The main character, Melinda Sordino, struggles through her freshman year after being raped at a summer party.
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After Sordino is raped by an upperclassman at a party and calls the police, she becomes ostracized by her fellow classmates.
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Kristen Stewart as Melinda Sordino. The character is portrayed by Kristen Stewart in the 2004 film adaptation.
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Melinda "Mel" Sordino is the main character and narrator of Laurie Halse Anderson's 1999 novel Speak. Her last name, Sordino, is an Italian word that can be translated as "deaf." The character's ordeals were based on Anderson's own experiences; she was raped one summer prior to starting high school.
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The mute cornett is known as the cornetto muto or cornetto sordino in Italian, stiller Zink in German and cornet muet or cornet sourdine.
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Sordun originates from the Italian word Sordino. The primary Italian word in use in these specialised terms is a feminine noun: sordina, with plural sordine; but in international musical terminology a masculine form is much more common: sordino, with plural sordini. The Italian word is derived as a feminine diminutive of the adjective sordo ("deaf", "dull in sound"),Oxford Paravia Dictionary, 2nd edition, 2006 from Latin surdus. The alternative forms given above would have as plurals sordini, sordoni, sorduni.
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Musical notation directing players to mute and unmute their instruments varies. The type of mute and when to add and remove is specified in text above the music; open is often used in music for brass to indicate the subsequent passage should be played without a mute. In classical music, the phrase con sordino or con sordini (, abbreviated con sord.), directs players to use a straight mute on brass instruments, and mount the mute on string instruments. The corresponding senza sordino indicates removing the mute.
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Ad hoc clothespin mute and a rubber practice mute Attaching a small metal, rubber, leather, or wooden device called a mute, or sordino, to the bridge of the violin gives a softer, more mellow tone, with fewer audible overtones; the sound of an entire orchestral string section playing with mutes has a hushed quality. The mute changes both the loudness and the timbre ("tone colour") of a violin. The conventional Italian markings for mute usage are con sord., or con sordino, meaning 'with mute'; and senza sord.
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' (And mercy), a duet for alto and tenor, begins with an undulating movement in 12/8 time, played by violins and violas. In the D major version these strings play con sordino, flutes doubling the violins.
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The text "" (Also with muted, weak voices) is illustrated by a muted (con sordino) solo violin. The closing choral, the final stanza of Luther's hymn, "" (Praise be to God, the Father) is a four- part setting.
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A wooden mute attached to the bass bridge to make the tone darker Double bass players use various accessories to help them to perform and rehearse. Three types of mutes are used in orchestral music: a wooden mute that slides onto the bridge, a rubber mute that attaches to the bridge and a wire device with brass weights that fits onto the bridge. The player uses the mute when the Italian instruction con sordino ("with mute") appears in the bass part, and removes it in response to the instruction senza sordino ("without mute"). With the mute on, the tone of the bass is quieter, darker, and more somber.
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Speak is a first-person, diary-like narrative. Written in the voice of Melinda Sordino, it features lists, subheadings, spaces between paragraphs and script-like dialogue. The fragmented style mimics Melinda's trauma. The choppy sentences and blank spaces on the pages relate to Melinda's fascination with Cubism.
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": "There is only one kind of tuba mute." In classical music, when the mute type is not specified, it is assumed that the player should use a straight mute.: "The most usual mute. If no other mute is specified... trumpeters use this kind of mute when they see the instruction 'con sordino.
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The summer before her freshman year of high school, Melinda Sordino meets senior Andy Evans at a high school party. During the party, Andy rapes Melinda. In shock, Melinda calls 9-1-1, but does not know what to say and runs home. The police come and break up the party, and some people are arrested.
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The bowed strings are played with mutes (con sordino) throughout the movement. Mainly in B major, the reflective melody is first introduced by the clarinet, and is sometimes chromatic with some shifts to B minor. The middle section is in B minor, its mood recalling the gloomy atmosphere of the first movement. Here, the clarinet performs technical runs playing from all ranges.
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In 1949, the symphony began to play concerts again. Copley Symphony Hall was built in 1929 as a French Rococo style luxury movie theater, the Fox Theater. The venue was conferred to the Symphony in 1984. From 1996 to 1998, the fiscal troubles of the orchestra led it to file for bankruptcy in May 1996Senza Sordino, October 1998, p. 8.
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In 1791-1792, the lateral naves were added and the nave elongated. The present Neoclassic facade dates to 1879. The main altarpiece was once attributed to Fra Stefano da Carpi (1710-1796), but more recent documents point to Jacopo Calvi, also called il Sordino (1740-1815).Parish Church History, from Tratto da "Sfogliando le delibere - 1816/74", curated by Enzo Baroni e Lorenzo Baruffaldi (2000).
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Frequently seen in music as (incorrect Italian) con sordino, or con sordini (plural). ; concerto : Composition for solo instrument(s) and orchestra ; conjunct : An adjective applied to a melodic line that moves by step (intervals of a 2nd) rather in disjunct motion (by leap). ; contralto : Lowest female singing voice type ; contrapuntalism : See counterpoint ; coperti : (plural of coperto) covered (i.e. on a drum, muted with a cloth) ; corda : String.
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The solotune mute consists of two telescoping cones and a small tube in the center, all made of cardboard. It is structurally similar to a harmon mute, but has a cardboard tube in the middle. It has a more intense sound than the harmon mute and has a characteristic "megaphone-like" quality. Other names for the mute include the Clear Tone mute, doppio sordino, double mute and Mega mute.
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Fourteen-year-old Melinda Sordino begins her freshman year in high school and struggles on the first day. She doesn't have any friends to hang out with, and appears awkward and uncomfortable when speaking to others. Throughout the day, she is made fun of by several students, repeatedly called a "squealer". A series of flashbacks reveal that she called the police to a house party during the previous summer.
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160-166 (2002). At the end of the second movement, the entire string section is directed to play col legno dell'arco (with the wood of the bow). The trio of the minuet is scored for two solo violins each playing con sordino on single strings. The first violin plays the melody on the E string and the second violin tunes its G string down to F and plays a drone on the open string.
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Der Einsiedler ' (The Hermit Fiddler, literally: The hermit playing violin) is based on a painting Der Einsiedler (The Hermit) that Böcklin made in Florence in 1884. A solo violin is contrasted by a group of strings playing con sordino and another group playing not muted. The "ethereal violin" has been compared to Ralph Vaughan Williams' The Lark Ascending, composed in 1914. Klaus Uwe Ludwig wrote an arrangement of the movement for violin and organ, which was published by Breitkopf.
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Similarly, the constraints imposed by regular meter are cast off by means of frequent metric changes and tempo alterations. Durosoir shows great imagination in the area of musical texture and the use of extended performance techniques (con sordino, sul ponticello, col legno, ricochet, harmonics), and consequently expressive indications are encountered in each melodic line. In short, the music of Lucien Durosoir avoids categorization with many of the "ism" labels (i.e.: impressionism, neoclassicism) that are commonly applied to music of the early twentieth century.
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Stewart in 2007 At age 14, Stewart's first starring role was in the children's action-comedy Catch That Kid (2004), opposite Max Thieriot and Corbin Bleu. That year, Stewart also played the role of Lila in the thriller, Undertow (2004). Stewart starred in the Lifetime/Showtime television film Speak (2004), based on the novel by the same name by Laurie Halse Anderson. Stewart, aged 13 at the time of filming, played a high school freshman, Melinda Sordino, who nearly stops speaking after being raped.
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287 His piano music—including works he designated as symphonic—often strives to emulate the sounds of other instruments, as seen in score markings such as "quasi organo pieno" (like a full organ), "pizzicato" and "quasi tuba con sordino" (like a tuba with mute).Abrahams, pp. 234–236 In this respect, Alkan was a key source of inspiration: Sorabji was influenced by his Symphony for Solo Piano and the Concerto pour piano seul, and he admired Alkan's "orchestral" writing for the instrument.Powell (2006), pp.
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Resonance is reduced by damping or muting the drums, and in some cases composers will specify that timpani be played con sordino (with mute) or coperti (covered), both of which indicate that mutes—typically small pieces of felt or leather—should be placed on the head. Composers will sometimes specify that the timpani should struck with implements other than timpani sticks. It is common in timpani etudes and solos for timpanists to play with their hands or fingers. Philip Glass's "Concerto Fantasy" utilizes this technique during a timpani cadenza.
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In its original form, for violin con sordino (or optionally cello) and piano, the Berceuse, marked Allegretto moderato, is in D major throughout its 112-bar duration. Nectoux comments that the melodic ideas are weak and "although the rhythmic structure of the accompaniment is certainly quite ingenious" it is "too insistently presented". Opening bars of Berceuse The playing time varies considerably: a 1966 recording by Jacques Dumont and Germaine Thyssens-Valentin plays for 4 minutes and 13 seconds.Charlin CD CL123, 2012 A 2006 recording by Yayoi Toda and Tatsuya Hayashi plays for 2 m.
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In 1999, Farrar, Straus and Giroux published her best-known novel to date, Speak. It was a New York Times Bestseller, and was adapted into film in 2004, starring Kristen Stewart as Melinda Sordino. The novel became a finalist for the National Book Award and won Anderson honors for its portrayal of a thirteen-year-old girl who becomes mute after a sexual assault.See Speak (novel)#Awards The paperback version was published in 2001 by Puffin Books, an imprint of Penguin Publishing. Speak has been translated into 16 languages.
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Speak, published in 1999, is a young adult novel by Laurie Halse Anderson that tells the story of high school freshman Melinda Sordino. After accidentally busting an end of summer party due to a sexual assault, Melinda is ostracized by her peers because she will not say why she called the police. Unable to verbalize what happened, Melinda nearly stops speaking altogether, expressing her voice through the art she produces for Mr. Freeman's class. This expression slowly helps Melinda acknowledge what happened, face her problems, and recreate her identity.
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Her sensual character is described magnificently in the aria V'adoro, pupille, in which Cleopatra, in the guise of Lidia, appears to Cesare surrounded by the Muses of Parnassus (II, 2). This number calls for two orchestras: one is a small group to play behind the scene with strings with sordino, oboe, tiorba, harp, bassoons and viola da gamba concertante. Curio and Nireno do not get any arias in the original version, only singing recitatives, though they take part in the first and final choruses. However, Handel composed an aria for Nireno for a later revival in 1730.
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The dynamic markings added by Wilhelmj are more in line with a romantic interpretation than with the baroque original. As a violin can't play very loudly in its lowest register, all the other parts of Bach's music were firmly reduced in Wilhelmj's version: the keyboard part is to be played staccato and pianissimo, causing the effects of interweaving melodies and of drive in the bass part to get lost. The accompanying violins and violas play muted (con sordino), and the bass part for cellos and double basses is to be played pizzicato and , with the same change in effect compared to Bach's original. Later, a spurious story circulated that the melody was always intended to be played on the G string alone.
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One summer, prior to starting her first day at Merry Weather High School, 14-year-old Melinda "Mel" Sordino goes to a house party with three other friends and is raped by a senior, Andy Evans. This abuse forces her into silence and drastically changes her life and social structure; in fact, for most of the novel, she refers to Andy only as IT. She finds solace in her art class and teacher, Mr. Freeman, where she has a year long assignment of drawing a tree which plays a major role in her life. Throughout the year she slowly creates a hidden room for herself in an old janitor's closet, which acts as her safe haven, and is the setting for the climactic ending of the novel. Throughout the year, several minor events led up to her coming forward about her rape.
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In Anderson's 2002 novel Catalyst, Melinda Sordino appears for a few pages, now in tenth grade at Merryweather High and having regained control over her life. When a fellow student, Kate Malone, has a mental breakdown, she counsels and helps her through the rough patch. It is stated that Andy Evans is found guilty but does not go to prison; instead, he is sentenced to probation and has to register as a sex offender, typically is under house arrest (an alternative to prison), must be electronically tagged by an ankle monitor when completing his penalty, having limited contacts to others except his caregivers (his parents and other immediate family members), and ordered to stay away from Melinda and her family at all times. Thus, his life becomes difficult owing to having a criminal history as a rapist, and his daily activities after high school such as attending school, work, probation appointments, counseling, or community servicing are restricted by the law and closely monitored by probation officers until he finishes his sentence.
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