Opera Remade 1700 750

Author : Charles Dill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 908 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351555722

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"Opera Remade, 1700?750 " by Charles Dill Pdf

Opera in the first half of the eighteenth century saw the rise of the memorable composer and the memorable work. Recent research on this period has been especially fruitful, showing renewed interest in how opera operated within its local cultures, what audience members felt was at stake in opera performances, who the people-composers and performers-were who made opera possible. The essays for this volume capture the principal themes of current research: the "idea" of opera, opera criticism, the people of opera, and the emerging technologies of opera.

Author : Charles Dill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351555739

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Opera Remade, 1700-1750 by Charles Dill Pdf

Opera in the first half of the eighteenth century saw the rise of the memorable composer and the memorable work. Recent research on this period has been especially fruitful, showing renewed interest in how opera operated within its local cultures, what audience members felt was at stake in opera performances, who the people-composers and performers-were who made opera possible. The essays for this volume capture the principal themes of current research: the "idea" of opera, opera criticism, the people of opera, and the emerging technologies of opera.

Author : C.L.R. James
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780593687338

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The Black Jacobins by C.L.R. James Pdf

A powerful and impassioned historical account of the largest successful revolt by enslaved people in history: the Haitian Revolution of 1791–1803 “One of the seminal texts about the history of slavery and abolition.... Provocative and empowering.” —The New York Times Book Review The Black Jacobins, by Trinidadian historian C. L. R. James, was the first major analysis of the uprising that began in the wake of the storming of the Bastille in France and became the model for liberation movements from Africa to Cuba. It is the story of the French colony of San Domingo, a place where the brutality of plantation owners toward enslaved people was horrifyingly severe. And it is the story of a charismatic and barely literate enslaved person named Toussaint L’Ouverture, who successfully led the Black people of San Domingo against successive invasions by overwhelming French, Spanish, and English forces—and in the process helped form the first independent post-colonial nation in the Caribbean. With a new introduction (2023) by Professor David Scott.

Author : Frederick Forsyth
Publisher : Random House
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781407040103

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Phantom Of Manhattan by Frederick Forsyth Pdf

It was 1882 when Antoinette Giry, Maitresse du Corps de Ballet at the Paris Opera House, took her small daughter to the funfair at Neuilly. And there, in a cage, she saw a filthy manacled creature whose tormented eyes shone from a grotesquely deformed face. It was Antoinette Giry who saved him, freed him, cured his wounds and finally let him find a dwelling place in the labyrinthine depths of the Opera House. The creature - Erik - whose hideous face hid a brilliant brain of near-genius, was to become the Phantom of the Opera - magician, artists, musician, and lover. When he tried to lure the object of his adoration to his underground domain - it was to end in tragedy. It was Madame Giry who saved him once more, set him on a ship to the New World - and there Erik Muhlheim began a new and secret life, a life that began in misery and poverty but in which his incredible skills finally carved out an unexpected kingdom of power. And there it was he learned again of Christine, whose life had changed dramatically since that night in the Paris Opera House. Inevitably, their paths must cross again in the old sequence of tragedy and triumph. The Phantom, one of the most mysterious and romantic figures ever created, soars again in a world of his own making. Frederick Forsyth's magnificent and evocative story adds a new dimension to the legend of the Phantom.

Author : Alex Ross
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007-10-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781429932882

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The Rest Is Noise by Alex Ross Pdf

Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007 Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007 A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007 In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between the century's most influential composers and the wider culture. The Rest Is Noise is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music.

Author : D. J. Inman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110215329

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Engineering Vibration by D. J. Inman Pdf

Introduction. Response to harmonic excitation. General forced response. Multiple-degree of -freedom systems. Design for vibration suppression. Distributed - parameter systems ...

Author : Joseph E. Stiglitz
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0393066207

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Making Globalization Work by Joseph E. Stiglitz Pdf

"A damning denunciation of things as they are, and a platform for how we can do better."—Andrew Leonard, Salon Building on the international bestseller Globalization and Its Discontents, Joseph E. Stiglitz offers here an agenda of inventive solutions to our most pressing economic, social, and environmental challenges, with each proposal guided by the fundamental insight that economic globalization continues to outpace both the political structures and the moral sensitivity required to ensure a just and sustainable world. As economic interdependence continues to gather the peoples of the world into a single community, it brings with it the need to think and act globally. This trenchant, intellectually powerful, and inspiring book is an invaluable step in that process.

Author : Richard Taruskin,Christopher Howard Gibbs
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 874 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 0190600225

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The Oxford History of Western Music by Richard Taruskin,Christopher Howard Gibbs Pdf

Takes students beyond the "who, what, and when," exploring the "how and why" behind the story of Western MusicNow in its second edition, this text immerses students in the engaging story of the Western musical tradition. By emphasizing the connections among works, both within cultural eras and across time and place, the text goes beyond a basic retelling of the music's history to build students' ability tolisten critically to key works. The Oxford History of Western Music, College Edition is a complete program for building students' understanding and appreciation of the classical canon.

Author : Colin Mason
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781136555114

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The 2030 Spike by Colin Mason Pdf

The clock is relentlessly ticking! Our world teeters on a knife-edge between a peaceful and prosperous future for all, and a dark winter of death and destruction that threatens to smother the light of civilization. Within 30 years, in the 2030 decade, six powerful 'drivers' will converge with unprecedented force in a statistical spike that could tear humanity apart and plunge the world into a new Dark Age. Depleted fuel supplies, massive population growth, poverty, global climate change, famine, growing water shortages and international lawlessness are on a crash course with potentially catastrophic consequences. In the face of both doomsaying and denial over the state of our world, Colin Mason cuts through the rhetoric and reams of conflicting data to muster the evidence to illustrate a broad picture of the world as it is, and our possible futures. Ultimately his message is clear; we must act decisively, collectively and immediately to alter the trajectory of humanity away from catastrophe. Offering over 100 priorities for immediate action, The 2030 Spike serves as a guidebook for humanity through the treacherous minefields and wastelands ahead to a bright, peaceful and prosperous future in which all humans have the opportunity to thrive and build a better civilization. This book is powerful and essential reading for all people concerned with the future of humanity and planet earth.

Author : United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Bookbinding
ISBN : UCR:31210006984569

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Book Preservation Technologies by United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment Pdf

Author : Donald Jay Grout
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1406950534

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“A” History of Western Music by Donald Jay Grout Pdf

Author : George E. Hopkins
Publisher : Nicholson
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Air pilots
ISBN : 0960970819

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Flying the Line by George E. Hopkins Pdf

Author : James Elkins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005-08-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781135950132

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Pictures and Tears by James Elkins Pdf

James Elkins tells the story of paintings that have made people cry. Drawing upon anecdotes related to individual works of art, he provides a chronicle of how people have shown emotion before works of art.

Author : Peter D. Hershock
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1999-07-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0791442314

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Reinventing the Wheel by Peter D. Hershock Pdf

Suggests that certain Buddhist notions may act as an antidote to the adverse effects of high-tech media.

Author : Marshall McLuhan
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 153743005X

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Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan Pdf

When first published, Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media made history with its radical view of the effects of electronic communications upon man and life in the twentieth century.