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  • Handel’s Messiah

    A New View of Its Musical and Spiritual Architecture—Study Guide for Listeners and Performers

    by Gregory S. Athnos ...
    Series series Cascade Companions
    We think we know Handel's Messiah, having heard it or performed it so many times. But is there another way to look at this masterpiece? Who assembled the texts? Why? How did Handel incorporate his own spiritual understanding of the texts? In this treatise, we view the composition from the same Baroque aesthetic perspective the composer used: the Doctrine of Affections--an approach heretofore ... Read more

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  • Maurice Guest

    by Henry Handel Richardson ...
    One noon in 189-, a young man stood in front of the new Gewandhaus in Leipzig, and watched the neat, grass-laid square, until then white and silent in the sunshine, grow dark with many figures. The public rehearsal of the weekly concert was just over, and, from the half light of the warm-coloured hall, which for more than two hours had held them secluded, some hundreds of people hastened, with ... Read more

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  • Chinese Characters across Asia

    How the Chinese Script Came to Write Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese

    by Zev Handel ...
    A fascinating story of writing across cultures and timeWhile other ancient nonalphabetic scripts—Sumerian cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs, and Mayan hieroglyphs—are long extinct, Chinese characters, invented over three thousand years ago, are today used by well over a billion people to write Chinese and Japanese. In medieval East Asia, the written Classical Chinese language knit the region ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Handel

    The Man & His Music

    by Jonathan Keates ...
    Jonathan Keates original biography of Handel was hailed as a masterpiece on its publication in 1985. This fully revised and updated new edition - published to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the composers death - charts in detail Handel's life, from his youth in Germany, through his brilliantly successful Italian sojourn, to the opulence and squalor of Georgian London where he made his ... Read more

    $22.09 USD

  • Handel

    Edited by David Vickers ...
    Series series The Baroque Composers
    This anthology represents scholarly literature devoted to Handel over the last few decades, and contains different kinds of studies of the composer's biography, operatic career, singers, librettists, and his relationship with the music of other composers. Case studies range from recent research that transforms our knowledge of large-scale English works to an interdisciplinary exploration of an ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Handel

    The Story of a Little Boy who Practiced in an Attic

    by Thomas Tapper ...
    In "Handel," Thomas Tapper meticulously explores the life and works of one of the Baroque era's most influential composers, George Frideric Handel. The book is an intricate blend of biographical narrative and musical analysis, featuring a rich literary style that invites both scholars and general readers alike to engage deeply with Handel's contributions to the world of music. Tapper ... Read more

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  • The Getting of Wisdom

    by Henry Handel Richardson ...
    Twelve-year-old Laura and her three younger siblings live in rural Victoria, Australia. Their father has died, and their mother supports the family through sewing and embroidery. With financial support from her godmother, Laura is sent to the prestigious Ladies' College, a girls' boarding school in Melbourne. There, she is exposed to the prejudice of her wealthier and more worldly peers, and ... Read more

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  • Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy

    Teaching, Learning, and Researching while Black

    Edited by Awad Ibrahim, Tamari Kitossa, Malinda S. Smith, Handel K. Wright ...
    The essays in Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy make visible the submerged stories of Black life in academia. They offer fresh historical, social, and cultural insights into what it means to teach, learn, research, and work while Black.In daring to shift from margin to centre, the book’s contributors confront two overlapping themes. First, they resist a singular construction of ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • The Getting of Wisdom

    by Henry Handel Richardson ...
    It is the story of a young girl Laura who encounters the conventionality of school society with great persistence. The story starts when admitted in a boarding school in Melbourne, Laura tries hard to adjust but as the author writes "She could not know the right hole seeming unfitness prove to be only another aspect of special fitness." The girls at the school are generally from rather wealthy ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

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  • An Anthology of African Cultural Studies, Volume I

    Groundings

    Edited by Keyan G. Tomaselli, Handel Kashope Wright ...
    This volume provides an overview of fundamental or ‘grounding’ themes in African Cultural Studies, including the articulation of African cultural studies, the issue of Africa’s diaspora(s), African identity and identifications, and media studies in Africa and its relationship with cultural studies. The first of two volumes, the book predominantly pulls together a rich reservoir of previously ... Read more

    $233.99 USD

  • An Anthology of African Cultural Studies, Volume II

    Directions

    Edited by Handel Kashope Wright, Keyan G. Tomaselli ...
    This volume focuses on the directions that African cultural studies has taken over the years and covers the following central themes: contemporary issues in African cultural studies; Gender and the making of identity; the dual discourses of Afropessimism and Afrofuturism; problematizing the African diaspora and methodology and African cultural studies.The second of two volumes, the book ... Read more

    $233.99 USD

  • Maurice Guest (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. A Psychological Novel of Musical Aspiration, Obsessive Passion, and Bohemian Student Life in Fin-de-Siècle Leipzig

    by Henry Handel Richardson, Fiona Wethermere ...
    Henry Handel Richardson's Maurice Guest is a searching psychological novel of artistic aspiration, erotic obsession, and moral disintegration, set amid the cosmopolitan musical culture of late nineteenth-century Leipzig. With a realist's patience and a naturalist's severity, Richardson follows the earnest English student Maurice Guest as his ambitions are gradually consumed by his attachment to ... Read more

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