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    Pitch Notation In Western music notation‚ we name musical tones using the first seven letters of the alphabet: A‚ B‚ C‚ D‚ E‚ F‚ G. This musical alphabet repeats endlessly. We “count” up or down in the series by reciting its letters forward or backward. To count up beyond G‚ start over with A. What is pitch? A pitch is a tone sounding in a particular octave. What is 8 above C? The answer is another C. In this seven-name system‚ each letter name reappears every eighth position. Tones eight

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    The argument that Kate Chopin makes within this story is that women during this particular time period did not have many of the rights women have today. In fact‚ this story is set during 1894 where it was very common to see women married living in the shadows of their husbands. Women did not even receive the right to vote until the year of 1920. Louise Mallard is the main character‚ she is a white middle class women married to Brently Mallard. When Louise first receives the news of the recent death

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    singing‚ smooth style melody. Pedal marks are given to ensure the cantabile legato melodic line. The main tune is characterised by a falling motif which gives the effect of falling raindrops. It was common to represent sadness‚ melancholy and grief. Chopin fills in an initial leap by the stepwise ascent up to G flat then a stepwise back down to D flat to complete the phrase. In section B there is a chorale like melody with regular (periodic) phrases. The melody is in the right hand/treble part in section

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    The Awakening Critical Analysis The Awakening‚ by Kate Chopin‚ was published in 1899 and explored the life of a young married woman named Edna Pontellier. Throughout the novel‚ Edna attempts to discover her true self and her place in the world by becoming economically independent from her husband and seeking extramarital relationships with young‚ attractive men. There are multiple opinions about the impact of her awakening and the meaning behind Edna Pontellier’s suicide. Chopin’s goals in the

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    Kate Chopin was able to amaze her readers‚ as well as paralyze their emotions. In Kate Chopin’s story “Story of An Hour” she was able to take you through sadness‚ relief‚ surprise. The main character Mrs.Mallard who was presumed to be a loving housewife was told her loving husband was kill in a tragic train accident. Through this news‚ Mrs.Mallard begins to feel abandoned‚ fearful. As she further digested the news of her husband death Mrs. Mallard also began to feel independent‚ free and happy. Her

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    In this short story‚ written by Kate Chopin‚ symbolism appears in the use of an open window. A symbol that is interpreted as Louise’s view to a world of freedom upon the news of her husband’s death. Chopin states that outside this open window‚ sights of “new spring life” were in sight. The use of this symbol assists Chopin in showing how looking through the death of her husband‚ opened her up to the idea of “body and soul” being released of possession. It’s as if the open window was a portal to a

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    6th‚ 2014 English “A” Class Essay on “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin Marriage in “The Story of an Hour” Women in the 19th century had felt the oppression of marriage for centuries‚ and they had had enough of it. They began to rebel against it and to think differently of it. We can analyze this if we read the literature being published at the time. Great novels and authors such as Flaubert‚ Tolstoy‚ Austen and Chopin begin to question its authority and its use. Women are able to go

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    Kate Chopin was born in St. Louis on February 8‚ 1851 and died on August 22‚ 1904. During her lifetime she kept a diary which she wrote in. One of Kate Chopin’s entries in her diary was a short story called The Storm. In the short story The Storm there are four main characters‚ these characters are Calixta whom is married to Bobinot‚ Bibi which is the son to Calixta and Bobinot‚ and Alcee who is married to Clarisse who is away on vacation during the short story. The short story is about two of the

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    What ’s Hidden in Kate Chopin ’s "The Storm"? Kate Chopin ’s the storm is about a woman named Calixta who rekindles a lost romance with a former lover in the midst of a storm. This story centers on lost love and being stuck in relationships that are unwanted. There is a lot of hidden meaning in the story‚ told well behind the characters and their surroundings‚ and it also has a strong plot‚ and a lot of symbolism. The plot of a woman and a man rekindling a lost romance in the midst of a storm

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    A major point in Kate Chopin’s “The Storm” is the representation of weather that is taking place throughout most of the story. This storm is the reason that Calixta’s husband and son cannot return home from the store and causes her to run into her former lover Alcée Laballire. A storm is typically something that can be frightening‚ builds in intensity‚ and invokes chaos momentarily in the outside world. As Bobint points out in the story‚ the storm created “sombre clouds that were rolling with sinister

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