Rehash of an old question
#1
Posted 16 February 2005 - 03:04 PM
BTW: I bought a classical music CD with "March to the Scaffold" on it.
#2
Posted 16 February 2005 - 10:19 PM
"His autobiographical Symphonie Fantastique represents a very personal nightmare, exemplified in the two movements included in the Naxos collection, A Ball and March to the Scaffold. In the first the artist catches sight of his unknown beloved, while in the nightmare of the second he is put to death for her murder." quoting the art library . Very fitting I think...
As to the question of level 40 for the cleric-fighter -- yes, I believe you can reach 40/40 with her. Have fun!
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#3
Posted 17 February 2005 - 06:08 PM
#4
Posted 17 February 2005 - 07:41 PM
Btw -- I forgot to mention the composer -- once again. (Beats her head over the wall. )
Hector Berlioz
Born: La Côte-Saint-André, Isère, December 11, 1803
Died: Paris, March 8, 1869
Sent to Paris by his father to study medicine, Berlioz instead studied music, supporting himself by writing about music and giving lessons. Berlioz may well have been the first great composer to not be able to play a musical instrument, nor to have shown any musical talent at an early age. But he perservered, and became interested in the vast possibilities of orchestration and the different combinations of instrumental sounds. In 1844, he wrote a book on orchestration (Traite de l'Instrumentation - Treatise on Orchestration), which is still widely regarded as one of the best in the field. Berlioz' advances in this area contributed greatly to the growth and development of the modern symphony orchestra.
In 1830, only three years after the death of Beethoven, Berlioz composed his most famous work, the programmatic Symphonie fantastique. Having an autobiographical basis, the piece is a highly romantic program symphony in five movements, the story of which tells of an artist who, unhappy in love, takes an overdose of opium and dreams of his own passions and desires, his beloved, her murder, and his own death. Berlioz had seen the Irish actress Harriet Smithson perform in Shakespeare's Hamlet and had fallen passionately, even hysterically in love with her. He intended to immortalize his love in music with his symphonie. The artist's beloved is represented throughout the work by a melodic motif known as the idée fixe, a device which serves to unify the disparate elements of the symphony. The fourth movement is entitled "March to the Scaffold," and depicts the protagonist's dream of his own execution for having killed his faithless beloved. The symphony was wildly successful at its premiere, and made a name for its young composer, if not a fortune.
Edited by dorotea, 17 February 2005 - 07:44 PM.
Freedom cannot be equated with goodness, virtue, or perfection. Freedom has its own unique self-contained nature; freedom is freedom ? not universal goodness. Any confusion or deliberate equalization of freedom with goodness and excellence is in itself negation of freedom, and acceptance of the path of restraint and enforcement.
Nikolai Berdyaev - Christian Existentialist, Philosopher of Freedom.
The Longer Road mod
Redemption mod
Bitter Grey Ashes