Songs of the Dove and the Nightingale

Songs of the Dove and the Nightingale PDF Author: Greta Mary Hair
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134314256
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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The Musical Repertories of the Liturgy of Southern Italy and Beneventan Sources, Alleluia Melodies after 1100, and the change in transmission of instrumental music in Fifteenth-Century Europe are provided. John McCaughey's concert programme of medieval troped chants for Pentecost juxtaposed with traditional monophonic work songs from Vietnam, Thailand and Western Java as well as various contemporary compositions are also included. Songs of the Dove and the Nightingale provides a comprehensive survey of sacred and secular music within the context of a multilingual and intercultural milieu where influences and exchanges of liturgico-musical materials took place between many different ethnic groups. Structural relations between music and text are explored through the analysis of textual punctuation and the structured repetition of the refrain.

Songs of the Dove and the Nightingale

Songs of the Dove and the Nightingale PDF Author: Greta Mary Hair
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134314256
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Book Description
The Musical Repertories of the Liturgy of Southern Italy and Beneventan Sources, Alleluia Melodies after 1100, and the change in transmission of instrumental music in Fifteenth-Century Europe are provided. John McCaughey's concert programme of medieval troped chants for Pentecost juxtaposed with traditional monophonic work songs from Vietnam, Thailand and Western Java as well as various contemporary compositions are also included. Songs of the Dove and the Nightingale provides a comprehensive survey of sacred and secular music within the context of a multilingual and intercultural milieu where influences and exchanges of liturgico-musical materials took place between many different ethnic groups. Structural relations between music and text are explored through the analysis of textual punctuation and the structured repetition of the refrain.

The Little Brown Hen Hears the Song of the Nightingale ; and The Golden Harvest

The Little Brown Hen Hears the Song of the Nightingale ; and The Golden Harvest PDF Author: Jasmine Stone Van Dresser
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Nature's Music

Nature's Music PDF Author: Peter R. Marler
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 9780080473550
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 504

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The voices of birds have always been a source of fascination. Nature’s Music brings together some of the world’s experts on birdsong, to review the advances that have taken place in our understanding of how and why birds sing, what their songs and calls mean, and how they have evolved. All contributors have strived to speak, not only to fellow experts, but also to the general reader. The result is a book of readable science, richly illustrated with recordings and pictures of the sounds of birds. Bird song is much more than just one behaviour of a single, particular group of organisms. It is a model for the study of a wide variety of animal behaviour systems, ecological, evolutionary and neurobiological. Bird song sits at the intersection of breeding, social and cognitive behaviour and ecology. As such interest in this book will extend far beyond the purely ornithological - to behavioural ecologists psychologists and neurobiologists of all kinds. * The scoop on local dialects in birdsong * How birdsongs are used for fighting and flirting * The writers are all international authorities on their subject

The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne

The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne PDF Author: Catherine Maxwell
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719057526
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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This innovative study of vision, gender and poetry traces Milton's mark on Shelley, Tennyson, Browning and Swinburne to show how the lyric male poet achieves vision at the cost of symbolic blindness and feminisation. Drawing together a wide range of concerns including the use of myth, the gender of the sublime, the lyric fragment, and the relation of pain to creativity, this book is a major re-evaluation of the male poet and the making of the English poetic tradition.The female sublime from Milton to Swinburne examines the feminisation of the post-Miltonic male poet, not through cultural history, but through a series of mythic or classical figures which include Philomela, Orpheus and Sappho. It recovers a disfiguring sublime imagined as an aggressive female force which feminises the male poet in an act that simultaneously deprives and energises him. This book will be required reading for anyone with a serious interest in the English poetic tradition and Victorian poetry.

Sung Birds

Sung Birds PDF Author: Elizabeth Eva Leach
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501727575
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 362

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Is birdsong music? The most frequent answer to this question in the Middle Ages was resoundingly "no." In Sung Birds, Elizabeth Eva Leach traces postmedieval uses of birdsong within Western musical culture. She first explains why such melodious sound was not music for medieval thinkers and then goes on to consider the ontology of music, the significance of comparisons between singers and birds, and the relationship between art and nature as enacted by the musical performance of late-medieval poetry. If birdsong was not music, how should we interpret the musical depiction of birdsong in human music-making? What does it tell us about the singers, their listeners, and the moral status of secular polyphony? Why was it the fourteenth century that saw the beginnings of this practice, continued to this day in the music of Messiaen and others?Leach explores medieval arguments about song, language, and rationality whose basic terms survive undiminished into the present. She considers not only lyrics that have their singers voice the songs or speech of birds but also those that represent other natural, nonmusical, sounds such as human cries or the barks of dogs. The dangerous sweetness of birdsong was invoked in discussions of musical ethics, which, because of the potential slippage between irrational beast and less rational woman in comparisons with rational human masculinity, depict women's singing as less than fully human. Leach's argument comes full circle with the advent of sound recording. This technological revolution-like its medieval equivalent, the invention of the music book-once again made the relationship between music and nature an acute preoccupation of Western culture.

The Nightingale and the Rose

The Nightingale and the Rose PDF Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher: Modernista
ISBN: 918094938X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 9

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»The Nightingale and the Rose« is a short story by Oscar Wilde, originally published in 1888. OSCAR WILDE, born in 1854 in Dublin, died in 1900 in Paris, was an Irish prose writer, playwright, essayist, and poet. Wilde's significance as a symbol for persecuted homosexuals around the world is immeasurable. Wilde himself was sentenced to prison and hard labour, his works were boycotted, theatrical productions were shut down, and he was publicly vilified. The Picture of Dorian Gray [1890] is his most famous work.

Why-so Stories

Why-so Stories PDF Author: Edwin Gile Rich
Publisher:
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Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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Dwight's journal of music

Dwight's journal of music PDF Author: John S Dwight
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368121324
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 442

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.

Sing, Nightingale, Sing!

Sing, Nightingale, Sing! PDF Author: Françoise de Guibert
Publisher: Kane/Miller Book Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Presents information on the habitats, size, coloring, and diets of over more than sixty birds along with an audio CD of their songs to help identify their unique sounds.

Dwight's Journal of Music

Dwight's Journal of Music PDF Author:
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 448

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