... works with the help of songs. How music is composed of different notes while to Lucretius objects are made of different atoms and create different sensations. Different musical notes are combined to make a song that evokes a unique sensation with harmony just as the different atoms in an object function together to create a sensation specific to that object. Harmonious and inharmonious sounds ... illness. The first form of synesthesia is being able to have the ability to feel the sensations of seeing color or tasting colors when eating and drinking. The second common variation is the ab...

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... music form include: Luigi Rossi, Antonio Cesti, Giacomo Carissimi and Barbara Strozzi. Another important development of this time period is that of the Oratorio, a new genre of religious music that combined narrative, dialogue, and commentary (Norton 336). Oratorias had some likeness to the opera as it used recitatives, arias, duets, instrumental preludes and ritornello, but they differed greatly in their subject ... nine collections; he transformed the genre by exploring the texts and experimenting with matching emotional highs and lows in the music with those in the text, a procedure ...

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... , Schoenberg wrote of the 5 Orchestral Pieces: "The pieces are certainly not symphonic, they are the absolute opposite of this, there is no architecture and no build-up. Just a colourful, uninterrupted variation of colours, rhythms and moods" This is consistent with his ideas on "the elimination of the conscious will in art". The Five Orchestral Pieces are filled with frenzy, violent dissonance ... " Both Schoenberg and Kandinsky were interested in the synthesis of the arts. A "Gesamtkunstwerk" is a total work of art for the stage, where music, colour and movement (theatre) are to be comb...

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