... The first form of the clarinet was available in western Europe in the 17th century in various pitches and was commonly called chalumeau. "The word chalumeau is of French origin and is a generic name for any small reed-blown pipe.(Rice30)- The clarinet is a woodwind instrument consisting of a cylindrical wood, metal, or ebonite pipe with a bell-shaped opening at one end and ... nearest opening. The farther the air travels before exiting, the deeper and lower the note will be. To produce a wide variety of notes, the clarinet has many keys and holes. Pressing different combinations of keys...

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... and legato melody. The song is played moderato and reminds me of a very long back choral. This church hymn was played very nicely and the high notes were in tune. The Spirit of Our Land written by Frank Bencriscutto was the Concert band's fourth song. The trumpets play the main melody very legato largo ... instruments that depict an image of native Americans beating drums around a fire. The rest of the band comes in playing mezzo piano and allegro. The notes are marcatto and build suspense to the end of the song. This was one of my favorite songs of the concert. The symphonic band's first...

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... Insight 202). Most of the young soldiers were angry that they were coaxed into war before experiencing life to their fullest. In the novel, Paul notes that teachers and parents persuaded he and other young men to enlist in the war effort. It also angered Paul that he did not have anything ... war transformed him when he said that the soldiers had turned "...into thugs, into murderers, into God know owhat devils..." (Insight 302). Lastly, the French girls remark is true in that the soldiers lost touch with their friends and families. The soldiers very rarely saw their families, but when th...

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... the century and took charge of St. Paul's Girls" School, writing music in his spare time. He even wrote the St. Paul's Suite for Strings for the school orchestra. Later, he became interested in music and wrote a suite (group) of seven pieces based on each of the planets ... for an orchestra of over a hundred players. Each piece had the name of a planet and a subtitle too. Each movement displayed the characteristics assigned to ... . Mars- the bringer of war started with the bass oboe and six horns each making low sounds portraying war. The low notes made the overall sound seem menacing ...

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... words, a treasonous liar. The second sinner is a man who more often than not, tells lies and is deceitful. The Porter notes that the man has "committed treason enough for God's sake." This is a representation of Macbeth, who is deceitful towards his king and his friend. The final sinner is an ... ! Who's there in the other devil's name? Faith, here's an equivocator that could swear in both the scales against either scale, who committed treason enough for God's sake, yet could not equivocate to heaven. O, come in equivocator" (I.3. 7-I.3.11). This sinner is admitted to hell because he was ...

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... takes place in Duke Orsino's court, Olivia's house, Olivia's garden, and to a much lesser extent on a street and beach of Illyria. This allows for the production to have fairly elaborate scenery, because the set changes are simple and far enough apart to accommodate the minor adjustments that transform Olivia's house into ... the play. Feste is shown to be not just a comic relief figure, like Sir Andrew; he is perceptive when others are not, as Viola notes after the encounter. The conversation is so spirited, because Feste and Viola actually have a good deal in common; both are paid serv...

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... now. It consists entirely of vocal melodies without harmony. During the Middle Ages, nonreligious music was mostly learned by ear and not by script for the composers and performers of music were mostly illiterate minstrels. Minstrels made their living by chanting long poems about heroic deeds, such as "Song ... the troubadours of southern France who flourished from about 1100 to 1300. Many of them were of noble birth, so their music were designed for the ears of upper class people. Troubadours often wrote both the words and music to their songs. Another type of music called part music .....

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... riding vamp signals the beginning of "Work Song", but after one or two repetitions, it is suddenly and forcefully undercut by two jarring bass notes (listening to the score, it sounds like it's a sharp and a natural right next to one another), thus establishing – even out of ... when it splits into four or five contrapuntal sections with the extended phrase "one day moooooore", which is set on two individual notes. Reprises play an important dramatic function in both their sung and underscored forms. In the Act 1 prologue after his encounter with the bishop of ... law and justifies hi...

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... sweet assuring scent of fresh scones and muffins. I see the shop! Momentarily, my heart stops. Unable to contain myself, I let out a little "Yippee!" I reach for the door to heaven, and as I pull it open I"m hit with a burst of hot air entangled with the luscious scents of espresso and warm bakery delights. I ... wait my turn. I listen to the pops and whirls of the espresso machine as it steeps the coffee and froths the milk. The drip of the French percolator is only moments away. Everyone else has his or her fix. I need mine too! The sounds become increasingly menacing as my caffeine d...

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... ENGLISH ACCENT THAT IS BETTER THAN ALL OTHERS, but there is a type of English favored by actors, TV and radio announcers (American Tongues)." The woman who provides the voice for directory assistance notes that she uses a "generic homogenized speech." If there were a standard English accent, this generic homogenized sound that seems accent-less would be the standard. Video's definition of a dialect: ... - little kid Schlep - carry (New York) Foreign languages have left their mark in different parts of the country (e.g., German influences Pennsylvania Dutch, African languages influence ...

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... For example, I moved from France to begin my college career in not just a new city or state or region, but a new country, on a new continent, twelve thousand kilometers from high school. I did this to begin a new life here in San Diego. And wow I have come a long way from my days of French ... ) between the high school and college levels. Not only does the academic difficulty change, but also the scheduling structure is more relaxed; it provides for more freedom and flexibility. In high school, each day students proceed directly from one class to another. By contrast, in college, students...

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... which are now collected by museums and individuals. Bill Gates paid thirty million dollars for the Codex Leicester. After the French invasion in 1499, the duke of Milan fell from power and Leonardo had to find a new employer. For the next 16 years he did not have a definite employer and seemed to ... use of the uncle's land and money. From 1513 to 1516, he worked in Rome, maintaining a workshop and undertaking a variety of projects for the Pope. He continued his studies of human anatomy and physiology, but the Pope forbade him from dissecting cadavers, which truly cramped his style. .....

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... T car, the $5 work day, the first transatlantic flight, and the prohibition amendment. In urbanism and commercialism, America finally made a name for itself. Calvin Coolidge even declared that "America's business is business". The decade is also seen as a period of rising intolerance and isolationism. History ... what morals?". As liberated as America may be now; it wasn't always that way. According to George Jean Nathan, in his article Clinical Notes, sex morals became less and less existent during the 20's. "It is unquestionably true" he writes, "that the war inspired sexual nonchalanc...

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... felt as if I was transformed to the time of King Louis the 14th and was attending a royal ball at the Palace of Versailles. A time before the French Revolution when there was absolute royalty. I felt as if I was in the Baroque period of opulence and excess. I could envision the dancers in line parading ... only imagine what it would have been like to have lived during the Baroque period and attend a Royal Ball. This piece of music is a trigger for the imagination to travel to the Palace of Versailles and experience a Royal Ball. Many of us imagine what it would be like to have been ... l...

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... go" adversaries to the droves of unchartered pondlife now existing under the floorboards, they fed on millflour carried by the breeze, and it was not uncommon for a curious pigeon to sneak a currant from the kitchen. In came a quintet of primp filigree poodles, plucked and curled, twisted and spoilt after rude ... cosmetology and unwilling ribonry. Lazy Daisy style French knotting now took place of what was once real hair, as yapping rats tap danced their way to the top. In she came! "spinning!" added ... of the dizzying state one can fall akin to when crossing the fields Now when it c...

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... America and the struggles that went on so that Europeans could gain control of the "New Land." The book is broken into three main sections; Bases for Invasion, 1565-1684,Colonies and Tribes, 1687-1748, and finally Empires, Colonies, and Tribes, 1784-1765. In the course of my essay I will ... go through and discuss the strengths and weaknesses in each section. I will talk about the use of maps, illustrations and the references notes that are used through out the text. Ian K. Steele has the main objective in this book of creating a new image of how America was "created." ... promised safe...

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... church that was left to them in the will's of many devout Lord's and soldiers. "For all temporal lands which men devout By testament have given to the church Would they strip from us - The Archbishop of Canterbury notes the changes in King Henry, as he has given up the unruly ways of his youth ... in health Shall drop their blood in approbation Of what your reverence shall incite us to do."" Another example of this is when he makes the French ambassador think that the declaration of war is only in response to the Dauphin's insulting gift of tennis balls. But in fact he had already decided...

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... thirty each morning. On one specific morning, Mr. Nilson feels an uncomfortable sensation "just under his fifth rib" (73), and proceeds to exit out his French window in his black frock coat and descend the "scrolled iron steps into the fresh air" (73). As he reaches the bottom of the staircase and ... enters the public garden, he notes that his "feeling of emptiness" (73), as he describes it, essentially has not diminished but in fact had increased in the morning air. As he enters ... as he, too, stares at the quince. Mr. Nilson then becomes "unaccountably upset" and returns to his dinin...

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... blooded, fanatical, and self-righteous. And yet to others he is "The Incorruptible," a dedicated patriot and democrat. Robespierre was or was not a great influence for France. Robespierre is referred to as a democrat, prophet, and a puritan, by J.M. Thompson. In his book, Robespierre, Thompson stressed the idea that Robespierre sincerely ... believed that people were good and held wisdom. He believed in all that he did. Thompson emphasized that as long as the French Revolution is thought of as the birth of ideas that positively influenced the nineteenth century, Robespierre will hold str...

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... 48 by Gabriel Faure. Gabriel Urbain Faure, a modern French composer, organist, and teacher, was born in Pamiers, France on May 12, 1845. His early life was filled with music, as he was educated at the Ecole Niedermeyer, an establishment designed primarily for the training of church musicians. Once he left school, ... died in Paris in 1924. Faure began to be recognized as a composer during his years as a church organist. Some of his works include the Ballade for Piano and Orchestra (1881), the suite Pelléas et Mélisande, the song cycles La bonne chanson (1891-92) and L'horizon chimé ....

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... came through Bonn, Germany and heard Beethoven play and made an offer to teach him if he would come to Vienna. Even though the French Revolution was going on during this time, Haydn kept his word to Beethoven and gave him lessons. With the first couple of months it ... Beethoven's composition notebooks that " he would return time and time again to some simple little melodies, change the notes, modify rhythms, and eventually produce on of the striking themes that are part of his famous symphonies (Samachson 109)." Beethoven's symphonies are known ... five piano concertos, a violin conce...

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... came through Bonn, Germany and heard Beethoven play and made an offer to teach him if he would come to Vienna. Even though the French Revolution was going on during this time, Haydn kept his word to Beethoven and gave him lessons. With the first couple of months it ... Beethoven's composition notebooks that " he would return time and time again to some simple little melodies, change the notes, modify rhythms, and eventually produce on of the striking themes that are part of his famous symphonies (Samachson 109)." Beethoven's symphonies are known ... five piano concertos, a violin conce...

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... movement started using tools to bang on pots and pans to create music. It was not in any way popular, but these guys contributed the base for "Electronic Music". Electronic Music is basically making noises into music not by instruments, but rather through alternative sources. The Dada Movement didn't use electricity to ... Et Voile La, the first Electronic Piano or E-piano came out in 1958. People were surprised to see a piano that uses electricity to play out notes. In the 60's the first proper analogue synth came out from a company by Robert Moog called the Mini-moog. Now thanks to the ...

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... , who had employed Luks, Glackens, and other members of the Eight. He studied with Robert Henri from 1910 to 1913, made covers and drawings for the social realist periodical The Masses, which was associated with the Ash-can School, and exhibited watercolors in the Armory Show, which made an overwhelming impact ... considered to be the outstanding American artist to work in a cubism idiom. He made witty and original use of it and created a distinctive American style, for however abstract his works became he always claimed that every image he used had its source in observed reality. Davis o...

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... constant motion, lack of cadences, highly ornamented, terraced dynamics, and opposition of forces. The pieces of music by Caccini demonstrate the Baroque characteristics well. For example, her first published work, "I1 primo libro delle musiche,"" was a collection of short vocal works written with basso continuo. A harpsichord, an ... talented work proved that in the seventeenth century, women were composing music as well as men. Some even believe their music was better for the simple fact that not only were they talented composers, but they had to overcome many obstacles that men of this...

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