He believed that while the surface phenomenon may vary, the underlying ordering principles are the same. Levi-Strauss believed that basic thinking occurs as sets of contrasts. All cultures think in to terms of opposites so as to classify-meaning we must be able to distinguish between things. For example, life, death; spirit, body; black, white; red, green (stop and go) ? these words alone do not carry much significance; they have a meaning and that's it ? basic facts...
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For example, life, death; spirit, body; black, white; red, green (stop and go) ? these words alone do not carry much significance; they have a meaning and that's it ? basic facts. We take the words as they are by use of external references from what society acknowledges to it to be. A pen is not an eraser because society has accepted it to be a pen...
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italian opera vs. french opera As was mentioned before, the opera is a combination of all the arts. This meant that the musical composers had to revise their respective scripts in order to give the audience a spectacular show...	3 / 742
Italian & French Opera France, on the other hand, did not see its first opera until 1662, and even then it failed to interest the court. This was for political reasons. At the time anti-Italian forces within the court undermined the introduction of Italian opera into its country...	2 / 512
Italian Opera The arias in these bel canto operas are usually split into three different sections, the: cantabile, cabaletta, and tempo di mezzo. The aria starts off with the cantabile, expressing some kind of calm mood, then is stopped by the tempo di mezzo, usually another character or chorus interrupts to change the mood of the performer...	4 / 852
monteverdi In his sixth, seventh, and eighth books of madrigals 1614-38 he moved away from the Renaissance ideal of equal-voiced polyphony toward the newer styles emphasizing melody, bass line, and harmonic support as well as personal, or dramatic, declamation...	2 / 358