Women Making Music: The Western Art Tradition, 1150-1950 - Taschenbuch

2013, ISBN: 9780252012044

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Ballantine Books. Used; Very Good. Ballantine Books 2013. Trade Paperback. Book Condition: Very Good. Jacket Condition: none. Small remainder mark <br />In 1941, a treaty between E… Mehr…

Ballantine Books. Used; Very Good. Ballantine Books 2013. Trade Paperback. Book Condition: Very Good. Jacket Condition: none. Small remainder mark <br />In 1941, a treaty between England and Germany unravels - and so does a different World War II.<br /> <br />In Harry Turtledove's mesmerizing alternate history of World War II, the choices of men and fate have changed history. Now it is the winter of 1941. As the Germans, with England and France on their side, slam deep into Russia, Stalin's terrible machine fights for its life. But the agreements of world leaders do not touch the hearts of soldiers. The war between Germany and Russia is rocked by men with the courage to aim their guns in a new direction.<br /> <br />England is the first to be shaken. Following the suspicious death of Winston Churchill, with his staunch anti-Nazi views, a small cabal begins to imagine the unthinkable in a nation long famous for respecting the rule of law. With civil liberties hanging by a thread, a conspiracy forms against the powers that be. What will this daring plan mean for the European war as a whole?<br /> <br />Meanwhile, in America, a woman who has met Hitler face-to-face urges her countrymen to wake up to his evil. For the time being, the United States is fighting only Japan - and the war is not going as well as Washington would like. Can Roosevelt keep his grip on the country's imagination?<br /> <br />Coup d"Etat captures how war makes for the strangest of bedfellows. A freethinking Frenchman fights side by side with racist Nazis. A Czech finds himself on the dusty front lines of the Spanish Civil War, gunning for Germany's Nationalist allies. A German bomber pilot courts a half-Polish, half-Jewish beauty in Bialystock. And the Jews in Germany, though trapped under Hitler';s fist, are as yet protected by his fear of looking bad before the world - and by an outspoken Catholic bishop.<br /> <br />With his spectacular command of character, coincidence, and military and political strategies, Harry Turtledove continues a passionate, unmatched saga of a World War II composed of different enemies, different allies - and hurtling toward a horrific moment. For a diabolical new weapon is about to be unleashed, not by the United States, but by Japan, in a tactic that will shock the world.<br /> . 2013. TRADE PAPERBACK., Ballantine Books, 2013, 3, Heidelberg, Germany: GEDOK Heidelberg, 1994. Seven challenging avant-garde chamber works by the gifted Romanian composer currently living in Germany. CONTENTS: *** Please view the Table of Contents scan image for title/date/personnel/timing information. The CD's informative 8-page booklet is in German only. Total Time: 74'59". CONDITION: NEAR FINE CD (a few light scratches not affecting playback) with FINE booklet and jewelcase - plays beautifully. Complimentary upgrade to securely-packed First Class shipping on domestic (USA) orders.. CD in Jewel Case. Near Fine/Fine. Music Compact Disc., GEDOK Heidelberg, 1994, 4.5, N.p.: Mirisch Corporation, 1961. Vintage mockup photograph from the 1961 film. Nominated for an Academy Award. Released in conjunction with the execution of John A. Bennett, a soldier convicted for molesting an eleven year old girl. The film follows the trial of four American soldiers in Germany accused of raping a young woman. Dimitri Tiomkin composed the film score, including the Academy Award nominated song "Town Without Pity." Shot on location in Vienna, Austria and Bavaria, Germany. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine, with light toning overall., Mirisch Corporation, 1961, 0, N.p.: Mirisch Corporation, 1961. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1961 film. Nominated for an Academy Award. Released in conjunction with the execution of John A. Bennett, a soldier convicted for molesting an eleven year old girl. The film follows the trial of four American soldiers in Germany accused of raping a young woman. Dimitri Tiomkin composed the film score, including the Academy Award nominated song "Town Without Pity." Shot on location in Vienna, Austria and Bavaria, Germany. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine, with pin holes to the corners and light wrinkling overall. Complete collation details available on request., Mirisch Corporation, 1961, 0, Cologne, Germany: Maria de Alvear World Edition, 2011. # 0017. Six unique works by this gifted, New York City-based composer. CONTENTS: See accompanying scan image of the Playlist. The gatefold panels (in English) contain program notes, the playlist, brief bios of the composer and performers, photos, and production information. Total Time: 60'17". CONDITION: a Fine uncompromised CD, booklet and jewel-case - played twice, plays perfectly. Complimentary upgrade to securely-packed First Class shipping on domestic (USA) orders. . CDs in Deluxe Gatefold Jacket. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Giles Lyon (cover painting). Music Compact Disc., Maria de Alvear World Edition, 2011, 5, NY: Harper & Row. Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket. 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. 006012704X; Binding is almost as new. Brief notes on the ffep. Contents are almost as new. DJ's spine is faded but the lettering is clear. Very minor wear and soil on the price-cut DJ. ; First Printing of the FIRST EDITION, 1981. 9-3/8" Tall, XII + 291pp. Dark gray boards, maroon cloth spine, bright gold spine lettering. BIOGRAPHY. Cosima Wagner was the wife of the composer, Richard Wagner, but she was much more than that. The love-child of Franz Liszt and Marie d'Agoult, she was intelligent, gifted, and endowed with a strength of purpose and of character that overcame all obstacles. At the age of twenty she married the first great Wagnerian conductor, Hans von Bulow. Twelve years later, after bearing him two children, she left him to join Richard Wagner, a man twenty-four years her elder (and several inches shorter) . From that moment on, her life was consecrated to his genius. In his service she became adept in diplomacy and deceit; she could coax, wheedle, flatter, lie as circumstances demanded; she dealt with cabinet ministers, tradesmen, architects and singers; and, after Wagner's death (she outlived him by forty-seven years) , she became the sole heir to his authority and interpreter of his wishes. This is a portrait of a fascinating, sometimes frightening, woman moving imperiously thorugh a world of men of whom only one was her equal. " Born: December 25, 1837, Bellagio, Lombardy, Italy. Died: April 1, 1930, Bayreuth, Germany ... Index. Bibliography. At least 8 full-page b/w illustrations scattered throughout the text - mostly photos. ., Harper & Row, 1981, 2.75, Urbana, Ill: University of Illinois Press, 1986. Hardcover. VG (Ex-library, with spine label & bookplate, some marks, no dj.). Brown cloth, dark brown title block on spine, 409 pp., 22 BW plates, 23 BW figures, 7 tables. A collection of 12 essays on the topic: "Ful weel she soong the service dyvyne" : the cloistered musician in the Middle Ages / Ann Bagnall Yardley -- Jougleresses and Trobairitz : secular musicians in medieval France / Maria V. Coldwell -- Women singers and women's songs in fifteenth-century Italy / Howard Mayer Brown -- Courtesans, muses, or musicians? Professional women musicians in sixteenth-century Italy / Anthony Newcomb -- The emergence of women composers in Italy, 1566-1700 -- Appendix: Compositions by Italian women Published 1566-1700 / Jane Bowers -- Voice of Barbara Strozzi / Ellen Rosand -- Musiciennes of the ancien regime / Julie Anne Sadie -- Women and the Lied, 1775-1850 / Marcia J. Citron -- Clara Schumann / Nancy B. Reich -- Luise Adolpha Le Beau : composer in late nineteenth-century Germany / Judith E. Olson -- "Shout, shout, up with your song!" Dame Ethel Smyth and the changing role of the British woman composer / Jane A. Bernstein -- Passed away is the piano girl : changes in American musical life, 1870-1900 / Judith Tick -- Women's orchestras in the United States, 1925-45 / Carol Neuls-Bates -- Ruth Crawford Seeger -- Appendix I: Oeuvre of Ruth Crawford Seeger -- Appendix II: Discography of works by Ruth Crawford Seeger / MatildaGaume., University of Illinois Press, 1986, 3<