Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Fingal, an Ancient Epic Poem, in Six Books: Together with Several Other Poems, Composed by Ossian, the Son of Fingal
Author: In Fingal's Wake
Author: Trevor BoultPublisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445648075
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The former Northern Lighthouse Board tender Fingal was in service for some 37 years and was party to many operational and technical changes in the provision of aids to navigation in Scottish waters.
Beyond Fingal's Cave
Author: James PorterPublisher:
ISBN: 1580469450
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
Demonstrates the profound impact of The Poems of Ossian on composers of the Romantic Era and later: Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Massenet, and many others. Beyond Fingal's Cave: Ossian in the Musical Imagination is the first study in English of musical compositions inspired by the poems published in the 1760s and attributed to a purported ancient Scottish bard named Ossian. From around 1780 onwards, the poems stimulated poets, artists, and composers in Europe as well as North America to break away from the formality of the Enlightenment. The admiration for Ossian's poems -shared by Napoleon, Goethe, and Thomas Jefferson - was an important stimulus in the development of Romanticism and the music that was a central part of it. More important still was the view of the German cultural philosopher Johann Gottfried Herder, who saw past the controversy over the poems' authenticity to the traditional elements in these heroic poems and their mood of lament. James Porter's long-awaited book traces the traditional sources used by James Macpherson for his epoch-making prose poems and examines crucial works by composers such as Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Brahms, and Massenet. Many other relatively unknown composers were also moved to write operas, cantatas, songs, and instrumental pieces, some of which have proven to be powerfully evocative and well worth performing and recording.
Is Fingal's cave artificial?
Author: F. Cope WhitehouseAn Historical, Archaeological and Geological Examination of Fingal's Cave in the Island of Staffa
Author: John Patterson MacLeanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fingal's Cave (Argyll)
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Fingal O'Reilly, Irish Doctor
Author: Patrick TaylorPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0765335247
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Fans of Taylor's bestselling Irish Country novels know Dr. Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly as the irascible senior partner of a general practice in the colorful Irish village of Ballybucklebo. Newly married to his once long-lost sweetheart, he's ready to settle into domestic bliss, but there's always something requiring his attention, be it a riding accident, a difficult patient with a worrisome heart condition, a spot of grouse-hunting, or even some tricky shenanigans at the local dog races. The everyday complications of village life are very different from the challenges Fingal faced nearly thirty years earlier, when fresh out of medical school, the young Dr. O'Reilly accepts a post at the Aungier Street Dispensary, tending to the impoverished denizens of Dublin's tenement slums. Yet even as he tries to make a difference, Fingal's tireless devotion to his patients may cost him his own true love.... Shifting back and forth between the present and the past, Patrick Taylor's captivating Fingal O'Reilly, Irish Doctor, brings to life both the green young man O'Reilly once was and the canny village doctor readers have come to know and admire.
Herd Register
Author: American Jersey Cattle ClubPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 936
Book Description
Fingal's Cave, the Poems of Ossian, and Celtic Christianity
Author: Paul Marshall AllenPublisher: T&T Clark
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
On the isolated island of Staffa, near Iona, Scotland, stands a natural wonder of the world: Fingal's Cave, a cathedral-like space of hexagonal balsatic columns and a floor made of ocean and tides create constant musical sounds. To understand Fingal and his importance to Celtic culture, we must understand the poems of Ossian and ancient Celtic Christianity. The authors describe Fingal's Cave and the poems of Ossian, showing why they influenced such figures as Mendelssohn, Jefferson, Napoleon, and Turner. Illustrated.
Bulletin of the New York Public Library
Author: Bulletin of the New York Public Library
Author: New York Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1044
Book Description
Includes its Report, 1896-19 .