Author: Ray Harwood
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1785891510
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
In the third book of the Sardana trilogy, the brilliant but ill-fated Peter Martinez rises from the ashes of a disaster that almost destroys him, facing his physical and mental demons with the help of a vibrant young physic haunted by her own tragic past. As old relationship shift and new links are formed in his Sardana chain, Peter's vision of life grows deeper and richer. But is he destined to find lasting love, and can he help a young boy achieve his dreams of Paralympic glory in Barcelona?
Sardana Renaissance
Author: Ray Harwood
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1785891510
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
In the third book of the Sardana trilogy, the brilliant but ill-fated Peter Martinez rises from the ashes of a disaster that almost destroys him, facing his physical and mental demons with the help of a vibrant young physic haunted by her own tragic past. As old relationship shift and new links are formed in his Sardana chain, Peter's vision of life grows deeper and richer. But is he destined to find lasting love, and can he help a young boy achieve his dreams of Paralympic glory in Barcelona?
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1785891510
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
In the third book of the Sardana trilogy, the brilliant but ill-fated Peter Martinez rises from the ashes of a disaster that almost destroys him, facing his physical and mental demons with the help of a vibrant young physic haunted by her own tragic past. As old relationship shift and new links are formed in his Sardana chain, Peter's vision of life grows deeper and richer. But is he destined to find lasting love, and can he help a young boy achieve his dreams of Paralympic glory in Barcelona?
Sardana Encore
Author: Ray Harwood
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1784623318
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Peter’s architectural ability removed him from his Spanish homeland, spiriting him off to London and a brief sojourn in Malaysia; yet he was always magnetised back to the biggest love in his life... his mother. Sardana Encore welcomes the reader back like an old friend. The now thriving Martinez hotel reaches the end of its first season and Pedro – influenced by the family priest to see himself as ‘Peter’, the international traveller – prepares to begin studies in London and life with flatmates, who in time join the family circle. However, milestone events on his journey leave an indelible mark on his life. A balance is struck to no lesser extent than the fairytale romantic interlude in Malaysia, where Peter’s emotional taste buds are discovered. In the UK, as he embarks on a successful career, his Catalan ties still bind and seeds there take root... and the bitter fruits of an ancient enmity are laid ready to be reaped...
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1784623318
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Peter’s architectural ability removed him from his Spanish homeland, spiriting him off to London and a brief sojourn in Malaysia; yet he was always magnetised back to the biggest love in his life... his mother. Sardana Encore welcomes the reader back like an old friend. The now thriving Martinez hotel reaches the end of its first season and Pedro – influenced by the family priest to see himself as ‘Peter’, the international traveller – prepares to begin studies in London and life with flatmates, who in time join the family circle. However, milestone events on his journey leave an indelible mark on his life. A balance is struck to no lesser extent than the fairytale romantic interlude in Malaysia, where Peter’s emotional taste buds are discovered. In the UK, as he embarks on a successful career, his Catalan ties still bind and seeds there take root... and the bitter fruits of an ancient enmity are laid ready to be reaped...
Last Sardana
Author: Ray Harwood
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 178462330X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
With linked hands, the human circle perambulated, moving to the left in the precise step sequences that had been the format through centuries of performance. Last Sardana begins the story of a mother, Maria Martinez, and 12-year-old son Pedro, with modest beginnings in Rosas, a Spanish Costa Brava fishing village. Set in the fifties, Maria was widowed by a tragic disaster at sea. Together they uproot south to be under the wing of her brother-in-law, who is developing an hotel on the Martinez family land. Maria and Pedro, in their separate ways, become pivotal to that. There Pedro is exposed to the ‘University of Life’ through adolescence itself. His creative talent is encouraged and exposed, as are the challenges of a veritable fan club of contemporary girlfriends, discovering their own emotions and playing with his. Diverse characters comprising the initial hotel clientele enter his life, as do a field of sunflowers and a deaf, mute boy whose great artistic talents Peter discovers, to take into the future. Maria finds new and exciting love too...
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 178462330X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
With linked hands, the human circle perambulated, moving to the left in the precise step sequences that had been the format through centuries of performance. Last Sardana begins the story of a mother, Maria Martinez, and 12-year-old son Pedro, with modest beginnings in Rosas, a Spanish Costa Brava fishing village. Set in the fifties, Maria was widowed by a tragic disaster at sea. Together they uproot south to be under the wing of her brother-in-law, who is developing an hotel on the Martinez family land. Maria and Pedro, in their separate ways, become pivotal to that. There Pedro is exposed to the ‘University of Life’ through adolescence itself. His creative talent is encouraged and exposed, as are the challenges of a veritable fan club of contemporary girlfriends, discovering their own emotions and playing with his. Diverse characters comprising the initial hotel clientele enter his life, as do a field of sunflowers and a deaf, mute boy whose great artistic talents Peter discovers, to take into the future. Maria finds new and exciting love too...
Déodat de Séverac
Author: Robert Francis Waters
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780754641056
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Best known for his piano music, Déodat de Séverac (1872-1921) also composed orchestral and vocal works, including opera, cantata and incidental music. His early works were influenced by Impressionist harmonies, church modes, cyclic techniques, folk-like melodies and Andalusian motives, though his style changed dramatically in 1907 when he began to include Catalan elements in his compositions. In this book, Robert Waters provides a much-needed study of the life and works of Séverac, focusing on the composer's regionalist philosophy. Séverac's engagement with folk music was not a patriotic gesture in the vein of nationalistic composers, but a way of expressing regional identity within France to counter the restrictive styles sanctioned by the Paris Conservatory. The book will appeal to those specializing in French music, European ethnic musics, piano music and French music history.
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780754641056
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Best known for his piano music, Déodat de Séverac (1872-1921) also composed orchestral and vocal works, including opera, cantata and incidental music. His early works were influenced by Impressionist harmonies, church modes, cyclic techniques, folk-like melodies and Andalusian motives, though his style changed dramatically in 1907 when he began to include Catalan elements in his compositions. In this book, Robert Waters provides a much-needed study of the life and works of Séverac, focusing on the composer's regionalist philosophy. Séverac's engagement with folk music was not a patriotic gesture in the vein of nationalistic composers, but a way of expressing regional identity within France to counter the restrictive styles sanctioned by the Paris Conservatory. The book will appeal to those specializing in French music, European ethnic musics, piano music and French music history.
England and the Twelfth-Century Renaissance
Author: Rodney M. Thomson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040244262
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
Books and learning in 12th-century Europe are the broad concern of the nineteen papers assembled here. The discussion of ’books’ ranges from important individual manuscripts, to collections manufactured in ’scriptoria’ and kept in ’libraries’; the ’learning’ is primarily the composition, transmission and study of Latin literary texts, both ancient and contemporary. Special attention is given to the Latin classics, to the literary culture of the larger Benedictine houses, to the phenomenal quantity of Latin satirical writing of the period, and to the dissemination and reception of texts and ideas over time. While the geographical focus is England, the relationship of English materials and developments to the wider European context is constantly emphasized.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040244262
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
Books and learning in 12th-century Europe are the broad concern of the nineteen papers assembled here. The discussion of ’books’ ranges from important individual manuscripts, to collections manufactured in ’scriptoria’ and kept in ’libraries’; the ’learning’ is primarily the composition, transmission and study of Latin literary texts, both ancient and contemporary. Special attention is given to the Latin classics, to the literary culture of the larger Benedictine houses, to the phenomenal quantity of Latin satirical writing of the period, and to the dissemination and reception of texts and ideas over time. While the geographical focus is England, the relationship of English materials and developments to the wider European context is constantly emphasized.
The Yaquis
Author: Edward H. Spicer
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816551081
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
This study is based on a thirty-month residence in Yaqui communities in both Arizona and Sonora and consists of integrating information from documented historical writing, of some primary source documents, of three centuries of contemporary descriptions of Yaqui customs and individuals, and of anthropological studies based on direct observation.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816551081
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
This study is based on a thirty-month residence in Yaqui communities in both Arizona and Sonora and consists of integrating information from documented historical writing, of some primary source documents, of three centuries of contemporary descriptions of Yaqui customs and individuals, and of anthropological studies based on direct observation.
Flamenco Nation
Author: Sandie Holguín
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299321800
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
How did flamenco—a song and dance form associated with both a despised ethnic minority in Spain and a region frequently derided by Spaniards—become so inexorably tied to the country’s culture? Sandie Holguín focuses on the history of the form and how reactions to the performances transformed from disgust to reverance over the course of two centuries. Holguín brings forth an important interplay between regional nationalists and image makers actively involved in building a tourist industry. Soon they realized flamenco performances could be turned into a folkloric attraction that could stimulate the economy. Tourists and Spaniards alike began to cultivate flamenco as a representation of the country's national identity. This study reveals not only how Spain designed and promoted its own symbol but also how this cultural form took on a life of its own.
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299321800
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
How did flamenco—a song and dance form associated with both a despised ethnic minority in Spain and a region frequently derided by Spaniards—become so inexorably tied to the country’s culture? Sandie Holguín focuses on the history of the form and how reactions to the performances transformed from disgust to reverance over the course of two centuries. Holguín brings forth an important interplay between regional nationalists and image makers actively involved in building a tourist industry. Soon they realized flamenco performances could be turned into a folkloric attraction that could stimulate the economy. Tourists and Spaniards alike began to cultivate flamenco as a representation of the country's national identity. This study reveals not only how Spain designed and promoted its own symbol but also how this cultural form took on a life of its own.
D?at de S?rac
Author: RobertF. Waters
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351569791
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
D?at de S?rac (1872-1921) is best known for his piano music but his compositions included orchestral and vocal works, including opera, cantata and incidental music. Claude Debussy described S?rac's music as "exquisite and rich with ideas." The early works were influenced by Impressionist harmonies, church modes, cyclic techniques, folk-like melodies and Andalusian motives. S?rac's style changed dramatically in 1907 when he left Paris and began to include Catalan elements in his compositions - a transition that has hitherto gone unrecognized. Robert Waters provides a much-needed study of the life and works of S?rac, focusing on the composer's regionalist philosophy. S?rac's engagement with folk music was not a patriotic gesture in the vein of nationalistic composers, but a way of expressing regional identity within France to counter the restrictive styles sanctioned by the Paris Conservatory. His musical philosophy mirrored larger social and political debates regarding anti-centralist positions on education, politics, art and culture in fin de si?e France. Such debates involved political and social leaders whom S?rac knew and personally admired, including the writer Maurice Barr?and the poet Fr?ric Mistral. The book will appeal to those specializing in French music, European ethnic musics, piano music and French music history.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351569791
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
D?at de S?rac (1872-1921) is best known for his piano music but his compositions included orchestral and vocal works, including opera, cantata and incidental music. Claude Debussy described S?rac's music as "exquisite and rich with ideas." The early works were influenced by Impressionist harmonies, church modes, cyclic techniques, folk-like melodies and Andalusian motives. S?rac's style changed dramatically in 1907 when he left Paris and began to include Catalan elements in his compositions - a transition that has hitherto gone unrecognized. Robert Waters provides a much-needed study of the life and works of S?rac, focusing on the composer's regionalist philosophy. S?rac's engagement with folk music was not a patriotic gesture in the vein of nationalistic composers, but a way of expressing regional identity within France to counter the restrictive styles sanctioned by the Paris Conservatory. His musical philosophy mirrored larger social and political debates regarding anti-centralist positions on education, politics, art and culture in fin de si?e France. Such debates involved political and social leaders whom S?rac knew and personally admired, including the writer Maurice Barr?and the poet Fr?ric Mistral. The book will appeal to those specializing in French music, European ethnic musics, piano music and French music history.
The Rough Guide to Barcelona
Author: Jules Brown
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 140539014X
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
The new Rough Guide to Barcelona is the ultimate all-round guidebook to one of Europe's most vibrant, exciting and stylish cities. Now in full color throughout, with dozens of color photos, this guide not only gives you the finest coverage of Barcelona's historical sights and famous architecture, including the magnificent Gaudi creations like the Sagrada Familia, but also has a keen eye for offbeat attractions and in-the-know sights, from quirky museums to neighborhood markets, city beaches to urban parks. There are up-to-date reviews of the best hotels, bars, restaurants and clubs for all budgets, so whether you're looking for a hideaway boutique hotel or a cool bar serving Catalan craft beers, you'll find it in the Rough Guide.Make the most of your holiday with The Rough Guide to Barcelona.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 140539014X
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
The new Rough Guide to Barcelona is the ultimate all-round guidebook to one of Europe's most vibrant, exciting and stylish cities. Now in full color throughout, with dozens of color photos, this guide not only gives you the finest coverage of Barcelona's historical sights and famous architecture, including the magnificent Gaudi creations like the Sagrada Familia, but also has a keen eye for offbeat attractions and in-the-know sights, from quirky museums to neighborhood markets, city beaches to urban parks. There are up-to-date reviews of the best hotels, bars, restaurants and clubs for all budgets, so whether you're looking for a hideaway boutique hotel or a cool bar serving Catalan craft beers, you'll find it in the Rough Guide.Make the most of your holiday with The Rough Guide to Barcelona.
The Design-inspired Innovation Workbook
Author: Bengt-Arne Vedin
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9814289639
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
Design evokes creativity of a higher order and causes unexpected and inventive cross-fertilization across traditional borders or disciplines. This work offers the how-to's for designing for successful novelty, and discusses issues such as product language and meaning, and connecting with the end-user.
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9814289639
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
Design evokes creativity of a higher order and causes unexpected and inventive cross-fertilization across traditional borders or disciplines. This work offers the how-to's for designing for successful novelty, and discusses issues such as product language and meaning, and connecting with the end-user.