Sentences with phrase «la fugue»

Bloom's counterweight to this dreary reductionism is the Great Tradition of Western letters from Plato to Tolstoy; and most of the book is devoted to individual chapters on such novelists as Rousseau, Austen, Stendahl, and Tolstoy, with a whole section devoted to the romantic comedies and tragedies of Shakespeare, and a concluding fugue on Plato's Symposium.

William Blake is the only poet ever to have created an apocalypse or a fully apocalyptic work of art — for, according to Northrop Frye, Milton and Jerusalem are inseparable, and constitute a «double epic,» a prelude and fugue on the same subject.

or the equally radiant conclusion of his doctrine of creation in God's Yes to the world, or the three chapters on God's perfections, or that astonishing triple fugue on faith, obedience and prayer that concludes the doctrine of providence.

If you were to ask exactly what the life of the mind consists in, there is no clearer answer than to play through the Art of Fugue.

The indeterminateness of the eternal object «Fugue» may be solved into the determinateness of the actual performance of «Fugue in C.» The actual occasion has the eternal object as an internal factor, while the eternal object maintains an external relationship.

Thus, as one of many possibilities, a Fugue in C major could read:

The procedure «Fugue» would simply be grossly mirrored whenever we chose to hear it.

In sum, we can say that the eternal object «Fugue» is determined with respect to other eternal objects, and is indetermined, or has a «patience» for relationships to actual occasions.

Just as you might expect the final section of Fugue 19 to begin, the music stops eerily.

The fugue as a procedure («formula») has its individual essence — it is a fugue, and in a unified series (e.g., Toccata, Adagio, and Fugue) it adds its unique contribution to the whole.

The Art of the Fugue is perhaps Bach's most abstract and intellectually challenging work.

A «Fugue» is characterized with respect to the intervals at which the subject and its answer enter.

An actual occasion synthesizes within itself the complete relatedness of «Fugue» to every other eternal object, including the eternal object «C major.»

Indeed, if it were determined, there would be no possibility of more than one actual «fugue.»

There are three singers who each take their part, as in a fugue.

By the use of scientific methods we can be told accurately and completely about the sound produced in the playing of a Beethoven sonata or a Bach fugue.

From Calvin to Barth has echoed a thundering fugue on the glory of God.

It kept playing in my mind with new variations, like a theme in a fugue.

Coming down from Christmas always leaves us in a little bit of a fugue state.

This is one of the funniest things I have read all day:» in my current sleep - deprived fugue while also filing the vast peanut butter pie - shaped hole in the archives» I, too, have a «vast peanut butter pie - shaped hole».

Thus, when I spied a Tagalongs - style peanut butter pie on Tasting Table this week and realized that it was easy enough that I could pull it off in my current sleep - deprived fugue while also filing the vast peanut butter pie - shaped hole in the archives, it was a done deal.

Walking into a Whole Foods Market without a shopping plan is like willingly entering a fugue state and re-emerging very confused an hour later and $ 200 lighter, with a $ 20 bag of maca powder in one hand and a $ 6 kombucha in the other.

The commercials in the World Series are designed to root through your subconscious while you're in a fugue state.

Professional basketball — sampled here in full - color action — may look like chaos, but it calls for fluid variations as precise and calculated as the mathematics of a Bach fugue

The first time we read it we fell into a fugue state where we swear we became Kristen.

Not only does he have absolute pitch, he is able to get the structure of a fugue.

Every neuron in the hippocampus speaks the two languages simultaneously, Mehta said, comparing the phenomenon to the multiple concurrent melodies of a Bach fugue.

Furthermore, the fundamental frequency of male wing beats have been measured at 500 to 900 Hz, far lower than the high - pitched tone emitted by Fugue FM.

This can happen — it's called a fugue state, but it's very rare.

For example, the differential equations of vibrating strings and surfaces help us understand harmonics and tuning systems, rhythm analysis tells us the ways a measure can be divided into beats, and the study of symmetry relates to the translations in time and pitch that occur in a fugue or canon.

, the opening of Bach's fugue XX in A minor (4.).

For instance, one could imagine asking your computer to make up a performance that's similar to songs you've listened to, or to hum a melody and tell it to make a fugue on command.

The composer Johann Sebastian Bach left behind an incomplete fugue upon his death, either as an unfinished work or perhaps as a puzzle for future composers to solve.

But I remained in a free - floating kind of fugue state for years.

At more than two weeks into 2018, you may be running close to the deadline to return party outfit duds, the just - because gifts to yourself, and splurge items you bought in a holiday fugue state.

Like countless other single parents, I learned how to juggle it all, and as my son entered pre-K, I woke from my parental fugue state with the suspicion that I might still be a woman underneath my mom jeans.

More of an artisitic magnum opus, laden with symphonic fugues and transcendental phenomena, «The Tree of Life» is light - years away from one's conventional cinematic experience.

Indiewire's David Ehrlich describes it as a «portrait of grief... too hazy and anesthetized to add up,» but Nick Schager of Variety believes this «consistently surprising film slinks along with melancholic dreaminess, matching the fugue state that plagues its grief - stricken protagonist.»

This consistently surprising film slinks along with melancholic dreaminess, matching the fugue state that plagues its grief - stricken protagonist.

Though the teen girls in my audience were scurrying around the theater in delirious fugue states before the start of Insurgent, the sequel to last year's Y.A. adaptation Divergent, I found it hard to muster much excitement.

Suddenly, the latter falls into a fugue state, unreachable.

Writer - director Mark Wilkinson gracefully elides backstories while arranging his converging narratives into a neat fugue, but the overall preciousness of his conception is suffocating.

The only score we have is «Toccata and Fugue in D minor» at both ends of the film.

Mr. Weerasethakul's film is like a piece of chamber music slowly, deftly expanding into a full symphonic movement; to watch it is to enter a fugue state that has the music and rhythms of another culture.

Mark Pellington's contemplative fugue Nostalgia might have been called Stuff or Inheritance.

The opening minutes of «Fugue» not only suggest that we're in for another grim and off - kilter portrait of femininity, but that Smoczynska is again twisting a very familiar setup into a ruthless piece of storytelling that plays by its own rules.

In need of a new kidney and having learned that he has a long - lost daughter, dimwit Harry Dunne (Jeff Daniels) snaps his equally cretinous pal, Lloyd Christmas (Jim Carrey), out of an apparent fugue state to accompany him on a journey to find her.

The movie's focus is on the almost musical dialogue of Amanda and Lily as they bounce viewpoints about, like the music of Bach's Passacaglia and Fugue in C - Minor.

The elder of the group, Peter Mitchell (Walken), and obsessing perfectionist Daniel Lerner started the quartet called The Fugue with married couple Juliette (Keener) and Robert (Hoffman).

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christopher Walken and Catherine Keener join with a newer face, Mark Ivanir, to play the members of the Fugue String Quartet, a world - famous ensemble based in Manhattan.