"Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra has an eight-measure theme in D minor based on a tune by Baroque composer Henry Purcell. After the theme is heard six times in various instrument families, a set of thirteen variations follow. The piece ends with a fugue where each instrument family is again featured in succession".
Essentially, the word “blackberry” (as you might guess) came from our ancestors looking at a berry-like fruit that was black, and deciding on a simple name for it. The word “black” comes from the Old Norse word for the color, which was “blakkr.” This developed into “blaec” in Old English.
Silas Marner is usually considered to be a novel of motives. Sentimental novels dealt with emotional appeal while novels of manners presented the life in a certain society.
He learned about engineering by studying and taking apart electronics. It could be similar to how ancient cultures learned about engineering too because they didn’t have schools that could teach them.
