Classical category: 3244 books
Lost Secrets of Master Musicians
A Window Into Genius
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
What were the “secret” techniques and musical insights that enabled performers such as Jascha Heifetz, Nathan Milstein, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Vladimir Horowitz, and Glenn Gould to achieve such unsurpassed levels of musical expression and technical skill? And, if we could rediscover this knowledge,...
by Michael Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2015
10 Classical Pieces With Cornet/Piano Duets
This is a Cornet sheet music book with 10 classical sheet music pieces. Each piece has two easy arrangements, one for solo Cornet, the other for Cornet and Piano when playing duets. The piano parts can be played on piano or electronic keyboard, they are...
Les Six
The French Composers and Their Mentors Jean Cocteau and Erik Satie
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
The absorbing, comprehensive story of an absolutely unique experiment in classical music, involving many key figures of the Dada and Surrealist movements Les Six were a group of talented composers who came together in a unique collaboration that has never been matched in classical music, and here...
OCR Classical Civilisation AS and A Level Components 21 and 22
Greek Theatre and Imperial Image
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
This textbook is endorsed by OCR and supports the specification for AS and A-Level Classical Civilisation (first teaching September 2017). It covers Components 21 and 22 from the 'Culture and the Arts' Component Group:
Greek Theatre by James Renshaw and Laura Swift
Imperial Image by Robert...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
A Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities presents a comprehensive collection of original essays relating to aspects of gender and sexuality in the classical world.
Views the various practices and discursive contexts of sexuality systematically and holistically
Discusses Greece and Rome in each...
Romantic Paganism
The Politics of Ecstasy in the Shelley Circle
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
This book addresses the function of the classical world in the cultural imaginations of the second generation of romantic writers: Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Thomas Love Peacock, John Keats, Leigh Hunt, and the rest of their diverse circle. The younger romantics inherited impressions of the ancient...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
This is the fourth volume in the Oratory of Classical Greece series. Planned for publication over several years, the series will present all of the surviving speeches from the late fifth and fourth centuries B.C. in new translations prepared by classical scholars who are at the forefront of the discipline....
The Cast of Character
Style in Greek Literature
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Well before Aristotle's Rhetoric elucidated the elements of verbal style that give writing its persuasive power, Greek poets and prose authors understood the importance of style in creating compelling characters to engage an audience. And because their works were composed in predominantly oral settings,...
Classical Music, Why Bother?
Hearing the World of Contemporary Culture Through a Composer's Ears
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Reception and the Classics
An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Classical Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
This collection brings together leading experts in a number of fields of the humanities to offer a new perspective on the classical tradition. Drawing on reception studies, philology and early modern studies, the essays explore the interaction between literary criticism and the multiple cultural contexts...
by William W. Cook, James Tatum
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Constraints on freedom, education, and individual dignity have always been fundamental in determining who is able to write, when, and where. Considering the singular experience of the African American writer, William W. Cook and James Tatum here argue that African American literature did not develop...
War as Spectacle
Ancient and Modern Perspectives on the Display of Armed Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
War as Spectacle examines the display of armed conflict in classical antiquity and its impact in the modern world. The contributors address the following questions: how and why was war conceptualized as a spectacle in our surviving ancient Greek and Latin sources? How has this view of war been adapted...
Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'
A Reader's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2010
Perhaps no other classical text has proved its versatility so much as Ovid's epic poem. A staple of undergraduate courses in Classical Studies, Latin, English and Comparative Literature, Metamorphoses is arguably one of the most important, canonical Latin texts and certainly among the most widely...
OCR Classical Civilisation A Level Components 32 and 33
Love and Relationships and Politics of the Late Republic
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
This textbook is endorsed by OCR and supports the specification for A-Level Classical Civilisation (first teaching September 2017). It covers Components 32 and 33 from the 'Beliefs and Ideas' Component Group:
Love and Relationships by Matthew Barr and Alastair Thorley
Politics of the Late Republic...