Author: William AyrtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The Harmonicon
Author: William AyrtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The Harmonicon
Author: The Theatre Career of Thomas Arne
Author: Todd GilmanPublisher: University of Delaware
ISBN: 1611494370
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 645
Book Description
This book concerns the life and theatrical career of the great native-born English composer and musician of the eighteenth century, Thomas Augustine Arne (1710-1778), best known today as the composer of “Rule, Britannia.” It will appeal to those interested in the mid-to-late eighteenth-century London and Dublin theatre, opera, and music scenes.
Recollections of R.J.S. Stevens
Author: Richard John Samuel StevensPublisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809317905
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Editor Mark Argent also provides the introduction to the diaries of composer and organist R.J.S. Stevens (1757-1837), a musician who reports the warp and fabric of his society from the late Baroque through the early Romantic periods. The Stevens papers also provide a fund of information about the singing of glees in London. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Serious Minds
Author: Richard McLauchlanPublisher: Hurst Publishers
ISBN: 178738974X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
The Times hailed Richard Burdon Haldane as ‘one of the most powerful … intellects’ British statesmanship had ever seen. His brother John, a great physiologist, invented the first gas masks used in World War One. Their sister Elizabeth was among the first women to become a senior public servant. Their mother Mary, friend and advisor to top politicians and churchmen, nurtured these exceptional minds. Mary’s grandchildren swapped her traditional roots for radical socialism, but continued the brilliant family legacy. Naomi Mitchison was a doyenne of Scottish literature; one Nobel prizewinner called her brother, the geneticist J.B.S. Haldane, ‘the cleverest man I ever knew’. Like the Darwins and Keyneses, this clan of thinkers lived in rapidly changing times, and helped to remake the world around them. Drawing on extensive family interviews and previously unseen private papers, Serious Mindsdetails scandal, tragedy and achievement within a dynasty that shaped modern Britain–from the welfare state, education system and military, to our understanding of energy, the human body, and the origins of life itself.
Handbook of Biography
Author: Elihu RichPublisher:
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Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 970
Book Description
Author: David Garrick
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Author: David Garrick
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