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The Encyclopedia of Organ includes articles on the organ family of
instruments, including famous players, composers, instrument
builders, the construction of the instruments, and related
terminology. It is the first complete A-Z reference on this
important family of keyboard instruments. The contributors include
major scholars of music and musical instrument history from around
the world.
The Organ: An Encyclopedia includes articles on the organ family of
instruments, including famous players, composers, instrument
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, which also includes the Piano Encyclopedia and the
Harpsichord & Clavichord Encyclopedia.
The appearance of a fourth printing of The Renaissance and English
Humanism indicated the scholarly success this book has enjoyed for
more than a decade. As a brief yet thoughtful and eloquent
evaluation of the influence of the Christian humanistic tradition
upon our culture it has not been surpassed. The study is divided
into four parts: in the first, Professor Bush discusses modern
theories of the Renaissance; in the second and third, the character
of classical humanism on the Continent and in England; and in the
fourth, the place of Milton in the humanistic tradition. "Douglas
Bush has shown an unusual awareness," wrote Wallace K. Ferguson,
"of the historiographical evolution of the Renaissance, and has
taken his stand with rare explicitness on the side of those who
find the Renaissance filled with mediaeval traditions." Professor
Bush sees the dominant ideal of the English Renaissance as rational
and religious order, rather than rebellious individualism, and his
view has provided an important clue to the English literature and
thought of the 16th and the earlier 17th century.
The Portable Milton is an authoritative grand tour through the imagination of this prodigal genius. In the course of his forty-year career, John Milton evolved from a prodigy to a blind prophet, from a philosophical aesthete to a Puritan rebel, and from a poet who proclaimed the triumph of reason to one obsessed with the intractability of sin. Throughout these transformations, he conceived his work as a form of prayer, written in the service of the supreme being.
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