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Classical New York

Author : Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis,Matthew McGowan
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780823281046

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Classical New York by Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis,Matthew McGowan Pdf

During the rise of New York from the capital of an upstart nation to a global metropolis, the visual language of Greek and Roman antiquity played a formative role in the development of the city’s art and architecture. This compilation of essays offers a survey of diverse reinterpretations of classical forms in some of New York’s most iconic buildings, public monuments, and civic spaces. Classical New York examines the influence of Greco-Roman thought and design from the Greek Revival of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries through the late-nineteenth-century American Renaissance and Beaux Arts period and into the twentieth century’s Art Deco. At every juncture, New Yorkers looked to the classical past for knowledge and inspiration in seeking out new ways to cultivate a civic identity, to design their buildings and monuments, and to structure their public and private spaces. Specialists from a range of disciplines—archaeology, architectural history, art history, classics, and history— focus on how classical art and architecture are repurposed to help shape many of New York City’s most evocative buildings and works of art. Federal Hall evoked the Parthenon as an architectural and democratic model; the Pantheon served as a model for the creation of Libraries at New York University and Columbia University; Pennsylvania Station derived its form from the Baths of Caracalla; and Atlas and Prometheus of Rockefeller Center recast ancient myths in a new light during the Great Depression. Designed to add breadth and depth to the exchange of ideas about the place and meaning of ancient Greece and Rome in our experience of New York City today, this examination of post-Revolutionary art, politics, and philosophy enriches the conversation about how we shape space—be it civic, religious, academic, theatrical, or domestic—and how we make use of that space and the objects in it.

New Sounds

Author : John Schaefer
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015009759302

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New Sounds by John Schaefer Pdf

All kinds of modern music from minimalism to electronic jazz are described and discographies of each are provided.

Library Catalog of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Supplement

Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1056 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Art
ISBN : MINN:31951001323267H

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Library Catalog of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Supplement by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Library Pdf

The New York Times Essential Library: Classical Music

Author : Allan Kozinn
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781429997713

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The New York Times Essential Library: Classical Music by Allan Kozinn Pdf

A dazzling appraisal of the definitive classical music performances available today For classical music lovers, there is nothing more beguiling and exciting than the range of technique and emotion that can capture or transform the great works in the hands of a conductor and musicians. But with hundreds of recordings released every year, discovering the jewels is a challenge, for newcomers as well as for connoisseurs. New York Times classical music critic Allan Kozinn offers the ultimate collector's guide, packed with a rich history of the composers and performers who stir our souls. From Bach's eloquent Goldberg Variations performed by master pianist Glenn Gould at the beginning and end of his career in startlingly different interpretations, to a lyrical performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherezade conducted by Kiril Kondrashin shortly after his defection from the Soviet Union, Kozinn places each work in the greater context of musical development and stretches the listener's understanding of each pivotal composition. These original essays on the one hundred greatest recorded classical works provide both practical guidance for building a library and deep insight into the transcendent power of music itself.

Why Classical Music Still Matters

Author : Lawrence Kramer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007-05-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780520250826

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Why Classical Music Still Matters by Lawrence Kramer Pdf

In lucid and engaging prose, the book explores the sources of classical music's power in a variety of settings, from concert performance to film and TV, from everyday life to the historical trauma of September 11. Addressed to a wide audience, this book will appeal to aficionados and skeptics alike.

Classical Hollywood Comedy

Author : Kristine Brunovska Karnick,Henry Jenkins
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Comedy films
ISBN : 9780415906401

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Classical Hollywood Comedy by Kristine Brunovska Karnick,Henry Jenkins Pdf

Applies the recent `return to history' in film studies to the genre of classical Hollywood comedy as well as broadening the definition of those works considered central in this field.

Classical Black Nationalism

Author : Wilson J. Moses
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1996-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814755242

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Classical Black Nationalism by Wilson J. Moses Pdf

Classical Black Nationalism traces the evolution of black nationalist thought through several phases, from its "proto-nationalistic" phase in the late 1700s through a hiatus in the 1830s, through its flourishing in the 1850s, its eventual eclipse in the 1870s, and its resurgence in the Garvey movement of the 1920s. Moses incorporates a wide range of black nationalist perspectives, including African American capitalists Paul Cuffe and James Forten, Robert Alexander Young from his "Ethiopian Manifesto", and more well-known voices such as those of Marcus Garvey, W. E. B. Du Bois, and others.

Listen to This

Author : Alex Ross
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 1429977612

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Listen to This by Alex Ross Pdf

One of The Telegraph's Best Music Books 2011 Alex Ross's award-winning international bestseller, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, has become a contemporary classic, establishing Ross as one of our most popular and acclaimed cultural historians. Listen to This, which takes its title from a beloved 2004 essay in which Ross describes his late-blooming discovery of pop music, showcases the best of his writing from more than a decade at The New Yorker. These pieces, dedicated to classical and popular artists alike, are at once erudite and lively. In a previously unpublished essay, Ross brilliantly retells hundreds of years of music history—from Renaissance dances to Led Zeppelin—through a few iconic bass lines of celebration and lament. He vibrantly sketches canonical composers such as Schubert, Verdi, and Brahms; gives us in-depth interviews with modern pop masters such as Björk and Radiohead; and introduces us to music students at a Newark high school and indie-rock hipsters in Beijing. Whether his subject is Mozart or Bob Dylan, Ross shows how music expresses the full complexity of the human condition. Witty, passionate, and brimming with insight, Listen to This teaches us how to listen more closely.

Mozart in the Jungle

Author : Blair Tindall
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781555847463

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Mozart in the Jungle by Blair Tindall Pdf

The memoir that inspired the two-time Golden Globe Award–winning comedy series: “Funny . . . heartbreaking . . . [and] utterly absorbing” (Lee Smith, New York Times–bestselling author of Guests on Earth). Oboist Blair Tindall recounts her decades-long professional career as a classical musician—from the recitals and Broadway orchestra performances to the secret life of musicians who survive hand to mouth in the backbiting New York classical music scene, where musicians trade sexual favors for plum jobs and assignments in orchestras across the city. Tindall and her fellow journeymen musicians often play drunk, high, or hopelessly hungover, live in decrepit apartments, and perform in hazardous conditions—working-class musicians who schlep across the city between low-paying gigs, without health-care benefits or retirement plans, a stark contrast to the rarefied experiences of overpaid classical musician superstars. An incisive, no-holds-barred account, Mozart in the Jungle is the first true, behind-the-scenes look at what goes on backstage and in the orchestra pit. The book that inspired the Amazon Original series starring Gael García Bernal and Lola Kirke, this is “a fresh, highly readable and caustic perspective on an overglamorized world” (Publishers Weekly).

Classical Planar Scattering by Coulombic Potentials

Author : Markus Klein,Andreas Knauf
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1992-12-14
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540559870

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Classical Planar Scattering by Coulombic Potentials by Markus Klein,Andreas Knauf Pdf

This book treats scattering of a classical particle in a scalar potential with one or more attracting Coulombic singularities. For more than two centers this is an important prototype of chaotic scattering, which is analysed in depth here using methods of differential geometry and ergodic theory. In particular, the Cantor set structure of all bounded orbits is described in terms of symbolic dynamics, and rigorous energy dependent bounds are derived for quantities such as the topological entropy of the flow, the Hausdorff dimension of the bounded orbits and the distribution of time delay. This shows that the chaotic behaviour ofsuch systems is universal in the high energy regime. Finally the scattering orbits are classified by use of a group. Most of the results in the bookare new. The first mathematically rigorous and comprehensive treatment of chaotic scattering in Coulombic potentials, including 13 figures are given. The book will be of interest to mathematical physicists, mathematicians, and physicists.

Classical Horizons

Author : George E. McCarthy
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0791487628

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Classical Horizons by George E. McCarthy Pdf

2003 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title This work relocates the origins of nineteenth-century social theory in classical Greece and focuses on three figures: Karl Marx, Max Weber, and Émile Durkheim, all of whom wrote dissertations on the culture and structure of ancient society. Greek philosophy, art, and politics inspired their ideas, stirred their imaginations, and defined their intellectual horizons. McCarthy rediscovers the forgotten dreams and classical horizons of these European social theorists and uncovers the close connections between sociology and philosophy, offering new insights into the methods, theories, and approaches of modern social science.

Classical Greek Oligarchy

Author : Matthew Simonton
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400885145

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Classical Greek Oligarchy by Matthew Simonton Pdf

Classical Greek Oligarchy thoroughly reassesses an important but neglected form of ancient Greek government, the "rule of the few." Matthew Simonton challenges scholarly orthodoxy by showing that oligarchy was not the default mode of politics from time immemorial, but instead emerged alongside, and in reaction to, democracy. He establishes for the first time how oligarchies maintained power in the face of potential citizen resistance. The book argues that oligarchs designed distinctive political institutions—such as intra-oligarchic power sharing, targeted repression, and rewards for informants—to prevent collective action among the majority population while sustaining cooperation within their own ranks. To clarify the workings of oligarchic institutions, Simonton draws on recent social science research on authoritarianism. Like modern authoritarian regimes, ancient Greek oligarchies had to balance coercion with co-optation in order to keep their subjects disorganized and powerless. The book investigates topics such as control of public space, the manipulation of information, and the establishment of patron-client relations, frequently citing parallels with contemporary nondemocratic regimes. Simonton also traces changes over time in antiquity, revealing the processes through which oligarchy lost the ideological battle with democracy for legitimacy. Classical Greek Oligarchy represents a major new development in the study of ancient politics. It fills a longstanding gap in our knowledge of nondemocratic government while greatly improving our understanding of forms of power that continue to affect us today.

A Sound Mind

Author : Paul Morley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781635570250

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A Sound Mind by Paul Morley Pdf

For readers of Mozart in the Jungle and Year of Wonder, a new history of and guide to classical music. Paul Morley made his name as a journalist covering the rock and pop of the 1970s and 1980s. But as his career progressed, he found himself drawn toward developing technologies, streaming platforms, and, increasingly, the music from the past that streaming services now made available. Suddenly able to access every piece Mozart or Bach had ever written and to curate playlists that worked with these musicians' themes across different performers, composers, and eras, he began to understand classical music in a whole new way and to believe that it was music at its most dramatic and revealing. In A Sound Mind, Morley takes readers along on his journey into the history and future of classical music. His descriptions, explanations, and guidance make this seemingly arcane genre more friendly to listeners and show the music's power, depth, and timeless beauty. In Morley's capable hands, the history of the classical genre is shown to be the history of all music, with these long-ago pieces influencing everyone from jazz greats to punk rockers and the pop musicians of today.

Chaos in Classical and Quantum Mechanics

Author : Martin C. Gutzwiller
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-27
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781461209836

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Chaos in Classical and Quantum Mechanics by Martin C. Gutzwiller Pdf

Describes the chaos apparent in simple mechanical systems with the goal of elucidating the connections between classical and quantum mechanics. It develops the relevant ideas of the last two decades via geometric intuition rather than algebraic manipulation. The historical and cultural background against which these scientific developments have occurred is depicted, and realistic examples are discussed in detail. This book enables entry-level graduate students to tackle fresh problems in this rich field.

Catalogue of the Ohio State Library

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Library catalogs
ISBN : NYPL:33433082065628

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Catalogue of the Ohio State Library by Anonim Pdf