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Author : A. P. David
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006-09-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199292400
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Author : A. P. David
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006-09-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191537738
This book develops an authentic and at the same time revolutionary musical analysis of ancient Greek poetry. It departs from the abstract metrical analyses of the past in that it conceives the rhythmic and harmonic elements of poetry as integral to the whole expression, and decisive in the interpretation of its meaning. David offers a thoroughgoing treatment of Homeric poetics: here some remarkable discoveries in the harmonic movement of epic verse, when combined with some neglected facts about the origin of the hexameter in a 'dance of the Muses', lead to essential new thinking about the genesis and the form of Homeric poetry. He also gives a foretaste of the fruits to be harvested in lyric by a musical analysis, which applies a new theory of the Greek tonic accent and considers concretely the role of dance in performance.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Bluewater Productions
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
The Muses of Greek Mythology have brought tales and wonder to the world for centuries. Follow this brand-new and exciting series that details each Muse and the story of how they came to be. Marvel at the story of Terpsichore, the muse of Dance, as she travels to the mortal world and meets with one of the most famous and well-respected dancers in modern history. Wonder at her travails in the modern world. Explore the universe with the muses and start here with Book One, the story of Terpsichore.
Author : Susan Manning,Janice Ross,Rebecca Schneider
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Press
Page : 589 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780299322403
A collaboration between well-established and rising scholars, Futures of Dance Studies suggests multiple directions for new research in the field. Essays address dance in a wider range of contexts--onstage, on screen, in the studio, and on the street--and deploy methods from diverse disciplines. Engaging African American and African diasporic studies, Latinx and Latin American studies, gender and sexuality studies, and Asian American and Asian studies, this anthology demonstrates the relevance of dance analysis to adjacent fields"--
Author : Chris Tutton,Mimi Khalvati,Moniza Alvi,Lawrence Sail,Martyn Crucefix,Alison Brackenbury,Neil Powell,Debjani Hhatterjee,Ian Seed
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1874392064
Author : Elizabeth Kendall
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199989515
Here is the first dual biography of the early lives of two key figures in Russian ballet: famed choreographer George Balanchine and his close childhood friend and extraordinary ballerina Liidia (Lidochka) Ivanova. Tracing the lives and friendship of these two dancers from years just before the 1917 Russian Revolution to Balanchine's escape from Russia in 1924, Elizabeth Kendall's Balanchine & the Lost Muse sheds new light on a crucial flash point in the history of ballet. Drawing upon extensive archival research, Kendall weaves a fascinating tale about this decisive period in the life of the man who would become the most influential choreographer in modern ballet. Abandoned by his mother at the St. Petersburg Imperial Ballet Academy in 1913 at the age of nine, Balanchine spent his formative years studying dance in Russia's tumultuous capital city. It was there, as he struggled to support himself while studying and performing, that Balanchine met Ivanova. A talented and bold dancer who grew close to the Bolshevik elite in her adolescent years, Ivanova was a source of great inspiration to Balanchine--both during their youth together, and later in his life, after her mysterious death just days before they had planned to leave Russia together in 1924. Kendall shows that although Balanchine would have a great number of muses, many of them lovers, the dark beauty of his dear friend Lidochka would inspire much of his work for years to come. Part biography and part cultural history, Balanchine & the Lost Muse presents a sweeping account of the heyday of modern ballet and the culture behind the unmoored ideals, futuristic visions, and human decadence that characterized the Russian Revolution.
Author : Pat Cleveland,Lorraine Glennon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501108228
New York in the sixties and seventies was glamorous and gritty at the same time, a place where people like Warhol, Avedon, and Halston as well their muses came to pursue their wildest ambitions, and when the well began to run dry they darted off to Paris. Though born on the very fringes of this world, Patricia Cleveland, through a combination of luck, incandescent beauty, and enviable style, soon found herself in the centre of all that was creative, bohemian, and elegant. A "walking girl," a runway fashion model whose inimitable style still turns heads on the runways of New York, Paris, Milan, and Tokyo, Cleveland was in high demand. Ranging from the streets of New York to the jet-set beaches of Mexico, from the designer retailers of Paris to the offices of Diana Vreeland, here is Cleveland's larger-than-life story. One minute she's in a Harlem tenement making her own clothes and dreaming of something bigger, the next she's about to walk Halston's show alongside fellow model Anjelica Huston. One minute she's partying with Mick Jagger and Jack Nicholson, the next she's sharing the dance floor with Warhol. One moment she's idolizing the silver screen sensation Warren Beatty, years later, she's deciding whether to resist his considerable amorous charms. In New York, she struggles to secure her first cover of a major magazine. In Paris, she's the toast of the town. A page-turning memoir of a life well lived, Walking with the Muses is a book you won't soon forget.
Author : Penelope Murray,Peter Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0199242399
What was the role of mousike in Greek life? Broader in its implications than the English "music," mousike, the realm of the Muses, lay at the heart of Greek culture. Yet, despite its centrality, its social and intellectual implications have rarely been investigated. In these new and specially commissioned essays leading experts analyze the political, religious, and ethical significance of musical performance in the classical Athenian city, and open up a new field of investigation in cultural history.
Author : Devyn Barat
Publisher : Crystal Dreams Publishing
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2006-07-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1591460921
Classical mythology gave us nine muses who ruled over the arts and moved the pens of poets. The touch of the muses is that of divine mystery. They inspire in many ways, making every act, person, and object a muse in itself and thusly multiplying themselves to thousands. There are poems lurking in a budding rose, the rustle of leaves, the smell of the sea, the tear of a child, the arms of a lover, and in every poem, a lesson. Devyn Barat takes their inspiration and wisdom, locking them in verse to be shared. Can you uncover the mystery? Within these pages, a thousand muses dance in a parade of poetry. Come join the dance!
Author : John H. Jameson (Jr.),John E. Ehrenhard,Christine A. Finn
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003-05-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780817312749
Known widely in Europe as "interpretive narrative archaeology", the practice of using creative methods to interpret and present current knowledge of the past is gaining popularity in North America. This is a compilation of international case studies of the various artistic methods used in this new form of education. Plays, opera, visual art, stories, poetry, performance dance, music, sculpture, digital imagery - all can effectively communicate archaeological processes and cultural values to public audiences. The 23 contributors to this volume are a diverse group of archaeologists, educators and artisans who have direct experience in schools, museums and at archaeological sites. Citing specific examples, such as the film, "The English Patient", science fiction mysteries and hypertext environments, they explain how creative imagination and the power of visual and audio media can personalize, contextualize and demystify the research process
Author : Deborah Tarn Steiner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 785 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107110687
Demonstrates the centrality of chorality in the social, religious and technological practices of individuals and communities.
Author : Ευφροσύνη Σπέντζου,Don Fowler
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0199240043
Cultivating the Muse looks beyond the secure and benign images traditionally associated with inspiration in classical literature and scholarship. In contrast to the shapeless collectivity of the Muses in ancient accounts, this collection aspires to redeem their shape in other more vitalforms, closer or more distant incarnations of the ever-elusive maiden. Protagonists -- or victims -- in a complex game of cultural exploration, the alternative Muses and muse-like figures of this book are manipulated, abused, or effaced, but at the same time they also advocate or resist their fatesand explore their own powers of persuasion. Inspiration is here not so much explored in its traditional cultic dimensions, but rather invoked for its capacity to trigger fervent debates about power, desire, knowledge, identity, and gender in the societies of ancient Greece and Rome.
Author : Rebecca Harris-Warrick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107137899
Examines the evolving practices in music, librettos, choreographed dance, and staging throughout the history of French Baroque opera.
Author : Joseph M. Hassett
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191614897
W.B. Yeats and the Muses explores how nine fascinating women inspired much of W.B. Yeats's poetry. These women are particularly important because Yeats perceived them in terms of beliefs about poetic inspiration akin to the Greek notion that a great poet is inspired and possessed by the feminine voices of the Muses. Influenced by the Pre-Raphaelite idea of woman as 'romantic and mysterious, still the priestess of her shrine', Yeats found his Muses in living women. His extraordinarily long and fruitful poetic career was fuelled by passionate relationships with women to and about whom he wrote some of his most compelling poetry. The book summarizes the different Muse traditions that were congenial to Yeats and shows how his perception of these women as Muses underlies his poetry. Newly available letters and manuscripts are used to explore the creative process and interpret the poems. Because Yeats believed that lyric poetry 'is no rootless flower, but the speech of a man,' exploring the relationship between poem and Muse brings new coherence to the poetry, illuminates the process of its creation, and unlocks the 'second beauty' to which Yeats referred when he claimed that 'works of lyric genius, when the circumstances of their origin is known, gain a second a beauty, passing as it were out of literature and becoming life.' As life emerges from the literature, the Muses are shown to be vibrant, multi-faceted personalities who shatter the idea of the Muse as a passive stereotype and take their proper place as begetters of timeless poetry.
Author : Robert Tracy,Sharon DeLano
Publisher : New York : Linden Press/Simon & Schuster
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105011649550