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The yurodivy (accented on the second syllable, юро́дивый) is the Russian version of the holy fool. The role can be traced at least as far back as the medieval period. The yurodivy is traditionally an eccentric figure who is outside conventional society. The madness of the yurodivy is ambiguous, and can be real or simulated. He (or she) is believed to be divinely inspired, and is therefore able to say truths which others cannot, normally in the form of indirect allusions or parables. He had a particular status in regard to the Tsars, as a fig ...

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A violin sonata is a musical composition for solo violin, often (but not always) accompanied by a piano or other keyboard instrument, or by figured bass in the Baroque. Some violin sonatas, notably those by Mozart, Beethoven, and César Franck, are primarily piano works with the violin playing a lesser role. Violin sonata - List of Violin sonatas. Charles-Valentin Alkan Grand Duo Concertant (sonata) op. 21 in F-sharp minor (ca. 1840) Alexander Ar ...

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In music, the BACH motif is the sequence of notes B flat, A, C, B natural. This four-note motif has been used by a number of composers, usually as a homage to Johann Sebastian Bach. The first known example, however, is in a piece by Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck—it is possible, though not certain, that he used it in homage to one of Johann Sebastian's ancestors, many of whom were themselves musicians. The possibility of being able to spell the surname Bach in this way comes about because in German B indicates what in English is called B flat, while H indi ...

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August 9 is the 221st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (222nd in leap years), with 144 days remaining. August 9 - Events. 48 BC - Roman Civil War: Battle of Pharsalus - Julius Caesar decisively defeats Pompey at Pharsalus and Pompey flees to Egypt. AD 378 - Battle of Adrianople: A large Roman army led by Emperor Valens is defeated by the Visigoths in present-day Turkey. Valens is killed along with 2/3 of his army. 681 - Bulgaria is founded as a ...

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See also: 1974 in music, other events of 1975, 1976 in music, 1970s in music and the list of 'years in music' 1975 in music - Events. January 2 - New York City US District Court Judge Richard Owen rules that former Beatle John Lennon and his lawyers can have access to Department of Immigration files pertaining to his deportation case. January 5 - The Wiz, a new version of the classic The Wizard of Oz story, opens at Broadway's Majestic Theater in New York City January 6 ...

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1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). 1975 - Events. 1975 - January. January 1 - Watergate scandal: John N. Mitchell, H. R. Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman are found guilty of the Watergate cover-up January 2 - The Federal Rules of Evidence are approved by Congress January 5 - The Tasman Bridge in Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the bulk ore carrier Lake Illawarra, killing twelve people. ...

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The 20th century lasted from 1901 to 2000 in the Gregorian calendar. Common usage sometimes regards it as lasting from 1900 to 1999. The 20th century is also sometimes known as the nineteen hundreds (1900s). However, a number of arguments have been used to justify the common usage. One advanced by Stephen Jay Gould is that the first decade had only nine years, thus contradicting the definition of decade equaled 10 years. Another argument is that the astronomical year numbering system for years does have a year zero, the ...

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Alexander von Zemlinsky or Alexander Zemlinsky, (October 14, 1871 - March 15, 1942) was an Austrian composer of classical music, a conductor and a teacher. Alexander von Zemlinsky - Early Life. Zemlinsky was born in Vienna and studied the piano from a young age. He played the organ in his synagogue on holidays, and was admitted to the Vienna Conservatory in 1884. There he studied the piano with Anton Door, winning the school's piano prize in 1890. He also took composition lessons, and began to write pieces. ...

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• Alexander von Zemlinsky - Songs for voice and piano
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20th century classical music, the classical music of the 20th century, was extremely diverse, beginning with the late Romantic style of Sergei Rachmaninoff and the Impressionism of Claude Debussy, and ranging to such distant sound-worlds as the complete serialism of Pierre Boulez, the simple triadic harmonies of minimalist composers such as Steve Reich, and Philip Glass, the musique concrète of Pierre Schaeffer, the microtonal music adopted by Harry Pa ...

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Province of New Brunswick: Fernhill Cemetery, Saint John - final resting place of several early Canadian statesmen including Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley. Province of Quebec: Cimetière Notre-Dame-de-Belmont, Sainte-Foy - interred here are politicians Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, Jean Lesage and others. Cimetière Notre-Dame-des-Neiges, Montreal – some of the notables buried here include Maurice Richard, George-Étienne Cartier, Doug Harv ...

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List of cemeteries, List of cemeteries - Argentina, List of cemeteries - Australia, List of cemeteries - Austria, List of cemeteries - Belgium, List of cemeteries - Brazil, List of cemeteries - Canada, List of cemeteries - Chile, List of cemeteries - People's Republic of China, List of cemeteries - Hong Kong, List of cemeteries - Czech Republic, List of cemeteries - Denmark, List of cemeteries - Egypt, List of cemeteries - Finland, List of cemeteries - France, List of cemeteries - Germany, List of cemeteries - Greece, List of cemeteries - Hungary, List of cemeteries - Indonesia, List of cemeteries - Iran, List of cemeteries - Iraq, List of cemeteries - Ireland, List of cemeteries - Italy, List of cemeteries - Israel, List of cemeteries - Japan, List of cemeteries - Lithuania, List of cemeteries - Malaysia, List of cemeteries - Mexico, List of cemeteries - Netherlands, List of cemeteries - New Zealand, List of cemeteries - Poland, List of cemeteries - Romania, List of cemeteries - Russia, List of cemeteries - Slovenia, List of cemeteries - Serbia, List of cemeteries - Spain, List of cemeteries - Sweden, List of cemeteries - Switzerland, List of cemeteries - Taiwan, List of cemeteries - Ukraine, List of cemeteries - United Kingdom, List of cemeteries - United States of America, List of cemeteries - Vietnam

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In a month with two full moons, Austrian petty criminal Johnny Pichler is hired to carry a bag of cash to the Slovakian border and deliver it to a gangster. Johnny arrives late in a battered taxi. He is forced into the car behind the gangster's beautiful but unhappy escort. Shirley, who is no bimbo, squirts the gangster with an incapacitating spray, kicks him out of the car and races away with Johnny and the cash. The pair make a series of unsuccessful attempts to sell the obviously stolen car. In a Slovakian hotel Johnny offers to buy Shirley's share of the car with his share of the cash. She refuses b ...

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Blue Moon 2002 movie, Blue Moon 2002 movie - Plot, Blue Moon 2002 movie - Cast, Blue Moon 2002 movie - Production

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King Lear - Confusing opening. The modern reader of King Lear could benefit from the demystification of some subtleties in the text, as Shakespeare often brushes over details that are made clearer in his sources, and were perhaps more familiar to Elizabethan theatregoers than to modern ones. Scene one features King Lear testing the extent of his daughters' loyalty and love for him. He is preparing to abdicate. Lacking a male heir, he decides to divide his land between the sisters and, for two of the ...

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Romantic music - Classical roots of Romanticism 1780-1815. In literature, the Romantic period is often said to begin in the 1770s or 1780s with a movement known as "storm and struggle" in Germany. It was attended by a greater influence of Shakespeare and of folk sagas, whether real or created, as well as the poetry of Homer. Writers such as Goethe and Schiller radically altered their practices, while in Scotland Robert Burns began setting down folk music. This literary movement is reflected in the music of the "c ...

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Romantic music, Romantic music - Trends of the Romantic period, Romantic music - Musical language, Romantic music - Non-musical influences, Romantic music - Romantic opera, Romantic music - Nationalism, Romantic music - Instrumentation and scale, Romantic music - Brief Chronology of Musical Romanticism, Romantic music - Classical roots of Romanticism 1780-1815, Romantic music - Early Romantic 1815-1850, Romantic music - Late Romantic Era 1850-1910, Romantic music - Romanticism in the 20th century 1900-present

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Cello concertos near the center of the "repertoire". The big list of cello concertos has been moved to List of compositions for cello and orchestra. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach three concertos Samuel Barber cello concerto op. 22 in A minor (1945) Luigi Boccherini Cello Concerto in B-flat (no. 9 of at least twelve concertos) Cello Concerto in D Antonín Dvořák Cello Concerto no. 1 op. posth in A Cello Concerto no. ...

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Violoncello concerto, Violoncello concerto - Selected list of Cello Concertos, Violoncello concerto - Selected list of other concertante works

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Category:Russian composers - Subcategories. Category:Russian composers - R. Russian bards ...

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Nine is a composite number, its proper divisors being 1 and 3. It is 3 times 3 and hence the third square number. 9 is a Motzkin number. In base 10 a number is evenly divisible by nine if and only if the iterative sum of its digits reduces to 9. A simple way of saying this is that if you multiply nine by any whole number, and repeatedly add the digits of the answer until it's just one digit, you will end up with nine: 2*9=18 (1+8=9) 3*9=27 (2+7=9) 9*9=81 (8+1=9) 234*9=2106 (2+1+0+6=9) 578329* ...

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9 number, 9 number - In mathematics, 9 number - In numeral systems, 9 number - The Arabic glyph, 9 number - As lucky or unlucky number, 9 number - In astronomy, 9 number - In music, 9 number - In sports, 9 number - In technology, 9 number - In other fields

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The Bible has several descriptions of orchestras and Levites making music. But after the destruction of the Second Temple in 70, many Rabbis discouraged musical instruments. But the importance of merrymaking at weddings was not diminished, and musicians came forth to fill that niche, klezmorim. The first klezmer known by name was Yakobius ben Yakobius, a 150s player of the aulus in Samaria. The earliest written record of the klezmorim is in the 15th century. It should be noted that it is unlikely that they played music recognizable as Klezme ...

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Klezmer, Klezmer - Style, Klezmer - History, Klezmer - Repertoire, Klezmer - Song types, Klezmer - Song structure, Klezmer - Orchestration, Klezmer - Time, Klezmer - Melodic modes, Klezmer - Ahava Rabboh, Klezmer - Mi Sheberach, Klezmer - Adonoy Moloch, Klezmer - Mogen Ovos, Klezmer - Yishtabach, Klezmer - Important musicians, Klezmer - Important ensembles

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Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District opera - Act 1. Scene 1. Katerina's room: Katerina is unhappily married to Zinovy, a country gentleman. She complains to herself of her loneliness. Her father-in-law Boris says it is her fault for not producing an heir, but she blames her husband Zinovy for not being able to make her love him. Zinovy is called away on business, and Boris makes Katerina swear to be faithful. A s ...

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Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District opera, Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District opera - Plot summary, Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District opera - Act 1, Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District opera - Act 2, Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District opera - Act 3, Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District opera - Act 4, Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District opera - Criticism

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Leonard Bernstein - Childhood. Bernstein was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1918 to a Jewish family from Rovno, Russia. His grandmother insisted his first name to be Louis, but his parents always called him Leonard, as they liked the name better. He had his name changed to Leonard officially when he was sixteen. His father, Sam Bernstein, was a businessman, and initially opposed Bernstein's interest in music. Despite this, the elder Bernstein frequently took him to orchestra concerts. One ...

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List of asteroids named after people - Mathematicians. 1858 Lobachevskij (Nikolai Lobachevsky) 1859 Kovalevskaya (Sofia Kovalevskaya) 1888 Zu Chong-Zhi (Zu Chongzhi) 1996 Adams (John Couch Adams) 1997 Leverrier (Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier) 2010 Chebyshev (Pafnuti Chebyshev) 4354 Euclides (Euclid) 4628 Laplace (Pierre-Simon Laplace) 6765 Fibonacci (Leonardo Fibonacci of Pisa) 6143 Pythagoras (Pythagoras) 12493 Minkowski (He ...

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Gould was born Glen Gold in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on September 25, 1932. His family were Protestant and changed their name soon after his birth, fearing that it would otherwise be mistaken as Jewish during the growing anti-Semitism of the time. Gould's first piano teacher was his mother, whose grandfather was a cousin of Edvard Grieg. From the age of ten he began attending the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, where he studied piano with Alberto Guerrero, organ with Frederick C. ...

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