Author: Vikram Seth
Publisher: Orion Children's Books
ISBN: 9781858814308
Category : Children's stories, Indic (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
A picture book based on the legend of Arion, the young musician whose friendship with the dolphin that saves his life is ended when the dolphin is captured and dies. Jane Ray's luscious, evocative paintings harmonize with the text, a wonderful mixture of verse and prose adapted from Vikram Seth's libretto for an opera commissioned by the English National Opera.
Arion and the Dolphin
Author: Vikram Seth
Publisher: Orion Children's Books
ISBN: 9781858814308
Category : Children's stories, Indic (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
A picture book based on the legend of Arion, the young musician whose friendship with the dolphin that saves his life is ended when the dolphin is captured and dies. Jane Ray's luscious, evocative paintings harmonize with the text, a wonderful mixture of verse and prose adapted from Vikram Seth's libretto for an opera commissioned by the English National Opera.
Publisher: Orion Children's Books
ISBN: 9781858814308
Category : Children's stories, Indic (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
A picture book based on the legend of Arion, the young musician whose friendship with the dolphin that saves his life is ended when the dolphin is captured and dies. Jane Ray's luscious, evocative paintings harmonize with the text, a wonderful mixture of verse and prose adapted from Vikram Seth's libretto for an opera commissioned by the English National Opera.
Music, Myth, and Nature, Or, The Dolphins of Arion
Author: François Bernard Mâche
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9783718653218
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
François Bernard-Mâche here uses music-related myths and ancient as well as more recent history to show the underlying relationship between musical thought and certain natural laws. Using original analytical techniques, he sheds new light on the history of music, showing the presence of music in the animal world to demonstrate that Nature and culture are not in opposition.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9783718653218
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
François Bernard-Mâche here uses music-related myths and ancient as well as more recent history to show the underlying relationship between musical thought and certain natural laws. Using original analytical techniques, he sheds new light on the history of music, showing the presence of music in the animal world to demonstrate that Nature and culture are not in opposition.
Arion and the Dolphins
Author: Lonzo Anderson
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Sailing home with a prize of gold won in a contest, Arion faces death at the hands of the crew who covet his treasure.
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Sailing home with a prize of gold won in a contest, Arion faces death at the hands of the crew who covet his treasure.
Henchmen of Ares
Author: Josho Brouwers
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789490258078
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Henchmen of Ares is a new overview of warfare in ancient Greece from the Mycenaean Bronze Age down to the Persian Wars.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789490258078
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Henchmen of Ares is a new overview of warfare in ancient Greece from the Mycenaean Bronze Age down to the Persian Wars.
Arion & the Dolphin
Author: Vikram Seth
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Operas
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Arion and the Dolphin is an opera in nine scenes for professionals and community performers. The libretto is by Vikram Seth and the music is composed by Alec Roth. Recounted with Seth s inimitable charm, it is the story of Arion, a young musician at the court of Periander in Corinth. Thrown overboard on his return from a musical contest in Sicily, Arion is saved and befriended by a dolphin.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Operas
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Arion and the Dolphin is an opera in nine scenes for professionals and community performers. The libretto is by Vikram Seth and the music is composed by Alec Roth. Recounted with Seth s inimitable charm, it is the story of Arion, a young musician at the court of Periander in Corinth. Thrown overboard on his return from a musical contest in Sicily, Arion is saved and befriended by a dolphin.
History: A Very Short Introduction
Author: John Arnold
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
ISBN: 019285352X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Starting with an examination of how historians work, this "Very Short Introduction" aims to explore history in a general, pithy, and accessible manner, rather than to delve into specific periods.
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
ISBN: 019285352X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Starting with an examination of how historians work, this "Very Short Introduction" aims to explore history in a general, pithy, and accessible manner, rather than to delve into specific periods.
The Sea in the Greek Imagination
Author: Marie-Claire Beaulieu
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812247655
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
In The Sea in the Greek Imagination, Marie-Claire Beaulieu unifies the multifarious representations of the sea and sea-crossing in Greek myth and imagery by positing the sea as a cosmological boundary between the worlds of the living, the dead, and the gods, or between reality and imagination.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812247655
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
In The Sea in the Greek Imagination, Marie-Claire Beaulieu unifies the multifarious representations of the sea and sea-crossing in Greek myth and imagery by positing the sea as a cosmological boundary between the worlds of the living, the dead, and the gods, or between reality and imagination.
The Story of Arion and the Dolphin
Author: George Ratcliffe Woodward
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Sailing home with a prize of gold won in a contest, Arion faces death at the hands of the crew who covet his treasure.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Sailing home with a prize of gold won in a contest, Arion faces death at the hands of the crew who covet his treasure.
Arion and the Dolphin (Dummy)
Author: Seth Virkam
Publisher: Orion Children's Books
ISBN: 9780111113011
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Enabling power: Employment Tribunals Act 1996, ss. 18A (1) (11), 41 (4). Issued: 03.04.2014. Made: 27.03.2014. Laid: 28.03.2014. Coming into force: 20.04.2014. Effect: S.I. 2014/254 amended. Territorial extent & classification: E/W/S. General
Publisher: Orion Children's Books
ISBN: 9780111113011
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Enabling power: Employment Tribunals Act 1996, ss. 18A (1) (11), 41 (4). Issued: 03.04.2014. Made: 27.03.2014. Laid: 28.03.2014. Coming into force: 20.04.2014. Effect: S.I. 2014/254 amended. Territorial extent & classification: E/W/S. General
The Dolphins of Laurentum
Author: Caroline Lawrence
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780761323495
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
A ragged stranger and the prospect of losing her family's fortune lead Flavia Gemina and her friends, Jonathan, Lupus, and Nubia to a seaside villa where possible danger and treasure are close at hand.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780761323495
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
A ragged stranger and the prospect of losing her family's fortune lead Flavia Gemina and her friends, Jonathan, Lupus, and Nubia to a seaside villa where possible danger and treasure are close at hand.