Analysis Of A Winter's Tale Op 9

I found this piece very interesting; it tells a clear story, and has a dissonant accompanist which makes it sound stylistically similar to the music of musical theatre.

With a storm brewing not only inside the house but outside also, the characters are forced into close captivity with one and another, "It was only four o 'clock but, already, outside the windows, it was as black as if the sky had been drenched in tar."(59) The blackness of the sky mirrors the blackness of Eric 's disposition and temperament. Valgardson also uses a great deal of irony in the story, in the beginning the reader is introduced to the drunken

The weather in this scene is very ominous. “It was a very dark evening for summer: the clouds appeared inclined to thunder,” Nelly tells Lockwood (124). Not much later, a horrible storm begins. “There was a violent wind,” Nelly says, “and either one or the other split a tree off at the corner of the building...but the uproar passed away in twenty minutes, leaving us all unharmed, excepting Cathy, who got thoroughly drenched” (125).

We had not gone a rod when we found ourselves in a heap, in a heavy drift of snow. We took hold of each others’ hands, pulled ourselves out, got into the road, and the cold north wind blew us down the road a half mile south, where the Strelow boys and John Conrad had to go west a mile or more. When they reached a bridge in a ravine, the little fellows sheltered a while under the bridge, a wooden culvert, but Robert, the oldest, insisted that they push on thru the blinding storm for their homes. In the darkness they stumbled in, and by degrees their parents thawed them out, bathed their frozen hands, noses, ears and cheeks, while the boys cried in pain. “My brothers and I could not walk thru the deep snow in the road, so we took down the rows of corn stalks to keep from losing ourselves ’till we reached our pasture fence. Walter was too short to wade the deep snow in the field, so Henry and I dragged him over the top. For nearly a mile we followed the fence ’till we reached the corral and pens. In the howling storm, we could hear the pigs squeal as they were freezing in the mud and snow. Sister Ida had opened the gate and let the cows in from the field to the sheds, just as the cold wind struck and froze her skirts stiff around her like hoops. The barn and stables were drifted over when we reached there. The roaring wind and stifling snow blinded us so that we had to feel thru the yard to the door of our house. “The lamp was lighted. Mother was walking the floor, wringing her hands and calling for her boys. Pa was shaking the ice and snow from his coat and boots. He had gone out to meet us but was forced back by the storm. We stayed in the house all that night. It was so cold that many people froze.” Although most of the information that was collected or the stories that were told were in South Dakota, Nebraska, North Dakota the temperatures took

Waves crashed into the small hull, her tiny voice being drowned out by the sound of it. Between the lighting flashes, she sees the two adults race along the boat, securing belongings that had come loose. Her brother sits near her, frightened and crying, yet somehow comforting as her tiny hands cling to his fur. The rain whipped around them, blown about by fierce winds, and she covered her head to protect against the stinging droplets. Another crack echoed in her ears, but this one was not accompanied by thunder. Water rushed over her feet as the hull bent into strange new shapes around her. Another crash of lightning revealed nothing but the now illuminated night sky, roiling with the dark clouds of the storm. Then the cold overwhelmed her, the current dragging her away from her sibling and under the water. Spinning recklessly, she flailed in the depths until the darkness set in, mercifully quieting

A beautiful man and a beautiful woman falling in love. Usually, these stories have a sort of happy ending for both of the parties when the tale is done, but that’s not what Fitzgerald displayed. Instead, “Winter Dreams” has a different tale, one of how it is like to string a person along with a pretty character and enchanting words. In “Winter Dreams.” Fitzgerald displays society’s view of using people as playthings, using characterization and dialogue as examples like this.

The concert started off at a quick and stimulating pace with Brahms’s Sonata for Two Pianos in F Minor. The piece starts with descending arpeggios echoing a sensation of distress or confusion. There are frequent slight pauses, creating a sense of suspense for what is to follow and building on the emotions

Instruments I heard during this music piece were violins, violas, and clarinets. The first theme within the music is exposition; the music begins quiet for a short amount of time. However, during the middle, the transition becomes louder. The second subject begins quiet and gets louder towards the end. The second theme, the development is loud within the middle of the music however, the music begins and ends quietly. There is dynamics that contrast within this part of the music. The dynamics in the recapitulation is similar to the exposition, where the first subject is quiet from the middle to where the transition is louder. Then the second subject begins quiet and gets louder towards the end. The first and second theme contrast in nature by there rhythmic composition. The first theme has shorter values, whereas, the second theme has longer.

It was December and the day was cold. The wind blew rapidly and incoherently as the village folk worked on the crops and attend to their many cattle. Then, something started falling from the sky...it was snowing. Normally this isn’t a big deal,

In 1846, eight families gathered together with a common goal, to find a better life in California. These families became known as The Donner party, also known as the Donner-Reed party. Although they set out with high hopes and good faith, their trip was doomed from the start.

This short story by Tobias Wolff is about a father’s adventure with his son to the mountains for a ski trip. In this story of adventure, the father must earn the trust of his son and the trust of his wife. The author gives the hint that he and his wife are in turmoil with each other and based on the result of this trip and his ability to keep a promise could determine whether or not the marriage will continue on or will end in separation or divorce. The father of the boy has proven himself to be untrustworthy on past trips with his son. The story tells about the last time he took his son on a trip to a nightclub to see “Thelonious Monk,” a jazz musician and performer. Before this trip to the mountains to ski, “he promised, hand on heart, to take good care of (his son) and have (him) home for dinner on Christmas Eve.”

T.S Eliot’s poem, “The winter evening settles down” is a short, simple to read poem with several different examples of imagery. Eliot uses descriptive words, for instance, “withered leaves”, “broken blinds”, and “lonely cab-horse” (lines 7-10). He paints an extremely bleak image of a town that seems to be deserted of people. The tone of the poem plays hand-in-hand with the imagery used. This town is an unpleasant place where it has seemed to be neglected for some years now. Eliot’s use of imagery takes the reader to this deserted, torpid place; however, at the same time, his goal is to bring the life back into this grim town.

From the stories, I chose, ‘The Man from Snowy River’ by Banjo Patterson and ‘Guo Nian’ by Chinese Mythology both stories show totally different cultures form what we live in today.

A Song of Ice and Fire is a series of books written by George R.R. Martin that is set in a fantasy world with medieval style combat and politics. Several characters in this series are inspired by individuals that were involved in an English war during the medieval era. A major source of inspiration for George R.R. Martin was the Wars of the Roses, which occurred in England from 1455 to 1487, and this helped him create several of his main characters including: Tyrion Lannister, Joffrey Baratheon, and Cersei Lannister. George R.R. Martin took inspiration from kings and queens from the Wars of the Roses and the period before the war. Martin used their personalities to create appropriate characters in his books. Tyrion Lannister was inspired by

Jan Smaczny, The Work of Antonin Dvořák (1841-1904): Dvořák and Early Music, ed. Jarmila Gabrielova, and Jan Kachlik (Prague: Institute of Ethnology, 2007), 311-12.