Author: Nicholas Cook
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: multimedia, musical, analysing
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2001-02-15
List price: $72.00
ISBN-10: 0198167377
ISBN-13: 9780198167372

This book is the first to put forward a general theory of the manner in which different media--music, words, moving picture, and dance--work together to create multimedia. Beginning with a study of the way in which meaning is mediated in television commercials, the book concludes with in-depth readings of Disney’s Fantasia, Madonna’s video Material Girl, and Armide (Godard’s sequence from the collaborative film Aria). Analysing Musical Multimedia not only shows how approaches deriving from music theory can contribute to the understanding of multimedia, but also seeks to draw

Author: Nicholas Cook
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: fin, siã¨cle, vienna, theory, music, project, culture, race, schenker
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2007-09-28
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0195170563
ISBN-13: 9780195170566

Today we think of Heinrich Schenker, who lived in Vienna from 1884 until his death in 1935, as the most influential music theorist of the twentieth century. But he saw his theoretical writings as part of a comprehensive project for the reform of musical composition, performance, criticism, and education-and beyond that, as addressing fundamental cultural, social, and political problems of the deeply troubled age in which he lived. This book aims to explain Schenker’s project through reading his key works within a series of period contexts. These include music criticism, the field in whic

Authors:Eric Clarke, Nicholas Cook,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: prospects, methods, aims, musicology, empirical
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2004-09-02
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0195167503
ISBN-13: 9780195167504

The study of music is always, to some extent, "empirical," in that it involves testing ideas and interpretations against some kind of external reality. But in musicology, the kinds of empirical approaches familiar in the social sciences have played a relatively marginal role, being generally restricted to inter-disciplinary areas such as psychology and sociology of music. Rather than advocating a new kind of musicology, Empirical Musicology provides a guide to empirical approaches that are ready for incorporation into the contemporary musicologist’s toolkit. Its nine chapters cover persp

Authors:Alexandra Parma Cook, Noble David Cook,
Publisher: Duke University Pre
Keywords: transatlantic, bigamy, case, ignorance, truthful, faith
Number of Pages: 206
Published: 1991-06-17
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0822312220
ISBN-13: 9780822312222

Good Faith and Truthful Ignorance uncovers from history the fascinating and strange story of Spanish explorer Francisco Noguerol de Ulloa. in 1556, accompanied by his second wife, Francisco returned to his home in Spain after a profitable twenty-year sojourn in the new world of Peru. However, unlike most other rich conquistadores who returned to the land of their birth, Francisco was not allowed to settle into a life of leisure. Instead, he was charged with bigamy and illegal shipment of silver, was arrested and imprisoned. Francisco’s first wife (thought long dead) had filed suit in Spa

Authors:Haruko Taya Cook, Theodore F. Cook,
Publisher: New Press
Keywords: history, oral, war, japan
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 1995-04-04
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 1565840399
ISBN-13: 9781565840393

This groundbreaking work of oral history captures for the first time ever the remarkable story of ordinary Japanese people during World War II. In a sweeping panorama, Haruko Taya and Theodore Cook take us from the Japanese attacks on China in the 1930s to the Japanese homefront during the inhuman raids on Tokyo, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, offering the first glimpses of how this century’s most violent conflict affected the lives of the Japanese population. Japan At War is a monumental work of history--one to which Americans and Japanese will turn for decades to come.

Authors:Joan Littlefield Cook, Greg Cook,
Publisher: Pearson Education, Inc.
Keywords: book, perspectives, principles, development, child
Number of Pages: 688
Published: 2005-12-15
List price: $139.93
ISBN-10: 0205314112
ISBN-13: 9780205314119

This topically organized book uses a student-friendly writing style, intuitive design, and an active learning system to help students critically explore the many perspectives on child development. Child Development: Principles and Perspectives encourages students to take an active role in their learning and to think about children’s development from a variety of perspectives. Through interviews, cases, and vignettes, students gain a broad understanding of the viewpoints of people who work with, live with, and care for children, bringing this dynamic field to life! From the start of each

Authors:Peter Cook, William Cook,
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Keywords: cook, peter, complete, twin, tragically
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2003-11-19
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 031231891X
ISBN-13: 9780312318918

To his many friends as well as his legion of fans, Peter Cook was quite simply the funniest man ever. His unique gifts and the way he led the transformation of British comedy (from music hall to perverse absurdity) and his clear comic influence on Monty Python’s Flying Circus and every show since, has been much written about. But never before has there been a collection of Cook’s own writings.Tragically, I Was an Only Twin gathers the treasures of Cook’s comic career, from school and university via Beyond the Fringe alongside Alan Bennett, Jonathan Miller, and Dudley Moore,