Author: Donald Burrows
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: cambridge, music, companions, handel, companion
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 1998-01-13
List price: $38.99
ISBN-10: 0521456134
ISBN-13: 9780521456135
Handel is recognized as one of the principal creative figures in Baroque music. In this Companion acknowledged experts on Handel make their expertise accessible to the interested general reader and music lover. All the genres in which Handel composed are considered including oratorio, chamber cantata, opera, and church music, as well as works for the keyboard and orchestra. The wide-ranging essays cover topics from Handel’s composing methods to his treatment of the Italian language and matters of performance practice.
Author: A. David Moody
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: cambridge, literature, companions, eliot, companion
Number of Pages: 279
Published: 1995-02-24
List price: $28.99
ISBN-10: 0521421276
ISBN-13: 9780521421270
In this Companion, an international team of leading T. S. Eliot scholars contribute studies of different facets of the writer’s work to build up a carefully co-ordinated and fully rounded introduction. Five chapters give a complete account of Eliot’s poems and plays from several distinct points of view. The major aspects and issues of his life and thought are assessed: his American origins and his becoming English; his position as a philosopher; his literary, social, and political criticism; and the evolution of his religious sense. Later chapters place his work in a number of hist
Author: Colin Lawson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: cambridge, music, companions, clarinet, companion
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 1996-02-23
List price: $36.99
ISBN-10: 0521476682
ISBN-13: 9780521476683
The Cambridge Companion to the Clarinet is a practical guide to the world of the clarinet. It offers students and performers a composite survey of the history and repertory of the instrument from its origins to the present day, as well as practical guidance on teaching and playing from historical performance to contemporary techniques and jazz. Informed by the experience of distinguished professional players and teachers, this book makes an essential and stimulating reference book for all clarinet enthusiasts.
Author: P. E. Easterling
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: cambridge, literature, companions, greek, companion, tragedy
Number of Pages: 410
Published: 1997-10-13
List price: $35.99
ISBN-10: 0521423511
ISBN-13: 9780521423519
Looking at ancient Greek tragedy in the context of late-20th-century reading, criticism and performance, seven distinguished scholars examine tragedy as an institution in the civic life of ancient Athens; a range of approaches to the surviving plays; and changing patterns of reception, adaptation, and performance, from antiquity to the present. 31 photos.
Author: Robert J. Dostal
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: cambridge, philosophy, companions, gadamer, companion
Number of Pages: 332
Published: 2002-01-21
List price: $37.99
ISBN-10: 0521000416
ISBN-13: 9780521000413
Hans-Georg Gadamer (b. 1900) is widely recognized as the leading exponent of philosophical hermeneutics. The essays in this collection examine Gadamer’s biography, the core of hermeneutical theory, and the significance of his work for ethics, aesthetics, the social sciences, and theology. They consider his appropriation of Hegel, Heidegger, and the Greeks and his relation to modernity, critical theory, and post-structuralism. New readers will find this Companion the most convenient and accessible guide to Gadamer currently available. Advanced students and specialists will find a conspec
Author: Marion Kant
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: cambridge, music, companions, ballet, companion
Number of Pages: 394
Published: 2007-06-25
List price: $28.99
ISBN-10: 0521539862
ISBN-13: 9780521539869
Ballet is a paradox: much loved but little studied. It is a beautiful fairy tale; detached from its origins and unrelated to the men and women who created it. Yet ballet has a history, little known and rarely presented. These great works have dark sides and moral ambiguities, not always nor immediately visible. The daring and challenging quality of ballet as well as its perceived ’safe’ nature is not only one of its fascinations but one of the intriguing questions to be explored in this Companion. The essays reveal the conception, intent and underlying meaning of ballets and recrea
Author: Nicholas Hammond
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: cambridge, philosophy, companions, pascal, companion
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2003-06-16
List price: $33.99
ISBN-10: 0521006112
ISBN-13: 9780521006118
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) occupies a position of pivotal importance in many domains: philosophy, mathematics, physics, religious polemics and apologetics. A team of leading scholars surveys the range of his achievement and intellectual background as well as the reception of his work. New readers and nonspecialists will find a convenient and accessible guide to Pascal and advanced students and specialists, a conspectus of recent developments in the interpretation of his works.
