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The Madrigals of Gioseffo Zarlino (1517--1590): A ...

The Madrigals of Gioseffo Zarlino (1517--1590): A ...

Barbara Ellen Sherrill

85 Martha Feldman, ; Martha Feldman, City Culture and the Madrigal at Venice ( Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: Univ. of Calif. Press, 1995), 133-37. 86 Dean T. Mace, “Pietro Bembo and the Literary Origins of the Italian Madrigal,” The Musical  ...
City Culture and the Madrigal at Venice

City Culture and the Madrigal at Venice

Martha Feldman

"--H. Colin Slim, editor of "A Gift of Madrigals and Motets" "With this book Professor Feldman establishes herself as the leading authority on the subjects of the Venetian madrigal and of humanistic musical culture in 16th-century Venice.
The Castrato: Reflections on Natures and Kinds

The Castrato: Reflections on Natures and Kinds

Martha Feldman

The Castrato is a nuanced exploration of why innumerable boys were castrated for singing between the mid-sixteenth and late-nineteenth centuries.
Ezra Pound's Fascist Propaganda, 1935-45

Ezra Pound's Fascist Propaganda, 1935-45

M. Feldman

Also by Matthew Feldman Fascism: Critical Concepts, 5 Vols., eds. Roger Griffin with Matthew Feldman (2004) Beckett's Books: A Cultural History of Samuel Beckett's 'Interwar Notes' (2006; revised paperback edition 2008) Beckett's Literary ...
The Courtesan's Arts: Cross-Cultural Perspectives

The Courtesan's Arts: Cross-Cultural Perspectives

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Paulo Scotti's melody for phrase 3 of Ex. 4.1, compared with hypothetical or namentation for Tullia d'Aragona to use in declaiming verses 4, 8, and I4 of her sonnet“Fiamma gentil che da gl'interni lumi” Ornamentation by Martha Feldman.
Opera and Sovereignty: Transforming Myths in ...

Opera and Sovereignty: Transforming Myths in ...

Martha Feldman

Translations throughout the book are generally mine unless otherwise stated. Courtney Quaintance volunteered translations of some untranslated material in chapter 9 while reviewing my Italian translations and proposed various emendations ...
Venice Reconsidered: The History and Civilization of an ...

Venice Reconsidered: The History and Civilization of an ...

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Opera, 'Pestivity, and Spectacle in “Revolutionary” Venice Phantasrns of Time and History MARTHA FELDMAN As this chapter and the one by Claudio Povolo later in this volume make clear, the sudden capitulation in May 1 797 of the ...
Composing Ambiguity: The Early Music of Morton Feldman

Composing Ambiguity: The Early Music of Morton Feldman

Alistair Noble

Beyond this, Feldman's work is revealed to be essentially concerned with the 12-tone chromatic field, and with the delineation of complexes of simple proportions in 'crystalline' forms.
Mystical Love in the German Baroque: Theology, Poetry, Music

Mystical Love in the German Baroque: Theology, Poetry, Music

Isabella Van

See Dean T. Mace, “Pietro Bembo and the Literary Origins of the Italian Madrigal, ” The Musical Quarterly 55 (1969): 65–80; Martha Feldman, “The Composer as Exegete: Interpretations of Petrarchan Syntax in the Venetian Madrigal,” Studi ...
Reconstructing Reality in the Courtroom: Justice and ...

Reconstructing Reality in the Courtroom: Justice and ...

W. Lance Bennett

Justice and Judgment in American Culture W. Lance Bennett, Martha S. Feldman ... It helps people on the inside communicate with each other, while finding ways toshare dynamic ideas with various stakeholders ontheoutside, including ...
Morton Feldman

Morton Feldman

Jesse Russell

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Morton Feldman (January 12, 1926 - September 3, 1987) was an American composer, born in New York City.
Martha Stewart: A Biography

Martha Stewart: A Biography

Joann F. Price

In her Newsweek article, Laura Shapiro described Martha as “the Barbara Cartland (well-known British romance author) of food, and she has a succinct explanation for her phenomenal success—“My ideas are good,” she (Martha) states.
The Modernist Legacy: Essays on New Music

The Modernist Legacy: Essays on New Music

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In a recent article on the problems of analysing Feldman, Dora Hanninen concludes: 'Truly to get at what makes Feldman's music what it is, we must be willing to analyse not only the music but also ourselves - our habits of thinking, hearing, ...
The Practice of Practising

The Practice of Practising

Alessandro Cervino

CATHERINE LAWS In a recent article on the problems of analysing the music of Morton Feldman, Dora Hanninen concludes, “Trulyto get atwhat makes Feldman's music what it is, we must be willing to analyse not only the music but also ...
Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots

Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots

Deborah Feldman

As a member of the strictly religious Satmar sect of Hasidic Judaism, Deborah Feldman grew up under a code of relentlessly enforced customs governing everything from what she could wear and to whom she could speak to what she was allowed to ...
The Courtesan's Arts: Cross-Cultural Perspectives Includes CD

The Courtesan's Arts: Cross-Cultural Perspectives Includes CD

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Cross-Cultural Perspectives Includes CD Martha Feldman, Bonnie Gordon. COURTNEY QUAINTANCE CHAPTER IO. Defaming. the. Courtesan. Satire. and. Invective. in. Sixteenth-Century. Italy. In Pietro Aretino's fictitious Dialogo set in ...
Cupid's Paradise

Cupid's Paradise

Albert Benigno

Let's go to the McDonalds' where you work, and we'll talk there. If you like my idea, you can give them your week's notice of quitting. What's your last name, Stan?" "My full name is Stanley Feldman." Stanley Feldman and Frank Myers looked at ...
Beckett at 100: Revolving It All

Beckett at 100: Revolving It All

Linda Ben-Zvi

CATHERINE LAWS A NUMBER OF MORTON Feldman's late works (Elemental Procedures, Neither, Words and Music, and For Samuel Beckett) draw on the work of Samuel Beckett, and the text of Neither was written by him at Feldman's ...
The Disfranchisement Myth: Poor Whites and Suffrage ...

The Disfranchisement Myth: Poor Whites and Suffrage ...

Glenn Feldman

Drawing on court documents, voting statistics, civil rights and labor records, and many other sources, Feldman shows that the racist appeals of Alabama's white planters, industrialists, and other conservatives motivated poor whites in far ...
Klezmer's Afterlife: An Ethnography of the Jewish Music ...

Klezmer's Afterlife: An Ethnography of the Jewish Music ...

Magdalena Waligorska

94 Walter Zev Feldman, one of the pioneers of the American klezmer revival, notes the discrepancy between the positive image generated by the festival and the real problems of Polish—Jewish relations, which remain unresolved. Feldman ...
The Modernist Legacy: Essays on New Music

The Modernist Legacy: Essays on New Music

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Catherine Laws A number of Morton Feldman's late works (Elemental Procedures, Neither, Words and Music and For Samuel Beckett) owe their existence to Samuel Beckett, and the text of Neither was written by him at Feldman's request.
Between Minority and Majority: Hungarian and Jewish/Israeli ...

Between Minority and Majority: Hungarian and Jewish/Israeli ...

Levente Salat

12Walter Zev Feldman: “Traditional and Instrumental Folk Music.” The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. ... 20 Unpublished lecture by Walter Zev Feldman: “The Historical Klezmer.” Presented at Jüdische Musik als Dialog der ...
Martha: the life and work of Martha Graham

Martha: the life and work of Martha Graham

Agnes De Mille

The author, a celebrated choreographer and a friend of Martha Graham for more than sixty years, traces Graham's life and career and discusses her training as a student, her early successes, and her development of a new language of dance
Ethnomusicology: A Research and Information Guide

Ethnomusicology: A Research and Information Guide

Jennifer Post

Khevrisa (Steven Greenman, violin; W. Zev Feldman, cimbal; Alicia Svigals, Michael Alpert, violins; Stuart Brotman, bass). Notes by Walter Zev Feldman, with glossary and bibliography, and biographical notes on the performers (36 p., illus.) .
A Fascist Century: Essays by Roger Griffin

A Fascist Century: Essays by Roger Griffin

R. Griffin

FASCISM: Critical Concepts in Political Science (edited with Mathew Feldman) FASCISM PAST AND PRESENT, EAST AND WEST (edited with Werner Loh and Andreas Umland)d Also by Matthew Feldman BECKETT'S BOOKS: A Cultural ...
Martha Graham: une fleur de serre exotique

Martha Graham: une fleur de serre exotique

Claudie Servian

201 Martha Graham, in Alice Helpern, op., cit., p. 9. « I wanted significant movement, I did not want it to be beautiful or fluid. I wanted it to be fraught with inner meaning, with excitement and surge. » 202 Id., Ibid., p.215. 203 Martha Graham ...
The Great Melding: War, the Dixiecrat Rebellion, and the ...

The Great Melding: War, the Dixiecrat Rebellion, and the ...

Glenn Feldman

J. W. Crudele, “A Lynching Bee,” AHQ 42 (Spr/Summer 1980): 59–71; William F. Holmes, “Moonshiners and Whitecaps in Alabama, 1893,” Alabama Review 34 ( January 1981): 31–49, hereafter AR; Glenn Feldman, “Lynching in Alabama, ...
The Book of Klezmer: The History, the Music, the Folklore

The Book of Klezmer: The History, the Music, the Folklore

Yale Strom

The ethnomusicologist Zev Feldman traced the path this “Bessarabian klezmer” took: “The Greeks in particular formed a lively ... 66 Walter Zev Feldman, Khevrisa : European Klezmer Music (Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Folkways Recording,  ...

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