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Laguardia Literary Magazine: Brainstorm, Laguardia Community College Oct 1984

Laguardia Literary Magazine: Brainstorm, Laguardia Community College

LaGuardia Community College Publications

Fall 1984, Vol. 1, No. 2 - Brainstorm - Editor-in-Chief: Ishmeal Cooper; Associate Editor: Anita Penino; Associate Editor: William Gumbs; Staff: Ephraim Moore; Tasha Staggers; Carolyn Young; Dr. Thomas Fink, Faculty Advisor


New Ingersoll: A Blend Of The Past And The Future, Joseph S. Jeret Feb 1984

New Ingersoll: A Blend Of The Past And The Future, Joseph S. Jeret

Brooklyn College History

Article in the student newspaper, Night Call, about the Ingersoll Hall Extenson


Charles Marcus Breder, Jr. 1897-1983, Aldemaro Romero Jr. Jan 1984

Charles Marcus Breder, Jr. 1897-1983, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.


An Unrecognized Maltese West-Semitic Isogloss, Richard S. Tomback Jan 1984

An Unrecognized Maltese West-Semitic Isogloss, Richard S. Tomback

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.


Sin And Guilt In The Fiction Of John Gregory Dunne, Michael Adams Jan 1984

Sin And Guilt In The Fiction Of John Gregory Dunne, Michael Adams

Publications and Research

John Gregory Dunne depicts his characters' obsession with guilt in his first two novels: True Confessions (1977) and Dutch Shea, Jr. (1982).


Heinrich Schenker As An Interpreter Of Beethoven's Piano Sonatas, William Rothstein Jan 1984

Heinrich Schenker As An Interpreter Of Beethoven's Piano Sonatas, William Rothstein

Publications and Research

There was a time when it seemed necessary for admirers of the work of Heinrich Schenker to remind the musical community periodically that it had grown out of a lifetime of practical musical experience—that is, that Der freie Satz did not represent a self-contained system of theoretical speculation. Schenker himself tried repeatedly throughout his career to impress this point upon his readers. In recent years, fortunately, this reminder—which had threatened to become merely ritualistic—has become somewhat less necessary. The change in Schenker's reputation may, it seems, be dated precisely to 1975, when Dover Publications issued an inexpensive reprint of his …


Islam And The Religions Of The Ancient Orient: A Reappraisal. Part I, Richard S. Tomback Jan 1984

Islam And The Religions Of The Ancient Orient: A Reappraisal. Part I, Richard S. Tomback

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.


The Impact Of Language On Musical Composition In Ghana: An Introduction To The Musical Style Of Ephraim Amu, V. Kofi Agawu Jan 1984

The Impact Of Language On Musical Composition In Ghana: An Introduction To The Musical Style Of Ephraim Amu, V. Kofi Agawu

Publications and Research

In most cultures of the world, the creative act of composition may be defined simply as the transformation of pre-existing material into new, individualized structures. The precompositional resource may be a system such as the hierarchical arrangement of triads that forms the basis of Western tonality, a set of formulas that generates such genres as Gregorian chant and West African storytelling, or even a rigidly defined set of relationships such as those inherent in a twelve-tone row. In each case, the precompositional elements provide a framework for the analysis and interpretation of the composition.