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- 24241: The Classical Period
- The Classical Period Getting it's name from art history, the classic period in music extends from 1740 to 1810 and includes the music of Haydn, Mozart, the first period of Beethoven, and Bach's sons. The classical period of music coordinated harmony, melody, rhythm, and orchestration more effectively then earlier periods of music. During the classical era the social function of music began to change from earlier aristocratic and ... form of a large orchestral ensemble. The symphonic pieces generally had three movements, the sonata, the minuet, and the finale. Building of the achievements of earlier composers, Haydn, and Mozart brought the symphony to it's peak in the last 20 years of the 18th century. Haydn excelled in rhythmic drive and development of theme-based music. Mozart also added to the symphony by contrasting memorable lyric themes in very ...
- 24242: The Masque Of The Red Death By
- Edgar Allen Poe's “The Masque of the Red Death” is an elaborate allegory that combines objects in the story with visual descriptions to give focus to the reader's imagination. In the story, a prince named Prospero tries to dodge the Red Death through isolation and seclusion. He hides behind impenetrable walls of his castellated abbey and lets the world take care of its ... in heavy folds upon a carpet of the same material and hue." This dark manner in which the castle was decorated conforms to the image of the Prince being a ruthless, uncaring ruler. Prince Prospero’s actions proved to be cowardly, as he and his selection of knights, dames, and nobles, retreated into his castle. He thought that in doing this, he would in some way, escape the wrath of ...
- 24243: An Equal Opportunity
- ... Two such people who expressed this belief in the earlier courses of our history are Daniel Defoe and Mary Wollstonecraft. They both published similar works that discussed the role of education in a young woman’s life, how dependence on yourself is more important than relying on others, and how marriage sometimes characterizes one’s status. What you are taught often defines who you are as an individual. Women during the 18th-century were customarily viewed as objects. They were given only the skills essential to making them more pleasing ... of life. He concludes that by studying history, learning how to read and write, and having knowledge of other cultures is vital to molding a well rounded woman. Wollstonecraft views are also similar to Defoe’s. She believes that because women lack much of the education men receive, they have a tendency to become the stereotypical female of that period. If given a chance at an actual education they will ...
- 24244: Romantic Music: The Ideals of Instrumental Music
- ... of Mozart, Haydn, and Bach! The diffused scenic effects in the music of such composers as Mendelssohn and Schumann seem pale when compared to the feverish, and detailed drama that constitutes the story of Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique (1830). Because his imagination always seemed to run in parallel literary and musical channels, Berlioz once subtitled his work "Episode in the life of an artist", and provided a program for it which ... sense alone." The principle formal departure in the symphony is the recurrence of the opening theme of the first Allegro, the idee fixe. This, according to the program, is the obsessive image of the hero's beloved, that recurs in the other movements. To mention another example: in the coda of the Adagio there is a passage for solo English horn and four Tympani intended to suggest "distant thunder". The foremost ... of the work. Les Preludes, the only one that is still played much today, is well designed, melodious, and efficiently scored. However, its idiom causes it to be rhetorical in a sense. It forces today's listeners to here lavishly excessive emotion on ideas that do not seem sufficiently important for such a display of feeling. Liszt's two symphonies were as programmatic as his symphonic poems. His masterpiece, the ...
- 24245: Diamonds
- ... very valuable. Their beauty and brilliance make them perfect for jewelry. Diamond is made up of carbon. Another form of pure carbon is graphite. Graphite is the stable form of carbon, found at the earth’s surface. Despite the fact that they have identical chemical composition, the two minerals are drastically different. Diamond is the hardest known substance and is usually light colored and transparent, while graphite is greasy, easily powdered ... a stone. All of these systems are based on placing the stone into a relative category, which range from “flawless” to “imperfect.” The cut of the stone also plays a big role in the stone’s appearance and is thus one of the determining factors in the value of the diamond. Facets are placed on the stone so as to maximize its brilliance. For example, placing facets on the crown of ... the stone. A diamond that weighs 0.2g is said to be one carat. The greater the carat weight of the stone, the greater its value. Diamonds are mined all over the world. The world’s oldest major source of diamonds is India. For centuries, it has supplied stones to all parts of the globe. (Arem, p.34) Gradually, new places for mining were discovered. Today, there are diamond mines ...
- 24246: Mental Illness
- The name The name of my book is Mental Illness by Gilda Berger. Mental illness is a disorder characterized by disturbances in a person’s thoughts, emotions, or behavior. The term mental illness can refer to a wide variety of disorders, ranging from those that cause mild distress to those that severely impair a person’s ability to function. Today, mental illness is considered to range from such ideas as eating disorders to personality disorders. Mental illnesses have been reported as far back as to 4000-5000 years ago. The reason ... in the brain begins to slow down, but simply that other diseases cause older people more problems in everyday life than thought before. Senility can be preceded by many other disorders including arteriosclerosis, strokes, Alzheimer’s disease, and severe cases of depression. Common substance-related disorders include alcoholism and drug abuse. In addition to the effect already given by the abused drug, drug abuse can contribute to symptoms of other ...
- 24247: Louis XIV
- ... power from 1661 until 1715. His legacy is somewhat unusual. Some historians believe that Louis' wars and heavy taxation policies led eventually to the outbreak of the French Revolution. He repeatedly tried to move France's eastern boundary to the Rhine river. Two hundred and fifty years after Louis XIV, a leader would emerge in Germany who would claim all that he was trying to do was to reverse the outcome of the wars fought between Louis XIV's France and the Germans. Louis' father was Louis XIII and his mother was Anne of Austria. There is some dispute as to who actually fathered Louis XIV because his father was mentally unstable and did ... was watching him. His father died on May 14, 1643, when Louis was four and one-half years old. The regent who ruled France during the youth of Louis was Cardinal Mazarin from Italy. Mazarin's policies were clever, complex and successful. Mazarin played a major role in bringing about the Peace of Westphalia in 1648. Mazarin basically wanted to end the conflict among the Catholic powers of Europe, and ...
- 24248: Brown Vs Edu
- ... of public life in states with large black populations. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, decided on May 17, 1954, was one of the most important cases in the history of the U.S. Supreme Court. Linda Brown had been denied admission to an elementary school in Topeka because she was black. Brought together under the Brown designation were companion cases from South Carolina, Virginia, and Delaware, all of which involved the same basic question: Does the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment prohibit racial segregation in the public schools? It was not until the late 1940's that the Court began to insist on equality of treatment, but it did not squarely face the constitutionality of the "separate but equal" doctrine until it decided the Brown case. In a brief, unanimous opinion ... unlikely to be undone." Although the decision did not bring about total integration of blacks in the schools, it resulted in efforts by many school systems to remove the imbalance by busing students. The Court's decision had far reaching effects, influencing civil rights legislation and the civil rights movement of the 1960's.
- 24249: Progressivism
- ... then of course vote for the corrupt official for senate. After a while the senate begun to look like a club for the rich man. In 1913 the seventeenth amendment required all that all U.S senators be elected by the popular vote. By calling for Initiative, referendum, and recall the Progressives allowed by initiative to take part in the process of having a legislature pass a bill, to allow voters ... their ballots by way of referendum, and finally recall which allowed voters to remove an unsatisfactory politician from office by majority vote before the end of his or her term. Such people as New York’s Charles Evans Hughes, California’s Hiram Johnson, and Wisconsin’s Robert La Follete put the initiative, referendum, and recall to use so that they could win back their government for the people from the big businesses, and corrupt bosses. ...
- 24250: Music And The Civil War
- ... the Staunton Musical Association, presented "Splendid vocal and instrumental entertainment," during which "the large audience in attendance were highly gratified with the entertainment."1 The popularity of the events is further indicated through the paper's assurances that the public "will be ever ready to favor the performers with the presence when called upon."1 Other social events in Augusta County that were widely popular were the "fine concerts by Turner's Silver Concert Band."2 The newspaper reports that the popularity of "these concerts have always heretofore drawn crowded houses.2" In the style of other articles, the paper comments that the "merit of the music ... 6 The papers in Stuanton supported many of the events; they advertised the events beforehand and afterwards wrote articles about them afterwards to encourage participation, as they were "a most worthwhile cause."6 Franklin County's arts events also turned into fundraisers in 1863 and 1864. In December 1863 the number of benefit concerts increased. The Franklin newspapers report of two concerts held in the county. One "a concert of ...
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