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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 ...
Anonymous IV is the designation given to the writer of an important treatise of medieval music theory. [1] He was probably an English student working at Notre Dame de Paris, most likely in the 1270s or 1280s. Nothing is known about his life. His writings survive in two partial copies from Bury St Edmunds; one from the 13th century, and one from ...
Scene 6 Irene, with the Christians 52. Recitative (Irene) "Tis night, but night's sweet blessing is denied" 53. Chorus of Christians "He saw the lovely youth" Act 3 Scene 1 Irene, with the Christians 54. Air (Irene) "Lord, to Thee each night and day" Scene 2 Enter Theodora, in the habit of Didymus 55.
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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 ]
The latter occurs in act 2, scene 6, where Kovalyov returns home to find Ivan singing. The song is Shostakovich's setting of the words of part 2, book 5, chapter 2 of Karamazov, where the lackey, Smerdiakov, sings to his neighbour Mariia Kondratevna. An invisible force ties to my beloved. Bless us, O Lord, her and me! Her and me!
Despite its faults, the treatise remains critically successful because of its "noble tone," "apt precepts," "judicious attitude," and "historical interests". [6] One of the reasons why it is so unlikely that known ancient critics wrote On the Sublime is because the treatise is composed so differently from any other literary work.
Franco's most famous work was his Ars cantus mensurabilis, a work which was widely circulated and copied, and remained influential for at least 200 years.Unlike many theoretical treatises of the 13th century, it was a practical guide, and entirely avoided metaphysical speculations; it was evidently written for musicians, and was full of musical examples for each point made in the text.