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This revised edition of the standard catalogue of the music and
writings of Ralph Vaughan Williams includes all known published and
unpublished works, with full details of instrumentation, revisions,
and first performances. There is much new information on the
location of manuscripts and sketches, and there are many
corrections to the information and dates given in the existing
text. The volume includes a bibliography of the literary works of
Vaughan Williams compiled by Peter Starbuck, and an appendix of
folk songs collected by the composer. The indexes have been
completely updated.
." . . prodigious research . . . results in a perceptive analysis .
. . the outcome is an exemplary work and a major contribution in
understanding the role of the Jacobin clubs in the history of the
French Revolution." . Choice ." . . a solidly researched and
well-written book. Kennedy has done much to provide new information
regarding the inner workings of the Jacobin clubs in the
Revolution." . Labour/Travail A pendant to two well-received books
by the same author on the departmental clubs during the early years
of the Revolution, this book is the product of thirty years of
scholarly study, including archival research in Paris and in more
than seventy departments in France. It focuses on the twenty-eight
months from May 1793 to August 1795, a period spanning the
Federalist Revolt, the Terror, and the Thermidorian Reaction. The
Federalist Revolt, in which many clubs were involved, had momentous
consequences for all of them and was, in the local setting, the
principal cause of the Reign of Terror, a period in which more than
5,300 communes had clubs that reached the zenith of their power and
influence, engaging in a myriad of political, administrative,
judicial, religious, economic, social, and war-related activities.
The book ends with their decline and final dissolution by a decree
of the Convention in Paris. Michael Kennedy is Chair of the History
Department at Winthrop University."
This edited collection brings together leading academics,
researchers, and police personnel to provide a comprehensive body
of literature that informs Australian police education, training,
research, policy, and practice. There is a strong history and
growth in police education, both in Australia and globally.
Recognising and reflecting on the Australian and New Zealand
Policing Advisory Agency (ANZPAA) education and training framework,
the range of chapters within the book address a range of
21st-century issues modern police forces face. This book discusses
four key themes: Education, training, and professional practice:
topics include police education, ethics, wellbeing, and leadership
Organisational approaches and techniques: topics include police
discretion, use of force, investigative interviewing, and forensic
science Operational practices and procedures: topics include police
and the media, emergency management, cybercrime, terrorism, and
community management Working with individuals and groups: topics
include mental health, Indigenous communities, young people, hate
crime, domestic violence, and working with victims Australian
Policing: Critical Issues in 21st Century Police Practice draws
together theoretical and practice debates to ensure this book will
be of interest to those who want to join the police, those who are
currently training to become a police officer, and those who are
currently serving. This book is essential reading for all students,
scholars, and researchers engaged with policing and the criminal
justice sector.
This edited collection brings together leading academics,
researchers, and police personnel to provide a comprehensive body
of literature that informs Australian police education, training,
research, policy, and practice. There is a strong history and
growth in police education, both in Australia and globally.
Recognising and reflecting on the Australian and New Zealand
Policing Advisory Agency (ANZPAA) education and training framework,
the range of chapters within the book address a range of
21st-century issues modern police forces face. This book discusses
four key themes: Education, training, and professional practice:
topics include police education, ethics, wellbeing, and leadership
Organisational approaches and techniques: topics include police
discretion, use of force, investigative interviewing, and forensic
science Operational practices and procedures: topics include police
and the media, emergency management, cybercrime, terrorism, and
community management Working with individuals and groups: topics
include mental health, Indigenous communities, young people, hate
crime, domestic violence, and working with victims Australian
Policing: Critical Issues in 21st Century Police Practice draws
together theoretical and practice debates to ensure this book will
be of interest to those who want to join the police, those who are
currently training to become a police officer, and those who are
currently serving. This book is essential reading for all students,
scholars, and researchers engaged with policing and the criminal
justice sector.
Was Richard Strauss the most incandescent composer of the twentieth
century or merely a bourgeoisie artist and Nazi sympathizer? For
the fifty years since his death on September 8, 1949, Richard
Strauss has remained dogmatically elusive in the wider body of
musical and historical criticism. Lauded as nothing less than the
"greatest musical figure" of his time by Canadian musician, Glenn
Gould, in 1962, Strauss also has attracted his share of posthumous
epithets: in summary, an artist who lived off his own fat during
his later years. As recently as 1995, the English critic Rodney
Milnes wrote, "the court of posterity is still reserving judgment."
In Richard Strauss: Man, Musician, Enigma, biographer Michael
Kennedy demonstrates that the many varying shades of criticism that
have painted this figure in the past half century resemble the
similar understandings and misunderstandings held by his
contemporaries--perceptions that touched almost every aspect of
Strauss' life and career. Introducing his detailed work more as a
broad explication than a firm answer to the Straussian riddle,
Kennedy's scope includes the exuberant, extroverted Strauss of
young adulthood as well as the phlegmatic and aloof middle-aged man
who resembled a "prosperous bank manager;" the arch-fiend of
modernism and the composer who redefined the term; a man who
professed to lack all spiritual curiosity and a musician who penned
the touching ballet Der Kometentanz; an at times almost humble
family man and an artist who claimed to be as interesting as
Napoleon and Alexander the Great. Kennedy clearly elucidates his
enigmatic subject by building his analysis around the few constants
in Strauss' life: his profoundadmiration for German culture, his
dependence on his own family for guidance, and his "Nietzschean
total absorption in art." This frame offers everyone from
Straussian scholars to general readers an insightful and
easy-to-follow biographical narrative. Kennedy also deals at length
with Strauss' problematic relationship with Nazi authorities,
detailing his incompatible roles as the father-in-law of a Jewish
woman and as one of the country's leading composers. Michael
Kennedy is the chief music critic of the (London) Sunday Telegraph
and the author of many books about music.
This important new biography of Elgar draws on letters and
documents which have become available in the last twenty-five
years. Michael Kennedy, a leading scholar of British music and a
distinguished musical biographer, uses this new material, which
includes Elgar's own vast correspondence, in an attempt to get to
the centre of the composer's complex personality. Elgar's letters
reveal his unpredictable swings of mood, from gaiety and a fondness
for puns to morose self-pity and a feeling that he was 'not
wanted', and although much of Elgar's music sounds confident and
coherent, it also has an underlying layer of unease, melancholy and
insecurity. His relationships with his wife and other women friends
are a continuing thread in the life of a man who remained acutely
conscious of his lower middle-class origins in spite of his
meteoric rise to fame, honours in Edward VII's reign and friendship
with the King.
Bridging the nineteenth- and the twentieth-centuries, the late-Romantic tradition and the beginnings of modernism, Mahler's music is an intimate reflection of his life and thought - and his continual self-questioning on matters of belief and the role of mankind. In this revised and enlarged edition of his Master Musicians volume, Michael Kennedy has drawn on new documentary evidence which has enabled him to give a much fuller account of Mahler's childhood and youth, and of his years as an opera conductor in Cassel, Prague, Leipzig, Budapest, Hamburg, and Vienna. All of Mahler's works are discussed and for the reprint in 2000 the author has added a new chapter covering recent research on the composer.
This is a corrected reissue, in Clarendon Paperbacks format with a new cover, of Michael Kennedy's classic study of William Walton's life and works. In this biography by one of England's foremost writers on music, Walton's personality emerges in all its complexity and self-contradiction. Michael Kennedy portrays a creative artist completely committed to his art yet plagued by misgiving and doubts, prey to insecurity and frustration, vulnerable to criticism, and jealous of the achievement of others. At the same time he was witty and generous, bore no grudges, and enjoyed the loyalty of a host of friends. Appointed his biographer by the composer himself, Kennedy has had access to correspondence with many of the friends and colleagues who were important in Walton's life, among them Siegfried Sassoon, Benjamin Britten, Malcolm Arnold, and André Previn. His compassionate and perceptive biography will be welcomed by all devotees of Walton and his music.
This is the authoritative account of Vaughan Williams's musical
life-- the story of a great composer's career, and at the same time
the story of music in England for over half a century. Kennedy
considers the principal works in chronological order, outlining the
main features of each and discussing details of the music's
structure, often illuminating his point with a musical quotation.
He also provides a good deal of biographical data, and so builds up
a picture of the composer, as well as providing thumbnail sketches
of many of Vaughan Williams's friends and colleagues. Kennedy's
extensive knowledge of Vaughan Williams's output also enables him
to refer back and forth across the works to pick out lines of
development and influence. Along with Michael Kennedy's new
preface, the second edition includes a full classified list of
Vaughan Williams's works.
Was Richard Strauss the most incandescent composer of the twentieth century or merely a bourgeoisie artist and Nazi sympathizer? For the fifty years since his death on September 8, 1949, Richard Strauss has remained dogmatically elusive in the wider body of musical and historical criticism. Lauded as nothing less than the "greatest musical figure" of his time by Canadian musician, Glenn Gould, in 1962, Strauss also has attracted his share of posthumous epithets: in summary, an artist who lived off his own fat during his later years. As recently as 1995, the English critic Rodney Milnes wrote, "the court of posterity is still reserving judgment." In Richard Strauss: Man, Musician, Enigma, biographer Michael Kennedy demonstrates that the many varying shades of criticism that have painted this figure in the past half century resemble the similar understandings and misunderstandings held by his contemporaries--perceptions that touched almost every aspect of Strauss' life and career. Introducing his detailed work more as a broad explication than a firm answer to the Straussian riddle, Kennedy's scope includes the exuberant, extroverted Strauss of young adulthood as well as the phlegmatic and aloof middle-aged man who resembled a "prosperous bank manager;" the arch-fiend of modernism and the composer who redefined the term; a man who professed to lack all spiritual curiosity and a musician who penned the touching ballet Der Kometentanz; an at times almost humble family man and an artist who claimed to be as interesting as Napoleon and Alexander the Great. Kennedy clearly elucidates his enigmatic subject by building his analysis around the few constants in Strauss' life: his profound admiration for German culture, his dependence on his own family for guidance, and his "Nietzschean total absorption in art." This frame offers everyone from Straussian scholars to general readers an insightful and easy-to-follow biographical narrative. Kennedy also deals at length with Strauss' problematic relationship with Nazi authorities, detailing his incompatible roles as the father-in-law of a Jewish woman and as one of the country's leading composers. Michael Kennedy is the chief music critic of the (London) Sunday Telegraph and the author of many books about music.
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Tumult (Hardcover)
John Harris Dunning; Artworks by Michael Kennedy
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"Incredible, inspiring, infinitely readable" - Craig Thompson,
author of Blankets "The story was tremendous, a real page-turner.
And I loved Michael Kennedy's artwork." - Frank Quitely "[Tumult]
reads like an art house thriller. An ode to cinema, it has shades
of Jim Jamusch or a hipster Hitchcock, and some of the boldest,
most original art I've seen in years" - Christian Ward "Unique,
thrilling and illustrated with gusto" - Michael Allred Tumult is
the coolest indie movie on paper. Oblique, funny and beautiful work
from two future comic stars!" - Sean Phillips Adam Whistler has it
all, so why does he feel so empty? When he breaks his ankle on a
Mediterranean holiday he impulsively ends his relationship,
toppling himself into emotional free fall. At a house party he
meets-and beds-the lovely Morgan. But when he encounters her a few
days later she has no memory of him and introduces herself as
Leila. Leila has dissociative identity disorder, or multiple
personalities. People are being murdered and Leila fears that
Morgan, the personality Adam first met, is the killer. He doesn't
believe that any part of her is capable of it, so he sets out to
unravel the mystery of her past. Tumult is a stylish, contemporary
psychological thriller in the vein of Alfred Hitchcock and Patricia
Highsmith.
Includes a CD-ROM with GPS data sets for exercises in Trimble SSF
and ESRI shapefile formats-plus other valuable learning resources
Provides step-by-step guidance on applying the concepts using GPS
hardware or a PC Presents an overview of concepts and self-study
projects and exercises in each chapter Covers the capabilities and
features common to most receivers Solutions manual available upon
qualified course adoption
This important new biography of Elgar draws on letters and
documents which have become available in the last twenty-five
years. Michael Kennedy, a leading scholar of British music and a
distinguished musical biographer, uses this new material, which
includes Elgar's own vast correspondence, in an attempt to get to
the centre of the composer's complex personality. Elgar's letters
reveal his unpredictable swings of mood, from gaiety and a fondness
for puns to morose self-pity and a feeling that he was 'not
wanted', and although much of Elgar's music sounds confident and
coherent, it also has an underlying layer of unease, melancholy and
insecurity. His relationships with his wife and other women friends
are a continuing thread in the life of a man who remained acutely
conscious of his lower middle-class origins in spite of his
meteoric rise to fame, honours in Edward VII's reign and friendship
with the King.
The public image of Elgar as patriotic country squire was
established in his lifetime, but, in reality, it concealed a highly
complex, sometimes baffling, private individual. Although
acquaintances found him a man of endless curiosity and good humour,
his family and close friends knew him to be rather different: a
prey to despair, neurotically mistrustful both of himself and of
those who loved him and so damaged by the condescension and neglect
of his early years that emotionally he never recovered.
This is a reissue of the third edition of Michael Kenedy's
portrait of this complexman - not an analytical survey of the music
but a faithful likeness of the composer, recognizable, but at the
same time a thoroughly individual interpretation of the subject.
The thirteenth volume in the Documents on Irish Foreign Policy
(DIFP) series runs from April 1965 to July 1969. It covers the
Fianna Fail governments of Sean Lemass (April 1965 to November
1966) and Jack Lynch (November 1966 to July 1969) in which Frank
Aiken was Minister for External Affairs. The four years and three
months covered by DIFP XIII saw significant changes in the
international context in which Ireland conducted its foreign
policy. In 1965 the hope of the Department of External Affairs was
that Ireland would enter the European Economic Community (EEC)
before 1970. EEC entry would take place alongside that of Britain,
an Anglo-Irish Free Trade Area (AIFTA) having come into operation
in 1966, cementing trade between Ireland and its principal trading
partner. Overall, the United Nations would remain the benchmark of
global Irish foreign policy. Peacekeeping, advocating nuclear
non-proliferation and ensuring the proper financing of the United
Nations as well as promoting decolonisation and the universality of
the United Nations system within the bipolar world of the Cold War
remained central to 1960s Irish foreign policy. These assumptions
were thrown out of balance by the continuing refusal of France to
facilitate the expansion of the EEC and EEC membership remained out
of reach for Ireland. Dublin's fragile relations with Belfast were
destabilised with the emergence of new social and political forces
in Northern Ireland and the recurrence of sectarian violence. The
Department of External Affairs proved initially unable to respond
comprehensively to this new environment in Northern Ireland, which
was the precursor to the outbreak of the Troubles in 1969. Improved
economic and political relations with London were affected by local
and international economic difficulties and also as a consequence
of events in Northern Ireland. At the United Nations, superpower
politics constrained Irish attempts to follow up the success of the
1968 Nuclear Non- Proliferation Treaty with a major policy
initiative on the financing of international peacekeeping missions.
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Point Man (Paperback)
Michael Kennedy; Daniel Reynolds
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Now available in paperback and with over 10,000 entries, the Oxford
Dictionary of Music (previously the Concise Oxford Dictionary of
Music) offers broad coverage of a wide range of musical categories
spanning many eras, including composers, librettists, singers,
orchestras, important ballets and operas, and musical instruments
and their history. Over 250 new entries have been added to this
edition to expand coverage of popular music, ethnomusicology,
modern and contemporary composers, music analysis, and recording
technology. Existing entries have been expanded where necessary to
include more coverage of the reception of major works, and to
include key new works and categories, such as multimedia.
Entry-level web links are listed and regularly updated on a
dedicated companion website, expanding the scope of the dictionary.
The dictionary now also includes two useful appendices, one listing
French, German, and Italian musical terms with their English
translations, and an abbreviations list for letters commonly used
in musical scores and musical writing. The Oxford Dictionary of
Music is the most up-to-date and accessible dictionary of musical
terms available and an essential point of reference for music
students, teachers, lecturers, professional musicians, as well as
music enthusiasts.
New edition of the bestselling guide to mastering Python
Networking, updated to Python 3 and including the latest on network
data analysis, Cloud Networking, Ansible 2.8, and new libraries Key
Features Explore the power of Python libraries to tackle difficult
network problems efficiently and effectively, including pyATS,
Nornir, and Ansible 2.8 Use Python and Ansible for DevOps, network
device automation, DevOps, and software-defined networking Become
an expert in implementing advanced network-related tasks with
Python 3 Book DescriptionNetworks in your infrastructure set the
foundation for how your application can be deployed, maintained,
and serviced. Python is the ideal language for network engineers to
explore tools that were previously available to systems engineers
and application developers. In Mastering Python Networking, Third
edition, you'll embark on a Python-based journey to transition from
traditional network engineers to network developers ready for the
next-generation of networks. This new edition is completely revised
and updated to work with Python 3. In addition to new chapters on
network data analysis with ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash,
Kibana, and Beats) and Azure Cloud Networking, it includes updates
on using newer libraries such as pyATS and Nornir, as well as
Ansible 2.8. Each chapter is updated with the latest libraries with
working examples to ensure compatibility and understanding of the
concepts. Starting with a basic overview of Python, the book
teaches you how it can interact with both legacy and API-enabled
network devices. You will learn to leverage high-level Python
packages and frameworks to perform network automation tasks,
monitoring, management, and enhanced network security followed by
Azure and AWS Cloud networking. Finally, you will use Jenkins for
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your network Integrate Ansible 2.8 using Python to control Cisco,
Juniper, and Arista network devices Leverage existing Flask web
frameworks to construct high-level APIs Learn how to build virtual
networks in the AWS & Azure Cloud Learn how to use Elastic
Stack for network data analysis Understand how Jenkins can be used
to automatically deploy changes in your network Use PyTest and
Unittest for Test-Driven Network Development in networking
engineering with Python Who this book is forMastering Python
Networking, Third edition is for network engineers, developers, and
SREs who want to use Python for network automation,
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Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) will be useful.
Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject Politics -
International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies,
Security, grade: A, Webster University, language: English,
abstract: During the 1960 s and early 1970 s, a rise in Quebec
nationalism led to an independence movement through violent means.
Although violence was characteristic of a relatively small group of
individuals compared with the moderately supportive general public,
the Front de Liberation du Quebec (FLQ) was successful in eliciting
public support for its cause. However, due to a series of responses
by the Quebec provincial government and Canadian federal
government, public support quickly declined following the
implementation of the War Measures Act in October 1970. Although a
risky decision on the part of the federal government, the War
Measures Act successfully halted violent terrorist tactics in the
name of Quebec sovereignty. This furthermore produced a foundation
for Quebec separatists, moderates and FLQ members alike, to vote on
independence through legitimate means. The growth and effectiveness
of domestic political terrorism can be analyzed through theoretical
frameworks. Furthermore, the actions of target groups to combat
terrorist objectives are also important in understanding the
ability of whether a terrorist organization will succeed or not.
The need to understand the cause of terrorism also aids in
understanding whether it can be successfully eliminated. Through
the lens of Nicholas O. Berry s (1987) Theories on the efficacy of
terrorism, this paper examines the Quebec separatist movement and
the rise and fall of the Front de Liberation du Quebec terrorist
group."
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