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.

* a passage in which Mordecai interprets his dream ( from the prologue ) in terms of the events that followed

Snyder's Tomorrow re-runs continued until Thursday, January 28, 1982 and four days later on Monday, February 1, Late Night premiered with a cold opening featuring Larry " Bud " Melman delivering lines as an homage to the prologue of Boris Karloff's Frankenstein, followed by Letterman coming out on stage behind a group of female dancers – the peacock girls.

the first of which was The Cricket on the Hearth ( introduced in a live-action prologue by Danny Thomas ), in 1967, followed by a Thanksgiving special, The Mouse on the Mayflower ( told by Tennessee Ernie Ford ), in 1968.

The tragedy usually begins with a prologue ( from pro and logos, speech preliminary ), in which one or more characters introduce the drama and explain the background, followed by the parodos ( ἡ πάροδος ), which is a part of Chorus made while it enters through the side corridors, the parodos, the real stage action then unfolds through three or more episodes ( epeisòdia ), interspersed by stasimi, the interludes in which the chorus says or explains the situation that is developing on the scene ( or, more rarely, performs actions ); the tragedy ends with the Exodus ( ἔξοδος ), which shows the dissolution of the story.

It consists of a historical prologue ; an introduction ; the law code followed by blessings and curses ; and a conclusion.

The theatre opened on 13 June 1801 with a prologue written by Schikaneder followed by a performance of the opera " Alexander " by Franz Teyber.

Each treaty would typically begin with an " Identification " of the Suzerain, followed by a historical prologue which catalogues the relationship between the two groups, " with emphasis on the benevolent actions of the suzerain towards the vassal.

It is unfinished, perhaps deliberately, and comes first in group F, followed by the Franklin's interruption, prologue and tale.

Wolfram followed Parzival with the fragmentary romance Titurel, which serves as a prologue.

Every sketch opened with a prologue, then the theme song ( and corresponding video ) plays, followed by the body of the sketch.

* Compilation is implemented by emitting a fixed machine code prologue followed by a fast-loading binary representation of the parse tree to be interpreted.

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.

* an opening prologue that describes a dream had by Mordecai

In his prologue to Judith, without using the word canon, he mentioned that Judith was held to be scriptural by the First Council of Nicaea.

There are several covenants in the bible, and in each case they exhibit at least some of the elements found in real-life treaties of the ancient Middle East: a preamble, historical prologue, stipulations, deposition and reading, list of witnesses, blessings and curses, and ratification by animal sacrifice.

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.

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 ".

Neil Gaiman and Michael Zulli were to have created a Sweeney Todd adaptation for Taboo, published by Steve Bissette and Tundra, but only completed a prologue.

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.

In the Spanish language version, the stories were preceded by a prologue by Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges.

These early performances were given in Latin, and were preceded by a vernacular prologue spoken by a herald who gave a synopsis of the events.

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

The Arabic original contains a prologue not found in most other translations, and was written by an Arab monk, Michael.

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 ).

In 1927, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari wrote a verismo opera called Sly, or The Legend of the Sleeper Awoken, based on the prologue of the play, with a libretto by Giovacchino Forzano.