~ TRAGA SWALLOW DEGLUTATION in sp
~ TRAGADERO ESOPHAGUS in sp
~ TRAGEDY id+ | CATASTROPHE DISASTER CALAMITY |
^u id+ | TRAGEDY IS A THE REMORSELESS
WORKING OF THINGS |
id+ | SINGING PITIABLE SONGS |
id+ | what induces a
SENSE OF PITY or EMPATHY or FEAR |
~ TRAGI plural of TRAGUS
~ TRAGO id+ | sp for SWALLOW IN ONE GULP |
~ TRAGUS id+ | PROMINENCE ANTERIOR TO THE EAR OPENING
OFTEN HAIRY IN OLDER MEN |
id+ | perhaps GOAT LIKE EAR |
med> CARTILAGE anterior to the EAR MEATUS or the
external EAR CANAL
gr TRAGODIA see> CATASTROPHE
TRAGODOS = SONG OF A GOAT
lat TRAGEDIA "A GOAT SINGER" or
AN UNHAPPY POINT
cont> under ODE
hx> TRAGIC ACTORS OFTEN WORE A GOAT SKIN
lit+ ARISTOTLE [#] in his " POETICS "
DEFINED TRAGEDY on ideas presented
100 years before in the plays by
AESCHYLUS [#] and
EURIPIDES [#] among others
ARISTOTLE [#] points out two elements in TRAGEDY
FIRST
A MISFORTUNE of a serious magnitude often due to
ERROR IN JUDGMENT rather than due to
vice or depravity and
SECOND
A CAPACITY TO EVOKE FEELINGS OF PITY
FEAR FRAILTY and put another way
note OLD DRAMAS or TRAGEDY TRAGEDIES
HAD SEVERAL PARTS
PROSTASIS = PRO or BEFORE as if a
PROPOSITION or
PROLOGUE DESCRIBED THE GENERAL SITUATION
PARODOS when
THE CHORUS ENTERED AND SANG
ODAS or ODE sug> ODEON
PARODY in ukr
RODY BE BORN
ROD BIRTH
EPISTASIS from EPI or ABOVE or DECOR
EPISODE ALTERATION or ACT
STROPHE CHORAL PASSAGES
as in CHORAL PASSAGE or " TURN "
STASIMON VERSE GOVERNED BY
THE MUSIC THAT ACCOMPANIED THEM
CATASTASIS CATA or DOWN
CATASTROPHE CULMINATION or
CATHARSIS sug> RESOLUTION
art> lit+ perhaps the most significant creation
by Carl ORFF [#] is not his trilogy that
includes CARMINA BURANA see> FORTUNE
it is rather his honest attempt to recreate the
SINGING of CLASSIC GREEK TRAGEDIES
ORFF [#] produced in German translation the
TRAGEDIES BY SOPHOCLES [#]
ANTIGONAE (1949)
OEDIPUS DER TYRANN (1959) and
PROMETHEUS by AESCHYLUS [#]
however these works are rarely performed because
they require exotic musical instrumentation
ply> | CATHARSIS MAY BE THE END OF A CATASTROPHE |
sc> Herbert SPENCER [#] WAS CRITICIZED FOR
HIS THEORIES DEVELOPED MOSTLY BY DEDUCTION
and in this manner SPENCER CONCEIVED
THE DOCTRINE OF SOCIAL DARWINISM
lit+ "SPENCER'S IDEA OF A TRAGEDY
IS A DEDUCTION KILLED BY A FACT "
cont> sug> FORTUNE

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