(Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Fantasia on Serbian Themes/Serbian Fantasy)
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The class blog for "Music Gone Wild", a first year seminar at the University of Iowa.
Dancers from the 1913 premiere of Rite of Spring |
Woodwinds: 2 piccolos, 3 flutes, 1 flute in G, 4 oboes, 2 English horns, 2 B-flat clarinets, 1 E-flat clarinet, 2 bass clarinets, 4 bassoons, 2 contrabassoons.
Brass: 8 horns, 4 trumpets, 1 trumpet in D, 1 bass trumpet, 3 trombones, 2 tenor tubas, 2 bass tubas
Percussion: timpani, bass drum, cymbals, antique cymbals, gong, triangle, guiro
Strings: 8 first violins, 7 second violins, 6 violas, 7 cellos, 6 double-basses
The 7 Liberal Arts - Trivium, Quadrivium and Logical Fallacies
Trivium
Quadrivium
What is a 21st Century Liberal education? from Association of America Colleges and Universities
Liberal Arts Education: A Foundation for Success from the High School Graduate
The Greco-Roman Liberal Arts: When Students Were More Than Just Numbers by Gary David Stratton from Two Handed Warriors
Trevi Fountain |
Jacques Offenbach |
Rimsky-Korsakov's 1888 Scheherazade [is] an exotic, ravishing, timeless, evocative fantasy brimming with awe, sensuality and sheer wonder based on The 1,001 Nights, the sprawling collection of ancient Arabian legends. The framing story is summarized in a prefatory note to the score: the Sultan Shahriar, who regards all women as deceitful, vows to take a virgin as his new wife each day, sleep with her, and then slay her the next morning. But the brilliant Scheherazade outwits him by spinning intriguing tales that she would halt at dawn and only conclude the next night. After the thousand and one nights of the title, she finally wins his love.