Kaushik Pilar English 12 10/6/14 Plainsong Essay “Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths‚ but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.” People are born into situations that are not always ideal for growing up‚ and that is often related to said person following in the steps of a poorly guided life. These situations are not excuses for following that path because though the situation might be very
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Kent Haruf’s Plainsong was an inspiring novel about community and helping others out with their lives. The story takes place in a small town in Colorado‚ and circles around a chosen 7 main characters and how their lives affect others and how they interact. Tom is a married man who is very distant from his wife‚ which is a leading cause to his loneliness. The next character is Victoria‚ a 16 year old pregnant teen who has been kicked out of her home seeking help from a school teacher‚ Maggie. Victoria
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Plainsong‚ by Kent Haruf‚ is a novel about several characters and their own struggles in this small town in Holt‚ Colorado. All these characters eventually end up having some kind of connection with one another. This novel can show the types of struggles anyone may experience even in this small town of Colorado. Tom Guthrie is a teacher at the local school and father of Ike and Bobby. Tom is shown as a man very frustrated from the very beginning as he is separating from his wife and mother of his
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THE PLOT There are several conflicts in Plainsong as it consists of 7 main characters. However‚ these conflicts end up woven together‚ as the characters lives eventually overlap. The central conflict of Plainsong is that 17-year old Victoria Robideaux‚ the protagonist‚ becomes pre-maturely pregnant. The conflict is person vs. society; Victoria struggles as she finds herself abandoned and being helped by one of her teachers‚ Maggie Jones and two strangers. Due to circumstances Victoria is forced
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listen and to study. 1. Who was Anicius Boethius? 2. Who is the “Father of the Symphony?” 3. What musical technique replaced tonality in the 20th Century? 4. What is tonality? 5. What is secular music? 6. What is sacred music? 7. Who created plainsong? 8. What are the features of Medieval music? 9. Identify by ear monophonic‚ homophonic‚ and polyphonic musical textures. 10. Characteristics of the Medieval musical Mass. 11. Dates of the Medieval period. 12. What was a unifying factor for social
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Period. In 1337‚ Machaut became a Canon at Reims. It is believed that the The Mass was composed for this cathedral. The piece is a four-voice polyphonic Mass of the Ordinary. Machaunt’s Mass mainly embodies the typical formal structure of the plainsong Mass common to the period. The Kyrie has three sections‚ each performed three times. This three-part division was symbolic of the three parts of the Holy Trinity to the people of the medieval period. There are lines of melody added to the cantus
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5ths below the chant‚ occasionally one or both parts double at octave (organum triplum/duadruplum)‚ sometimes parts move from and return to unison/ consonances=unison‚ 4th‘s‚ and 5th’s Plainsong OR Vox Principalis-other terms now used for Gregorian Chant Vox Organalis-the added voice in a Gregorian Chant/Plainsong/Vox Principalis Free Organum-parts moving in contrary‚ parallel‚ similar‚ or oblique motion‚ increased the variety of sounds‚ added more independence to the counterpoint than
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choral discipline. The combined effect of choir and orchestra was one of overpowering emotion. Next to performance was “Laudi alla Vergine Maria” and “Te Deum”. I liked the latter performance better. It had a unaccompanied opening based on Gregorian plainsong‚ the chemistry between choir and orchestra created a stunning climax. In the end‚ a single voice led to the dramatic final chords and the last notes were high up in the violins. From the booklet that were given to the guests when they were entering
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efficiently‚ and succeeding generations would know something about the music of their ancestors. There where demands of the church that required a musical notation‚ and so the earliest written music was largely in Church music called Hymns. The plainsong of this time was still singlehanded‚ but that’s when the new developments were starting to appear. In the Renaissance period‚ there was a new self-sustaining freedom of expression which spread throughout much of Europe. The church was still very
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the choir‚ and some choirs also adapt existing musical pieces for performance. The history of the chorus is quite ancient. The Greeks used a chanting chorus to accompany stage performances‚ for example‚ and the medieval church also utilized chanted plainsong to accompany religious services. Gradually‚ the concept of a polyphonic or “many voiced” choir began to emerge‚ with musical compositions featuring multiple parts which could be sung together or individually‚ and modern choirs typically perform polyphonic
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