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  2. Lagrime di San Pietro - Wikipedia

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    The Lagrime di San Pietro is probably the most famous set of madrigali spirituali ever written. Although sacred madrigals were a small subset of the total output of madrigals, this set by Lassus is often considered by scholars to be one of the highest achievements of Renaissance polyphony, and appeared at the end of an age: within 10 years of its composition, the traditional stile antico had ...

  3. List of book titles taken from literature - Wikipedia

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    W. B. Yeats, "Remorse for Intemperate Speech" Far From the Madding Crowd: Thomas Hardy: Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard: The Far-Distant Oxus: Katharine Hull and Pamela Whitlock Matthew Arnold, Sohrab and Rustum: A Farewell to Arms: Ernest Hemingway: George Peele, "A Farewell to Arms (To Queen Elizabeth)" Fear and Trembling ...

  4. The Bronze Horseman (poem) - Wikipedia

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    The Bronze Horseman: A Petersburg Tale (Russian: Медный всадник: Петербургская повесть, romanized: Mednyy vsadnik: Peterburgskaya povest) is a narrative poem written by Alexander Pushkin in 1833 about the equestrian statue of Peter the Great in Saint Petersburg and the great flood of 1824.

  5. Peter De Vries - Wikipedia

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    Peter De Vries met his future wife, poet and author Katinka Loeser, in 1943 when she won an award from Poetry magazine. The couple moved to Westport, Connecticut, in 1948. They were the parents of four children: sons Derek and Jon, daughters Jan and Emily. Emily died in 1960 at age ten after a two-year fight with leukemia. [3]

  6. Conductus - Wikipedia

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    The text declamation of the conductus can be either syllabic/neumatic or melismatic. The syllabic/neumatic type is coined the term musica cum littera. Monophonic pieces are mostly syllabic. The latter is called musica sine littera. The melismatic declamation can be applied to the caudae or the entire piece. The medieval theorist, Franco de ...

  7. Peter of Pisa - Wikipedia

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    Peter had originally taught at Pavia, in Italy. Peter of Pisa was asked to be Charlemagne’s primary Latin teacher. Peter’s poetry provides a personal look at the workings of the innermost sanctum surrounding Charlemagne. Peter’s grammar texts provide insight into the transformation Latin education underwent in this period.

  8. Catherine O'Hara disagrees with her “Home Alone” director on ...

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    At the very least, Columbus ruled out that Peter McCallister was involved in organized crime, which became a popular fan theory over the years. Home Alone marked its 34th anniversary last year.

  9. Heroic couplet - Wikipedia

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    A heroic couplet is a traditional form for English poetry, commonly used in epic and narrative poetry, and consisting of a rhyming pair of lines in iambic pentameter.Use of the heroic couplet was pioneered by Geoffrey Chaucer in the Legend of Good Women and the Canterbury Tales, [1] and generally considered to have been perfected by John Dryden and Alexander Pope in the Restoration Age and ...