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    pastor wanted simple arrangements whereas Bach had a more complex style. After a year‚ Bach had won the post of organist at the court of the Duke Wilhelm Ernst. It was during this time he wrote one of his most popular pieces for an organ‚ “Toccata and Fugue in D Minor.” In 1717‚ Bach had accepted a position with Prince Leopold but Duke Wilhelm Ernst had no interest in releasing Bach. In fact he was imprisoned for several weeks when he tried to leave. Bach was allowed to go to Cöthen in early December

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    throughout time but is the manifestation of isolation due to an individual’s inability to maintain mental stability. Though written in different periods of T.S. Eliot’s life the poems ’The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock’‚ ’Portrait of a Lady’ and ’Preludes’ uses a variety of poetic devices to portray these thematic concerns. Through the portrayal of his numerous protagonists Eliot explores the effects of exclusion and its tendency for the individual to feel self pity. In the poem‚ The Love Song of

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    Alexander Scriabin

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    Chopin. He began to compose music such as etudes‚ preludes‚ nocturnes‚ and mazurkas in the manner of Chopin including nocturne-like accompaniment‚ embellished right-hand writing‚ and so on. Especially‚ Scriabin’s prelude op.11 conforms to the same key scheme of Chopin’s preludes op.28. ★ It cycles through all of the M and m keys. The odd numbered preludes are in Major key and each is followed by a prelude in relative minor key‚ then the paired preludes proceed through the circle of fifth. In his

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    Swing Data Binding Karsten Lentzsch www.JGoodies.com Presentation Goals Understand MVC and Swing models. Learn how to bind domain objects to Swing UI components. :: JGOODIES :: Java User Interface Design Speaker Qualifications       Karsten builds elegant Swing apps works with Objects since 1990 helps others with UI and architectures provides libraries that complement Swing provides examples for Swing architectures writes about Java desktop issues :: JGOODIES :: Java User Interface

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    Katherine Mansfield

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    Mansfield remained in Europe‚ leading a Bohemian‚ unconventional way of life. The Domestic Picturesque Mansfield’s short story “Prelude” is set in New Zealand and dramatizes the disjunctures of colonial life through an account of the Burnell family’s move from Wellington to a country village. The story takes its title from Wordsworth’s seminal poem‚ “The Prelude‚” the first version of which was completed in 1805‚ which casts the poet as a traveler and chronicles the “growth of a poet’s mind.”[4]

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    Gwen Harwood Essay

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    Gwen Harwood’s poetry is very powerful for its ability to question the social conventions of its time‚ positioning the reader to see things in new ways. During the 1960’s‚ a wave of feminism swept across Australian society‚ challenging the dominant patriarchal ideologies of the time. Gwen Harwood’s poems ‘Burning Sappho’ and ‘Suburban Sonnet’ are two texts that challenge the dominant image of the happy‚ gentle‚ but ultimately subservient housewife. Instead‚ ‘Burning Sappho’ is powerful in constructing

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    Chopin's Raindrop

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    Frédéric Chopin’s "Raindrop" Prelude‚ Op 28‚ No. 15 Song Analysis/Essay Intro Frédéric Chopin was a Polish music composer born in 1810 most famous for his solo piano pieces being what he mostly wrote music before. This is because Chopin was a romantic era composer‚ the romantic era lasting from 1825 to 1910‚ and within the romantic era the piano (pianoforte) had been fully developed and was enlarged to give it a wider range and more tonal power. Being fully developed the Piano was new and improved

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    6 Concepts of Music

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    6 Concepts of Music Duration Aspects: * Beat * Underlying pulse in music * Rhythm * Patterns of long and short sounds and silences found in music * Tempo * The speed of the beat. Music may be relatively fast or slow and may become faster or slower * Meter * the grouping of the beats * Beats can be grouped in any combination including 2‚3‚4‚5‚6‚7 etc. * Regular and irregular meters * Metric groupings * Tempo * Rhythmic devices such

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    Claude Debussy

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    much disliked the term ‘impressionism’ and believed that he was simply trying to do “something different”. The piece Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune is based on a poem of a similar name‚ and is also known as a ‘tone poem’ – It tells the story of a faun in a dreamy like state who has encounters with several nymphs. There are many different impressionistic aspects of Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune‚ including Debussy’s creative use of melody. Rather than the development of many motifs‚

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    Vocal Phrasing After the prelude of Holiday’s version ended‚ the music moves from distant to close‚ and her magnetic voice penetrates the rhythm to start telling the story. Her twisted voice presents every word with a murmuring volume but clear enough to catch. The special articulation

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