American Painting

American Painting

Author: Francesca Castria Marchetti

Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13:

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Spanning ten periods, this remarkable history features the work of nearly eighty legendary American artists. Annotation. Editor Marchetti is joined by two other art historians, Roberta Bernabei and Stefano Ruzzi, in presenting 400 landmark American paintings. Seventy-seven painters are represented, each with several thoroughly captioned paintings (full- or half-page) and biographical and interpretive text. Arrangement is chronological, beginning with the Anglo-Saxon tradition and continuing with the discovery of the West, the taste for reality, and American impressionists, through abstract expressionism and pop art and graffiti. Each era is briefly overviewed. The book was originally published in Italian.


Companion to Medieval and Renaissance Music

Companion to Medieval and Renaissance Music

Author: Tess Knighton

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 9780520210813

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With contributions from a range of internationally known early music scholars and performers, Tess Knighton and David Fallows provide a lively new survey of music and culture in Europe from the beginning of the Christian era to 1600. Fifty essays comment on the social, historical, theoretical, and performance contexts of the music and musicians of the period to offer fresh perspectives on musical styles, research sources, and performance practices of the medieval and Renaissance periods.


Women & Music

Women & Music

Author: Karin Pendle

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2001-04-22

Total Pages: 529

ISBN-13: 0253115035

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The second edition of the “milestone” work of history that focuses on female musicians through the ages (College Music Symposium). This updated, expanded, and reorganized edition of Women and Music features even more women composers, performers, and patrons, even more musical contexts, and an expanded view of women in music outside Europe and North America. A popular university textbook, Women and Music is enlightening for scholars, a good source of programming ideas for performers, and a pleasure for other music lovers.


Music and Women

Music and Women

Author: Sophie Drinker

Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13: 9781558611160

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First paperback edition of this classic, cross-cultural history of women and their relationship to music through the centuries.


Marble Skin

Marble Skin

Author: Slavenka Drakulić

Publisher: W. W. Norton

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 9780393034776

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Her mother's attempted suicide forces a young woman to relive her childhood years, confronting the ghost of sexual conflict that haunts both hers and her mother's past. By the author of How We Survived Communism.


Dante

Dante

Author: Erich Auerbach

Publisher: New York Review of Books

Published: 2007-01-16

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9781590172193

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Erich Auerbach’s Dante: Poet of the Secular World is an inspiring introduction to one of world’s greatest poets as well as a brilliantly argued and still provocative essay in the history of ideas. Here Auerbach, thought by many to be the greatest of twentieth-century scholar-critics, makes the seemingly paradoxical claim that it is in the poetry of Dante, supreme among religious poets, and above all in the stanzas of his Divine Comedy, that the secular world of the modern novel first took imaginative form. Auerbach’s study of Dante, a precursor and necessary complement to Mimesis, his magisterial overview of realism in Western literature, illuminates both the overall structure and the individual detail of Dante’s work, showing it to be an extraordinary synthesis of the sensuous and the conceptual, the particular and the universal, that redefined notions of human character and fate and opened the way into modernity. CONTENTS I. Historical Introduction; The Idea of Man in Literature II. Dante's Early Poetry III. The Subject of the "Comedy" IV. The Structure of the "Comedy" V. The Presentation VI. The Survival and Transformation of Dante's Vision of Reality Notes Index


Francesca Caccini's Il primo libro delle musiche of 1618

Francesca Caccini's Il primo libro delle musiche of 1618

Author: Francesca Caccini

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2004-06-18

Total Pages: 90

ISBN-13: 0253110092

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Francesca Caccini (1587--ca.1640) was an accomplished composer, singer, and instrumentalist in the tradition of the Florentine Camerata. Her 1618 volume Il primo libro delle musiche was dedicated to her patron the Cardinal de' Medici (1596--1666). This modern critical edition presents 17 secular monodies for one and two voices with figured bass accompaniment from this landmark collection. The book includes text translations, biographical and stylistic essays, recommendations on performance practice, and other commentary.