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**A) THE FILM/MOVIE**
 * __ //THE SOUND OF MUSIC// __**

**The Sound of Music is a beautiful musical which has got some parts to cry and other parts to laugh.**


The film was produced by Robert Wise and the actors of the play was Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. It´s a fantastic story in the mid of 1960s and the best musical created. The film is an adaptation of a book, “The story of the singers of the family Von Trapp”, published by Mary Von Trapp. The film was done in Salzwich and California, with diferent languages: french, spanish, german and italian.

The story is about a younger nun, his name is Mary and she is eighteen years old. She must go to the house of the captain Von Trapp for to be the nanny of her seven children. Mary loves children and she is in love with captain, which is going to marry with the baroness Schroeder. The story is during the Hitler´s goverment, in the Nazis´ time.

The family Von Trapp existed in the real life and in the film we can see the adventures of the family. In the real life, Mary married with the captain in 1927 and they live in Salzwich until 1938.

Mary Martin, a Broadway star, became the adventures of the family in a musical and with it, she did 1443 performances. In 1960, Hollywood saw the musical of "The Sound of Music" and became it in a film. With the transformation, the story was more popular in all the world.

The film of "The Sound of Music" won five oscars, one of them was for the best film of the year and the others for the director and the actors.



In the film, there are a lot of diferent songs, some of them they are very important: > =** B) THE MAIN CHARACTER: JULIE ANDREWS **=
 * DO, RE MI, FA, SOL - []
 * EDELWEISS - []
 * MY FAVOURITE THINGS - []
 * SOMETHING GOOD - []
 * I´M SIXTEEN GOING ON SEVENTEEN - []

__** BIOGRAPHY: **__
Julia Elizabeth Andrews was born on 1 October 1935 in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England. Her mother, Barbara Ward Wells (née Morris), was married to Edward Charles "Ted" Wells, a teacher of metalwork and woodwork, but Andrews was conceived as a result of an affair her mother had with a family friend. Andrews made her feature film debut in Mary Poppins (1964), for which she won t he Academy Award for Best Actress. She received her second Academy Award nomination for The Sound of Music (1965). Adjusted for inflation, these two films are the 25th and 3rd highest grossing films of all time, respectively. From 1964 to 1967, Andrews was the biggest film star in the world, with the additional box office successes of her films The Americanization of Emily, Hawaii, Torn Curtain, and Thoroughly Modern Millie. Andrews made her professional solo debut at the London Hippodrome singing the difficult aria "Je Suis Titania" from Mignon as part of a musical revue called "Starlight Roof" on 22 October 1947. She played the Hippodrome for one year. Andrews recalled "Starlight Roof" Andrews married set designer Tony Walton on 10 May 1959 in Weybridge,Surrey. They had first met in 1948 when Andrews was appearing at the London Casino in the show Humpty Dumpty. The couple file for a divorce on 14 November 1967. ==

Films: • **Mary poppins (1964)** : At the time of King Edward, an English family composed of a banker father, mother and two children rebels, who look for call the attention of his father making life impossible for all nurses, would be affected and when marry poppins who is a very special nanny comes Poppins, a from the clouds using his umbrella as a parachute. She will make that her songs like children.

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 * • The sound of music(1965)** : Mary is a beautiful young governess who always felt the dream to become a nun. But once in the convent she knew that sh

• **10 The Perfect Woman (1979)** : A famous who is forty years old, is a composer to ha ving entered the stage of andropause, decides to leave his girlfriend of the moment, leave everything, and rebel that finds his life empty and boring. When walking down the street, comes across eyes, with a young woman who is going to marry, which he stay in love. He won't mind that she is married ... he wants to look for that ...,. for he is your perfect woman! That plays are the most important of her life. But she does other how Victor or Victoria, Princess for surprise 1 and 2 and Tooth Fairy.

Maria Augusta was born in 1905. At seven, he orphaned and at 18 in 1923, graduated from public school. Having completed his studies, he became a nun in a convent in Salzburg. When the monastery was asked to be the gouverness of seven children of Captain Georg von Trapp, who had recently been widowed from his wife Agathe Whitehead. During his stay in the familyMaria left the convent and married with georg on 26 November 1927. The Trapp family made their home on a farm in Stowe, Vermont, in 1942, which created a permanent music camp. Georg von Trapp died of lung cancer on May 30, 1947.

= **C) THEN AND NOW: AUSTRIA & SALZBURGO** =

**//AUSTRIA://**
__//**HISTORY:**//__ in 1918, after the defeat in World War, the Republic of German Austria created but it had economic, social and policy crisis. In 1934 Engelbert Dollfuss established a conservative dictatorship that it couldn’t do because of Nazi Germany. In March of 1938 Hitler annexed Austria and he formed a Nazi government and divided the country in seven parts under the authority of the German Third Reich. After the defeat of the Nazis, the allied forces occupied Austria at the end of World War II until 1955 when it became independent. In 1995, Austria became a member of the European Union and in 1999 it adopted the European Monetary System. __//**GOVERNMENT & POLITICS:**//__ Austria is a federal and democratic republic governed by a constitution. The executive power is exercised by the President and the Council of Ministers. **//__POLITICAL SITUATION:__//** Austria has nine federal states. The Chief of State is the Federal President and The Chief of Government is the federal Chancellor. The legislative power is exercised by the parliament and is divided in two chambers: the Senate and the House. __//**EXTERNAL POLICY:**//__ Austria is maintained as neutrality participatory. __//**ECONOMY:**//__ Austria is one of the ten rich countries in the world. **//__LANGUAGE:__//** The German of Austria is the language most used.

//**SALZBURGO:**//

 * Salzburgo ** is the fourth city most populated in Austria with 150,269 residents in 2006. This country is divided in five regions. Its name derives from the boats that carrying salt in the eighth century and that they should pay a tax. Salzburgo is very known for be the natal country of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart who is one of the all geniuses of music history.

** ALS OR JUST MOVIES IN WHICH MUSIC PLAYS SOME SORT OF INTEGRAL PART: **
In my opinion the most important musicals in the history are: • Gene Kelly - I'm singing in the rain: Singing in the Rain is a musical of Hollywood, 1952. It takes its inspiration from the entire series of Broadway Melodies that were made in Hollywood in the 30 and 40, coinciding with the appearance of sound film. [] • Grease - Greased Lightning : Grease is a 1971 musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. The musical, set in 1959 at fictional Rydell High School, follows ten working-class teenagers as they navigate the complexities of love, cars, and drive-ins. The score attempts to recreate the sounds of early rock and roll. The show tackles such social issues as teenage pregnancy and gang violence; its themes include love, friendship, teenage rebellion, sexual exploration during adolescence. [] • Dancing Queen- Mamma mia: Mamma Mia is a musical written by Catherine Johnson based on the songs of Swedish group ABBA. The title of the music corresponds to one of the most successful themes of the musical, Mamma Mia, published in 1975. []