Author: Bethany BeardsleePublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1580469000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Memoir of Bethany Beardslee, the iconic American soprano known as the composer's singer.
I Sang the Unsingable
Author: Bethany BeardsleePublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1580469000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Memoir of Bethany Beardslee, the iconic American soprano known as the composer's singer.
Thinking in and about Music
Author: Zachary BernsteinPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190949236
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
On Milton Babbitt, Schenkerian -- Construction, Cognition, and the Role of the Surface -- The Seam in Babbitt's Compositional Development : Composition for Tenor and Six Instruments -- The Surface and the Series in Composition for Four Instruments -- Poetic Form and Psychological Portraiture in Babbitt's Early Texted Works -- Completeness and Temporality -- Babbitt's Gestural Dialectics -- Afterword. "Anything Vital is Problematical".
Wagner's "Tristan Und Isolde"; An Essay on the Wagnerian Drama
Author: George Ainslie HightPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465539662
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
The Looker-on
Author: Landslide
Author: Minna ProctorPublisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1936787628
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
“Landslide is that rare book that somehow succeeds in being both knowing and open–hearted, both formally sly and emotionally direct. Its timeless subjects—grief, storytelling, the giving up of childish things—are rendered in ways that are as movingly honest as they are probing and unfamiliar. A swift, compelling read.” —Adam Haslett, author of Imagine Me Gone Minna Zallman Proctor's Landslide is a captivating collection of interconnected personal essays. These “true stories” explore the author’s complicated relationship with her mother—who was diagnosed with cancer at age fifty–seven and died fifteen years later—and the ways in which their connection was long the “prime mover” of Proctor’s life, the subtle force coursing beneath her adulthood. As such, these vibrant essays also narrate the trials and triumphs of Proctor’s own life—shifting between America and Italy (and loving “being a foreigner, the constant sense of unfamiliarity that supplanted all of my expectations and disappointments”), her bumpy first marriage, the profound pleasure she takes in motherhood, and the confounding experience of trying to arrange a Jewish burial for her “Jewish, not quite Jewish” mother. Proctor has an integrity and humor that is never extinguished despite life’s mounting difficulties. She also slyly questions her own narrative throughout. “Not having told this story before means I never fixed many details in my memory,” she writes. “[I] have to rely on flashes, the transparent stills that hang in my mind, made of smell, the way the light casts, the wind on skin.” The essays in this book are a sharply intelligent exploration of what happens when death and divorce unmoor you from certainties, and about the unreliable stories we tell ourselves, and others, in order to live.
Spirituality According to Paul
Author: Rodney ReevesPublisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830839461
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Rodney Reeves contrasts easy spiritualities of serenity and retreat with the apostle Paul's vision: a cross-shaped spirituality for fools making their way through life's trials. Responding to Paul's invitation "follow me as I follow Christ," Reeves discovers an ancient spiritual path in the letters of Paul.
Lutheran Companion
Author: Music in American Religious Experience
Author: Philip V. BohlmanPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199721386
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Since the appearance of The Bay Psalm Book in 1640, music has served as a defining factor for American religious experience and has been of fundamental importance in the development of American identity and psyche. The essays in this long-awaited volume explore the diverse ways in which music shapes the distinctive presence of religion in the United States and address the fullness of music's presence in American religious history. Timely, challenging, and stimulating, this collection will appeal to students and scholars of American history, American studies, religious studies, theology, musicology, and ethnomusicology, as well as to practicing sacred musicians.
Masters of Music
Author: Anna Alice ChapinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
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