Author: Carol June Bradley
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135381208
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 1008

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First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author: Sir Charles Raymond Beazley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Discoveries in geography
Languages : en
Pages : 688

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Author: Charles Raymond Beazley
Publisher:
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Category : Discoveries in geography
Languages : en
Pages : 690

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Author: John L. Stewart
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520311094
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1175

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When Ernst Krenek's opera Jonny spielt auf (Jonny plays on) opened in Leipzig in 1927, it became an instant and spectacular success. Performed in over a hundred cities and translated into a dozen languages, it became the most popular opera of this century. And Austrian-born Krenek, easily one of this century's most prolific major composers, became a wealthy man. Ten years later, however, he found himself a destitute refugee, fleeing to the United States as Hitler's troops invaded Austria. His work, always avant-garde, had become increasingly political; Hitler banned it and labeled Krenek a "cultural Bolshevist." The composer endured long periods of hardship and neglect before his music, which was much admired by such colleagues as Stravinsky and Alban Berg but strange to American ears, was rediscovered by Europeans after the war. Eventually it brought him financial security and many honors, including the Gold Medal of Vienna and the Cross of Austria, and it has been celebrated by festivals in Vienna, Salzburg, Berlin, and other cities. Krenek, who in 1945 became an American citizen, has been as experimental and broad-ranging in his compositions as he has been prolific. His 240 musical works illustrate brilliantly the principal musical trends of the century: Neoromantic tonality, Neoclassicism, free atonality, the twelve-tone technique, integral serialism, and electronic music. In addition, Krenek has also been an accomplished teacher and writer. He has taught some of America's leading composers and has several collections of essays in both German and English to his credit. In this first major biography of Krenek, Stewart chronicles both the personal and the professional events of this brilliant, resilient composer's life. He not only explains Krenek's music in terms that enable us to comprehend and appreciate its character but vividly illustrates how Krenek's imagination has been affected by his experiences, his associates, and the massive social and artistic changes of the twentieth century. Many of the most important music figures cross the landscape of this life—Franz Schreker, Artur Schnabel, T. W. Adorno, Alban Berg, Anton Webern, Igor Stravinsky, Arnold Schoenberg, Dimitri Mitropoulos, and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau—confirming Krenek's position as one of the world's foremost composers. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1991.

Author: University of Minnesota
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Author: Karl Otten
Publisher: Reisebuch.de
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 129

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Der leider etwas in Vergessenheit geratene deutsche Schriftsteller des Expressionismus, Karl Otten (1889 – 1963), der auf der Flucht vor den Nationalsozialisten für einige Jahre auf Mallorca ein Refugium in Cala Ratjada im Nordosten der Baleareninsel fand, hat zu den Jahren 1933-36 einige lesenswerte Geschichten über seine schöne Wahlheimat verfasst. Reisebuch.de veröffentlicht diese nun in Kooperation mit dem Deutschen Literaturarchiv in Erstausgabe als E-Book und als gedrucktes Buch.

Author: Travis Elling
Publisher: XinXii
ISBN: 3966332582
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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Where do the lifelines of potatoes, quantum mechanics, kindergartens, Depeche Mode and modern condoms coincide? In Berlin: a city that, since its comparatively late birth, has gone from a backwater town to Hitler’s capital to a left-field metropolis at the forefront of new developments. This somewhat unorthodox look at the past and present of the current German capital highlights some of the ideas, developments and people that, for a lifetime or a brief sojourn, once called Berlin home.

Author: Andreea Marculescu
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319606697
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282

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This book analyzes how acts of feeling at a discursive, somatic, and rhetorical level were theorized and practiced in multiple medieval and early-modern sources (literary, medical, theological, and archival). It covers a large chronological and geographical span from eleventh-century France, to fifteenth-century Iberia and England, and ending with seventeenth-century Jesuit meditative literature. Essays in this book explore how particular emotional norms belonging to different socio-cultural communities (courtly, academic, urban elites) were subverted or re-shaped; engage with the study of emotions as sudden, but impactful, bursts of sensory experience and feelings; and analyze how emotions are filtered and negotiated through the prism of literary texts and the socio-political status of their authors.

Author: Laura Tunbridge
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521896444
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 255

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Investigates how other types of music have influenced the scope of the song cycle, from operas and symphonies to popular song --

Author: Santiago Rusiñol
Publisher: Reisebuch.de
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 265

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Der katalanische Schriftsteller und Maler Santiago Rusiñol (1861- 1931) hat nicht nur viele wunderbare Bilder von Gärten und Landschaften auf Mallorca gemalt, sondern auch eines der schönsten und populärsten Bücher über sein Paradies verfasst. In Mallorca- die Insel der Ruhe (1912/1922) skizziert er mit leiser Ironie die idyllischen mallorquinischen Lebensverhältnisse seiner Zeit. Auch wenn sich die Verhältnisse u.a. durch den Massentourismus mittlerweile radikal geändert haben, lohnt die Lektüre dieses Buches nicht nur wegen ihres nostalgischen Charakters, sondern auch als Korrektiv zu George Sands Pamphlet Ein Winter auf Mallorca. Das Buch war im 20. Jhd eins der meistgelesenen Werke über Mallorca und wurde in viele Sprachen übersetzt!