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Book Mendelssohn  The Hebrides and Other Overtures

Download or read book Mendelssohn The Hebrides and Other Overtures written by R. Larry Todd and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-09-24 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concert overtures A Midsummer Night's Dream, Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, and The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave), conceived by Mendelssohn before the age of twenty, have ranked amongst the most enduring of the nineteenth-century orchestral repertoire. R. Larry Todd offers a historical, stylistic, and analytical guide to these three remarkable works which secured for Mendelssohn no small measure of his fame. After placing the overtures in the context of Mendelssohn's astonishing compositional development during the 1820s, the volume disentangles the complex history of their creation and considers in turn their style and formal structure, their contents as programme music, aspects of their orchestration and their reception and influence. All this is supported by a wealth of primary documents, including Mendelssohn's correspondence, memoirs of his friends, and nineteenth-century critical reviews.

Book A grammar of the German language designed for a thorough and practical

Download or read book A grammar of the German language designed for a thorough and practical written by George Oliver Curme and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Romantic Overture and Musical Form from Rossini to Wagner

Download or read book The Romantic Overture and Musical Form from Rossini to Wagner written by Steven Vande Moortele and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive study of musical form in operatic and concert overtures in continental Europe between 1815 and 1850.

Book Programs of Concerts Conducted by Willem Mengelberg

Download or read book Programs of Concerts Conducted by Willem Mengelberg written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Dictionary of the English and German and German and English Languages  Adapted to the Present State of Literature  Science  Commerce and Arts

Download or read book A Dictionary of the English and German and German and English Languages Adapted to the Present State of Literature Science Commerce and Arts written by Newton Ivory Lucas and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Grammar of the German Language

Download or read book A Grammar of the German Language written by George Oliver Curme and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A New Pocket Dictionary of the English and German Languages

Download or read book A New Pocket Dictionary of the English and German Languages written by J. E. Wessely and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Land and People

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael J. Allen
  • Publisher : Oxbow Books
  • Release : 2009-09-10
  • ISBN : 1782973583
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book Land and People written by Michael J. Allen and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2009-09-10 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is derived, in concept, from a conference held in honour of John Evans by the School of History and Archaeology and The Prehistoric Society at Cardiff University in March 2006. It brings together papers that address themes and landscapes on a variety of levels. They cover geographical, methodological and thematic areas that were of interest to, and had been studied by, John Evans. The volume is divided into five sections, which echo themes of importance in British prehistory. They include papers on aspects of environmental archaeology, experiments and philosophy; new research on the nature of woodland on the chalklands of southern England; coasts and islands; people, process and social order, and snails and shells - a strong part of John Evans' career. This volume presents a range of papers examining people's interaction with the landscape in all its forms. The papers provide a diverse but cohesive picture of how archaeological landscapes are viewed within current research frameworks and approaches, while also paying tribute to the innovative and inspirational work of one of the leading protagonists of environmental archaeology and the holistic approach to landscape interpretation.

Book A Dictionary of the German and English Languages

Download or read book A Dictionary of the German and English Languages written by George J. Adler and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mittelalterliches Nordisches Recht Bis 1500

Download or read book Mittelalterliches Nordisches Recht Bis 1500 written by Dieter Strauch and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011 with total page 925 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval Nordic legal sources are to be found from Greenland, the Scandinavian countries to Russia. The acceptance of Christianity led to decisive changes in these legal sources, the polity, private law and everyday life. This volume considers the sources, explains how they came about and reviews their content and their further development until about AD 1500. It presents for the first time a consistent picture of these sources.

Book The History of England

Download or read book The History of England written by Macaulay and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Symphonic Poem in Britain  1850 1950

Download or read book The Symphonic Poem in Britain 1850 1950 written by Michael Allis and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2020 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Symphonic Poem in Britain 1850-1950 aims to raise the status of the genre generally and in Britain specifically. The volume reaffirms British composers' confidence in dealing with literary texts and takes advantage of the contributors' interdisciplinary expertise by situating discussions of the tone poem in Britain in a variety of historical, analytical and cultural contexts. This book highlights some of the continental models that influenced British composers, and identifies a range of issues related to perceptions of the genre. Richard Strauss became an important figure in Britain during this time, not only in terms of the clear impact of his tone poems, but the debates over their value and even their ethics. A focus on French orchestral music in Britain represents a welcome addition to scholarly debate, and links to issues in several other chapters. The historical development of the genre, the impact of compositional models, issues highlighted in critical reception as well as programming strategies all contribute to a richer understanding of the symphonic poem in Britain. Works by British composers discussed in more detail include William Wallace's Villon (1909), Gustav Holst's Beni Mora(1909-10), Hubert Parry's From Death to Life (1914), John Ireland's Mai-Dun (1921), and Frank Bridge's orchestral 'poems' (1903-15).

Book Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era  1760 1850

Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era 1760 1850 written by Christopher John Murray and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2004 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Review: "Written to stress the crosscurrent of ideas, this cultural encyclopedia provides clearly written and authoritative articles. Thoughts, themes, people, and nations that define the Romantic Era, as well as some frequently overlooked topics, receive their first encyclopedic treatments in 850 signed articles, with bibliographies and coverage of historical antecedents and lingering influences of romanticism. Even casual browsers will discover much to enjoy here."--"The Top 20 Reference Titles of the Year," American Libraries, May 2004.

Book Europa Vasconica   Europa Semitica

Download or read book Europa Vasconica Europa Semitica written by Theo Vennemann gen. Nierfeld and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-07-20 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the theory that the linguistic and cultural landscape of Europe north of the Alps and the Pyrenees was shaped in prehistoric times by the interaction of Indo-European speakers with speakers of languages related to Basque and to Semitic. These influences on the lexicon, grammar, and toponymy of the West Indo-European languages (with special focus on Germanic) are demonstrated in German and English research papers, provided here with summaries, commentaries, and a new introduction in English, and with general and etymological indexes.

Book Der heilige Wikingerk  nig Olav Haraldsson und sein hagiographisches Dossier  2 vols

Download or read book Der heilige Wikingerk nig Olav Haraldsson und sein hagiographisches Dossier 2 vols written by Lenka Jiroušková and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 1128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twelfth-century vita of Saint Olav, the Norwegian King Olav Haraldsson, is an outstanding example of how the intersection of power and sanctity was politically functionalised in the Middle Ages. Olav’s hagiographic dossier is transmitted in several and in part newly discovered manuscripts. Its contents depend on both the Latin and the vernacular tradition, while the milieus in which it was used range from the clerics of the High Middle Ages to the Hanseatic merchants at the end of the epoch. Fourteen studies on language and style, on codicological as well as cultic and cultural context of individual copies of the Passio Olavi, on the veneration of Olav in Scandinavia, England, Northern France and Northern Germany, on the construction of sanctity, strategies of propagating Olav’s cult and their narrative realisation, and, finally, on changes of the text, its spread and usage are presented alongside the first critical edition of the complete dossier.

Book Mendelssohn Essays

    Book Details:
  • Author : R. Larry Todd
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2013-10-28
  • ISBN : 1135866686
  • Pages : 383 pages

Download or read book Mendelssohn Essays written by R. Larry Todd and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When R. Larry Todd’s biography, Mendelssohn: A Life in Music, appeared in 2003, it won acclaim from several critics as a definitive biography. In researching Mendelssohn’s life over the last two and a half decades, Todd uncovered much new information about the composer and his music, his family and his peers, and his complex reception history. Now, as we approach the 2009 bicentenary of Mendelssohn’s birth, the author has chosen and compiled fifteen essays written between 1980 and 2005, including five previously unpublished, that examine several aspects of the composer whom Goethe and Heine likened to a second Mozart. Mendelssohn Essays explores Mendelssohn’s precocity, his musical impressions of British culture, the role of the visual in his music, his compositional response to Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, and incomplete drafts from his musical estate of three instrumental works. In addition, a group of three essays focuses on the music of Mendelssohn’s sister Fanny Hensel, perhaps the most gifted woman composer of the century, and a significant, complex figure in the formation of the Mendelssohnian style.