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American Ballet Theater opened its season at the Metropolitan Opera House on Monday night with a traditional mix of preview excerpts as well as a one-act work.
Here are two excerpts, as well a slideshow of the French Quarter coming up for air..
Furthermore, there were significant differences in these variables when comparing across excerpts as well (Fig. 4).
Important excerpts as well as paraphrased statements from the report appear in this commentary; however, the general observations and comments are our own.
The melodies are from well-known childrens and folk tunes, and excerpts from well-known classical music compositions.
Its saving grace is the "Shades" excerpt, now well known for its single file of 32 women in white tutus and white veils repeating arabesques and back arches as they descend a ramp.
This is a slickly choreographed musical comedy act in which the musicians, clad in black T-shirts and black slacks combine excerpts from well-known classical works by Dvorak, Vivaldi and Bach with arrangements for string quartet of pop hits by the likes of Britney Spears, Pink, Rihanna, Lady Gaga and Kesha.
To examine differences between felt and perceived emotions, participants were also asked to rate the valence (1 = sad, 10 = happy) and arousal (1 = not at all aroused, 2 = highly aroused) they felt in response to the musical excerpt, as well as the valence and arousal they believed the composer was intending to convey.
Stimulus preparation included cutting and adding ramps (500 ms) at the beginning and end of each excerpt, as well as adjustment of loudness to the average sound level (−13.7 dB) over all stimuli.
