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Transfigured Night

Author : Libuše Moníková
Publisher : Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press
ISBN 13 : 8024651726
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (246 download)

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Download or read book Transfigured Night written by Libuše Moníková and published by Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press. This book was released on 2023-05-01 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leonora Marty, who fled Czechoslovakia decades earlier, has returned after the Velvet Revolution. Having concluded her ballet of The Makropulos Affair, the Czech choreographer wanders through Prague, meets old classmates, and visits obscure museums. Leonora is a cultural encyclopedia, so every encounter leads to reflections on the city, Czechoslovakia, and the world. When Leonora meets a descendant of Germans driven from Czechoslovakia after World War Two, she must confront her relationship with the city of her youth, her homeland’s relationship with its past, and this new relationship with her German admirer. Written in German and published in 1995, by an author whose life mirrored her protagonist’s, the novel employs a style as influenced by the operas of Leoš Janáček as the novels of Thomas Pynchon. “A multilayered novel which takes us on a journey through the myths of Prague and the collective narratives of Czech-German conflict.” –Lucy Duggan, author of Tendrils and Tiny Stories “In Moníková’s novel, the alchemist laboratories of Prague’s Golden Lane open out onto imaginary landscapes: from the Valley of Wild Šárka, where female dissent was quashed during the mythological Maidens’ War, to the Valley of the Queens, where the mummified Pharaoh Hatshepsut survives undead.” –Ulrike Vedder, professor of German literature at Humboldt University of Berlin

Transfigured Night

Author : Titus Leonard Presler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Transfigured Night written by Titus Leonard Presler and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the dusk-to-dawn preaching of Anglicans and Methodists to the nocturne fire-walking of Marange Apostles, a grassroots movement of all night vigils has catalyzed a dynamic religious renewal among mission-founded and African Initiated Churches in Zimbabwe.

Transfigured Night

Author : Eileen Egan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transfigured Night written by Eileen Egan and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Transfigured Night

Author : Byron Vazakas
Publisher : New York, The Macmillan Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transfigured Night written by Byron Vazakas and published by New York, The Macmillan Company. This book was released on 1946 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Schoenberg's Program Notes and Musical Analyses

Author : Arnold Schoenberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195385578
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Schoenberg's Program Notes and Musical Analyses written by Arnold Schoenberg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1950, as Arnold Schoenberg anticipated the publication of a collection of 15 of his most important writings, Style and Idea, he was already at work on a second volume to be called Program Notes. Inspired by this idea, Schoenberg's Program Notes and Musical Analyses can boast the most comprehensive study of the composer's writings about his own music yet published. Schoenberg's insights emerge not only in traditional program notes, but also in letters, sketch materials, pre-concert talks, public lectures, contributions to scholarly journals, newspaper articles, interviews, pedagogical materials, and publicity fliers. The editions of the texts in this collection, based almost exclusively on Schoenberg's original manuscript sources, include many items appearing in print in English for the first time, as well as more familiar texts that preserve musical and textual information eliminated from previous editions. The book also reveals how Schoenberg, desirous to communicate with and educate an audience, took every advantage of changes in technology during his lifetime, utilizing print media, radio broadcasts, record jackets--and had he lived, television--for this purpose. In addition to four chapters in which Schoenberg illuminates 42 of his own compositions, the book begins with chapters on his development and influences, his thoughts about trends in modern music, and, in a nod to the importance of the radio in providing a venue for music analysis, a chapter about Schoenberg's radio broadcasts.

Arnold Schoenberg's Journey

Author : Allen Shawn
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466895500
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Arnold Schoenberg's Journey written by Allen Shawn and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2016-01-19 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A composer's study and celebration of a difficult but influential artist, his work, and his time Proposing that Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) has been more discussed than heard, more tolerated than loved, composer Allen Shawn puts aside ultimate judgments about Schoenberg's place in musical history to explore the composer's fascinating world in a series of "linked essays--soundings" that are more searching than analytical, more suggestive than definitive. In an approach that is unusual for a book of an avowedly introductory character, the text plunges into the details of some of Schoenberg works, while at the same time providing a broad overview of his involvement in music, painting and the history through which he lived. Emphasizing music as an expressive art of rhythms and tones, Shawn approaches Schoenberg primarily from the listener's point of view, uncovering both the seeds of his radicalism in his early music and the traditional bases of his later work. Although liberally sprinkled with musical examples, the text can be read without them. By turns witty, personal, opinionated and instructive, "Arnold Schoenberg's Journey" is above all an appreciation of a great musical and artistic imagination in a time unlike any other.

Something to Say

Author : William Carlos Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811209557
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Something to Say written by William Carlos Williams and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1985 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Something to Say: William Carlos Williams on Younger Poets collects all of Williams' known writings--reviews, essays, introductions, and letters to the editor--on the two generations of poets that followed him, from Kenneth Rexroth and Louis Zukofsky to Robert Lowell and Allen Ginsberg. What might have been a random collection of occasional pieces achieves remarkable coherence from the singleness of Williams' poetic vision: his belief that the secret spirit of ritual, of poetry, was trapped in restrictive molds, and, if these could be broken, the spirit would be able to live again in a new, contemporary form. Only a revived clarity and accuracy in sight and expression would enable the modern world to reform social order which Williams saw in complete disarray. To resuscitate American Poetry, Williams concentrated his efforts on the purification of poetic speech--his American idiom--and on remaking the poetic line in a new measure--his variable foot. And while his battles with his contemporaries on these issues could be heated, he was always a nurturing father to the young, "a useful presence," "a model and a liberator." He told Ginsberg to pare down and economize, Roethke to open up, and encouraged Lowell and Levertov to shake off poetic conventions. But in all his emphasis on the poem as a made object of concrete physicality or as a field of action, he would return again and again to this basic advice to young writers: "The only thing necessary is to have something to say when at last the opportunity comes to say it."

Passion to Dance

Author : James Neufeld
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459701232
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)

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Download or read book Passion to Dance written by James Neufeld and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2011-10-23 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the National Ballet of Canada – the people, the determination, and how at sixty it is still creating new work while still representing the classics. Passion to Dance is the story of the National Ballet of Canada – the people who dreamt the company into existence, the determination needed to keep it afloat, the bumps on the road to its success, and above all, its passion for dance as a living, evolving art form. From catch-as-catch-can beginnings – borrowed quarters, tiny stages, enormous dreams the National Ballet has emerged as one of North America’s foremost dance troupes. The company at sixty is a company of its time, engaged in creating challenging new work, yet committed to maintaining the classics of the past, favourites like Swan Lake, The Nutcracker,and The Sleeping Beauty. One hundred and fifty photographs from the company’s archives illustrate this definitive history, filled with eyewitness accounts, backstage glimpses, and fascinating detail. This is a record of one of Canada’s boldest cultural experiments, a book to enjoy now and keep forever.

Dundurn Performing Arts Library Bundle — Theatre

Author : James Neufeld
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459728300
Total Pages : 2215 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)

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Download or read book Dundurn Performing Arts Library Bundle — Theatre written by James Neufeld and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2013-12-26 with total page 2215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This special bundle contains seven books that detail Canada’s long and storied history in the performing arts. We learn about Canada’s early Hollywood celebrity movie stars; Canadians’ vast contributions to successful international stage musicals; the story of The Grand, a famous theatre in London, Ontario; reminiscences from the early days of radio; the history of the renowned Stratford Festival; and a lavish history of the famous National Ballet of Canada. Canada’s performing artists blossomed in the twentieth century, and you can learn all about it here. Includes Broadway North Let’s Go to The Grand! Once Upon a Time in Paradise Passion to Dance Sky Train Romancing the Bard Stardust and Shadows

Art as Language

Author : Garry Hagberg
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801485312
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Art as Language written by Garry Hagberg and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art as Language systematically considers the implications of the pervasive belief that art is a language or functions like language.

Program Notes

Author : Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Program Notes written by Chicago Symphony Orchestra and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Three great orchestral works

Author : Claude Debussy
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486244415
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (862 download)

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Download or read book Three great orchestral works written by Claude Debussy and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complete scores of three orchestral favorites by vastly influential modern composer. Innovation, texture, shimmering impressionism. Reprinted from early French editions. New Contents, Glossary of French musical terms.

Classical Music Insights

Author : Betsy Schwarm
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1426994206
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book Classical Music Insights written by Betsy Schwarm and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you enjoy great music but want to know more about how it came to be the way it is - without investing time in a graduate degree - here are the background stories of over 200 great compositions. If you're only just coming to experiment with great music, here are guideposts to help you understand and enjoy what you encounter. The stories and sounds behind the scenes: welcome to Classical Music Insights.

William Carlos Williams and the Diagnostics of Culture

Author : Brian Bremen A.
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195344944
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book William Carlos Williams and the Diagnostics of Culture written by Brian Bremen A. and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1993-04-29 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bremen's study examines the development of William Carlos Williams's poetics, focusing in particular on Williams's ongoing fascination with the effects of poetry and prose, and his life-long friendship with Kenneth Burke. Using a framework based on Burke's and Williams's theoretical writings and correspondence, as well as on the work of contemporary cultural critics, Bremen looks closely at how Williams's poetic strategies are intimately tied to his medical practice, incorporating a form of methodological empiricism that extends his diagnoses beyond the individual to include both language and community. The book develops a series of rhetorical, cognitive, medical, and political analogues that clarify the poetic and cultural achievements Williams hoped to realize in his writing.

Hans Keller 1919 - 1985

Author : Alison Garnham
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317123816
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Hans Keller 1919 - 1985 written by Alison Garnham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hans Keller 1919–1985: A musician in dialogue with his times is the first full biography of Hans Keller and the first appearance in print of many of his letters. Eight substantial chapters, integrating original documents with their historical context, show the development of Keller’s ideas in response to the people and events that provoked them. A musician of penetrating insight, Keller was also an exceptional writer and broadcaster, whose remarkable mind dominated British musical life for forty years after the Second World War. It was a vital time for music in Britain, fuelled by unprecedented public investment in the arts and education and the rapid development of recording and broadcasting. Keller was at the centre of all that was happening and his far-sighted analysis of the period is deeply resonant today. Illustrated throughout by extracts from Keller’s writings, diaries and correspondence with musicians including Arnold Schoenberg, Benjamin Britten and Yehudi Menuhin, this book vividly conveys the depth of his thought and the excitement of the times. Published for the centenary of Keller’s birth, it is an illuminating celebration of his life and works for all those interested in the music and history of post-war Britain.

Chamber Music

Author : James M. Keller
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195382536
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Chamber Music written by James M. Keller and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2011 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oxford's highly successful listener's guides--The Symphony, The Concerto, and Choral Masterworks--have been widely praised for their blend of captivating biography, crystal clear musical analysis, and delightful humor. Now James Keller follows these greatly admired volumes with Chamber Music. Approaching the tradition of chamber music with knowledge and passion, Keller here serves as the often-opinionated but always genial guide to 192 essential works by 56 composers, providing illuminating essays on what makes each piece distinctive and admirable. Keller spans the history of this intimate genre of music, from key works of the Baroque through the emotionally stirring "golden age" of the Classical and Romantic composers, to modern masterpieces rich in political, psychological, and sometimes comical overtones. For each piece, from Bach through to contemporary figures like George Crumb and Steve Reich, the author includes an astute musical analysis that casual music lovers can easily appreciate yet that more experienced listeners will find enriching. Keller shares the colorful, often surprising stories behind the compositions while revealing the delights of an art form once described by Goethe as the musical equivalent of "thoughtful people conversing."

Saving Germany

Author : James Enns
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773549145
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Saving Germany written by James Enns and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians have mainly concentrated on the significance of the Marshall Plan, the creation of NATO, and exports of pop culture to describe the role of North Americans in the development of West Germany after the devastation of the Second World War. In Saving Germany, James Enns brings an entirely new focus to West Germany’s recovery by demonstrating how North American missionaries played a formative role in cultivating the humanitarian and spiritual conscience of postwar Germany. Enns begins by categorizing the kinds of Protestant missionary agencies active in West Germany, which ranged from mainline churches overseeing ecumenical humanitarian and church reconstruction projects to independent evangelical mission agencies working alongside local church groups. He then identifies notable themes that contextualize the spectrum of missionary responses, including the degree to which missionaries intentionally functioned as agents of Western democracy. In addition to discussions of well-known figures such as US evangelist Billy Graham, Enns highlights the important contributions of the Janz Quartet from the Canadian prairies and Robert Kreider of the Mennonite Central Committee. Tracking thirty years of transnational Christian missionary work, Saving Germany demonstrates the significant role of North American missionary agencies in the reconstruction of Germany.