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The banda was an onstage band, which originated in the eighteenth century and by the nineteenth comprised around 20 brass and woodwind players. Although essentially a military band, the banda was used for ballroom scenes or on-stage parades or processions. The on-stage band was not part of the regular orchestra, but was recruited by the theatre impresario. Consequently ...

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course, a generous helping of the Strauss family hallmark – the waltz. A Short History | High Romantic | Opera Introduction | High Romantic | Opera Techniques | The Banda | High Romantic | Opera Houses & Companies | Paris Opéra | High Romantic | Opera Techniques | Bel Canto | Early & Middle Baroque | Opera Techniques | Realism ...

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survived – albeit with a lesser prominence – and in the twentieth century arias featured in the works of neo-classical composers. Introduction | High Romantic | Opera Techniques | The Banda | High Romantic | Opera ...

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Wagner’s music drama Tristan und Isolde, written between 1856 and 1859 and first produced at the Hof- und Nationaltheater in Munich on 10 June 1865, broke the established mould of opera and took it to the threshold of ‘modern’ music. Tristan was based on an Arthurian legend, and featured a regular theme in Wagner’s operas – the plight ...

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(Composer, arranger, violin, 1869–1944) Will Marion Cook was a highly educated musician, studying at Oberlin Conservatory and the Berlin Hochschule für Musik with virtuoso Joseph Joachim (he also studied briefly with Antonín Dvořák). He worked as a composer with Bob Cole’s All-Star Stock Company, a seminal force in early African-American musical comedy production. (The group later ...