In 18th-century gothic, music was a light melodic release from dramatic scares. But with the arrival of melodrama in the 19th century, gothic music became much darker.
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Many features of proteins are analogous to music. Mapping these features together creates new musical compositions that help researchers learn about proteins.
It’s not just a modern fad – plant-based diets have a long and colourful political past.
The Romantics - including poets William Blake and William Wordsworth - lived in the 18th century, but their passionate ideas about imagination and nature are still influential today.
Keats’s Winchester walk was no idyllic stroll – he had espionage on his mind.
The singer had Romantic notions in common with the poet – as well as with William Blake, Mary Shelley, and John Keats.
Whoever finds it beautiful is beyond help, quipped critic Eduard Hanslick upon hearing Franz Liszt’s Sonata in B minor for the first time. Fortunately, posterity did not agree with him.
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