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Schoolwork: Automated Music in the 18th Century | Zakira's Roses
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Schoolwork: Automated Music in the 18th Century. Term paper for LS 819, Special Topics: 18th Century Music. Summer 2008. Android musicians were separately able to play the drum, organ, flute, and dulcimer. Often they were programmed with multiple compositions to perform. Musician automatons were not mere music-boxes. When activated, their motions produced sound from real instruments and also simulated human behaviour: courtesy, breath, and emotional affect appropriate to their performance....In Europe...
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Schoolwork: Creative response | Zakira's Roses
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Here’s what I did for my creative response this past week in class. Explanation: the request was to create an artistic response to anything from the classwork. I naturally had too many feelings and too many reactions to boil it down to one. So, I created these:. Everyone passed them around. Here’s what they were about:. Box 1: J.S. Bach – Actus Tragicus. Text:. This is what the soul’s voice feels like. A vibration through the spine. Heartbeat syllables each saying. Are you here too? Schoolwork: Edith Wha...
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Schoolwork: Edith Wharton’s Domestic Settings Essay | Zakira's Roses
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Schoolwork: Edith Wharton’s Domestic Settings Essay. Edith Wharton’s Domestic Settings. Or GLS 819: Domestic Spaces. Wharton does not begrudge plainness, and in The Decoration of Houses prefers a focus on personal comfort to ostentatious decoration (28). The problem here is that Margaret’s home is consistently described as physically and psychologically uncomfortable. In response to this discomfort, Margaret retreats from the drawing room into the imaginaire. As we have seen, the houses of Wharton’s imag...
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On parenting: The Newborn | Zakira's Roses
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On parenting: The Newborn. In the Urban jungle, the constant crying seems to have the opposite effect, leading mothers like myself to whisper in their baby’s ears “if you don’t give me some peace I’m going to FEED YOU TO THE WOLVES”. This however, like most of what mothers do in the newborn stage, is NOT effective. But take heart, the brainwashing does end! How to get through this stage? 1 Comment ». August 6, 2007 at 1:41 pm. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Address never made public).
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Zakira's Roses | Dreams and Theories | Page 2
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February 22, 2009. On Nature – some preliminary thoughts. At 7:03 pm by zakira. I’m in a course theoretically about nature and culture, about how humanity interacts with our environment. But mainly we talk environmentalism. What this has led me to is a few questions, though, about nature and culture on the big scale. And how is this qualitatively different from someone who walks in the urban landscape and doesn’t notice a thing? Am I engaging with nature, if there even is such a thing? January 25, 2009.
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Not-So-Singable Songs | Zakira's Roses
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Oh, I wish I was in the land of cotton,. Old times there are not forgotten, {. Cinnamon seed and sandy bottom,]. Look away, look away, look away Dixie Land. In Dixie Land, where I was born in,. Early on one frosty mornin’,. Look away, look away, look away Dixie Land. I wish I was in Dixie, Hooray! In Dixie Land I’ll take my stand. To live and die in Dixie. Away, away, away down south in Dixie. Away, away, away down south in Dixie. Ole Missus marry “Will the weaver”. Willum was a gay deceiver. Oh they cri...
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Haydn Presentation | Zakira's Roses
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Notes on Joseph Haydn, the basis of a presentation I gave this summer to my LS 819 class. Franz Joseph Haydn is known as Papa or Father Haydn during his lifetime those musicians he conducted called him Papa and today he is widely considered the Father of the Symphony. One of his by lines is Founding genius of the Viennese Classical Style . He was a friend to Mozart and a teacher of Beethoven. He composed over 750 works and arranged over 330 songs. A quick timeline of Haydn’s life. Around 10 years later, ...
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Schoolwork – My Second Essay | Zakira's Roses
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Schoolwork – My Second Essay. Human beings are uniquely tragic amongst the animals of earth. Like the other creatures we struggle to survive, persevere against adversity, mate, breed, die, and mourn. But unlike the other animals, we yearn. We are not Nabokov’s butterflies unaware of the pin that spears us. We know we are trapped and we dream a thousand fantasies of freedom. This insight changed the path of Lady Julian’s life. The transformative sublime is no Sunday afternoon dalliance. The achiev...The r...