Author: Linda Clark
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783270489
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
This series (pushes) the boundaries of knowledge and (develops) new trends in approach and understanding. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW
Essays Presented to Michael Hicks
Author: Linda Clark
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783270489
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
This series (pushes) the boundaries of knowledge and (develops) new trends in approach and understanding. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783270489
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
This series (pushes) the boundaries of knowledge and (develops) new trends in approach and understanding. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW
Spencer Kimball's Record Collection: Essays on Mormon Music
Author: Michael Hicks
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781560852865
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
At times jubilant, at times elegiac, this set of ten essays by music historian Michael Hicks navigates topics that range from the inner musical life of Joseph Smith to the Mormon love of blackface musicals, from endless wrangling over hymnbooks to the compiling of Mormon folk and exotica albums in the 1960s. It also offers a brief memoir of what happened to LDS Church President Spencer Kimball's record collection and a lengthy, brooding piece on the elegant strife it takes to write about Mormon musical history in the first place. There are surprises and provocations, of course, alongside judicious sifting of sources and weighing of evidence. The prose is fresh, the research smart, and the result a welcome mixture of the careful and the carefree from Mormonism's best-known scholar of musical life.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781560852865
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
At times jubilant, at times elegiac, this set of ten essays by music historian Michael Hicks navigates topics that range from the inner musical life of Joseph Smith to the Mormon love of blackface musicals, from endless wrangling over hymnbooks to the compiling of Mormon folk and exotica albums in the 1960s. It also offers a brief memoir of what happened to LDS Church President Spencer Kimball's record collection and a lengthy, brooding piece on the elegant strife it takes to write about Mormon musical history in the first place. There are surprises and provocations, of course, alongside judicious sifting of sources and weighing of evidence. The prose is fresh, the research smart, and the result a welcome mixture of the careful and the carefree from Mormonism's best-known scholar of musical life.
Richard III
Author: Michael Hicks
Publisher: Tempus Publishing Limited
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The remit of this book is to investigate whether Richard III really was a ruthless murderer or merely a victim of bad public opinion and propaganda. Michael Hicks discusses Richard's reputation and uses contemporary sources to strip away the propaganda of the centuries to rescue Richard from his critics and supporters alike'.
Publisher: Tempus Publishing Limited
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The remit of this book is to investigate whether Richard III really was a ruthless murderer or merely a victim of bad public opinion and propaganda. Michael Hicks discusses Richard's reputation and uses contemporary sources to strip away the propaganda of the centuries to rescue Richard from his critics and supporters alike'.
Richard III and his Rivals
Author: Michael Hicks
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0826423787
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Richard III is undoubtedly the dominant personality in this collection of essays, but not in his capacity as king of England. Richard was Duke of Gloucester far longer than he was king. For most of his career, he was a subject, not a monarch, the equal of the great nobility. He is seen here in the company of his fellows: Warwick the Kingmaker, Clarence, Northumberland, Somerset, Hastings a the Wydevilles. His relations with these rivals, all of whom submitted to him or were crushed, show him in different moods and from various vantage points.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0826423787
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Richard III is undoubtedly the dominant personality in this collection of essays, but not in his capacity as king of England. Richard was Duke of Gloucester far longer than he was king. For most of his career, he was a subject, not a monarch, the equal of the great nobility. He is seen here in the company of his fellows: Warwick the Kingmaker, Clarence, Northumberland, Somerset, Hastings a the Wydevilles. His relations with these rivals, all of whom submitted to him or were crushed, show him in different moods and from various vantage points.
Mormonism and Music
Author: Michael Hicks
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252071478
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
A history of the Mormon faith and people as they use the art of music to define and re-define their religious identity
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252071478
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
A history of the Mormon faith and people as they use the art of music to define and re-define their religious identity
Christian Wolff
Author: Michael Hicks
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252037065
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
In this first interpretive narrative of the life and work of Christian Wolff, Michael Hicks and Christian Asplund trace the influences and sensibilities of a contemporary composer's atypical career path and restless imagination. Written in full cooperation with Wolff, including access to his papers, this volume is a much-needed introduction to a leading avant-garde composer still living, writing music, and speaking about his own work. Wolff has pioneered various compositional and notational idioms, including overtly political music, indeterminacy, graphic scores, and extreme virtuosity. Trained as a classicist rather than a musician, Wolff has never quite had both feet in the rarefied world of contemporary composition. Yet he's considered a "composer's composer," with a mind ensconced equally in ancient Greek tragedy and experimental music and an eccentric and impulsive compositional approach that eludes a fixed stylistic fingerprint. Hicks and Asplund cover Wolff's family life and formative years, his role as a founder of the New York School of composers, and the context of his life and work as part of the John Cage circle, as well as his departures from it. Critically assessing Wolff's place within the experimental musical field, this volume captures both his eloquence and reticence and provides insights into his broad interests and activities within music and beyond.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252037065
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
In this first interpretive narrative of the life and work of Christian Wolff, Michael Hicks and Christian Asplund trace the influences and sensibilities of a contemporary composer's atypical career path and restless imagination. Written in full cooperation with Wolff, including access to his papers, this volume is a much-needed introduction to a leading avant-garde composer still living, writing music, and speaking about his own work. Wolff has pioneered various compositional and notational idioms, including overtly political music, indeterminacy, graphic scores, and extreme virtuosity. Trained as a classicist rather than a musician, Wolff has never quite had both feet in the rarefied world of contemporary composition. Yet he's considered a "composer's composer," with a mind ensconced equally in ancient Greek tragedy and experimental music and an eccentric and impulsive compositional approach that eludes a fixed stylistic fingerprint. Hicks and Asplund cover Wolff's family life and formative years, his role as a founder of the New York School of composers, and the context of his life and work as part of the John Cage circle, as well as his departures from it. Critically assessing Wolff's place within the experimental musical field, this volume captures both his eloquence and reticence and provides insights into his broad interests and activities within music and beyond.
Sixties Rock
Author: Michael Hicks
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252069154
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Traces "garage" and "psychedelic" rock from the 50's through the sixties, unfolds the history and the sonic structures of some of rock's core repertoire
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252069154
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Traces "garage" and "psychedelic" rock from the 50's through the sixties, unfolds the history and the sonic structures of some of rock's core repertoire
Henry Cowell, Bohemian
Author: Michael Hicks
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252027512
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
In this first full-length study of Henry Cowell, Michael Hicks shows how the maverick composer, writer, teacher, and performer built his career on the intellectual and aesthetic foundations of his parents, community, and teachers--and exemplified the essence of bohemian California. Author of the highly influential New Musical Resources and a teacher of John Cage, Lou Harrison, and Burt Bacharach, Cowell is regarded as an innovator, a rebel, and a genius. One of the first American composers to be celebrated for the novelty of his techniques, Cowell popularized a series of experimental piano-playing techniques that included pounding his fists and forearms on the keys and plucking the piano strings directly to achieve the exotic, dissonant sounds he desired. Henry Cowell, Bohemian traces the venerated experimentalist's radical ideas back to his teachers, including Charles Seeger, Samuel Seward, and E. G. Stricklen, the tightknit artistic communities in the San Francisco Bay area where he grew up and first started composing, and the immeasurable influence of his parents. Mining the published and unpublished writings of his mother, a politically motivated novelist from the Midwest who carefully monitored the pulse of her son's creativity from birth, Hicks provides insight into the composer's heritage, artistic inclinations, and childhood.Focusing on Cowell's formative and most prolific years, from his birth in 1897 through his incarceration on a morals conviction in the 1930s, Hicks examines the philosophical fervor that fueled his whirlwind compositions, and the ways his irrepressible bohemian spirit helped foster an appreciation in the United States and Europe for a new brand of American music.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252027512
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
In this first full-length study of Henry Cowell, Michael Hicks shows how the maverick composer, writer, teacher, and performer built his career on the intellectual and aesthetic foundations of his parents, community, and teachers--and exemplified the essence of bohemian California. Author of the highly influential New Musical Resources and a teacher of John Cage, Lou Harrison, and Burt Bacharach, Cowell is regarded as an innovator, a rebel, and a genius. One of the first American composers to be celebrated for the novelty of his techniques, Cowell popularized a series of experimental piano-playing techniques that included pounding his fists and forearms on the keys and plucking the piano strings directly to achieve the exotic, dissonant sounds he desired. Henry Cowell, Bohemian traces the venerated experimentalist's radical ideas back to his teachers, including Charles Seeger, Samuel Seward, and E. G. Stricklen, the tightknit artistic communities in the San Francisco Bay area where he grew up and first started composing, and the immeasurable influence of his parents. Mining the published and unpublished writings of his mother, a politically motivated novelist from the Midwest who carefully monitored the pulse of her son's creativity from birth, Hicks provides insight into the composer's heritage, artistic inclinations, and childhood.Focusing on Cowell's formative and most prolific years, from his birth in 1897 through his incarceration on a morals conviction in the 1930s, Hicks examines the philosophical fervor that fueled his whirlwind compositions, and the ways his irrepressible bohemian spirit helped foster an appreciation in the United States and Europe for a new brand of American music.
The Brothers York
Author: Thomas Penn
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451694180
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
"For fans of Hilary Mantel and The Tudors, this is the dramatic story of the concluding episode in England's War of the Roses, featuring three brothers, two of whom became kings, Edward IV and Richard III, famous from Shakespeare's great history play Richard III"--
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451694180
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
"For fans of Hilary Mantel and The Tudors, this is the dramatic story of the concluding episode in England's War of the Roses, featuring three brothers, two of whom became kings, Edward IV and Richard III, famous from Shakespeare's great history play Richard III"--
Documenting Warfare
Author:
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1837650241
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Insights from English and French writers on one of the most significant armed conflicts of the Middle Ages
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1837650241
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Insights from English and French writers on one of the most significant armed conflicts of the Middle Ages