Download or read book The Politicized Muse written by Anthony M. Cummings and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the years between the restoration of the Medici to Florence and the election of Cosimo I, the Medici family sponsored a series of splendid public festivals, reconstructed here by Anthony M. Cummings. Cummings has utilized unexpectedly rich sources of information about the musical life of the time in contemporary narrative accounts of these occasions—histories, diaries, and family memoirs. In this interdisciplinary work, he explains how the festivals combined music with art and literature to convey political meanings to Florentine observers. As analyzed by Cummings, the festivals document the political transformation of the city in the crucial era that witnessed the end of the Florentine republic and the beginnings of the Medici principate. This book will interest all students of the life and institutions of sixteenth-century Florence and of the Medici family. In addition, the author furnishes new evidence about the contexts for musical performances in early modern Europe. By describing such contexts, he ascertains much about how music was performed and how it sounded in this period of music history and shows that the modes of musical expression were more varied than is suggested by the relatively few surviving examples of actual pieces of music. Originally published in 1992. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Download or read book The Practical Muse written by Patricia Rae and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patricia Rae's study, while accepting Rorty's view that there is philosophical solidarity between pragmatism and modernism, rejects his interpretation of both as forms of dogmatic skepticism. If pragmatism and modernism coincide, Rae argues, the case of these three writers suggests that the intersection lies not in a rejection of "truthfulness to experience" but in a cautious respect for it.
Download or read book The Chaste Muse written by Dorothy Gabe Coleman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-12-14 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tragic Muse written by Rachel Brownstein and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rachel Felix (1821-58), the homely daughter of poor Jewish peddlers, was the first stage actress to achieve international stardom - and the last person one would have expected to resurrect the cultural patrimony of France. Yet her passionate, startling performances of the works of Racine and Corneille saved them from almost certain obsolescence after the fall of Napoleon (who had relished classical French tragedy) and the emergence of Romanticism. Audiences in Paris, London, Boston, and Moscow thrilled to her voice, and devoured the rumors of her offstage promiscuity and extravagance. Her fame - equal parts popularity and notoriety - was so great that she could nonchalantly dispose of her last name. La grande Rachel virtually invented the role of the superstar, while remaining a symbol of the highest art and most serious cultural pursuits. Indeed, her identity was fraught with such contradictions - which intrigued the public all the more. From the moment she was discovered playing the guitar on the streets of Lyons, to her debut on the Parisian stage at the age of fifteen, to her critical and commercial triumphs as Camille, Phedre, and other tormented women, Rachel's career was exhaustively "managed." A series of theater gurus, influential reviewers, and impresarios - including her brash and opportunistic father - claimed the credit for her astonishing success. What this abundance of male managers has always obscured is Rachel's own decisiveness and control over her time and money - not only did she play her various champions (and high-profile lovers) against one another, she openly defied them. Some called her stubborn, even perverse; in these pages, we come to recognize her as a woman ahead of her time, a charismatic individual very much in charge of her own destiny. As her fascination with all things Napoleonic suggests, Rachel liked power - both personal and professional - and had the talent to command it.
Download or read book First Latin Book written by Ethan Allen Andrews and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A First Latin Book written by Ethan Allen Andrews and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book MA MUSE S AMUSE written by CLAIRE LYS ROUSSET LYS and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Devil s Muse written by Bill Loehfelm and published by Sarah Crichton Books. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Southern Indie Bookseller Alliance 2017 Summer OKRA pick! One of Kirkus Review’s “11 Thrillers That Will Keep You Awake This Summer” Watch the trailer for The Devil's Muse here: https://vimeo.com/224000865 In the thrilling fifth book in the critically acclaimed series that’s “edgy, dangerous, but pulsing with life” (Bill Ott, Booklist), a Mardi Gras parade turns deadly. It’s Mardi Gras in New Orleans and rookie cop Maureen Coughlin has no idea what she’s in for. Her night working the parades begins calmly enough—until a half-naked man careens through the crowd and throws himself onto the hood of an oncoming SUV. As she tries to deal with the incident amid the pulsing chaos of the parade, Maureen hears gunshots. Moments later, with three wounded and a handful of drunken witnesses, Maureen has a full-fledged investigation on her hands. Who was the shooter? Who was he after? Who’s the next target? City bigwigs begin pressuring Maureen and her crew for quick answers. And with an amateur camera crew intent on capturing “the real Mardi Gras” for their YouTube channel, an incompetent supervising detective, and tense race relations in a city more likely to mistrust cops than ever, it’s going to be a very long night—and a memorable first Mardi Gras—for Maureen. With The Devil’s Muse, the acclaimed crime writer Bill Loehfelm conjures rowdy New Orleans in all its mess and marvel, and sends Maureen deep into the city on another wild, high-octane adventure.
Download or read book Harvard Studies in Classical Philology written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language written by John Walker and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Muse Omnibus written by Paul Storrie and published by StormFront Entertainment. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to a new collected edition featuring the 10th Muse. The Muse is back and things have not gotten any easier on Mount Olympus. In fact, the future of the entire Greek Pantheon teeters on the brink of extinction. The gods look to Emma Sonnett, the 10th Muse, to restore their glory and preserve the old ways. But before they can fix this divine rift, the Muse and Ares, the god of war, must find out the cause of this Olympian cancer. And when Olympus finally falls, the world itself is poised to suffer. Also featuring Judo Girl, Isis and Victoria's Secret Service! This edition features a bunch of extra images never before seen!
Download or read book The Imperial Encyclopaedic Dictionary written by Robert Hunter and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Muse and the Moon written by Lincy Ann Mathew and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “You make love to me as if I'm the fairest of my kind.” “Looks trigger just one-night stands …” “Aha! So what triggers the mating of the souls?” “Thoughts, words, taste, sometimes just the eyes that convey it all!” Decades into her life, Anagha seems to have finally found love like never before. She feels complete the very first moment she glances upon Rudran, as if it were the end of an endless search over births or across parallel universes. In course of time, they are fiercely attracted to each other. But right when love blossomed between the passionate duo, a sweet wreckage of the past lets loose into Rudran's life. And it was just the beginning. Will Anagha's love rise above the scum of hurt? And even if it does, will it withstand the onslaught of fate? Is Anagha at the shore of the bluest sea or is she chasing mirages on burning sands? The Muse and the Moon is a poetic saga of love, loss, and life, narrated by Anagha, and sometimes the imp of her mind, in a raw and reflective language.
Download or read book The universal pronouncing and defining dictionary of the English language with numerous synonyms by C A Goodrich c written by Noah Webster and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Tragic Muse written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
