The Well-tempered Prelude and Fugue Part 1 in G minor BWV 861 J.S. Bach (1680-1750) Johann Sebastian Bach was a great composer and performer‚ born in Eisenach Thuringia Germany. Future musicians praised him as ‘father of music’; throughout his life he had composed countless beautiful pieces‚ including the Brandenburg concertos‚ the Mass in B minor‚ The Well-Tempered Clavier (Book 1 & Book 2) etc. The Well-Tempered Clavier is considered to have a set of the Prelude and Fugue for each piece. They
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Eliot Ness was born in Chicago‚ Illinois‚ April 19‚ 1903. Ness stands as the man most often recognized for destroying the multimillion-dollar breweries operated by Al Capone. Also responsible‚ in part‚ for Capone’s arrest and conviction of tax evasion‚ Ness was instrumental in seizing the power Capone had over the city of Chicago. Ness was also responsible for turning around Cleveland‚ Ohio‚ in the mid-1930s‚ when the city was overcome with crime and corruption. When he was 18 years old he went
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of the opening texture; however there is a short monophonic passage in the coda. This particular piece is nicknamed ‘raindrop’ because of the repeated quavers that are heard throughout. It comes from a collection of preludes known as Op. 28‚ composed in 1839. There are 24 preludes in the collection‚ one in each of the major and minor keys. It was composed during the Romantic period (1825-1900)‚ when composers began to convey emotions‚ tell stories and paint pictures through the music‚ in contrast
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unit of verse‚ to introduce Vers Libre‚ symbolism‚ and other new forms of writing’ (Childs‚ 2008‚ pg. 3). In the composition of Prufrock TS Eliot utilized a form of symbolism ostensibly very similar to that outlined by the Imagist movement in the Imagists Manifesto (Imagists‚ 1915‚ pg. 269). Instead of simply telling the reader Prufrock’s emotions‚ Eliot relied on the ‘objects’ within the poem to convey Prufrock’s thoughts and feelings. The most vivid example of imagist inspired symbolism within
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The changing conditions of the early 20th century had a clear and profound impact on T.S Eliot as his works convey a definitive Modernist ideas and literary techniques. With the breakout of World War I‚ evoked a sense that the great human civilisation was destroying itself. This belief was further compounded with the Second Industrial Revolution‚ which introduced innovative science‚ and revealed newly discovered advancements in the economical‚ political‚ cultural and most importantly the religious
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information?" T.S. Eliot (T.S. Eliot Quotes.) TS Eliot was not only a poet‚ but a poet that wanted to change his world. He was writing in the hopes that it would give his society a reality check that would encourage them to change themselves and make their lives more worthwhile. Through his themes of alienation‚ isolation‚ and giving an example of a decaying society‚ TS Eliot wanted to change his society. Alienation is a common theme that consistently runs throughout TS Eliot’s poetry. Eliot knew how alienation
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and critic T.S. Eliot‚ and certainly with his first major work‚ "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock ". Eliot wrote the poem‚ after all‚ years before Andre Breton and his compatriots began defining and practicing "surrealism" proper. Andre Breton published his first "Manifesto of Surrealism" in 1924‚ seven years after Eliot’s publication of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock". It was this manifesto which defined the movement in philosophical and psychological terms. Moreover‚ Eliot would later show
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William Wordsworth (1770-1850) completed two main versions of his autobiographical epic poem The Prelude‚ the original version in 1805‚ and a revised version which was published in 1850. The 1805 version is the one usually studied‚ and usually considered the better of the two‚ being more melodic and spontaneous than the more laboured version of 1850. In this essay I shall be discussing the 1805 version‚ with one or two references to differences in the 1850 version. Book Vl‚ entitled‚ ’Cambridge
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T.S. Eliot is a modernist. He believes that your mind makes things real to you; the way that we think about the world creates the world. Ronald Barthes is a postmodernist. His writings reflect his beliefs that language changes consciousness and then the world. There are obviously many differences between Eliot’s text‚ "Tradition and the Individual Talent‚" and Barthes’ text‚ "The Death of the Author." They are two different authors from different time periods of literature who developed different
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This poem’s title‚ Gerontion‚ is Greek for “little old man”. This title ties in with the poem’s theme of an old man pondering about life and death. Eliot continues his use of dryness; in this poem he uses it to represent hopelessness and purposelessness. However‚ the pervading theme of this poem is death‚ afterlife‚ and Christianity. Lines that particularly reflect these themes are lines 17-20‚ “Signs are taken for wonders. ‘We would see a sign!’/The word within a word‚ unable to speak a word
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