Nino Rota Essays

  • The Godfather Part 2: How the Musical Score Creates Transitions within the Film

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    that this describes the usage of his composition perfectly in the Godfather. Above all the criticisms or affirmations that Rota received throughout his career, one thing is fairly unanimous throughout most critics, film viewers and musicians. The Godfather Part II is one of the most successful works that he has ever composed for despite all of his triumph and successes. Rota transformed his work into a musical score that created transitions within the film, identified with the characters and created

  • Fellini's 8 1/2

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    “The original title of Fellini’s 8 ½ was ‘Beautiful Confusion,’ and Fellini branded his film as a comedy. Anyone who has seen 8 ½ cannot help but laugh at the eclectic and satirical humor that imbues Fellini’s work, but ultimately the feature does not come off as comic,” (Horak). While certain critics (such as Horak) argue that Federico Fellini’s 8 ½ (1963) evokes partial tragedy, one could dually aver that the film epitomizes a classical, “bathos” model; everything within the work, even the dramatic

  • La Television y su Influencia

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    noticias que hablan de ella como algo muy negativo? ¿En verdad es la mejor cosa para un niño estar viéndola por más de 5 horas al día? ¿Y si es así, los convertirá en mejores adultos o jóvenes? La televisión es un material moderno que nos trae muchos beneficios. Para los niños ver la televisión demasiado puede hacer frente a muchas enfermedades y otros problemas psicológicos. La primera perjudicial para un niño al ver la televisión demasiado es que puede reducir la capacidad de concentración y la

  • Ocean Contaminants and the Impact of El Nino

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    Ocean Contaminants and the Impact of El Nino The ocean is inhabited by many and loved by all. Whether you surf the waves or use it for recreational purposes, its important to us all. There are dangers to the ocean that anyone who bathes in it should be aware of. Besides the obvious dangers of the current and the pounding waves, there are possible microscopic enemies at large. Every year the beaches are closed for a variety of reasons. Sometimes it may be for a surfing contest, or if the waves

  • El Nino

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    El Nino Typically, the level of ocean water around the world is higher in the western Pacific and lower in the eastern, near the Western coast of South and North America. This is due primarily to the presence of easterly winds in the Pacific, which drag the surface water westward and raise the thermocline relatively all the way up to the surface in the east and dampen it in the west. During El Nino conditions, however, the easterlies move east, reducing the continuing interaction between wind and

  • El Nino: Past, Present, and Future

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    El Nino: Past, Present, and Future El Nino is both an atmospheric and oceanic phenomenon affecting weather patterns all around the world. It is complemented by La Nina in a cycle that occurs approximately every 4 years, varying as much as every two years to every six years (Wang 1999, 3331). La Nina has almost the opposite effect, however differs in its strength and duration randomly, as does El Nino (Fedorov 2000, 1998). The cycle is often paraphrased as ENSO, standing for El Nino-Southern Oscillation

  • El Nino

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    El Nino We live on an incredibly large planet. Even broader than the size of the planet are the amount of changes and relationships between humans, animals, environment, weather, and the effects of each. Many times with busy schedules and modern lifestyles we forget the interaction that goes on between any number of concepts or ideas. We fail to realize that a specific weather occurrence in the Pacific Ocean can have an effect on every day life in the United States. El Nino is one of the largest

  • Winter and Sunny Weather Systems

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    world, weather seems to be a very important aspect for our everyday lives. For instance; sunny weather can bring on a very harmonious and beautiful atmosphere, while cloudy and rainy weather can bring about tragedy. In 1998; the earth experienced an El Nino which brought on fierce weather, flooding, and hurricanes. Weather systems are very broad and detailed, so please; sit back and enjoy as I attempt to tackle the subject of weather systems. Throughout my essay, I will be using the scientific methodology

  • The Tragedy of Global Warming

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    Global warming causes many different health issues to the human body. With the temperature’s rising, the risk of cancer is increasing. According to the U.S. National Cancer Institute between 1975 and 1991 skin cancer increased by 812 percent. “El Nino made1998 the warmest year ever recorded”(Bell 129). The warm temperature resulted in the worldwide outbreak of mosquitoes. With the warm temperatures mosquitoes were infected with different diseases such as malaria, dengue fever, yellow fever, rift

  • A Brief Biography of Giorgio Armani

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    found a job. He found a job at La Rinascente, a well-known department store in Milan. Here he was designing windows and giving the photographer a hand with any help he needed. He worked there for a while before he was hired as a designer assistant for Nino Cerruti’s. His friend Sergio Galeotti convinced him to work for other companies as well. He would help make designs for free just so he could be known. After a while he began to make his work more and more independent until one day he partnered up

  • El Nino

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    El Nino This morning, before writing this essay, I spent a considerable amount of time watering my wilting garden. Meanwhile, the New York Yankees have been rained out for their third consecutive game. And out in California? Rain, no rain, rain, no rain... Why are we suffering such severe weather this summer? In case you have not heard, we are experiencing a weather phenomenon called El Nino. What is El Nino, and How Long Will This Last? According to Michael McPhaden, director of the Tropical

  • The Nature of Droughts in Australia

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    The Geographical Processes Involved The Geographical Processes Involved Causes El Nino El Nino is one of the main causes of droughts. An El Nino changes the relationships between the wind, ocean currents and atmospheric temperatures, which causes global impacts to weather conditions. Across the Pacific there Areas being affected by El Nino. is a mass of warm water that is driven towards Australia. This warm water leads heavy rainfall to the north of Australia

  • Late Victorian Holocausts Summary

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    Victorian Holocausts, Davis explores the conjuncture of El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) episodes with the social

  • Ecuador’s Economy: Oil and Agriculture, Overdependence

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    http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0107479, vie we d on 8 December 2004. “Foreign Trade,” Ecuador Exports, http://www.ecuadorexports.com/foreign.htm, vie we d on 8 December 2004. “ Ecuador Country Case Study: Impacts and Responses to the 1997-98 El Niño Event,”Institute for the Study of Society and Environment, http://www.esig.ucar.edu/un/ecuador.html, vie we d on 2 November 2004.

  • 2013/2014 Queensland Australia Drought

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    area just to the north of Australia and the central Pacific Ocean.” (Study Guide 23). It is also linked to El Nino and La Nina. “El Nino is a complex interaction between air and sea in tropical Pacific. “(Robert, 2013). El Nino means little boy in Spanish and also means unusually high atmospheric pressure and sinking air through Northern Australian w... ... middle of paper ... ...the El Nino air pressure. The drought also has many impacts on economic, social and environmental. Manage drought comes

  • Similarities Between The Godfather And Gangs Of New York

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    were praised as Modern day classics. In this essay I will ompare and contrast the scores of the film by two different composers from two different eras. Nino Rota, the master film composer that scored the music for The Godfather was borin in Milan Italia, 1911. He was born to a musician’s family and was trained as a musician from young age. Nino was active as a classical composer and was fascinated by film music from 1940 and met Federico Felini, who is now remembered as one of the most successful

  • Analysis Of Nino Rota's Sonata In D (2016)

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    Sonata in D (2016) This piece was originally composed by the talented Italian composer, Nino Rota around the 20th century. Rota was a well-renowned music composer and an enthusiast of the viola. He dedicated most of his compositions to his fellow music composers. Notably, Rota composed the second Sonata to Piero Farulli. This particular piece contained three different movements under C major: Allegretto scorrevole, Andante quasi Adagio, and Allegro scorrevole. In the “A Little Bit of this, a Little

  • Critical Analysis Of Nino Rota's Sonata In D

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    Sonata in D This piece originally composed by the talented Italian composer, Nino Rota around the 20th century. Rota was a well-renowned music composer and an enthusiast of Viola. He dedicated most of his compositions to his fellow music composers. Notably, Rota composed the second Sonata to Piero Farulli. This particular piece of the composition contained three different movements under the C major. The movements were such as Allegretto scorrevole, Andante quasi Adagio, and Allegro scorrevole.

  • Danny Elfman Research Paper Outline

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    musical influences come from the first time he became aware of film music. The score to the 1951 film “The Day the Earth Stood Still” composed by Bernard Herrmann. Elfman’s other films such as “Peewee’s big Adventure” were influenced greatly by Nino Rota. Because of his background in Rock n Roll the scores for the films “Chicago” and “To Die For” prove that he still has an ear for what good rock music could and should sound like. Along with his illustrious movie career, he is also very well known

  • Federico Fellini's Rome

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    “Maybe then reality is something we hate so much that we try to change it with every possibile excuse? Reality? There are only images of it, after all. Man probably uses images in order to fix reality in an acceptable shape, to make it less dangerous and more familiar. It’s a psychic process against which we can do nothing. […]We are enclosed, shuttered within this mystery, which we call the psyche, beyond which we are not permitted to make any suppositions, any affirmations about our existence