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Program Music

Program music refers to a kind of music that is creative in nature (Cooper, 2008). Music describes a situation in a narrative way. Liszt introduced this term by describing a program as an added description to the music to draw the attention of the listener to a poetic idea. It adds value to music because listeners receive it in the form of program notes, which brings a mutual relationship with the music. Program music continues to bring an effect on film music in cases where this draws the latest techniques of romantic music.

Claude-Achille Debussy

Claude-Achille Debussy was a music composer from French. He lived between ...

African American History

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Discursive formations an explanation of the human behavior attempts to undermine the archeological historical analysis. In the discursive formations analysis, human beings are not the center analysis to avoid problems associated with anthropological approaches used earlier. This discursive formation analysis can be used in explaining the revolutionary discourses that constantly undermined the history of Europe towards the end of the nineteenth century. At the end of the middle ages, there was an increased power struggle and increased women's participation in social and political activities. The same period experienced the first wave of feminism when women's emancipation movements ...

The Romantic Period is hailed as one of the most illustrious periods of art history which has been immortalized in the innermost core of the hearts of gazillion people across the world.
Describing the exquisiteness of the blossoms, William Wordsworth has quintessentially penned in the poem, Daffodils, “Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.” The omnipotence of emotions and apotheosis of beauty of nature is echoed in the line of this poem. Superfluous emotion triumphs in the extracted line from the poem. Nature is presented as an elusive metaphor in the poems. Wordsworth envisages an emancipated and personal ...

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is one of the most fascinating and well-known poems by the famed English poet, becoming one of the bastions of British Romantic literature through its immense lyricism and use of metaphor. The poem deals with themes of the violation of nature, the encroaching threat of the Orient and its strangeness on European culture, as well as the stifling nature of guilt, all contributing to a multi-faceted and pluralistic tale that deals with the breadth of human experience.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is one of ...

Voltaire’s was a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment whose most famous work is the novella Candide explores many of the popular schools of thoughts of the Enlightenment period. 1759, the year that Candide was first published was a time of great change of thought happening in Europe and the novel presents ideas found in three of the dominant school’s of thought, Rationalisms, Skepticism, and romanticism. By exploring these philosophies and showing how Candide treats them, we come to the conclusions that it was not Voltaire’s intent to support any of this particular schools of thought but to ...

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‘The world is too much with us,’ by William Wordsworth
Romanticism was a cultural/intellectual movement that had a profound and long lasting influence on the Europe of eighteenth century. It started during the 1700s and lasted till the mid nineteenth century. It was partly born as a reaction to the industrial revolution and the cultural and social changes brought about by the age of Enlightenment. It emphasized on love of nature and reliance of a man’s natural feelings over rationality. The movement influenced a variety of disciplines such as art, sculpture, literature, drama and music. It was deeply connected with ...

Language and Literature is always considered as a gateway through the style and ethics of a period and society. Mediaeval culture is a rich epoch to be evaluated in the light of this consideration. It is the time when the Latin was the language used for manuscripts and the literary works were under careful evaluation of Christian Churches. Much of the literature was prevailed through word of mouth and recorded on paper later in the forms of Welsh legend and Celtic myths. The legends were told in the form of stories carrying the romantic tilt with the courtly of courtly love. King ...

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The Reverie by Joel Billy and Claude Billy has both similarities as well as differences. Thus, this paper exclusively reviews the Reverie by Claude Debussy that was written and composed in the late 19th century. The paper discusses and explains how the general tone is different upon listening to Reverie by Joel Billy that is a part of his album. It also highlights how Reverie by Debussy has stronger and different tones that are louder than Joel.

Reverie by Debussy

According to Debussy, “Music is the expression of the movement and flow of waters and play of curves by alternating breezes”. Unfortunately, listening ...

During the Period of Romanticism, a lot of literary pieces were written. There were resounding themes among these poems and pieces. Many authors, no matter how different their timelines were, had similar themes when it came to their pieces. You can see that their beliefs were intertwined. Whether they came from different continents or not, the same mood and depiction are present within the writings. A strong sense of Christianity is seen in a number of poems. God was always mentioned, whether it was to praise Him or question the maker.

A theme present in a handful of the literature can be seen ...