Victorian Pride - Victorian Wedding Songs
Victorian Pride - Victorian Wedding Songs

Author: Diane Janowski

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2008-02

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 0615198317

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Victorian weddings evoke thoughts of romance, elegance, and gentility. It is no wonder that many couples today consider a Victorian theme for their own weddings. If you're planning a Victorian themed wedding and need charming authentic Victorian wedding songs for your musicians to play. Our collection includes 28 Victorian wedding marches, processionals, polkas, waltzes, Mothers' Songs, Dances, and songs for Wedding Anniversaries and Receptions written between 1872 and 1885. Songs include "Yankee Wedding March," "Dulciana Wedding March," "My Wife and I Waltz," "Wedding Reception Galop," "Silver Wedding Waltz," and "The Wedding Polonaise," and many more. Third in a series of historic American hometown sheet music books. 163 pages.

British Sociability in the European Enlightenment
British Sociability in the European Enlightenment

Author: Sebastian Domsch

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-01-19

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 3030525678

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This volume covers a broad range of everyday private and public, touristic, commercial and fictional encounters between Britons and continental Europeans, in a variety of situations and places: moments that led to a meaningful exchange of opinions, practices, or concepts such as friendship or politeness. It argues that, taken together, travel accounts, commercial advice, letters, novels and philosophical works of the long eighteenth century, reveal the growing impact of British sociability on the sociable practices on the continent, and correspondingly, the convivial turn of the Enlightenment. In particular, the essays collected here discuss the ways and means – in conversations, through travel guides or literary works – by which readers and writers grappled with their cultural differences in the field of sociability. The first part deals with travellers, the second section with the spreading of various cultural practices, and the third with fictional encounters in philosophical dialogues and novels.

Foundations of Musical Grammar
Foundations of Musical Grammar

Author: Lawrence Michael Zbikowski

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0190653639

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How is it that humans are able to organize seemingly random sounds into the captivating sonic structures we call music? In this volume, Lawrence M. Zbikowski argues that humans' unique ability to correlate sounds with dynamic processes provides the basis for the construction of meaningful musical utterances - that is, a foundation for musical grammar. Building on a framework for grammar developed by cognitive linguists over the past three decades and the pathbreaking research set out in his earlier book, Conceptualizing Music (OUP 2002), Zbikowski explains how the ability to draw analogies between widely differing domains allowing humans to connect sequences of musical sounds with emotion processes, physical gestures, and the steps of dance. He shows how these connections underpin an evocative movement from a cantata by J.S. Bach, guide our understanding of gestural choreographies by Fred Astaire and Charlie Chaplin, and frame connections between movement and music in French courtly dance and the Viennese waltz. Through thorough surveys of research in cognitive science and careful analyses of works by composers ranging from Bach, Brahms, and Schubert to Jerome Kern, Zbikowski explores the unique resources for communication offered by music and examines how these differ from those of language. Foundations of Musical Grammar is sure to be an instant - and enticingly controversial - classic within the evolving literature addressing the many complex intersections of music and language. -- from dust jacket.