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| ARTICLES RELATED TO Gounod | | | |  Gounod: Encyclopedia II - The Phantom of the Opera - Other appearancesThe Phantom is included among the band in the Beetlejuice show at Universal Studios Theme Parks. He also is a featured character in the supernatural comic Sadie Sanderson, as King Richard III's rival for Sadie's influence.
The Phantom was recently called "the gayest super villain ever" by Homer Simpson. Erik seems to be a reoccurring background character on the Simpson's. Appearing in several episodes including these most noticeable:
Flaming Moe
Homer's haughty speech from the rafters.
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| | | | | Gounod: Encyclopedia II - Birmingham - Famous residents Neville Chamberlain, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Ozzy Osbourne are a few of the many famous names associated with Birmingham.
For a larger list see List of famous residents of Birmingham
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| | | | | Gounod: Encyclopedia II - Birmingham - Politics Birmingham City Council is the largest local authority in the UK with, following a reorganisation of boundaries in June 2004, 120 councillors representing just under one million people, in 40 wards.
After the election of 10 June 2004, there is no overall control, with the 120 seats being divided between the Labour, (53 councillors), Conservative (39) and Liberal Democrat ("Lib-Dem", 28) parties.
There is a Conservative/Lib-Dem coalition, with Conservative ...
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| | | | | Gounod: Encyclopedia II - Birmingham - Transport Due in part to its central location in England, Birmingham is a major transport hub on the motorway, rail, and canal networks.
It is served by a number of major roads, including the M5, M6, M6 Toll, M40, and M42 motorways.
Local public transport is by bus, local train and tram (the Midland Metro light railway system between the city centre and Wolverhampton). The number 11A and 11C outer circle bus routes are the longest urban bus routes in Europe. The city's main station, Birmingham New Street, is at the centre of the national ...
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| | | | | Gounod: Encyclopedia II - Birmingham - Education Birmingham has three universities: the University of Birmingham, Aston University and the University of Central England (UCE). It also has two other higher education colleges (Newman College and the Birmingham College of Food, Tourism and Creative Studies). The Birmingham Conservatoire and Birmingham School of Acting, both now part of UCE, offer higher education in the arts.
The city council is England's largest local education authority, directly or indirectly responsible for 25 nursery schools, 328 primary schools, 77 secondary scho ...
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| | | | | Gounod: Encyclopedia II - Birmingham - Sport A cricket club was in existence in Birmingham as early as 1745, and today the city is home to Warwickshire County Cricket Club whose ground at Edgbaston is also a venue for international test matches. International athletics meetings take place at the open-air Alexander Stadium in Perry Barr, the home of Birchfield Harriers athletic club, which numbers many Olympic medallists among its past and present members. The National Indoor Arena (NIA) meanwhile is a major indoor athletics stadium and in 2003 hosted the 9th IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics. ...
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| | | | | Gounod: Encyclopedia II - Birmingham - Architecture Although Birmingham has existed as a settlement for over a thousand years, today's city is overwhelmingly a product of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, as the real growth of the city began with the Industrial Revolution. Consequently, relatively few buildings survive from its earlier history.
Traces of medieval Birmingham can be seen in the oldest churches, notably the original parish church, St Martin's in the Bullring, where a church has stood since at least the 12th century. The current church (begun around 1290) was extensively ...
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| | | | | Gounod: Encyclopedia II - Birmingham - Economy Birmingham is an important manufacturing and engineering centre, employing over 100,000 people in industry and contributing billions of pounds to the national economy. Over a quarter of the UK's exports originate in the greater Birmingham area.
Birmingham's industrial heritage predates the Industrial Revolution, and up until the 20th Century the city maintained a tradition of individual craftsmen, sometimes working independently in their own back yards or on piecework rates in rented workshops, alongside larger factories. During the I ...
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| | | | | Gounod: Encyclopedia II - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Works The most important of Goethe's works produced before he went to Weimar were his tragedy Götz von Berlichingen (1773), which was the first work to bring him fame, and the novel The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774), which gained him enormous popularity as a writer in the Sturm und Drang movement. During the years at Weimar before he met Schiller he began Wilhelm Meister, wrote the dramas Iphigenie, Egmont, and ...
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Novels.
(1774) Die Leiden des jungen Werther (The Sorrows of Young Werther)
(1796) Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre (Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship)
(1809) Die Wahlverwandschaften (Elective Affinities)
(1821) Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre (Wilhelm Meister's Travels)
(1811-33) Aus meinem Leben: Dichtung und W ...
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| | | | | Gounod: Encyclopedia II - Opera - Sociology of opera All art forms have a social context, and opera likewise cannot exist in a vacuum. A string quartet exists in manuscript and printed score, and a truly musical person, playing one part, or seated at a keyboard, can hear the intent of the music, but the printed score for an opera must be realized in a production, even a slender one, for its impact. Thus there exists a "sociology of opera", which would be as interesting to general social historians (who are unaware of it, on the whole) as it is to opera buffs. Operas have always been written wi ...
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| | | | | Gounod: Encyclopedia II - Birmingham - Geography The city of Birmingham is situated on an area of high ground, around 150-200 metres above sea level. The main north-south watershed of Britain actually passes through Birmingham. This high ground makes Birmingham prone to tornadoes which were witnessed in mid-2005
To the south west of the city lie the Clent Hills and Walton Hill, which reach 315 m and have good views over the city.
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| | | | | Gounod: Encyclopedia II - Birmingham - Food & drink Birmingham based Breweries included Ansells, Davenports and Mitchells & Butlers. Aston Manor Brewery is currently the only brewery of any significant size.
Many fine Victorian pubs and bars can still be found across the city. The oldest inn in Birmingham is the Old Crown in Deritend (circa 1450). The Anchor Inn (1797), is also nearby in Digbeth.
Famous food brands from Birmingham include Typhoo tea, Birds custard, Blue Bird Toffee, Bournville cocoa, Cadbury chocolate, an ...
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| | | | | Gounod: Encyclopedia II - Birmingham - Culture and arts
Birmingham - Popular music.
Although its music scene is not as renowned as those of Liverpool or Manchester, Birmingham has had a vibrant and varied musical history over the last half-century.
In the 1960s, the "Brum Beat" era featured blues and early progressive rock bands such as The Fortunes, Spencer Davis Group, Traffic, The Move and The Moody Blues.
The city is often described as the birthplace of heavy metal music, with Judas Priest and Black Sabbath coming from Birmingham. Robert Plant and John Bo ...
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| | | | | Gounod: Encyclopedia II - Libretto - Sources of Plots Operatic libretti have been adapted from myths and legends, historical events, biographies, plays, poems, short stories, novels, and sometimes even non-literary sources (as with Goyescas, by Enrique Granados, inspired by paintings of Francisco Goya). The librettist Francesco Maria Piave adapted works by Victor Hugo, the Duke of Rivas, and others. Many other libretti do not derive from a pre-existing work, as with the libretti Hug ...
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| | | | | Gounod: Encyclopedia II - Carmen - Adaptations
Carmen - Fantasies.
A number of classical composers have used themes from Carmen as the basis for works of their own. Some of these, such as Pablo de Sarasate's Carmen Fantasy (1883) for violin and orchestra, Franz Waxman's Carmen Fantasie for violin and orchestra and Vladimir Horowitz's Variations on a theme from Carmen for solo piano are virtuoso showpieces in the tradition of fantasias on operatic themes. Ferruccio Busoni wrote a Sonatina (No.6) for piano named Fantasia da camera ...
See also:Carmen, Carmen - History, Carmen - Synopsis, Carmen - Act I, Carmen - Act II, Carmen - Act III, Carmen - Act IV, Carmen - Dramatic Elements, Carmen - Musical Elements, Carmen - Dialogue versus Recitative, Carmen - Characters, Carmen - Musical Pieces, Carmen - Recordings, Carmen - Adaptations, Carmen - Fantasies, Carmen - Film, Carmen - Other, Carmen - Media, Carmen - Notes Read more here: » Carmen: Encyclopedia II - Carmen - Adaptations |
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| | | | | Gounod: Encyclopedia II - Libretto - Language and Translation As the originating language of opera, Italian dominated that genre in Europe (except in France) well through the 18th century, and even into the next century in Russia, for example, when the Italian opera troupe in Saint Petersburg was challenged by the emerging native Russian repertory. Significant exceptions before 1800 can be found in Purcell's works, German opera of Hamburg during the Baroque, ...
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| | | | | | Gounod: Encyclopedia II - Maurice Ravel - Musical Influence On the surface, he was influenced by Debussy, but also the music of Russia, Spain and the jazz music of the United States, as reflected in the movement titled Blues from his G major violin sonata. He also once stated that he had never written a piece not influenced by Edvard Grieg.
Ravel wrote, in 1928, that composers should be aware of both individual and national consciousness. That year, Ravel had toured the United States and Canada by train performing piano recitals in the great concert halls of twenty-five cities. In their ...
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| | | | | Gounod: Encyclopedia II - Carmen - Musical Pieces Main Article: Music of Carmen
The more popular pieces from the opera include:
The Prelude
Avec la garde montante (Chorus - With the guard on duty going); Chorus of street-boys
L'amour est un oiseau rebelle (Habanera - Love is like a rebellious bird); Carmen
Parlemoi de ma mère! (Duet - Tell me, what of my mother?); Don José and Micaela.
Près des remparts de Séville (Seguidilla - Near to the walls of Sevilla); Carmen, Don José.
Les ting ...
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| | | | | Gounod: Encyclopedia II - Carmen - Musical Elements When asked if he would visit Spain to research his score, Bizet replied "No, that would only confuse me." Bizet elegantly works elements of Spanish music into the score, though keeping the music obviously French. However, several pieces, especially the Seguidilla (No.10) and the Gypsy Song (No.12) make great use of the elements of flamenco music. Also, the Act IV entr'acte seems to be influenced by a Spanish song by Manuel Gar ...
See also:Carmen, Carmen - History, Carmen - Synopsis, Carmen - Act I, Carmen - Act II, Carmen - Act III, Carmen - Act IV, Carmen - Dramatic Elements, Carmen - Musical Elements, Carmen - Dialogue versus Recitative, Carmen - Characters, Carmen - Musical Pieces, Carmen - Recordings, Carmen - Adaptations, Carmen - Fantasies, Carmen - Film, Carmen - Other, Carmen - Media, Carmen - Notes Read more here: » Carmen: Encyclopedia II - Carmen - Musical Elements |
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| | | | | Gounod: Encyclopedia II - Birmingham - Science and invention Local inventions and notable firsts include: gas lighting, roller skate wheels, the Baskerville Font, questionnaires, Custard powder, foam rubber, the magnetron (the core component in the development of radar and microwave ovens), the UK electroplating industry, the first ever use of radiography in an operation, and the UK's first ever hole-in-the-heart operation, at Birmingham Children's Hospital.
Among the city's notable scientists and inventors are:
Matthew Boulton, proprietor of the Soho engineering works.
Si ...
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