Saint Saëns Siege

War is a hellish battleground where many lives are taken. In war there is constantly images and events that happen which can change a soldier’s life forever. In the book All Quiet on the Western Front Remarque uses the symbols of boots, butterflies and horses to advance the main theme in the novel, that war takes young men’s innocence away.

The Siege of Fort Watson was an American Revolutionary War confrontation in South Carolina that began on April 15, 1781 and lasted until April 23, 1781. ... Fort Watson was once again attacked by the Americans on April 23, with the British forces unable to control the walls due to musket fire from the

This essay will consider the different effects created by Erich Maria Remarque in his novel All Quiet on the Western Front. As a writer, Remarque unknowingly left his novel open to readers with completely different perspectives, and to various forms of criticism. This undoubtedly meant that every single reader had been affected by the novel in many different ways which unfortunately for Remarque may have been an effect that he never intended. This essay is divided into 5 main sections. Firstly it will address any of the intentions Remarque could have possibly wanted to propose through his novel, and closely examine the purposes and motives behind All quiet on the Western Front. It will then go on to analyse Remarque’s use of language in various extracts of the novel. Then the content is analysed in two parts; the third part is a brief insight into one of the key themes of the novel, and the fourth part highlights the effects Remarque causes. Finally, some conclusions will be drawn as to whether or Remarque may have intended to achieve a certain effect in his novel, and as to whether or not I personally agree with the comment that through his shaping of language and content, Remarque may have achieved an effect he might not have intended.

In the book “A Long Way Gone” music plays a role as a healer and a saviour.

Do to this the members often played with battered instruments due to the condition of travel and war. Despite this the soldiers preformed an essential role towards boosting moral by providing an atmosphere void of the war.

Even absent foreknown knowledge of its title, the “Battle Hymn of the Republic” is a song that is unmistakably martial in nature. At the outset of the musical piece, the listener is greeted with a simple rhythm of drums, whose cadence resembles that of a cadre of soldiers marching lockstep in formation. The beat of the drums are soon joined by the solemn sound of trumpets, slowly urging the brave troop towards battle and an uncertain future. Now set to their purpose, the men at arms, spurred forth by the sound of French horns and battle drums, join in the melody and begin to sing of their faith in God who must surely bless the righteous cause of their march.

General Lee once remarked, “Without music, there would have been no army” (Kehoe). The New York Herald concurred with Lee in 1862 when a reporter wrote, “All history proves that music is as indispensable to warfare as money; and money has been called the sinews of war. Music is the soul of Mars...” (Bowman). It is evident from these quotes the important role music played in helping soldiers from both armies cope during the war. The Civil War would have been immensely different without the considerable influence that music had on both the Union and Confederate armies. Music played a significant role in motivating soldiers to overcome their hardships in both the Union and the Confederate armies by entertaining and comforting, bringing back memories of home and family, and strengthening the bonds between comrades and helping forge new bonds.

The first oldest city in Georgia. Savannah was found by James Oglethorpe, and 144 European settlers on February 12, 1733. They sail from England on the Ann. These Settlers were the first settlers to step foot on Savannah. This city is named after Savannah River.

Music is known to leave its mark on people helping them to overcome challenges in their lives or to give them courage to defy the odds. In one’s daily life, music is normally taken for granted or is seen as nothing special. As ordinary as it may seem, music can convey emotion in times when the body is numb or all hope is lost. Similarly, in The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway, the cello’s music gave people hope and determination to live their lives in spite of the rampant siege around them. Therefore, music very much impacts the lives of the principal characters Dragan, Kenan, and Arrow.

The Siege of Petersburg occurred from June 15-18 1864. However, it was actually a series of battles fought around Petersburg from 9 June 1864 to March 25, 1865. This was to be a evolving era for the military, society and how the two would affect each other. During this era, new tactics and strategies would be tried, changed and adopted throughout future wars while others would fail miserably. Your position in society would usually dictate your position on the battlefield. Even though your position in society did not qualify you as a leader or good decision maker as several outcomes of this Siege would prove. This may very well have affected the outcome of new strategies and tactics. Had better decisions been made on the battlefield

exhibition of his longing for the familiarity of Paris and the sanctity of his past, a

Bergeron, paradoxically yet successfully, chooses to get to the core of the French mélodie by looking at it from a distance. Her focuses on the mélodie’s complex relationship with the German Lied, the pedagogical movements of the French language in the late-nineteenth century, and Claude Debussy’s opera Pelléas et Melisande in order to “examine the range of French expression [Debussy] puts on stage and how he represents that range in music” are all indirect yet inventive ways in which Bergeron embraces the challenges of defining this elusive vocal genre (xiii). Perhaps Bergeron sets out to define the French mélodie through indirect methods for exactly that reason; a genre as complex as the mélodie could not be fully understood if one attempted to get to its center through traditional means. Stating that French art song is “a musical repertory based on […] delicacy and restraint […]”, Bergeron clearly has a grasp on

Before hearing this lecture, I had no concept of the types of music in concentration camps, much less a sense of the music within World War II. The lecture taught me how music and the arts are something that can’t ever be stopped. Even though it’s not mandatory for human life or a lucrative career it has permanently etched a place inside of culture and the continuation of history.

The quiet heroism of those concerts and recitals were a potent symbol of the human achievement emanated from the fact that Myra was a Jewish and played music from the same land as the enemy’s leader who represented barbarism. No one questioned those concerts and its relevance when the world was ablaze but they understood the defiant gesture of humanity and culture in the face of unprecedented brutality, and provide a subtle noble message. The story of Dalrymple’s horrified discovery, in Liberia’s Centennial Hall where he describes about a never seen before rejection of human refinement, wherein the piano not only represented the Liberia’s culture but also an idea of civilization, in itself an obvious coarseness of the gesture of contempt. The reaction of two young British journalists, to whom there was nothing significant in the vandalizing of the piano—only an inanimate object. There was no compassion for the scores of thousands of people who had been killed and many more had been displaced from their homes in the civil wars .He was appalled to see that the two could see no connection between the impulse to destroy the piano and the impulse to kill and no connection between respect for human life and for the finer productions of human labor, no connection between the book burnings in Nazi Germany and all the subsequent barbarities of that regime. This pair of seemingly trivial incidents reveals with an odd poignancy, or

The 19th Century saw many composers come to light as they made a mark on the art music world. Unknown at the time, they would soon be remembered for their work in decades to come. As music developed so did the various ways to portray the piece that was being played. One type of art music that emerged at the time was ‘programme music’. This was defined as where the “composer intends to guard the listener against a wrong poetical interpretation” . In other words it was a way to correctly convince an audience of the story with a number of movements. Composer Camille Saint – Saens was one of the many who did this exceptionally well. Throughout his lifetime, 1835 – 1921, he was known to be one of “France’s most gifted musicians” . Many of his works are still used today and have helped inspire many in not only the musical world, but outside of it as well.