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The Form Of The Preludes To Bach's Unaccompanied Cello Suites, Daniel E. Prindle
The Form Of The Preludes To Bach's Unaccompanied Cello Suites, Daniel E. Prindle
Daniel E. Prindle
This thesis proposes a methodology for understanding the form of a Baroque prelude, particularly the preludes to the Six Suites for Unaccompanied Violoncello written by Johann Sebastian Bach. Four musical dimensions, tonal structure, motive, texture, and the potential implications of a piece’s genre, parse the preludes in different ways. As the features of these musical dimensions undergo either an evolution or a dramatic change over the course of each prelude, they each suggest a different form. Points of change in each dimension delineate segments in the music. When aligned, these changes create significant formal junctures and suggest an overall form …
The Count's Dilemma, Or, Harmony And Dissonance In Legal Language, Ian Gallacher
The Count's Dilemma, Or, Harmony And Dissonance In Legal Language, Ian Gallacher
Ian Gallacher
Lawyers have had a long, but ambivalent, relationship with metaphor. Viewed by some as a mere literary device, a trick of language that "adds little of substance to an argument," metaphor is seen by others as an essential component of legal language, a rhetorical device inseparable from thought. On one thing, though, all can agree: lawyers only have words to express their thoughts, so they have an obligation to use words, whether used metaphorically or not, as exactly as possible. This article offers a critique of the way lawyers meet this obligation when they use metaphors based in musical language. …