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Drawn from the well-known musicologist's celebrated Essays in Musical Analysis, this volume contains nearly all of the concertos in the standard repertoire, from Bach's concerto for two violins to Walton's concerto for viola. More than fifty selections include choral works with in-depth essays on Bach's Mass in B minor, Beethoven's Mass in D, Brahms's and Verdi's Requiems, Haydn's The Creation and The Seasons, and many other landmark works. Donald...
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More than 100 selections from the noted musicologist's Essays in Musical Analysis cover most of the standard works in the symphonic repertory. Subjects include Beethoven's overtures and symphonies, including the author's famous study of the Ninth Symphony; all Brahms's overtures and symphonies; 11 symphonies by Haydn; six by Mozart; three symphonies each by Schubert, Schumann, and Sibelius; four symphonies by Dvoràk; and many other works by composers...
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Wish you had time to re-read and enjoy that daunting stack of Charles Dickens novels?
Take heart: Dickens enthusiast Gina Dalfonzo has done the heavy lifting for you. In short, readable excerpts she presents the essence of the great novelist's prodigious output, teasing out dozens of the most memorable scenes to reveal the Christian vision and values that suffuse all his work. Dickens can certainly entertain, but his legacy endures because of his...
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The Gospel in Dostoyevsky vividly reveals – as none of his novels can on their own – the common thread of the great God-haunted Russian's questioning faith. Drawn from The Brothers Karamazov, The Idiot, Crime and Punishment, and The Adolescent, the seventeen selections are each prefaced by an explanatory note. Newcomers will find in these pages a rich, accessible sampling. Dostoyevsky devotees will be pleased to find some of the writer's...
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In this book, Robert Leeson and Charles Palm have assembled an amazing collection of Milton Friedman's best works on freedom. Even more amazing is that the selection represents only 1 percent of the 1,500 works by Friedman that Leeson and Palm have put online in a user-friendly format-and an even smaller percentage if you include their archive of Friedman's audio and television recordings, correspondence, and other writings. This book and the larger...
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POETRY BY INDIVIDUAL POETS. This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861). The edition presents Barrett Browning's most celebrated works alongside lesser-known texts, and includes an Introduction, Chronology, and full commentary notes
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Library of America volume 226
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Distributed to the trade in the United States by Penguin Group (USA) Inc
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c2012
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This collection of Vonnegut's early work opens with Player Piano (1952), a Metropolis-like parable of breakneck technological innovation and its effect on those it robs of their livelihoods. The Sirens of Titan (1959), the interplanetary adventures of the world's wealthiest and most despised man, is both a pulp-fiction space opera and a satire on the vanity of human striving. The confessions of a German-American double agent well placed among the...
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Gleaned from more than sixty years of Daisaku Ikeda's works, thisrevised edition adds new selections that further provide a windowinto the SGI president's thought and philosophy. His words are aboundless source of inspiration, hope, and courage for a worldincreasingly beset with sorrow and suffering.
Chapters in this volume:"What Is True Happiness? - Developing a Life State of Happiness-The Practice for Transforming Our State of Life,It Is the Heart...
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Gleaned from more than fifty years of Daisaku Ikeda' s works, this revised edition adds new selections that further provide a window into the SGI president' s thought and philosophy. His words are a boundless source of inspiration, hope, and courage for a world increasingly beset with sorrow and suffering.
Chapters in this volume: "What Is Human Revolution?" "Transforming Karma Into Mission" "Faith for a Harmonious Family" "Be Good Citizens!" "Faith...
15) A Practical Guide to Iron and Steel Works Analyses being Selections from "Laboratory Notes on Iro
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This vintage book contains a collection of notes originally written for the guidance of the staff in an iron and steel works laboratory. It is an abbreviated version of "Laboratory Notes on Iron and Steel Analyses" that was condensed to meet the needs of those who did not want to enter for the complete analytical course. Contents include: "Analysis of Steel," "Estimation of Combined Carbon," "Colorimetric Method," "Notes on the Process," "Rapid Estimation,"...
16) Shakespeare
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MoonDance, an imprint of The Quarto Group
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2018.
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A collection of thirty-one of playwright and poet William Shakespeare's most famous verses, sonnets and speeches.
20) Aubrey Beardsley
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Bonanza Books
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[1967]
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All of Beardsley's better-known prints as well as many of his less familiar but equally important ones, in 500 illustrations.