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This short treatise professes to be the introduction to a translation of a speech by Demosthenes called On the Crown, and a speech of his rival, Aeschines, called Against Ctesiphon. Cicero was an advocate of free translation: "The essence of successful oratory, he insists, is that it should 'instruct, delight, and move the minds of his audience ...
A Short Organum for the Theatre" ("Kleines Organon für das Theater") is a theoretical work by the twentieth-century German theatre practitioner Bertolt Brecht. [1] It was written while in Switzerland in 1948 and published in 1949. [ 2 ]
A Treatise on the Family; Treatise on the Gods; Treatise on the Law of the Prerogatives of the Crown; Treatise on the Left Emanation; A Treatise on the Patriarchal, or Co-operative System of Society; Treatise on the Power and Primacy of the Pope; Treatise on the Reintegration of Beings; Treatise on the Response of the Tao; Treatise on the ...
The composer, who revered Beethoven, followed the latter's unusual addition in the Pastoral Symphony of a fifth movement to the normal four of a classical symphony. The artist's reveries take him to a ball and to a pastoral scene in a field, which is interrupted by a hallucinatory march to the scaffold , leading to a grotesque satanic dance ...
Hullah was born at Worcester.He was a pupil of William Horsley from 1829, and entered the Royal Academy of Music in 1833. He wrote an opera to words by Dickens, The Village Coquettes, produced in 1836; [1] The Barbers of Bassora in 1837; [2] and The Outpost in 1838, the last two at Covent Garden.
The Libellus is a short treatise. [1] It circulated widely alongside the Epitoma, despite its complete lack of originality. It is nothing but a collection of rearranged excerpts from the first three books of the Epitoma. It ignores siege warfare and naval warfare and "concentrates on the composition of the army and its disposition in battle". [2]
2 meter, the other in 4 4. Initially, the two groups are synchronized (with one measure of 3 2 equaling one measure of 4 4), but then the 4 4 group accelerates on top of the 3 2 group and collapses, thereafter waiting for the 3 2 group to catch up with them, at which point the orchestra resynchronizes as a single unit. This is but one of many ...
This is followed by a slower section played by flutes and strings, which segues into a 22-measure ostinato march that Shostakovich anticipated would be compared to Ravel's Boléro. [10] At the end of the twelfth statement of the theme, the brass present an inverted version of the theme, which is developed into a climax.