The Stony Brook Symphony Orchestra and Fady Deeb Saturday‚ October 6‚ 2012 Lontano by György Ligeti This piece has an eerie and dissonant aura throughout the piece‚ without having much musical resolve in its sounds. The entire orchestra was included in this piece‚ except for the percussion section. These polyphonic sounds of this piece were played extensively‚ reflecting no noticeable tempo or rhythm‚ therefore creating ambiguous sounds. However‚ the dynamic range was wide enough to create
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The phantom of the opera is a long lived novel written by Gaston Leroux in the early 1900’s with a French background. This classic work enjoys worldwide fame as a tragic love story containing amazing special effects on film and on stage as well as stunning music. Gaston Leroux wrote the horror novel "Le Fantome de l’Opera‚" published in 1911. Leroux had heard stories of ghosts haunting the Paris Opera House and decided to base a novel around these tales. He even boasted having researched the opera
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Not only is there much pressure to conform to mainstream society in order to be acce[ted and belong‚ but there is often pain associated with not belonging‚ Individuals who choose to remain true to themselves may find the relationshop between individuality and conformaty difficult. We are constantly “constructing‚ demolishing and redrawing boundaries in order to create new places of belonging”. Belonging to a group of people‚ opposed to ones Self Belonging are two different concepts. One defines conforming
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Beethoven’s use of Sonata form in his 1st Symphony Beethoven‚ in common with his predecessors Haydn and Mozart‚ uses the Sonata form in the first movement of his first symphony. This was Beethoven’s first attempt at the symphonic form having composed chamber music and two piano concertos. Beethoven made the sonata form more expressive through his use of dynamics and more extreme key relations. Beethoven started this piece with a slow introduction. It is not unknown
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reading or to back out over the threshold. The beginning of a novel or play as David Lodge‚ The Art of Fiction (London: Vintage‚ 2011‚ pg 5) exemplifies ‘is a threshold‚ separating the real world we inhabit from the world the novelist has imagined.’ Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis opens a climatic effect‚ as the reader is thrust upon the predicament of an overnight occurrence‚ unaware of any recognition of the protagonist’s transformation. The opening of Metamorphosis establishes an unconventional‚ activist
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The assassination of Franz Ferdinand was the single most significant event that plunged Europe into war. World War I‚ the war to end all wars involved most of the civilized world. The assassination of Franz Ferdinand in 1914 is regarded as the cause of World War I‚ but really‚ can a single event be blamed for causing a war of this magnitude? Preceding the assassination there was tension between Germany and France. Already Germany had in place a plan for the war and other countries were forming
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lived tensions and thus war ensues. Such was the case in WWI with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. There were many tensions that existed prior to his assassination‚ but it was his assassination which triggered the war‚ his assassination that served as an excuse‚ and perhaps the last straw‚ so to speak‚ which led to the First World War. The following paper examines the assassination of Franz Ferdinand and its relationship to the start of WWI. Under the rule at the time of the assassination
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not even reach to its boundaries” -Franz Kafka. In the book‚ The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka‚ the main character‚ Gregor‚ shares many similarities and some differences with the author. The similarities between Kafka and Gregor can be seen in their relationship with their father and in their feeling of alienation. A difference can be seen in their responsibilities. The aim of this paper is to examine some of the many similarities and few differences between Franz Kafka and Gregor Samsa. Through close
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isolation and alienation from society. In the short story “Metamorphosis”‚ Franz Kafka utilizes point of view and anthropomorphism to develop the theme of alienation. Throughout the novel‚ Mr. Kafka uses third person limited point of view to tell the story of Gregor Samsa’s life-changing transformation. This literary device gives the author the ability to display both the protagonist’s emotions and actions. For example‚ Franz Kafka writes about how Gregor stood in his “tall‚ empty room where he was
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parts to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand: the Archduke himself‚ his assassins‚ why they did it‚ and how they did it. All of these are equally important to the overall event‚ which in turn is important to‚ not only the world‚ but the United States as well. First up is the Archduke‚ one Franz Ferdinand. He was born on December 18‚ 1863‚ in Graz‚ Austria to Archduke Karl Ludwig. He was also the nephew of the Austro-Hungarian emperor of the time‚ Franz Joseph. The Archduke became the heir
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