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Book Dizionario Italiano Ed Inglese  A Dictionary Italian and English  Containing All the Words of the Vocabulary Della Crusca and Several Hundred More Taken from the Most Approved Authors  with Proverbs and Familiar Phrases  to which is Prefix d a Table of Authors  Quoted in this Work    By Ferdinand Altieri

Download or read book Dizionario Italiano Ed Inglese A Dictionary Italian and English Containing All the Words of the Vocabulary Della Crusca and Several Hundred More Taken from the Most Approved Authors with Proverbs and Familiar Phrases to which is Prefix d a Table of Authors Quoted in this Work By Ferdinand Altieri written by Ferdinando Altieri and published by . This book was released on 1751 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dizionario Italiano Ed Inglese  A Dictionary Italian and English Containing All the Words of the Vocabulary Della Crusca and Several Hundred More Taken from the Most Approved Authors  with Proverbs and Familiar Phrases  To which is Prefix d a Table of Authors Quoted in this Work  By F  Altieri

Download or read book Dizionario Italiano Ed Inglese A Dictionary Italian and English Containing All the Words of the Vocabulary Della Crusca and Several Hundred More Taken from the Most Approved Authors with Proverbs and Familiar Phrases To which is Prefix d a Table of Authors Quoted in this Work By F Altieri written by and published by . This book was released on 1727 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dizionario italiano ed inglese

Download or read book Dizionario italiano ed inglese written by Ferdinando Altieri and published by . This book was released on 1727 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Solfeggio Tradition

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nicholas Baragwanath
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2020-10-02
  • ISBN : 0197514103
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book The Solfeggio Tradition written by Nicholas Baragwanath and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-02 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did castrati manage to amaze their eighteenth-century audiences by singing the same aria several times in completely different ways? And how could composers of the time write operas in a matter of days? The secret lies in the solfeggio tradition, a music education method that was fundamental to the training of European musicians between 1680 and 1830 a time during which professional musicians belonged to the working class. As disadvantaged children in orphanages learned the musical craft through solfeggio lessons, many were lifted from poverty, and the most successful were propelled to extraordinary heights of fame and fortune. In this first book on the solfeggio tradition, author Nicholas Baragwanath draws on over a thousand manuscript sources to reconstruct how professionals became skilled performers and composers who could invent and modify melodies at will. By introducing some of the simplest exercises in scales, leaps, and cadences that apprentices would have encountered, this book allows readers to retrace the steps of solfeggio training and learn to generate melody by 'speaking' it like an eighteenth-century musician. As it takes readers on a fascinating journey through the fundamentals of music education in the eighteenth century, this book uncovers a forgotten art of melody that revolutionizes our understanding of the history of music pedagogy.

Book The New Universal Etymological English Dictionary

Download or read book The New Universal Etymological English Dictionary written by Nathan Bailey and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1766 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This, the most complete of Bailey's dictionaries was revised under the direction of Joseph Nicol Scott, the current copy (undated) appears to be the 1772 issue which was probably simply a reissue of stock originally printed in the first edition of 1755.

Book The new world of words    c

Download or read book The new world of words c written by Edward Phillips and published by . This book was released on 1720 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson  1604 1755

Download or read book The English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson 1604 1755 written by DeWitt Talmage Starnes and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1991 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study by Starnes and Noyes was immediately recognized as a unique and pioneering work of scholarship and has long been the standard work on the emergence and early flowering of English lexicography. Within the last 20 years we have been witnessing a remarkable scholarly interest in the study of dictionary-making and the role played by dictionaries in the transmission and preservation of knowledge and learning. It is therefore essential to have this classic work available again to all students of linguistic history. In its new edition the book has been vastly enhanced by a lengthy and invaluable introduction by Gabriele Stein, Professor of English Linguistics in Heidelberg and author of The English Dictionary before Cawdrey (1985). In her introduction to the present volume she sets out in scholarly detail the work that has emerged since 1946, which makes this study of the English dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson as complete as the original authors themselves would have wished.

Book An English expositor  teaching the interpretation of the hardest words used in our language

Download or read book An English expositor teaching the interpretation of the hardest words used in our language written by John Bullokar and published by Georg Olms Verlag. This book was released on 1641 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Samuel Johnson and the Journey into Words

Download or read book Samuel Johnson and the Journey into Words written by Lynda Mugglestone and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular readings of Johnson as a dictionary-maker often see him as a writer who both laments and attempts to control the state of the language. Lynda Mugglestone looks at the range of Johnson's writings on, and the complexity of his thinking about, language and lexicography. She shows how these reveal him probing problems not just of meaning and use but what he considered the related issues of control, obedience, and justice, as well as the difficulties of power when exerted over the 'sea of words'. She examines his attitudes to language change, loan words, spelling, history, and authority, describing, too, the evolution of his ideas about the nature, purpose, and methods of lexicography, and shows how these reflect his own wider thinking about politics, culture, and society. The book offers a careful reassessment of Johnson's lexicographical practice, examining in detail his commitment to evidence, and the uses to which this might be put. Dictionary-making, for Johnson, came to be seen as a long and difficult voyage round the world of the English language. While such images play their own role in lexicographical tradition, Johnson would, as this volume explores, also make them very much his own in a range of distinctive, and illuminating, ways. Johnson's metaphors invite us to consider-and reconsider-the processes by which a dictionary might be made and the kind of destination it might seek, as well as the state of language that might be reached by such endeavours. For Johnson, where the dictionary-maker might go, and what should be accomplished along the way, can often seem to raise pertinent and perhaps troubling questions. Lynda Mugglestone's generous, wide-ranging account casts new light on Johnson's life in language and provides an engaging reassessment of his impact on English culture, the making of dictionaries, and their role in a nation's identity.

Book Defining the World

Download or read book Defining the World written by Henry Hitchings and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2006-10-17 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the early eighteenth century, France and Italy had impressive lexicons, but there was no authoritative dictionary of English. Sensing the deficit, and impelled by a mixture of national pride and commercial expedience, the prodigious polymath Samuel Johnson embraced the task, turning over the garret of his London home to the creation of his own giant dictionary. Johnson imagined that he could complete the job in three years. But the complexity of English meant that his estimate was wildly inadequate. Only after he had expended nearly a decade of his prime on the task did the dictionary finally appear - magisterial yet quirky, dogmatic but generous of spirit, and steeped in the richness of English literature. It would come to be seen as the most important British cultural monument of the eighteenth century, and its influence fanned out across Europe and throughout Britain's colonies - including, crucially, America. Brilliantly entertaining and enlightening, Defining the World is the story of Johnson's heroic endeavor, 250 years after the first publication of the Dictionary. In alphabetically sequenced chapters, Henry Hitchings describes Johnson's adventure - his ambition and vision, his moments of despair, the mistakes he made along the way, and his ultimate triumph.

Book A New English Dictionary

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Kersey
  • Publisher : Gale Ecco, Print Editions
  • Release : 2018-04-17
  • ISBN : 9781379407034
  • Pages : 332 pages

Download or read book A New English Dictionary written by John Kersey and published by Gale Ecco, Print Editions. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T123540 J. K. = John Kersey. London: printed for J. and J. Bonwicke, and H. Knaplock, 1739. [320]p.; 8°

Book The Lexicography of English

Download or read book The Lexicography of English written by Henri Béjoint and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-03-25 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at English dictionaries in Great Britain and the USA from 1600 to today. It is both a definitive history of the lexicography of English and a complete introduction to the making of dictionaries. Wide-ranging, wittily written, and authoritative it will appeal to everyone interested in dictionaries, English, and language.

Book The Oxford History of English Lexicography

Download or read book The Oxford History of English Lexicography written by A. P. Cowie and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-12-04 with total page 1017 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These substantial volumes present the fullest account yet published of the lexicography of English from its origins in medieval glosses, through its rapid development in the eighteenth century, to a fully-established high-tech industry that is as reliant as ever on learning and scholarship. The history covers dictionaries of English and its national varieties, including American English, with numerous references to developments in Europe and elsewhere which have influenced the course of English lexicography. Part one of Volume I explores the early development of glosses and bilingual and multilingual dictionaries and examines their influence on lexicographical methods and ideas. Part two presents a systematic history of monolingual dictionaries of English and includes extensive chapters on Johnson, Webster and his successors in the USA, and the OED. It also contains descriptions of the development of dictionaries of national and regional varieties, and of Old and Middle English, and concludes with an account of the computerization of the OED. The specialized dictionaries described in Volume II include dictionaries of science, dialects, synonyms, etymology, pronunciation, slang and cant, quotations, phraseology, and personal and place names. This volume also includes an account of the inception and development of dictionaries developed for particular users, especially foreign learners of English. The Oxford History of English Lexicography unites scholarship with readability. It provides a unique and accessible reference for scholars and professional lexicographers and offers a series of fascinating encounters with the men and women involved over the centuries in the making of works of profound national and linguistic importance.

Book N H   The Ladies Dictionary  1694

Download or read book N H The Ladies Dictionary 1694 written by John Considine and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 1075 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ladies dictionary, being a general entertainment for the fair-sex was published on 19 March 1694 by John Dunton. No compiler was named on the title page, but the dedication by 'the author' addressed 'to the Ladies, Gentlewomen, and Others, of the Fair-Sex' was signed 'N. H.' The book offers around 1950 lexical and encyclopaedic entries, the great majority excerpted either verbatim or with some degree of abridgement or adaptation from other published books. It was the first substantial reference book to be published in England with women as its principal target audience, and was arguably the first alphabetically-arranged encyclopaedia to be published in English. The editor's introduction in this edition starts with an overview of the publisher John Dunton, and goes on to discuss the compilers of LD; its sources; its editing, printing and proof-reading; and its advertising, publication and afterlife. It concludes with lists of primary and secondary sources (including all the identified sources of LD). The reproduction of the dictionary that follows is from the Robert H. Taylor collection at Princeton. Because LD is irregularly alphabetized, the reproduction is followed by a new index of entries in strict alphabetical order, with their sources identified.

Book The Making of Johnson s Dictionary 1746 1773

Download or read book The Making of Johnson s Dictionary 1746 1773 written by Allen Reddick and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-26 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of the acclaimed study of Johnson's Dictionary incorporates new commentary and scholarship.

Book A Worlde of Wordes

Download or read book A Worlde of Wordes written by John Florio and published by Georg Olms Publishers. This book was released on 1972 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Bloomsbury Companion To Lexicography

Download or read book The Bloomsbury Companion To Lexicography written by Howard Jackson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bloomsbury Companion to Lexicography offers the definitive guide to a key area of linguistic study. Each companion is a comprehensive reference resource featuring an overview of key topics, research areas, new directions and a manageable guide to beginning or developing research in the field. Lexicography, as the practice of compiling dictionaries, has a long tradition that has been, for much of the time, largely independent of linguistics. The direct influence of linguistics on lexicography goes back around 50 years, though longer in the case of learners' dictionaries. The present volume aims to reflect on the research that has been and is being done in lexicography and to point the way forward. It tackles, among other topics, the critique of dictionaries in the electronic medium, the future of historical lexicography in the electronic mode with special reference to the online Oxford English Dictionary, and e-lexicography in general.