Fugue

returned to St. Mark’s each December, earnestly awaiting to unleash the undulating melodies that lie in hibernation throughout the year. Not only is Handel’s music physically challenging, but also highly technical. The harmonic counterpoint, melismatic fugues, and other Baroque features of the oratorio all broadened my understanding of music theory, and how music can convey deep…

it to you” (Pg7). Neefe considered Beethoven on of the most skilled pianist in Germany, soon enough Beethoven was sent to Vienna in order to pursue a higher level of studies with F.J Haydn. Beethoven’s studies consisted of a profound focus on the fugue, from 1792 to 1796 they perpetrated this counterpoint. To be able to support himself and continue his studies, Beethoven decided to give lessons to earn a living. His colleagues and associates felt repugnance towards Beethoven, even to the…

Was I Born This Way or Made This Way? “A mental illness generally suggests that something is wrong with the brain. Our brain is our control center. It’s responsible for everything we do, and the idea of something being wrong with the brain generally suggests that we’re out of control. And as humans we hate that idea. We hate it so much that we just don’t talk about it” (Harries, Let’s Talk About Mental Illnesses). The argument of who we are, pertaining to mental disorders, has been around for…

John Hill Jr. Vs The Metal Man Do you know The Metal Man? Could you fathom his existence? Well, one man was more ready than he ever thought he would be. John Hill Jr. (an extremely chill high school English teacher) was having an average morning. After a long night of blasting War Pigs at the neighbor's dog, he was ready for some coffee; he poured himself a hot cup of joe and headed off to his classroom. When he arrived, he began to fill out "the chart". As he wrote down…

Adolf Hitler, leader of Nazi Germany, wrote in his book Mein Kampf, “propaganda ties to force a doctrine on the whole people…Propaganda works on the general public from the standpoint of an idea and make them ripe for the victory of this idea,” (Nazi Propaganda). During the time of Nazi Germany, most Jews along elderly, the disabled, and those in the arts were being sent away to concentration camps (Nazi Propaganda). The Musicians that were being thrown into these camps were seen as threats to…

Freedom means the quality or state of being free. Freedom in Montessori Education requires independence before the child is given it. Freedom in the Children’s House does not mean that the child can do anything he wants to before he learns self-control. The child should know what is good for him, his friends, and his society. The freedom of the child should have limits. If the child interferes or hurts others, his acts ought to be intervened. Insolent and discourteous acts need to be corrected…

The image of “black milk” dominates Paul Celan’s poem “Deathfugue”. It occurs at the beginning of each stanza and conveys a very powerful symbol within the poem, particularly because of its connotations in the historical and political context of the Holocaust. First, we can understand it as an inversion or a perversion of milk. While normal milk is white, this “black” milk can be imagined to signify the exact opposite of whatever connotations “white” milk has, from the nourishment that a mother…

De Quincey’s first interrogation into the beauty and art behind violence argues the importance of this secluded world existing. This is deployed in numerous ways in this passage, from the natural power of the "immeasurable gulf" that disturbs the ebb and flow of human life, to the man-made evocations of the caging "recess" that shields the murder. In some ways, this is later echoed in the "storm-flight" of the horses in associating threats of accidental violence with nature; yet, for De Quincey,…

cause sporadic lapses in awareness that can last for days on end, lapses in awareness that can be experienced from childhood all the way up to adulthood (428). Stout references a patient, Julia, who experiences dissociation in the form of clinical fugue, beginning in childhood and continuing into her adulthood, resulting in loss of memory of significant childhood events (428). When asked about how she felt about not remembering her childhood Julia stated that she just assumed that nobody…

As Lao Tzu said, “If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place.” In “Flowers for Algernon,” Charlie Gordon is the subject of an experiment to correct his mind. Charlie is the ideal choice for this experiment, because his progress can be easily tracked through his writing, and his character traits make him easy to work with. Before Charlie’s neurosurgical operation, the quality of his written progress reports was poor. His spelling and grammar was horrible, and most…