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All the King's Horses is a short story written in 1953 by Kurt Vonnegut. It can be found in his collection of short stories Welcome to the Monkey House. The story takes place in the early years of the Cold War and centers around a U.S. Army Colonel Bryan Kelly, who has been shot down in the Asiatic mainland. With him are his two sons, his wife, the pilot and co-pilot, and ten enlisted men. The sixteen prisoners are held captive by the Chinese officer Pi Ying, who forces Kelly to play a game of chess — using his ...

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Particularly in the early part of the century, many composers wrote music which was an extension of 19th century Romantic music. Harmony, though sometimes complex, was tonal, and traditional instrumental groupings such as the orchestra and string quartet remained the most usual. Traditional forms such as the symphony and concerto remained in use. (See Romantic Music) Many prominent composers — among them Dmitri Kabalevsky, Dmitri Shostakovich and Benjamin Britten — made significant advances in style and technique while still emplo ...

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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 ... Including:

• 20th century classical music - Romantic style
• 20th century classical music - Modernism
• 20th century classical music - The Second Viennese School atonality and serialism
• 20th century classical music - Free dissonance and experimentalism
• 20th century classical music - Neoclassicism
• 20th century classical music - Post-modern music
• 20th century classical music - Post-modernity's birth
• 20th century classical music - Minimalism
• 20th century classical music - Electronic music
• 20th century classical music - Jazz-influenced composition
• 20th century classical music - Other

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Main article: Electronic art music Technological advances in the 20th century enabled composers to use electronic means of producing sound. This took several forms: some composers simply incorporated electronic instruments into relatively conventional pieces. Olivier Messiaen, for example, used the ondes martenot in a number of works. Other composers abandoned conventional instruments and used magnetic tape to create music, recording sounds and then manipulating them in some way. Pierre Schaeffer was the pioneer of such ...

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The Faust tale is a variation of the story about a negotiated pact between man and the devil, involving human hubris and diabolic cunning, which can be considered as a meme; the oldest extant version is the tale of Theophilus of Adana. The origin of the protagonist's name and persona remains unclear. It is widely assumed to be based on the figure of the German magician and alchemist Dr. Johann Georg Faust (approximately 1480-1540), a dubious magician and alchemist probably from Knittlingen, Württemberg, who obtained a degree in divin ...

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Faust - Drama. Anonymous - Historia von D. Iohan Fausten (1587) Jacob Bidermann - Cenodoxus (1602) Christopher Marlowe's The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (1604~1610) Gotthold Lessing's play, Doktor Faustus, mentioned in a contribution to a magazine (1759), but otherwise left unfinished, but finally collected and posthumously published in incomplete form in (1784) Dorothy L. Sayers's The Devil to Pay Johann Wolfgang von Goe ...

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20th century classical music - Post-modernity's birth. Post-modernity can be said to be a response to modernism which asserts that the products of human activity — particularly manufactured or created by artifice — are the central subject for art itself, and that the purpose of art is to focus people's attention on objects for contemplation, as composer-critic Steve Hicken explained it. This strain of modernism looks backward to the dada school of art exemplified by Duchamp, and to the collage of "concrete" m ...

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After moving to Paris in 1903 she started to write in earnest: novels, plays, stories, librettos and poems. Increasingly, she developed her own highly idiosyncratic, playful, sometimes repetitive and sometimes humorous style. Typical quotes are "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose." and "Out of kindness comes redness and out of rudeness comes rapid same question, out of an eye comes research, out of selection comes painful cattle." as well as "The change of color is likely and a difference a very little difference is ...

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