Sounds and Imagery of Human Emotion In Marge Piercy’s “The Secretary Chant”‚ the author uses images and sound to both dehumanize and mechanize the female speaker‚ while John Updike uses imagery and sounds to make the “Player Piano” come to life. Piercy uses images of the speaker‚ connected with various office equipment to give a vision to the reader of a woman living her life through the office equipment that is part of her very being. Piercy uses personification in reverse and other metaphors
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Listening Journal - Understanding Music Hildegard of Bingen: Alleluia‚ O virga mediatrix This song is a chant from the middle ages. It is in the Latin language and is monophonic by nature. The medium is that of voice only. The lyrics are melismatic. The timbre is somber. This is a religious chant that was most likely performed by monks originally in church. Most people could not understand the lyrics that were being chanted since it was not the language they spoke. The church did not
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from 400-1475‚ music was in the form of what is called the Gregorian chant. Instruments were very rarely used at this time. Since songs during this period were either troubadour or trouvere these chants had no real harmony. One example of this type of medieval composition is "Viderunt Omnes" by Leoninus. Like most Gregorian chants the texture of this piece is monophonic and polyphonic. "Viderunt Omnes" is a typical Gregorian chant in that it uses diatonic‚ not chromatic notes of the scale. Musical
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The emotions overwhelmed Ralph for he could not bear but “wept for the end of innocence…” (p.225). William Golding’s fictional allegory novel ‘Lord of the Flies’ portrays the loss of innocence through several characters and symbols. Throughout the novel‚ it is clear that the loss of innocence is a vital theme as the reader watch the boys descend into savagery. As the boys spend more time on the island‚ their loss of innocence is illustrated through three main factors; the Beast‚ the feast & dances
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that businesses have responsibilities against the society they operate in have grown bigger‚ but there are still people and organisations who believe that gaining economic profit from their business are the only thing they have to be concerned about (Chant 2013). The purpose of this essay is to discuss and compare the different viewpoints of corporate social responsibility (hereafter referred to as CSR) and the key issue is to see why corporations and their management should be concerned with CSR. The
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Contrafactum-take a set melody and replace existing lyrics with new ones Gregorian chant- also known as : “Carolinian chant”‚ monophonic‚ limited melodic range‚ unmeasured rhythm‚ based on modes : Syllabic-one note per syllable Neumatic-2-6 notes per syllable Melismatic-many notes per syllable Strophic-same music for each line of changing text Liturgy- the text of the Mass‚ this text was used for Gregorian chants Ordinary Mass- 5 prayers that always represent the Mass; • Kyrie=Lord • Gloria=Glory
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beginning of this journey. Many miles traveled together‚ late night talks‚ sleepovers‚ being state roomies‚ and so much more. I love you all very much and appreciate all that you have done for me. Best of luck Fammy and Ashley at Miss Louisiana USA. My Jimmie and future hubby. God knew just what he was doing when he placed us in the same English class our sophomore year in college. Thank you for treating my like a queen and agreeing to walk this journey I love along side of me‚ love you past the moon and
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Poem “Felix Randal” is a sonnet with an Italian or Petrarchan rhyme scheme (abba‚ abba‚ ccd‚ ccd); although not published until 1918‚ it was written in 1880. The title character is known from extrinsic evidence to have been a thirty-one-year-old blacksmith named Felix Spencer‚ who died of pulmonary tuberculosis; Father Gerard Manley Hopkins‚ while a curate in a slum parish in Liverpool‚ visited him often‚ administered the last sacraments‚ and officiated at his funeral. Hence the poem is largely romantic
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Music in the Medieval Ages In the beginning of the Medieval Ages‚ a time of war and plague‚ music was rare. The only place music was played in the church in the form of a chant. Secular music was not popular‚ and there were instruments that had not been made yet. Musicians were mostly traveling performers who played in front of kings or other types of nobility. The development of music changed history. If the instruments of the past had been not invented yet‚ or the changes to the church were not
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Today’s modern instruments and traditions of music have evolved from as far back as the Middle Ages‚ 500 - 1400 A.D. Most of the music during the Medieval Times was religious due to the influence of the Catholic Church‚ such as the Gregorian Chant. However‚ some music was secular‚ mainly composed by French Troubadours and Trouveres‚ Minstrels‚ Jongleurs‚ and Waits. The instruments played by these musicians were mostly the harp and cittern but the one with the highest respect was the lute. Medieval
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