opera

light bulb joke

soap opera

one-liner

nonsense question

blues

chair

country music

folk

gospel

jazz

music

pop music

new age

punk

bluegrass

alternative music

heavy metal

Batman

cartoon

pornography

is a genre representative of the fact that anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.

Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.

is a humanizing art, one that emphasizes what humanity has in common by epic depictions of passion through the vehicle of song.

Tarling argues that opera is a humanizing art, one that emphasizes what humanity has in common by epic depictions of passion through the vehicle of song.

is a place where when a guy gets stabbed, he doesn't die, he sings.

The opera is a place where when a guy gets stabbed, he doesn't die-he sings.

is a play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures and no postures but attitudes.

OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures and no postures but attitudes.

is a prime example of the production of presence, in which the aspect of spatiality must be emphasized over that of temporality.

Gumbrecht argues that opera is a prime example of the production of presence, in which 'the aspect of spatiality'must be emphasized over that of temporality'.

is an attempt at resolution of the conflict between the demands of music for self-fulfillment and the needs of text for projection and amplification.

Edward T. Cone (1974: 44) maintains that the history of opera is a 'record of the varying resolutions of the conflict between the demands of the music for self-fulfillment and the needs of the text for projection and amplification'

is an interlinear version of its libretto, which is to say, a musical commentary on what goes on between the interstices of a dialogue, on what the actual text has not in itself realized.

Lindenberger goes on to cite Adorno's apt description of opera as 'an interlinear version of its libretto' (125), which Lindenberger then interprets as 'a musical commentary on what goes on between the interstices of a dialogue, on what the actual text has not in itself realized'

is like a husband with a foreign title: expensive to support, hard to understand, and therefore a supreme social challenge.

The opera is like a husband with a foreign title: expensive to support, hard to understand, and therefore a supreme social challenge

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