A Near-Death Experience Breeds RebirthHow close have you come to dying? What value do you place on your own life? Mary Oliver poses these very deep and thought-provoking questions to the reader in her short poem‚ Alligator Poem.In the poem‚ the persona has an experience in which she comes very close to death: an alligator walks by her as she drank some water out of a river while sitting on a riverbank. Oliver describes it in this way: I didn ’t understand/I drank up to the very moment it came/crashing
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My Mom’s Near Death Experience *Beep beep beep* I hear the unthinkable. The hospital heart monitor hooked up to my own flesh and blood. She ripped her liver open‚ my uncle shattered his cheek bone in several places and my mom’s friend involved in the accident to has a broken foot. Lets recap the horrible weekend we all had on that mid-snowy night. It was a rough snowy midnight on base in Ft. Drum New York (not the city.) They were next door at my mom’s friend mindy’s house getting drunk having
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Symphony Analysis Bars 1-16 In this essay I will be writing about the opening first 16 bars of the Mozart Symphony Jupiter (K551)‚ starting off in C major‚ common time. [1] The opening bar introduces the first Antecedent idea‚ consisting of an octave C in all instruments. This is then followed by ascending semiquaver triplet runs‚ in the strings and woodwind‚ from G to C which have a decoration-like affect. This is juxtaposed against the timpani and the brass still carry on with octave C’s. This
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After dropping out of high school in 1905 at the age of 16‚ Hitler travelled to Vienna to explore all the arts‚ music‚ and old-European culture that the city held. However‚ it was the city’s magnificent architecture that caught his attention and Hitler quickly developed an interest in becoming an architect. A promising artist in high school‚ Hitler decided to enroll in the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts in October of 1907. Although he had felt confident about the entrance exams‚ Hitler was soon denied
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Alto Saxophone Versus Tenor Saxophone Being a part of band for eight years playing the E-flat alto as my main instrument and dabbling with the B-flat tenor saxophone‚ I learned that even with its similar look and playing techniques‚ there is a few key differences that differentiate them. The two saxophones‚ almost identical in looks‚ are both part of the woodwind section of instruments‚ created by Aldophe Sax in the 1800’s‚ and classified as middle tone ranged with identical fingerings. Yet when
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An extra hole was added to the instrument as well (the first key)‚ allowing the musician to play an E-flat‚ therefore making all chromatic notes viable to the flutist [2]. Many new developments were introduced to the design of the flute in the 18th century. These developments were met with an increase in desire to learn how to play the flute‚ as flute methods books were sold to beginners for the first time in 1710 [2]. Extra joints were added early on in the century‚ often with differing lengths
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The orchestral introduction of the song no. 2 mm. 1-18 displays the uncertainty of major-minor mode‚ in which the music sounds as if in an F# minor key‚ but the E major chords in mm. 16-18 that proceeds to the A major chord in m. 19 provide a certainty that A major is the actual key of the music (fig. 15)‚ whereas the submediant chord at the beginning of the song obscures the actual key and provides the song a minor flavor. Fig. 15: The dominant chord in mm. 16-18 in song no. 2. Alfred J. Swan
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Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (b. 5/17 June 1882; d. 6 April 1971) is undoubtedly one of the most important and influential musical personalities of the 20th century‚ his musical innovations concerning rhythm‚ harmony‚ melody and sound texture from his early works also making him a pioneer of new music. The 20th century has been marked by tumultuous events and the conflictual and agitated atmosphere surrounding certain nations during the first decade pushed artists towards a nationalist attitude. In
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Introduction It is crucial with these types of questions to fully establish what is meant within the question. Just because an opera receives a positive review‚ does not necessarily mean it made a significant contribution to the genre. In fact‚ throughout musical history and across all genres‚ many performances which are poorly received are the ones which make the biggest contribution. It’s about pushing the boundaries. Therefore‚ my main focus will be exploring whether Tippett’s Operas pushed the
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Johann Sebastian Bach was born on March 31st 1685‚ in Eisenach Germany. He was a composer and‚ a performer who was extremely skilled at his craft. Bach was credited with over 1000 different compositions; including his most important‚ “The Saint Johns Passion”(Hanford). Originally Bach intended that the St John Passion would be first performed in the St. Thomas Church in Leipzig‚ but due to a last-minute change by the music council‚ it was first performed on Good Friday of 1724 in the St. Nicholas
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