Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Orpheus in America
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Orpheus In America
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Orpheus in America
Jacques Offenbach
Author : Jacques Offenbach
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Composers
ISBN : UOM:49015000037110
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Orpheus
Ann Wroe
Author : Ann Wroe
Publisher : Random House
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781446400906
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For at least two and a half millennia, the figure of Orpheus has haunted humanity. Half-man, half-god, musician, magician, theologian, poet and lover, his story never leaves us. He may be myth, but his lyre still sounds, entrancing everything that hears it: animals, trees, water, stones, and men. In this extraordinary work Ann Wroe goes in search of Orpheus, from the forests where he walked and the mountains where he worshipped to the artefacts, texts and philosophies built up round him. She traces the man, and the power he represents, through the myriad versions of a fantastical life: his birth in Thrace, his studies in Egypt, his voyage with the Argonauts to fetch the Golden Fleece, his love for Eurydice and journey to Hades, and his terrible death. We see him tantalising Cicero and Plato, and breathing new music into Gluck and Monteverdi; occupying the mind of Jung and the surreal dreams of Cocteau; scandalising the Fathers of the early Church, and filling Rilke with poems like a whirlwind. He emerges as not simply another mythical figure but the force of creation itself, singing the song of light out of darkness and life out of death.
Orpheus in Manhattan
Steve Swayne
Author : Steve Swayne
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199792566
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Winner of the ASCAP Nicolas Slonimsky Award for Outstanding Musical Biography The musical landscape of New York City and the United States of America would look quite different had it not been for William Schuman. Orpheus in Manhattan, a fully objective and comprehensive biography of Schuman, portrays a man who had a profound influence upon the artistic and political institutions of his day and beyond. Steve Swayne draws heavily upon Schuman's letters, writings, and manuscripts as well as unprecedented access to archival recordings and previously unknown correspondence. The winner of the first Pulitzer Prize in Music, Schuman composed music that is rhythmically febrile, harmonically pungent, melodically long-breathed, and timbrally brilliant, and Swayne offers an astute analysis of his work, including many unpublished music scores. Swayne also describes Schuman's role as president of the Juilliard School of Music and of Lincoln Center, tracing how he both expanded the boundaries of music education and championed the performing arts. Filled with new discoveries and revisions of the received historical narrative, Orpheus in Manhattan confirms Schuman as a major figure in America's musical life.
Black Orpheus
Saadi A. Simawe
Author : Saadi A. Simawe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2002-05-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781135579821
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The legendary Greek figure Orpheus was said to have possessed magical powers capable of moving all living and inanimate things through the sound of his lyre and voice. Over time, the Orphic theme has come to indicate the power of music to unsettle, subvert, and ultimately bring down oppressive realities in order to liberate the soul and expand human life without limits. The liberating effect of music has been a particularly important theme in twentieth-century African American literature. The nine original essays in Black Orpheus examines the Orphic theme in the fiction of such African American writers as Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, James Baldwin, Nathaniel Mackey, Sherley Anne Williams, Ann Petry, Ntozake Shange, Alice Walker, Gayl Jones, and Toni Morrison. The authors discussed in this volume depict music as a mystical, shamanistic, and spiritual power that can miraculously transform the realities of the soul and of the world. Here, the musician uses his or her music as a weapon to shield and protect his or her spirituality. Written by scholars of English, music, women’s studies, American studies, cultural theory, and black and Africana studies, the essays in this interdisciplinary collection ultimately explore the thematic, linguistic structural presence of music in twentieth-century African American fiction.
The American almanac and repository of useful knowledge for the year 1841
David H. Williams
Author : David H. Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433081733127
The American almanac and repository of useful knowledge for the year 1841 by David H. Williams Pdf
Orpheus in the New World
Philip Hart
Author : Philip Hart
Publisher : New York : W. W. Norton
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Symphony orchestras
ISBN : 0393021696
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Hunt's Merchants' Magazine
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : Commerce
ISBN : IND:30000099424610
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Orpheus in the Marketplace
Tim Carter
Author : Tim Carter
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674726574
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The Florentine musician Jacopo Peri (1561-1633) is known as the composer of the first operas--they include the earliest to survive complete, Euridice (1600), in which Peri sang the role of Orpheus. The recent discovery of a large number of private account books belonging to him and his family allows for a greater exploration of Peri's professional and personal life. Richard Goldthwaite, an economic historian, and Tim Carter, a musicologist, have done more, however, than write a biography: their investigation exposes the value of such financial documents as a primary source for an entire period. This record of Peri's wide-ranging investments and activities in the marketplace enables the first detailed account of the Florentine economy in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, and opens a new perspective on one of Europe's principal centers of capitalism. His economic circumstances reflect continuities and transformations in Florentine society, and the strategies for negotiating them, under the Medici grand dukes. They also allow a reevaluation of Peri the singer and composer that elucidates the cultural life of a major artistic center even in changing times, providing a quite different view of what it meant to be a musician in late Renaissance Italy.
The Folktale
Stith Thompson
Author : Stith Thompson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520035372
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As interest in folklore increases, the folktale acquires greater significance for students and teachers of literature. The material is massive and scattered; thus, few students or teachers have accessibility to other than small segments or singular tales or material they find buried in archives. Stith Thompson has divided his book into four sections which permit both the novice and the teacher to examine oral tradition and its manifestation in folklore. The introductory section discusses the nature and forms of the folktale. A comprehensive second part traces the folktale geographically from Ireland to India, giving culturally diverse examples of the forms presented in the first part. The examples are followed by the analysis of several themes in such tales from North American Indian cultures. The concluding section treats theories of the folktale, the collection and classification of folk narrative, and then analyzes the living folklore process. This work will appeal to students of the sociology of literature, professors of comparative literature, and general readers interested in folklore.
History of American Shipping, Its Prestige, Decline, and Prospect
Charles Stephen Hill
Author : Charles Stephen Hill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Merchant marine
ISBN : HARVARD:HNTL2K
History of American Shipping, Its Prestige, Decline, and Prospect by Charles Stephen Hill Pdf
Hazard's United States Commercial and Statistical Register
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : Banks and banking
ISBN : UCAL:C2727121
Hazard's United States Commercial and Statistical Register by Anonim Pdf
The Orpheus Clock
Simon Goodman
Author : Simon Goodman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781451697643
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The passionate, true story of one man's quest to reclaim what the Nazis stole from his family--their beloved art collection--and to restore their legacy. Simon Goodman's grandparents came from German Jewish banking dynasties and perished in concentration camps. And that's almost all he knew--his father rarely spoke of their family history or heritage. But when he passed away, and Simon received his father's papers, a story began to emerge. The Gutmanns, as they were known then, rose from a small Bohemian hamlet to become one of Germany's most powerful banking families. They also amassed a world-class art collection that included works by Degas, Renoir, Botticelli, and many others, including a Renaissance clock engraved with scenes from the legend of Orpheus. The Nazi regime snatched everything the Gutmanns had labored to build: their art, their wealth, their social standing, and their very lives. Simon grew up in London with little knowledge of his father's efforts to recover their family's possessions. It was only after his father's death that Simon began to piece together the clues about the stolen legacy and the Nazi looting machine. He learned much of the collection had gone to Hitler and Goring; other works had been smuggled through Switzerland, sold and resold, with many pieces now in famous museums. More still had been recovered by Allied forces only to be stolen again by bureaucrats-- European governments quietly absorbed thousands of works of art into their own collections. Through painstaking detective work across two continents, Simon proved that many pieces belonged to his family, and successfully secured their return-- the first Nazi looting case to be settled in the United States. Goodman's dramatic story reveals a rich family history almost obliterated by the Nazis. It is not only the account of a twenty-year long detective hunt for family treasure, but an unforgettable tale of redemption and restoration.
Orpheus in Manhattan
Steve Swayne
Author : Steve Swayne
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 711 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780199367849
Orpheus in Manhattan by Steve Swayne Pdf
Winner of the ASCAP Nicolas Slonimsky Award for Outstanding Musical Biography The musical landscape of New York City and the United States of America would look quite different had it not been for William Schuman. Orpheus in Manhattan, a fully objective and comprehensive biography of Schuman, portrays a man who had a profound influence upon the artistic and political institutions of his day and beyond. Steve Swayne draws heavily upon Schuman's letters, writings, and manuscripts as well as unprecedented access to archival recordings and previously unknown correspondence. The winner of the first Pulitzer Prize in Music, Schuman composed music that is rhythmically febrile, harmonically pungent, melodically long-breathed, and timbrally brilliant, and Swayne offers an astute analysis of his work, including many unpublished music scores. Swayne also describes Schuman's role as president of the Juilliard School of Music and of Lincoln Center, tracing how he both expanded the boundaries of music education and championed the performing arts. Filled with new discoveries and revisions of the received historical narrative, Orpheus in Manhattan confirms Schuman as a major figure in America's musical life.
A Season of Opera
M. Owen Lee
Author : M. Owen Lee
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0802083870
A Season of Opera by M. Owen Lee Pdf
Father Lee is internationally known for his commentaries on opera. This book gathers his best commentaries and articles on 23 works for the musical stage, from the pioneering Orpheus of Monteverdi to the forward-looking Ariadne of Richard Strauss.