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Book Song in Gold Pavilions

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  • Author : Ronald Stevenson
  • Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
  • Release : 2009-10-01
  • ISBN : 1920109684
  • Pages : 159 pages

Download or read book Song in Gold Pavilions written by Ronald Stevenson and published by AFRICAN SUN MeDIA. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is an undeniable fascination in reading the words that composers write. Whenever a composer puts finger to typewriter rather than pencil to manuscript paper, we inevitably hope that he might proffer us some insights into the workings of the creative musical mind ? that source of much mystery since the act of composition left the realm of low artisanship for that of High Art some two or three centuries ago. Composers who deal with words as naturally as they write notes are, however, a breed of exceeding rarity. Ronald Stevenson belongs amongst them and the proof of it is to be found amply in this book.

Book Song in Gold Pavilions

Download or read book Song in Gold Pavilions written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gold Pavilion

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  • Author : Michael Saso
  • Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
  • Release : 2012-09-25
  • ISBN : 1462907482
  • Pages : 238 pages

Download or read book Gold Pavilion written by Michael Saso and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gold Pavilion: Taoist Ways to Peace, Health, and Long Life is a step-by-step instruction of Taoist meditation from ancient China. The writings of the ancient Chinese Taoist masters tell us that when the mind, heart, and body are in tune with the harmonics of nature, a new inner peace emerges. This peace can be achieved through Taoist meditation, which is revealed in this fascinating book. Author Michael Saso provides a concise introduction to the history of and many sources from which Taoism is drawn. he outlines the essential Taoist texts, the Ching, the Tao-te Ching and the Chuang-tzu, as well as the different forms of Taoist and Tibetan Tantric meditation. he then offers an engaging translation of the Gold Pavilion classic, a Taoist meditation first practiced by a great forth-century mystic, Lady Wei Huacun, founder of a special kind of Taoism called the Highest Pure School. This important text teaches how to find Tao, "the Way," within by emptying the mind and heart of all desires and concepts. Combining discussions of Chinese philosophy, history and healing arts, The Golden Pavilion reveals a way to find inner peace and harmony in a world with little time for quiet contemplation.

Book The Peony Pavilion

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  • Author : Xianzu Tang
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780253340979
  • Pages : 390 pages

Download or read book The Peony Pavilion written by Xianzu Tang and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebrated translation of this masterpiece of Chinese literature, in an updated edition

Book Songs of Gold Mountain

Download or read book Songs of Gold Mountain written by Marlon K. Hom and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1992-11-27 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marlon Hom has selected and translated 220 rhymes from two collections of Chinatown songs published in 1911 and 1915. The songs are outspoken and personal, addressing subjects as diverse as sex, frustrations with the American bureaucracy, poverty and alienation, and the loose morals of the younger generation of Americans. Hom has arranged the songs thematically and gives an overview of early Chinese American literature.

Book Broadway Musicals  1943 2004

Download or read book Broadway Musicals 1943 2004 written by John Stewart and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-11-22 with total page 6404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On March 31, 1943, the musical Oklahoma! premiered and the modern era of the Broadway musical was born. Since that time, the theatres of Broadway have staged hundreds of musicals--some more noteworthy than others, but all in their own way a part of American theatre history. With more than 750 entries, this comprehensive reference work provides information on every musical produced on Broadway since Oklahoma's 1943 debut. Each entry begins with a brief synopsis of the show, followed by a three-part history: first, the pre-Broadway story of the show, including out-of-town try-outs and Broadway previews; next, the Broadway run itself, with dates, theatres, and cast and crew, including replacements, chorus and understudies, songs, gossip, and notes on reviews and awards; and finally, post-Broadway information with a detailed list of later notable productions, along with important reviews and awards.

Book Passion  Poverty And Travel  Traditional Hakka Songs And Ballads

Download or read book Passion Poverty And Travel Traditional Hakka Songs And Ballads written by Wilt Lukas Idema and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2015-05-22 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translations from Chinese popular literature of the late-imperial and early republican periods are still very rare, and selections that are devoted to a specific genre or dialect rarer still. These translations of traditional Hakka popular literature are not only a contribution to a broader knowledge of traditional Chinese folk literature, but also contribute to the study of Hakka culture as reflected in these racy songs and exciting narratives.This book is the first extensive selection in English of traditional Hakka mountain songs (shange) and long narrative ballads in various genres. One chapter is devoted to songs and ballads on Hakka migration to Taiwan and Southeast Asia in 18th to 20th centuries. The selection of mountain songs is primarily based on a collection compiled before 1949. The ballads selected focus on texts that were widely popular in late-Qing and early Republican times, but post-Liberation performances and new compositions have been included for contrast. All translations are provided with an introduction and annotations.

Book The Song of Roland and Oliver

Download or read book The Song of Roland and Oliver written by Thomas F. Motter and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2024-08-05 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr. Motter attended University of Missouri and Stephens College in Columbia where he received his BA degree in English Lit. Tom also attended Berkeley College of Optometry and studied for his MBA at Pepperdine. He served as VP of HGM Medical Lasers, headquartered in Paris France and is fluent in French. In his free time, he conducted research on French, Medieval History at the Bibliotheque Nationale and made numerous on-site visitations to historically documented locales known to have been visited by Charlemagne and often referenced in the Chansons. Mr. Motter is a long-time member of “Socie’te’ Roncesvalles” comprised of Romance Language Department Chairs of almost every college and university worldwide. The author was raised on a cattle ranch in the San Joaquin Valley of California, rode Saddle-Broncs in PRCA sanctioned Rodeos and is an expert equestrian. He is a certified Open-Water Diver and has dived all over the world. In addition, he is an expert surfer still paddling out a few days a year in Capitola, CA where he currently resides. Mr. Motter is also an expert skier having served on the National Ski Patrol for many years. This author is also a “Knight Hospitaller” having been knighted in 1997 by the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, His Holiness, Alexi for contributions of medical equipment he made to East Block Countries on behalf of his NASDAQ company after the wall came down. Tom is also a Grand Nephew (once removed) of President Dwight D. (“Ike”) Eisenhower. “The Song of Roland and Oliver – Book I The Sons of Aymon” is the first book of the follow-on Trilogy to his first Trilogy series, “The Song of Charlemagne” all of which he asserts are based on known, historically documented events and real-life characters mentioned by Twelfth Century troubadours in the Chansons de Geste.

Book Pavilions  Pop Ups and Parasols

Download or read book Pavilions Pop Ups and Parasols written by Leon van Schaik and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around the world, a new architectural form is emerging. In public places a progressive architecture is being commissioned to promote open-ended, undetermined, lightly programmed or un-programmed interactions between people. This new phenomenon of architectural form – Pavilions, Pop-Ups and Parasols – is presaged by rapidly changing social relationships flowing from social media such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. The nexus between real and virtual meeting is effectively being reinvented by innovative and creative architectural practices. People meet in new and responsive ways, architects meet their clients in new forums, knowledge is ‘met’ and achieved in new and interactive frameworks. It contrasts bluntly with the commercially structured interactions of shopping malls and the increasingly deliberate interactions available in cultural institutions. These experiences imbue a new type of client; casually engaged, flocking, hacking, crowd funding and self-helping. Contributors include: Rob Bevan, Pia Ednie-Brown, Roan Ching-Yueh, Dan Hill, Martyn Hook, Minsuk Cho, Andrea Kahn, Felicity Scott, Akira Suzuki Contributing architects include: Alisa Andrasek/Biothing, Peter Cook/CRAB studio, CJ Lim/Studio 8, Tom Holbrook/5th Studio, Matthias Hollwich/HWKN, Mamou-Mani Architects, Benedetta Tagliabue/EMBT

Book Chapman

Download or read book Chapman written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of Temples and Churches in China

Download or read book History of Temples and Churches in China written by Zhi Dao and published by DeepLogic. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book provides highlights on the key concepts and trends of evolution in History of Temples and Churches in China, as one of the series of books of “China Classified Histories”.

Book Imagery of the Orchid Pavilion Gathering  Visualizing Tokugawa Cultural Networks

Download or read book Imagery of the Orchid Pavilion Gathering Visualizing Tokugawa Cultural Networks written by Kazuko Kameda-Madar and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the diverse visual representations of the Orchid Pavilion Gathering produced during the Edo period Japan.

Book When Silk was Gold

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  • Author : James C. Y. Watt
  • Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN : 0870998250
  • Pages : 250 pages

Download or read book When Silk was Gold written by James C. Y. Watt and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1997 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The material presented in this volume significantly extends what has been known to date of Asian textiles produced from the Tang (618-907) through the early Ming period (late 14th-early 15th century), and new documentation gives full recognition to the importance of luxury textiles in the history of Asian art. Costly silks and embroideries were the primary vehicle for the migration of motifs and styles from one part of Asia to another, particularly during the Tang and Mongol (1207-1368) periods. In addition, they provide material evidence of both the cultural and religious ties that linked ethnic groups and the impetus to artistic creativity that was inspired by exposure to foreign goods.

Book Constant Words Awakening the World

Download or read book Constant Words Awakening the World written by Feng Menglong and published by DeepLogic. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Constant Words Awakening the World (醒世恒言 Xing Shi Heng Yan) is the third of a trilogy of widely celebrated Ming dynasty (1368–1644) vernacular story collections, compiled and edited by Feng Menglong. The first compilation, called Gujin Xiaoshuo (古今小説) (Stories Old and New), which is sometimes also referred to as Yushi Mingyan (喻世明言) (Clear Words to Understand the World) was published in Suzhou in 1620. The second publication was called Jingshi Tongyan (警世通言) (Warnings of the World). These three collections, often referred to as Sanyan (三言, "Three Words") because of the character yan (言) found at the end of each title, each contain 40 stories. Xingshi Hengyan is considered to be a huaben (话本), that is, short novel or novella. The huaben genre has been around since the Song dynasty (960-1279). The huaben genre includes collections of short stories, historical stories, and even stories from Confucian classics.

Book Scottish Literary Journal

Download or read book Scottish Literary Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Historical Research Of Chinese Folk Songs

Download or read book A Historical Research Of Chinese Folk Songs written by Shulu Chen and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2023-12-04 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book advances the study of Chinese folk songs through theoretical innovation in literature-based folk songs and methodological innovation in multidisciplinary cross-interaction. It describes the historical development of folk songs, makes an in-depth study of the intersection and integration of folk songs with other literature and art, as well as the relationship with merchants, folk customs and regional culture, and analyses the literature of folk songs in previous dynasties. It is not only significant for the preservation of cultural heritage, but also to the promotion of folk song research and related fields. This book is applicable to scholars and researchers who have in-depth research on Chinese folk songs.

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  • Publisher : 五洲传播出版社
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9787508503165
  • Pages : 130 pages

Download or read book written by and published by 五洲传播出版社. This book was released on 2003 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 本画册介绍了春秋战国时期五大圣人诞生地、孔孟之乡的文化旅游特色,以及京杭大运河流经的古镇、《水浒》故事的发生地等。