literature stretching from Josquin to Bach without a thorough grasp of one of the more important classes of text-influence: namely‚ word painting. The variety of ways in which words may influence music can be formed into a surprisingly symmetrical array (Figure 1). Figure 1. Classification of Text Influences vol24id199 In this classification‚ word painting represents only an option of one of the eight primary surface effects (rhythmic‚ phonetic‚ formal‚ rhetorical‚ dramatic‚ lyrical
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with his classmates at the Killing Dragons Knight School‚ until a professor‚ in order to instill self-confidence in the Knight‚ convinces him that he can kill dragons with the best of them if he uses the magic word. And so he does until he meets his fifty-first dragon and forgets the magic word‚ and loses his self-confidence crutch provided by a word.Settings: The first setting is in a knight school where Gawaine is taught how to be a knight. It also takes place in the forest where he beheads all the
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What if everyone was 100% responsible? Take one minute to think about what if everyone took responsibility for what they say‚ and for what they do? If people were honesty‚ ethical and treated people fairly‚ and the world would be a more pleasant place to live. Therefore‚ when we take responsibility for our actions‚ we could end bullying‚ discrimination and all discord in the world. Wow‚ World peace‚ can you image that? Personal responsibility for me means to be 100% responsible for my
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WHAT’S NEW IN A MICROSOFT WORD Everyday task made fast and easy. Instead of checking the spelling in your entire documents at once let Word flag your spelling mistakes as you type with Spell it. You can make corrections at your leisure by viewing pop-up list suggested changes. Speed text editing by having Word automatically fix capitalization errors and common misspelling using the improve AutoCorrect feature. AutoCorrect learns your personal preferences for capitalization and spelling as you
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Belisa Crepusculario is literally a self-made woman: she chose her own name and makes a living selling words. (She travels around selling everything from verses from memory to simple stories to secret words. Everyone knows and respects her.) Her fame‚ however‚ is a result of her fortitude: as a youth‚ hunger‚ heat‚ and exhaustion of centuries ate at her and killed four siblings; she decided to trick death by dragging herself to the sea’s water. Belisa accidently discovers writing when a newspaper
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If you could define the word artifice‚ how would you define it ? The word Artifice would mean to me like cruel or evil. It is important because the reader needs to find what Hedges’ is trying to argue with. Chris Hedge may be misusing the word artifice‚ and it doesn’t necessarily make sense on what his argument is trying to say. When Hedges’ argument says “ The most essential skill… is artifice.” Which part of the paragraph do you think is the artifice part. What make sense or adds up to what Hedges’
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suicide attacks. They would drive their planes straight on into carriers and battle ships of the allied forces. These men were known as the Kamikaze pilots. Most people ask‚ why? There were many different stories behind the word Kamikaze. The real meaning of this word is “divine wind.” Your probably thinking how did they get so many men to give their lives away like this. Well‚ they ordered them to volunteer. The people in charge were not just looking for any men‚ they were looking for men who
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The Past Is Myself My Great Uncle Squadron Commander Christoper Draper‚ DSC Croix de guerre‚ was an English flying ace of World War I. His penchant for flying under bridges earned him the nickname "the Mad Major." After the war he became a film star through his work both as a stunt pilot and as an actor. During the 1930s he worked for a time as a British secret agent‚ serving as a double agent to Nazi Germany. He returned to the Navy in World War II. During his flying career he logged over 17
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Looking into Words An Analysis of the dialogues in The Picture of Dorian Gray [Preface] As we often see in fictions‚ dialogues play a significant role in characterizing heroes. Apart from speaking for the characters in novels‚ Oscar Wilde used dialogues to speak for himself. This is especially the case in The Picture of Dorian Gray in which he ‘hires’ three characters to represent his ideals‚ present situation and the conflict between them. The following passage will mainly focus on the strategic
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Word Stress and Sentence Stress Normally when we say "I feel stressed" it means "I feel anxious". Stress is a kind of worried feeling about life or work. But there is another kind of stress that actually helps us understand. This other kind of stress is an accent that we make on certain syllables and words when speaking English. When words combine to form sentences not all of them are stressed. Sentence stress is the music of spoken English. Sentence stress is what gives English its rhythm or
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