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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.
The Age of Enlightenment profoundly enriched religious and philosophical understanding and continues to influence present-day thinking. Works collected here include masterpieces by David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as religious sermons and moral debates on the issues of the day, such as the slave trade. The Age of Reason saw conflict between Protestantism and Catholicism transformed into one between faith and logic -- a debate that continues in the twenty-first century.
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T143571

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Dublin : printed by P. Byrne, 1787. [4],45,[3]p. ; 8° ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Adagio Pour Cordes, Vanessa, Concerto Pour Violon de Barber, Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Concerto Pour Violoncelle de Barber, First Essay for Orchestra. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : L'Adagio pour cordes est une œuvre pour orchestre à cordes, arrangée par le compositeur Samuel Barber à partir de son premier quatuor à cordes. C'est l'œuvre la plus connue de Barber. L'Adagio pour cordes provient d'un mouvement de son quatuor à cordes n° 1, Op. 11, composé en 1936. Il suit un premier mouvement brutal et très différent, et précède une courte reprise de cette musique. En janvier 1938, Barber envoya le morceau à Arturo Toscanini. Le chef d'orchestre rendit la partition sans commentaire, et Barber, vexé, évita de le revoir. Toscanini lui envoya alors un mot par le biais d'un ami, disant qu'il envisageait de jouer l'œuvre et qu'il la lui avait rendue parce qu'il l'avait déjà mémorisée. L'arrangement de Barber lui-même pour orchestre à cordes fut créé par Arturo Toscanini avec l'orchestre symphonique de la NBC le 5 novembre 1938 à New York. Le compositeur arrangea aussi le morceau en 1967 pour un chœur de huit chanteurs, sous forme d'Agnus Dei. L'œuvre utilise une forme d'arc : une mélodie ascendante semblable à une marche est inversée, étendue et soumise à des variations. Le long flot de la ligne mélodique se déploie librement au sein de l'ensemble des cordes, par exemple, la première section de l'Adagio commence par la cellule mélodique principale jouée par les premiers violons, mais s'achève avec sa reprise par les altos, transposée en quinte. Les altos poursuivent une variation sur la cellule mélodique dans la deuxième section, les contrebasses restent silencieuses, y compris sur la section suivan...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Chapters: Excursions, Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Adagio for Strings, Violin Concerto, Prayers of Kierkegaard, List of Compositions by Samuel Barber, Piano Concerto, Summer Music for Wind Quintet, Hermit Songs, Symphony in One Movement, Piano Sonata, Cello Concerto, Medea's Dance of Vengeance, Capricorn Concerto, Essay for Orchestra, the School for Scandal, Cello Sonata, Second Essay for Orchestra. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 83. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Excursions, Op. 20, is the first published solo piano piece by Samuel Barber. Barber himself explains, These are Excursions in small classical forms into regional American idioms. Their rhythmic characteristics, as well as their source in folk material and their scoring, reminiscent of local instruments are easily recognized. This is typical of neo-Romantic composers such as Barber. As Susan Carter explains in her Dissertation, The Piano Music of Samuel Barber, that neo-Romantic composers returned to a style characterized by broad lyricism and dramatic expression. She also states that the traditional structures of form from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were conserved while drawing upon a contemporary technical vocabulary. From a Boogie-woogie style of a five-part Rondo to a theme and variations of a well known cowboy ballad, and even to a barn yard dance with a fiddler, Barber uses each style effectively and accurately, according to the neo-Romantic ideas. Before composing his Piano Sonata, Samuel Barber was asked by Jeanna Behrend, a personal friend of his and an accomplished pianist, to write a longer, more involved piece for piano that would be appropriate to perform on one of her programs of American music. Of course Barber obliged and in June 1942, the first movement of Excursions was completed. As it ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=22635924 ... Read more

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Chapters: Leonard Bernstein, Samuel Barber, Nino Rota, Mark Lawrence, Ned Rorem, Vincent Persichetti, Juan Diego Flórez, Hilary Hahn, Lang Lang, Jean Kraft, Daron Hagen, Rose Bampton, Gianna Rolandi, Yuja Wang, Gian Carlo Menotti, Frank Guarrera, Margaret Harshaw, Yoonjung Han, Alan Gilbert, Jacques Singer, Anna Moffo, Jorge Bolet, Sean Kennard, Shura Cherkassky, Lee Hoiby, David Horne, Jennifer Higdon, Shuler Hensley, Joseph Alessi, Jesse Ceci, Arnold Jacobs, Tim Fain, Natalie Bodanya, Katherine Ciesinski, Lukas Foss, Michael Stern, Tim Cobb, Susan Starr, Andre-Michel Schub, Chin Kim, Peter Serkin, Stanley Hollingsworth, Jonathan Biss, Benita Valente, Cecile Licad, Ignat Solzhenitsyn, Leila Josefowicz, Jennifer Stumm, Rinat Shaham, Paul Jacobs, Ilkka Talvi, David Brooks, Juan Carlos Lomonaco, Ellen Faull, Vinson Cole, Tõnu Kalam, Warren Benfield, Anshel Brusilow, Alexander Mccurdy, Leslie Spotz, Leonard Rose, Leonard Kastle, Jennifer Koh, Sylvan Levin, Shmuel Ashkenasi, Eugene Istomin, Janet Perry, James Adler, Lorne Munroe, Richard Goode, Florence Kirk, Virginia Macwatters, Janee Munroe, Anthony Mcgill, Frank Miller, David Shifrin, Eleanor Sokoloff, Leonard Treash, Nicolas Chumachenco, Sean Osborn, Richard Elliott, Arnold Steinhardt, William Cochran, George Chandler Chase, Ken Cowan, Marion Zarzeczna, Kit Armstrong, David Barnett, Judy Kang, Leon Mccawley, Burt Hara, David Ludwig, Alan Morrison, David N. Johnson. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 397. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Leonard Bernstein (pronounced , dict: ; August 25, 1918 October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, author, music lecturer and pianist. He was among the first conductors born and educated in the United States of America to receive worldwide acclaim. He was probably best known to the public a...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=43282 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Goffredo Petrassi, Howard Hanson, Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, Bohuslav Martinů, Werner Janssen, Leon Kirchner, Elliott Carter, Lukas Foss, David Del Tredici, Roger Sessions, Gail Kubik, Aaron Jay Kernis, Salvatore Martirano, Earle Brown, Rand Steiger. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Goffredo Petrassi (Zagarolo, Province de Rome, 16 juillet 1904 - Rome, 3 mars 2003) est un compositeur italien. Il est diplômé du Conservatoire de Rome, au début des années 30, en composition et orgue. Avec Partita per orchestra en 1932 - considérée comme repère de sa période néoclassique - Petrassi obtient la renommée internationale, en gagnant l'année suivante le premier prix au festival de musique contemporaine du Syndicat national des musiciens. Au milieu des années 30, démarre la phase du baroque romain, lorsque Petrassi, au moment des innovations de Stravinski, Hindemith, Malipiero et Casella, s'intéresse à la musique du siècle et du siècle, avec des œuvres fortement influencées par l'art baroque romain, comme Salmo IX, Magnificat et Quatre Hymnes sacrés. Dans cette perspective on peut inscrire l'utilisation du clavecin, instrument auquel Petrassi, comme plusieurs autres compositeurs contemporains, a donné une nouvelle vie après l'oubli souffert pendant le siècle. Ensuite, à partir du Chœur de morts composé au début de la guerre sur une poésie de Giacomo Leopardi et le Dialogue de Federico Ruysch, l'attitude de Petrassi se fait plus libre et autonome en s'approchant au filon expressionniste et atonal. Ce parcours culmine dans la série des huit Concertos pour orchestre composés sur une période de quarante ans, de 1934 à 1972, dans lesquels on observe le passage graduel des influences initiales de Stravinski à...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.
The Age of Enlightenment profoundly enriched religious and philosophical understanding and continues to influence present-day thinking. Works collected here include masterpieces by David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as religious sermons and moral debates on the issues of the day, such as the slave trade. The Age of Reason saw conflict between Protestantism and Catholicism transformed into one between faith and logic -- a debate that continues in the twenty-first century.
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T121322

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Samuel Osborne Barber II (March 9, 1910 - January 23, 1981) was an American composer of orchestral, opera, choral, and piano music. His Adagio for Strings is his most popular composition and widely considered a masterpiece of modern classical music. He was twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize for music, for his opera Vanessa and his Concerto for Piano and Orchestra. His Knoxville: Summer of 1915, a work for soprano and orchestra, was an acclaimed setting of prose by James Agee. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from American Music Teacher, published by Music Teachers National Association, Inc. on October 1, 2010. The length of the article is 438 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Samuel Barber Early Piano Works.(Book review)
Author: Christopher Hahn
Publication: American Music Teacher (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 2010
Publisher: Music Teachers National Association, Inc.
Volume: 60Issue: 2Page: 50(2)

Article Type: Book review

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La música para piano de Samuel Barber es un trabajo que intenta recoger las composiciones para piano del compositor americano, ver el origen, su estreno y su repercusión en la música para piano. El libro se acerca a la vida del compositor americano, a las influencias en su música y sus características compositivas desde un punto de vista histórico y práctico. Este trabajo es fruto de una investigación histórica-analítica realizada para el proyecto final de la carrera de piano en el año 2006, en el conservatorio superior de música de Granada. ... Read more

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