Word: dis
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Beethoven Overture to the Opera, "The Barber of Bagdad," Cornelius Recitative, "E Susanna non vien?" and Aria, "Dove Sono," from "Le Nozze di Figaro," (Act III, Scene 8), Mozart "L'Apprenti Sorcier" ("The Sorcerer's Apprentice"): Scherzo (after a Ballad by Goethe). Dukas Aria, "Je dis que rien ne m'eponvante," from "Carmen", Bizet Caprice on Spanish Themes, Op. 34, Rimsky-Korsakoff
...suitability to the sins. Dante's "Inferno" is like an inverted funnel, consisting of concentric circles. The first four circles are occupied by sinners through impulse--lust, gluttony, greed. The fifth circle--the "circle of transition" is occupied by malcontents. The rest of the way to the city of Dis is people by heretics, then by those who have been false both to principle and to communities, and, at the final depth by those who have been false to their friends...