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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Profusely illustrated history of the life and work of the 5 great master craftsmen of the Guarneri family and the definitive commentary on their craftsmanship. An absolute must for collectors, connoisseurs, musical historians and students. Also includes lists of Guarneri violins still existing. 131 photographs, 16 in full color.
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wonderful book regarding Guarneri violins
I bought this book because there is a little in the Wikipedia regarding Guarneri violins. This book has two chapters dedicated to the best violin maker of this family - Guarneri Del Gesu, who is regarded as comparable to Antonio Stradivari. There are not only black and white photos of the violins of different periods, but also some good color photos of the famous Guarneri violins. The appendices contains dimensional information about the Guarneri violins made in different period. I highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in Guarneri violins and the history of the violin.

Wonderful resource!
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R2560FC2HCUWYR A must for all violin scholars, students and makers.Gives information, text, and shows labels of the different makers so you can identify authentic labels.

Great for Beginners
recommended by a great luthier friend as a beginner "must read" book. He was totally right!

The Violin-Makers of the Guarneri Family
This is a wonderful comprehensive book about the Guarneri violin-makers.Since I own two Guarneri-labeled violins and wanted to know whether either was made by that family, this book answered my questions.The fate of most genuine Guarneri violins is already known(they were destroyed by fire or other means or are owned by private individuals or are in museums). In the case of my two violins, there is a 'fictictious' label (as the authors describe and show in a photo), in both of my violins. That was disappointing to learn but it enabled me to buy a very nice-sounding violin at minimal cost (my second so-called 'Guarnerius') from the late 1770's even though it was apparently not made by the Guarneri family. If you own a violin with a Guarnerius label, it would be quite useful for you to own a copy of this book to determine its authenticity. The enormous and detailed research done by the Hill family makes this book well worth its reasonable price (at least at Amazon.com) where I bought my copy this year.

Essential information, but...
I would prefer to have my questions answered concerning this book.I have read this book thoroughly many times;what I wonder is what makes this book "collectible" and worth [price] rather than [price], as no description is given other than "paperback".Thank you. ... Read more

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The True Beginnings of Australian and New Zealand Music
This book is for anyone wanting to research the origins of Western musical culture in the Antipodes, with a close look at "the grandfather of Australian music" the composer and teacher Alfred Hill. Almostforgotten by his countrymen today, author John Mansfield Thompsonacknowledges for the first time in this authoratitive book the importanceof a fascinating life in music lived "down under" far from themore universally known and appreciated cultural mainstreams of Europe andAmerica at the turn of the twentieth century.Hill used enormous personalinfluence and creative resource to initially help found the earlyorchestras and choral societies inAustralia and New Zealand and was arevered teacher and conductor in his own time. Receiving his musicaltraining in Europe at a time when names like Brahms, Tchaikovsky and Griegwere around, he is in some ways the creative figure who brought the flavourof all this music and the culture surrounding it to his antipodean home. An important chapter in the musical history of "down under" foranybody interested in knowing what was going on there musically in theearly part of last century. ... Read more

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Publisher: New York : J. MillerPublication date: 1864Subjects: Louisiana -- Politics and government 1861-1865Confederate States of America -- Politics and governmentNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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Originally published in 1864.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1864Original Publisher: J. MillerSubjects: LouisianaConfederate States of AmericaUnited StatesBiography ... Read more

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Excellent book for violin lovers
I bought the authors' book regarding Guarneri family because this information is not available in Wikipedia. From this book I learned that the authors are expert violin makers. The Guarneri book demonstrated the authors' serious research efforts. This makes me buy this book. As in the Guarneri book, this book has many nice color photos and black/white photos. The discussion about material, construction, and varnish are all very interesting and well explained. The dimension information regarding Strad, Amati and Gurneri violins are informative. I highly recommend this book to everyone who loves violin.

It remains the definitive text a century later
The style may seem quaint, but if you have spent any time at all reading scholarly works from this time period, you will find that Hill's prose is far from unreadable.By and large, I continue to find Hill's style to be readily approachable after 3 decades worth of repeated readings.

In any case, the prose is not what makes this work invaluable.Like another reviewer stated, you cannot do any study of Stradivari instruments without first consulting Hill, and Hill remains the foundation of all scholarly work concerning Stradivari, even a century later.While not exactly for laymen, nonetheless this book is relatively accessible to those who have only a passing knowledge in stringed instruments.For those more expert, Hill remains the essential starting point.If you have a young violinist in your family, I would recommend this book as a gift.I still have my decades-old book, received one Christmas long long ago, and I am glad that I got it.

One of the essential texts
This is perhaps the most important book ever published relating to the topics of violin making and the unchallenged greatest maker of all times. The Hills are the most respected scholars, ever, of the violin, and this was a landmark publication in 1902 and remains so. Under the quaint language is the information that subsequent scholars have used as the basis of their understanding of Stradivari's work (and stolen for the basis of many of their own articles and books), and almost everything written in the book is still considered accurate--an unprecedented event in violin publishing, where there's much more myth than fact in many books, especially those of the past, many of which are essentially fiction posing as non-fiction. There is simply no reason not to own this book if you are interested in violins.

Good, but very long winded
This is a good book for people who want to learn more about the greatItalian luthier, but it definitely has its flaws. The book was writtenaround the turn of the 20th century and its style is very stilted andconvuluted. I often had the feeling the authors could have conveyed theinformation they give us in two pages in one paragraph. Also, their worshipof anything related to Stradivari gets to be a bit much after awhile.Still, this is the book to turn to for information on this great violinmaker. ... Read more

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In the nineteenth century, most people assumed that the “modern spirit” and Catholicism, the great “religion of authority,” were irreconcilably opposed. However, some tried to combine the two in a reformed and modernized Catholicism. These efforts, and the reaction of the institutional Church against them, precipitated the Modernist Crisis.

Alfred Loisy (1857–1940) was at the center of this dramatic conflict between advocates and opponents of “modernity.” Loisy believed that his adoption of scientific methods to study the Bible and the history of Christianity necessarily committed him to a campaign to modernize Catholicism as a whole. In this book, Harvey Hill describes the emergence, articulation, and ultimate fate of Loisy’s reform program as he interacted with allies and opponents of his modernizing agenda.

By tracing Loisy’s early intellectual and religious development in more detail than have previous scholars, Hill shows how Loisy self-consciously placed his historical scholarship at the service of a positive reform agenda from the very beginning of his ecclesiastical career and that he viewed this reform agenda as an intrinsic part of his critical work. Drawing on some of Loisy’s unpublished writings and little-known articles, Hill goes on to demonstrate that Loisy’s efforts to reform Catholicism presupposed a new view of the nature and limits of Church authority in relation to the secular state as well as to modern scholarship. Hill uses Loisy’s political views to illustrate the more general challenge to ecclesiastical authority that was, again, an intrinsic part of the modern scientific study of religion as Loisy understood it.

Hill’s interpretation of Loisy and the theology and politics of the scientific study of religion will interest students of Catholic Modernism, the history of modern religion, and the emergence of religious studies as an academic discipline. ... Read more

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This book an EXACT reproduction of the original book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Macpherson, the Confederate philosopher.Gale Archival Editions: On Demand are digital copies of rare and out-of-print historical content. Delivered where and when you need them, Gale Archival Editions arrive complete with original fonts, marks, notations, punctuation and spelling, giving you the feeling of owning the original work. These images of original works—from the world's leading libraries—include everything from books to pamphlets, many with original illustrations, indexes, maps and other annotations. Sourced from Joseph Sabin's Bibliotheca Americana: A Dictionary of Books Relating to America from its Discovery to the Present Time (1868-1936), the Sabin American Civil War Collection includes thousands of titles on all topics related to the Civil War experience. ... Read more

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This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Volume: 6; Subjects: Minnesota; Dakota Indians; Military pensions; Frontier and pioneer life; Indians of North America; Fort Snelling (Minn.); Indian captivities; Ojibwa Indians; Missions; Mounds; Mississippi River; Red River Settlement; History / Native American; Religion / Christian Ministry / Missions; Social Science / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies; Travel / General; Travel / Essays ... Read more

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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With An Appendix. ... Read more

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Titles are: Better Days
* The Hard Way
* I Love You
* Just to Hear You Say That You Love Me
* Let Me Let Go
* Love Ain't Like That
* Me
* My Wild Frontier
* The Secret of Life
* Somebody Stand by Me
* This Kiss
* You Give Me Love. ... Read more