Guide to the Winterthur Library
Guide to the Winterthur Library

Author: Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts & Printed Ephemera

Publisher: Winterthur Museum

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 660

ISBN-13: 9780912724614

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This guide to the Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera, named for Winterthur's first curator, provides descriptive information for the primary research material held in the collection. The Downs Collection acquires materials from the mid seventeenth century through the twentieth century that document American lifestyles, concentrating on the domestic scene and activities within the household and art. It includes such items as diaries, business accounts of craftsmen whose products decorated dwelling houses, family papers, tax records, construction of homes, artists' sketchbooks, wills and household inventories, children's toys and games, and scrapbooks and journals. Items from individuals famous in American history rest alongside materials from people who led routine lives yet still contributed to the development of America. An extensive microform collection, including copies of material owned by other public repositories and private individuals, supplements the manuscript holdings. Hardcover is un-jacketed.

Composer Genealogies
Composer Genealogies

Author: Scott Pfitzinger

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781442272248

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Functioning as its own fully cross-referenced index, this volume lists composers and their dates, followed by their teachers and their notable students. A short introduction lays out the parameters by which composers were selected and provides a survey of the literature available for further study.

The Ultimate Engineer
The Ultimate Engineer

Author: Richard Jurek

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2019-12

Total Pages: 457

ISBN-13: 1496218477

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From the late 1950s to 1976, the U.S. human spaceflight program advanced as it did largely due to the extraordinary efforts of Austrian immigrant George M. Low. Described as the "ultimate engineer" during his career at NASA, Low was a visionary architect and leader from the agency's inception in 1958 to his retirement in 1976. As chief of manned spaceflight at NASA, Low was instrumental in the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs. At the end of his NASA career, Low was one of the leading figures in the development of the Space Shuttle in the early 1970s, and he was instrumental in NASA's transition into a post-Apollo world. Chronicling Low's escape from Nazi-occupied Austria to his helping land a man on the moon, The Ultimate Engineer sheds new light on one of the most fascinating and complex personalities of the golden age of U.S. human space travel.

Sisters of Treason
Sisters of Treason

Author: Elizabeth Fremantle

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2014-07-08

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 1476703094

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"Beginning early in Mary Tudor's turbulent reign, [this book] explores the lives of a pair of sisters as dangerously close to the throne as their sister Lady Jane Grey, who died on the executioner's block at the age of 16, after being queen for nine days"--

The Drawings of Georges Seurat
The Drawings of Georges Seurat

Author: Georges Seurat

Publisher:

Published: 1971

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13:

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In his early twenties, Georges Seurat withdrew temporarily from painting into draftsmanship. The result of this intense three-year period of work was a large number of drawings, some preliminary sketches for later paintings and other works completed for their own sake. These were exhibited more than 40 years later at the Galerie Bernheim-Jeune in Paris and reproduced in full in this volume.

Three-D Wizardry
Three-D Wizardry

Author: George Wolfe

Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 9780871922946

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LEVEL: Key Stage 3 onwards. Mardi Gras-veteran George Wolfe invites you to share sculpting ideas using papier-mache, plaster, and foam. Basic tools, background and characteristics of the three media are fully explained. Activities for creating creatures large and small are accompanied by helpful illustrations and photography. A full-colour portfolio of professional and student work, examples of the use of 3-D design in actual theatre and school productions, and complete appendices bring artistic visions to life.

The Music History Classroom
The Music History Classroom

Author: Professor James A Davis

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2012-10-28

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1409483576

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The Music History Classroom brings together essays written by recognized and experienced teachers to assist in the design, implementation, and revision of college-level music history courses. This includes the traditional music history survey for music majors, but the materials presented here are applicable to other music history courses for music majors and general education students alike, including period classes, composer or repertory courses, and special topics classes and seminars. The authors bring current thought on the scholarship of teaching and learning together with practical experience into the unique environment of the music history classroom. While many of the issues confronting teachers in other disciplines are pertinent to music history classes, this collection addresses the unique nature of musical materials and the challenges involved in negotiating between historical information, complex technical musical issues, and the aesthetics of performing and listening. This single volume provides a systematic outline of practical teaching advice on all facets of music history pedagogy, including course design, classroom technology, listening and writing assignments, and more. The Music History Classroom presents the 'nuts-and-bolts' of teaching music history suitable for graduate students, junior faculty, and seasoned teachers alike.