Classical category: 3244 books
Wiley's Real Latin
Learning Latin from the Source
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
This innovative guide to the Latin language, written for a new generation of students, deploys examples and translation exercises taken exclusively from the Classical Latin canon.
Translation exercises use real Latin from a variety of sources, including political speeches, letters, history, poetry,...
BBC Proms 2019
Festival Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2019
The BBC Proms is the world's biggest and longest-running classical music festival and one of the jewels in the crown for the BBC. It is one of the strongest brand names in the music world and attracts a glittering array of artists and orchestras from the UK and around the world in over 150 concerts,...
by George T. Ferris
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2014
The canon of classical music has always been brimming with works of musicians and composers of German origin. From 16th century icons Bach and Handel through to Wagner, Germany has consistently produced the most gifted and influential musicians in the world. Bach invented modern music and this music...
Robert Schumann
Herald of a "New Poetic Age"
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 1997
Forced by a hand injury to abandon a career as a pianist, Robert Schumann went on to become one of the world's great composers. Among many works, his Spring Symphony (1841), Piano Concerto in A Minor (1841/1845), and the Third, or Rhenish, Symphony (1850) exemplify his infusion of classical forms...
The Supernatural Voice
A History of High Male Singing
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
`The use of high male voices in the past has long been one of the most seriously misunderstood areas of musical scholarship and practice. In opening up this rich subject (to readers of all sorts) with refreshingly clear perspectives and plenty of new material, Simon Ravens' well-researched book goes...
Ombra
Supernatural Music in the Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
Ombra is the term which applies to an operatic scene involving the appearance of an oracle or demon, witches, or ghosts. Such scenes can be traced back to the early days of opera and were commonplace in the seventeenth century in Italy and France. Operas based on the legends of Orpheus, Iphigenia,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
The martial virtues—courage, loyalty, cunning, and strength—were central to male identity in the ancient world, and antique literature is replete with depictions of men cultivating and exercising these virtues on the battlefield. In Women and War in Antiquity, sixteen scholars reexamine classical...
The Power and Value of Music
Its Effect and Ethos in Classical Authors and Contemporary Music Theory
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Nobody doubts that music has a special, somewhat mysterious power. Less clear is how we can evaluate that power. What makes music good or bad? Are there objective criteria for such a distinction? What impact can or should music have on individuals and on society as a whole? What are the factors responsible...
The Humblest Sparrow
The Poetry of Venantius Fortunatus
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
In The Humblest Sparrow, Michael Roberts illuminates the poetry of the sixth-century bishop and poet Venantius Fortunatus. Often regarded as an important transitional figure, Fortunatus wrote poetry that is seen to bridge the late classical and earlier medieval periods. Written in Latin, his poems...
Sex
Vice and Love from Antiquity to Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Sex: Vice and Love from Antiquity to Modernity examines the impact that sexual fantasies about the classical world have had on modern Western culture.
Offers a wealth of information on sex in the Greek and Roman world
Correlates the study of classical sexuality with modern Western cultures
Identifies...
Complex Inferiorities
The Poetics of the Weaker Voice in Latin Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
This volume investigates an important and surprisingly widespread phenomenon in Latin literature, which has to date received little sustained discussion: the deliberate assumption of a weaker voice by speakers who in fact hold sufficient status not to be forced into this position. Though often associated...
Victorian Horace
Classics and Class
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
The poetry of Horace was central to Victorian male elite education and the ancient poet himself, suitably refashioned, became a model for the English gentleman. Horace and the Victorians examines the English reception of Horace in Victorian culture, a period which saw the foundations of the discipline...
by Gilbert Highet
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1949
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1949
This landmark book explores the ways in which the Greco-Roman tradition has shaped modern European and American literature.
by Leon Golden
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Aristotle and the Arc of Tragedy is the latest of Leon Golden’s books to connect Ancient Greece to modern culture. In a world facing many pressing issues Classics professor Golden wants to champion the values and achievements of Classical Civilization. He asserts that Homeric Epic and Greek Tragedy...