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Rite Of Spring Major Part
1,791 wordsAn introduction to 'The Rite of Spring', The part I of the Rite of Spring starts with an " introduction ." The texture at the very beginning is extremely thin, and the only instrument in use is the bassoon, in an unusually high tessitura. The bassoon is soon joined by the Horn, and later, a pair of clarinets. This little wind ensemble creates an eerie feeling, and the fact that tempo rubato is employed makes the whole start very unstable, as if the 'grand work' has just had a bad kick-off. Howev...
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Island Of Fire Gray Dragon Horn
328 wordsOnce upon a time in a far away land there lived a beautiful princess named Jade and an evil man by the name of Tyro. One island away there was also a young prince who was called Jerohn. He was to be wed to the princess in spring. Evil Tyro had a plan to keep them from Two months before they were to be wed tyro put an evil spell on the princess, she would be in eternal sleep forever. Unless the prince brought Tyro four dragon horns. The first would be the horn of the red dragon who lived on the i...
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Count Basie Bob Marley
1,580 wordsFor my week posing as professor for music history 10, I would like to discuss the meaning of and history leading up to the mid 90 s ska selection by Less Than Jake: Sugar in Your Gas Tank. Sugar in Your Gas Tank was released on Less Than Jakes 1996 album on Capitol records: Losing Streak. Although they had actually had many previous releases on independent labels, this was Less than Jakes first major label record. Previously only having an underground Indy following, being picked up by a major l...
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Million Years Ago Sea Levels
1,218 wordsLong before there were any people, millions of years ago, dinosaurs ruled the world. This was known as the Mesozoic Era, the "Age of Reptiles. " Three different periods made up the Age of Reptiles, Triassic, Jurassic, and the Cretaceous Period. Out of these three periods, it is my opinion that the Cretaceous was the most magnificent time of the dinosaurs. The divide of the supercontinent Pangaea into separate continents was underway. The disjointing of Laurasia and Gondwana was concluded. In the...
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Iv V D Major
904 wordsThe second symphony written by composer Jean Sibelius { 1865 - 1957 } is one of the best examples in classical music of advanced compositional techniques such as melodic variation, tonal transitions, imitation, and suspension. Written in basic four-movement form (Allegretto, Tempo Andante / ma rubato, Vivacissimo, and Finale), Symphony # 2 provides the listener with a fluidity of motion, which constantly engages the ear. The first movement in Sibelius Symphony # 2 is written in the key of D majo...
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Camp In Hopes Of Rallying Camp In Hopes Saladin
1,356 words... Joshua Power offers an excellent construction of the formation of the crusader army and its problems on the march: The mounted knights were preceded and probably flanked also by archers and crossbowmen, as well as by units of Turcoples, mounted archers who fought like the Saljuq or Turkish contingents. The heavy cavalry were the weakest point of the army when faced with Muslim troops far more mobile than their own. The enemy's mounted archers could shoot from well outside the range of Crusad...
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Found In Canada Whitetail Deer Fawns
674 wordsThe whitetail deer, or scientifically known as Odocoileus virginians, is one of the most known animals in America. They are found just about everywhere in the United States and can also be found in Canada, Mexico, and Central America. Because they are found all over, deer hunting has become a major sport and in the U. S. People hunt them for food and also for the challenge of getting the "big buck. " Whitetails usually grow to three and a half foot tall and weigh 50 to 400 pounds depending on wh...
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Roman Catholic Church York Doubleday
1,159 words... is that it was to wear out the saints of the Most High. Now what does it mean to wear out the saints? One can take this to mean the little horn would persecute the saints. I have to admit this is a characteristic that Antiochus Epiphanes filled, but not to the extent of the Roman Catholic Church. The Roman Catholic Church has acknowledged the killing of 2000 Protestants within 50 years in the Netherlands and admits the death of perhaps 3000 to 4000 French Huguenots in the massacre of Saint B...
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Difficult To Understand Piece Of Art
2,391 wordsSpirituality in Art Art becomes a spiritual process depending upon the degree of commitment that you bring to it. Every experience becomes direct food for your art. Then your art teaches you about life. Nick Bantock People do hundreds and thousands of things every day: get up, get dressed, wash up, have breakfast, get on a bus to get to college, write abstracts and essays, communicate with other people and hardly ever realize that any item of their usual daily program can become an art if they p...
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Bull Fighting Left Hand
870 wordsThe Bull Fighting BULL FIGHTING The immediate reaction of many non-Spanish people to bull fighting is that it is sick, animal killing, unmoral entertainment. To many others around the world, though, bull fighting is a sport which involves courage, skill, and power, in a struggle between man and beast. This purpose of this paper is not to discuss the moralities of bullfighting though, it is to give some information on a sport which is loved by many throughout the world. A bull fight, or corrida d...
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Thomas Edison Recording Industry
3,198 wordsThe Phonograph Overview The invention of the phonograph and other sound reproduction machines began a new way of producing historical archives. Expressions of the human voice were no longer limited to their abstraction as words on the page, and the artistry and passion of a musical performance could be preserved outside human memory. People could bring the sounds of the world into their homes, and a global culture began to arise out of the mixture of influences that a broad diversity of recordin...
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Pony Express Back East Mail
534 wordsPeople in California wanted mail. The telegraph line was not connected that far west in 1860, and trains did not pass the Missouri river. It took almost took a month to get a letter by ship or stage coach. Thats why the Pony Express was started. In the mid 1800 s gold was discovered in California. Thousands of people hitched their wagons and headed west for the chance of striking it rich. The state of California grew from about 20, 000 to 500, 000 people in 5 years. They wanted the conveniences ...
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Social And Moral Nuclear Proliferation
1,214 wordsPolitical, Social And Moral Messages In The Political, Social And Moral Messages In The Works Of Dr. Seuss Theodore Seuss Geisel, better known to generations of readers all over the world as Dr. Seuss, is the American author of many popular children s books. Dr. Seuss deft combination of easy words, swift rhymes and batty nonsense (Horn 69) has convinced many children that reading does not have to be a boring chore, but instead can be fun and entertaining. Amidst these wacky drawings of zany cha...
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