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Composers in every generation have explored the East for musical and Dramatic inspiration since?
What is..17th Century
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What was the title of Bordin’s work that contained theatrically stunning ‘Polovtsian dances’?
What is..In the Steppes of Central Asia
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the period in which this music is placed.
What is..during the threat posed to Europe by the Ottoman Empire until the later eighteenth century.
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This situation is complicated by the fact the the pasha is a European who has converted to Islam.
What is..Mozart's Die Entfuhrung.
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Cherubini’s Orientalist output spanned his pieces : L’Alessandro nell’Indie and Ali Baba, which were created?
What is..1784 & 1834
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When did Alex Cohen write in the Radio Time, “that superior people had sniffed at Elgar’s with the spirit of England. Such dectractors thought that he should have equipped himself by the study of oriental mysticism”?
What is..1932
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Claude Debussy created two ballets near the time of the First Worl War. What were their names?
What is..Khamma and No-Ja-Li
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Music is set in these contexts.
What is..set not only within its political/historical context, but also in relation to adjacent arts and the intellectual world in which they are embedded.
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Who wrote four Orientalist operas in his long career, one in which (L'Africaine) with highly indeterminate geography.
What is...Meyerbeer
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Who was the first composer to attempt a truly Russian style?
What is..1804-57
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When were the Turkish assaults resolved resolved by the Treaty of Carlowitz?
What is..1699
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In what work of Maurice Delage is a cello played pizzicato in order to sound like a sitar, along with highly evocative woodwind writing?
What is..Benares
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This band neatly reflects this combination of fear and respect, shifting as the cultural landscape responded to the geological changes of political and military relations.
What is..Janissary Band.
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He travelled in North Africa and the Middle East and incorporated indigenous tunes in his keyboard works.
What is..George Joseph Vogler
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When the number of works produced by composers from widely different backgrounds has constituted something of a tidal wave during the climax of this?
What is..Orientalist Activity
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When did Mozart creat his masterpiece Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail?
What is..1782
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‘The Chinese Flute’ published in 1907 was created by which artist?
What is..Hans Bethge
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Turkish music was represented through this.
What is..rapid shifts between major and minor, rapidly descending minor scales, and repeatedly reiterated patterns, both rhythms and melodic.
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If any French composer can be directly linked to service in the North African Empire is was... In 1839 he was sent to work in a government department in Algiers, but his main desire was to escape into music. In 1848 he settled in Paris and during the second half of the sentury he produced a succession of Orientalist works.
What is..Ernest Reyer.
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This chapter is devoted to examining what changes?
What is..changing emphasis within a major musical canon and to considering the extent to which such concerns represented a musical complicity within western imperial dominance of the East or a repeated search for a radical new voice
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Le Calife de Bagdad was created in?
What is..1800
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Which famous play of 1893 had its music settings created by Richard Strauss and Florent Schmitt?
What is..Salome
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When exotic instruments and rhythmic and melodic figures are first introduced into a native tradition, they stand out as dramatically and intriguingly alien. But if fully assimilated like....they cease to operate as an exotic intrusion.
What is..Turkish elements.
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He followed the precedent of Louis Spohr's popular Jessonda and Massenet's Le Roi de Lahore in setting an opera in India, although Lakme differs from the other two in dealing with Indo-British relations.
What is..Delibes.
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What was the major Orientalist passion of the 18th century?
What is..centered on the court intrigue and military prowess of the Ottoman Empire, the standard seraglio stories which were repeated, with many variants, almost endlessly, and the janissary bands which became hugely popular throughout Europe.