In music, a quartet (French: quatuor, German: Quartett, Italian: quartetto, Spanish: cuarteto, Polish: kwartet) is a method of instrumentation (or a medium), used to perform a musical composition, and consisting of four parts.
In Western art music, which is often referred to as "Classical music," string quartets are considered to be an important type of chamber music. String quartets consist of two violins, a viola, and a cello. The particular choice and number of instruments derives from the registers of the human voice: soprano, alto, tenor and bass. In the string quartet, two violins play the soprano and alto vocal registers, the viola plays the tenor register and the cello plays the bass register. Occasionally, string quartets are written for violin, viola, cello and double bass, representing the SATB format. The types of pieces written for this quartet are sometimes in the format of 2 main voices, (violin and cello) backed up by the viola and double bass respectively.
One of the early composers of string quartets, Luigi Boccherini, wrote 100 string quartets. Other important composers of string quartets include Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Ludwig van Beethoven. The term "quartet" is also used to refer to a musical composition written for such a group. In string quartets, each player is typically given an allowing distinct part.
Alban Maria Johannes Berg (February 9, 1885 – December 24, 1935) was an Austrian composer. He was a member of the Second Viennese School with Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern, and produced compositions that combined Mahlerian Romanticism with a personal adaptation of Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique.
Berg was born in Vienna, the third of four children of Johanna and Conrad Berg. His family lived comfortably until the death of his father in 1900.
He was more interested in literature than music as a child and did not begin to compose until he was fifteen, when he started to teach himself music. In late February or early March 1902 he fathered a child with Marie Scheuchl, a servant girl in the Berg family household. His daughter, Albine, was born on December 4, 1902.
Berg had little formal music education before he became a student of Arnold Schoenberg in October 1904. With Schoenberg he studied counterpoint, music theory, and harmony. By 1906, he was studying music full-time; by 1907, he began composition lessons. His student compositions included five drafts for piano sonatas. He also wrote songs, including his Seven Early Songs (Sieben Frühe Lieder), three of which were Berg's first publicly performed work in a concert that featured the music of Schoenberg's pupils in Vienna that year. The early sonata sketches eventually culminated in Berg's Piano Sonata, Op. 1 (1907–1908); it is one of the most formidable "first" works ever written.
William Martin "Billy" Joel (born May 9, 1949) is an American pianist, singer-songwriter, and composer. Since releasing his first hit song, "Piano Man," in 1973, Joel has become the sixth best-selling recording artist and the third best-selling solo artist in the United States, according to the RIAA.
Joel had Top 40 hits in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, achieving 33 Top 40 hits in the United States, all of which he wrote himself. He is also a six-time Grammy Award winner, a 23-time Grammy nominee and has sold over 150 million records worldwide. He was inducted into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame (1992), the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1999), the Long Island Music Hall of Fame (2006), and the Hit Parade Hall of Fame (2009). In 2008, Billboard magazine released a list of the Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists to celebrate the US singles chart's 50th anniversary, with Billy Joel positioned at No. 23. With the exception of the 2007 songs "All My Life" and "Christmas in Fallujah," Joel stopped recording pop/rock material after 1993's River of Dreams, but he continued to tour extensively until 2010.
Plot
When a Chinese rebel murders Chon's estranged father and escapes to England, Chon and Roy make their way to London with revenge on their minds. Chon's sister, Lin, has the same idea, and uncovers a worldwide conspiracy to murder the royal family but almost no one will believe her.
Keywords: 1880s, 19th-century, acrobatics, action-hero, american-abroad, american-in-the-uk, arrows, artifacts, assassination-attempt, bathtub
A Royal Kick In The Arse
Roy: [as it starts raining] Oh, this country blows.
Doyle: I think you gentlemen should accompany me back to the Yard.::[Cut to Roy and Chon in a cell at Scotland Yard]::Roy: This isn't a yard! It's a JAIL!
[Lin slaps Chon Wang]::Chon Wang: I just saved you!::Chon Lin: You were late!
Roy: Guys, do whatever you want to the kid, but that's my watch you're holding.::Fagin #1: Well, there's a load of us, and only two of you, so piss off!::Roy: Easy fellas, you lost one war this way, don't make the same mistake twice.
[why Chon should sleep with the woman for money]::Roy: Think about your sister in London.::Chon Wang: What?
Roy: That's a terrible name for a detective. Sherlock Holmes?
Chon Wang: It's a puzzle box. I don't know how to open it.::Roy: What do you mean, you don't know how to open it? You just get a hammer and smash it open so you can see what it says.::Chon Wang: No. I must have patience. By the time I'm able to open it, I will be ready to read the message.::Roy: Oh, come on, Confucius, that's the corniest thing I've ever heard!
Roy: Hey, Rathbone! I was just thinking of a title for my new book. "Roy O'Bannon vs. Little Lord Sissy." Or how about "Roy O'Bannon versus the Man who would be Queen?"
Roy: I call that my kung pow chicken.
Roy: [in London] Hey, I'm walking here! You're driving on the wrong side of the road! Bunch of amateurs, these people don't get it!
They beat the odds one base hit at a time.
Logan Crosby: Well, at least my bother's consistent.::Snotty Kid: Your brother's a loser.::Logan Crosby: No he's not, you snot bucket, pig-smelly, diaper-head kid. [pause] Where did that come from?
Plot
The babysitter (Ann) phones the husband at the shop (store) that he and his wife jointly run (I think). The wife hears the receptionist put through the call from Ann to her husband and surreptitiously picks up an extension phone. Now, this may be a goof, since this is a fairly large workshop, making jewellery, and one might suppose that they have a small PABX exchange and each phone is on a separate line. Anyway, the wife overhears that the babysitter is having a bay with the husband and it all snowballs from there... I post this because I don't, having just watched this scene, understand why the film is titled Baby Monitor: Sound of Fear. The Baby Monitor does figure in a few scenes but was not how the wife discovered her husband's infidelity...
Keywords: alienation, babysitter, disease, employer, extramarital-affair, husband-wife-relationship, infidelity, killer, murder, murder-plot
Jimmy: [Last lines as Ann dangles over a balcony] So long::Ann: Screw you [Over balances him and he plunges to his death]
Plot
The babysitter (Ann) phones the husband at the shop (store) that he and his wife jointly run (I think). The wife hears the receptionist put through the call from Ann to her husband and surreptitiously picks up an extension phone. Now, this may be a goof, since this is a fairly large workshop, making jewellery, and one might suppose that they have a small PABX exchange and each phone is on a separate line. Anyway, the wife overhears that the babysitter is having a bay with the husband and it all snowballs from there... I post this because I don't, having just watched this scene, understand why the film is titled Baby Monitor: Sound of Fear. The Baby Monitor does figure in a few scenes but was not how the wife discovered her husband's infidelity...
Keywords: alienation, babysitter, disease, employer, extramarital-affair, husband-wife-relationship, infidelity, killer, murder, murder-plot
Jimmy: [Last lines as Ann dangles over a balcony] So long::Ann: Screw you [Over balances him and he plunges to his death]
...life between the malls.
Man on the Bus: What language is that you're speaking?::Roger: Arabic.::Man on the Bus: Arabic. Really.::Roger: Yep.::Man on the Bus: That's interesting. I always thought Arabic was more throatier and harsher, you know like, rr-rrrr. Sure that's Arabic?::Roger: Yeah, I'm sure.
Plot
Memory mixes with desire as a museum attendant is caught up in sado-masochistic fantasies inspired by a 19th century painting of slaves in chains called Scene on the coast of Africa. The man remembers his past as a singer and delivers Dido's lament from Purcell's opera.
Keywords: art-museum, bdsm, closeted-homosexual, erotic-fantasy, fetish, gay-interest, homoeroticism, independent-film, s&m;
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On many of the musical featurettes from the mid-50's on, until they closed the Shorts department for good, Universal resorted to just sticking an editor in a room, and having him scalp together a new-short from the footage in their old shorts. This compilation features Anita O'Day doing "Honeysuckle Rose" - The Conley Graves Trio does "Conley's Blues" - The Tune Jesters do "Dry Bones" - The Chico Hamilton Quintet performs "A Nice Day" and The Hi-Lo's rung through "Jeepers Creepers." The Buddy DeFranco Quartet revives what is the most-used film ever heard in films with a Universal logo..."I'll Remember April."
Keywords: 1940s, 1950s, archive-footage, blues, compilation, compilation-film, hollywood, jazz, musician, pop-music
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The premise is that if movie theatres, to attract customers, go in for prize-winning 'Bank-Nights," than banks should have entertainment days. Gus , acting as the emcee and singing a couple of songs, is the president of a bank that does just that, and exposes his depositors to pop singer Bernice Parks; dancer Ruth Daye; Minor & Root, skilled dancers and The Five Ames Sisters who are acrobatic dancers; the Barton Parks Quartete do some warbling, and the grand finale fins The Three Wiles doing a routine based on "The Dance of the Wooden Soldiers."
Keywords: 1930s, acrobatic-dancer, acrobatics, bank, bank-cashier, bank-president, banker, cigarette-smoking, customer, dancer
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A young man falls in love with a beautiful blonde. When he sees her being forced onto a luxury liner, he decides to follow and rescue her. However, he discovers that she is an English heiress who ran away from home and is now being returned to England. He also discovers that his boss is on the ship. To avoid discovery, he disguises himself as the gangster accomplice of a minister, who is actually a gangster on the run from the law.
Keywords: based-on-play, gangster, mistaken-identity, ship
An Explosion of Merriment
[first lines]::Reno Sweeney: [singing] In olden days a glimpse of stocking / Was looked on as something shocking, / Now, Heaven knows, / Anything goes! [as she sings the words "anything goes", the title of the film appears onscreen]
Reno Sweeney: [angrily, to Billy] You never even laid a hand on me, and I'm not used to a man treating me like that!
Moonface Martin: [after being "demoted" to "less dangerous"] I can't understand this Administration!
I fall in love too easily, I fall in love too fast
I fall in love too easily, I fall in love too fast
I fall in love too terribly hard, for love to ever last
My heart should be well schooled, 'cause I've been fooled
in the past
And still I fall in love too easily, I fall in love too
fast
[Instrumental]
I I wanna learn
(anderson / howe / wakeman / bruford)
I wanna learn more about you
We haven't spoke in quite a while
And all of the dreams that come true
So surprising how it catches you
I wanna learn more about me
I've been sinking like a setting stone
And now the dreams are realising it's true
That's why I wanna learn about you
I wanna know more about life
And things that can fly in between my mind
I wanna change all the I dream about
My waking and my so many lives, oh my
I wanna learn more about you
We haven't spoke in quite a while
Just let me, let me come through
I'll give you my heart, my life for life
Ii she gives me love
(anderson / howe / wakeman / bruford / dowling)
She gives me love
When love had gone away
When the pressure came so fast
She give me love
Long distance runaround
And in between the pressure
I was summoned
How did we dance on the south side of the sky
We saw the flags flying on the moon
And thru the gates of delirium so fast
Believing in the light was a beginning
Only to believe in you
Only to believe in you
She give me love
When I was losing fast
I was awakened by the dream
She was the love for me
The first and last
And all that I remembered
Was the roundabout only to believe in you
Iii who was the first
(anderson / howe / wakeman / bruford)
Who was the first to show
The moon at night
Is never so far away
We are the first to define the
Languages of love
Who was the first to learn
The universal consciousness divine
We are the first to discover
This day in our time
And when the history of science
Re-writes itself each day
We are living in days of wonder simon says
So wonderful true believer
So wonderful I'm alive
Just take this world of life
Each day at a time
So up this universal
Combinations of the word
I'll try so hard to fulfill my belief
Take me I'm a love you
I'm a love you
No change in my mind
I'll walk with you to the end of the earth
I wanna learn more about you
We haven't spoke in quite a while
I wanna learn more about me
We haven't spoke in quite a while
So up this universal
Combinations of the word
So up this universal
Word of love
Take me I'm a love you
I'm a want you
No need to change my mind
I'll walk with you to the end of the earth
I wanna learn more about you
We haven't spoke in quite while
I wanna learn more about me
Iv I'm alive
(anderson / howe / wakeman / bruford)
Only when you looked
Did I realise
Someone broke into your life
How we hurt and never show it
Come into my world hold me
In your arms
There's a mystery to the touch
How it heals so
When we're broken
I believe that all the fear you've had
Can gently fly away
We experience we hold together
Lost in one embrace
We will love forever (this eternity)
For in (this) love, I'm alive, I'm alive
Only when you spoke
Did I realise
How you understand this life
How you help me
With your eyesight
Only when we touched
Did it all come true
How you understand my life