Twitter M.F.A.: Close-readings of a tweeter's tweets assess tone, theme, synecdoche, and narrative arc.
It's worth noting that nearly every Inaugural Address ever delivered includes some variation on the "change the tone" theme: Zachary Taylor in 1849 praised efforts to "assuage the bitterness"; Benjamin Harrison in 1889 said "we should hold our differing opinions in mutual respect"; Calvin Coolidge in 1925 insisted "there is no salvation in a narrow and bigoted partisanship".
Brand Philip's attribution was based on striking similarities in composition and its shared tone, theme and size with the father panel at the Uffizi.
Mr. Meyer's "Canon," originally for bass and banjo, started off with a wistful whole-tone theme, which swelled to fast, intricate whorls in a tricky time signature.
He came to public attention in 1950 with his work Variazioni Canoniche, orchestral variations on a 12-tone theme of Arnold Schoenberg, whose daughter Nuria he married in 1955.
In James's novella buttoned-up tensions fester into more lurid obsessions subtly and gradually — an effect echoed in Britten's compulsively organized score, which includes a 12-tone theme screwed slowly in permutations throughout the work.
Although Tippett flirted with the "twelve-tone" technintroducedtroduced a twelve-tone theme into the "storm" prelude that begins The Knot Garden Bowen records that he generally rejected serialism, as incompatible with his musical aims.
A live 1962 performance points far ahead, with a twenty-three minutexcursionon through a labyrinth of tones, themes, tempi suggests the search for an even more fluid musical framework as well as a string quartet, composed by Coleman, that suggests the growing desire to shift contexts drastically and bypass the traditions of jazz altogether.
Their sordid, tendentious, and coyly hectoring films borrow moods, tones, themes, and styles from Haneke, and they do so skillfully and, I think, sincerely — because their films continue in a line of modern European mentalities that Haneke was early to diagnose and also foster.
The simple combination of black words on a white (or cream) page puts us into an automatic mode of intellectual abstraction, where we can examine the visual imagery, audial tones, themes, concepts and stories from an emotional distance.
The lawsuit, which claimed unspecified damages, alleged that the video was "directly derived" from LaChapelle's pictures, copying their "composition, total concept, feel, tone, mood, theme, colors, props, settings, decors, wardrobe and lighting".
