Book Description
(Boosey & Hawkes Chamber Music). Composed in 1951. The six metamorphoses include: I. Pan * II. Phaeton * III. Niobe * IV. Bacchus * V. Narcissus * VI. Arethusa. Duration: c. 12 minutes
Author : Benjamin Britten
Publisher : Boosey & Hawkes Incorporated
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 32,2 MB
Release : 2004-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781480342002
(Boosey & Hawkes Chamber Music). Composed in 1951. The six metamorphoses include: I. Pan * II. Phaeton * III. Niobe * IV. Bacchus * V. Narcissus * VI. Arethusa. Duration: c. 12 minutes
Author : Ovid
Publisher :
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 37,35 MB
Release : 1960
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Geoffrey Vernon Burgess
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 25,97 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780300093179
The oboe, including its earlier forms the shawm and the hautboy, is an instrument with a long and rich history. In this book two distinguished oboist-musicologists trace that history from its beginnings to the present time, discussing how and why the oboe evolved, what music was written for it, and which players were prominent. Geoffrey Burgess and Bruce Haynes begin by describing the oboe’s prehistory and subsequent development out of the shawm in the mid-seventeenth century. They then examine later stages of the instrument, from the classical hautboy to the transition to a keyed oboe and eventually the Conservatoire-system oboe. The authors consider the instrument’s place in Romantic and Modernist music and analyze traditional and avant-garde developments after World War II. Noting the oboe’s appearance in paintings and other iconography, as well as in distinctive musical contexts, they examine what this reveals about the instrument’s social function in different eras. Throughout the book they discuss the great performers, from the pioneers of the seventeenth century to the traveling virtuosi of the eighteenth, the masters of the romantic period and the legends of the twentieth century such as Gillet, Goossens, Tabuteau, and Holliger. With its extensive illustrations, useful technical appendices, and discography, this is a comprehensive and authoritative volume that will be the essential companion for every woodwind student and performer.
Author : Marshall Berman
Publisher : Verso
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 49,19 MB
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : 9780860917854
The experience of modernization -- the dizzying social changes that swept millions of people into the capitalist world -- and modernism in art, literature and architecture are brilliantly integrated in this account.
Author : Arthur J. DiFuria
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 884 pages
File Size : 38,1 MB
Release : 2021-12-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9004462066
This volume examines how and why many early modern pictures operate in an ekphrastic mode.
Author : Ingo Zissos Andrew Gildenhard
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 16,29 MB
Release : 2020-10-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781013286513
This extract from Ovid's 'Theban History' recounts the confrontation of Pentheus, king of Thebes, with his divine cousin, Bacchus, the god of wine. Notwithstanding the warnings of the seer Tiresias and the cautionary tale of a character Acoetes (perhaps Bacchus in disguise), who tells of how the god once transformed a group of blasphemous sailors into dolphins, Pentheus refuses to acknowledge the divinity of Bacchus or allow his worship at Thebes. Enraged, yet curious to witness the orgiastic rites of the nascent cult, Pentheus conceals himself in a grove on Mt. Cithaeron near the locus of the ceremonies. But in the course of the rites he is spotted by the female participants who rush upon him in a delusional frenzy, his mother and sisters in the vanguard, and tear him limb from limb.The episode abounds in themes of abiding interest, not least the clash between the authoritarian personality of Pentheus, who embodies 'law and order', masculine prowess, and the martial ethos of his city, and Bacchus, a somewhat effeminate god of orgiastic excess, who revels in the delusional and the deceptive, the transgression of boundaries, and the blurring of gender distinctions.This course book offers a wide-ranging introduction, the original Latin text, study aids with vocabulary, and an extensive commentary. Designed to stretch and stimulate readers, Gildenhard and Zissos's incisive commentary will be of particular interest to students of Latin at AS and undergraduate level. It extends beyond detailed linguistic analysis to encourage critical engagement with Ovid's poetry and discussion of the most recent scholarly thought. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.
Author : Albert Andraud
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,27 MB
Release : 1968-04
Category :
ISBN : 9781581064759
Southern Music
Author : Mary Kathleen Hunter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 28,45 MB
Release : 2012-07-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107015146
Haydn is enjoying renewed appreciation: this book explores fresh approaches to his music and the cultural forces affecting it.
Author : Benjamin Britten
Publisher :
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 27,95 MB
Release : 1952
Category : Oboe music
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Author : David Malouf
Publisher : Random House
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 17,8 MB
Release : 2012-11-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1409027392
In the first century AD, Publius Ovidius Naso, the most urbane and irreverant poet of imperial Rome, was banished to a remote village on the edge of the Black Sea. From these sparse facts, one of our most distinguished novelists has fashioned an audacious and supremely moving work of fiction. Marooned on the edge of the known world, exiled from his native tongue, Ovid depends on the kindness of barbarians who impate their dead and converse with the spirit world. But then he becomes the guardian of a still more savage creature, a feral child who has grown up among deer. What ensues is a luminous encounter between civilization and nature, as enacted by a poet who once catalogued the treacheries of love and a boy who slowly learns how to give it.