Alborada

Author : Siglind Bruhn
Publisher : Pendragon Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0945193955

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Images and Ideas in Modern French Piano Music by Siglind Bruhn Pdf

In our visually-oriented society, music appears to stand apart from other arts. Yet just as a poet can write a poem whose focus is a painting, so musicians have composed scores based on poems, paintings, and other non-musical art forms. In instrumental music such reinterpretations are especially intriguing as the verbal or visual stimulus does not appear in performance but is rendered in musical form. In this study, Siglind Bruhn investigates how three French composers of the twentieth century, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, and Olivier Messiaen, express extra-musical subtexts in their piano works. She shows how the relation between the subtexts and the musical works can be broadly catagorized in terms of pictoriality and interiority. In all cases, Bruhn analyzes each musical piece and each source text in its entirety and in depth, drawing on her broad background in both literary and musical interpretation of the twentieth century. For pianists who seek to better understand an individual work, for scholars in the growing field of musical hermeneutics, and for lovers of music in general, this volume explores and makes explicit connections between music and other arts.

Author : Elizabeth Quay Hutchison
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2001-11-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780822381310

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Labors Appropriate to Their Sex by Elizabeth Quay Hutchison Pdf

In Labors Appropriate to Their Sex Elizabeth Quay Hutchison addresses the plight of working women in early twentieth-century Chile, when the growth of urban manufacturing was transforming the contours of women’s wage work and stimulating significant public debate, new legislation, educational reform, and social movements directed at women workers. Challenging earlier interpretations of women’s economic role in Chile’s industrial growth, which took at face value census figures showing a dramatic decline in women’s industrial work after 1907, Hutchison shows how the spread of industrial sweatshops and changing definitions of employment in the census combined to make female labor disappear from census records at the same time that it was in fact burgeoning in urban areas. In addition to population and industrial censuses, Hutchison culls published and archival sources to illuminate such misconceptions and to reveal how women’s paid labor became a locus of anxiety for a society confronting social problems—both real and imagined—that were linked to industrialization and modernization. The limited options of working women were viewed by politicians, elite women, industrialists, and labor organizers as indicative of a society in crisis, she claims, yet their struggles were also viewed as the potential springboard for reform. Labors Appropriate to Their Sex thus demonstrates how changing norms concerning gender and work were central factors in conditioning the behavior of both male and female workers, relations between capital and labor, and political change and reform in Chile. This study will be rewarding for those whose interests lie in labor, gender, or Latin American studies; as well as for those concerned with the histories of early feminism, working-class women, and sexual discrimination in Latin America.

Author : Ellen Brodsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105042449137

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Ravel : Alborada de Gracioso by Ellen Brodsky Pdf

Author : Juana Manuela Gorriti
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199728695

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Dreams and Realities : Selected Fiction of Juana Manuela Gorriti by Juana Manuela Gorriti Pdf

One of the most dramatic figures among Latin America's romantic writers and the distinguished woman writer of her century, Juana Manuela Gorriti brings passion and intrigue to the scene of writing. An exile from her native Argentina who sought refuge first in Bolivia and then in Peru, her lifetime of travel and displacement is echoed in her fictions. Her short stories tell of homelessness and nomadic yearnings, taking the reader from the Peruvian highlands, where Spanish colonizers plot to rob the treasures of the Incas, to the Argentine capital city plagued by sinister political intentions. Her later fictions move from Chile to scenes of the California Gold Rush. Covering the wide landscape of the Americas, Gorriti tracks the spirit of nineteenth-century adventurers and dandies, nation builders and soldiers who participate in the conflicts of settlement in a new and lawless land. Women are the protagonists here, mediating episodes of civil strife as they voice their despair about the treachery of fortune seekers in Latin America in the years following Independence from Spain. Dreams and Realities offers a sampling of Gorriti's stories, showing the range of her commitment to political fiction drawn in the romantic style. Originally published in four volumes under the titles Suenos y realidades and Panoramas de la vida, her works deal with the tyranny of the Rosas regime, the mediating role of women, and the clash of European and indigenous cultures. Notwithstanding her personal political leanings, Gorriti's stories and fictions provide a generous dose of swashbuckling adventure and romance. Translated into English for the first time by Sergio Waisman and with an Introduction, Chronology, and Critical Notes by Francine Masiello, the book gives a woman's view of the world of political intrigue and civil unrest that marks Latin America's turbulent nineteenth century.

Author : Margaret Hebblethwaite
Publisher : Bradt Travel Guides
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Paraguay
ISBN : 9781841623153

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Paraguay, First Edition by Margaret Hebblethwaite Pdf

The only stand-alone guidebook to the country in English, Bradt s Paraguay takes readers from the city sites of Asuncion to the wild and underpopulated Chaco region and the historial Jesuit missions. Written by an author who s been resident in rural Paraguay for a decade, it s an authoritative and detailed introduction to an emerging tourism destination."

Author : Gustavo Federico Bonnat
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031551949

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Current Research in Archaeology of South American Pampas by Gustavo Federico Bonnat Pdf

Author : Douglas Lee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781136066900

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Masterworks of 20th-Century Music by Douglas Lee Pdf

"Masterworks of 20th-Century Music" introduces more than one hundred of the greatest compositions by world-renowned composer that have entered the standard orchestral repertory. The author surveyed dozens of major American orchestras to focus on those works that an average audience member is most likely to hear. Concertgoers who are intimated by the modern repertoire finally have a single resource that will help them understand and enjoy it. Like an educated guide, he walks the listener through the piece, explaining how all the elements come together to form a unified whole. This book serves the general reader interested in 20th-century music, plus students, teachers, and scholars.

Author : Margaret Hebblethwaite
Publisher : Bradt Travel Guides
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-05
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781841625614

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Paraguay by Margaret Hebblethwaite Pdf

Author : Douglas A. Lee
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780415938464

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Masterworks of 20th-century Music by Douglas A. Lee Pdf

"Introduces more than one hundred of the most popular and frequently performed classical works of our era; includes works by Copland, Ives, Gershwin, Bartok, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Ravel, Shostakovich, and many more"--Page 4 of cover.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1094 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-08
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781107531468

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Statutes and Ordinances of the University of Cambridge 2015 by Anonim Pdf

The official Statutes and Ordinances of the University of Cambridge.

Author : Arbie Orenstein
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0486266338

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Ravel by Arbie Orenstein Pdf

The standard Ravel biography by the world's foremost authority — brilliantly detailed and documented, filled with quotations from letters, interviews with the composer's friends, an illuminating analysis of each of his works, a study of his musical esthetics and language, a complete catalog of his works, and a discography. "Highly recommended" — Choice. Includes 48 illustrations.

Author : Deborah Mawer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2000-08-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521648564

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The Cambridge Companion to Ravel by Deborah Mawer Pdf

A comprehensive introduction to the life, music and compositional aesthetic of Maurice Ravel.

Author : Francine Masiello
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Argentina
ISBN : 080323158X

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Between civilization & barbarism by Francine Masiello Pdf

Evoking the famous watchwords of Argentine president Domingo Sarmiento (1868–74), Between Civilization and Barbarism explores the positioning of women within the Argentine nation and argues that women neither sought alliance with the “civilizing” agenda of leading statesmen nor found identity in the extreme poses of “barbarism,” to which some intellectuals had condemned them. Instead, women used literary and political texts to surpass the tightly outlined roles assigned to them. Beginning with literary and journalistic texts written by and about women from the time of Sarmiento, Francine Masiello traces strategic shifts in the discourse on gender at moments of national crisis. She considers not only novels and guides to female behavior written by and for privileged women but also newspapers and political tracts produced by women of the working class. Extending her study into the urban expansion and modernization of the 1920s, Masiello explores the nature of gender relations posited in treatises on crime and public disorder and in the texts of avant-garde and social-realist writers. In addressing such representations of women, as well as the effects of ideology and history on writing, Masiello offers bold new insights into the development of Latin American women’s literature and illuminates the role of women in forming the culture of present-day Argentina.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Audiotapes
ISBN : UVA:X002171517

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Schwann by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ruth Hellier-Tinoco
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780195340365

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Embodying Mexico by Ruth Hellier-Tinoco Pdf

Embodying Mexico examines two performative icons of Mexicanness--the Dance of the Old Men and Night of the Dead of Lake Patzcuaro--in numerous manifestations, including film, theater, tourist guides, advertisements, and souvenirs. Covering a ninety-year period from the postrevolutionary era to the present day, Hellier-Tinoco's analysis is thoroughly grounded in Mexican politics and history, and simultaneously incorporates choreographic, musicological, and dramaturgical analysis.Exploring multiple contexts in Mexico, the USA, and Europe, Embodying Mexico expands and enriches our understanding of complex processes of creating national icons, performance repertoires, and tourist attractions, drawing on wide-ranging ethnographic, archival, and participatory experience. An extensive companion website illustrates the author's arguments through audio and video.