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"An audacious, darkly glittering novel about art, fame, and ambition set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse, from the author of three highly acclaimed previous novels. One snowy night a famous Hollywood actor slumps over and dies onstage during a production of King Lear. Hours later, the world as we know it begins to dissolve. Moving back and forth in time-from the actor's early days as a film star to fifteen years in the future, when a...
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2021.
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English
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"Within these pages lie musical prescriptions that offer comfort, solace and strength in the face of dark times. Whether you suffer from a case of loneliness or laziness, from bereavement or betrayal, a heartbreak or a hangover, here you'll find the perfect piece of classical music to heal the heart, soothe the soul and cure the maladies of the modern world." -- page 4 of cover.
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[2021]
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English
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"Andrei Bely is best known for the modernist masterwork Petersburg, a paradigmatic example of how modern writers strove to evoke the fragmentation of language, narrative, and consciousness. In the early twentieth century, Bely embarked on his life as an artist with texts he called "symphonies"-works experimenting with genre and sound, written in a style that shifts among prosaic, poetic, and musical. This book presents Bely's four Symphonies-Dramatic...
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2004.
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English
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This volume contains English translations of three important literary works by Austrian conductor Felix Weingartner (1863–1942). The title essay is a detailed account of specific performing difficulties and questions of interpretation in each of the nine symphonies, a comprehensive treatment that will be indispensable to music students. Additional features include "On Conducting" and "The Symphony Since Beethoven," both of which attest to the author's...
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Pub. Date
[2010]
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English
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"The Ninth Symphony, a symbol of freedom and joy, was Beethoven's mightiest attempt to help humanity find its way from darkness to light, from chaos to peace. Yet the work was born in a repressive era. Ironically, the premiere of this hymn to universal brotherhood took place in Vienna, the capital of a nation that Metternich was turning into the first modern police state. The Ninth's unveiling, on May 7, 1824, was the most significant artistic event...
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1977.
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English
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Two Symphonies collects two short novels by Nobel Prize winner Andre Gide. In Isabelle, a young man visits the home of an eccentric family, and falls in love with a portrait of their absent daughter. In The Pastoral Symphony, a pastor rescues a blind orphan from poverty, but an illicit love develops between them.
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"From the celebrated author of book club favorite The Violin Conspiracy: A gripping page-turner about a professor who uncovers a shocking secret about the most famous American composer of all time-that his music was stolen from a young Black composer named Josephine Reed. Determined to uncover the truth and right history's wrongs, Bern Hendricks will stop at nothing to finally give Josephine the recognition she deserves. Bern Hendricks has just received...
19) The symphony
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Detroit monographs in musicology/Studies in music volume no. 16
Pub. Date
1995.
Edition
Second edition.
Language
English
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