music appreciation

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Music Appreciation
Queen of the Night from Mozart’s Magic Flute
The music ‘Queen of the Night from Mozart’s Magic Flute’ is one of my favorite music based on the progression of the tune. The music obtains several features found on the use of extremes, some rhetorical reinforcement, and changes in the sequence and finally its duration. Also, the music entails some additional features such as the use of metaphors that makes it obtain much impact on the listeners. Typically, these unique features are what have made this piece of music to seem impressive. The use of the various musical styles by Mozart has been quite helpful to describe the characters in the song.
The Queen of the Night from Mozart’s Magic Flute portrays characterization of actors through music. For instance, ‘Folksy bird catcher Papageno,’ a role, played by Schikaneder and his beloved one Papagena, are given modest, sort of a folk-like melody (Mozart 1). He has focused on using music as a way of reinforcing the personalities of individuals, a strategy that has been quite helpful in influencing the modern audiences. The music also entails specific features such as the melody featuring a high note of F6, which dashes up to higher demand (Koenigsberger 235).
The presence of the high-low vocal changes in the music has made the melody to be quite challenging for the Sopranos in the whole world, as to date no one has been able to strike it initially. Also, the music features within an ideal period of about three and a half minutes, which is following the specifications of a standard musical performance.

Finally, the rough spots identified in the music create some form of beauty to the melody that presents a sort of metaphor based on its storyline (Koenigsberger 229).

Works Cited
Koenigsberger, Dorothy. “A New Metaphor For Mozart’s Magic Flute”. European Studies Review, vol 5, no. 3, 1975, pp. 229-275. SAGE Publications.
Mozart, W.A. The Magic Flute Queen of the Night. Schikaneder Theatre, 1791.