Author: Teresita EspinosaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Part songs, Spanish
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Selected Unpublished Villancicos of Padre Fray Antonio Soler: Four villancicos : Villancico in honor of the Nativity ; Villancico in honor of the Blessed Sacrament ; Villancico in honor of St. Lawrence ; Villancico in honor of St. Jerome
Author: Teresita EspinosaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Part songs, Spanish
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Selected Unpublished Villancicos of Padre Fray Antonio Soler: The text
Author: Teresita EspinosaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Part songs, Spanish
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
Etruscan Civilization
Author: Sybille HaynesPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 9780892366002
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
This comprehensive survey of Etruscan civilization, from its origin in the Villanovan Iron Age in the ninth century B.C. to its absorption by Rome in the first century B.C., combines well-known aspects of the Etruscan world with new discoveries and fresh insights into the role of women in Etruscan society. In addition, the Etruscans are contrasted to the Greeks, whom they often emulated, and to the Romans, who at once admired and disdained them. The result is a compelling and complete picture of a people and a culture. This in-depth examination of Etruria examines how differing access to mineral wealth, trade routes, and agricultural land led to distinct regional variations. Heavily illustrated with ancient Etruscan art and cultural objects, the text is organized both chronologically and thematically, interweaving archaeological evidence, analysis of social structure, descriptions of trade and burial customs, and an examination of pottery and works of art.
The Etruscans and the History of Dentistry
Author: Marshall J. BeckerPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317194659
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
The Etruscans and the History of Dentistry offers a study of the construction and use of gold dental appliances in ancient Etruscan culture, and their place within the framework of a general history of dentistry, with special emphasis on appliances, from Bronze Age Mesopotamia and Egypt to modern Europe and the Americas. Included are many of the ancient literary sources that refer to dentistry - or the lack thereof - in Greece and Rome, as well as the archaeological evidence of ancient dental health. The book challenges many past works in exposing modern scholars’ fallacies about ancient dentistry, while presenting the incontrovertible evidence of the Etruscans’ seemingly modern attitudes to cosmetic dentistry.
Ancient Titicaca
Author: Charles StanishPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520928199
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
One of the richest and most complex civilizations in ancient America evolved around Lake Titicaca in southern Peru and northern Bolivia. This book is the first comprehensive synthesis of four thousand years of prehistory for the entire Titicaca region. It is a fascinating story of the transition from hunting and gathering to early agriculture, to the formation of the Tiwanaku and Pucara civilizations, and to the double conquest of the region, first by the powerful neighboring Inca in the fifteenth century and a century later by the Spanish Crown. Based on more than fifteen years of field research in Peru and Bolivia, Charles Stanish's book brings together a wide range of ethnographic, historical, and archaeological data, including material that has not yet been published. This landmark work brings the author's intimate knowledge of the ethnography and archaeology in this region to bear on major theoretical concerns in evolutionary anthropology. Stanish provides a broad comparative framework for evaluating how these complex societies developed. After giving an overview of the region's archaeology and cultural history, he discusses the history of archaeological research in the Titicaca Basin, as well as its geography, ecology, and ethnography. He then synthesizes the data from six archaeological periods in the Titicaca Basin within an evolutionary anthropological framework. Titicaca Basin prehistory has long been viewed through the lens of first Inca intellectuals and the Spanish state. This book demonstrates that the ancestors of the Aymara people of the Titicaca Basin rivaled the Incas in wealth, sophistication, and cultural genius. The provocative data and interpretations of this book will also make us think anew about the rise and fall of other civilizations throughout history.
Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1760
Book Description
Devotional Music in the Iberian World, 1450-1800
Author: Tess KnightonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351569465
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
From the fifteenth century to the beginning of the nineteenth century, devotional music played a fundamental role in the Iberian world. Songs in the vernacular, usually referred to by the generic name of 'villancico', but including forms as varied as madrigals, ensaladas, tonos, cantatas or even oratorios, were regularly performed at many religious feasts in major churches, royal and private chapels, convents and in monasteries. These compositions appear to have progressively fulfilled or supplemented the role occupied by the Latin motet in other countries and, as they were often composed anew for each celebration, the surviving sources vastly outnumber those of Latin compositions; they can be counted in tens of thousands. The close relationship with secular genres, both musical, literary and performative, turned these compositions into a major vehicle for dissemination of vernacular styles throughout the Iberian world. This model of musical production was also cultivated in Portugal and rapidly exported to the Spanish and Portuguese colonies in America and Asia. In many cases, the villancico repertory represents the oldest surviving source of music produced in these regions, thus affording it a primary role in the construction of national identities. The sixteen essays in this volume explore the development of devotional music in the Iberian world in this period, providing the first broad-based survey of this important genre.
Baroque Music
Author: John Walter HillPublisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN: 9780393978001
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 525
Book Description
John Walter Hill's highly anticipated text presents a broad survey of the music of Western Europe from 1580 to 1750.
Towards a History of the Spanish Villancico
Author: Paul R. LairdAlexander's Male Choir
Author: Charles M (Charles McCall AlexanderPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781018649047
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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