Sexual reproduction in Eukaryotes. In most eukaryotes, especially higher animals, individuals normally exhibit one or two sex phenotypes; female or male. In such species, females produce the female gametes-eggs, ovules or macrospores and males produce the male gamets-sperm, pollen or microsproes.
Nationalist Composers. The nineteenth century was a time in which passionate nationalism was prevalent and which saw many political upheavals. Influenced by such nationalistic works as the Hungarian Rhapsodies of Franz Liszt, composers from many European countries became determined to develop a national style of music for their homeland.
What Liszt was claiming was that without the gypsies, Hungarian music would amount to very little, whilst his detractors would claim that, whilst no-one doubted or failed to value the contribution made by the ânew Hungariansâ as they were euphemistically known, what they were playing was fundamentally Hungarian music, not gypsy music. Kodaly wrote in 1960' Hungarian folk music...is not in any way the creation of gypsies, as is still frequently asserted as a result of Franz Liszt's ...