ABSTRACT
This part introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters. The part looks at different art forms to open up safe crossings. Artists produce images, which tell stories and are vehicles of identity, representation and truth. Art is a kind of shorthand which endeavours to portray everything about a scene, or people, in one single image. Music appears to be an essential ingredient to most people's lives. Music has been written at times of distress, emotion and celebration. It can accompany events, so making them more significant and more memorable. Music often expresses feelings and releases emotions in situations where words are inadequate. Opera is a sung story, in which music is the vehicle for carrying the dialogue and expressing an outpouring of the human experience and feeling, in dramatic and exciting circumstances.
