Rousseau and the Scope of Opera - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rousseau and the Scope of Opera write by Arnold Whittall. This book was released on 1964. Rousseau and the Scope of Opera available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Eros in Plato, Rousseau, and Nietzsche
Eros in Plato, Rousseau, and Nietzsche - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Eros in Plato, Rousseau, and Nietzsche write by Laurence D. Cooper. This book was released on 2010-11-01. Eros in Plato, Rousseau, and Nietzsche available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Human beings are restless souls, ever driven by an insistent inner force not only to have more but to be more&—to be infinitely more. Various philosophers have emphasized this type of ceaseless striving in their accounts of humanity, as in Spinoza&’s notion of conatus and Hobbes&’s identification of &“a perpetual and restless desire of power after power.&” In this book, Laurence Cooper focuses his attention on three giants of the philosophic tradition for whom this inner force was a major preoccupation and something separate from and greater than the desire for self-preservation. Cooper&’s overarching purpose is to illuminate the nature of this source of existential longing and discontent and its implications for political life. He concentrates especially on what these thinkers share in their understanding of this psychic power and how they view it ambivalently as the root not only of ambition, vigorous virtue, patriotism, and philosophy, but also of tyranny, imperialism, and varieties of fanaticism. But he is not neglectful of the differences among their interpretations of the phenomenon, either, and especially highlights these in the concluding chapter.
The Viking Opera Guide
The Viking Opera Guide - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Viking Opera Guide write by Amanda Holden. This book was released on 1993. The Viking Opera Guide available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book, which was published early this year and is available unbundled from the CD-ROM for $69.95, contains information on more than 800 composers and examines some 1,500 operas in detail. Each composer's musical career is outlined, with an assessment of his or her overall contribution to opera. Opera entries include cast lists and orchestral forces, a commentary on the background of the work, a synopsis of the plot, and a musical analysis identifying musical highlights and points of interest. Recording and edition information is included. For those who don't like to turn pages, prefer to read from the screen, or just like the click-click of the mouse, the CD-ROM provides computer access via Windows to the information and pictures (small black and whites) of the book. The CD-ROM holds some enhancements: notably, three hours of music excerpts (unheard by this reviewer who lacks the needed 16-bit sound card; some, according to the press release, are as long as three to five minutes). Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Doctrine of the Arts
Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Doctrine of the Arts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Doctrine of the Arts write by Philip Robinson. This book was released on 1984. Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Doctrine of the Arts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first book to set out comprehensively Rousseau's theoretical statements on the arts: music and opera, theatre, fiction, poetry, the visual arts and dance. These statements are seen in terms of the phases of his intellectual development: the early years, the social criticism of the 1750s, the future-orientated theory of Emile and other texts, and finally the increasing self-scrutiny. This approach, conscious at all times of the element of personal commitment in his thinking, permits a sympathetic understanding, if not a resolution, of the famous paradoxes. The chief of these, his simultaneous condemnation and practice of drama, music and literature, is seen less as a personal contradiction than as a pointer to the ills of society which outrage him. Despite the huge social, political and economic upheavals since his death in 1778, Rousseau emerges as a thinker who has much to teach those concerned for the health of the arts in a modern world and for the moral values which attend them.
The Harpsichord and Clavichord
The Harpsichord and Clavichord - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Harpsichord and Clavichord write by Igor Kipnis. This book was released on 2013-04-15. The Harpsichord and Clavichord available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Harpsichord and Clavichord, An Encyclopedia includes articles on this family of instruments, including famous players, composers, instruments builders, the construction of the instruments, and related terminology. It is the first complete reference on this important family of keyboard instruments. The contributors include major scholars of music and musical instrument history from around the world. It completes the three-volume Encyclopedia of Keyboard Instruments.
