Prince Juan

Prince Juan

Author: Alpha Villanea

Publisher: FriesenPress

Published: 2018-01-05

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 1525509888

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This is the story of Prince Juan’s journey to find true love and assume his father’s throne. He has three months to find a princess of his own to love and marry, or else be forced to marry the one his father, the king, has chosen for him. He sets out on a quest to find his true love, and meets Princess Maria, who comes from a magical family within a magical kingdom. They fall very much in love, but her father, King Solomon, doesn’t want to lose his beloved daughter, and so challenges Juan to pass three nearly impossible tests in order to prove himself worthy of marrying Maria. With no real magic of his own, will Prince Juan be able to win both Maria’s love and her hand in marriage or will an ancient family curse stand in the way of their happily ever after?


The Music of Juan de Anchieta

The Music of Juan de Anchieta

Author: Tess Knighton

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-04-01

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 1317023439

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This book explores Juan de Anchieta’s life and his music and, for the first time, presents a critical study of the life and works of a major Spanish composer from the time of Ferdinand and Isabel. A key figure in musical developments in Spain in the decades around 1500, Anchieta served in the Castilian royal chapel for over thirty years, from his appointment in 1489 as a singer in the household of Queen Isabel, and he continued to receive a pension from her grandson, the Emperor Charles V, until his death in 1523. He traveled to Flanders in the service of the Catholic Monarchs’ daughter Juana, and was briefly music master to Charles himself. Anchieta, along with Francisco de Peñalosa, his contemporary in the Aragonese chapel, and a few others, was a key figure in the rise of elaborate written polyphony in the Spain of Josquin’s time. The book brings together two of the leading specialists in Spanish music of the era in order to review and revise the rich biographical material relating to Anchieta’s life, and the historiographical traditions which have dominated its telling. After a biographical overview, the chapters focus on specific genres of his music, sacred and secular, with suggestions as to a possible chronology of his work based on its codicology and style, and consideration of the contexts in which it was conceived and performed. A final chapter summarizes his achievement and his influence in his own time and after his death. As the first comprehensive study of Anchieta’s life and works, The Music of Juan de Anchieta is an essential addition to the history of Spanish music.


Juan Carlos of Spain

Juan Carlos of Spain

Author: Charles Powell

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-07-27

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 1349244236

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Widely acknowledged as a key figure in Spain's remarkable transition to democracy following General Franco's death in 1975, King Juan Carlos consolidated his reputation as a champion of democracy by aborting the attempted military coup of 23 February 1981. This political biography of the Spanish monarch sheds new light on his childhood, the process whereby he became Franco's successor in 1969, his subsequent contribution to his nation's democratization, and his role as constitutional monarch since 1978, both at home and abroad.


Don Juan: His Own Version

Don Juan: His Own Version

Author: Peter Handke

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published: 2010-02-15

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13: 1429936347

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Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke offers a wry and entertaining take on history's most famous seducer as he takes a respite from his stressful existence Don Juan's story—"his own version"—is filtered through the consciousness of an anonymous narrator, a failed innkeeper and chef, into whose solitude Don Juan bursts one day. On each day of the week that follows, Don Juan describes the adventures he experienced on that same day a week earlier. The adventures are erotic, but Handke's Don Juan is more pursued than pursuer. What makes his accounts riveting are the remarkable evocations of places and people, and the nature of his narration. Don Juan: His Own Version is, above all, a book about storytelling and its ability to burst the ordinary boundaries of time and space. In this brief and wry volume, Peter Handke conjures images and depicts the subtleties of human interaction with an unforgettable vividness. Along the way, he offers a sharp commentary on many features of contemporary life.