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Book Paramount World

Download or read book Paramount World written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Barcelona through open doors

Download or read book Barcelona through open doors written by Márius Carol and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Federico Moreno Torroba

    Book Details:
  • Author : Walter Aaron Clark
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2013-05-10
  • ISBN : 0199354391
  • Pages : 379 pages

Download or read book Federico Moreno Torroba written by Walter Aaron Clark and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-10 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last of the Spanish Romantics, composer, conductor, and impresario Federico Moreno Torroba (1891-1982) left his mark on virtually every aspect of Spanish musical culture during a career that spanned six decades and saw tremendous political and cultural upheavals. After Falla, he was the most important and influential musician: in addition to his creative activities, he was President of the General Society of Authors and Editors and director of the Academy of Fine Arts. His enduring contributions as a composer include dozens of guitar works composed for Andrés Segovia and several highly successful zarzuelas, which remain in the repertoire today. Written by two leading experts in the field, Federico Moreno Torroba: A Musical Life in Three Acts explores not only his life and work, but also the relationship of his music to the cultural milieu in which he moved. It sheds particular light on the relationship of Torroba's music and the cultural politics of Francisco Franco's dictatorship (1939-75). Torroba came of age during a cultural renaissance that sought to reassert Spain's position as a unique cultural entity, and authors Walter A. Clark and William Krause demonstrate how his work can be understood as a personal, musical response to these aspirations. Clark and Krause argue that Torroba's decision to remain in Spain even during the years of Franco's dictatorship was based primarily not on political ideology but rather on an unwillingness to leave his native soil. Rather than abandon Spain to participate in the dynamic musical life abroad, he continued to compose music that reflected his conservative view of his national and personal heritage. The authors contend that this pursuit did not necessitate allegiance to a particular regime, but rather to the non-political exaltation of Spain's so-called "eternal tradition," or the culture and spirit that had endured throughout Spain's turbulent history. Following Franco's death in 1975, there was ambivalence towards figures like Torroba who had made their peace with the dictatorship and paid a heavy price in terms of their reputation among expatriates. Moreover, his very conservative musical style made him a target for the post-war avant-garde, which disdained his highly tonal and melodic españolismo. With the demise of high modernism, however, the time has come for this new, more distanced assessment of Torroba's contributions. Richly illustrated with photographs and musical examples, and with a helpful chronology and works list for reference, this biography brings a fresh perspective on this influential composer to Latin American and Iberian music scholars, performers, and lovers of Spanish music alike.

Book Andean Air Mail   Peruvian Times

Download or read book Andean Air Mail Peruvian Times written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Espa  a contempor  nea

Download or read book Espa a contempor nea written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Federal Register

Download or read book Federal Register written by and published by . This book was released on 1998-04-17 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Diccionario enciclop  dico abreviado

Download or read book Diccionario enciclop dico abreviado written by and published by Elliot's Books. This book was released on 1977 with total page 1604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Materials for Bilingual Bicultural Programs

Download or read book Materials for Bilingual Bicultural Programs written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Renegade Love

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ann Aguirre
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2022
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Renegade Love written by Ann Aguirre and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He's relentless. He's aggressive. His armor is scarred to hell. Toth Krag is infamous among bounty hunters. Nobody has ever seen his face and lived to tell the tale. He doesn't fail. He doesn't quit. And he doesn't take prisoners. But maybe he's getting soft. For once, he showed mercy, and no good deed goes unpunished, so now he's tracking the deadbeats who run Volant's Fabulous Spectacle. She's casual. She's spontaneous. She never liked Earth that much anyway. Yara Duncan is always at the wrong place at the wrong time. That's how she wound up as the human attraction in a space circus. Frankly, it's the best gig she's ever had. Aliens pay to watch her eat and do puzzles, and she gets to see the galaxy free of charge. She's enjoying the adventure, until the scariest hunter in the universe shows up. For some reason, he thinks she's in charge, and he's determined to drag her back to face his employers. Yara doesn't run from her problems, and Krag doesn't know what to do with a human who seems more interested in what he looks like under his armor. This time, the hunter becomes the hunted in the wildly unpredictable game of love...

Book Historical Dictionary of the  dirty Wars

Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the dirty Wars written by David R. Kohut and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike a conventional war waged against a standing army, a "dirty war" is waged against individuals, groups, or ideas considered subversive. Originally associated with Argentina's military regime from 1976-1983, the term has since been applied to neighboring dictatorships during the period. Indeed, it has become a byword for state-sponsored repression anywhere in the world. The first edition of this reference illustrated the concept by describing the regimes of Argentina, Chile (1973-1990), and Uruguay (1973-1985), which tortured, murdered, and disappeared thousands of people in the name of anticommunism while thousands more were driven into exile. The second edition expands the scope to include Bolivia (1971-1982), Brazil (1964-1985), and Paraguay (1954-1989). Includes a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and over 400 cross-referenced dictionary entries on the countries; guerrilla and political movements; prominent guerrilla, human-rights, military, and political figures; local, regional, and international human-rights organizations; and artistic figures (filmmakers, novelists, and playwrights) whose works attempt to represent or resist the period of repression.--Publisher.

Book The Mystery of the Missing Tiger

Download or read book The Mystery of the Missing Tiger written by Laura E. Williams and published by Scholastic Paperbacks. This book was released on 2002-07 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the circus tiger disappears on the day of its first performance in Mystic, Maine, Jen and Zeke are sure that it has been stolen and set out to investigate who took it and where it's hidden.

Book The Age of the Horse

    Book Details:
  • Author : Susanna Forrest
  • Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
  • Release : 2017-05-02
  • ISBN : 0802189512
  • Pages : 459 pages

Download or read book The Age of the Horse written by Susanna Forrest and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “superb” account of the enduring connection between humans and horses—“Full of the sort of details that get edited out of more traditional histories” (The Economist). Fifty-six million years ago, the earliest equid walked the earth—and beginning with the first-known horse-keepers of the Copper Age, the horse has played an integral part in human history. It has sustained us as a source of food, an industrial and agricultural machine, a comrade in arms, a symbol of wealth, power, and the wild. Combining fascinating anthropological detail and incisive personal anecdote, equestrian expert Susanna Forrest draws from an immense range of archival documents as well as literature and art to illustrate how our evolution has coincided with that of horses. In paintings and poems (such as Byron’s famous “Mazeppa”), in theater and classical music (including works by Liszt and Tchaikovsky), representations of the horse have changed over centuries, portraying the crucial impact that we’ve had on each other. Forrest combines this history with her own experience in the field, and travels the world to offer a comprehensive look at the horse in our lives today: from Mongolia where she observes the endangered takhi, to a show-horse performance at the Palace of Versailles; from a polo club in Beijing to Arlington, Virginia, where veterans with PTSD are rehabilitated through interaction with horses. “For the horse-addicted, a book can get no better than this . . . original, cerebral and from the heart.” —The Times (London)

Book Memoir of Hungary

    Book Details:
  • Author : S ndor M rai
  • Publisher : Central European University Press
  • Release : 2000-01-01
  • ISBN : 9789639241107
  • Pages : 432 pages

Download or read book Memoir of Hungary written by S ndor M rai and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novel Embers is selling in tens of thousand in a number of countries. This memoir of its author depicts Hungary between 1944 and 1948.

Book A Dictionary of the English and Portuguese Languages

Download or read book A Dictionary of the English and Portuguese Languages written by Antonio Vieyra and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 1548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Contemporary Spanish American Novelists  Theory of the Novel

Download or read book The Contemporary Spanish American Novelists Theory of the Novel written by Ernest Jackson Lunsford and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: