Описание: Franz Kafka remains one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. His novels, stories, and letters are still regarded today as the epitome of the dark, fascinating, and uncanny, a model of the modernist aesthetic. Peter-Andre Alt`s landmark biography recounts and explores Kafka`s life and literary work throughout the cultural and political upheavals of central Europe.
Автор: Trippett Название: Wagner`s Melodies ISBN: 1316618234 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781316618233 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 6970.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Wagner`s melodies sparked one of the most controversial debates in nineteenth-century aesthetics and continue to polarise opinion to this day. Interweaving a wide variety of sources, from private correspondence to court reports, David Trippett`s book places Wagner`s ideas about melody in the context of the scientific discourse of his age.
Автор: Surasky Jan Название: The Sound of Unheard Melodies ISBN: 0997652160 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780997652161 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2207.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Lily Paxton is a child of the 1880s Oklahoma territories, born to a poor gypsy mother and a wealthy mine-owning father. She rides the prairies and the grasslands making friends with the foreman's son at her father's mine and a Native American boy she meets in the ancient Cross Timbers forest. But, when she reaches sixteen she is sent east to her father's wealthy family and a finishing school where she will prepare for courtship with wealthy young men or perhaps even a European noble. But, when a chance happening calls her back to Oklahoma she finds she must choose between a return to the east and a life of wealth and privilege or the hard life in a territory not yet a state. The choice she makes will not only determine her own future but will help to determine the fate of a very young nation.
Автор: , Amolic Mitalee Название: How to compose catchy Music and Melodies ISBN: 1500476943 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781500476946 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 1550.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A unique feature on Iraqi Jewish writers. For centuries, Iraqi Jews were key contributors to Iraq`s rich social and cultural tapestry before a tragic end with the massive transfer-emigration and forced displacement of Iraqi Jews in the 1950s to Israel. Texts of universal questions of belonging, exile and diaspora, translated from Arabic and Hebrew.
Описание: A Juilliard-trained musician and professor of history explores the fascinating entanglement of classical music with American foreign relations.
Автор: Hunt Una Название: Sources and Style in Moore S Irish Melodies ISBN: 1409405613 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781409405610 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 23734.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Once regarded as Ireland's national bard, Thomas Moore's lasting reputation rests on the ten immensely popular collections of drawing-room songs known as the Irish Melodies, published between 1808 and 1834. Moore drew on anthologies of ancient music, breathing new life into the airs and bringing them before a global audience for the very first time. Recognizing the unique beauty of the airs as well as their symbolic significance, these qualities were often interwoven into the verses providing potent political commentary along with a new cultural perspective. At home and abroad, Moore's Melodies created a realm of influence that continued to define Irish culture for many decades to come.
Notwithstanding the far-reaching appeal and success of the collections, Moore has only recently begun to receive serious attention from scholars. Una Hunt provides the first detailed study of Moore's Irish Melodies from a combined musical and literary standpoint by drawing on a practical understanding and an unrivalled performance experience of the songs. The initial two chapters contextualize Moore and his songs through a detailed examination of their sources and style while the following chapters concentrate on the collaborative work provided by the composers Sir John Stevenson and Henry Rowley Bishop. Chapters 5 and 6 reappraise musical sources and Moore's adaptation of these, supported and illustrated by the Table of Sources in the Appendix.
Автор: Johnson David W. Название: Lonesome Melodies: The Lives and Music of the Stanley Brothers ISBN: 1628460571 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781628460575 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 4712.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Carter and Ralph Stanley--the Stanley Brothers--are comparable to Bill Monroe and Flatt & Scruggs as important members of the earliest generation of bluegrass musicians. In this first biography of the brothers, author David W. Johnson documents that Carter (1925-1966) and Ralph (b 1927) were equally important contributors to the tradition of old-time country music. Together from 1946 to 1966, the Stanley Brothers began their careers performing in the schoolhouses of southwestern Virginia and expanded their popularity to the concert halls of Europe. In order to re-create this post-World War II journey through the changing landscape of American music, the author interviewed Ralph Stanley, the family of Carter Stanley, former members of the Clinch Mountain Boys, and dozens of musicians and friends who knew the Stanley Brothers as musicians and men. The late Mike Seeger allowed Johnson to use his invaluable 1966 interviews with the brothers. Notable old-time country and bluegrass musicians such as George Shuffler, Lester Woodie, Larry Sparks, and the late Wade Mainer shared their recollections of Carter and Ralph. Lonesome Melodies begins and ends in the mountains of southwestern Virginia. Carter and Ralph were born there and had an early publicity photograph taken at the Cumberland Gap. In December 1966, pallbearers walked up Smith Ridge to bring Carter to his final resting place. In the intervening years, the brothers performed thousands of in-person and radio shows, recorded hundreds of songs and tunes for half a dozen record labels, and tried to keep pace with changing times while remaining true to the spirit of old-time country music. As a result of their accomplishments, they have become a standard of musical authenticity.
Автор: Berret Anthony J. Название: Music in the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Unheard Melodies ISBN: 1611478324 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781611478327 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 14481.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Music in the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald illustrates and analyzes the ways in which Fitzgerald integrated music with literature through his entire writing career, from his early Triangle Club lyrics to his later Hollywood screenplays, but most significantly in the novels and short stories for which he is most famous.
