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1686 In North America
Events January–March * January 3 – In Madras (now Chennai) in India, local residents employed by the East India Company threaten to boycott their jobs after corporate administrator William Gyfford imposes a house tax on residences within the city walls. Gyfford places security forces at all entrances to the city and threatens to banish anyone who fails to pay their taxes, as well as to confiscate the goods of merchants who refuse to make sales. A compromise is reached the next day on the amount of the taxes. * January 17 – King Louis XIV of Kingdom of France, France reports the success of the Edict of Fontainebleau, issued on October 22 against the Protestant Huguenots, and reports that after less than three months, the vast majority of the Huguenot population had left the country. * January 29 – In Guatemala, Spanish Army Captain Melchor Rodríguez Mazariegos leads a campaign to conquer the Lacandon people, indigenous Maya people in the rain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reprise Château Buda 1686
In music, a reprise ( , ; from the verb 'to resume') is the repetition (music), repetition or reiteration of the opening material later in a musical composition, composition as occurs in the Recapitulation (music), recapitulation of sonata form, though—originally in the 18th century—was simply any repeated section (music), section, such as is indicated by beginning and ending repeat signs. A partial or abbreviated reprise is known as a petite reprise ( , ). In Baroque music this usually occurs at the very end of a piece, repeating the final phrase with added Ornament (music), ornamentation. Song reprises Reprise can refer to a version of a song which is similar to, yet different from, the song on which it is based. One example could be "Time (Pink Floyd song), Time", the fourth song from Pink Floyd's 1973 album ''The Dark Side of the Moon'', which contains a reprise of "Breathe (Pink Floyd song), Breathe", the second song of the same album. Another example could be "Solo ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
