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    The Cycle of 24 Preludes and Fugues. Modern Interpretations in the Russian Music GABRIELA VLAHOPOL Musicology Department University of Arts “George Enescu” from Iaşi 7-9 Horia Street‚ Iaşi‚ 700126 ROMANIA gabriela­­_vlahopol@yahoo.com Abstract: Although the pair prelude-fugue is naturally associated with Bach ’s Well-tempered clavier‚ modern treatments applied to fugues and to other forms belonging to the Baroque were relatively common in the 1920s and the 1930s. The waning interest for the imitative

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    Abstract: | In recent seasons‚ two popular Showtime series have introduced enterprising and transgressive heroines. On Weeds‚ Nancy (Mary-Louise Parker) is a white suburban mom turned drug dealer; her supplier is an inner-city African-American woman. The hardened Heylia (Tonye Patano) doles out advice with Nancy’s weekly purchase‚ helping her evade arrest and (literally) dodge bullets. Heylia’s troubled world contrasts with the upscale family life that Nancy struggles to preserve. However‚ their

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    Mozart

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    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born January 27‚ 1756 as the seventh child of a musical family. Mozart’s mother and father’s names were Anna Maria and Leopold. Leopold was a musician with ambition while Anna Maria has a good sense of humor to balance him out. They had seven children‚ but only 2 lived beyond infancy (Wolfgang and his older sister Maria Anna). He was born in Salzburg‚ or modern day Austria. Mozart’s father was a successful violinist and renowned composer of the

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    submitted to Highlights or Cricket magazine. I was collecting rejection slips at age seven!" High school was spent in Miami ’s various "gifted and talented" performing arts programs. She studied opera in college and was a really loud‚ high pitched soprano. She later went on to study law at law school. It was the latter experience which probably helped her with her first novel. Breathing Underwater deals with the serious and all-too-common problem of dating violence. Alex based the book on her experiences

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    Verdi Requiem

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    All but one of Guiseppe Verdi’s masterworks are operas. This poses a problem for those of us who aren’t opera buffs. Fortunately‚ though‚ that one exception is his stunning Requiem‚ into which he poured the same vibrant emotion that thrills opera fans‚ but without the trite plots‚ simplistic characters and dull narrative stretches that tend to alienate others. Indeed‚ more than a few critics have hailed the Requiem as Verdi’s finest opera. Verdi’s inspiration was neither religious‚ egotistical

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    Chicken nuggets are great

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    I extremely love chicken‚ and you should also. I also believe john cena is the greatest wrestler of all time homophony (/hɵˈmɒfəni/; Greek: ὁμόφωνος‚ homóphōnos‚ from ὁμός‚ homós‚ "same" and φωνή‚ phōnē‚ "sound‚ tone") is a texture in which two or more parts move together in harmony‚ the relationship between them creating chords. This is distinct from polyphony‚ in which parts move with rhythmic independence‚ and monophony‚ in which all parts (if there are multiple parts) move in parallel rhythm

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    City Opera History

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    Rudel‚ Ms. Sills held the position of lead soprano in the opera company for the 22 years Mr. Rudel was in charge‚ and became the general director upon his retirement. By former board members‚ Ms. Sills’ tenure is often looked back as on as the golden years of management for City Opera; Robert Wilson

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    Glaucon the son of Ariston and the brother of Plato was an ancient Athenian who was known for writing about justice and injustice in Plato’s Republic. Glaucon in Republic tells the story of the ring of Gyge’s ancestor. His story starts out with a shepherd who is really morally good. The just man is given a ring that can make him invisible. A little bit like the Lord of the Rings. Once he has this ring the man can act unjustly with no fear of punishment. The shepherd uses the ring to seduce the

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    Synthesis Using Two Sources Which one do you think is better; what we see on our television screens or what we see on our computer screens? In Steven Johnson’s‚ “Watching TV Makes You Smarter‚” and Nicholas Carr’s‚ “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” both authors highlight the ways media have changed the way we learn in the world today; Johnson argues that television is having a positive effect on society and‚ in fact‚ is making us smarter‚ while Carr contends that media‚ especially

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    Rhetorical Devices that use figurative language Rhetorical devices are techniques that writers use to persuade‚ create a literary effect‚ or evoke an emotional response from the reader. Whenever you describe something by comparing it with something else‚ you are using figurative language‚ which is any language that goes beyond the literal meaning of words in order to furnish new effects or fresh insights into an idea or a subject (e.g. Whenever you call something “cool‚” you’re not talking

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