Finally, the prologue to Britten's Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, played on horn without the use of valves but equally suited to the alphorn, is a beautiful, inspired example of the lyric possibilities of natural harmonics.

Evidence for this is found in the prologue to the Gospel of Luke, wherein the author alludes to his sources by writing, " Many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us, just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the word.

The cyclic pattern set out in the prologue is readily apparent at the beginning, but as the stories progress it begins to disintegrate, mirroring the disintegration of the world of the Israelites.

In the 20th century the first part of the prologue ( chapters 1: 1-2: 5 ) and the two parts of the epilogue ( 17-21 ) were commonly seen as miscellaneous collections of fragments tacked on to the main text, and the second part of the prologue ( 2: 6-3: 6 ) as an introduction composed expressly for the book ; this view has been challenged in the latter decades of the century, and there is an increasing willingness to see Judges as the work of a single individual, working by carefully selecting, reworking and positioning his source material to introduce and conclude his themes.

" The Satan ", meaning literally " the adversary ", appears in the prose prologue of Job, where he is not the devil, as he becomes in later Christian works, but one of the celestial beings who stand before God in the heavenly court.

Job does speak of an adversary on several occasions within the central poem, but it is doubtful that he is referring to " the Adversary " of the prose prologue.

The speeches of Elihu ( who is not mentioned in the prologue ) are claimed to contradict the fundamental opinions expressed by the " friendly accusers " in the central body of the poem, according to which it is impossible that the righteous should suffer, all pain being a punishment for some sin.

It is set in the land of Edom, which has been retained as the background, and in the prologue and epilogue, the name of God is YHWH, a name that even the Edomites used.

This prologue is intended to identify Jesus as the eternal Word ( Logos ) of God.

In his prologue or proem he describes two views of existence ; initially that nothing comes from nothing, and therefore existence is eternal.

The film's graveyard prologue is a recreation of the opening scene from Ed Wood's then-unreleased 1958 film Night of the Ghouls.

The replacement character that acts as the chorus would in Greek drama is often called the “ prologue .”

The specific type of monologue ( or soliloquy ) in which a Plautine slave engages is the prologue.

To highlight his evil and villainous rise to power, Ui is compared to Shakespeare's Richard III and Macbeth in both the introductory prologue and in scene 14 when he experiences similar visitations from the ghosts of his victims as Richard and Macbeth do ; while Hitler's own learned prowess at public speaking is referenced by Ui receiving lessons from an actor which include him reciting Mark Antony's famous speech from Julius Caesar.

It occurs in countless variations from recipe collections from all over Europe and is mentioned in the prologue to Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and in an early 15th century cookbook written by the chefs of Richard II.

In the prologue of The Canterbury Tales, shitten is used as the past participle ; however this form is very rare in modern English.

Prince Igor (, Knyaz ' Igor ' ) is an opera in four acts with a prologue.

It contains twenty-three books ; the final book, which deals with the events of 1183 and the beginning of 1184, has only a prologue and one chapter, so it is either unfinished or the rest of the pages were lost before the whole chronicle began to be copied.

In the prologue to the second book of the Commentaries is found one of the best examples of a Mappae Mundi of the high medieval culture.

In the prologue, Jennifer Sharifi evicts her granddaughter from the Sanctuary Orbital ; the Supers are later revealed ( through use of inter-chapter epistolary e-mails ) to have moved to Selene Base on the moon.

It opens with a prologue written in the form of a direct address to the audience outlining all the major characters and explaining the basis of the upcoming plot, allowing the audience to better focus on the message than the suspense of what may happen next.

The novel is written in the form of a true story, and even begins and ends with a pseudo-historical prologue and epilogue, adding to the overall feeling of mystery.

In the prologue to the tale, the host, Harry Bailly, asks the Parson for a fable ( the form used earlier with such apparent success by the Nun's Priest ) but the Parson refuses with a round condemnation of fable stories, saying instead that he will tell an improving tale in prose since he can neither rhyme nor alliterate.

Treatise on the Astrolabe addressed to his son Lowys AD 1391. As the Franklin says in his prologue, his story is in the form of a Breton lai, although it is in fact based on a work by the Italian poet and author Boccaccio ( Filocolo 1336 retold in the 1350s as the 5th tale on the 10th day of the Decameron ) in which a young knight called Tarolfo falls in love with a lady married to another knight, extracts a promise to satisfy his desire if he can create a flowering Maytime garden in winter, meets a magician Tebano who performs the feat using spells, but releases her from the rash promise when he learns of her husband's noble response.

Kovacs, killed in the novel's prologue and stored in digital form, is downloaded into a sleeve formerly inhabited by Bay City ( formerly San Francisco ) policeman Elias Ryker.

The poem is divided into 133 cantos ( including the prologue and epilogue ), and in contrast to its constant and regulated metrical form, encompasses many different subjects: profound spiritual experiences, nostalgic reminiscence, philosophical speculation, Romantic fantasizing and even occasional verse.

A version of the legend of Starkad can be found in the prologue of the U-version of Hervarar saga, and in a shortened form in the H-version of the Hauksbók.

A piece called " Prologue " or " Final Fantasy ", originally featured in the first game, has appeared in some form in every game in the main series, with the exceptions of Final Fantasy II, Final Fantasy X, and Final Fantasy XIII ; originally appearing in the prologue of the games.

The first two chapters ( Uchchhwasas ) of the prologue form the frame story.

It derives largely from the romance, and in its most known form consists of 1 ) a salutation from the singer and prologue to the story ; 2 ) the story itself ; 3 ) a moral and farewell from the singer.

It is believed that the prologue in this form was practically the invention of Euripides, and with him, as has been said, it takes the place of an explanatory first act.

The play is told in a prologue, four acts, and an epilogue in the form of a post-show interview that contains actual quotations from Arzner.

In the prologue after it is slain by Clovis, it revives into a new form ( Titan ) and flees to the kingdom of Raxis.

The first part of the videos show the prologue, concerning the reaction on Earth when Rama was discovered in a form of a journalist show, and hosts interviews of the characters that will be seen later in the game.

The author opens with a prologue, usually taken to be addressed to an individual by the name of Theophilus ( though this name, which translates literally as " God-lover ", may be a nickname rather than a personal appellation ) and references " my earlier book "— almost certainly the Gospel of Luke.

The term " Christology from above " refers to approaches that begin with the divinity and pre-existence of Christ as the Logos ( the Word ), as expressed in the prologue to the Gospel of John ().

It included a prologue about the history of Godzilla, with footage from Monster Zero and Godzilla's Revenge ( itself using stock footage from Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster and Son of Godzilla ).

Luke may have originally begun with verses 3: 1-7, a second prologue.

After the prologue, the narrative of the gospel begins with verse 6, and consists of two parts.

Himanen explained these ideas in a book, The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age, with a prologue contributed by Linus Torvalds and an epilogue by Manuel Castells.

Kenneth Kitchen states that nearly all treaties in this period follow the pattern of Deuteronomy closely, while first-millennium treaties contrarily but consistently place " witnesses " earlier and omit prologue and blessing sections, requiring classification of the Sinai covenant and its renewals in Joshua with the fourteenth or thirteenth century rather than the sixth.

* Mandragola ( 1518 ) — The Mandrake, a five-act prose comedy, with a verse prologue.

Władysław Gomułka and János Kádár were less concerned with the reforms themselves than with the growing criticisms leveled by the Czechoslovak media, and worried the situation might be " similar to the prologue of the Hungarian counterrevolution ".

An illustration of Java ( programming language ) | Java source code with prologue comments indicated in red, inline comments indicated in green, and program code indicated in blue

The film begins with a prologue, the only commentary in the film.

a prologue to one of his plays, Terence meets the charge of receiving assistance in the composition of his plays by claiming as a great honour the favour which he enjoyed with those who were the favorites of the Roman people.

2009 also saw the beginning of the new New Mutants volume written by Zeb Wells, with the limited series X-Infernus serving as prologue.

The film contains adaptations of " The Veldt ", " The Long Rain ", " The Last Night of the World " and expands the prologue and epilogue with intermittent scenes and flashbacks of how the illustrations came to be.

The text reads: " Prince Igor, opera in 4 acts with a prologue, words and music by A. P.

Upon first publication, The Eye of the World consisted of one prologue and 53 chapters, with an additional prologue authored upon re-release.

Take the ingenious prologue ... take the fleeting scenes when the wonderful Ella Fitzgerald, allotted a few spoken lines, fills the screen and sound track with her strong mobile features and voice.

But the pantomime that had the greatest appeal to his public was the " pantomime-arlequinade-féerie ", sometimes " in the English style " ( i. e., with a prologue in which characters were transformed into the Commedia types ).

In the England of the Aesthetic Movement, Aubrey Beardsley's drawings attested profound kinship with the figure ; Olive Custance ( who would marry Oscar Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas ) published the poem " Pierrot " in 1897 ; and Ernest Dowson wrote the verse-play Pierrot of the Minute ( 1897, illustrated by Beardsley ), to which the composer Sir Granville Bantock would later contribute an orchestral prologue ( 1908 ).

The prologue in both drafts has Indiana in Mexico battling for possession of Montezuma's mask with a man who owns gorillas as pets.