The Rest Is Noise
The Rest Is Noise

Author: Alex Ross

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published: 2007-10-16

Total Pages: 706

ISBN-13: 1429932880

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Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007 Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007 A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007 In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between the century's most influential composers and the wider culture. The Rest Is Noise is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music.

Song of the Nibelungs
Song of the Nibelungs

Author:

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2008-01-08

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 9780300125986

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It portrays the existential struggles and downfall of an entire people, the Burgundians, in a military conflict with the Huns and their king."--Jacket.

The New Grove Guide to Wagner and His Operas
The New Grove Guide to Wagner and His Operas

Author: Barry Millington

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 0195305884

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The most controversial musical figure of the 19th century, Richard Wagner was a great literary, philosophical, and political activist. Drawing from contemporary scholarship, this biography provides different insights into his life and works.

The Multiversity: Mastermen (2015-) #1
The Multiversity: Mastermen (2015-) #1

Author: Grant Morrison

Publisher: DC

Published:

Total Pages: 46

ISBN-13:

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Imagine a world where the Nazis not only won World War II but went on to direct world culture for the next 60 years with the help of an orphaned, alien super-weapon known as Overman! But hope is not lost! Rising from the ashes of oppression is a diverse band of heroes raging against the fascist regime--a band of heroes known as THE FREEDOM FIGHTERS!

Bulletin
Bulletin

Author: Cincinnati (Ohio), Public Library

Publisher:

Published: 1896

Total Pages: 774

ISBN-13:

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Rackham's Color Illustrations for Wagner's "Ring"
Rackham's Color Illustrations for Wagner's

Author: Arthur Rackham

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2013-07-02

Total Pages: 75

ISBN-13: 0486319008

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This edition of Rackham's images, widely regarded as the greatest representations of Wagner's drama, comprises 64 full-page color illustrations and 9 vignettes from Siegfried, The Twilight of the Gods, The Rhinegold, and The Valkyrie.