Author : Donald C. Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0990623041
Virtuoso
Donald C. Williams
Virtuoso
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Crescendo of the Virtuoso
Paul Metzner
Author : Paul Metzner
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520301191
Crescendo of the Virtuoso by Paul Metzner Pdf
During the Age of Revolution, Paris came alive with wildly popular virtuoso performances. Whether the performers were musicians or chefs, chess players or detectives, these virtuosos transformed their technical skills into dramatic spectacles, presenting the marvelous and the outré for spellbound audiences. Who these characters were, how they attained their fame, and why Paris became the focal point of their activities is the subject of Paul Metzner's absorbing study. Covering the years 1775 to 1850, Metzner describes the careers of a handful of virtuosos: chess masters who played several games at once; a chef who sculpted hundreds of four-foot-tall architectural fantasies in sugar; the first police detective, whose memoirs inspired the invention of the detective story; a violinist who played whole pieces on a single string. He examines these virtuosos as a group in the context of the society that was then the capital of Western civilization. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1999.
Virtuoso
Yelena Moskovich
Author : Yelena Moskovich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1937512878
Virtuoso by Yelena Moskovich Pdf
"A hint of Lynch, a touch of Ferrante, the cruel absurdity of Antonin Artaud, the fierce candour of Anaïs Nin, the stylish languor of a Lana del Rey song." --The Guardian As Communism begins to crumble in Prague in the 1980s, Jana's unremarkable life becomes all at once remarkable when a precocious young girl named Zorka moves into the apartment building with her mother and sick father. With Zorka's signature two-finger salute and abrasive wit, she brings flair to the girls' days despite her mother's protestations to not "be weird." But after scorching her mother's prized fur coat and stealing from a nefarious teacher, Zorka suddenly disappears. Meanwhile in Paris, Aimée de Saint-Pé married young to an older woman, Dominique, an actress whose star has crested and is in decline. A quixotic journey of self-discovery, Virtuoso follows Zorka as she comes of age in Prague, Wisconsin, and then Boston, amidst a backdrop of clothing logos, MTV, computer coders, and other outcast youth. But it isn't till a Parisian conference hall brimming with orthopedic mattresses and therapeutic appendages when Jana first encounters Aimée, their fates steering them both to a cryptic bar on the Rue de Prague, and, perhaps, to Zorka. With a distinctive prose flair and spellbinding vision, Virtuoso is a story of love, loss, and self-discovery that heralds Yelena Moskovich as a brilliant and one-of-a-kind visionary.
The Virtuoso
G. P. Walmsley
Author : G. P. Walmsley
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781434360953
The Virtuoso by G. P. Walmsley Pdf
The Virtuoso is a mainstream contemporary novel laced with the struggles and ambivalence of a young man's desire to be a jazz musician and the forces that move him in another direction - toward the classics. How this dilemma resolves itself and the escapades along the way and beyond will both rouse, yet soothe your quest for escape from the mundane! The Virtuoso is a story of romance. A love story as well as a story with scarlet moments of lust from that oldest story of all - the story of human frailty against the spear of temptation. The lives of John Dupree and Sophia Berry are played out against a canvas of music and on the darker side - prostitution. Be prepared for three dimensional characters and convoluted plots. The Virtuoso will transport you - drawing you into the story to live each scene. From the rough and tumble streets of New Orleans during World War II to the poshness of high-rise living in New York City, we join he and Sophia in the intimacy of their lives. From private piano lessons in Saint Louis to the hallowed halls of Juilliard, we follow his emergence onto the concert stages of the world. Their lives unfold in a fate that spans some 20 years. In many ways this is a symbiotic relationship. She is a benefactress in his formative years as he moves toward becoming a world class pianist while she derives love and companionship from him; something she welcomes and realizes is important in her unconventional life. Through the trauma of Korea to Sophia's court room battles in New York and Federal courts, our couple shares with us the bitter-sweetness of their lives and their love. Check out: http: //aboutthevirtuoso.com
Virtuoso
Virginia Burges
Author : Virginia Burges
Publisher : eBook Partnership
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780993077722
Virtuoso by Virginia Burges Pdf
Ever since her emergence as a child prodigy Isabelle Bryant has only ever known one love - her violin. Then, aged 32, at the height of her career, the unthinkable happens. What do you do when everything depends on the dexterity of your fingers, only to lose them in a horrifying instant? Devastated and vulnerable in the aftermath of her accident, Isabelle struggles to find new meaning in her life. Her perilous path of self-discovery leads her to Vienna, the historic city home of her musical hero, Beethoven; and into the arms of the man who will become her lover. As her personal journey progresses, she takes on new opportunities and has to face disturbing revelations, all of which have the power to make her or break her - all over again.
Virtuoso
Murray Pomerance
Author : Murray Pomerance
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781501350696
Virtuoso by Murray Pomerance Pdf
Elizabeth Taylor's electrifying performance in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The milkshake scene in There Will be Blood. Leonardo DiCaprio's turn as Arnie in What's Eating Gilbert Grape? What makes these performances so special? Eloquently written and engagingly laid out, Murray Pomerance answers the tough question as to what makes an exceptional, or virtuosic performance. Pomerance intensively explores virtuosic performance in film, ranging from classical works through to contemporary production, and gives serious consideration to structural problems of dramatization and production, actorial methods and tricks, and contingencies that befall performers giving stand-out moments. Looking at more than 40 aspects of the virtuosic act, and using an approach based in careful meditation and discursion, Virtuoso moves through such themes as showing off, effacement, self-consciousness, performative collapse, spontaneity, acting as dream, acting and femininity, virtuosity and torture, secrecy, improvisation, virtuosic silence, and others; giving special attention to the labors of such figures as Fred Astaire, Johnny Depp, Marlene Dietrich, Basil Rathbone, Christopher Plummer, Leonardo DiCaprio, Alice Brady, Ethel Waters, James Mason, and dozens more. Numerous scenic virtuosities are examined in depth, from films as far-ranging as Singin' in the Rain and The Bridge on the River Kwai, and My Man Godfrey. As the first book about virtuosity in film performance, Virtuoso offers exciting new angles from which to view film both classical and contemporary.
The Virtuoso Teacher
Paul Harris
Author : Paul Harris
Publisher : Faber Music Ltd
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780571590186
The Virtuoso Teacher by Paul Harris Pdf
By considering The Virtuoso Teacher and how a teacher might attain virtuoso status, renowned educator and writer Paul Harris delves into the core issues of being a teacher and the teaching process. A fascinating look at topics such as: • self-awareness and the importance of emotional intelligence • getting the best out of pupils • dealing with challenging pupils • asking the right questions • creating a master-plan • taking the stress out of learning • teaching for the right reasons This seminal book is an inspirational read for all music teachers, encouraging everyone to consider themselves in a new and uplifted light, and transform their teaching. This is the full eBook version of the original edition.
Virtuoso
Riddhima Porwal
Author : Riddhima Porwal
Publisher : The Little Booktique Hub
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Virtuoso by Riddhima Porwal Pdf
Virtuoso means any person who is skilled in some artistic aspect. Each and every individual is an artist, all we need to do is dig out our emotions and express them in any form. Every form of art is therapeutic and comforting be it poetry, music, or dance. Art has a special power it helps us to think beyond what we see. We can portray our thoughts, fears, or strengths without being judged. A writer puts down a few words on a paper, which express emotions and bring life to the write-up. Artist can convince their readers to understand the meaning or depth behind their expressions. Art is a beautiful thing to be lost in, it is just like food for our souls. Art has a lot to learn, never stop the artist in you always let it grow. This book consists of around 40 such artists, who penned down their thoughts on several topics.
The Virtuoso as Subject
Zarko Cvejić
Author : Zarko Cvejić
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781443896825
The Virtuoso as Subject by Zarko Cvejić Pdf
This book offers a novel interpretation of the sudden and steep decline of instrumental virtuosity in its critical reception between c. 1815 and c. 1850, documenting it with a large number of examples from Europe’s leading music periodicals at the time. The increasingly hostile critical reception of instrumental virtuosity during this period is interpreted from the perspective of contemporary aesthetics and philosophical conceptions of human subjectivity; the book’s main thesis is that virtuosity qua irreducibly bodily performance generated so much hostility because it was deemed incompatible with, and even threatening to, the new Romantic philosophical conception of music as a radically disembodied, abstract, autonomous art and, moreover, a symbol or model – if only a utopian one – of a similarly autonomous and free human subject, whose freedom and autonomy seemed increasingly untenable in the economic and political context of post-Napoleonic Europe. That is why music, newly reconceived as radically abstract and autonomous, plays such an important part in the philosophy of early German Romantics such as E. T. A. Hoffmann, Schelling, and Schopenhauer, with their growing misgivings about the very possibility of human freedom, and not so much in the preceding generation of thinkers, such as Kant and Hegel, who still believed in the (transcendentally) free subject of the Enlightenment. For the early German Romantics, music becomes a model of human freedom, if freedom could exist. By contrast, virtuosity, irredeemably moored in the perishable human body, ephemeral, and beholden to such base motives as making money and gaining fame, is not only incompatible with music thus conceived, but also threatens to expose it as an illusion, in other words, as irreducibly corporeal, and, by extension, the human subject it was meant to symbolise as likewise an illusion. Only with that in mind, may we begin to understand the hostility of some early to mid-19th-century critics to instrumental virtuosity, which sometimes reached truly bizarre proportions. In order to accomplish this, the book looks at contemporary aesthetics and philosophy, the contemporary reception of virtuosity in performance and composition, and the impact of 19th-century gender ideology on the reception of some leading virtuosi, male and female alike.
The Research Virtuoso
Toronto Public Library
Author : Toronto Public Library
Publisher : Annick Press
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781554513963
The Research Virtuoso by Toronto Public Library Pdf
Armed with this lively guidebook, students will be ready to face the often daunting prospect of conducting serious research in the information age. Fully revised, The Research Virtuoso covers all aspects of research: how to decide on a topic, take notes, skim material, evaluate which sources (especially those on the Internet) are most reliable, organize information, and create a bibliography. Readers will also learn how to access a treasure trove of sources they may never have known existed, such as special collections and private libraries. The Research Virtuoso goes on to show how effective research skills will help students succeed not only at school, but also in life: when considering a company to work for or purchasing anything from electronics to a house. Charts, lists, diagrams, and Grab & Go templates clarify and expand the text. An essential tool for every student!
The Spiritual Virtuoso
Marion Goldman,Steven Pfaff
Author : Marion Goldman,Steven Pfaff
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781474292429
The Spiritual Virtuoso by Marion Goldman,Steven Pfaff Pdf
Marion Goldman and Steven Pfaff define a spiritual virtuoso as someone who works toward personal purification and a sense of holiness with the same perseverance and intensity that virtuosi strive to excel in the arts or athletics. Since the Protestant Reformation, activist virtuosi have come together in large and small social movements to redefine the meanings of spiritual practice, support religious equality, and transform a wide range of social institutions. Tracing the impact of spiritual virtuosi from the sixteenth century Reformation through the nineteenth-century Anti-Slavery Movement to the twentieth-century Human Potential Movement and beyond, Marion Goldman and Steven Pfaff explore how personal virtuosity can become a social force. Martin Luther began to expand spiritual possibilities in the West when he charted paths that did not require the Church's intercession between the individual and God. He believed that everyone could and should reach toward sacred truths and transcendent moments. Over the centuries, millions of people have built on his innovations and embarked on spiritual quests that offer new possibilities for sacred relationships and social change.
John Locke: The Philosopher as Christian Virtuoso
Victor Nuovo
Author : Victor Nuovo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192520791
John Locke: The Philosopher as Christian Virtuoso by Victor Nuovo Pdf
Early modern Europe was the birthplace of the modern secular outlook. During the seventeenth century nature and human society came to be regarded in purely naturalistic, empirical ways, and religion was made an object of critical historical study. John Locke was a central figure in all these events. This study of his philosophical thought shows that these changes did not happen smoothly or without many conflicts of belief: Locke, in the role of Christian Virtuoso, endeavoured to resolve them. He was an experimental natural philosopher, a proponent of the so-called 'new philosophy', a variety of atomism that emerged in early modern Europe. But he was also a practising Christian, and he professed confidence that the two vocations were not only compatible, but mutually sustaining. He aspired, without compromising his empirical stance, to unite the two vocations in a single philosophical endeavour with the aim of producing a system of Christian philosophy.
Master school of virtuoso piano playing: Scales
Alberto Jonás,Reah Sadowsky,Sara Davis Buechner
Author : Alberto Jonás,Reah Sadowsky,Sara Davis Buechner
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780486483344
Master school of virtuoso piano playing: Scales by Alberto Jonás,Reah Sadowsky,Sara Davis Buechner Pdf
An acclaimed multi-volume treatise presents precise and creative exercises for serious painists and teaches technique, pedaling, fingering, and other methods.
Master school of virtuoso piano playing: Finger exercises
Alberto Jonás,Reah Sadowsky,Sara Davis Buechner
Author : Alberto Jonás,Reah Sadowsky,Sara Davis Buechner
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780486483337
Master school of virtuoso piano playing: Finger exercises by Alberto Jonás,Reah Sadowsky,Sara Davis Buechner Pdf
An acclaimed multi-volume treatise presents precise and creative exercises for serious painists and teaches technique, pedaling, fingering, and other methods.
A Virtuoso's Collection, and Other Tales
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433112005396