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This edited volume takes an expansive, no-nonsense view of the
spectrum of English language learners to address their varied
backgrounds and their wide range of needs, worries, motivations,
and abilities. Each chapter addresses a key area and group of
students to enable English language teachers to come away with the
knowledge and skills they need to support their students. The
contributors, who represent a diverse range of voices themselves,
cover essential topics, including dyslexia, neurodiversity,
linguistic inclusion, deaf students, LGBTQI+ students, racial and
cultural inclusion, and more. Accessible and grounded in
cutting-edge research, this book features key concepts,
methodologies, and strategies that will encourage reflection and
inclusive pedagogy. An invaluable resource for students,
researchers, and professionals, this volume demonstrates how
English language education can be a force for transformative change
and social inclusion.
This edited volume takes an expansive, no-nonsense view of the
spectrum of English language learners to address their varied
backgrounds and their wide range of needs, worries, motivations,
and abilities. Each chapter addresses a key area and group of
students to enable English language teachers to come away with the
knowledge and skills they need to support their students. The
contributors, who represent a diverse range of voices themselves,
cover essential topics, including dyslexia, neurodiversity,
linguistic inclusion, deaf students, LGBTQI+ students, racial and
cultural inclusion, and more. Accessible and grounded in
cutting-edge research, this book features key concepts,
methodologies, and strategies that will encourage reflection and
inclusive pedagogy. An invaluable resource for students,
researchers, and professionals, this volume demonstrates how
English language education can be a force for transformative change
and social inclusion.
Haydn is enjoying renewed appreciation as one of the towering
figures of Western music history. This lively collection builds
upon this resurgence of interest, with chapters exploring the
nature of Haydn's invention and the cultural forces that he both
absorbed and helped to shape and express. The volume addresses
Haydn's celebrated instrumental pieces, the epoch-making Creation
and many lesser-known but superb vocal works including the Masses,
the English canzonettas and Scottish songs and the operas L'isola
disabitata and L'anima del filosofo. Topics range from Haydn's
rondo forms to his violin fingerings, from his interpretation of
the Credo to his reading of Ovid's Metamorphoses, from his
involvement with national music to his influence on the emerging
concept of the musical work. Haydn emerges as an engaged artist in
every sense of the term, as remarkable for his critical response to
the world around him as for his innovations in musical composition.
Haydn is enjoying renewed appreciation as one of the towering
figures of Western music history. This lively collection builds
upon this resurgence of interest, with chapters exploring the
nature of Haydn's invention and the cultural forces that he both
absorbed and helped to shape and express. The volume addresses
Haydn's celebrated instrumental pieces, the epoch-making Creation
and many lesser-known but superb vocal works including the Masses,
the English canzonettas and Scottish songs and the operas L'isola
disabitata and L'anima del filosofo. Topics range from Haydn's
rondo forms to his violin fingerings, from his interpretation of
the Credo to his reading of Ovid's Metamorphoses, from his
involvement with national music to his influence on the emerging
concept of the musical work. Haydn emerges as an engaged artist in
every sense of the term, as remarkable for his critical response to
the world around him as for his innovations in musical composition.
This collection of essays, presented by an internationally known
team of scholars, explores the world of Vienna and the development
of opera buffa in the second half of the eighteenth century.
Although today Mozart remains one of the most well-known figures of
the period, the era was filled with composers, librettists, writers
and performers who created and developed opera buffa. Among the
topics examined are the relationship of Viennese opera buffa to
French theatre; Mozart and eighteenth-century comedy; gender,
nature and bourgeois society on Mozart's buffa stage; as well as
close analyses of key works such as Don Giovanni and Le nozze di
Figaro.
The Land of Little Rain (1903) is a collection of essays and short
stories by Mary Hunter Austin. Originally published with
photographs taken by acclaimed American photographer Ansel Adams,
The Land of Little Rain is a classic work of nature writing. Austin
is now recognized as an early feminist and conservationist who
understood the intricacy and fragility of ecosystems as well as the
extent to which human civilization threatens their continued
existence. In a series of stories and essays on the animals,
landscapes, and peoples that make up the American Southwest, Mary
Hunter Austin proves that the foremost responsibility of a writer
is to look. With an attentive and deeply respectful eye, Austin
describes the heat and violence of desert weather, the tracks made
by disparate animal species as they travel in search of water, and
the scavengers that depend on death for life. Within this
collection are brief stories about the people and communities
scattered throughout the harsh Mojave desert: a miner who longs for
wealth and civilization but returns to the wild and unpredictable
life of speculation; a Shoshone medicine man captured by the Paiute
tribe who misses his people and home; a town where people live
simply, depending on nothing but the land and its bounty for their
daily existence and abundant happiness. The Land of Little Rain is
both informative and moving, an intricate tapestry that celebrates
the diversity of life while making an incontrovertible case for its
continued preservation. Mary Hunter Austin was a gifted writer and
an environmentalist ahead of her time. In a world faced with the
catastrophic effects of a global climate crisis, we need writers
such as Austin for not only the wisdom and knowledge they offer,
but the monumental change their words can inspire. With a
beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript,
this edition of Mary Hunter Austin's The Land of Little Rain is a
classic of American literature and nature writing reimagined for
modern readers.
Mozart's comic operas are among the masterworks of Western
civilization, and yet the musical environment in which Mozart and
his librettist Lorenzo da Ponte wrote these now-popular operas has
received little critical attention. In this richly detailed book,
Mary Hunter offers a sweeping, synthetic view of opera buffa in the
lively theatrical world of late-eighteenth-century Vienna. Opera
buffa (Italian-language comic opera) persistently entertained
audiences at a time when Joseph was striving for a German national
theater. Hunter attributes opera buffa's success to its ability to
provide "sheer" pleasure and hence explores how the genre
functioned as entertainment. She argues that opera buffa, like
mainstream film today, projects a social world both recognizable
and distinct from reality. It raises important issues while
containing them in the "merely entertaining" frame of the occasion,
as well as presenting them as a series of easily identifiable
dramatic and musical conventions.
Exploring nearly eighty comic operas, Hunter shows how the arias
and ensembles convey a multifaceted picture of the repertory's
social values and habits. In a concluding chapter, she discusses
"Cos" fan tutte" as a work profoundly concerned with the
conventions of its repertory and with the larger idea of convention
itself and reveals the ways Mozart and da Ponte pointedly converse
with their immediate contemporaries.
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