POEM : On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again O golden-tongued Romance with serene lute! Fair plumed Syren! Queen of far away! Leave melodizing on this wintry day‚ Shut up thine olden pages‚ and be mute: Adieu! for once again the fierce dispute‚ Betwixt damnation and impassion’d clay Must I burn through; once more humbly assay The bitter-sweet of this Shakespearian fruit. Chief Poet! and ye clouds of Albion‚ Begetters of our deep eternal theme‚ When through the old oak forest I am
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ed. New York‚ NY: Worth‚ 1998. 169. Jurkowitz‚ Mark. "The Media; More Women in J-School Doesn ’t Translate to Jobs" The Boston Globe 27 Aug. 2003: C1. LexisNexis Academic. Michigan State University Library‚ East Lansing‚ MI. 13 April 2005 . Lutes‚ Jean Marie. "Sob Sisterhood Revisited." American Literary History 15.3 (Fall 2003). 12 April 2005 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/american_literary_history /v01 5/15.3lutes.html. "Need for more women ’s representation in media stressed" The Pakistan
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culture of other regions‚ both sides learn from the musics of each other. The increased importance of the Silk Road in Tang Dynasty led more instruments of foreign cultures to enter China. In particular‚ this essay focuses on the transmission of spiked lutes and horsehair bowing from Central and Inner Asia to China‚ eventually leading to the formation of the erhu. The present-day erhu is a two-stringed bowed stringed instrument. It is played seated‚ with the spike extending upwards and played horizontally
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two keyboard instruments called the clavichord and virginal. In addition‚ many existing instruments were enhanced. The lute became the favored instrument of the time period‚ and it was established as the standard instrument for family music making during the 16th century. Masses and motets were the primary forms for sacred vocal polyphony. These were accompanied by the lute or a small instrumental ensemble or consort. Secular vocal forms included motets‚ madrigals and songs‚ while instrumental
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skin stretched over a gourd or hollow body with gut strings stretched from this drum to the attached stick neck. These strings could be strummed like a banjo‚ plucked like a harp or even bowed. [pic] The musician on the left is playing a spike lute of the Jola in Senegal called an ekonting which has 3 strings and a gourd body. These early gourd instruments from Africa were most likely a result of innovation from individual instrument makers. Their designs remained a secret within their
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These minstrels were essentially a group of men that based their lives and income off of arts of music and poetry‚ and sang poems to accompany a harp‚ lute or another instrument. A minstrel was originally a servant and then would later be employed as an entertainer that traveled and provided music around all of Europe. After some time a minstrel was able to climb up the ranks and then provide music for
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Story of the Gambus and its Evolution Yap Yuan Li Ben U0921231H AAI481 - Studies in Malay Music Nanyang Technological University The Story of the Gambus and its Evolution Introduction The gambus is an omnipresent and most commonly found lute instrument in the various styles of Malay folk music. It is usually made from wood and is formed almost like a guitar but with 9 to 12 wire strings compared to the guitar’s 6 to 12 strings. There are two types of gambus‚ namely Gambus Melayu which
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string instruments with percussion. The size of a rondalla can vary; while a small ensemble might feature eight or so instruments a large ensemble can comprise more than 30. The major rondalla instruments are the banduria(14-string lute with a flat black)‚ Laud (Lute)‚ octavina (small guitar)‚ guitar and the double bass. Smaller ensemble might include one of each instrument and omit the octavina and laud‚ while larger ensemble increases the number of instruments included rather than the types (Mendonca
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Stella Maris College for women [pic] Visual Culture assignment 1 Nikita .A 11/PFAA/010 Visual culture The term visual culture encompasses many media forms ranging from fine arts to popular film and television to advertising to visual data in fields such as the science‚ law and medicine. The term culture refers to a whole way of life‚ meaning a broad range of activities geared towards classifying and communicating symbolically within a society. Visual culture is the shared practice
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* African music | The many music cultures of Africa may be broadly classified as North African and sub-Saharan. This article discusses only traditional music of the dominant population south of the Sahara‚ as North African culture is essentially Islamic or Arabic. The diversity of this population is reflected both in the number of languages spoken--about 800 to 1‚000--and in the wide variety of music traditions cultivated. Fortunately‚ these traditions have many traits in common‚ permitting a discussion
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