Daniel François Esprit Auber. By Heinrich Weber. With a Portrait.
Author : Daniel François Esprit Auber
Publisher :
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 36,24 MB
Release : 1881
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Author : Daniel François Esprit Auber
Publisher :
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 36,24 MB
Release : 1881
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Author : Hirsch Library
Publisher :
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 31,90 MB
Release : 1959
Category : Music
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Author : British Library
Publisher :
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 48,37 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Reference
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Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher :
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 44,66 MB
Release : 1965
Category : English imprints
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Author : British museum. Dept. of printed books
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Page : 520 pages
File Size : 11,81 MB
Release : 1931
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Author : Robert Ignatius Letellier
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 37,59 MB
Release : 2019-01-31
Category : Music
ISBN : 1527527581
Giacomo Meyerbeer was once one of the most famous of all opera composers, enjoying into the twentieth century the same universal admiration and performance as a composer like Puccini does today. Through a series of adverse factors, his reputation was seriously damaged with the resurgence of nationalism and the growing ant-Semitism in France and Germany at the end of the nineteenth century, the propagation of a Wagnerian operatic aesthetic, the decline of the bel canto vocal tradition, and the disfavour manifested towards the heroism of French grand opera. All these factors, and especially the ban on his music in Nazi Germany, meant that Meyerbeer’s reputation was seriously overshadowed in the years after the Second World War. During the 1960s and 1970s, a tentative interest began to manifest itself, and with the advent of the new millennium, a growing rediscovery of his operas has been apparent. Not least in this process has been the recovery of all the composer’s private papers and their scholarly editing. His life and work have been the subject of a growing number of informed studies which have enabled radical reassessment. This volume takes a fresh look at this process of rediscovery by considering the composer in terms of the primary sources (diaries and letters) now available for forming a more complete and detailed biography unclouded by prejudicial or uninformed opinions. The extraordinary nature of Meyerbeer’s Jewish background and the role of this family in Prussian emancipation are also considered. Most importantly, however, his life and works are presented in a critical chronology that is fundamentally based on his own private papers, with testimony (both positive and negative) from many contemporary sources. A detailed iconography is integral to this process, and helps to bring Meyerbeer's story and music more vividly to life.
Author : University of California (System). Institute of Library Research
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Page : 880 pages
File Size : 18,21 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Library catalogs
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Author : Richard Taruskin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 3856 pages
File Size : 42,26 MB
Release : 2009-07-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 0199813698
The Oxford History of Western Music is a magisterial survey of the traditions of Western music by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists of our time. This text illuminates, through a representative sampling of masterworks, those themes, styles, and currents that give shape and direction to each musical age. Taking a critical perspective, this text sets the details of music, the chronological sweep of figures, works, and musical ideas, within the larger context of world affairs and cultural history. Written by an authoritative, opinionated, and controversial figure in musicology, The Oxford History of Western Music provides a critical aesthetic position with respect to individual works, a context in which each composition may be evaluated and remembered. Taruskin combines an emphasis on structure and form with a discussion of relevant theoretical concepts in each age, to illustrate how the music itself works, and how contemporaries heard and understood it. It also describes how the c
Author : Charles G. Häberl
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 46,34 MB
Release : 2019-11-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3110487861
Given the degree of popular fascination with Gnostic religions, it is surprising how few pay attention to the one such religion that has survived from antiquity until the present day: Mandaism. Mandaeans, who esteem John the Baptist as the most famous adherent to their religion, have in our time found themselves driven from their historic homelands by war and oppression. Today, they are a community in crisis, but they provide us with unparalleled access to a library of ancient Gnostic scriptures, as part of the living tradition that has sustained them across the centuries. Gnostic texts such as these have caught popular interest in recent times, as traditional assumptions about the original forms and cultural contexts of related religious traditions, such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, have been called into question. However, we can learn only so much from texts in isolation from their own contexts. Mandaean literature uniquely allows us not only to increase our knowledge about Gnosticism, and by extension all these other religions, but also to observe the relationship between Gnostic texts, rituals, beliefs, and living practices, both historically and in the present day.
Author : Lisa Zunshine
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 12,29 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0814210287
Why We Read Fiction offers a lucid overview of the most exciting area of research in contemporary cognitive psychology known as "Theory of Mind" and discusses its implications for literary studies. It covers a broad range of fictional narratives, from Richardson s Clarissa, Dostoyevski's Crime and Punishment, and Austen s Pride and Prejudice to Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, Nabokov's Lolita, and Hammett s The Maltese Falcon. Zunshine's surprising new interpretations of well-known literary texts and popular cultural representations constantly prod her readers to rethink their own interest in fictional narrative. Written for a general audience, this study provides a jargon-free introduction to the rapidly growing interdisciplinary field known as cognitive approaches to literature and culture.