Meaning of perpetia | Babel Free

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“These different ways make two sorts of Action or Fable: The One Simple, the Other Complex. The Simple Actions are such as End without a Discovery and a Peripetia; The Complex have either a Discovery, or a Perpetia, or Both.”

“The first symphonic essay by Beethoven in the minor mode allowed him to stretch the perpetia of the drama from darkness to light not just within a single movement, as in Symphony No. 4/1, but over a longer span, with only a few hints of light until the Finale blazes forth with C-major brilliance.”

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