Garren Orr MLA Format 10/16/12 MU 202-02 - History of Music: American Professor King Stephen Foster: America’s First Professional Songwriter “Although Foster’s melodies are very familiar‚ amazingly little is known about the composer.”[i] This quote from Tomaschewski is an appropriate summarization of Stephen Foster’s legacy. Famous songs such as “Oh! Susanna”‚ “Camptown Races”‚ “My Old Kentucky Home”‚ “Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair”‚ and “Beautiful Dreamer” are quintessentially
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1794 in an English dialect called Scots for publication in collections of traditional Scottish ballads. This love poem was exceedingly put together as four-line stanzas. The writer‚ Robert Burns was born on January 25‚ 1759‚ in Alloway‚ Scotland. His father‚ William Burns‚ was a farmer who seemed to have horribly bad business sense. His mother had a great store of tradition songs and ballads. Robert got very little education‚ since he so often had to help with the heavy work of farming
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colonies with his brother‚ Lewis‚ as their manager. They established a theater in Williamsburg‚ Virginia and opened with The Merchant of Venice and The Anatomist. The company moved to New York in the summer of 1753 and performed ballad-operas such as The Beggar’s Opera and ballad-farces like Damon and Phillida. By the 1840s‚ P.T. Barnum was operating an entertainment complex in lower Manhattan (Musical theatre). After the Civil War‚ theater in New York moved from Downtown to Midtown Manhattan where real
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Role in Wordsworth ’s Poetry by J.E. Remy In 1798‚ William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge anonymously published a collection of poetry quite influential to development of the Romantic Movement in European poetry. The collection‚ Lyrical Ballads‚ with a Few Other Poems‚ had an advertisement suggesting the poems “be considered as experiments” determining “how far the language of conversation in the middle and lower classes of society is adapted to the purposes of poetic pleasure” (Abrams 55)
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LINES WRITTEN A FEW MILES ABOVE TINTERN ABBEY William Wordsworth CONTEXT (AO1) Written in July of 1798 and published as the last poem of Lyrical Ballads. At the age of twenty-three (in August of 1793)‚ Wordsworth had visited the desolate abbey alone. In 1798 he returned to the same place with his beloved sister‚ Dorothy Wordsworth‚ who was a year younger. Dorothy is referred to as "Friend" throughout the poem. (whom he addresses warmly in the final paragraph as "thou my dearest Friend‚
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beliefs of the ancient Greeks could be considered pagan) you first see Beowulf and his men arrive in a warship dressed in full armor. And after revealing his motives to the watch guard he and his men are lead to the mead hall. Here and throughout the ballad there are tales of old‚ creatures cursed and plagued‚ people who lost their land to invaders‚ and other stories of honor and valor.
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in emotions for “the veteran sailors know the battle is over‚ and they have won”. The sailors have battled through and they rejoice in happiness. The poem Storm at Sea is structured quite significantly‚ Amar Qamar wrote the poem in form of a ballad. Ballads typically tell stories; this is a story symbolizing a way of life. Throughout the poem several ellipses are used to add suspense to the poem‚ by shortened sentences. Within each stanza there is a change in events. At the start of the poem lots
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The concept of love is always interpreted in many different ways such as love‚ hate‚ passion‚ and lust. Between the three novelas The Fox‚ Ballad of the Sad Cafe and Pale Horse Pale Rider there is always a conflict with love‚ from homosexuality to jealousy there’s always one individual that has an issue with who’s loving who. In The Fox‚ the image of love is portrayed many different times. In the beginning of the novela two of the main characters‚ March and Jill‚ are in love with each other. However
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story changed to fit modern times. Mulan used to show how women should act but the altered Disney version shows that women are as just as good as men. Robin hood has been changed from being a thief to showing how he can be a revolutionary leader. The Ballad of Mulan has inspired many Chinese women to defy traditional gender roles. In the last five years the traditional Chinese poem has been published in various versions of children’s books. In that time frame the story has changed a little. In the movie
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CHAPTER ONE THE POETIC ART OF NARRATION 1.1 A Historical Perspective Narrative‚ as a generally conceived term‚ is the type of literary composition which recounts a single event‚ a tale‚ or a story constituting a series of events usually told in chronological order. However‚ in some types of narrative works‚ the focus is on the nature of the plot itself regardless of the criterion of ordering the events according to a preconceived plan based on chronological structure (Abrams and Harpham
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