Honoria A Novel In Sonata Form
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Honoria A Novel In Sonata Form
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Author : Patrick Guderski
language : en
Publisher: Drake Books
Release Date : 2014-01-06
Honoria A Novel In Sonata Form written by Patrick Guderski and has been published by Drake Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-06 with Fiction categories.
A story about classical music, painting, New Hollywood, music television, horticulture, joy, trauma, and a young girl's audition at Juilliard. It's 1993 in San Francisco and Honoria, the only child of a family of classical musicians, is the sole inheritor of a beautiful upper-middle-class home located in St. Francis Wood. Living alone after having been recently bereft of her godfather, she dwells in a state of despair while she aimlessly embarks on a college career. However, a visit by a person from her godfather's past, a new best friend at school, and the competing interests of two tumultuously enamored boys reignite her sense of direction, which culminates in a whirlpool of perseverance, euphoria, tragedy, and rage revolving around a life-changing audition at Juilliard. The novel itself is woven into a tapestry of allusions and asides to art history, cinema, pop culture, painting, music theory, and gardening. In-depth references to Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Impressionist, and Modernist periods of music along with their composers abound. The Zeitgeist of popular music in 1993, namely the catapulting alternative rock and grunge scenes, also figures significantly into the events that unfold.
The Life Of Ludwig Van Beethoven Complete
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Author : Alexander Wheelock Thayer
language : en
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Release Date : 2020-09-28
The Life Of Ludwig Van Beethoven Complete written by Alexander Wheelock Thayer and has been published by Library of Alexandria this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-28 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
If for no other reasons than because of the long time and monumental patience expended upon its preparation, the vicissitudes through which it has passed and the varied and arduous labors bestowed upon it by the author and his editors, the history of Alexander Wheelock Thayer’s Life of Beethoven deserves to be set forth as an introduction to this work. His work it is, and his monument, though others have labored long and painstakingly upon it. There has been no considerable time since the middle of the last century when it has not occupied the minds of the author and those who have been associated with him in its creation. Between the conception of its plan and its execution there lies a period of more than two generations. Four men have labored zealously and affectionately upon its pages, and the fruits of more than four score men, stimulated to investigation by the first revelations made by the author, have been conserved in the ultimate form of the biography. It was seventeen years after Mr. Thayer entered upon what proved to be his life-task before he gave the first volume to the world—and then in a foreign tongue; it was thirteen more before the third volume came from the press. This volume, moreover, left the work unfinished, and thirty-two years more had to elapse before it was completed. When this was done the patient and self-sacrificing investigator was dead; he did not live to finish it himself nor to see it finished by his faithful collaborator of many years, Dr. Deiters; neither did he live to look upon a single printed page in the language in which he had written that portion of the work published in his lifetime. It was left for another hand to prepare the English edition of an American writer’s history of Germany’s greatest tone-poet, and to write its concluding chapters, as he believes, in the spirit of the original author. Under these circumstances there can be no vainglory in asserting that the appearance of this edition of Thayer’s Life of Beethoven deserves to be set down as a significant occurrence in musical history. In it is told for the first time in the language of the great biographer the true story of the man Beethoven—his history stripped of the silly sentimental romance with which early writers and their later imitators and copyists invested it so thickly that the real humanity, the humanliness, of the composer has never been presented to the world. In this biography there appears the veritable Beethoven set down in his true environment of men and things—the man as he actually was, the man as he himself, like Cromwell, asked to be shown for the information of posterity. It is doubtful if any other great man’s history has been so encrusted with fiction as Beethoven’s. Except Thayer’s, no biography of him has been written which presents him in his true light. The majority of the books which have been written of late years repeat many of the errors and falsehoods made current in the first books which were written about him. A great many of these errors and falsehoods are in the account of the composer’s last sickness and death, and were either inventions or exaggerations designed by their utterers to add pathos to a narrative which in unadorned truth is a hundredfold more pathetic than any tale of fiction could possibly be. Other errors have concealed the truth in the story of Beethoven’s guardianship of his nephew, his relations with his brothers, the origin and nature of his fatal illness, his dealings with his publishers and patrons, the generous attempt of the Philharmonic Society of London to extend help to him when upon his deathbed.
Brahms In Context
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Author : Natasha Loges
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-08-19
Brahms In Context written by Natasha Loges and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-19 with Music categories.
Brahms in Context offers a fresh perspective on the much-admired nineteenth-century German composer. Including thirty-nine chapters on historical, social and cultural contexts, the book brings together internationally renowned experts in music, law, science, art history and other areas, including many figures whose work is appearing in English for the first time. The essays are accessibly written, with short reading lists aimed at music students and educators. The book opens with personal topics including Brahms's Hamburg childhood, his move to Vienna, and his rich social life. It considers professional matters from finance to publishing and copyright; the musicians who shaped and transmitted his works; and the larger musical styles which influenced him. Casting the net wider, other essays embrace politics, religion, literature, philosophy, art, and science. The book closes with chapters on reception, including recordings, historical performance, his compositional legacy, and a reflection on the power of composer myths.
Luxury Arts Of The Renaissance
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Author : Marina Belozerskaya
language : en
Publisher: Getty Publications
Release Date : 2005-10-01
Luxury Arts Of The Renaissance written by Marina Belozerskaya and has been published by Getty Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-10-01 with Art categories.
Today we associate the Renaissance with painting, sculpture, and architecture—the “major” arts. Yet contemporaries often held the “minor” arts—gem-studded goldwork, richly embellished armor, splendid tapestries and embroideries, music, and ephemeral multi-media spectacles—in much higher esteem. Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua, was typical of the Italian nobility: she bequeathed to her children precious stone vases mounted in gold, engraved gems, ivories, and antique bronzes and marbles; her favorite ladies-in-waiting, by contrast, received mere paintings. Renaissance patrons and observers extolled finely wrought luxury artifacts for their exquisite craftsmanship and the symbolic capital of their components; paintings and sculptures in modest materials, although discussed by some literati, were of lesser consequence. This book endeavors to return to the mainstream material long marginalized as a result of historical and ideological biases of the intervening centuries. The author analyzes how luxury arts went from being lofty markers of ascendancy and discernment in the Renaissance to being dismissed as “decorative” or “minor” arts—extravagant trinkets of the rich unworthy of the status of Art. Then, by re-examining the objects themselves and their uses in their day, she shows how sumptuous creations constructed the world and taste of Renaissance women and men.
The Literary World
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1891
The Literary World written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1891 with Literature categories.
The Argumentative Indian
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Author : Amartya Sen
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Books India
Release Date : 2012
The Argumentative Indian written by Amartya Sen and has been published by Penguin Books India this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with India categories.
Navarra Opus 33
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Author : Pablo de Sarasate
language : en
Publisher: Alfred Music
Release Date : 1999-08-26
Navarra Opus 33 written by Pablo de Sarasate and has been published by Alfred Music this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-08-26 with Music categories.
A Violin solo for 2 Violins with Piano Accompaniment composed by Pablo de Sarasate.
New York Times Saturday Review Of Books And Art
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968
New York Times Saturday Review Of Books And Art written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with Books categories.
Presents extended reviews of noteworthy books, short reviews, essays and articles on topics and trends in publishing, literature, culture and the arts. Includes lists of best sellers (hardcover and paperback).
Lacrimal Gland Tear Film And Dry Eye Syndromes
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Author : David A. Sullivan
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
Lacrimal Gland Tear Film And Dry Eye Syndromes written by David A. Sullivan and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Medical categories.
During the past decade a significant international research effort has been directed towards understanding the composition and regulation of the preocular tear film. This effort has been motivated by the recognition that the tear film plays an essential role in maintaining corneal and conjunctival integrity, protecting against microbial challenge and preserving visual acuity. In addition, research has been stimulated by the knowledge that alteration or deficiency of the tear film, which occurs in countless individuals throughout the world, may lead to desiccation of the ocular surface, ulceration and perforation of the cornea, an increased incidence of infectious disease, and potentially, pronounced visual disability and blindness. 7 To promote further progress in this field of vision research, the International Conference on the Lacrimal Gland, Tear Film and Dry Eye Syndromes: Basic Science and Clinical Relevance was held in the Southampton Princess Resort in Bermuda from November 14 to 17, 1992. This meeting was designed to assess critically the current knowledge and 'state of the art' research on the structure and function of lacrimal tissue and tears in both health and disease. The goal of this conference was to provide an international exchange of information that would be of value to basic scientists involved in eye research, to physicians in the ophthalmological community, and to pharmaceutical companies with an interest in the treatment of lacrimal gland, tear film or ocular surface disorders (e. g. Sjogren's syndrome).
Dissemination Of Music
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Author : Hans Lenneberg
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-03-18
Dissemination Of Music written by Hans Lenneberg and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-18 with Performing Arts categories.
The contributors are leading scholars from the United States, Canada, Great Britain and Italy. The essays examine the history of music publishing from its inception to the early twentieth century. The Dissemination of Music provides new insight into the social history of music, illustrating how certain types of music were made popular because publishers made them more available, and how the reputations of composers were made or broken by the whims of publishers. This important reference work will interest scholars and students in all areas of music This collection brings the history of music publishing into the realm of social history, looking beyond the printing process to examine why and for whom music publishers produced their work. The book shows how technological limitations and printers' and publishers' preferences significantly influenced musical tastes in Europe from medieval times to the modern age.