Author: Charles Godfrey LelandPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Legends of Florence, Second Series
Author: Charles Godfrey LelandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Music in Renaissance Ferrara 1400-1505
Author: Lewis LockwoodPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199703000
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
Based on extensive documentary and archival research, Music in Renaissance Ferrara is a documentary history of music for one of the most important city-states of the Italian Renaissance. Lockwood shows how patrons and musicians created a musical center over the course of the fifteenth-century, tracing the growth of music and musical life in rich detail. It also sheds new light on the careers of such important composers as Dufay, Martini, Obrecht, and Josquin Desprez. This paperback edition features a new preface that re-introduces the book and reflects on its contribution to our modern knowledge of music in the culture of the Italian Renaissance.
The Cicerone
Author: Jacob BurckhardtPublisher:
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Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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Women Making Music
Author: Jane M. BowersPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252014703
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
"Do look after my music!" Irene Wienawska Polowski exclaimed before her death in 1932. And from the urgency of that sentiment the authors here have taken their cue to reveal and "look after" the previously neglected contributions of women throughout the history of Western art music. The first work of its kind, Women Making Music presents biographies of outstanding performers and composers, as well as analyses of women musicians as a class, and provides examples of music from all periods including medieval chant, Renaissance song, Baroque opera, German lieder, and twentieth-century composition. Unlike most standard historical surveys, the book not only sheds light upon the musical achievements of women, it also illuminates the historical contexts that shaped and defined those achievements.
Cyclopedia of Music & Musicians
Author: John Denison ChamplinPublisher:
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Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 508
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The Imagined Immigrant
Author: Ilaria SerraPublisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 0838641989
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Using original sources--such as newspaper articles, silent movies, letters, autobiographies, and interviews--Ilaria Serra depicts a large tapestry of images that accompanied mass Italian migration to the U.S. at the turn of the twentieth century. She chooses to translate the Italian concept of immaginario with the Latin imago that felicitously blends the double English translation of the word as "imagery" and "imaginary." Imago is a complex knot of collective representations of the immigrant subject, a mental production that finds concrete expression; impalpable, yet real. The "imagined immigrant" walks alongside the real one in flesh and rags.
Etruscan Roman Remains
Author: Charles Godfrey LelandPublisher: Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN: 1602066663
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
The Etruscans are one of history's great mysteries -- a sophisticated society that flourished at the heart of the Classical world and then vanished, leaving relatively few archaeological remains and few records of their culture. The Etruscans were adept at magic, and Etruscan books of spells were common among the Romans but they have not survived. While greatly influenced by the Greeks, the Etruscans retained elements of an ancient non-Western culture, and these archaic traits contributed greatly to the civilization once thought of as purely Roman (gladiators, for example, and many kinds of divination). Leland retrieves elements of Etruscan culture from the living popular traditions of remote areas of the Italian countryside where belief in "the old religion" survives to an astonishing degree. Recorded when many of these secret beliefs and practices were fading away, this remarkable volume deals with ancient gods, spirits, witches, incantations, prophecy, medicine, spells, and amulets, giving full descriptions, illustrations, and instructions for practice.
Courtly Pastimes
Author: William F. PrizerPublisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 636
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Dictionary of Foreign Quotations
Author: Robert CollisonPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349048984
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 415
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