Download or read book Recondite Harmony written by Deborah Burton and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who is Puccini? Most debates about the composer are focused on his cultural and musical identity: is his music traditional or progressive? The thesis of this volume is that the diametrically opposed forces of the traditional and the progressive live together in Puccini's music, embedded deeply within his harmonic constructs and in many musical parameters. Recondite Harmony is a study of all of Puccini's operas examined through a primarily analytic lens. It offers essays on salient aspects of each of the operas while tracing in them both progressive and traditional elements. The volume is divided into two parts: in the first, approaches that inform the entire corpus of Puccini's operas are examined. The second half of the book is devoted to brief essays discussing interesting aspects of each of his operas. Techniques in each opus that merit analytic attention are highlighted and discussed in relation to the drama at hand, individuating more fully musical aspects special to each score. Included are also previously unpublished source material and autograph sketches.
Download or read book Melody and Harmony written by Stewart Macpherson and published by London : Joseph Williams Limited. This book was released on 1920 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Music of the Church Considered in Its Various Branches Congregational and Choral written by John Antes Latrobe and published by London : R.B. Seeley and W. Burnside. This book was released on 1831 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Shadow of Life written by Anne Douglas Sedgwick and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is it possible to love a person so much that you refuse to remain together with him or her--because you know that your union is destined to bring unhappiness? Is this choice selfless or selfish? That's the philosophical question at the heart of this rather dark romance from Anne Douglas Sedgwick. Despite sharing a passionate affinity that has persisted for decades, a couple's chance at lasting togetherness is dashed because one partner is fearful that he is not worthy of the love he has been given.
Download or read book The Works of William Mason written by William Mason and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mysticism of Saint Augustine written by John Peter Kenney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-09-19 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Augustine's vision at Ostia is one of the most influential accounts of mystical experience in the Western tradition, and a subject of persistent interest to Christians, philosophers and historians. This book explores Augustine's account of his experience as set down in the Confessions and considers his mysticism in relation to his classical Platonist philosophy. John Peter Kenney argues that while the Christian contemplative mysticism created by Augustine is in many ways founded on Platonic thought, Platonism ultimately fails Augustine in that it cannot retain the truths that it anticipates. The Confessions offer a response to this impasse by generating two critical ideas in medieval and modern religious thought: firstly, the conception of contemplation as a purely epistemic event, in contrast to classical Platonism; secondly, the tenet that salvation is absolutely distinct from enlightenment.
Download or read book Theism a treatise on God Providence and Immortality written by John ORR (Unitarian Minister.) and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Problem What is the Church Solved Or the Counter Theory By E S Ffoulkes written by and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Art of painting Essays on English church music written by William Mason and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book School Experience written by Peter Woods and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-04-28 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1977, this volume brings together a range of viewpoints, informed by reports of empirical research, which bear on the experience of school. Each chapter demonstrates the application of the ‘new sociology of education’ in its various guises to the world of teachers and pupils. In doing so, they exemplify the fields of investigation opened up by these theoretical developments, and also suggest directions ahead. The tensions in the articles reflect the tensions that existed in the sociology of education. By bringing them together, the aim of this volume is to contribute to a more soundly based sociology of education.
Download or read book Classrooms and Staffrooms written by Andy Hargreaves and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-16 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1984, the articles presented here explore such matters as how teachers maintain order, how they treat their pupils and how they cope with pressure; they examine the ways in which teachers relate to their colleagues, what goes on in staffrooms, how they engage in educational debate, and what their ambitions are. The contributors get to grips with what it is really like to be a teacher, to make sense of the everyday rewards and penalties, opportunities and problems. This is the hallmark of the ethnographic method of educational inquiry. It brings to life (by close observation and/or in-depth interview) the internal workings of an institution or culture, revealing the perspectives of its members, their roles and adaptations and making explicit the routine or taken-for-granted features of institutional life. All the papers in the volume are to one degree or another located within this methodological tradition – they all begin with what life is actually like for teachers in schools. Though they draw on a range of theoretical perspectives, from interactionism and ethnomethodology, to Marxism and the ‘New Sociology of Education’; and more besides. In this volume the editors bring together examples of some of the most important and influential pieces of work which illustrate the range of material, and which have hitherto been spread widely among different research reports, academic journals, and collections of conference papers. Classrooms and Staffrooms provides a fund of quality source materials for initial and in-service teachers.
Download or read book Singing in Signs written by Gregory J. Decker and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Singing in Signs: New Semiotic Explorations of Opera offers a bold and refreshing assessment of the state of opera study as seen through the lens of semiotics. At its core, the volume responds to Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker's Analyzing Opera, utilizing a semiotic framework to embrace opera on its own terms and engage all of its constituent elements in interpretation. Chapters in this collection resurrect the larger sense of serious operatic study as a multi-faceted, interpretive discipline, no longer in isolation. Contributors pay particular attention to the musical, dramatic, cultural, and performative in opera and how these modes can create an intertext that informs interpretation. Combining traditional and emerging methodologies, Singing in Signs engages composer-constructed and work-specific music-semiotic systems, broader socio-cultural music codes, and narrative strategies, with implications for performance and staging practices today.
Download or read book Puccini in Context written by Alexandra Wilson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-14 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the many dimensions of Giacomo Puccini's historical legacy and significance, this book situates the much-loved opera composer within the cultural, social, political, and aesthetic contexts of his time and demonstrates how political concerns shape the way we approach and interpret his works in the present day.
Download or read book The Cistern Poems written by Tien Tran and published by Tien Tran. This book was released on 2013-06-03 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As man-made structure for storing rainwater, the cistern mediates between nature, with its unpredictable elemental processes, and human culture and civilization. It is a place of hope and joy, or fear and desperation, depending on the season. The title poem brings this fraught dialectic vividly to life, and in varied ways, these poems seek out such places of convergence, potentiality and transformation. Intensely symbolic and at the same time deeply invested in the possibilities of poetic form, they posit the lyric as an ongoing contractual agreement between the words and the reader. "I write for no one," the despairing poet writes in "For My Imaginary Pet Chihuahua Who Died of a Heart Attack" (whose extravagant feelings belie any such despair) and invites the reader to turn the phrase on its head, for it to mean: "I write for no one person alone, but for many inclusively and alike." With hopeful daring, these poems speak to the shared natural and human world that underwrites all our works.In the cistern the seasons grewimpatient, a fissure must'veopened, for the waterbegan a long, eventful retreat--planks andvines poked out, breakingthe surface sky...
Download or read book The Journal of Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal of Education and School World written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
