Memoirs of Hector Berlioz

Memoirs of Hector Berlioz

Author: Hector Berlioz

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 1932-01-01

Total Pages: 912

ISBN-13: 9780486215631

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Self-revelations of tormented great composer; musical life in Paris, Wagner and other contemporaries, musical opinions, much more. 11 plates.


Unceasing Worship

Unceasing Worship

Author: Harold M. Best

Publisher: InterVarsity Press

Published: 2003-10-29

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9780830832293

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Harold M. Best casts a holistic vision for worship that transcends narrow discussions of musical style or congregational preference, corrects errors in how Christians have viewed the arts and misunderstandings about the use of music, and offers instead a more biblically consistent approach to artistic action.


Evenings with the Orchestra

Evenings with the Orchestra

Author: Hector Berlioz

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1999-05-15

Total Pages: 407

ISBN-13: 0226043746

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In this delightful and now classic narrative, written by the brilliant composer and critic Hector Berlioz, readers are made privy to 25 highly entertaining evenings with a fascinating group of distracted performers.


Lethe

Lethe

Author: Harald Weinrich

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9780801441936

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Harald Weinrich's epilogue considers forgetting in the present age of information overflow, particularly in the area of the natural sciences."--Jacket.


Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

Author: George Gordon Byron

Publisher:

Published: 2018-06-24

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9781721826551

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Rare edition with unique illustrations and elegant classic cream paper. Classics by Byron. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage is a lengthy narrative poem in four parts written by Lord Byron. The poem describes the travels and reflections of a world-weary young man who, disillusioned with a life of pleasure and revelry, looks for distraction in foreign lands. Includes illustrations.


Ruskin in Italy: Letters to His Parents, 1845

Ruskin in Italy: Letters to His Parents, 1845

Author: John Ruskin

Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press

Published: 1972

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13:

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"The letters Ruskin wrote home almost daily during his Italian tour of 1845 are here fully published for the first time. The tour had an immediate effect on the first two volumes of Modern Painters and marks the beginning of Ruskin's lifelong concern with Italian painting and with Italian Romanesque and Gothic architecture. The letters record the influences on him, his changing views and feelings, and are therefore an essential document for the understanding of his development as a critic. They also contribute a good deal of evidence toward the understanding of his enormously important relationship with his ageing parents. Not least important, the letters taken altogether make a delightful travel book, for they were written not only to inform, but to entertain"--Jacket.


The Italian Renaissance

The Italian Renaissance

Author: John Harold Plumb

Publisher: Mariner Books

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 9780618127382

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Spanning an age that witnessed great achievements in the arts and sciences, this definitive overview of the Italian Renaissance will both captivate ordinary readers and challenge specialists. Dr. Plumb’s impressive and provocative narrative is accompanied by contributions from leading historians, including Morris Bishop, J. Bronowski, Maria Bellonci, and many more, who have further illuminated the lives of some of the era’s most unforgettable personalities, from Petrarch to Pope Pius II, Michelangelo to Isabella d'Este, Machiavelli to Leonardo. A highly readable and engaging volume, THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE is a perfect introduction to the movement that shaped the Western world.


The Bourbons of Naples, 1734-1825

The Bourbons of Naples, 1734-1825

Author: Harold Acton

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2009-02

Total Pages: 768

ISBN-13: 9780571249015

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Naples is one of Europe's most fascinating cities and the ruling dynasty which left its mark more than any other was that of the Bourbons, who arrived in 1734 and were only displaced by the Unification of Italy in 1870. Before that time Naples was the largest of the Italian kingdoms and, with Pompeii and Vesuvius as its main attractions, it drew hundreds of aristocratic travellers and visitors in the 18th century. The city also attracted the armies of revolutionary France and the royal family escaped to Sicily thanks to Admiral Nelson. The Bourbons of Naples was welcomed as a masterpiece at the time of first publication in 1956, and was chosen by Sir Osbert Sitwell as his book of the year. Sir Harold Acton (1904-1994) - famous aesthete and historian - brings 18th-century Naples vividly to life, with unforgettable characters such as Lady Hamilton and Nelson, royal eccentrics and plenty of court intrigue. 'An elaborate comedy of manners played out over 700 pages.' The Times