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Uses the rare depictions of musical instruments and musical sources
found on the Eglantine Table to understand the musical life of the
Elizabethan age and its connection to aspects of culture now
treated as separate disciplines ofhistorical study. The reign of
Elizabeth I (1558-1603) has often been regarded as the Golden Age
of English music. Many works of high quality, both vocal and
instrumental, were composed and performed by native and immigrant
musicians, while balladry and minstrelsy flourished in hall, street
and alehouse. No single source of the sixteenth century presents
this rich musical culture more vividly than the inlaid surface of
the Eglantine Table. This astonishing piece of furniture was made
in the late 1560s for the family of Elizabeth or 'Bess' of
Hardwick, Countess of Shrewsbury (1527-1608). The upper surface
bears a wealth of marquetry that depicts, amidst the briar roses
and other plants, numerous Elizabethan musical instruments in
exquisite detail together with open books or scrolls of music with
legible notation. Given that depictions of musical instruments and
musical sources are rare in all artistic media of the Elizabethan
period, the Eglantine Table is a very important resource for
understanding the musical life of the age and its connection to
aspects of culture now treated separately in disciplines such as
art history, social and political history or the study of material
culture. This volume assembles a group of leading scholars in the
history of instruments and associated fields to ground future
research upon the most expert assessment of the depicted
instruments, the music and the decorative imagery that is currently
attainable. A final section of the book takes a broad view, placing
the Table and the musical components of its decoration in relation
to the full range of Elizabethan musical life.
Winner of the Nicholas Bessaraboff Prize Musical repertory of great
importance and quality was performed on viols in sixteenth- and
early seventeenth-century England. This is reported by Thomas Mace
(1676) who says that 'Your Best Provision' for playing such music
is a chest of old English viols, and he names five early English
viol makers than which 'there are no Better in the World'.
Enlightened scholars and performers (both professional and amateur)
who aim to understand and play this music require reliable
historical information and need suitable viols, but so little is
known about the instruments and their makers that we cannot specify
appropriate instruments with much precision. Our ignorance cannot
be remedied exclusively by the scrutiny or use of surviving antique
viols because they are extremely rare, they are not accessible to
performers and the information they embody is crucially compromised
by degradation and alteration. Drawing on a wide variety of
evidence including the surviving instruments, music composed for
those instruments, and the documentary evidence surrounding the
trade of instrument making, Fleming and Bryan draw significant
conclusions about the changing nature and varieties of viol in
early modern England.
Winner of the Nicholas Bessaraboff Prize Musical repertory of great
importance and quality was performed on viols in sixteenth- and
early seventeenth-century England. This is reported by Thomas Mace
(1676) who says that 'Your Best Provision' for playing such music
is a chest of old English viols, and he names five early English
viol makers than which 'there are no Better in the World'.
Enlightened scholars and performers (both professional and amateur)
who aim to understand and play this music require reliable
historical information and need suitable viols, but so little is
known about the instruments and their makers that we cannot specify
appropriate instruments with much precision. Our ignorance cannot
be remedied exclusively by the scrutiny or use of surviving antique
viols because they are extremely rare, they are not accessible to
performers and the information they embody is crucially compromised
by degradation and alteration. Drawing on a wide variety of
evidence including the surviving instruments, music composed for
those instruments, and the documentary evidence surrounding the
trade of instrument making, Fleming and Bryan draw significant
conclusions about the changing nature and varieties of viol in
early modern England.
This book will be of major interest to student teachers, teachers,
lecturers and researchers. It provides a case for an integrated
approach to the teaching of drama in primary and secondary schools
that will help practitioners develop a theoretical rationale for
their work. It also offers practical examples of lesson plans and
schemes of work designed to give pupils a broad and balanced
experience of drama. These are presented within a framework that
argues for an integration of content and form, means and ends, and
internal and external experience. Whereas the author's previous
work argued for an inclusive approach that reconciled polarized
views about performance drama and improvisation, this book shows
how those activities can be related to each other in practice in an
integrated curriculum.
This book fills a significant gap in the study of the establishment
of communist rule in Poland in the key period of 1944-1950. It
shows that nationalism and nationality policy were fundamentally
important in the consolidation of communist rule, acting as a
crucial nexus through which different groups were both coerced and
were able to consent to the new unfolding social and political
order. Drawing on extensive archival research, including national
and regional archives in Poland, it provides a detailed and nuanced
understanding of the early years of communist rule in Poland. It
shows how after the war the communist Polish Workers Party (PPR)
was able to redirect widespread anger resulting from the actions of
the NKVD, Soviet Army and the communists to more 'realistic'
targets such as minority communities, and that this displacement of
anger helped the party to connect with a broader constituency and
present itself as the only party able to protect Polish interests.
It considers the role played by the West, including the endorsement
by the Grand Alliance of homogenising policies such as population
transfer. It also explores the relationship between the communists
and other powerful institutions in Polish society, such as the
Catholic Church which was treated fairly liberally until late 1947
as it played an important function in identifying who was Polish.
Finally, the book considers important episodes - hitherto neglected
by scholars - that shed new light upon the emergence of the Cold
War and the contours of Cold War geopolitics, such as the
'Westphalian incident' of 1947-48, and the arrival of Greek
refugees in Poland in the period 1948-1950.
This book fills a significant gap in the study of the
establishment of communist rule in Poland in the key period of
1944?1950. It shows that nationalism and nationality policy were
fundamentally important in the consolidation of communist rule,
acting as a crucial nexus through which different groups were both
coerced and were able to consent to the new unfolding social and
political order.
Drawing on extensive archival research, including national and
regional archives in Poland, it provides a detailed and nuanced
understanding of the early years of communist rule in Poland. It
shows how after the war the communist Polish Workers Party (PPR)
was able to redirect widespread anger resulting from the actions of
the NKVD, Soviet Army and the communists to more ?realistic?
targets such as minority communities, and that this displacement of
anger helped the party to connect with a broader constituency and
present itself as the only party able to protect Polish interests.
It considers the role played by the West, including the endorsement
by the Grand Alliance of homogenising policies such as population
transfer. It also explores the relationship between the communists
and other powerful institutions in Polish society, such as the
Catholic Church which was treated fairly liberally until late 1947
as it played an important function in identifying who was Polish.
Finally, the book considers important episodes ? hitherto neglected
by scholars ? that shed new light upon the emergence of the Cold
War and the contours of Cold War geopolitics, such as the
?Westphalian incident? of 1947?48, and the arrival of Greek
refugees in Poland in the period 1948?1950.
This book will be of major interest to student teachers, teachers,
lecturers and researchers. It provides a case for an integrated
approach to the teaching of drama in primary and secondary schools
that will help practitioners develop a theoretical rationale for
their work. It also offers practical examples of lesson plans and
schemes of work designed to give pupils a broad and balanced
experience of drama. These are presented within a framework that
argues for an integration of content and form, means and ends, and
internal and external experience.
Whereas the author's previous work argued for an inclusive approach
that reconciled polarized views about performance drama and
improvisation, this book shows how those activities can be related
to each other in practice in an integrated curriculum.
In the midst of the Second World War, the Allies acknowledged
Germany's ongoing programme of extermination. In the Shadow of the
Holocaust examines the struggle to attain post-war justice and
prosecution. Focusing on Poland's engagement with the United
Nations War Crimes Commission, it analyses the different ways that
the Polish Government in Exile (based in London from 1940) agitated
for an Allied response to German atrocities. Michael Fleming shows
that jurists associated with the Government in Exile made
significant contributions to legal debates on war crimes and, along
with others, paid attention to German crimes against Jews. By
exploring the relationship between the UNWCC and the Polish War
Crimes Office under the authority of the Polish Government in Exile
and later, from the summer of 1945, the Polish Government in
Warsaw, Fleming provides a new lens through which to examine the
early stages of the Cold War.
What was the extent of allied knowledge regarding the mass murder
of Jews at Auschwitz during the Second World War? The question is
one which continues to prompt heated historical debate, and Michael
Fleming's important new book offers a definitive account of just
how much the Allies knew. By tracking Polish and other reports
about Auschwitz from their source, and surveying how knowledge was
gathered, controlled and distributed to different audiences, the
book examines the extent to which information about the camp was
passed on to the British and American authorities, and how the
dissemination of this knowledge was limited by propaganda and
information agencies in the West. In a fascinating new study, the
author reveals that the Allies had extensive knowledge of the mass
killing of Jews at Auschwitz much earlier than previously thought;
but the publicising of this information was actively discouraged in
Britain and the US.
What was the extent of allied knowledge regarding the mass murder
of Jews at Auschwitz during the Second World War? The question is
one which continues to prompt heated historical debate, and Michael
Fleming's important new book offers a definitive account of just
how much the Allies knew. By tracking Polish and other reports
about Auschwitz from their source, and surveying how knowledge was
gathered, controlled and distributed to different audiences, the
book examines the extent to which information about the camp was
passed on to the British and American authorities, and how the
dissemination of this knowledge was limited by propaganda and
information agencies in the West. In a fascinating new study, the
author reveals that the Allies had extensive knowledge of the mass
killing of Jews at Auschwitz much earlier than previously thought;
but the publicising of this information was actively discouraged in
Britain and the US.
This book addresses the ways in which language learning is related to learning about other cultures and to acquiring an ability to communicate across cultural frontiers. It argues that language learners need to develop sensitivity to cultural difference and its impact on communication, and to acquire the skills of discovering and interpreting other cultures, other values, beliefs and behaviors that lie beneath the surface of cross-cultural communication. Contributors show how drama can be used to develop cultural awareness and how learners can acquire ethnographic skills to help them investigate and understand other cultures and societies.
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10 Busy Brooms (Hardcover)
Carole Gerber; Illustrated by Michael Fleming
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