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Mahagonny in a sentence

Using Mahagonny

  • In the example corpus, mahagonny often appears in combinations such as: of mahagonny, in mahagonny, to mahagonny.

Context around Mahagonny

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 21.3 words
  • Position in the sentence: 4 start, 7 middle, 9 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

spared 1× towards 1× views 1×

Often after:

though 1× lives 1× poverty 1× alongside 1× pay 1× city 1×

Sentence patterns with Mahagonny

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

arrive in mahagonny only to 1× begbick that mahagonny can never 1× but in mahagonny poverty is 1× by which mahagonny lives 1× city of mahagonny 1× comes to mahagonny right before 1× destruction of mahagonny 1× example views mahagonny alongside schoenberg 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

for example in 2× billy with the 1× but in mahagonny 1× calm again he 1× for example jimmy 1× herbert lindenberger in 1×

Common sentence endings:

among the disillusioned 1× city of mahagonny 1× destruction of mahagonny 1× for a prostitute 1× heading towards mahagonny 1× jimmy is executed 1×

Words around Mahagonny

Just before it in the word index:

mahagoni 2 mahagathbandhan 19 mahaganapathy 2 mahaffy 5 mahaffey 6 mahady 2

Just after it in the word index:

mahaica 12 mahaicony 15 mahajan 49 mahajana 2 mahajanadesh 2 mahajanga 3

Similar in corpus frequency:

aar 35 aarons 35 abdulla 35 abides 35 accentuates 35 accoutrements 35

Corpus analysis for Mahagonny

  • In this selection, "mahagonny" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 21.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, spared, towards, views, though, lives and poverty stand out and add context to how "mahagonny" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include arrive in mahagonny only to and begbick that mahagonny can never. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "mahagonny" sits close to words such as aar, aarons and abdulla, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with mahagonny

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Recordings *Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny. (9 words)

In Mahagonny, the characters are prostitutes, lumberjacks, criminals, and the like. (11 words)

Many of the songs in Mahagonny are very simple and accessible. (11 words)

Longer example sentences

Jimmy Mahoney and his three friends – Jacob Schmidt, Bank Account Billy, and Alaska Wolf Joe – sing of the pleasures awaiting them in "Off to Mahagonny", they look forward to the peace and pleasure they will find there. (37 words)

In Mahagonny, though there are no supernatural occurrences for most of the opera, there is in fact a deus ex machina; God himself comes to Mahagonny right before Jimmy is executed. (31 words)

Herbert Lindenberger in his book Opera in History, for example, views Mahagonny alongside Schoenberg's Moses und Aron as indicative of the two poles of modernist opera. (27 words)

Example sentences (20)

In Mahagonny, though there are no supernatural occurrences for most of the opera, there is in fact a deus ex machina; God himself comes to Mahagonny right before Jimmy is executed.

Billy, with the chorus's support, counters that, in committing the latter act, Jimmy discovered the laws by which Mahagonny lives.

But in Mahagonny, poverty is not just a condition the poor bring upon themselves, but a crime to be punished.

Calm again, he tells Begbick that Mahagonny can never make people happy: it has too much peace and quiet.

For example, in act 1, scene 2, the scenario is that Jenny and other girls are walking to Mahagonny.

For example, in act 2, scene 13, the hurricane has spared Mahagonny, and the people feel free to do whatever makes them happy.

For example, Jimmy is going crazy at having nothing to do, when all of a sudden a hurricane starts heading towards Mahagonny.

He does not even acknowledge that Jimmy is tied up and ready to be killed, but at least tries to fix the moral problems in Mahagonny.

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Herbert Lindenberger in his book Opera in History, for example, views Mahagonny alongside Schoenberg's Moses und Aron as indicative of the two poles of modernist opera.

In Mahagonny, the characters are prostitutes, lumberjacks, criminals, and the like.

Instead of seducing a woman's love with power and influence, the residents of Mahagonny pay for a prostitute.

Jimmy impatiently calls for the girls of Mahagonny to show themselves, so he can make a choice.

Jimmy Mahoney and his three friends – Jacob Schmidt, Bank Account Billy, and Alaska Wolf Joe – sing of the pleasures awaiting them in "Off to Mahagonny", they look forward to the peace and pleasure they will find there.

Mahagonny was originally created to provide people with useful services; the gold prospectors wanted a relaxation spot, and the three criminals needed to stay there.

Many of the songs in Mahagonny are very simple and accessible.

Recordings *Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny.

Scene 20 A caption advises that, after Jim's death, increasing hostility among the city's various factions has caused the destruction of Mahagonny.

Scene 3 In the big cities, where men lead boring, purposeless lives, Fatty and Moses spread the gospel of Mahagonny, city of gold, among the disillusioned.

Scene 4 Four Alaskan Lumberjacks who have shared hard times together in the timberlands and made their fortunes set off together for Mahagonny.

Scene 5 The four friends arrive in Mahagonny, only to find other disappointed travelers already leaving.

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Common combinations with mahagonny

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

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