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	Death metal - Wikipedia
		Perkara death metal biasanya melibatkan tema yang lebih nihilistik berbanding genre yang lain dan menggunakan metafora yang mengerikan atau "jahat" untuk menggambarkan konsep yang lebih besar.
		Death metal is clearly an outgrowth of heavy metal, but the full story is complex and interesting, and is the subject of some debate among fans and musicians.
		To their credit, early "death metal" bands such as Death did push the format forward, something that would ultimately pay off in a new form of music that was substantially different from their closest forefather, thrash metal.
	ms.wikipedia.org /wiki/Death_metal (1629 words)

	Art and Death (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		One of the central themes developed by Ariès is the "relationship between man's attitude towards death and his awareness of self, of his degree of existence, or simply of his individuality." [3] According to him, the concept of death as a familiar and anonymous event was replaced by the suppression of death.
		Here death was considered a process that was both familiar and near, featuring a simple public and ritualistic ceremony largely controlled by the dying person and for which friends and family, including the children, were present.
		With the increasing privatization of death and the institutionalization of the dying, by 1950 death denial was to become the reigning orientation.
	death.monstrous.com /art_and_death.htm (1185 words)

	Christopher Braider, On Karl Guthke's _The Gender of Death: A Cultural History in Art and Literature_ - Romantic ...
		One consequence of this prosopopeic humanation is to assign death a gender reproducing the gendered state of humanity itself.
		Accordingly, death is increasingly imaged as the Devil incarnate (123–27).
		Stressing the Christian linkage of death with sin, and sin with sex, the motif portrays death as a seducer undoing a young woman in the prime of carnal life.
	www.rc.umd.edu /reviews/back/guthke.html (972 words)

	Death and the Maiden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Death is usually represented as a skeletton or a decaying corpse.
		Death and the Maiden also echoes the mortality of our affections, that life is short as is the proud beauty of a woman, and encourages us to consider them more carefully.
		In the iconography of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, death raped the living: countless scenes or motifs in art and in literature associated death with love, Thanatos with Eros, the agony of death with the orgasmic trance.
	death.monstrous.com /death_and_the_maiden.htm (365 words)

	9 August 2000 - 25th Anniversary of Shostakovich's Death
		The four-note motif D-S-C-H, consisting of the composer's initials, is vital for all the movements of the quartet, and generates the form especially in the first and final movements.
		The death of the cellist, Sergei Shirinsky, interrupted the rehearsals.
		The instrumentation, melodic style and the visions of death are related to the 14th and 15th Symphonies and to the late quartets.
	www.geocities.com /kuala_bear/articles/sikorski.html (13977 words)

	Metallian.com - Iron Maiden
		Iron Maiden remains second to none in metal legacy and popularity in most parts of the metal world.
		Iron Maiden was also the first band to play the BBC TV show Top Of The Pops live since The Who, was banned in different countries, been deemed Satanic for its classic 1982 song and album Number Of The Beast and made Eddie, drawn usually by artist Derek Riggs, its mascot and cover model.
		While many people think Maiden went down the drain in the years after Powerslave, there is at least one more album that deserves notice, and it is Somewhere In Time.
	www.metallian.com /ironmaiden.htm (1995 words)

	BAND-Death/Control Denied biography-Nuclear Blast
		Death's history dates back to 1983 when Chuck formed Mantas together with a couple of high school friends and started gaining much notoriety within the underground tape trading circuit.
		Death's rabid fan base is in no way confined to The United States, though.
		Founded by guitarist/ vocalist/ song-writer Chuck Schuldiner, Death blended mature, structured musicianship with assaulting aggression, an influential style of precision and an infinite frontier of thought provoking subject matter from their very inception in 1983.
	www.emptywords.org /BANDNuclearBlast.htm (951 words)

	Boonslick Cemeteries -- Chapter 11 -- The Culture of Death and Burial: A Case Study (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Probate records confirms that the death was not expected as the family had to purchase “planks for coffin for A. Hicks” from Peter Stice, a charter member of Red Top Church discussed in Chapter 4, who billed them 7 ½ cents.
		Since cancer was the major cause of death of his descendants and still plagues the family, it is tempting to assign this as the cause of death for a man of 39.
		Gone were the death announcements edged in fl, although white funeral announcements edged in gray with fl lettering were still taken around to all the local businesses and posted so people at the local supermarket or pharmacy would know who died (Illustration 312).
	www.mo-river.net /history/boonslick/chapter11.htm (10393 words)

	Iron Maiden: Powerslave: CD Compact Disc: Skateboarding Music and more... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Another Maiden album that is part of a whole line of albums that most consider "classics." Relentless touring for this album made Iron Maiden much bigger than they were before, especially in America.
		I wish Maiden had done more songs with an actual riff; the Egyptian themed riff is awesome, and the guitar solo section in the middle is one of their better interludes.
		This is Maidens best album(to me anyways) it was their peak,now some people might dissagre, but after powerslave maiden started going downhill.Now almost every single song on here is great,it is packed with Dickinson's energy,Smith and Murrays epic riffs,Harris's unmatched talent and Mcbrain's powerful drumming.
	shop.skateboardmusic.com /cds/iron-maiden/powerslave/listen112533.html (5669 words)

	Victorian Mourning: The Significance of Sound in Poems of Death
		A common motif permeating poetry that deals with mourning is sound, be it in the form of tears of mourning, a missed language, a song of mourning or a noted silence.
		Thus, death can be seen as the appropriate moment at which to accept the rupture of their relationship, since it would not continue forever anyway; there is no need, then, to prolong the connection by means of songs and other customs of mourning.
		Rossetti's imaginings of life after death range from the complete alertness seen in "After Death" to the partially aware state of the woman in "Dream Land" to the completely senseless states of the women in "Song" and "Rest." The woman discussed in "Rest" is completely shielded from the sounds of earthly life.
	www.victorianweb.org /authors/ebb/newman14.html (3693 words)

	NOVA \| Transcripts \| Ice Mummies: Siberian Ice Maiden \| PBS
		SCHORTA: The blouse of the Ice Maiden was certainly not made of domesticated silk, and probably it was really wild silk, tussah silk, because you have here really larger fiber which are much thicker and more ribbon-like and have a surface which is a little bit ribbed.
		SCHOCH: This is the stomach of a horse of the Ice Maiden's grave.
		By the first snows the tomb is frozen solid preserving the Ice Maiden for her fateful meeting with a woman of the 20th Century.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/transcripts/2517siberian.html (5730 words)

	Érudit \| RON n32-33 2003 : Addison : The Maiden on the Battlefield: War and Estrangement in Southey’s (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Apart from the occasional “unfortunate” maiden who falls in love with one of these guerrière before discovering her gender (they are epicene with their visors down) (see Ariosto 65-69) and one or two macho heroes who resent being unhorsed by women (see Spenser 191), the characters largely take the female knights in their stride.
		The reader is prevented from experiencing any Homeric triumph at the death of an enemy by the intimate cameo of a wife’s decline; and this in turn helps to complicate the already complicated idea of an “enemy”: the soldier, like the poet and his contemporary reader, is English.
		Her response to the death in battle of both her close companions, Theodore and Conrade, is not as carefree as this.
	www.erudit.org /revue/ron/2003/v/n32-33/009262ar.html (6813 words)

	The Loathly Damsel
		Arthur was at Caerlleon upon Usk, his principal palace; and in the centre of the floor of the hall were four men sitting on a carpet of velvet, Owain the son of Urien, and Gwalchmai the son of Gwyar, and Howel the son of Emyr Llydaw, and Peredur of the long lance.
		And thereupon they saw a fl curly-headed maiden enter, riding upon a yellow mule, with jagged thongs in her hand to urge it on; and having a rough and hideous aspect.
		There is a Castle on a lofty mountain, and there is a maiden therein, and she is detained a prisoner there, and whoever shall set her free will attain the summit of the fame of the world." And thereupon she rode away.
	home.c2i.net /monsalvat/condrie.htm (1888 words)

	Prof. Nina Baym: "The Erotic Motif in Melville's Clarel"
		The song contrasts a despairing view of final death with a serene view where death is accepted as part of a cycle of decay and renewal.
		The whole combination--mother, death, the terrible waters--strikes the pilgrims as ghastly, and they are appalled by the young man's easy handling of the whole complex.
		The acceptance of death is defined, to be dismissed, as a Pagan attitude.
	www.english.uiuc.edu /-people-/emeritus/baym/essays/erotic_clarel.htm (5753 words)

	Warsaw Voice - Dancing With Death
		The first is historical in character, tracing the development of the dance of death motif from the late Middle Ages to the end of the 20th century.
		The motif first appeared in works of art at the turn of the 15th century, when Europe's population was decimated by the fl plague.
		A frequently presented motif is that of death and a maiden, usually having an implied erotic meaning and presenting the relations between death and sexuality.
	www.warsawvoice.pl /view/308 (313 words)

	Norsk Musikkinformasjon: Will the Knight Risk his Life for a Maiden?
		His death is concealed from his bride, but finally she discovers the truth and she dies too.
		Love has always been a central theme for song-writers, and various forms of love are the main motif in these ballads.
		The heroes are big and strong, they attack enemies and trolls, delighting in battle and fearless of death.
	www.mic.no /mic.nsf/doc/art2002092015093372007782 (2155 words)

	Ego Death and Myth-Religion
		Ego death is not so much a "true proposition", as a discovery of certain mental dynamics that are completely beyond question.
		Shandy is fleeing death, and encounters a donkey at the gates of Lyons.
		Ego death is an overpowering mental construct, the idea of time-stabbed control-loss, that lurks as a potential in the mind awaiting the mind's discovery of it.
	www.egodeath.com /EgoDeathAndMythReligion.htm (8120 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| By genre \| Death and the maiden
		In romances, such deeds often involve a knight, a troll and a captive maiden who must be rescued, and this is the sort of situation fate serves up to Doctor Glas.
		The maiden in captivity is his young and beautiful wife Helga, who confides to Doctor Glas that she has married Gregorius out of mistaken religious notions, and can no longer stand his sexual attentions.
		Gabriel is the name of the Annunciation, proclaimer of the Holy Birth, who is also credited with being the Destroying Angel, sent to wipe out Sodom and Sennacharib, and thought to be the angel of the Last Judgment as well.
	books.guardian.co.uk /reviews/classics/0,6121,818348,00.html (1373 words)

	Franz Schubert
		The evocative power of the phrase "Death and the Maiden" resonates deeply, from medieval woodcuts to contemporary cinema; and such is the power of this image that commentary on this Quartet is likely as not to be full of blather.
		The work is a powerful one, all of the four movements being in the minor mode, from the opening descending motif with insistent triplet figures in many guises that proceed throughout the movement propelling it forward.
		The second movement, as previously stated, is a theme; a melody from the song Death and the Maiden with five variations based upon it.
	www.fuguemasters.com /schubert.html (3375 words)

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		Long after her release she is still haunted by the memory of her unseen tormentors’ voices and the Franz Schubert string quartet “Death and the Maiden” played whilst she was violated.
		On hearing his voice, Paulina decides that this is the man who shocked her with electrodes amongst other violations — and coolly enraged, takes justice into her own hands with her husband defending the accused.
		Contextualising the Play Written in 1991 Death and the Maiden is said to be based upon events in Chile, but could take place in any country where rule is by force and intimidation.
	www.kentaylor.co.uk /die/drama_UK/Death_and_the_Maiden.doc (593 words)

	One hundred years since the death of Friedrich Nietzsche: a review of his ideas and influence--Part 1
		As part of the Nietzsche centennial year in Germany there have been a number of new books on Nietzsche as well as exhibitions and lectures in the east German town of Weimar, which is host to a permanent Nietzsche exhibition.
		The anniversary of his death provides an opportunity to review his work and career and address the issue of why Nietzsche's work has such a powerful grip on modern-day schools of thought.
		A year before his father's death in 1848, when Nietzsche was just four, Europe and the multitude of individual states which we now know as Germany were racked by revolution.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2000/oct2000/niet-o20.shtml (3736 words)

	Via Negativa: January 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Talking about trouble is held to contribute to the likelihood of its occurrence; hence, Apaches have the impression that we are "eager to experience hardship and disaster." This may not be as absurd as it sounds.
		The multiple directives Lingis enumerates - "in the night, the elements, the home, the alien spaces, the carpentry of things, the halos and reflections of things, the faces of fellow humans, and death" - could not be escaped by a permanent flight into hedonism or asceticism, though both were honored in their season.
		I once saw a wise old man hang himself, because he was starving to death; he had retained his senses and preferred to die in time.
	neithernor.blogspot.com /2004_01_01_neithernor_archive.html (17473 words)

	Therion - Romantic Death Metal
		Review: At a time when death metal verging on protest music, Therion brought forth an album that took its listeners on a descent into the dark and primordial world of the subconscious, then built from a sense of mystery within it and concept of existence beyond the obvious physical and numeric manifestations of modern society.
		Whatever their intent, this carnival music is a sequence of unrelated ideas competing for attention and relying on short attention spans to be taken seriously as a continuity of musical idea, and should be avoided by the serious listener.
		This is followed by one of the cheesiest Iron Maiden covers ever, with overdone vocals drowning out the subtlety of the original, and a Running Wild song that comes across as blockheaded, but is less dramatically re-enacted, and therefore is more welcome.
	www.anus.com /metal/therion.html (2647 words)

	Lorelei - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It appears in many forms, but is best known through a poem by Heinrich Heine that begins "Ich weiss nicht was soll es bedeuten" (which means in English, "I don't know what to make of it").
		In the most common form of the story, the Lorelei is a maiden who threw herself into the Rhine in despair over a faithless lover, and became a nixe whose voice lured fishermen to destruction.
		A 13th-century legend entitled Der Marner says that the Nibelung treasure was hidden beneath the rock.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lorelei (582 words)

	Animal Brides
		The king declared her to be the most beautiful maiden in the world, and selected the prince as his successor on the throne.
		When the maiden saw this she entreated him, she wept, and she said, "Do not burn it, or you shall surely be destroyed," but the man had burned it in a moment.
		The motif of the stolen skin is also found in many tales from the Swan Maiden and the Mermaid Wife groups.
	www.pitt.edu /~dash/type0402.html (11842 words)

	The Transfiguration of Death: the Medici Chapel
		The two more nearly completed tombs are those of minor Medici dukes whose deaths was the occasion for the Chapel.
		Night is a mature woman with the pendulous breasts and slack stomach muscles of a woman who has borne children.
		Re-use of a figural motif does not necessarily indicate repetition of content, but the association of position is too marked to pass by.
	www.crucifixion.com /visual/theology/johndixon/transfig.htm (5945 words)

	Unanimated - Melodic Swedish Death Metal
		Both have superior songwriting and treatment of melody; Unanimated typically begin a tune slowly, and then build into the main riff, which is usually a dynamically phrased riff without a whole lot of tonal nonlinearity.
		The result is flowing death metal that periodically stops to bash the hell out of things; although the playing is good, and real guitar solos occur on this album, I'd say the major failing of it would be the repetition and lack of real dynamism and intricacy.
		Instrumentation is proficient and varies in its mix between Iron Maiden meets death metal melodic riffing and jazz/progrock guitar stylings.
	www.anus.com /metal/unanimated.html (418 words)

	Classical CD Guide -- Top 10 Essential Schubert CDs to Start Your Classical Music Collection
		He was successful enough to maintain a living, but he was shy and unskilled in the art of self-promotion, and thus never achieved anything close to the fame that posterity would award him.
		This condition had if anything a positive effect on his output: from 1824 to 1828 he enjoyed one of the most remarkable bursts of creative genius ever witnessed, composing his greatest masterpieces of chamber, orchestral, and vocal music.
		Highlights include "Der Erlkönig" ("The Elven King") which protrays a father riding furiously on horseback to save his sick child from the Elven King, a symbol of death, and "Der Tod und das Mädchen" ("Death and the Maiden") which is more famous as the theme of the second movement of Schubert's fourteenth string quartet.
	www.classicalcdguide.com /composers/schubert.htm (1628 words)

	Swan Maidens
		After the swan maidens had bathed and sported to their heart's delight, they came back to the bank wishing to put on their feather robes again; and the six eldest found theirs, but the youngest could not find hers.
		She was a young and beautiful maiden, and so there was a great rejoicing when, after a few days, he married her and remained there with her.
		When the maidens saw him their mouths and eyes opened wide in admiration and they longed to toss the embroidered pouch of courtship at him, offer him the slit-bamboo stool reserved for their dear ones, and give him love nuts.
	www.pitt.edu /~dash/swan.html (16666 words)

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