|
Showing 1 - 25 of
35 matches in All Departments
First published in 1999, this volume is the first full-length study
to deal with the life and music of Orlando Gibbons since E.H.
Fellowes's short book, originally published in 1923. John Harley
investigates in detail the family and musical background from which
Orlando Gibbons emerged, and gives a fascinating account of the
activities of his father, William Gibbons, as a wait in Oxford and
Cambridge. He traces, too, the activities of Orlando's brothers -
Edward, who was the master of the choristers at King's College,
Cambridge and later at Exeter Cathedral; Ferdinando, who may have
taken over from his father as head of the Cambridge waits, and who
became a wait in Lincoln; and Ellis, who contributed two madrigals
to Thomas Morley's collection of 1601, The Triumphs of Oriana.
Attention naturally focuses principally on Orlando Gibbons. A full
record is given of his remarkably youthful appointment as an
organist of the Chapel Royal (he was probably less than twenty at
the time) and of his life at court. His additional appointments as
one of Prince Charles's musicians and as organist of Westminster
Abbey are also described, as is his sudden and premature death in
his early forties. Gibbons's music is carefully examined in a
series of chapters dealing with his pieces for keyboard and for
viols, his songs, his full and verse anthems, and his works for the
Anglican liturgy. His development as a composer within these genres
is followed, and the character of particular pieces is considered.
John Harley concludes that whereas, at one time, Gibbons 'tended to
be admired as a successor to Tallis and Byrd, working in a style
not essentially different from theirs', it is now 'easier to view
him as a pioneer, whose work was cut short by his untimely death'.
Orlando Gibbons's son Christopher was only a child when his father
died, but he became one of the foremost composers and keyboard
players of his generation, writing and performing chamber works and
music for the stage during the Commonwealth. Following the
Restoration of King Charles II, Christopher Gibbons gained his
father's former posts at the Chapel Royal and Westminster Abbey,
for which establishments he wrote a number of anthems. His
importance is recognized by the inclusion of a long chapter on his
life and works.
The 12th edition of Zoology continues to offer students an
introductory general zoology text that is manageable in size and
adaptable to a variety of course formats. It is a
principles-oriented text written for the non-majors or the combined
course, presented at the freshman and sophomore level.
John Harley's Thomas Tallis is the first full-length book to deal
comprehensively with the composer's life and works. Tallis entered
the Chapel Royal in the middle of a long life, and remained there
for over 40 years. During a colourful period of English history he
famously served King Henry VIII and the three of Henry's children
who followed him to the throne. His importance for English music
during the second half of the sixteenth century is equalled only by
that of his pupil, colleague and friend William Byrd. In a series
of chronological chapters, Harley describes Tallis's career before
and after he entered the Chapel. The fully considered biography is
placed in the context of larger political and cultural changes of
the period. Each monarch's reign is treated with an examination of
the ways in which Tallis met its particular musical needs.
Consideration is given to all of Tallis's surviving compositions,
including those probably intended for patrons and amateurs beyond
the court, and attention is paid to the context within which they
were written. Tallis emerges as a composer whose music displays his
special ability in setting words and creating ingenious musical
patterns. A table places most of Tallis's compositions in a broad
chronological order.
In The World of William Byrd John Harley builds on his previous
work, William Byrd: Gentleman of the Chapel Royal (Ashgate, 1997),
in order to place the composer more clearly in his social context.
He provides new information about Byrd's youthful musical training,
and reveals how in his adult life his music emerged from a series
of overlapping family, business and social networks. These networks
and Byrd's navigation within and between them are examined, as are
the lives of a number of the individuals comprising them.
John Harley's Thomas Tallis is the first full-length book to deal
comprehensively with the composer's life and works. Tallis entered
the Chapel Royal in the middle of a long life, and remained there
for over 40 years. During a colourful period of English history he
famously served King Henry VIII and the three of Henry's children
who followed him to the throne. His importance for English music
during the second half of the sixteenth century is equalled only by
that of his pupil, colleague and friend William Byrd. In a series
of chronological chapters, Harley describes Tallis's career before
and after he entered the Chapel. The fully considered biography is
placed in the context of larger political and cultural changes of
the period. Each monarch's reign is treated with an examination of
the ways in which Tallis met its particular musical needs.
Consideration is given to all of Tallis's surviving compositions,
including those probably intended for patrons and amateurs beyond
the court, and attention is paid to the context within which they
were written. Tallis emerges as a composer whose music displays his
special ability in setting words and creating ingenious musical
patterns. A table places most of Tallis's compositions in a broad
chronological order.
In The World of William Byrd John Harley builds on his previous
work, William Byrd: Gentleman of the Chapel Royal (Ashgate, 1997),
in order to place the composer more clearly in his social context.
He provides new information about Byrd's youthful musical training,
and reveals how in his adult life his music emerged from a series
of overlapping family, business and social networks. These networks
and Byrd's navigation within and between them are examined, as are
the lives of a number of the individuals comprising them.
First published in 1999, this volume is the first full-length study
to deal with the life and music of Orlando Gibbons since E.H.
Fellowes's short book, originally published in 1923. John Harley
investigates in detail the family and musical background from which
Orlando Gibbons emerged, and gives a fascinating account of the
activities of his father, William Gibbons, as a wait in Oxford and
Cambridge. He traces, too, the activities of Orlando's brothers -
Edward, who was the master of the choristers at King's College,
Cambridge and later at Exeter Cathedral; Ferdinando, who may have
taken over from his father as head of the Cambridge waits, and who
became a wait in Lincoln; and Ellis, who contributed two madrigals
to Thomas Morley's collection of 1601, The Triumphs of Oriana.
Attention naturally focuses principally on Orlando Gibbons. A full
record is given of his remarkably youthful appointment as an
organist of the Chapel Royal (he was probably less than twenty at
the time) and of his life at court. His additional appointments as
one of Prince Charles's musicians and as organist of Westminster
Abbey are also described, as is his sudden and premature death in
his early forties. Gibbons's music is carefully examined in a
series of chapters dealing with his pieces for keyboard and for
viols, his songs, his full and verse anthems, and his works for the
Anglican liturgy. His development as a composer within these genres
is followed, and the character of particular pieces is considered.
John Harley concludes that whereas, at one time, Gibbons 'tended to
be admired as a successor to Tallis and Byrd, working in a style
not essentially different from theirs', it is now 'easier to view
him as a pioneer, whose work was cut short by his untimely death'.
Orlando Gibbons's son Christopher was only a child when his father
died, but he became one of the foremost composers and keyboard
players of his generation, writing and performing chamber works and
music for the stage during the Commonwealth. Following the
Restoration of King Charles II, Christopher Gibbons gained his
father's former posts at the Chapel Royal and Westminster Abbey,
for which establishments he wrote a number of anthems. His
importance is recognized by the inclusion of a long chapter on his
life and works.
This is the first comprehensive study of William Byrd's life
(1540-1623) and works to appear for sixty years, and fully takes
into consideration recent scholarship. The biographical section
includes many newly discovered facts about Byrd and his family,
while in the chapters dealing with his music an attempt is made for
the first time to outline the chronology of all his compositions.
The book begins with a detailed account of Byrd's life, based on a
completely fresh examination of original documents, which are
quoted extensively. Several previously known documents have now
been identified as being in Byrd's hand, and some fresh holographs
have been discovered. A number of questions such as his parentage
and date of birth have been conclusively settled. The book
continues with a survey of Byrd's music which pays particular
attention to its chronological development, and links it where
possible to the events and background of his life. A series of
appendices includes additional texts of important documents, and a
summary catalogue of works. A bibliography and index complete the
book. Besides musical illustrations there is a series of plates
illustrating documents and places associated with Byrd.
"Cadavers, camera, action!" ("The New York Times Book Review").
From the advent of photography in the 19th and into the 20th
century, medical students, often in secrecy, took photographs of
themselves with the cadavers that they dissected: their first
patients. Featuring 138 of these historic photographs and
illuminating essays by two experts on the subject, "Dissection"
reveals a startling piece of American history. Sherwin Nuland, MD,
said this is "a truly unique and important book [that] documents a
period in medical education in a way that is matched by no other
existing contribution." And Mary Roach said Dissection "is the most
extraordinary book I have ever seen--the perfect coffee table book
for all the households where I'd most like to be invited for
coffee."
Paymaster John Harley wrote his memoirs in the mid to late 1830's,
some fifteen years after he had left the army under questionable
circumstances. He apparently published this memoir privately in two
volumes in 1838 a few years before his death - quite possibly as he
had not found a mainstream publisher because of its potentially
libellous content - and only four hundred copies were apparently
printed. John Harley had a varied and interesting military career,
serving in the Tarbert Fencibles, the 54th Foot in Egypt, and then
the 47th Foot with Wellington in Spain and Southern France. John
Harley was born in Cork, Ireland on 18 November 1769 but his father
died within a few weeks, he therefore lived with his mother for
most of his youth in the area of Kilkenny. At the age of fourteen
he was put to work at a merchant house in the city but never really
settled in this role and secured a lieutenancy in the Tarbert
Fencibles on their formation in 1798. Harley gained a commission as
Quartermaster of the 54th Foot on 12 June 1800 and joined his new
regiment at Winchester. Soon after they were ordered to proceed
abroad and within a year Harley found himself trudging through the
hot sands of Egypt in the campaign of Sir Ralph Abercromby to oust
the French from Africa. Thereafter, they formed part of the
garrison of Gibraltar and were there during the infamous mutiny
against the governor the Duke of Kent. After being placed on
half-pay during the Peace of Amiens, Harley soon found a new
position, as Quartermaster in the 1st Battalion 47th Foot. On 11
July 1805 John Harley gained the position of Paymaster to the
regiment's 2nd Battalion and moved with it around Ireland for the
next three years, thence to England in 1807 where they remained
until 1809 when they were finally ordered for foreign service. They
sailed for Gibraltar in October 1809 and were then transferred to
Cadiz, taking part in the defence of that place and of Tarifa in
1811. The following year the siege of Cadiz ended, the battalion
marched to Seville and then joined in Wellington's difficult
retreat to Portugal. In 1813 the battalion was at the Battle of
Vitoria, where John had the awful news of the death of his son; he
then took part in the siege of San Sebastian. They were then
involved in the crossing of the Bidassoa, the Battles of Nivelle
and the Nive and finally involved in the sortie from Bayonne, when
the war ended. As a Paymaster, Harley was rarely in the fighting,
but he was certainly close to the action at times and also saw much
of the terrible aftermath. However, some of the greatest and most
entertaining memoirs have already come from non-combatants. It is a
simple truth that if you want to know what it was really like in
the British army for the ninety-nine percent of the time when there
was no fighting, read the memoirs of such men, who had opportunity
to enjoy the best of times, partook in many of the greatest
adventures, and thankfully had the spare time to record them for
posterity. Although he did not write his memoirs until 1830, Harley
remembers a great deal; names, personalities, incidents, and
tragedies and although his memory might occasionally confuse the
correct ranks or some of the fine details; every one of the major
incidents he recounts is to be found in the records. But the
greatest joy of these pages are the various scurrilous incidents
mentioned in these memoirs, which have all been found to be fully
established in fact. Duels, bigamy, abductions, women tricked into
marriage, sinking boats, cowardice, larceny, murder, corruption,
human tragedy, bankruptcy, forgery, suicides, privateers, debtors
prison, card sharks, highwaymen, prisoners of war, and Garryowen
Boys, indeed the whole gambit. It truly exposes the seedy underside
of Georgian life both within the army and in civilian life too.
John Harley's memoirs are a real joy and a real eye-opener on many
levels - once you have read them, you will never look at
Wellington's army in the same light ever again.
This new paperback edition makes available John Harley Warner's
highly influential, revisionary history of nineteenth-century
American medicine. Deftly integrating social and intellectual
perspectives, Warner explores a crucial shift in medical history,
when physicians no longer took for granted such established
therapies as bloodletting, alcohol, and opium and began to question
the sources and character of their therapeutic knowledge. He
examines what this transformation meant in terms of patient care
and assesses the impact of clinical research, educational reform,
unorthodox medical movements, newly imported European method, and
the products of laboratory science on medical ideology and action.
Originally published in 1997. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the
latest print-on-demand technology to again make available
previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of
Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original
texts of these important books while presenting them in durable
paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy
Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage
found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University
Press since its founding in 1905.
This new paperback edition makes available John Harley Warner's
highly influential, revisionary history of nineteenth-century
American medicine. Deftly integrating social and intellectual
perspectives, Warner explores a crucial shift in medical history,
when physicians no longer took for granted such established
therapies as bloodletting, alcohol, and opium and began to question
the sources and character of their therapeutic knowledge. He
examines what this transformation meant in terms of patient care
and assesses the impact of clinical research, educational reform,
unorthodox medical movements, newly imported European method, and
the products of laboratory science on medical ideology and
action.
Originally published in 1997.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these
important books while presenting them in durable paperback
editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly
increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the
thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since
its founding in 1905.
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This
IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced
typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have
occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor
pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original
artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe
this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections,
have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We
appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the
preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
|
You may like...
Homeland - Season 1
Claire Danes, Damian Lewis, …
Blu-ray disc
(4)
R259
R31
Discovery Miles 310
Caracal
Disclosure
CD
R48
Discovery Miles 480
|