After attending the concert‚ the piece of work I would like to talk in most detail about was "Overture to the Magic Flute" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791). Mozart was a child prodigy‚ was able to play the piano at 4 and composing his own music at 5. As Professor Chapman stated‚ "When he was older‚ he could just write music while talking to friends without testing it. He was able to hear the piece entirely in his head." The piece being focused on was an opera he composed‚ and not just any
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Major Themes in the Plays of Rabindra Nath Tagore: A Critical Study” Mrs. Neetu Rastogi M.A.‚ M.Phil.B.Ed Department of English‚ H.L.Y.P.G. College‚ Lucknow. The purpose of the present project is a conscientious Endeavour to explore‚ evaluate and establish the greatness of Tagore’s genius in the literary world that has long been a subject of interrogation and negligence. Tagore made major contribution in the realm of English novel‚ poetry‚ drama‚ music‚ painting‚ poetics and philosophy. His
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Andrew J. Knight 3 December 2012 The Modern Native American Flute The modern Native American Flute produces beautiful and haunting melodies‚ often replicating the sounds of nature. It is similar in sound and purpose to its ancestors‚ such as the traditional Anasazi and Kokopelli flutes‚ but different in design and construction. With a unique sound production mechanism‚ this style of flute in fact is different from all other wind instruments the world over (Goss). Due to this uniqueness‚ they
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HISTORY ASSINGMENT “The Bamboo Flute” Will Groves BOOK REVIEW “The Bamboo Flute” is a book set in late 1920 and early 1930 Australia when times were hard and the economy was very bad. People had lost their jobs and had no money to buy necessities. It is about a young boy‚ Paul‚ who has to help a lot on the farm he lives on with his mother and father. He goes to school 5 miles away and takes him an hour to walk to school each day. Each day he falls asleep in class because he is so tired from
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The first piece written by Lowell Liebermann‚ Sonata for Flute and Harp‚ Op. 56 was a vibrant piece music dealing mostly with chromaticism at its center. The harp slowly and gradually moves in a crescendo with an almost synonymous sound to a suspense movie. The flute on the other hand‚ acts as the amplifying instrument that amplifies the tension created by the harp. Similarly‚ David Kechley’s piece‚ Available Light: Midwinter Musings for Flute and Harp possesses almost the same characteristics as Liebermann’s
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ARE YOU STILL PLAYING YOUR FLUTE? Are you still playing your flute? When there is hardly time for our love I am feeling guilty To be longing for your song The melody concealed in the slim hollow of the bamboo Uncovered by the breath of an artist Composed by his fingers Blown by the wind To the depth of my heart. Are you still playing your flute? In the village so quiet and deserted Amidst the sick rice fields While here it has become a luxury To spend time watching the rain Gazing
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instrument like mine would be the flute because it has two open ends like mine does. The physics behind a flute is that it can either be an open or closed end pipe and it depends on what kind of flute you get. With the harmonics the lower holes are in the flute to shorten the air column to raise the fundamental frequency of the open air column. To make an higher note you can force the air column to sound its second harmonic‚ up an octave from the fundamental.In a flute decreasing the slit-to-edge distance
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Book Review of Gabrielle Roy’s The Tin Flute The Tin Flute. Volume 1. By Gabrielle Roy. Translated by Philip Stratford. Toronto: McClelland and Steward Ltd. 1945. ISBN: 978-0-7710-9388-3. Pp. 400. $21.95 Gabrielle Roy’s 1945 book of fiction titled The Tin Flute follows the lives of the impoverished Lacasse family living in the Saint-Henri district of Montreal during World War II. The novel tells the separate struggles of Rose-Anna and her eldest daughter Florentine Lacasse to survive the poverty
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Rabindranath Tagore Selected short stories Profit and Loss This narrative briefly describes the short‚ sorrowful life of Nirupama. The name signifies ‘peerless one’ and was given to her by her parents‚ who were gratified with a daughter after having had five sons. Being treasured‚ her father searched long and hard to find a groom he deemed suitable enough for her. He engaged Nirupama to the son of a “grand” Raybahadur who asked for a dowry of 10‚000 rupees. Even though he had no way of paying
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“Don’t limit a child to your own learning‚ for she was born in another time”. Right now I can recall some of father’s stories which always begin with “In our time this was the case…..” and ending with “……but today it is so different”. We are ourselves have witnessed this change the cell phone boom‚ the dot com boom‚ we have lived through it all. The world around us is on a constant move and nothing remains the same for a large amount of time one can never be sure that what exists today may exist
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