Songs from the Eternal City
Author: Susan Rae Cacho
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
Published: 2009-11
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 1434903702
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Author: Susan Rae Cacho
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
Published: 2009-11
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 1434903702
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Elizabeth McCahill
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2013-10-14
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 0674726154
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1420, after more than one hundred years of the Avignon Exile and the Western Schism, the papal court returned to Rome, which had become depopulated, dangerous, and impoverished in the papacy's absence. Reviving the Eternal City examines the culture of Rome and the papal court during the first half of the fifteenth century. As Elizabeth McCahill explains, during these decades Rome and the Curia were caught between conflicting realities--between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, between conciliarism and papalism, between an image of Rome as a restored republic and a dream of the city as a papal capital. Through the testimony of humanists' rhetorical texts and surviving archival materials, McCahill reconstructs the niche that scholars carved for themselves as they penned vivid descriptions of Rome and offered remedies for contemporary social, economic, religious, and political problems. In addition to analyzing the humanists' intellectual and professional program, McCahill investigates the different agendas that popes Martin V (1417-1431) and Eugenius IV (1431-1447) and their cardinals had for the post-Schism pontificate. Reviving the Eternal City illuminates an urban environment in transition and explores the ways in which curialists collaborated and competed to develop Rome's ancient legacy into a potent cultural myth.
Author: Peter Bondanella
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2017-11-01
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 1469620677
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA major new interpretation of the impact of ancient Rome on our culture, this study charts the effects of two diametrically opposed views of Roman antiquity: the virtuous republic of self-less citizen soldiers and the corrupt empire of power-hungry tyrants. The power of these images is second only to those derived from Christianity in constructing our modern culture. Few modern readers are aware of how indebted we are to the Roman model of our political philosophy, art, music, cinema, opera, and drama. Originally published in 1987. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Author: Beryl Foster
Publisher: Boydell Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9781843833437
DOWNLOAD EBOOKComprehensive survey of Grieg's 180 songs, considering particularly questions and issues of performance. Edvard Grieg's 180 songs mirror his artistic and personal development more intimately than any of his other music, yet are still the least known part of his output. This definitive appraisal, now revised and updated, discusses every song, including those left only in manuscript and sketches at the composer's death, set against the background of his life and times. It also deals with the poetry set, often chosen to reflect his current situation, and the poets, several of whom, including great figures of the day such as Ibsen and Bjornson, were his friends and colleagues. Grieg frequently bemoaned poor translations and indifferent performances, and the various editions and translations, from first publication to the present day, are also discussed, together with his own ideas for interpretation. Musical examples and analysis are included to give a closer understanding of Grieg's word-setting and harmonic development, although their performance is always kept paramount. BERYL FOSTER is a graduate of London University and studied singing in Colchester and at the Royal College of Music. As well as all the usual repertoire, since 1980 she has made a particular study of the songs of Grieg and other Norwegian composers, giving recitals, lectures and workshops in Britain, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy and China. She is also a private teacher andfestival adjudicator.
Author: Olabode Ososami
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 389
ISBN-13: 1477246185
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSongs of Joseph is a Bible Devotional themed around the story of Joseph as found in Holy Scriptures. There are daily devotions and guides for Bible study for an all year round Bible study of the topic which can be used also as an inspirational study guide to augment other daily devotionals. There are also songs, hymns and poems carefully selected for further inspiration on the title for the day.
Author: M. Basil Pennington
Publisher: SkyLight Paths Publishing
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 1594730040
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the tradition of Christian mysticism, including Bernard of Clarivaux, Gregory the Great, and Ambrose of Milan, the well-known Cistercian abbot shares his reflections on the Bible's most challenging mystical text.
Author: J. A. Fuller Maitland
Publisher:
Published: 1906
Total Pages: 898
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: J. H. Tenney
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2024-01-28
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13: 3385246032
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Author: M. Basil Pennington, OCSO
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Published: 2012-06-14
Total Pages: 133
ISBN-13: 1594734569
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLet Your Deepest Soul Rejoice! In the tradition of Christian mysticism, including Bernard of Clairvaux, Gregory the Great, and Ambrose of Milan, M. Basil Pennington shares his reflections on the Bible's most challenging mystical text, the ancient love poem that is the Song of Songs. In this extraordinary volume, Pennington is joined by the profound Jewish artist Phillip Ratner, whose inspired works call forth from Pennington not only transcendent prayer and rich analogy but also the deepest sentiments that are common to every human mind and heart. Pennington reflects on the ways you can use the Song of Songs to fulfill your own unutterable aspirations. Enriched by Jewish and Christian faith, the drawings and meditations speak to you and every person who desires to connect with their deepest, most human longings. Allow yourself to let go and delve into the poetry of Song of Songs, to find joy in the boundless love of God for you, the beloved child. Allow yourself to experience this story of love—human love yearning for the Divine.
Author: Patrick Paul Macey
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9780198166696
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFra Girolamo Savonarola had a profound effect on the political and moral life of Florence in the 1490s, and his legacy lived on during the century after his execution in 1498, not just in Florence but in Ferrara and beyond the Alps, as far as Paris, Munich, and London. This study reconstructscontexts and musical settings for the popular tradition of sacred laude that were sung during the Savonarolan carnivals in 1496, 1497, and 1498. It further examines a broad network of patronage for the courtly tradition of Latin motets that provided elaborate musical settings for Savonarola'smeditations on Psalms 30 and 50. The friar's success in Florence can be partially attributed to his adoption of sacred laude (and the tunes of bawdy carnival songs) that had been promoted by Lorenzo de' Medici. The texts of the old carnival songs were suppressed, but the music was adapted to laudewith texts that proclaim the friar's prophecy of castigation and renewal. The citizens could thus internalize Savonarola's message by singing it. Savonarola himself wrote several lauda texts, and their musical settings are reconstructed here, as well as those for an underground tradition of laudewritten to venerate him after his execution. Part II turns to the courtly tradition and the Latin motet. Several Catholic patrons, scattered from Ferrara to France to England, were drawn to the friar's prison meditation on Psalms 30 and 50, and they commissioned elaborate musical settings of the opening words of both. A dozen motets on thefriar's psalm meditations can be traced from composes such as Willaert, Rore, Le Jeune, Lassus, and Byrd. Savonarola's highly personal texts inspired some of the most moving musical setings of the sixteenth century, in spite of the Church's unfavourable attitude toward the friar's disruptiveexample, which had set a precedent for Protestant reformers such as Martin Luther.