Annmarie Idowu Homework project # 6 11/18/19 Prof: Rebecca Coale

Felix Mendelssohn is that he wrote his Overture to A Midsummer

1) An interested fact about Felix Mendelssohn is that he wrote his Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the age of 17. It was brilliantly written for a Shakespeare play. The music sounded like it was played for the royals The closing they was in B minor. There was different them which include the donkey and lovers thyme.

2) The overture amplifies romantic music, the slow melody captivating sound of the flute at he the beginning was lover thyme that made me close my eyes. The whole orchestra playing together this fast tempo , which signifies two lovers giggling and dancing rumba, tango or even waltz at a fast past.

3) The excerpt relates to the specific passage in a romantic way whereby the fairies used magic to control the characters while falling in love and celebrating this romance. The unbounded feelings, the nature of love and the romance was expressed by Shakespeare so vividly, to every sentence came passion. However there was the obsession and possession of love which made the character powerful