Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The story of the Harlequinade revolves around a comic incident in the lives of its five main characters: Harlequin, who loves Columbine; Columbine's greedy and foolish father Pantaloon (evolved from the character Pantalone), who tries to separate the lovers in league with the mischievous Clown; and the servant, Pierrot, usually involving ...
Cultural references to Pierrot have been made since the inception of the character in the 17th century. His character in contemporary popular culture — in poetry, fiction, and the visual arts, as well as works for the stage, screen, and concert hall — is that of the sad clown, often pining for love of Columbine, who usually breaks his heart and leaves him for Harlequin.
The first act of Les Millions d'Arlequin includes a scene called La Sérénade where the character Columbine appears on the balcony of her house and is serenaded from the street by the character Harlequin and his friends. The music became a popular excerpt in its own right and would go on to become a staple of Edwardian Era salon music/light music.
Pierrot (/ ˈ p ɪər oʊ / PEER-oh, US also / ˈ p iː ə r oʊ, ˌ p iː ə ˈ r oʊ / PEE-ə-roh, PEE-ə-ROH; French: ⓘ), a stock character of pantomime and commedia dell'arte, has his origins in the late 17th-century Italian troupe of players performing in Paris and known as the Comédie-Italienne.
Columbine (Italian: Colombina; French: Colombine; [2] lit. ' little dove ' ) is a stock character in the commedia dell'arte . [ 3 ] She is Harlequin 's mistress, [ 3 ] a comic servant playing the tricky slave type, and wife of Pierrot .
A music video game, also commonly known as a music game, is a video game where the gameplay is meaningfully and often almost entirely oriented around the player's interactions with a musical score or individual songs.
With "Vox," it was a film about post-Columbine, post-9/11 America and how America has metabolized that. And this film is about the 1950s, which is an era that the conservative agenda in this ...
This is a list of video game soundtracks that multiple publications, such as video game journalism and music journalism publications, have considered to be among the best of all time. The game soundtracks listed here are included on at least three separate "best/greatest of all time" lists from different publications (inclusive of all time ...