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Phenmetrazine, sold under the brand name Preludin among others, is a stimulant drug first synthesized in 1952 and originally used as an appetite suppressant, but withdrawn from the market in the 1980s due to widespread misuse.
This article lists the fugal works of Johann Sebastian Bach, defined here as the fugues, fughettas, and canons, as well as other works containing fugal expositions but not denoted as fugues, such as some choral sections of the Mass in B minor, the St Matthew Passion, the St John Passion, and the cantatas.
The Prelude and Fugue in B-flat minor, BWV 867, is a keyboard composition by Johann Sebastian Bach. It is the 22nd prelude and fugue in the first book of The Well-Tempered Clavier, a series of 48 preludes and fugues by the composer. It was composed in 1722 or earlier. [1]
The beginning of the BWV 544 Prelude, in the hand of J.S. Bach. Prelude and Fugue in B minor, BWV 544 is a piece of organ music written by Johann Sebastian Bach sometime between 1727 and 1731, during his tenure in Leipzig. [1] Unlike most other organ preludes and fugues of Bach, the autograph fair copy of the score survives. [2]
Kyūjutsu (弓術) ("art of archery") is the traditional Japanese martial art of wielding a bow as practiced by the samurai class of feudal Japan. [1] Although the samurai are perhaps best known for their swordsmanship with a katana (), kyūjutsu was actually considered a more vital skill for a significant portion of Japanese history.
A Preface to Paradise Lost is one of C. S. Lewis's most famous scholarly works. [1] The book had its genesis in Lewis's Ballard Matthews Lectures, [2] which he delivered at the University College of North Wales in 1941. [2]
Préludes pour piano (Preludes for piano) is an early work for piano by the French composer Olivier Messiaen composed in 1928–1929, when the composer was 20 years old. . Messiaen considered it to be his first work of any valu
Claude Debussy's Préludes are 24 pieces for solo piano, divided into two books of 12 preludes each. Unlike some notable collections of preludes from prior times, such as Chopin's Op. 28 preludes, or the preludes from Johann Sebastian Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier, Debussy's do not follow a strict pattern of tonal centers.