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Aspects of Verdi

Aspects of Verdi

George Whitney Martin

In addition to essays on Verdi's musical influence, the author also assesses Verdi's views on politics, religion, literature, and on the culinary
Verdi in America: Oberto Through Rigoletto

Verdi in America: Oberto Through Rigoletto

George Whitney Martin

A renowned Verdi authority offers here the often-astounding first history of how Verdi's early operas -- including one of his great masterpieces, Rigoletto -- made their way into America's musical life.
The Barber Institute of Fine Arts: The University of Birmingham

The Barber Institute of Fine Arts: The University of Birmingham

Richard Verdi

The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham, England, boasts a magnificent collection of paintings, drawings, sculptures and objects of art, all of which have been acquired by purchase since the late 1930s.
The Robbers

The Robbers

Friedrich Schiller

The Robbers was later adapted into an equally renowned opera written by Verdi.
Arias for Acoustic Guitar

Arias for Acoustic Guitar

James Edwards

Beautiful operatic arias by Puccini, Bizet, Mozart, Verdi, and others tastefully arranged for intermediate to advanced classic guitar performance.
Dialogues II

Dialogues II

Gilles Deleuze

New to this edition is Deleuze's essay "Pericles and Verdi," which reflects on politics and historical materialism in the work of the influential French philosopher François Châtelet.
Mapping Multimodal Performance Studies

Mapping Multimodal Performance Studies

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Maria Grazia Sindoni, Janina Wildfeuer, Kay O'Halloran. Rosselli, J. (1984). The Opera Industry in Italy from Cimarosa to Verdi: The Role of the Impresario. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Rossi, F. (2005). 'Quel ch'è padre, non è ...
Verdi, Opera, Women

Verdi, Opera, Women

Susan Rutherford

The question of the prevalence of female orgasm in rape is still disputed today – see Elisabeth Anne Lloyd, The Case of the Female Orgasm: Bias in the Science of Evolution (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005), 85. Laqueur ...
Richard Middleton, the Man and His Work

Richard Middleton, the Man and His Work

Henry Savage

Richard 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 ...
Late Style and its Discontents: Essays in art, literature, ...

Late Style and its Discontents: Essays in art, literature, ...

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Laura Tunbridge Every composer has a late style nowadays. Not only Beethoven but also Mozart, Haydn, Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, Liszt, Verdi, Wagner, Brahms, Wolf, Puccini, Scriabin, Debussy, Fauré, Stravinsky, Strauss, Sibelius, and ...
Fashions and Legacies of Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera

Fashions and Legacies of Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera

Roberta Montemorra Marvin

ralph p. locke Distant and exotic lands – from Turkey to Peru and beyond – were the chosen locales for dozens of important nineteenth-century Italian operas, including such diverse works as Rossini's L'italiana in Algeri, Verdi's Alzira, and ...
Gabriel Faure: A Guide to Research

Gabriel Faure: A Guide to Research

Edward R. Phillips

... Mary Ann Parker-Hale Jean-Philippe Rameau (1989) by Donald Foster Ralph Vaughan Williams (1990) by Neil Butterworth Hector Berlioz (1989) by Jeffrey A. Langford and Jane Denker Graves Claudio Monte Verdi (1989) by K.Gary Adams  ...
Freedom’s Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and ...

Freedom’s Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and ...

Richard S. Newman

Bishop 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 ...
The whole proceedings on the trial of an information ...

The whole proceedings on the trial of an information ...

Joseph Gurney

Lloyd Lord Kenyon John Stockdale, Joseph Gurney, Baron Thomas Erskine Erskine, Great Britain. Court of King's Bench. may, if they think proper, give a general verdicfc of murder or manflaughter : but if they decline giving a general verdi&, ...
New Historicism and Renaissance Drama

New Historicism and Renaissance Drama

Richard Wilson

Richard 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

The Stage History of Shakespeare's King Richard the Third

Alice Ida Perry Wood

In 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

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,  ...
American Opera Singers and Their Recordings: Critical ...

American Opera Singers and Their Recordings: Critical ...

Clyde T. McCants

Recitals, Compilations, and I lighlights Eileen Farrell: Opera Arias and Songs. Testament SET 1073 (1957). Eileen Farrell Sings Verdi. Sony MHK 62358 (1960- 1961). Arias in the Great Tradition. Columbia ML 5408, long playing record (no ...
Richard III

Richard III

Richard Andersen

Richard 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

Programming of Life

Donald E. Johnson

Dawkins (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

The Best Books for Academic Libraries: Language and literature

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B78 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:

Through the Eyes of Darwin and Genesis:

Bill Nielsen

Dawkins, 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 ...

War over Lemuria: Richard Shaver, Ray Palmer and the ...

Richard Toronto

Richard 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 ...

Probability's Nature and Nature's Probability - Lite: A ...

Donald E. Johnson

Dawkins (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;

Anecdotes of the Life of Richard Watson, Bishop of Landaff;

Richard Watson

A 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

Black Boy

Richard Wright

At 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.

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