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The plot consists of the personified virtues of Hope, Sobriety, Chastity, Humility, etc. fighting the personified vices of Pride, Wrath, Paganism, Avarice, etc.The personifications are women because in Latin, words for abstract concepts have feminine grammatical gender; an uninformed reader of the work might take the story literally as a tale of many angry women fighting one another, because ...
Lyrics in sheet music. This is a homorhythmic (i.e., hymn-style) arrangement of a traditional piece entitled "Adeste Fideles" (the original Latin lyrics to "O Come, All Ye Faithful") in standard two-staff format for mixed voices. Play ⓘ Lyrics are words that make up a song, usually consisting of verses and choruses. The writer of lyrics is a ...
Larynx; See also. Laryngealization, or creaky voice; All pages with titles beginning with laryngeal; All pages with titles containing laryngeal
Its lyrics sang the praises of Whig candidates William Henry Harrison (the "hero of Tippecanoe") and John Tyler, while denigrating incumbent Democrat Martin Van Buren. Folk music critic Irwin Silber wrote that the song "firmly established the power of singing as a campaign device" in the United States, and that this and the other songs of 1840 ...
The carnyx is featured in the opening battle scene of Gladiator (2000); and is used as both a musical instrument and a fear-inducing weapon.Gladiator II (2024) [citation needed] It appears in several battle scenes of the French film, Druids (2001). [citation needed] A carnyx appears near the beginning of the 2012 Pixar computer-animated film Brave.
The term originates from the translation of the Tuvan word Xhöömei and the Mongolian word Xhöömi, which mean throat and guttural, respectively. [10] Ethnic groups from Russia, Mongolia, Japan, South Africa, Canada, Italy, China and India, among other countries, accept and normally employ the term throat singing to describe their way of producing voice, song and music.
Engagement of muscles in the head and neck in order to stabilize the larynx) (in Estill Voice Training terminology this is known as "head and neck control" or "anchoring") A downward tilt of the cricoid cartilage (an alternative option is the thyroid tilting backward. Observations show a larger CT space) High positioning of the larynx
Besides the familiar Greek gods, the Batrachomyomachia introduces a number of novel characters representing the leaders and warriors of the two armies, whose combat is described in stark and violent terms, resembling the battle scenes of the Iliad, but with arms consisting of sticks and needles, and armor made from nut shells, bean pods, straw, leaves, vegetables, and the skin of an excoriated ...