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Arias of a Rhapsodic Spirit

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Author : Davidson Garrett
Publisher : Kelsay Books
ISBN 13 : 9781952326271
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Arias of a Rhapsodic Spirit written by Davidson Garrett and published by Kelsay Books. This book was released on 2020-06-19 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Davidson Garrett's musical suite of poems resists labels. The poet actually acknowledges genres by shattering them. Not unlike a memoir, a narrative starts with [the] "Soggy Hospital Room" where the author was born. Here is a master storyteller drawing us into his "Southern Baroque." Garrett is also an aficionado of classical music and its precision. Indeed, the book's sections are defined by musical terms. After all, this is not only a narrative sequence; it is also profoundly lyric and dramatic, fusing the poet's four categories. Here, distinctions collapse into a richly elegiac opera. Its plots and voices illuminate the poet's past, "Polishing the soul's real treasures." Finally, the tether of punctuation dissolves, allowing an ecstatic aria to shine through: "[W]ildflowers wildflowers wild wild wild wild wild wild wild... -Dean Kostos, author of The Boy Who Listened To Paintings; and This is Not a Skyscraper; winner of the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award, selected by Mark Doty The poems in Davidson Garrett's new collection, Arias of a Rhapsodic Spirit, sing. They belong to a symphony of vivid verse that touches on opera, art, friendships, place, and fading dreams. The heavy heat in Shreveport, Louisiana, rises in poems set in the segregated South where the author grew up. Readers share in the temptation of luscious bakery buns, as well as loss caused by the "AIDS plague" in New York City, to where Garrett fled as a young adult. Bowing to destiny as an artist, Garrett gazes back. He eulogizes teachers and friends, playwright Edward Albee, soprano Renée Fleming, and composer Gioachino Rossini, among others who shaped his rich life. The book's sensuous poems-crisp, lyrical, metaphoric gems-dazzle and delight. -Amy Barone, author of We Became Summer; Kamikaze Dance; and Views from the Driveway Underpinned by his passion for music, voice, dance, theater, and opera, Davidson Garrett's lushly accomplished poems propel us from his thickly humid Louisiana childhood into his early travels and then to his years in New York City. Through him, we are touched by the fear and sorrow of the AIDS crisis, the connection and isolation of loving, of dreams and passions morphed into workaday misery, and back to self-redemption as the ghost of Ruth Gordon reminds him to get off your ass, remarry theater, then-risk all for art. With honesty, emotion, and humor throughout, he gifts us the wild wild wild wild wild wild wild of his heart, and ours as well. -Karen Neuberg, author of PURSUIT; and the elephants are asking

The Expense of Spirit

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Author : Mary Beth Rose
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501723251
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Expense of Spirit written by Mary Beth Rose and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A public and highly popular literary form, English Renaissance drama affords a uniquely valuable index of the process of cultural transformation. The Expense of Spirit integrates feminist and historicist critical approaches to explore the dynamics of cultural conflict and change during a crucial period in the formation of modern sexual values. Comparing Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatic representations of love and sexuality with those in contemporary moral tracts and religious writings on women, love, and marriage, Mary Beth Rose argues that such literature not only interpreted sexual sensibilities but also contributed to creating and transforming them.

Arias from a Love Opera

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Author : Robert Conquest
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780333101421
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Arias from a Love Opera written by Robert Conquest and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Arias of Consolation

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Author : John Liddy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781838092634
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book Arias of Consolation written by John Liddy and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Spiritual Stars

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Author : John Wilkins
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780826481108
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (811 download)

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Download or read book Spiritual Stars written by John Wilkins and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-01-31 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating collection of short biographies of the greatest spiritual stars of the last thousand years, ranging from St Anselm to Martin Luther King. Some of the greatest living scholars have contributed to this series - Eamon Duffy on Dante, Rowan Will

A Literary History of England Vol. 4

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Author : A Baugh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136892990
Total Pages : 857 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book A Literary History of England Vol. 4 written by A Baugh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-06-02 with total page 857 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1959. The scope of this four volume work makes it valuable as a work of reference, connecting one period with another an placing each author clearly in the setting of his time. This is the fourth volume and includes the Nineteeth Century and after (1789-1939).

Brahms

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Author : Karl Geiringer
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0786749709
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Brahms written by Karl Geiringer and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2009-07-21 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karl Geiringer's biography of Brahms is generally regarded as the finest study of the composer ever published in any language. It is based upon the great body of material in the archives of the Viennese Society of Friends, for which Dr. Geiringer was curator from 1930–1938, and which contains more than a thousand letters written by and to Brahms. These letters, exchanged with family and with his famous contemporaries, reveal his loneliness, grim humor, loyalty, painful shyness, and enthusiasm for the music of Beethoven and Schubert—moods that the self-effacing composer did not publicly display. Divided into sections on Brahms's solitary, scholarly existence and his fruitful composing career—including examinations of rare first drafts—the biography relates how crises in Brahms's personal life were translated into his music, and how he often managed to ignore or suppress them. Supplemented with a new appendix on "Brahms as a Reader and Collector," this third edition of a classic biography is both a literary and musicological event.

Freedom to Forget

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Author : Dan Willis
Publisher : Whitaker House
ISBN 13 : 160374648X
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Freedom to Forget written by Dan Willis and published by Whitaker House. This book was released on 2007-06-11 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we move forward when tormenting memories of past hurts constantly consume us? Through humor and true stories, Dan Willis shows the way to complete forgiveness and healing. You can… Learn how your past affects your future Forgive those who have hurt you Break free from destructive behaviors Heal past hurts once and for all Overcome family dysfunction Enjoy a life of blessings, joy, and peace Experience a deep healing so that you will be able to truly forgive, forget the pain, and no longer be a hostage of the past anymore!

King Lear of the Taxi

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Author : Davidson Garrett
Publisher : King Lear of the Taxi
ISBN 13 : 9780977444601
Total Pages : 53 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (446 download)

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Download or read book King Lear of the Taxi written by Davidson Garrett and published by King Lear of the Taxi. This book was released on 2006 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: King Lear of the Taxi is a philosophical journey through poetry and prose of a struggling actor who must earn a grueling living as a taxi driver-while striving to attain artistic success. Davidson Garrett's self-portrait is a glimpse at an ever-changing New York City-where the inflation rate multiplies by the week-and aspiring artists are threatened by an urban society that values real estate over the long-term health of the arts.

Verdi and/or Wagner: Two Men, Two Worlds, Two Centuries

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Author : Peter Conrad
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 0500771448
Total Pages : 611 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Verdi and/or Wagner: Two Men, Two Worlds, Two Centuries written by Peter Conrad and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2011-11-07 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the lives and works of Verdi and Wagner as well as their respective legacies to the present day, written by a noted cultural critic. This is the first book to compare these two composers and cultural heroes, both of whom were born in 1813 and achieved huge national and inter- national renown in their lifetimes. Yet not only did they never meet, but the differences between them—in music, culture, environment, significance, and legacy—were profound. Peter Conrad begins his tale in a public park in Venice, home to a pair of statues of the composers that are positioned so as to appear to shun each other. This provides a fitting starting point for his argument that they represent two opposite yet equally integral and compelling dimensions of European culture: north versus south, cerebral versus sensual, proud solitude versus human connection, epic mythmaking versus humane magnanimity. The book is a richly argued tour de force that engages passionately and profoundly with music, biography, history, politics, philosophy, psychology, and culture in the broadest sense. As Conrad concludes, “At one time or another, if not simultaneously, we still need the two contradictory, complementary kinds of music that Verdi and Wagner left us.”

Musical America

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1320 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Musical America written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 1320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dieterich Buxtehude

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Author : Kerala J. Snyder
Publisher : University Rochester Press
ISBN 13 : 9781580462532
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Dieterich Buxtehude written by Kerala J. Snyder and published by University Rochester Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enlightening, revised edition of the definitive biography on celebrated organist and composer, Dieterich Buxtehude. This book is a new edition of the most comprehensive life-and-works study of the great Baroque-era organist and composer Dieterich Buxtehude (ca. 1637-1707), released to celebrate the tercentenary of the composer's death. Originally published in 1987 and long out of print, Dieterich Buxtehude: Organist in Lübeck is considered by most musicologists to be the definitive biography. It also includes close description of Buxtehude's compositional output, from trio sonatas to the famed Abendmusiken: Buxtehude's yearly oratorio presentations. The young J. S. Bach traveled to Lübeck on foot in 1705 to learn as much as he could from the great master of the organ and of Lutheranchurch music. The revised edition contains new information on the organs that Buxtehude played in Scandinavia and Lübeck, excerpts from the newly available account books from St. Mary's in Lübeck, a discussion of newly discovered sources, including one written by J. S. Bach, an evaluation of recent scholarship on Buxtehude, and an extensive bibliography. Written for both the casual reader and the serious scholar. The accompanying music CD (this material is now provided on a companion website) provides examples of all genres discussed in the book -- vocal works, a trio sonata, harpsichord music, and organ music newly recorded on the North German meantone organ in Gothenburg, Sweden, by a noted specialist in this repertoire, Hans Davidsson, who is professor of organ at the University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music and the founder of the Göteborg Organ Art Center (GOArt). Kerala J.Snyder is Professor Emerita of Musicology, Eastman School of Music (University of Rochester).

The Spanish Disquiet

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Author : María M. Portuondo
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022660909X
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book The Spanish Disquiet written by María M. Portuondo and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-03-22 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, historian María M. Portuondo takes us to sixteenth-century Spain, where she identifies a community of natural philosophers and biblical scholars. They shared what she calls the “Spanish Disquiet”—a preoccupation with the perceived shortcomings of prevailing natural philosophies and empirical approaches when it came to explaining the natural world. Foremost among them was Benito Arias Montano—Spain’s most prominent biblical scholar and exegete of the sixteenth century. He was also a widely read member of the European intellectual community, and his motivation to reform natural philosophy shows that the Spanish Disquiet was a local manifestation of greater concerns about Aristotelian natural philosophy that were overtaking Europe on the eve of the Scientific Revolution. His approach to the study of nature framed the natural world as unfolding from a series of events described in the Book of Genesis, ultimately resulting in a new metaphysics, cosmology, physics, and even a natural history of the world. By bringing Arias Montano’s intellectual and personal biography into conversation with broader themes that inform histories of science of the era, The Spanish Disquiet ensures an appreciation of the variety and richness of Arias Montano’s thought and his influence on early modern science.

From Spirituals to Symphonies

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Author : Helen Walker-Hill
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252074548
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book From Spirituals to Symphonies written by Helen Walker-Hill and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploding the assumption that black women's only important musical contributions have been in folk, jazz, and pop Helen Walker-Hill's unique study provides a carefully researched examination of the history and scope of musical composition by African American women composers from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Focusing on the effect of race, gender, and class, From Spirituals to Symphonies notes the important role played by individual personalities and circumstances in shaping this underappreciated category of American art. The study also provides in-depth exploration of the backgrounds, experiences, and musical compositions of eight African American women including Margaret Bonds, Undine Smith Moore, and Julia Perry, who combined the techniques of Western art music with their own cultural traditions and individual gifts. Despite having gained national and international recognition during their lifetimes, the contributions of many of these women are today forgotten.

The Operas of Giacomo Meyerbeer

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Author : Robert Ignatius Letellier
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838640937
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book The Operas of Giacomo Meyerbeer written by Robert Ignatius Letellier and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: But these operas are far more than imitations: they show an apprehension of convention and genre that is nothing less than a dismantling of accepted formulas, and a highly original reconstruction of them."--Jacket.

PONTIUS

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Author : Charles E. Miller
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1450044662
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book PONTIUS written by Charles E. Miller and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-03-10 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you read one of these stories, you have not read them all, as is the case in a communist country, where the state creates an ersatz society of act-alikes who conform to prevailing doctrines. Propaganda is the result. These stories are the result of a life of freedom in our great nation, where freedom, wever being put down by the State, is still the expression of man’s deepest desires to be like God. Insofar as the unique individual shares creative gifts, he shares one of God’s attributes. These stories, perhaps only one hopefully more, will exhult in that creative spirit.

The Adelphi

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 834 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Adelphi written by and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: