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Death and mortality is a repeating theme in several of Böcklin's works, including Plague, two versions of War, and five versions of Isle of the Dead. According to Alma Mahler , the wife of the composer Gustav Mahler , her husband was "under the spell" of Böcklin's self-portrait when writing the scherzo movement of his Fourth Symphony .
Musical symbols are marks and symbols in musical notation that indicate various aspects of how a piece of music is to be performed. There are symbols to communicate information about many musical elements, including pitch, duration, dynamics, or articulation of musical notes; tempo, metre, form (e.g., whether sections are repeated), and details about specific playing techniques (e.g., which ...
Personifications of death are found in many religions and mythologies. In more modern stories, a character known as the Grim Reaper (usually depicted as a berobed skeleton wielding a scythe) causes the victim's death by coming to collect that person's soul.
Kevin Hughes, 23, the chart director for Cash Box magazine, was shot to death on March 9, 1989, after coming out of a recording studio. The murder is known as "Murder on Music Row."
Death Takes a Holiday is a musical with music and lyrics by Maury Yeston and a book by Peter Stone and Thomas Meehan. It is adapted from the 1924 Italian play La Morte in Vacanza by Alberto Casella , which was translated in English for Broadway in 1929 by Walter Ferris.
Death-related usages include: In biology, the dagger next to a taxon name indicates that the taxon is extinct. [23] [24] [31] In chemistry, the double dagger is used in chemical kinetics to indicate a short-lived transition state species. In genealogy, the dagger is used traditionally to mark a death in genealogical records. [32]
Swifties have been hard at work trying to decode Folklore -- and now Taylor Swift is sharing some insight on one of her tracks. While introducing her song on Country Radio, the 30-year-old singer ...
In instrumental music, a style of playing that imitates the way the human voice might express the music, with a measured tempo and flexible legato. cantilena a vocal melody or instrumental passage in a smooth, lyrical style canto Chorus; choral; chant cantus mensuratus or cantus figuratus (Lat.) Meaning respectively "measured song" or "figured ...