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In Stave 2 of A Christmas Carol, the Ghost of Christmas Past takes Scrooge to revisit his youthful days in Fezziwig's world located at the cusp of the Industrial Revolution. Dickens uses Fezziwig to represent communal values and a way of life quickly swept away in the economic turmoil of the early nineteenth century. [2] [3]
Engraving of Old Christmas 1842 - Illustrated London News (December 1842). The Ghost of Christmas Present is described as "a jolly Giant", and Leech's hand-coloured illustration of the friendly and cheerful Spirit, his hand open in a gesture of welcome confronted by the amazed Scrooge has been described by Jane Rabb Cohen as elegantly combining "the ideal, real, and supernatural" with humour ...
By the end of 1842 Dickens was a well-established author with six major works [n 1] as well as several short stories, novellas and other pieces. [2] On 31 December that year he began publishing his novel Martin Chuzzlewit as a monthly serial; [n 2] it was his favourite work, but sales were disappointing and he faced temporary financial ...
The notation of non-pitched percussion instruments is less standardized, and therefore often includes a key or legend specifying which line or space each individual instrument will be notated on. Cymbals are usually notated with 'x' note heads , drums with normal elliptical note heads and auxiliary percussion with alternative note heads. [ 1 ]
[1] [2] Containing songs especially written for the show, the drama was adapted from the novella A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens which had been published just weeks before in December 1843. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] By February 1844 eight other adaptations had already appeared on the London stage, [ 5 ] including A Christmas Carol, or, the Miser's ...
A typical five-line staff. In Western musical notation, the staff [1] [2] (UK also stave; [3] plural: staffs or staves), [1] also occasionally referred to as a pentagram, [4] [5] [6] is a set of five horizontal lines and four spaces that each represent a different musical pitch or in the case of a percussion staff, different percussion instruments.
The third movement of Luciano Berio's Sinfonia (1968) is full of quotations that drift in an out of the orchestral and vocal textures. Mahler's scherzo from his Symphony No. 2 is central to the structure of the movement and provides the narrative thread, with further quotations ranging from Bach to Beethoven to Ravel, Richard Strauss and Boulez ...
Key signatures can theoretically be extended through double flats or double sharps and beyond, but this is extremely rare. For example, the key of G ♯ major would have eight sharps, requiring six single sharps and an F double-sharp (F). The key of A ♭ major, with four flats, is enharmonically equivalent and would generally be used instead.