Author: New York Public Library. Music DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 896
Book Description
Bibliographic Guide to Music
Author: New York Public Library. Music DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 896
Book Description
The End of the Present World and the Mysteries of the Future Life
Author: Charles ArminjonPublisher: Sophia Institute Press
ISBN: 1933184388
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
This marvelous book will show you how to read the signs of the times and prepare you to bear yourself as a Christian no matter what the future holds.
Source Readings in Music History: The Renaissance
Author: The Musica of Hermannus Contractus
Author: Hermann (von Reichenau)Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1580463908
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
The renowned treatise on music, by an eleventh-century monk, in a critical edition with annotated English translation, introduction, and detailed indexes.
Hellenism and Empire
Author: Simon SwainPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198147725
Category : Civilization, Greceo-Roman
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Hellenism and Empire explores identity, politics, and culture in the Greek world of the first three centuries AD, the period known as the second sophistic. The sources of this identity were the words and deeds of classical Greece, and the emphasis placed on Greekness and Greek heritage was far greater then than at any other time. Yet this period is often seen as a time of happy consensualism between the Greek and Roman halves of the Roman Empire. The first part of the book shows that Greek identity came before any loyalty to Rome (and was indeed partly a reaction to Rome), while the views of the major authors of the period, which are studied in the second part, confirm and restate the prior claims of Hellenism.
The Speculum Astronomiae and Its Enigma
Author: P. ZambelliPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 9401734674
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The attribution of the Speculum Astronomiae to Albertus Magnus became a controversial issue only recently, when the great neo-Thomist historian Pierre Mandonnet suggested -- without any antecedents -- that the author was Roger Bacon rather than Albert. Mandonnet's theses were refuted by Lynn Thorndike and have since then been the subject of widespread discussion. The present historiographical case-study considers this debate in the light of an analysis of texts by Albert himself, as well as other important authors, such as Bacon, Bonaventura, Thomas Aquinas, Witelo, Campanus of Novara, and others, which shows how widespread the general concept of the influence of the stars and other astrological ideas to be found in the Speculum were. Most of the scientific ideas of the Middle Ages were based on principles derived from the notion of celestial influence and its consequences. The Speculum drew the fundamental outlines of this discipline into a theoretical and bibliographical introduction -- no small achievement -- and was consequently greeted with great interest and used as a standard reference book for many centuries. Set against the background of discussions taking place in the 1260s, within the Dominican Order as well as in the Faculties of Arts, Zambelli removes all doubt that the Speculum was written by Albert, possibly with some collaboration.
Latin Phrases & Quotations
Author: Richard A. BranyonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780781802604
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This compendium of 4,250 Latin phrases and quotations will clarify previously encountered phrases and introduce a plethora of new ones. It is an easy-to-use source book that bridges the gap between the standard Latin dictionary and the college desk dictionary, with its smattering of Latin expressions. Drawing from more than two thousand years of Western literature, Latin Phrases & Quotations enables the reader to gain a higher level of appreciation of Western civilization, and a deeper feeling for the context in which a particular phrase is quoted. It is an indispensible reference work for students, writers, public speakers and legal professionals, or anyone interested in the apropos and pithy quote. Appendices include: a list of the major Latin writers and their works, one hundred fifty most common Latin phrases, and one hundred fifty most popular Latin quotations.
The Cambridge Songs
Author: The Motet Around 1500
Author: Thomas Schmidt (Musicologist)Publisher: Brepols Publishers
ISBN: 9782503525662
Category : Church music
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In an article published in 1979, Ludwig Finscher defined imitation and text treatment as the main parameters of the stylistic shift he detected in motet composition around 1500, and Josquin Desprez as the composer whose works embodied them most clearly. This volume of twenty-five essays by leading Renaissance musicologists - based on a conference which took place in Bangor (Wales) in 2007 - takes stock of developments in motet research in the intervening three decades. It does focus considerable attention on text treatment and compositional technique (texture and cantus firmus manipulation as much as imitation in the strict sense), but also on questions such as regional repertoires (such as Bohemia and Spain), manuscripts (such as the 'Medici Codex'), and semantic aspects (devotion, symbolism etc.). Josquin's oeuvre, while still the focus of several essays, is contextualized through studies on composers as diverse as Regis, Busnoys, Obrecht, Fevin, Moulu, Gascongne, Gaffurio, Martini, and Senfl. Although there are still many questions to be answered about the motet around 1500 - a period which, according to Joshua Rifkin, is like a 'black hole' for the genre given the lack of extant works, ascriptions, and stylistic consistency - the volume is an important step forward in exploring and understanding this crucial repertoire.
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