Pastoral nocturne
Author : Ray Green
Publisher :
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 33,6 MB
Release : 1955
Category : Dance music
ISBN :
Author : Ray Green
Publisher :
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 33,6 MB
Release : 1955
Category : Dance music
ISBN :
Author : Hélène Valance
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 22,52 MB
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300223994
A beautifully illustrated look at the vogue for night landscapes amid the social, political, and technological changes of modern America The turn of the 20th century witnessed a surge in the creation and popularity of nocturnes and night landscapes in American art. In this original and thought-provoking book, Hélène Valance investigates why artists and viewers of the era were so captivated by the night. Nocturne examines works by artists such as James McNeill Whistler, Childe Hassam, Winslow Homer, Frederic Remington, Edward Steichen, and Henry Ossawa Tanner through the lens of the scientific developments and social issues that dominated the period. Valance argues that the success of the genre is connected to the resonance between the night and the many forces that affected the era, including technological advances that expanded the realm of the visible, such as electric lighting and photography; Jim Crow-era race relations; America's closing frontier and imperialism abroad; and growing anxiety about identity and social values amid rapid urbanization. This absorbing study features 150 illustrations encompassing paintings, photographs, prints, scientific illustration, advertising, and popular media to explore the predilection for night imagery as a sign of the times.
Author : University of Michigan. School of Music
Publisher :
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 27,60 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Concert programs
ISBN :
Author : Christian Bök
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 31,46 MB
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1770564349
"Many artists seek to attain immortality through their art, but few would expect their work to outlast the human race and live on for billions of years. As Canadian poet Christian Bök has realized, it all comes down to the durability of your materials."—The Guardian Internationally best-selling poet Christian Bök has spent more than ten years writing what promises to be the first example of "living poetry." After successfully demonstrating his concept in a colony of E. coli, Bök is on the verge of enciphering a beautiful, anomalous poem into the genome of an unkillable bacterium (Deinococcus radiodurans), which can, in turn, "read" his text, responding to it by manufacturing a viable, benign protein, whose sequence of amino acids enciphers yet another poem. The engineered organism might conceivably serve as a post-apocalyptic archive, capable of outlasting our civilization. Book I of The Xenotext constitutes a kind of "demonic grimoire," providing a scientific framework for the project with a series of poems, texts, and illustrations. A Virgilian welcome to the Inferno, Book I is the "orphic" volume in a diptych, addressing the pastoral heritage of poets, who have sought to supplant nature in both beauty and terror. The book sets the conceptual groundwork for the second volume, which will document the experiment itself. The Xenotext is experimental poetry in the truest sense of the term. Christian Bök is the author of Crystallography (1994) and Eunoia (2001), which won the Griffin Poetry Prize. He teaches at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada.
Author : James Friskin
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 36,30 MB
Release : 1973-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0486229181
First published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston in 1954.
Author : Alex Ross
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 729 pages
File Size : 42,34 MB
Release : 2007-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0374249393
Ross, music critic for "The New Yorker," journeys from Vienna before the First World War to New York in the 1970s and 80s. The result is not so much a history of 20th-century music as it is a history of the 20th century through its music.
Author : University of Michigan. School of Music, Theatre & Dance
Publisher : UM Libraries
Page : pages
File Size : 24,65 MB
Release : 1880
Category :
ISBN :
Includes miscellaneous newsletters (Music at Michigan, Michigan Muse), bulletins, catalogs, programs, brochures, articles, calendars, histories, and posters.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 27,84 MB
Release : 1925
Category : English literature
ISBN :
Author : Graham Wade
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 47,69 MB
Release : 2016-03-31
Category : Music
ISBN : 1619115794
A scholarly edition of over 500 pages written to explore and evaluate Andres Segovia's achievements. Volume One contains a biography of the years of 1893 -1957 and focuses on Segovia's renditions of Renaissance, Baroque and Classical masterpieces by Narvaez, Frescobaldi, Bach, Scarlatti and Sor
Author : Jonathan Buckley
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 44,56 MB
Release : 2020-01-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1681373955
“Why isn’t Jonathan Buckley better known? His novel of love, death and melancholy comedy, The Great Concert of the Night, is captivating.” —John Banville David has just spent New Year’s Eve alone, watching Le Grand Concert de la Nuit, a film in which his former lover Imogen starred. In the early hours of the new year, consoled and tormented by her ethereal presence, he begins to write. What follows is a brilliantly various journal, chronicling a year in the life of a thinking man. David works as a curator at the ailing Sanderson-Perceval Museum in southern England, whose small collection of porcelain, musical instruments, crystals, velvet mushrooms, and glass jellyfish is as eccentric and idiosyncratic as the long-dead collectors’ tastes. David himself is a connoisseur of the derelict and nonutilitarian, of objects removed from the flow of time. Refusing the imposed order of a straightforward chronology, his journal moves fluidly back and forth in time, filled with fragments of life remembered, imagined, and recorded, from memories of his past life with Imogen or with his ex-wife, Samantha, to reflections on the lives and relics of female saints or the history of medicine. There are quotations from Seneca, Meister Eckhart, and the Goncourt brothers mixed in with the equally compelling imagined words of fictional film directors, actors, and, always, the fascinating Imogen, who is alive now only “in the perpetual present of the sentence.” In The Great Concert of the Night, Jonathan Buckley expertly interweaves sexual despair, cultural critique, the plot lines of one man’s quietly brilliant life, and the problems and paradoxes of writing, especially writing about and to the dead.