Author: A.-F. R.
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Languages : fr
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Preuves de l'existence de Dieu et de l'immortalité de l'âme, et progrès moderne qui n'a pas paru à l'Exposition universelle de 1878. (Signé : A.-F. R. ...).
Author: A.-F. R.
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Xenakis
Author: James Harley
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135874948
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Xenakis: His Life in Music is a full-length study of the influential contemporary composer Iannis Xenakis. Following the trajectory of Xenakis’s compositional development, James Harley, who studied with Xenakis, presents the works together with clear explanations of the technical and conceptual innovations that shaped them. Harley examines the relationship between the composer and two early influences: Messiaen and Le Corbusier. Particular attention is paid to analyzing works which were vital to the composer’s creative development, from early, unpublished works to the breakthrough pieces Metastasis and Pithoprakta, through the oft-discussed decade of formalization and the evolving styles of the succeeding three decades.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135874948
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Xenakis: His Life in Music is a full-length study of the influential contemporary composer Iannis Xenakis. Following the trajectory of Xenakis’s compositional development, James Harley, who studied with Xenakis, presents the works together with clear explanations of the technical and conceptual innovations that shaped them. Harley examines the relationship between the composer and two early influences: Messiaen and Le Corbusier. Particular attention is paid to analyzing works which were vital to the composer’s creative development, from early, unpublished works to the breakthrough pieces Metastasis and Pithoprakta, through the oft-discussed decade of formalization and the evolving styles of the succeeding three decades.
Conversations with Iannis Xenakis
Author: Bálint András Varga
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571179596
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
The music of the Greek-born composer, Iannis Xenakis, has been called brutal and violent. He first studied as an architect, but then turned to composition and put to musical use his knowledge of higher mathematics. In these conversations he talks about his life and music.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571179596
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
The music of the Greek-born composer, Iannis Xenakis, has been called brutal and violent. He first studied as an architect, but then turned to composition and put to musical use his knowledge of higher mathematics. In these conversations he talks about his life and music.
Splithead
Author: Julya Rabinowich
Publisher: Granta Books
ISBN: 1846273404
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
'My father and I head towards a nervous breakdown as he attempts to erase three years of Communist indoctrination in the course of a single evening. I simply cannot comprehend that Lenin, the friend of all children, is now allegedly an arsehole.' When seven-year-old Mischka and her family flee the oppressive USSR for the freedom of Vienna, her world seems to divide neatly in two: there's life as she knew it before, and life as she must relearn it now. But even as she's busy dressing her new Barbie, perfecting her German and gorging on fresh fruit, Mischka is aware that there's part of her that can never escape her homeland, with its terrifying folktales, its insidious anti-Semitism and its old family secrets. As her parents' marriage splinters and her sister retreats into silence, Mischka has to find her own way of living when her head and her heart are in two places at once. There is darkness galore in this novel. But there is also much comedy to be had in its twisted enchanted tales. It is as seductive and unsettling as similar work by Angela Carter or Margaret Atwood, while it shares a geography with Everything Is Illuminated and If I Told You Once.
Publisher: Granta Books
ISBN: 1846273404
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
'My father and I head towards a nervous breakdown as he attempts to erase three years of Communist indoctrination in the course of a single evening. I simply cannot comprehend that Lenin, the friend of all children, is now allegedly an arsehole.' When seven-year-old Mischka and her family flee the oppressive USSR for the freedom of Vienna, her world seems to divide neatly in two: there's life as she knew it before, and life as she must relearn it now. But even as she's busy dressing her new Barbie, perfecting her German and gorging on fresh fruit, Mischka is aware that there's part of her that can never escape her homeland, with its terrifying folktales, its insidious anti-Semitism and its old family secrets. As her parents' marriage splinters and her sister retreats into silence, Mischka has to find her own way of living when her head and her heart are in two places at once. There is darkness galore in this novel. But there is also much comedy to be had in its twisted enchanted tales. It is as seductive and unsettling as similar work by Angela Carter or Margaret Atwood, while it shares a geography with Everything Is Illuminated and If I Told You Once.
Europe, Europe
Author: Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 0307772500
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
In this highly acclaimed and entertaining book, already "among the touchstones of the new travel writing" (Newsweek), one of West Germany's leading authors takes us on an insider's tour of Europe in the recent past. Focusing on Italy, Poland, Hungary, Sweden, Spain, and Portugal, he describes how Europe has been moving toward a new identity. Enzensberger makes a witty and knowledgeable traveling companion, delving into surprising corners and byways—from the back alleys of Budapest to the halls of the Italian mint—and striking up conversations with everyone from bankers to revolutionaries, astrologers to apparatchiks. In the process, he suggests that Europe's strength lies increasingly in embracing diversity and improvisation, not bigness and regimentation. He enables us to see with fresh eyes one of the most exciting parts of the world today.
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 0307772500
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
In this highly acclaimed and entertaining book, already "among the touchstones of the new travel writing" (Newsweek), one of West Germany's leading authors takes us on an insider's tour of Europe in the recent past. Focusing on Italy, Poland, Hungary, Sweden, Spain, and Portugal, he describes how Europe has been moving toward a new identity. Enzensberger makes a witty and knowledgeable traveling companion, delving into surprising corners and byways—from the back alleys of Budapest to the halls of the Italian mint—and striking up conversations with everyone from bankers to revolutionaries, astrologers to apparatchiks. In the process, he suggests that Europe's strength lies increasingly in embracing diversity and improvisation, not bigness and regimentation. He enables us to see with fresh eyes one of the most exciting parts of the world today.
Vilnius Poker
Author: Ričardas Gavelis
Publisher: Open Letter Books
ISBN: 1934824054
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
four different perspectives, and it captures the surreal horror of life under the Soviet yoke." --Book Jacket.
Publisher: Open Letter Books
ISBN: 1934824054
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
four different perspectives, and it captures the surreal horror of life under the Soviet yoke." --Book Jacket.
Border State
Author: Emil Tode
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810117800
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 111
Book Description
At home in neither his native land nor his adopted contry, the unnamed narrator writes from a border state that transcends national boundaries. his letter, this novel, is a precise description of that state, of a consciousness forged by poverty and oppression. Driven by the need to confess, the narrator recounts the circumstances surrounding his murder of his wealth lover. His confession serves as a painfully sharp rendering of what it means to straddle the lines between East and West, rich and poor, and light and dark. --From publisher description.
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810117800
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 111
Book Description
At home in neither his native land nor his adopted contry, the unnamed narrator writes from a border state that transcends national boundaries. his letter, this novel, is a precise description of that state, of a consciousness forged by poverty and oppression. Driven by the need to confess, the narrator recounts the circumstances surrounding his murder of his wealth lover. His confession serves as a painfully sharp rendering of what it means to straddle the lines between East and West, rich and poor, and light and dark. --From publisher description.
The Romantic School
Author: Heinrich Heine
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Germany
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Germany
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Under the Hill, and Other Essays in Prose and Verse
Author: Aubrey Beardsley
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 63
Book Description
"Under the Hill" is a romance novel by Aubrey Beardsley, based on the legend of Tannhäuser. Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (1872 – 1898) was an English illustrator and author. He was a leading figure in the Aesthetic movement which also included Oscar Wilde and James McNeill Whistler. He is one of the important Modern Style (British Art Nouveau style) figures.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 63
Book Description
"Under the Hill" is a romance novel by Aubrey Beardsley, based on the legend of Tannhäuser. Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (1872 – 1898) was an English illustrator and author. He was a leading figure in the Aesthetic movement which also included Oscar Wilde and James McNeill Whistler. He is one of the important Modern Style (British Art Nouveau style) figures.
Sounds and Perception
Author: Matthew Nudds
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191608610
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Sounds and Perception is a collection of original essays on auditory perception and the nature of sounds - an emerging area of interest in the philosophy of mind and perception, and in the metaphysics of sensible qualities. The individual essays discuss a wide range of issues, including the nature of sound, the spatial aspects of auditory experience, hearing silence, musical experience, and the perception of speech; a substantial introduction by the editors serves to contextualise the essays and make connections between them. This collection will serve both as an introduction to the nature of auditory perception and as the definitive resource for coverage of the main questions that constitute the philosophy of sounds and audition. The views are original, and there is substantive engagement among contributors. This collection will stimulate future research in this area.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191608610
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Sounds and Perception is a collection of original essays on auditory perception and the nature of sounds - an emerging area of interest in the philosophy of mind and perception, and in the metaphysics of sensible qualities. The individual essays discuss a wide range of issues, including the nature of sound, the spatial aspects of auditory experience, hearing silence, musical experience, and the perception of speech; a substantial introduction by the editors serves to contextualise the essays and make connections between them. This collection will serve both as an introduction to the nature of auditory perception and as the definitive resource for coverage of the main questions that constitute the philosophy of sounds and audition. The views are original, and there is substantive engagement among contributors. This collection will stimulate future research in this area.