#programme note

[tariqk]

so I’m getting a *lot* of traffic re: Stardew Valley

Uh… hi?

Like, I mean it's a really nice game and I'm going through a pretty obsessive phase right now, but... it's likely a phase. Hope you like the rest of the other stuff?

[lilybtaylor3]

duo/trio programme note based on shadows as if we hadn’t had enough already

if I ever watch schindlers list I won’t be able to not think of this and it will ruin my experience

GCSE Dance Programme Note 

Duo /Trio 

   Name: Lily Taylor                                                                   Candidate Number: xxxx 

Centre Name: nopeity nope                                          Centre Number: xxxxx 

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Title of Dance: Shadows 

Title of Accompaniment: Theme from Schindlers List 

Composer: John Williams 

Running Time: 3 minutes and 35 seconds 

Names of Dancers: A person, a nother person and meeee

  __________________________________________________________________________________ 

The main idea or theme was to produce a duo / trio to the theme from Schindlers’ list composed by John Willliams and inspired by the subject matter of ‘Shadows’ choreographed by Christopher Bruce. The contemporary trio portrays ‘a family waiting for a knock on the door, because they are going to be on the next train and if not the train after on a way to a concentration camp.’ The trio explores the concept and meaning of a family unit, inspired by portrait photographs of families who travelled to Auschwitz: these structure and form the choreography through still salient positions and tableaux and the idea of leaving and parting is explored as a foreshadowing of the inevitable future. 

The trio is sectioned into 5 parts and we incorporated Flux and Shift specifically into parts 3 and 4. Part three consists primarily of our development of Flux as we have integrated the handstand with one leg bent and we also used the many extended arms in Scoop as a basis for our choreography throughout the piece as primarily it is about a family being torn apart and the extended arms help perpetuate a sense of longing.  

Our dance follows the narrative of a family that could be torn apart at any given moment but the parents maintain a convincing façade for the child to remain innocent and free of the perils of war. One of the first key sections in our dance is in section one when we have just intertwined ourselves around each other then we morph into a pulsing picture of the parents and their child suggesting that the child is the heart of the family. A specific highlight is at the transition between sections 4 and 5 when the child runs towards the mother, who catches her with help from the father from behind and they lay her down gently on the floor. They then proceed to perform a very short contact duet behind the child where she cannot see, suggesting that they have to stay strong for the child however behind closed doors, they look to each other for support.   

[lilybtaylor3]

This was the sculpture I think its cool tbh but kind of did not relate in any way I just liked it lol

[kelseyridge13]

the murdered Banquo won't stay dead; he haunts the man who had him killed, and we begin to share Macbeth's terror.  No one else on stage sees Banquo's ghost; but we see it.  As part of the spread of horror, we know what it is like to be Macbeth

Alexander Leggatt

[kelseyridge13]

[The witches] are just the most conspicuous embodiment of an uncanny atmosphere that haunts the drama.  Sometime is out there, something that lives in darkness and thunder and screams in the night.  Whatever it is, it does not just affect Macbeth; it attacks him.

Alexander Leggatt 

[kelseyridge13]

What makes this tragedy [Macbeth] so frightening […] is our inability to fully explain it

MJ Kidnie (What Makes Him Do It?)

[kelseyridge13]

Consider the title: Troilus and Cressida. Compare with Romeo and Juliet or Antony and Cleopatra; the and in all three titles examines the strength of love, tested under the pressure of events.

Alan Somerset (In Troy, There Lies the Scene)

[still-intrepid]

aaAAHHHHGGHGhhhh *woeful moaning* I get so so annoyed/amused/annoyed at how pretentious programme notes and descriptions of art pieces are... but then when I try to WRITE a thing, guhhhh. It's so hard to be anything other than that ;;

So, I figure... the point of a programme note, really the only actual useful point is simply in some way to improve the listener's experience of hearing your piece. So you might explain a bit about the compositional process, or the structure so they know what to follow, or say a few things that happen to look out for, or, yes, describe a story if there's one in your head. I start to wonder if you could equally validly write some weirdy nonsense poetry if somehow having read it they'd be exactly in the right frame of mind...! BUT, UGH. basically -- is this readable, is it too painfully pretentious, do you think it could poss improve a listening experience/does it sound interesting?

Rhapsody is a dramatic monologue or narration for soprano saxophone, using rhythms and structures of speech to relate, as it might be, one night when a person not generally given to rhapsodizing nonetheless flings themselves in frustration out of doors and wanders until sunrise. The piece opens with a snatch of nostalgic melody, then fixates around one note, before becoming more agitated and finally growing into longer more expressive musical phrases. At the high point, the melody from the opening is rediscovered.