O Silver Moon (Song to the Moon)

O Silver Moon (Song to the Moon) Overview
Bohemian composer Antonín Dvo ák wrote and completed his opera Rusalka between April and November of 1900 after reading the libretto by poet Jaroslav Kvapil. The opera premiered in Prague at the National Theater on the 31st of March 1901. Considered one of the most popular and significant of the Czech opera repertoire, Rusalka continues to be prevalent in Czech opera houses. Influenced by the works of Smetana and Wagner, Dvo ák had been moving towards compositional designs by combining nationalistic folktales, dances and the mysteries of nature. Rusalka is the result of blending these creative musical hues . Most of Rusalka is set in a mystical forest at the edge of a lake. What better instrument to depict this imaginative and bewitching setting than guitar. The beauty of the guitar s timbres serves to evoke the night and the colors of the forest while the flute calls to the moon as the water nymph, Rusalka, declares her forbidden love. The ossia measures in the guitar part more closely relate to the original operatic texture, while the main staff measures lie more comfortably on the guitar.

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Divination by Punctuation

Divination by Punctuation Overview
Whether as pictographs or basic elements of language, Tarot cards form distinct units of meaning. One card may indeed establish a word, two cards may construct a compound word or phrase, and three or more cards may constitute a sentence or sentences. While any one card is easy enough to "translate" in isolation, the challenge is to make sense of the "deep structure" that organizes the several cards of the spread. A secondary system of icons can provide vital clues as to how individual cards relate. That system is our treasury of punctuation marks. Punctuation marks help us to pinpoint the precise structure of the sentences that constitute our life story. Punctuation helps to organize and emphasize the themes at play. It assists us to comprehend the relationships that exist between nouns (the people, places, and things in our lives) and verbs (actions and occurrences). Punctuation can connect, isolate, confirm, limit, regulate, contrast, motivate and animate the flow of information-our intelligence. In other words, punctuation offers cues on how to understand the course of our experiences. A punctuation icon may be drawn randomly from the deck and placed between any two Tarot cards whose relationship is in question. Alternately, one or more punctuation icons may be placed between cards according to the reader's intuition. With the placement of punctuation, the cards may be read as whole sentences rather than fragments. This book oulines a method for placing punctuation in a Tarot spread, describes the meaning of punctuation (in both the upright and reversed cases), presents a Punctuated Tarot system blending punctuation icons with tarot archetypes, and provides six other techniques of Divination by Punctuation.

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