The Overture Bird

Author : Brian McSherry
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2006-08
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780595405893

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The Overture Bird by Brian McSherry Pdf

A collection of poems that experiments with style and sound. It almost feels like you can touch the landscapes and embrace the world of a traveler. "I travel, I travel so many places, yet I always feel at home." The Overture Bird by Brian McSherry, currently living in Japan. A beautifully elevated poetry, suffused with love, Zen and the pouring rain. - John Sexson (Poetry Ireland News) McSherry carves words with a seasonal tension of fleetingness. A meditative echo unattached and refreshingly lacking any coterie and yet still the echo is mesmerizing, original and sharp. A gravitating, wind-influenced book that leaves words, images in the mind long after the pages are abandoned.

Author : Claude Lévi-Strauss
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1990-11-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0226474968

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The Naked Man by Claude Lévi-Strauss Pdf

"The Naked Man is the fourth and final volume [of Mythologiques], written by the most influential and probably the most controversial anthropologist of our time. . . . Myths from North and South America are set side by side to show their transformations: in passing from person to person and place to place, a myth can change its content and yet retain its structural principles. . . . Apart from the complicated transformations discovered and the fascinating constructions placed on these, the stories themselves provide a feast."—Betty Abel, Contemporary Review "Lévi-Strauss uses the structural method he developed to analyze and 'decode' the mythology of native North Americans, focusing on the area west of the Rockies. . . . [The author] takes the opportunity to refute arguments against his method; his chapter 'Finale' is a defense of structural analysis as well as the closing statement of this four-volume opus which started with an 'Ouverture' in The Raw and the Cooked."—Library Journal "The culmination of one of the major intellectual feats of our time."—Paul Stuewe, Quill and Quire

Author : Gary Giddins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2004-11-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 0195348168

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Weather Bird by Gary Giddins Pdf

Gary Giddins's Weather Bird is a brilliant companion volume to his landmark in music criticism, Visions of Jazz, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. More then 140 pieces, written over a 14-year period, are brought together for the first time in this superb collection of essays, reviews, and articles. Weather Bird is a celebration of jazz, with illuminating commentaryon contemporary jazz events, today's top muscicians, the best records of the year, and on leading figures from jazz's past. Readers will find extended pieces on Louis Armstrong, Erroll Garner, Benny Carter, Sonny Rollins, Dave Brubeck, Ornette Coleman, Billie Holiday, Cassandra Wilson, Tony Bennett, and many others. Giddins includes a series of articles on the annual JVC Jazz Festival, which offers a splendid overview of jazz in the 1990s. Other highlights include an astute look at avant-garde music ("Parajazz") and his challenging essay, "How Come Jazz Isn't Dead?" which advances a theory about the way art is born, exploited, celebrated, and sidelined to the museum. A radiant compendium by America's leading music critic, Weather Bird offers an unforgettable look at the modern jazz scene.

Author : Oscar Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2506 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Music
ISBN : UCSD:31822019583707

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The International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians by Oscar Thompson Pdf

Author : Thomas McIlwraith
Publisher : W. Briggs ; Montreal : C.W. Coates ; London : T.F. Unwin
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Birds
ISBN : UCAL:B3320029

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The Birds of Ontario by Thomas McIlwraith Pdf

Author : Kirke Mechem
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781442250772

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Believe Your Ears by Kirke Mechem Pdf

Believe Your Ears is the memoir of composer Kirke Mechem, whose unorthodox path to music provides a fascinating narrative. He wrote songs and played music by ear as a newspaper reporter, a touring tennis player, and a Stanford creative-writing major before studying composition and conducting at Harvard. He describes his residencies in San Francisco, Vienna, London, and Russia, and gives detailed attention to his choral music, operas, and symphonies. He writes that “the twentieth century gave us much brilliant music” but shows how atonality came to dominate the post-war period. His lyric style belongs to no particular “school,” avoiding the trends, –isms, experiments, fads, and lunacies of the period. He encourages younger composers who are trying to bring back beauty, passion, and humor—even entertainment—to classical music. He asks music lovers to believe their own ears, not the lectures of “experts.” Believe Your Ears is addressed to all who love classical music. Along the way, readers will meet Dimitri Shostakovich, Wallace Stegner, Billie Jean King, the Grateful Dead, Richard Rodgers, Benjamin Britten, Bill Tilden, and Aaron Copland—a who’s who in Mechem’s storied career.

Author : Olive Thorne Miller
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781312992696

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With The Birds In Maine by Olive Thorne Miller Pdf

My abiding-place at the time my story begins differed materially from the picturesque ""small gray house facing the morning light,"" being a modern structure which offered the rare combination of a comfortable home in the edge of an undisturbed forest, completely secluded from roads and their traffic, yet within two minutes' reach of the common way to the village. The outlook from my window was into the tops of tall spruces and firs, relieved here and there by a pine, a birch, or a maple. Through a vista, and over the tops of more distant trees, could be seen the broad Atlantic Ocean, and above all ""The blue arch of sky Where clouds go sailing by."" The feathered neighbors had evidently accepted the house as a part of the woods, for they came freely about, delighting especially in a worn and battered old spruce within fifteen feet of the window. On this tree, - which doubtless furnished a choice assortment of bird dainties, - first or last, appeared all the birds of the vicinity.

Author : Elliott Coues
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Birds
ISBN : WISC:89097449888

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Birds of the North-West by Elliott Coues Pdf

Author : Elliott Coues
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Birds
ISBN : HARVARD:32044107224339

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Birds of the Northwest by Elliott Coues Pdf

This volume is based mainly on an unpublished report prepared by Coues in 1862 from the ornithological collections of F.V. Hayden and G.H. Trook taken during an expedition under Captain W.F. Raynolds, United States Engineers. The author preserved the "List of Specimens" tabulated in the original report, and extended the list with additional material from other collection trips in the West to compile what amounted to a "treatise on the Ornithology of the Western Territories," a desire expressed by F.V. Hayden to Coues.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 874 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Music
ISBN : NYPL:33433085224123

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The Musical Record by Anonim Pdf

Author : Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Geological surveys
ISBN : OSU:32435031043979

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Birds of the northwest: a hand-book of the ornithology of the region drained by the Missouri river and its tributaries, by E. Coues. 1874 by Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.) Pdf

Author : Helen Moat
Publisher : Saraband
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-09
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781912235711

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A Time of Birds by Helen Moat Pdf

Helen Moat sets out to cycle across Europe, with her teenage son, on her sit-up-and-beg bike – aka ‘The Tank’. She’s not sure whether she is running away from the past or pedalling towards it. As she cycles the Rhine and Danube through the days of unfolding spring, the sky filled with birdsong, she senses her bird-loving father is by her side. Increasingly, she loses herself in her surroundings and memories of a childhood spent in the outdoors of rural Northern Ireland. Gradually, the natural beauty of Europe’s great waterways bring healing, as does the kindness of friends and strangers along the way. She feels a sense of belonging on a continent shaped by war and peace, peoples divided and reunited, a shared history. But when the birdsong fades across the parched, late-summer landscapes of Bulgaria and Turkey, Helen finds herself recalling the Troubles and confronting a suppressed secret. This is her life-affirming account of an unforgettable, if sometimes bumpy ride.

Author : Alexander Wilson,George Ord
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1828
Category : Birds
ISBN : UCSC:32106008345800

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American Ornithology, Or The Natural History of the Birds of the United States by Alexander Wilson,George Ord Pdf

"The second full edition of Wilson's work, with plates in their most desirable form. This is the most important work on American ornithology before Audubon."--William Reece Company.

Author : Mary McCarthy
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781480438262

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Birds of America by Mary McCarthy Pdf

An “endlessly fascinating novel” of an American student finding his way in 1960s Paris from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Group (San Francisco Chronicle). It is 1964, and Peter Levi, a young student and bird watcher, has come to Paris to study at the Sorbonne. Shy and innocent at nineteen years old, he arrives fresh from an extended Maine holiday with his vivacious mother, and is determined to live a life free of unwanted complications and unnecessary stress. But this is an era of great change in the world, a time when war is looming in Southeast Asia and social unrest is simmering. There is much to trouble and confuse the young American as he journeys through foreign countries—and feelings—into adulthood. For Peter, the simplicity of childhood is over—and his new life is becoming increasingly complex in a world growing more unrecognizable by the day. Mary McCarthy’s splendid Birds of America is a moving and surprising coming-of-age tale: the unforgettable story of a young man’s awakening, and a stunning evocation of the disorienting change of the 1960s. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Mary McCarthy including rare images from the author’s estate.

Author : Christoph Irmscher,Richard J. King
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780226756677

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Audubon at Sea by Christoph Irmscher,Richard J. King Pdf

"John James Audubon's paintings of birds are as familiar as they are beautiful. But even among his admirers, many may be surprised to learn that Audubon was a gifted writer. In this one-of-a-kind anthology, Christoph Irmscher and Richard J. King have curated a collection of Audubon's coastal and sea writing, which represent Audubon's most compelling and evocative depictions of the natural world and early nineteenth-century American life. The collection is geographically diverse, bringing to light the variety of people and wildlife Audubon met or observed, pulling from the massive Ornithological Biography (1831-1839) as well as the "Autobiography" and journals. The editors supplement the selections with an instructive introduction and powerful coda, section headnotes, explanatory notes, and an appendix linking Audubon's species to current taxonomy and geographic ranges. The book is lavishly illustrated as well. There is much more in Audubon at Sea than descriptions of birds: we have stories of life aboard ship, of travel in early America and Audubon's work habits, the origins of iconic paintings, and, in the end, the carefully drawn commentary on a flawed and, at best, ambiguous hero"--