Rape of the Sabine Women, the
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Rape of the Sabine Women, the in Roman mythology, the forcible carrying off of the
Sabine women by
Romulus, to provide wives for his men of the new settlement of Rome, at a spectacle to which the Sabines had been invited.
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Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning.(Review)
Magazine article from: Notes; 12/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning. By...modernity that frames this history of absolute music. Drawing on Max Weber's writings...This is the romantic definition of absolute music, the discourse that puts music back...
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MICHIGAN PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION ISSUES NOTICE OF HEARING REGARDING COMPLAINT OF ABSOLUTE MUSIC AGAINST SILV COMMUNICATION
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 11/13/2006; 564 words
; ...Service Commission will consider the complaint of Absolute Music, LLC against Silv Communication, Inc., for violations...hearing or other assistance. On June 30, 2005, Absolute Music, LLC (Complainant) filed a formal complaint, against...
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Buzznet picks up Absolute Punk.(ONLINE MUSIC SERVICES)
Newspaper article from: The Online Reporter; 5/10/2008; 560 words
; ...acquisitions with the purchase of punk music community Absolute Punk. The eight-year-old Absolute...premier destination for alternative music, industry news, reviews, interviews...half a million fans of alternative music ranging from punk, emo, hardcore...
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The Arts: My idea of absolute heaven Music
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 12/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...Almanac The Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival Opera North Manchester Camerata...s last opera Capriccio - words versus music - is used as a framework for a recital...the sublime Morgen! Since the Moonlight Music melody in Capriccio was taken from a piano...
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Pianist Andre Watts reaffirmed in concert that he is the absolute artist in music
Newspaper article from: Chicago Defender; 6/14/2004; ; 700+ words
; The first weekend of Black Music Month in Chicago was filled with music everywhere. The Zulu Opera "Prinicess Magogo" was...Chicago Children's Choir sang a program of international music and at Shiloh SDA Church, the Choir Sang DuBois's...
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Absolute Radio unveils contest for music forums to win own radio show.(Brief article)
Magazine article from: New Media Age; 11/20/2008; 700+ words
; Absolute Radio has launched an initiative to engage online music communities and attract listeners to the rebranded music station. Its 'rock-off' targets...time the brand has strived to engage music forums; those being targeted have active...
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Tearing down musical walls.(Absolute Ensemble electro-acoustic classical music group)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report; 2/26/2001; ; 620 words
; You won't find the Absolute Ensemble neatly pigeonholed...Jarvi. The band mixes classical music with jazz, rock, and modern...break down the segregation of music." On Habanera, the ensemble...playing the hell out of the music." Roll over, Beethoven...
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The Arts: Music An absolute charmer
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 1/30/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...March. The man himself - an absolute charmer, I may say - is at...Manchester. This is because his music, for all the importance his...sophisticated contemporary-music ghetto and if he does not conduct...apart from the problems the music itself presents, because his...
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Buzznet Acquires Alternative Music Community Absolute Punk.
PR Newswire; 5/6/2008; 700+ words
; ...Community Adds Punk and Underground Music Source to its Growing Community...leading social media community for music, today announced the addition of Absolute Punk (http://www.absolutepunk...destination for alternative music, industry news, reviews...
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Schutz, the absolute master poet of sacred music
Newspaper article from: New Straits Times; 1/28/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...Zut!' or the English `Shucks!' But lovers of Baroque music know it rightly as the name of the greatest German composer...Peter Pears can make much of it in this recording) and the music for Jesus and Mary Magdalene, sung respectively by a contralto...
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Absolute Music
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
ABSOLUTE MUSIC. "Absolute music" is an idea that...it was Wagner who coined the term "absolute music" around mid-century and thereby embedded...1904), without using the term "absolute music," attempted to refute Wagner's arguments...
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absolute music
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
absolute music term used for music dependent on its structure alone for comprehension. It is the antithesis of program music . It is not associated with extramusical ideas or with a pictorial...
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music
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
music For information on types of music see such articles as absolute music ; aleatory music ; chamber music ; church music ; computer music ; electronic music ; jazz ; program music ; rock...
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Chinese music
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...and the Instruments In Chinese music, the single tone is of greater...stone); and skin (drum). Music was believed to have cosmological...comparable to those of Greek music. The failure of a dynasty was...proper huang chung, or tone of absolute pitch. The huang chung was...
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Nationalism in Music, Europe and the United States
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
...entrenched habit of considering European music history apart from history more generally...as encouraged by the doctrine of absolute music; and second, the genesis and development...entrusted to tell the history of music — were both intimately...
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