Death Devoted Heart

Author : Roger Scruton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199986989

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A tale of forbidden love and inevitable death, the medieval legend of Tristan and Isolde recounts the story of two lovers unknowingly drinking a magic potion and ultimately dying in one another's arms. While critics have lauded Wagner's Tristan and Isolde for the originality and subtlety of the music, they have denounced the drama as a "mere trifle"--a rendering of Wagner's forbidden love for Matilde Wesendonck, the wife of a banker who supported him during his exile in Switzerland. Death-Devoted Heart explodes this established interpretation, proving the drama to be more than just a sublimation of the composer's love for Wesendonck or a wistful romantic dream. Scruton boldly attests that Tristan and Isolde has profound religious meaning and remains as relevant today as it was to Wagner's contemporaries. He also offers keen insight into the nature of erotic love, the sacred qualities of human passion, and the peculiar place of the erotic in our culture. His argument touches on the nature of tragedy, the significance of ritual sacrifice, and the meaning of redemption, providing a fresh interpretation of Wagner's masterpiece. Roger Scruton has written an original and provocative account of Wagner's music drama, which blends philosophy, criticism, and musicology in order to show the work's importance in the twenty-first century.

Author : Elizabeth Bowen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:18966066

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The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen Pdf

Author : J. D. Robb
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780349403748

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Devoted in Death by J. D. Robb Pdf

It's a new year in New York city, and two star-crossed lovers have just discovered an insatiable appetite...for murder. Lieutenant Eve Dallas has witnessed some grisly crimes in her career and she knows just how dark things can get on the streets. But when a much-loved musician is found dead, Eve soon realises that his murder is part of a horrifying killing spree, stretching right across the country. Now the killers have reached New York, and they've found themselves another victim. Eve knows she only has a couple of days to save a young girl's life, and to stop the killers before their sadistic games escalate. Eve's husband Roarke is ready to put his brains and his considerable resources behind the search. But even as the couple works closely together, time is running out...

Author : George RICHARDS (of Portsmouth, U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1795
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018560991

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An Oration on the Independence of the United States of Federate America; pronounced at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, July 4, 1795 by George RICHARDS (of Portsmouth, U.S.) Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1478 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : United States
ISBN : STANFORD:36105050043582

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Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations for 2000 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1752 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Methodist Church
ISBN : UOM:39015084594004

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Western Christian Advocate by Anonim Pdf

Author : Paul Atkinson
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006-02-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780759114425

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Everyday Arias by Paul Atkinson Pdf

Paul Atkinson explores the remarkable world of opera through his fieldwork with the internationally known Welsh National Opera company. He demonstrates how cultural phenomena are produced and enacted by taking us on stage and behind the scenes into the collective social action that goes into the realization of an opera. Atkinson's work will appeal to anthropologists and sociologists who study the performance arts, as well as to those engaged in theatre arts, opera, and music.

Author : Holly Watkins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781139501590

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Metaphors of Depth in German Musical Thought by Holly Watkins Pdf

What does it mean to say that music is deeply moving? Or that music's aesthetic value derives from its deep structure? This study traces the widely employed trope of musical depth to its origins in German-language music criticism and analysis. From the Romantic aesthetics of E. T. A. Hoffmann to the modernist theories of Arnold Schoenberg, metaphors of depth attest to the cross-pollination of music with discourses ranging from theology, geology and poetics to psychology, philosophy and economics. The book demonstrates that the persistence of depth metaphors in musicology and music theory today is an outgrowth of their essential role in articulating and transmitting Germanic cultural values. While musical depth metaphors have historically served to communicate German nationalist sentiments, Watkins shows that an appreciation for the broad connotations of those metaphors opens up exciting new avenues for interpretation.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Universalism
ISBN : HARVARD:AH6JKN

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The Universalist and Ladies' Repository by Anonim Pdf

Author : J. D. Robb
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780698161474

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Devoted in Death by J. D. Robb Pdf

In this crime thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, Lieutenant Eve Dallas tracks a pair of Bonnie and Clyde copycats whose heated passion for each other is fueled by cold brutality. When Eve Dallas examines a fresh body in a seedy alleyway in downtown Manhattan, the victim’s injuries are so extensive that she almost misses the clue. Carved into the skin is the shape of a heart—initials inside reading “E” and “D”... In Arkansas, Ella-Loo and her recently released ex-con boyfriend, Darryl, don’t ever intend to part again. So they hit the road, but then things get a little messy and they wind up killing someone—an experience that stokes a fierce, wild desire in Ella-Loo. A desire for Darryl. And a desire to kill again. As they cross state lines on their way to New York to find the life they think they deserve, they leave a trail of evil behind them. But now they’ve landed in the jurisdiction of Lt. Dallas and her team at the New York Police and Security Department. And, with her husband Roarke at her side, Eve has every intention of hunting them down and giving them what they truly deserve...

Author : Edwidge Danticat
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781555979690

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The Art of Death by Edwidge Danticat Pdf

A moving reflection on a subject that touches us all, by the bestselling author of Claire of the Sea Light Edwidge Danticat’s The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story is at once a personal account of her mother dying from cancer and a deeply considered reckoning with the ways that other writers have approached death in their own work. “Writing has been the primary way I have tried to make sense of my losses,” Danticat notes in her introduction. “I have been writing about death for as long as I have been writing.” The book moves outward from the shock of her mother’s diagnosis and sifts through Danticat’s writing life and personal history, all the while shifting fluidly from examples that range from Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude to Toni Morrison’s Sula. The narrative, which continually circles the many incarnations of death from individual to large-scale catastrophes, culminates in a beautiful, heartrending prayer in the voice of Danticat’s mother. A moving tribute and a work of astute criticism, The Art of Death is a book that will profoundly alter all who encounter it.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : UCAL:$B500613

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The Buddhist Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Harley Rustad
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780735279476

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Lost in the Valley of Death by Harley Rustad Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER ONE OF CBC'S BEST CANADIAN NONFICTION BOOKS OF 2022 For fans of Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild, the riveting story of the unsolved disappearance of an American backpacker in India—one of at least two dozen tourists who have met a similar fate in the remote and storied Parvati Valley. For centuries, India has enthralled Westerners looking for an exotic getaway, a brief immersion in yoga and meditation, or, in rare cases, a true pilgrimage to find spiritual revelation. Justin Alexander Shetler, an inveterate traveler trained in wilderness survival, was one such seeker. In his early thirties, Justin quit his job at a tech startup and set out on a global journey—across the United States by motorcycle, then down to South America, and on to the Philippines, Thailand, and Nepal—in search of authentic experiences and meaningful encounters while documenting his travels on Instagram. His enigmatic character and magnetic personality gained him a devoted following who lived vicariously through his adventures. But the ever-restless explorer was driven to seek out ever-greater extremes, and greater risks, in what had become a personal quest—his own hero’s journey. In 2016, he made his way to the Parvati Valley, a remote and rugged corner of the Indian Himalayas steeped in mystical tradition and shrouded in darkness and danger. There he spent weeks studying under the guidance of a sadhu, an Indian holy man, living and meditating in a cave. At the end of August, accompanied by the sadhu, he set off on a spiritual journey to a holy lake—one from which he would never return. Lost in the Valley of Death is about one man’s search to find himself, in a country where, for many Westerners, the path to spiritual enlightenment can prove fraught, even treacherous. But it is also a story about all of us and the ways, sometimes extreme, we seek fulfillment in life.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112053702

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Music Research Forum by Anonim Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Dorothea C. Bowen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:819684207

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The death of the heart by Elizabeth Dorothea C. Bowen Pdf