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Dominick Argento, the Glossary

Dominick Argento (October 27, 1927 – February 20, 2019) was an American composer known for his lyric operatic and choral music.^[1]

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George Peabody Medal winners
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A cappella

Music performed a cappella, less commonly spelled a capella in English, is music performed by a singer or a singing group without instrumental accompaniment.

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Alan Hovhaness

Alan Hovhaness (March 8, 1911 – June 21, 2000) was an American composer of Armenian ancestry.

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Aldeburgh

Aldeburgh is a coastal town and civil parish in the East Suffolk district, in the county of Suffolk, England, north of the River Alde.

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American Choral Directors Association

The American Choral Directors Association (ACDA), headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, is a non-profit organization with the stated purpose of promoting excellence in the field of choral music.

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Anne Midgette

Anne Midgette (born June 22, 1965) is an American music critic who was the first woman to write classical music criticism regularly for The New York Times.

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Anthem

An anthem is a musical composition of celebration, usually used as a symbol for a distinct group, particularly the national anthems of countries.

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Anton Chekhov

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer.

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Atonality

Atonality in its broadest sense is music that lacks a tonal center, or key.

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Bagatelle (from the Château de Bagatelle) is a billiards-derived indoor table game, the object of which is to get a number of balls (set at nine in the 19th century) past wooden pins (which act as obstacles) into holes that are guarded by wooden pegs; penalties are incurred if the pegs are knocked over.

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Ballad opera

The ballad opera is a genre of English comic opera stage play that originated in the early 18th century, and continued to develop over the following century and later.

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Baltimore

Baltimore is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland.

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Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO)For convenience, this article uses 'Baltimore SO' as the abbreviation for the orchestra, to avoid confusion with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and Boston Symphony Orchestra.

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Benjamin Britten

Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976, aged 63) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist.

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Bernard Rogers

Bernard Rogers (4 February 1893 – 24 May 1968) was an American composer. Dominick Argento and Bernard Rogers are American male opera composers and American opera composers.

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Beverly Sills

Beverly Sills (May 25, 1929July 2, 2007) was an American operatic soprano whose peak career was between the 1950s and 1970s.

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Book of Revelation

The Book of Revelation or Book of the Apocalypse is the final book of the New Testament (and therefore the final book of the Christian Bible).

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Boosey & Hawkes

Boosey & Hawkes is a British music publisher, purported to be the largest specialist classical music publisher in the world.

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Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra is an American symphony orchestra located in Buffalo, New York led by Music Director JoAnn Falletta.

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Cantata

A cantata (literally "sung", past participle feminine singular of the Italian verb cantare, "to sing") is a vocal composition with an instrumental accompaniment, typically in several movements, often involving a choir.

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Casa Guidi (album)

Casa Guidi: Frederica von Stade Sings Dominick Argento is a 78-minute studio album of contemporary classical music performed by von Stade, Burt Hara and the Minnesota Orchestra under the direction of Eiji Oue.

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Casanova's Homecoming

Casanova's Homecoming is an opera in three acts by Dominick Argento to an English libretto by the composer, based in part on Giacomo Casanova's memoir.

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Catalogue raisonné

A catalogue raisonné (or critical catalogue) is a comprehensive, annotated listing of all the known artworks by an artist either in a particular medium or all media.

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Cathedral Choral Society

The Cathedral Choral Society is a 200-voice symphonic, volunteer chorus based at the Washington National Cathedral.

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Catullus

Gaius Valerius Catullus (84 – 54 BC), known as Catullus, was a Latin neoteric poet of the late Roman Republic.

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Charles Nolte

Charles Nolte (November 3, 1923 – January 14, 2010) was an American stage and film actor, director, playwright, and educator. Dominick Argento and Charles Nolte are university of Minnesota faculty.

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Choir

A choir (also known as a chorale or chorus) is a musical ensemble of singers.

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Christopher Sly (opera)

Christopher Sly is an opera in one act and two scenes and an interlude by composer Dominick Argento.

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Cryptography

Cryptography, or cryptology (from κρυπτός|translit.

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Dale Warland

Dale Warland (born April 14, 1932, Fort Dodge, Iowa) is an American conductor, composer, founder of the Grammy-nominated Dale Warland Singers, scholar, teacher, choral consultant, and renowned champion of contemporary choral composers.

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Dale Warland Singers

The Dale Warland Singers (DWS) was a 40-voice professional chorus based in St. Paul, Minnesota, founded in 1972 by Dale Warland and disbanded in 2004.

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Dover Beach

"Dover Beach" is a lyric poem by the English poet Matthew Arnold.

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E. E. Cummings

Edward Estlin Cummings (October 14, 1894 – September 3, 1962), commonly known as e e cummings or E. E. Cummings, was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. Dominick Argento and e. E. Cummings are members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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Easter

Easter, also called Pascha (Aramaic, Greek, Latin) or Resurrection Sunday, is a Christian festival and cultural holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, described in the New Testament as having occurred on the third day of his burial following his crucifixion by the Romans at Calvary.

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Eastman School of Music

The Eastman School of Music is the music school of the University of Rochester, a private research university in Rochester, New York, United States.

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (née Moulton-Barrett; 6 March 1806 – 29 June 1861) was an English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime and frequently anthologised after her death.

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Florence

Florence (Firenze) is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany.

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Frédéric Chopin

Frédéric François Chopin (born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin; 1 March 181017 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period, who wrote primarily for solo piano.

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Frederica von Stade

Frederica von Stade (born 1 June 1945) is a semi-retired American classical singer.

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From the Diary of Virginia Woolf

From the Diary of Virginia Woolf is an eight-part song cycle written by Dominick Argento in 1974 for the English mezzo-soprano Janet Baker.

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G.I. Bill

The G.I. Bill, formally known as the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, was a law that provided a range of benefits for some of the returning World War II veterans (commonly referred to as G.I.s).

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Gas balloon

A gas balloon is a balloon that rises and floats in the air because it is filled with a gas lighter than air (such as helium or hydrogen).

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Giacomo Puccini

Giacomo Puccini (22 December 1858 29 November 1924) was an Italian composer known primarily for his operas.

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Guggenheim Fellowship

Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, endowed by the late Simon and Olga Hirsh Guggenheim.

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Guthrie Theater

The Guthrie Theater, founded in 1963, is a center for theater performance, production, education, and professional training in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Harvard Glee Club

The Harvard Glee Club (Glee Club or HGC) is a 60-voice, Tenor-Bass choral ensemble at Harvard University.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Håkan Hagegård

Nils Olov Håkan Hagegård (born 25 November 1945), 25 November 2005, archived from on 8 June 2012.

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Henry Cowell

Henry Dixon Cowell (March 11, 1897 – December 10, 1965) was an American composer, writer, pianist, publisher, teacher Marchioni, Tonimarie (2012). Dominick Argento and Henry Cowell are members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817May 6, 1862) was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher.

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Henry James

Henry James (–) was an American-British author. Dominick Argento and Henry James are members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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Herman Melville

Herman Melville (born Melvill; August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period.

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Howard Hanson

Howard Harold Hanson (October 28, 1896 – February 26, 1981)The New York Times – Obituaries. Dominick Argento and Howard Hanson are American male opera composers, American opera composers and Pulitzer Prize for Music winners.

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Hugo Weisgall

Hugo David Weisgall (October 13, 1912 – March 11, 1997) was an American composer and conductor, known chiefly for his opera and vocal music compositions. Dominick Argento and Hugo Weisgall are American male opera composers and American opera composers.

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Janet Baker

Dame Janet Abbott Baker (born 21 August 1933) is an English mezzo-soprano best known as an opera, concert, and lieder singer.

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John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (officially known as the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, and commonly referred to as the Kennedy Center) is the United States National Cultural Center, located on the eastern bank of the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. It was named in 1964 as a memorial to assassinated President John F.

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John James Audubon

John James Audubon (born Jean-Jacques Rabin, April 26, 1785 – January 27, 1851) was a French-American self-trained artist, naturalist, and ornithologist.

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John Keats

John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley.

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John of Patmos

John of Patmos (also called John the Revelator, John the Divine, John the Theologian) is the name traditionally given to the author of the Book of Revelation.

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Judith Martin

Judith Martin (née Perlman; born September 13, 1938), better known by the pen name Miss Manners, is an American columnist, author, and etiquette authority.

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Juliana Hall

Juliana Hall (born 1958) is an American composer of art songs, monodramas, and vocal chamber music.

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Kennedy Center Friedheim Award

The Kennedy Center Friedheim Award was an annual award given for instrumental music composition by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1978 and ended in 1995.

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Libby Larsen

Elizabeth Brown Larsen (born December 24, 1950) is a contemporary American classical composer. Dominick Argento and Libby Larsen are American opera composers.

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Luigi Dallapiccola

Luigi Dallapiccola (3 February 1904 – 19 February 1975) was an Italian composer known for his lyrical twelve-tone compositions.

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Marjorie Rusche

Marjorie Maxine Rusche (born 18 November 1949) is an American composer, conductor, and pianist who has composed several operas and was a founding member of the Minnesota Composers Forum (known today as the American Composers Forum). Dominick Argento and Marjorie Rusche are American opera composers.

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Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. Dominick Argento and Mark Twain are members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold (24 December 1822 – 15 April 1888) was an English poet and cultural critic.

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Minneapolis

Minneapolis, officially the City of Minneapolis, is a city in and the county seat of Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States. With a population of 429,954, it is the state's most populous city as of the 2020 census. It occupies both banks of the Mississippi River and adjoins Saint Paul, the state capital of Minnesota.

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Minneapolis–Saint Paul

Minneapolis–Saint Paul is a metropolitan area in the Upper Midwestern United States centered around the confluence of the Mississippi, Minnesota, and St. Croix rivers in the U.S. state of Minnesota.

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Minnesota Opera

Minnesota Opera is a performance organization based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Miss Havisham's Fire

Miss Havisham's Fire is an opera in 2 acts by composer Dominick Argento with an English language libretto by John Olon-Scrymgeour.

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Monodrama

A monodrama is a theatrical or operatic piece played by a single actor or singer, usually portraying one character.

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Motet

In Western classical music, a motet is mainly a vocal musical composition, of highly diverse form and style, from high medieval music to the present.

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Muses

In ancient Greek religion and mythology, the Muses (Moûsai, Múses) are the inspirational goddesses of literature, science, and the arts.

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New York City Opera

The New York City Opera (NYCO) is an American opera company located in Manhattan in New York City.

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Newsweek

Newsweek is a weekly news magazine.

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Nicolas Nabokov

Nicolas Nabokov (Николай Дмитриевич Набоков; – 6 April 1978) was a Russian-born composer, writer, and cultural figure.

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Nils Strindberg

Nils Strindberg (4 September 1872 – October 1897) was a Swedish photographer and scientist.

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North Pole

The North Pole, also known as the Geographic North Pole, Terrestrial North Pole or 90th Parallel North, is the point in the Northern Hemisphere where the Earth's axis of rotation meets its surface.

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Odyssey Opera

Odyssey Opera is an opera company based in Boston, Massachusetts.

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On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco

On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco (translit) is a one-act play by Anton Chekhov.

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Opera

Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers.

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Peabody Institute

The Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University is a private music and dance conservatory and preparatory school in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Pennsylvania State University

The Pennsylvania State University, commonly referred to as Penn State and sometimes by the acronym PSU, is a public state-related land-grant research university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsylvania.

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley (4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) was an English writer who is considered as one of the major English Romantic poets.

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Philip Brunelle

Philip Brunelle (born July 1, 1943) is an American choral scholar, conductor and organist.

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Postcard from Morocco

Postcard from Morocco is an opera in one act composed by Dominick Argento and libretto written by John Donahue under a commission from the Center Opera Company (now the Minnesota Opera).

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Pulitzer Prize for Music

The Pulitzer Prize for Music is one of seven Pulitzer Prizes awarded annually in Letters, Drama, and Music. Dominick Argento and Pulitzer Prize for Music are Pulitzer Prize for Music winners.

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Robert Browning

Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose dramatic monologues put him high among the Victorian poets.

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Rudolph Valentino

Rodolfo Pietro Filiberto Raffaello Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguella (May 6, 1895 – August 23, 1926), known professionally as Rudolph Valentino and nicknamed The Latin Lover, was an Italian actor based in the United States who starred in several well-known silent films including The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Sheik, Blood and Sand, The Eagle, and The Son of the Sheik.

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Salomon August Andrée

Salomon August Andrée (18 October 1854 – October 1897), during his lifetime most often known as S. A. Andrée, was a Swedish engineer, physicist, aeronaut and polar explorer who died while leading an attempt to reach the Geographic North Pole by hydrogen balloon.

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Sicily

Sicily (Sicilia,; Sicilia,, officially Regione Siciliana) is an island in the central Mediterranean Sea, south of the Italian Peninsula in continental Europe and is one of the 20 regions of Italy.

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Song cycle

A song cycle (Liederkreis or Liederzyklus) is a group, or cycle, of individually complete songs designed to be performed in sequence, as a unit.

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St. Louis Symphony Orchestra

The St.

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Stephen Paulus

Stephen Paulus (August 24, 1949 – October 19, 2014) was an American Grammy Award winning composer, best known for his operas and choral music. Dominick Argento and Stephen Paulus are American male opera composers and American opera composers.

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String quartet

The term string quartet refers to either a type of musical composition or a group of four people who play them.

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Surtitles

Surtitles, also known as supertitles, Captitles, SurCaps, OpTrans, are translated or transcribed lyrics/dialogue projected above a stage or displayed on a screen, commonly used in opera, theatre or other musical performances.

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Te Deum

The italic (or,; from its incipit, Thee, God, we praise) is a Latin Christian hymn traditionally ascribed to AD 387 authorship, but with antecedents that place it much earlier.

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The Aspern Papers

The Aspern Papers is a novella by American writer Henry James, originally published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1888, with its first book publication later in the same year.

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The Aspern Papers (opera)

The Aspern Papers is a 1987 opera in two acts with music and libretto by Dominick Argento, commissioned by The Dallas Opera.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Taming of the Shrew

The Taming of the Shrew is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1592.

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Thomas Dekker (writer)

Thomas Dekker (– 25 August 1632) was an English Elizabethan dramatist and pamphleteer, a versatile and prolific writer, whose career spanned several decades and brought him into contact with many of the period's most famous dramatists.

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Thornton Wilder

Thornton Niven Wilder (April 17, 1897 – December 7, 1975) was an American playwright and novelist.

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Tonality

Tonality is the arrangement of pitches and/or chords of a musical work in a hierarchy of perceived relations, stabilities, attractions, and directionality.

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Twelve-tone technique

The twelve-tone technique—also known as dodecaphony, twelve-tone serialism, and (in British usage) twelve-note composition—is a method of musical composition first devised by Austrian composer Josef Matthias Hauer, who published his "law of the twelve tones" in 1919.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominick_Argento

Also known as Dominic Argento.

, Herman Melville, Howard Hanson, Hugo Weisgall, Janet Baker, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, John James Audubon, John Keats, John of Patmos, Judith Martin, Juliana Hall, Kennedy Center Friedheim Award, Libby Larsen, Luigi Dallapiccola, Marjorie Rusche, Mark Twain, Matthew Arnold, Minneapolis, Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Minnesota Opera, Miss Havisham's Fire, Monodrama, Motet, Muses, New York City Opera, Newsweek, Nicolas Nabokov, Nils Strindberg, North Pole, Odyssey Opera, On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco, Opera, Peabody Institute, Pennsylvania State University, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Philip Brunelle, Postcard from Morocco, Pulitzer Prize for Music, Robert Browning, Rudolph Valentino, Salomon August Andrée, Sicily, Song cycle, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Stephen Paulus, String quartet, Surtitles, Te Deum, The Aspern Papers, The Aspern Papers (opera), The New York Times, The Taming of the Shrew, Thomas Dekker (writer), Thornton Wilder, Tonality, Twelve-tone technique, U.S.-Italy Fulbright Commission, University of Minnesota, Walker Art Center, Wallace Stevens, Washington National Cathedral, Washington National Opera, William Wordsworth, Yale Glee Club, York, Pennsylvania.

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See also

George Peabody Medal winners

Pupils of Bernard Rogers

Pupils of Howard Hanson

Pupils of Luigi Dallapiccola

References