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Book Carnival of the Animals

Download or read book Carnival of the Animals written by Camille Saint-Saens and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-04-21 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A silly story that presents an assortment of animals and an orchestra.

Book Derek Walcott and the Creation of a Classical Caribbean

Download or read book Derek Walcott and the Creation of a Classical Caribbean written by Justine McConnell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-18 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout his career, Derek Walcott turned to the literature and cultures of ancient Greece and Rome. His book-length poem recasting the epics of Homer, Virgil and Dante in St Lucia is best-known in this regard, yet Omeros is only the pinnacle of a lengthy and lively dialogue that Walcott developed between the ancient Mediterranean and the modern Caribbean. Derek Walcott and the Creation of a Classical Caribbean explores how, in developing that discourse between ancient and modern, between Europe and the Caribbean, Walcott refuted the suggestion that to engage with literature from elsewhere was to lack originality; instead, he asserted a place for Caribbean art in a global, transhistorical canon. Drawing on Walcott's own theoretical concerns, this book explores his engagement with Graeco-Roman antiquity from three key perspectives. Firstly, that a perception of time as linear must be coupled with an understanding of it as simultaneous, thereby doing away with the oppressive power of history and confirming the 'New World' on a par with the 'Old'. Secondly, that syncretism lies at the heart of Caribbean life and art, with influences from Africa, Asia, and Europe constituting key parts of Caribbean identity alongside its indigenous cultures. Thirdly, that Caribbean literature creates the world anew without erasing the past. With these three postcolonial conceptions at the heart of his engagement with ancient Greece and Rome, Walcott revealed the reasons why classical reception has been a rich facet of Caribbean artistry.

Book Aristophanes and the Carnival of Genres

Download or read book Aristophanes and the Carnival of Genres written by Charles Platter and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The comedies of Aristophanes are known not only for their boldly imaginative plots but for the ways in which they incorporate and orchestrate a wide variety of literary genres and speech styles. Unlike the writers of tragedy, who prefer a uniformly elevated tone, Aristophanes articulates his dramatic dialogue with striking literary and linguistic juxtapositions, producing a carnivalesque medley of genres that continually forces both audience and reader to readjust their perspectives. In this energetic and original study, Charles Platter interprets the complexities of Aristophanes' work through the lens of Mikhail Bakhtin's critical writing. This book charts a new course for Aristophanic comedy, taking its lead from the work of Bakhtin. Bakhtin describes the way multiple voices—vocabularies, tones, and styles of language originating in different social classes and contexts—appear and interact within literary texts. He argues that the dynamic quality of literature arises from the dialogic relations that exist among these voices. Although Bakhtin applied his theory primarily to the epic and the novel, Platter finds in his work profound implications for Aristophanic comedy, where stylistic heterogeneity is the genre's lifeblood.

Book Classical Hollywood Comedy

Download or read book Classical Hollywood Comedy written by Kristine Brunovska Karnick and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applies the recent `return to history' in film studies to the genre of classical Hollywood comedy as well as broadening the definition of those works considered central in this field.

Book Mock Classicism

Download or read book Mock Classicism written by Nilo Couret and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cantinflismo and Relajo's peripheral vision -- The call of the screen: Niní Marshall and the radiophonic stardom of Argentine cinema -- Timing is everything : Sandrini's stutter and the representability of time -- Fictions of the real : the currency of the Brazilian Chanchada -- Comedy circulates circuitously : toward an odographic film history of Latin America

Book Classical Cats

    Book Details:
  • Author : Donald W. Engels
  • Publisher : Psychology Press
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9780415261623
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book Classical Cats written by Donald W. Engels and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history and importance of the cat from ancient Egypt to the Middle Ages, discussing its role in the development of European and Western civilization.

Book The Carnival of the Animals

Download or read book The Carnival of the Animals written by Camille Saint-Saëns and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Italian Songs for Classical Guitar  Songbook

Download or read book Italian Songs for Classical Guitar Songbook written by Hal Leonard Corp. and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Guitar Solo). 22 Italian favorites arranged for solo guitar in notes and tab, including: Carnival of Venice * Come Back to Sorrento * Funiculi, Funicula * Italian National Anthem (Fratelli D'Italia) * La Donna E Mobile * La Paloma Blanca (The White Dove) * O Mio Babbino Caro * 'O Sole Mio * Oh Marie * Santa Lucia * Tarantella * and more.

Book Classical Music

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alexander J. Morin
  • Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780879306380
  • Pages : 1220 pages

Download or read book Classical Music written by Alexander J. Morin and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2002 with total page 1220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encompassing more than five hundred classical composers past and present, this listener's guide to classical music discusses the best recordings of symphonies, operas, choral pieces, chamber music, and more by the world's leading composers as performed by a variety of outstanding musicians and conductors, and includes essays on the classical repertory, composers, instruments, and more. Original.

Book Performance and Identity in the Classical World

Download or read book Performance and Identity in the Classical World written by Anne Duncan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-30 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performance and Identity in the Classical World traces attitudes towards actors in Greek and Roman culture as a means of understanding ancient conceptions of, and anxieties about, the self. Actors were often viewed as frauds and impostors, capable of deliberately fabricating their identities. Conversely, they were sometimes viewed as possessed by the characters that they played, or as merely playing themselves onstage. Numerous sources reveal an uneasy fascination with actors and acting, from the writings of elite intellectuals (philosophers, orators, biographers, historians) to the abundant theatrical anecdotes that can be read as a body of 'popular performance theory'. This text examines these sources, along with dramatic texts and addresses the issue of impersonation, from the late fifth century BCE to the early Roman Empire.

Book The Big Book of Classical Music  Songbook

Download or read book The Big Book of Classical Music Songbook written by Hal Leonard Corp. and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1999-08-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Piano Solo Songbook). All your favorite piano masterpieces in one convenient collection! This book features piano solo arrangements of 100 classics by Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Debussy, Faure, Franck, Gounod, Grieg, Handel, Haydn, Mahler, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Pachelbel, Puccini, Tchaikovsky, Verdi, Vivaldi, Wagner, and more!

Book 24 Piano Transcriptions of Classical Masterpieces  2nd Edition

Download or read book 24 Piano Transcriptions of Classical Masterpieces 2nd Edition written by Robert Schultz and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 2008-03-11 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Schultz has transcribed this wonderful collection of the most famous orchestral, operatic, vocal, and chamber works for advanced piano. Included are works by Albinoni, Bach, Bellini, Faurí©, Massenet, Mozart, Pachelbel, Puccini, Saint-Saí‚ns, Schubert, Tchaikovsky, and many others. Each piece is appropriate for concerts and recitals. Titles: * Adagio in G Minor (Tomaso Albinoni) * Air from Orchestral Suite No. 3 (Johann Sebastian Bach) * Ave Maria (Giulio Caccini) * Ave Maria (Franz Schubert) * Canon in D (Johann Pachelbel) * Casta Diva from Norma (Vincenzo Bellini) * Dance of the Blessed Spirits from Orfeo ed Euridice (Christoph Willibald Glí_ck) * Eighteenth Variation from Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini (Sergei Rachmaninoff ) * Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana (Pietro Mascagni) * Kol Nidrei (Max Bruch) * La Mamma Morta from Andrea Chí©nier (Umberto Giordano) * Largo from Clavier Concerto No. 5 (Johann Sebastian Bach) * Meditation from Thaí¿s (Jules Massenet) * Minuet and Trio from String Quintet, Op. 13, No. 5 (Luigi Boccherini) * Mon Coeur S'orvre íó Ta Voix from Samson and Delilah (Camille Saint-Saí‚ns) * O Mio Babbino Caro from Gianni Schicchi (Giacomo Puccini) * Pavane (Gabriel Faurí©) * Polovetsian Dance from Prince Igor (Alexander Borodin) * Soave Sia Il Vento from Cosi Fan Tutte (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) * The Swan from Carnival of the Animals (Camille Saint-Saí‚ns) * Un Bel Di from Madama Butterfly (Giacomo Puccini) * Valse Triste (Jean Sibelius) * Vocalise (Sergei Rachmaninoff) * Waltz from The Sleeping Beauty (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)

Book The NPR Guide to Building a Classical CD Collection

Download or read book The NPR Guide to Building a Classical CD Collection written by Ted Libbey and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An update and revised guide by the host of National Public Radio's Performance Today recommends the best recordings of the three hundred most important classical works, and provides background information on each composer. Original.

Book Dictionary of foreign phrases and classical quotations

Download or read book Dictionary of foreign phrases and classical quotations written by Hugh Percy Jones and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Vygotsky Today

    Book Details:
  • Author : Aleksandr Grigorʹevich Asmolov
  • Publisher : Nova Publishers
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9781560726166
  • Pages : 142 pages

Download or read book Vygotsky Today written by Aleksandr Grigorʹevich Asmolov and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are three basic ways for a nation to organize its economy: command, tradition and free market. It is a free market economy, also known as capitalism, that by far has proved the most successful in securing prosperity and providing the foundation for other liberties. A market economy is based on the tenets of economic freedom which include the liberty to enter any cup on, start any business, produce any good, offer any service, charge any price and operate an enterprise as one chooses in an atmosphere of limited government. This book presents the history of economic freedom from the time of Colonial America to the modern era. It also explores economic freedom's relationship to personal and political liberties as well as to such concerns as efficiency, prosperity, equality and domestic tranquility. It stresses the importance of the classical, religious and economic, virtues; provides a discussion of both the Old and New Testaments and analyses the relationships of freedom and wealth to happiness.

Book Renaissance of Classical Allusions in Contemporary Russian Media

Download or read book Renaissance of Classical Allusions in Contemporary Russian Media written by Svitlana Malykhina and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2014-02-27 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renaissance of Classical Allusions in Contemporary Russian Media builds on a growing body of work concerning post-Soviet media culture during the last, transformative decade. Making sense of the literary allusions in media discourse, Svitlana Malykhina reminds us that allusions can serve as a primary marker of identity—national and cultural—and may also be a way of negotiating the gap between what has to be reported and what can be banned by censorship. Malykhina presents the changes and continuities between rhetoric strategies of Soviet-style media and postcommunist Russian media, identifying the key literary and historical references in public discourse, which are then picked up by the media. The book analyzes the political, cultural, and social factors at play in the development and expansion of these allusions in both official and alternative discourses. Examining the rise of the Internet, which has remained wholly uncensored in Russia, Malykhina reveals that the Russian Internet media began to function as alternative mass media. Yet, the success of the Internet media has also brought complex and unintended consequences. Malykhina offers an empirically rich examination of conventional classical allusions in media discourse, focusing mainly on the rhetorical techniques by which subversive meanings of these references were generated.