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Oxford History of Western Music: 5-vol. set
Richard TaruskinAngelo Solerti, in Le origini del melodrama: Testimonianze dei contemporanei ( Turin: Fratelli Bocca, 1903), p. 56, trans. Piero Weiss in Piero Weiss and Richard Taruskin, Music in the Western World: A History in Documents, 2nd ed., p. 143.
Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions: A Biography of the ...
Richard TaruskinThis book undoes 50 years of mythmaking about Stravinsky's life in music.
Music in the Nineteenth Century: The Oxford History of ...
Richard TaruskinMajor themes addressed in this book include the romantic transformation of opera, Franz Schubert and the German lied, the rise of virtuosos such as Paganini and Liszt, the twin giants of nineteenth-century opera, Richard Wagner and Giuseppe ...
The Danger of Music and Other Anti-utopian Essays
Richard TaruskinThe book is lucid, powerful, varied, self-aware, and courageous. It is the very best work being done today, not just in musicology, but in any discipline."--Michael Beckerman, author of New Worlds of Dvorák
On Russian Music
Richard TaruskinThis volume gathers 36 essays by one of the leading scholars in the study of Russian music.
Stravinsky and the Russian Period: Sound and Legacy of a ...
Pieter C. van den ToornThe book provides a counter-argument to the criticism and aesthetics of T. W. Adorno and Richard Taruskin, and will appeal to composers, critics and performers as well as scholars of Stravinsky's music.
Music in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: The ...
Richard TaruskinLaced with brilliant observations, memorable musical analysis, and a panoramic sense of the interactions between history, culture, politics, art, literature, religion, and music, this book will be essential reading for anyone who wishes to ...
Musorgsky: Eight Essays and an Epilogue
Richard TaruskinIncorporating both new and now-classic essays, this book sets the vocal works of Modest Musorgsky in a fully detailed cultural, political, and historical context, elevating the composer's image over other biographers.
Text and Act: Essays on Music and Performance
Richard TaruskinThese essays cast fresh light on many aspects of contemporary music-making and music-thinking, mixing lighthearted debunking with impassioned argumentation.
Russian Music at Home and Abroad: New Essays
Richard TaruskinThis new collection views Russian music through the Greek triad of “the Good, the True, and the Beautiful” to investigate how the idea of "nation" embeds itself in the public discourse about music and other arts with results at times ...
Richard Middleton, the Man and His Work
Henry SavageRichard Middleton . . . Frontispiece Camera Portrait by E. O. Hoppé. Facing page Richard Middleton at the Age of 7 . . 10 Richard Middleton in Fancy Dress . . 28 A Bohemian Gathering . . . . 36 Sketch by Herbert Garland. Richard Middleton at ...
Freedom’s Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and ...
Richard S. NewmanBishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers Richard S. Newman ... —Richard Allen, “An Address to Those Who Keep Slaves and Approve the Practice” With his coauthorship of the yellow-fever pamphlet, Richard ...
New Historicism and Renaissance Drama
Richard WilsonRichard Wilson, University of Louisville Kentucky Richard Wilson, Humanities Distinguished Professor of English Richard Dutton, Richard Dutton. First published 1992 by Longman Group Limited Published 2013 by Routledge 2 Park Square, ...
The Stage History of Shakespeare's King Richard the Third
Alice Ida Perry WoodIn 1610, Robert Niccol's new edition of The Mirror for Magistrates appeared, in which there were two poems on Richard the Third, The Two Princes, and Richard III, the last to replace Segar's poem, Richard Plantagenet, Duke of Gloucester, ...
The Cinema of Richard Linklater: Walk, Don't Run
Rob Stone... Richard Linklater Cinematography: Richard Linklater Editor: Richard Linklater Main Cast: Richard Linklater, James Goodwin, Daniel Kratochvil, Linda Finney, Tracy Crabtree, Linda Levine, Lisa Schiebold, Erin MCafée, Denise Montgomery, ...
Richard III
Richard AndersenRichard Andersen. Berger, Harry Jr. "Conscience and Complicity in Richard III," in Richard III, edited by Thomas Cartelli. New York: Norton, 2009. Bloom, Harold. Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human. New York: Riverhead Books, 1998.
Programming of Life
Donald E. JohnsonDawkins (Richard), “Book Review,” The New York Times, 4/9/89, section 7, p3. Dawkins (Richard), River Out of Eden,1995, p83. Dawkins (Richard), The Blind Watchmaker, 1996B. Dawkins (Richard), Climbing Mount Improbable, 1996C.
The Best Books for Academic Libraries: Language and literature
More editionsB78 1991 Burton, Richard D. E., Baudelaire and the Second Republic : writing and revolution / Richard D.E. Burton. Oxford [England] .... PQ2230.S84 Stowe, Richard S. Alexandre Dumas (pere) / by Richard S. Stowe. Boston : Twayne ...
Through the Eyes of Darwin and Genesis:
Bill NielsenDawkins, Richard. An Appetite for Wonder. New York: Ecco, 2013. Dawkins, Richard. The Blind Watchmaker. London: Penguin, 1986. Dawkins, Richard. The God Delusion. New York: First Mariner Books, 2008. Dawkins, Richard. The Greatest ...
War over Lemuria: Richard Shaver, Ray Palmer and the ...
Richard TorontoRichard Shaver, Ray Palmer and the Strangest Chapter of 1940s Science Fiction Richard Toronto . Interview by author. Telephone. August 17, 1983. Yerxa, Richard. Interview by author. Telephone. 2008. Letters Ackerman, Forrest J. Letter to ...
Probability's Nature and Nature's Probability - Lite: A ...
Donald E. JohnsonDawkins (Richard), The Selfish Gene, 1976. Dawkins (Richard),”The Necessity of Darwinism,” New Scientist: 94, 4/15/82, p130. Dawkins (Richard), Scientific American, 6/88. Dawkins (Richard), “Book Review,” The New York Times, 4/9/89, ...
Anecdotes of the Life of Richard Watson, Bishop of Landaff;
Richard WatsonA N E O DOT ES OF THE LIFE OF RICHARD WATSON, BISHOP OF LAN DAFF: WRITTEN BY HIM SELF AT DIFFERENT INTERVALS, AND REVISED IN 1814. PUBLISHED BY HIS SON, RICHARD WATSON, LL.B. PREBENDARY OF ...
Black Boy
Richard WrightAt four years of age, Richard Wright set fire to his home; at five his father deserted the family; by six Richard was - temporarily - an alcoholic.
Life and Inventions of Richard Roberts, 1789-1864
Richard Leslie HillsThis is a biography of Richard Roberts, one of Britain's greatest inventors and the father of production engineering.
Archaeopteryx
Richard M. GainesRichard M. Gaines. Richard M. Gaines ARCHAEOTERYX A Buddy Book by Richard M. Gaines \ .__. Cover.
The Pursuit of Knowledge: Speeches and Papers of Richard C. ...
Richard C. AtkinsonSpeeches and Papers of Richard C. Atkinson Richard C. Atkinson, Patricia A. Pelfrey. University of California Press, one of the most distinguished university presses in the United States, enriches lives around the world by advancing ...
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More editionsJOHN HILLIS EVANS' JOHN HM EVANS' JOHN HYNNE EVANS' JONATHAN LYNN EVANS' JOS BERNARD EVANS JR ... EVANS' RICHARD HAROLD EVANS' RICHARD HARVEY EVANS' RICHARD MILNER EVANS' RICHARD R EVANS' ...
Nez Perce
Richard M. GainesRichard M. Gaines ... Furlong Art Direction & Maps: Pat Laurel Border Design: Carey Molter/MacLean & Tuminelly (Mpls.) Library of Congress Cataloging-in- Publication Data Gaines, Richard M., 1942The Nez Perce / Richard M. Gaines. p. cm.
A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of ...
Bernard BurkeRichard, of whom presently. 4. James. 2, Dorothy. 4, Agatha. 1. Thomas. 8. Humphrey. 1. Elizabeth. 8. Joan. The and son, Richard Newman, was resident in the city of Cork, 1651, and in t66s was J. P. for the co. He purchased from Sir Richard ...
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