Beethoven's Symphonies Arranged for the Chamber: Sociability, Reception, and Canon Formation
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1108831753 | 277 Pages | PDF | 13 MB
Early nineteenth-century composers, publishers and writers evolved influential ideals of Beethoven's symphonies as untouchable masterpieces. Meanwhile, many and various arrangements of symphonies, principally for amateur performers, supported diverse and 'hands-on' cultivation of the same works. Now mostly forgotten, these arrangements served a vital function in nineteenth-century musical life, extending works' meanings and reach, especially to women in the home. This book places domestic music-making back into the history of the classical symphony. It investigates a largely untapped wealth of early nineteenth-century arrangements of symphonies by Beethoven - for piano, string quartet, mixed quintet and other ensembles. The study focuses on three key agents in the nineteenth-century culture of musical arrangement: arrangers, publishers and performers. It investigates significant functions of those musical arrangements in the era: sociability, reception and canon formation. The volume also explores how conceptions of Beethoven's symphonies, and their arrangement, changed across the era with changing conception of musical works.

Beauty and the Beast: Human-Animal Relations as Revealed in Real Photo Postcards, 1905-1935 By Arnold Arluke
2010 | 276 Pages | ISBN: 0815609817 | PDF | 54 MB
From fairy tales to photography, nowhere is the complexity of human-animal relationships more apparent than in the creative arts. Art illuminates the nature and significance of animals in modern, Western thought, capturing the complicated union that has long existed between the animal kingdom and us. In Beauty and the Beast, authors Arluke and Bogdan explore this relationship through the unique lens of photo postcards. This visual medium offers an enormous and relatively untapped archive to compelling document their subject.

Bead Jewelry For Beginners - Beads Zodiac!: Bead Jewelry Making! Discover All You Need To Know! by Magnus D'Jango
English | 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09JR1ZYQ4 | 83 pages | EPUB | 2.21 Mb
How do I learn to Bead? What makes a bead a Bead? What do you need to mane Beaded Jewelry? What is the hardest working Zodiac? Which zodiac sign is a crybaby? Which Zodiacs are loners? Which Zodiacs are hard on themselves? What do beads symbolize? What are the benefits of beads? Is beaded jewelry still popular? Keep reading...

Backbone Flute: Selected Poetry Of Vladimir Mayakovsky (English and Russian Edition) By Vladimir Mayakovsky, Andrey Kneller
2008 | 148 Pages | ISBN: 1438211643 | EPUB | 1 MB
Vladimir Mayakovsky (July 19, 1893 - April 14, 1930) is one of the most recognized and celebrated poets of the Russian canon. One of the leaders of the Russian Futurism movement, which sought to capture the wonder of the fast-paced modern world and renounced the static art of the past, Mayakovsky completely bent the boundaries of language and introduced an entirely different style of poetry. His irregular line-breaks, his use of internal rhyme, his control of meter and his sense of rhythm combined together to form his unique style. His imagery is overflowing with allusions, metaphors and hyperboles. His major works, "A Cloud in Trousers," "Backbone Flute," and "I Love," sparkle with wit, wisdom and originality. This quality of his work is what also makes it incredibly difficult to translate. In this dual-language selection of Mayakovsky's poetry, Andrey Kneller attempts to capture not only the general meaning, but also the lyrical quality of the poetry that makes Mayakovsky a truly unique writer.

Authentic African Recipes: An Illustrated Cookbook of Regional African Dish Ideas! by Julia Chiles
English | September 7, 2019 | ISBN: 1691595217 | 103 pages | EPUB | 3.28 Mb
Do you find yourself sometimes craving the comforting and warm flavors found in African cuisine?

Astronomy of the Milky Way: The Observer's Guide to the Northern Sky, Second Edition By Mike Inglis
English | PDF,EPUB(True) | 2017 | 352 Pages | ISBN : 3319490818 | 61.7 MB
This second edition of Mike Inglis's classic guide to observing the Milky Way in the Northern Hemisphere updates all of the science with new findings from the astrophysics field, as well as featuring a larger format with entirely re-drawn maps. Newly laid out for ease of use with an increased number of images in color, it updates and improves the first edition to remain the most comprehensive book on the subject.

Astronomy and Civilization in the New Enlightenment: Passions of the Skies by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
English | PDF | 2011 | 310 Pages | ISBN : 9048197473 | 5.5 MB
This volume represents the first which interfaces with astronomy as the fulcrum of the sciences. It gives full expression to the human passion for the skies. Advancing human civilization has unfolded and matured this passion into the comprehensive science of astronomy.

Astronomy Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Astronomy by Helaine Selin
English | PDF | 2000 | 665 Pages | ISBN : 0792363639 | 80 MB
Astronomy Across Cultures: A History of Non-Western Astronomy consists of essays dealing with the astronomical knowledge and beliefs of cultures outside the United States and Europe. In addition to articles surveying Islamic, Chinese, Native American, Aboriginal Australian, Polynesian, Egyptian and Tibetan astronomy, among others, the book includes essays on Sky Tales and Why We Tell Them and Astronomy and Prehistory, and Astronomy and Astrology.

L. W. Sumner, "Assisted Death: A Study in Ethics and Law"
English | 2011 | pages: 249 | ISBN: 0199607982 | PDF | 1,3 mb
Ethical and legal issues concerning physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia are very much on the public agenda in many jurisdictions. In this timely book L.W. Sumner addresses these issues within the wider context of palliative care for patients in the dying process. His ethical conclusion

Patrick Olivelle, "Ascetics and Brahmins: Studies in Ideologies and Institutions"
English | 2011 | pages: 328 | ISBN: 0857284320 | PDF | 2,4 mb
This volume brings together papers on Indian ascetical institutions and ideologies published by Patrick Olivelle over a span of about thirty years. Asceticism represents a major strand in the religious and cultural history of India, providing some of the most creative elements within Indian religions and philosophies. Most of the major religions, such as Buddhism and Jainism, and religious philosophies both within these new religions and in the Brahmanical tradition, were created by world-renouncing ascetics. Yet ascetical institutions and ideologies developed in a creative tension with other religious institutions that stressed the centrality of family, procreation and society. It is this tension that has articulated many of the central features of Indian religion and culture. The papers collected in this volume seek to locate Indian ascetical traditions within their historical, political and ideological contexts.