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Ring around the Rosie A pocket full of posies, Ashes Ashes We all
fall down As a little girl growing up singing Ring Around the
Rosie, little did I know, that this would become our family ballad.
My maternal grandpa used to say, "One day this family will destroy
itself " How could I possibly understand what that meant? But I
remember him saying it, all the same. Grandpa's prediction now
rings true, as our family did destroy itself and fell to the ashes
with the final act of our mother's passing. She left a carefully
woven Gordian knot through deceptive means in her death wake of
such vast proportion and complexity that it may never unravel. The
death and passing of a loved one is difficult, even under the best
of circumstances. But if the ties that bind left behind unaddressed
confusion, misunderstandings, and/or deceit, the pain can run deep
and leave a lasting "nonnegotiable" imprint, limited not to just
one member, but the entire family for generations to come.
Perpetual sunshine, palm trees, miles of unbroken beaches, yachts,
cliff-top mansions, millionaires—these are the images of Orange
County that come to mind for many people, and there is much truth
in this depiction, for Orange County is a place of boundless
natural wonders that attracts more than 25 million tourists a year.
However, the full story of Orange County is far more complex.
It’s a story of conquistadors, wildcatters, farmers, veterans of
great wars, builders, artists, and filmmakers. With a selection of
fine historic images from her best-selling book Historic
Photos of Orange County, Leslie Anne Stone provides a
valuable and revealing historical retrospective on the growth and
development of Orange County. Remembering Orange
County offers more than 125 images drawn from the county’s
fascinating past, from the mission ruins of San Juan Capistrano, to
the turn-of-the-century celery fields of Westminster, to the
eye-popping fantasia of a young Disneyland. By East Coast
standards, Orange County is an infant—just over a century
old—and tiny compared with most California counties; but its
population is second only to neighboring Los Angeles County and
growing every day. This volume captures the story of Orange
County’s evolution from a sleepy backwater suburb of Los Angeles
to an international tourist destination.
Guillaume de Machaut was the foremost poet-composer of his time.
Studies look at all aspects of his prodigious output. Guillaume de
Machaut (1300-1377) is regarded as the greatest French
poet-composer of the middle ages, as he was during his lifetime. A
trained secretary, with a passion for collecting, copying and
ordering his own work, the numberof surviving notated musical works
attributed to him far exceeds that of any of his contemporaries.
All the main genres of song - lais, virelais, balades, and rondeaux
- together with Machaut's motets, and his famous Masscycle are
considered here from a variety of perspectives. These incorporate
the latest scholarly understanding of both Machaut's poetry and
music, and the material form they take when notated in the
surviving manuscripts. The bookthus presents a detailed picture of
the current range of interpretative approaches to Machaut's music,
focusing variously on counterpoint, musica ficta, text setting,
musico-poetic meanings, citation and intertextuality, tonality, and
compositional method. Several of Machaut's works are discussed by a
pair of contributors, who reach conclusions at times mutually
reinforcing or complementary, at times contradictory and mutually
exclusive. That Machaut's music thrives on such constructive debate
and disagreement is a tribute to his scope as an artist, and his
musico-poetic achievement. Contributors: JENNIFER BAIN, MARGARET
BENT, CHRISTIAN BERGER, JACQUES BOOGAART,THOMAS BROWN, ALICE V.
CLARK, JANE E. FLYNN, JEHOASH HIRSHBERG, KARL KUEGLE, ELIZABETH EVA
LEACH, DANIEL LEECH-WILKINSON, ETER M. LEFFERTS, WILLIAM PETER
MAHRT, KEVIN N. MOLL, VIRGINIA NEWES, YOLANDA PLUMLEY, OWEN REES,
ANNE STONE. ELIZABETH EVA LEACH lectures in music at Royal
Holloway, University of London.
Perpetual sunshine, palm trees, miles of unbroken beaches, yachts,
cliff-top mansions, millionaires—these are the images of Orange
County that come to mind for many people, and there is much truth
in this depiction, for Orange County is a place of boundless
natural wonders that attracts more than 25 million tourists a year.
However, the full story of Orange County is far more complex.
It’s a story of Juañeno Indians, conquistadors, Franciscan
padres, rancheros, wildcatters, artists, and
filmmakers. Historic Photos of Orange County offers
some 200 images drawn from the county’s fascinating past, from
the mission ruins of San Juan Capistrano, to the
turn-of-the-century celery fields of Westminster, to the
eye-popping fantasia of a young Disneyland. By East Coast
standards, Orange County is a relative baby—just over a century
old—and tiny compared with most California counties; but its
population is second only to neighboring Los Angeles County and
growing every day. This volume captures the story of Orange
County’s evolution from a sleepy backwater suburb of Los Angeles
to an international tourist destination.
Ring around the Rosie A pocket full of posies, Ashes Ashes We all
fall down As a little girl growing up singing Ring Around the
Rosie, little did I know, that this would become our family ballad.
My maternal grandpa used to say, "One day this family will destroy
itself " How could I possibly understand what that meant? But I
remember him saying it, all the same. Grandpa's prediction now
rings true, as our family did destroy itself and fell to the ashes
with the final act of our mother's passing. She left a carefully
woven Gordian knot through deceptive means in her death wake of
such vast proportion and complexity that it may never unravel. The
death and passing of a loved one is difficult, even under the best
of circumstances. But if the ties that bind left behind unaddressed
confusion, misunderstandings, and/or deceit, the pain can run deep
and leave a lasting "nonnegotiable" imprint, limited not to just
one member, but the entire family for generations to come.
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