, are you not? ;-)
Deborah Jeter
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» allcityfreak - the magic flute
what hapens or what to the first the chords in the orchestra score mean? please reply ASAP!!!-- posted by allcityfreak
» allcityfreak - i found an answer to my own question
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 overture, are the only direct quotation from the opera. Numerologists could have a field day with not only the presence of three emphatic chords played by three trombones to begin the opera, but the fact that the overture is composed in E-flat (three flats in the key signature), along with Three Boys and Three Ladies who have significant roles in the libretto. The solemn opening notes are part of the music used to represent Sarastro's Temple of Wisdom, which is itself a thinly veiled allusion to Masonic ritual. Yet despite its lack of direct references, there is throughout this overture the spirit, the idea, and even the mystical quality that so pervades the opera. Sir Donald Francis Tovey has observed that Mozart sought "simply to produce a formal overture on a grand scale, combining without offense an almost religious solemnity with the lightness of touch required by other features of his pantomime." And this writer finds no quarrel when Tovey goes on to say that this is "on the whole the greatest of Mozart's overtures... by far the most intellectual and, with all its brilliant cheerfulness, the most serious overture hitherto written for the stage."
http://www.youngstownsymphony.com/oct02....
thanks for those of you tried to help... allcityfreak
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