The Pilgrim's Progress

The Pilgrim's Progress PDF Author: Edgar Stillman Kelley
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Category : Mysteries and miracle-plays
Languages : en
Pages : 362

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The Pilgrim's Progress

The Pilgrim's Progress PDF Author: Edgar Stillman Kelley
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Category : Mysteries and miracle-plays
Languages : en
Pages : 362

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The Shorter Pilgrim's Progress

The Shorter Pilgrim's Progress PDF Author: Edgar Stillman Kelley
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Category : Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices) with orchestra
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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Sound Matters

Sound Matters PDF Author: Nora M. Alter
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781571814371
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Working across established disciplines & methodological divides, these essays investigate the ways in which texts, artists, & performers in all kinds of media have utilized sound materials in order to enforce or complicate dominant notions of German cultural & national identity.

Voices of the Night

Voices of the Night PDF Author: John Cumming
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Category : Eschatology
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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Theda Bara and the Frontier Rabbi

Theda Bara and the Frontier Rabbi PDF Author: Bob Johnston
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822218371
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 108

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THE STORY: Back in the days before Madonna, Marilyn and even Jean Harlow, there was Theda Bara! She was the Vamp. In the year 1917, if a newly ordained rabbi named Isaac Birnbaum were to be spotted by a member of his congregation watching this crea

Revealing Masks

Revealing Masks PDF Author: W. Anthony Sheppard
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520924741
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 408

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W. Anthony Sheppard considers a wide-ranging constellation of important musical works in this fascinating exploration of ritualized performance in twentieth-century music. Revealing Masks uncovers the range of political, didactic, and aesthetic intents that inspired the creators of modernist music theater. Sheppard is especially interested in the use of the "exotic" in techniques of masking and stylization, identifying Japanese Noh, medieval Christian drama, and ancient Greek theater as the most prominent exotic models for the creation of "total theater." Drawing on an extraordinarily diverse—and in some instances, little-known—range of music theater pieces, Sheppard cites the work of Igor Stravinsky, Benjamin Britten, Arthur Honegger, Peter Maxwell Davies, Harry Partch, and Leonard Bernstein, as well as Andrew Lloyd Webber and Madonna. Artists in literature, theater, and dance—such as William Butler Yeats, Paul Claudel, Bertolt Brecht, Isadora Duncan, Ida Rubenstein, and Edward Gordon Craig--also play a significant role in this study. Sheppard poses challenging questions that will interest readers beyond those in the field of music scholarship. For example, what is the effect on the audience and the performers of depersonalizing ritual elements? Does borrowing from foreign cultures inevitably amount to a kind of predatory appropriation? Revealing Masks shows that compositional concerns and cultural themes manifested in music theater are central to the history of twentieth-century Euro-American music, drama, and dance.

God's Words, Women's Voices

God's Words, Women's Voices PDF Author: Rosalynn Voaden
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 9780952973423
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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An examination of awareness of the ecclesiastical doctrine of discretio spirituum, the means of testing whether visions were truly of divine origin, in the works of medieval women visionaries from Bridget of Sweden to Joan of Arc.

Our Angel Friends in Ministry and Song

Our Angel Friends in Ministry and Song PDF Author: Alfred Fowler
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Category : Angels
Languages : en
Pages : 614

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A Voice and Nothing More

A Voice and Nothing More PDF Author: Mladen Dolar
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262541874
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 225

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A new, philosophically grounded theory of the voice—the voice as the lever of thought, as one of the paramount embodiments of the psychoanalytic object. Plutarch tells the story of a man who plucked a nightingale and finding but little to eat exclaimed: "You are just a voice and nothing more." Plucking the feathers of meaning that cover the voice, dismantling the body from which the voice seems to emanate, resisting the Sirens' song of fascination with the voice, concentrating on "the voice and nothing more": this is the difficult task that philosopher Mladen Dolar relentlessly pursues in this seminal work. The voice did not figure as a major philosophical topic until the 1960s, when Derrida and Lacan separately proposed it as a central theoretical concern. In A Voice and Nothing More Dolar goes beyond Derrida's idea of "phonocentrism" and revives and develops Lacan's claim that the voice is one of the paramount embodiments of the psychoanalytic object (objet a). Dolar proposes that, apart from the two commonly understood uses of the voice as a vehicle of meaning and as a source of aesthetic admiration, there is a third level of understanding: the voice as an object that can be seen as the lever of thought. He investigates the object voice on a number of different levels—the linguistics of the voice, the metaphysics of the voice, the ethics of the voice (with the voice of conscience), the paradoxical relation between the voice and the body, the politics of the voice—and he scrutinizes the uses of the voice in Freud and Kafka. With this foundational work, Dolar gives us a philosophically grounded theory of the voice as a Lacanian object-cause.

The Audition

The Audition PDF Author: Nancy J. Coombs
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1666763934
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 117

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The Audition digs deep: its fresh, heartfelt poems enchant, challenge, and uplift while conveying our yearning for connection and reconciliation. They explore, in three parts, Longing, Limbo, and Restoration. The poetry's driving, musical quality has an evocative urgency and is immersive with a touch of the absurd. Hopeful in tone, The Audition takes us on a journey and, with the concluding poem, "Unrestored," we have both arrived and are on the way to a higher place. Influences that can be felt include poets Guillaume Apollinaire for his melodic patterns and Emily Dickinson for her elevation of the quotidian, as well as lay theologian William Stringfellow's reckoning with alienation. Moses Maimonides, Dante, and Gaspara Stampa get mentions, as do John Milton, Christina Rossetti, and Aldous Huxley. "The Bridge Hears" recalls Paris, and "The Handshake" pays tribute to the poet's meeting Queen Elizabeth II, while "Rupture" is a homage to Black Elk at Wounded Knee.