Virtuoso, Variations and Invention
Author : Amanda Valerie Brown
Publisher :
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 45,63 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Flute
ISBN :
Author : Amanda Valerie Brown
Publisher :
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 45,63 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Flute
ISBN :
Author : Stephen Bann
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 42,7 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Historiography
ISBN : 9780719032974
This collection of essays concentrates on the structures and connections which have made it possible, over the last two centuries, for an integrated regime of historical representation to emerge. It also touches upon the debate about the contemporary uses of history - whether it is a matter of new versus traditional approaches to the school curriculum, or of the need to historicize museums, houses and gardens and so avoid the blandness of an uninformed display.
Author : Alberto Jonás
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 38,20 MB
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0486483339
An acclaimed multi-volume treatise presents precise and creative exercises for serious painists and teaches technique, pedaling, fingering, and other methods.
Author : Alberto Jonás
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 43,7 MB
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0486483347
An acclaimed multi-volume treatise presents precise and creative exercises for serious painists and teaches technique, pedaling, fingering, and other methods.
Author : Jan Zwicky
Publisher : Brush Education
Page : 763 pages
File Size : 45,95 MB
Release : 2014-02-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1550595601
In this ground-breaking study on the nature of philosophy, Jan Zwicky demonstrates how much of potential philosophical significance is lost if our notion of meaningful language is constrained by narrow concepts of analytic rigour. Her aim is not to dismiss the role of analysis in philosophy; rather she strives to augment its resources and thereby give to philosophy a voice with greater range and integrity. Two parallel texts, on facing pages, run through the book. The primary one is Zwicky’s, which begins with a critique of existing criteria for defining a work as philosophy, and then develops the notion of lyric in its relation to two other key terms: technology and domesticity. She finishes with an exploration of meaning, form, and content in lyric contexts. The parallel text consists of quotations from other authors. It serves as commentary on, illustration of, and reaction to, the main text; as a way of acknowledging intellectual debts; and as a way of providing an historical context for some of the main text’s claims. Highly original in its thought and presentation, Zwicky’s discussion makes an exciting contribution to contemporary philosophy, forging new connections and expanding old boundaries.
Author : Ardal Powell
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 27,70 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Music
ISBN :
Accompanying CD-ROM contains ... "the entire publication [from 1989 to 2008] in PDF format."--P. [4] of cover.
Author : John Spurling
Publisher : Seagull World Literature
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,85 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781906497941
The extraordinary career of Franz Liszt (1811-86) as a composer, conductor, and virtuoso pianist--whose incomparable skill and personal charisma dazzled audiences all over Europe, from London and Paris to Berlin, Moscow, and even Constantinople--made him the nineteenth-century equivalent of a modern international pop star. In the spirit of Liszt's own innovative compositions and sparkling piano transcriptions of other composers' work, John Spurling here takes up the ambitious task of writing a fictionalized biography of Liszt's life. Liszt himself once said, "My biography is more to be invented than written after the fact," and Spurling's fifteen self-contained chapters--themselves virtuoso performances in a variety of styles from a variety of viewpoints--capture precisely this notion of innovation and creativity. Spurling tells of Liszt's mesmeric effect on audiences, his notorious love affairs with remarkable women, and his fraught friendship with Richard Wagner, who deeply offended Liszt by seducing and eventually marrying his daughter Cosima. Inspired by Spurling's own fascination with Liszt's music, A Book of Liszts is a highly original, imaginative, and multifaceted portrait of a humorous, romantic, and passionate genius whose work and life is still not as well known as it deserves to be.
Author : Thomas Cousineau
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 10,62 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780874130188
This critical survey of Thomas Bernhard's novels highlights a recurring theme of 'three' in Bernard's work. Thomas J. Cousineau argues that each of Bernhard's novels, although firmly anchored in Austrian history, emerges from an archetypal story involving three figures: protagonist, scapegoat and author.
Author : Ellen Winner
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 23,70 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780674463615
Psychologist Ellen Winner studies the creative, nonliteral discourse of children's spontaneous speech, examining how their abilities to use and interpret figurative language change as they grow older, and what such language shows us about the changing feature's of children's minds.
Author : Judith Chernaik
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 16,28 MB
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 0451494474
Drawing on previously unpublished sources, this groundbreaking biography of Robert Schumann sheds new light on the great composer’s life and work. With the rigorous research of a scholar and the eloquent prose of a novelist, Judith Chernaik takes us into Schumann’s nineteenth-century Romantic milieu, where he wore many “masks” that gave voice to each corner of his soul. The son of a book publisher, he infused his pieces with literary ideas. He was passionately original but worshipped the past: Bach and Beethoven, Shakespeare and Byron. He believed in artistic freedom but struggled with constraints of form. His courtship and marriage to the brilliant pianist Clara Wieck—against her father’s wishes—is one of the great musical love stories of all time. Chernaik freshly explores his troubled relations with fellow composers Mendelssohn and Chopin, and the full medical diary—long withheld—from the Endenich asylum where he spent his final years enables her to look anew at the mystery of his early death. By turns tragic and transcendent, Schumann shows how this extraordinary artist turned his tumultuous life into music that speaks directly—and timelessly—to the heart.