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Twelve-tone Techniques in a Work for Guitar by Milton Babbitt
… process. One of his works for guitar, entitled Sheer Pluck (Composition for Guitar), is a remarkable exemplar of such techniques, yet is largely overlooked in the analytical literature. Babbitt's piece utilizes an incredibly complex structure based on the D-hexachord called an all-partition …
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Empire and the animal body: violence, ecology and identity in the imperial romance
… role in this, however, emerges in Henty’s By Sheer Pluck (1884) and Fenn’s Nat the Naturalist (1882) as a conflicted celebration of restraint and aggression; the masculinities that such texts aim to construct and marshal suggesting an uncomfortable intimacy of civilisation and savagery that …