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She is credited for having written more than 350 musical compositions, ranging from folksongs to opera to orchestral works, and was composing up to the year before she died, at age 89. [citation needed] Lucrecia Roces Kasilag died due to pneumonia on August 16, 2008, fifteen days before her 90th birthday, in Manila, Philippines. [6]
Pre-colonial Iloko literature were composed of folk songs, riddles, proverbs, lamentations called dung-aw, and epic stories in written or oral form.Ancient Ilokano poets expressed themselves in folk and war songs as well as the dallot, an improvised, versified and at times impromptu long poem delivered in a sing-song manner.
These works are part of an accepted literary canon and widely taught in schools. Coming-of-age. Bildungsroman: works that focus on the psychological and moral growth of a character from youth into adulthood. [1] Encyclopedic; Epic: a narrative defined by heroic or legendary adventures presented in a long format.
The following works are some of the most universally respected and established cornerstones of the band repertoire. All have "stood the test of time" through decades of regular performance, and many, either through an innovative use of the medium or by the fame of their composer, helped establish the wind band as a legitimate, serious performing ensemble.
The most famous example of this is the BACH motif, which has been used by over 400 composers [1] in tribute to Johann Sebastian Bach (Bach himself used it more than once in his own works). Other examples include: Ravel's Menuet sur le nom d'Haydn; Arnold Bax's Variations on the name Gabriel Fauré for harp and strings
The following is a complete list of musical compositions by Scott Joplin (November 24, 1868 – April 1, 1917). Scott Joplin was born in Arkansas in around 1867, just outside Texarkana, and was a street performer before settling in Sedalia, Missouri, St. Louis, Missouri, and finally New York City where he died in 1917.
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Published in a "bad quarto" [note 6] in 1600 by Thomas Millington and John Busby; reprinted in "bad" form in 1603 and 1619, it was published fully for the first time in the First Folio. A tradition, impossible to verify, holds that Henry V was the first play performed at the new Globe Theatre in the spring of 1599; the Globe would have been the ...