Author: Mervyn Cooke
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: cambridge, music, companions, benjamin, companion, britten
Number of Pages: 372
Published: 1999-06-28
List price: $39.99
ISBN-10: 0521574765
ISBN-13: 9780521574761

This is a comprehensive guide to Britten’s work, aimed both at the nonspecialist and the music student. It sheds light on both the composer’s stylistic and personal development, offering new interpretations of his operatic works and discussing his characteristic working methods. A distinguished team of contributors include some who worked with the composer during his lifetime, as well as leading representatives of the younger generation of Britten scholars on both sides of the Atlantic.

Author: Mervyn Cooke
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: music, handbooks, cambridge, requiem, war, britten
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 1996-11-13
List price: $29.99
ISBN-10: 0521446333
ISBN-13: 9780521446334

The book examines from various viewpoints Britten’s War Requiem, written in 1962 to celebrate the consecration of the new Coventry Cathedral and uniting the famous anti-war poetry of Wilfred Owen with the Latin Requiem Mass. Britten’s and Owen’s pacifist beliefs are compared, and the chronology of the compositional process unraveled from documentary and manuscript sources. The musical language is analyzed in detail, and the fluctuating critical responses to the score are assessed.

Authors:Philip Reed, Philip Reed, Mervyn Cooke, Donald Mitche
Publisher: Boydell Press
Keywords: letters, britten, selected, four, volume, benjamin, life
Number of Pages: 784
Published: 2008-05-29
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 1843833824
ISBN-13: 9781843833826

The fourth volume of the annotated selected letters of Benjamin Britten covers the years 1952-57, during which he wrote three major works for the stage - the Coronation opera Gloriana, the chamber opera The Turn of the Screw, and the full-length ballet The Prince of the Pagodas - as well as important vocal works such as Canticles II and III and the Hardy song-cycle Winter Words. Correspondents include librettists William Plomer (Gloriana) and Myfanwy Piper (The Turn of the Screw), and friends and collaborators such as Edith Sitwell, E. M. Forster, Basil Coleman, Imogen Holst, Francis Poulenc,

Authors:Miriam Cooke, Miriam Cooke, Roshni Rustomji-Kerns,
Publisher: Westview Pr (Short Disc)
Keywords: women, write, war, eastern, middle, ink, south, asian, blood
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1994-09
List price: $71.50
ISBN-10: 0813386616
ISBN-13: 9780813386614

This anthology of 20th-century South Asian and Middle Eastern women’s writings illustrates how they have become active participants in conflicts, speaking about war not only as an extraordinary experience, but also as an ordinary experience of coping with violence on a daily basis. They show that women’s involvements with the rituals of violence do not begin or end with traditional war, but that their daily struggles for survival stretch seamlessly into the more public arena of political war.

Authors:Paul Cooke, Paul Cooke, Marc Silberman,
Publisher: Camden House
Keywords: german, cultures, film, visual, screen, suffering, war, perspectives, screening
Number of Pages: 310
Published: 2010-07-30
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 1571134379
ISBN-13: 9781571134370

The recent discovery of German wartime suffering has had a particularly profound impact in German visual culture. Films from Margarethe von Trotta’s Rosenstrasse (2003) to Oliver Hirschbiegel’s Oscar-nominated Downfall (2004) and the two-part television mini-series Dresden (2006) have explored how ordinary Germans suffered during and after the war. Such films have been presented by critics as treating a topic that had been taboo for German filmmakers. However, the representation of wartime suffering has a long tradition on the German screen. For decades, filmmakers have recontextua

Author: Mervyn D. Kaufma
Publisher: Capstone Press(MN)
Keywords: finders, fact, magellan, ferdinand
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2004-01-01
List price: $22.60
ISBN-10: 0736824871
ISBN-13: 9780736824873

Author: Mervyn J. King
Publisher: Global Professional Publishing
Keywords: procedures, settlements, office, brokerage, amp, bank
Number of Pages: 193
Published: 1999-01-12
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 1888998768
ISBN-13: 9781888998764

This book covers all aspects of back office and settlement management and risk - including legal, operation, managment, and financial risks. As financial institutions grow and compete for all kinds of bank and bank surrogates, operating managers must control costs and risks as well as expand operation efficiency. This book is an idea companiion for operation managers.