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15 produkter
Bad Days in Science and Invention
E-bok, 2017
90 kr
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Everyone makes mistakes, but they''re not often on display for the whole world to see. These blunders in science and invention have gone down in history and will never be forgotten.
Great Chicago Fire
A Cause-and-Effect Investigation
E-bok, 2016
688 kr
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On October 8, 1871, a fierce fire broke out in the bustling city of Chicago. Jumping rivers and burning miles of buildings and homes, the flames raged for more than two days. More than a hundred people died, and thousands were left homeless. Could the city have prevented this blaze?To understand …
Great Chicago Fire
A Cause-and-Effect Investigation
E-bok, 2016
74 kr
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On October 8, 1871, a fierce fire broke out in the bustling city of Chicago. Jumping rivers and burning miles of buildings and homes, the flames raged for more than two days. More than a hundred people died, and thousands were left homeless. Could the city have prevented this blaze?To understand …
South America
Inbunden, 2021
411 kr
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This title introduces readers to the region of South America. Concise text, thought-provoking discussion questions, and compelling photos give the reader an insightful look into South America’s rich and complex histories, natural environments, economies, governments, and peoples.
Barbara Hepworth: Strings
Av Stephen Feeke, Michael Regan m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
748 kr
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Barbara Hepworth: Strings is the first publication dedicated to the artist’s stringed sculptures, paintings and drawings. In 1939, Hepworth (1903–1975) made her first sculpture threaded with strings. For the rest of her career, she intermittently combined string with works made from plaster, wood, …
Liszt's late works for piano
E-bok, 2010
74 kr
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Essay from the year 2010 in the subject Musicology - Miscellaneous, grade: none, , language: English, abstract: Franz Liszt, remains an enigmatic figure. Probably no other major composer of the 19th century, with the possible exception of Berlioz, has aroused such contradictory opinions. That he …
Music as Meaning
E-bok, 2011
75 kr
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Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Musicology - Miscellaneous, grade: none, , language: English, abstract: My dictionary defines meaning as "e;what somebody wants to express"e; and "e;what something signifies"e;. As a teacher I used to ask my composition students why they …
Harmony and Monody in Chopin
E-bok, 2011
74 kr
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Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Musicology - Miscellaneous, grade: none, , language: English, abstract: Chopin may not have mastered every aspect of the craft of composition. His orchestration is just adequate, for example, and he seldom ventured into longer forms. But he was a master of …
Essence of Jazz - A Composer's View
E-bok, 2011
74 kr
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Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Musicology - Miscellaneous, , language: English, abstract: In this brief survey I do not want to go much into the thorny problems of the origins of jazz, or of whether it is European or African or both. Those questions have been exhaustively dealt with by …
Apt for Voices or Viols
The Inexorable Rise of Instrumental Music
E-bok, 2012
72 kr
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Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Sociology - Media, Art, Music, , language: English, abstract: "e;...music grew too proud to be the garment of words."e; (W.B. Yeats) This, by a poet who was, allegedly, tone deaf, is nevertheless a concise but very astute summing up of what has …
Is there too much music?
E-bok, 2012
73 kr
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Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Sociology - Media, Art, Music, , language: English, abstract: Music, in all its multifarious styles and idioms, is everywhere, 24 hours a day. It never rests, and we can hear just about everything of significance ever composed, performed and improvised, at …
Explorations - 20 Essays In and Around Music, Sound, Literature and Places
E-bok, 2012
187 kr
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Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Musicology - Miscellaneous, University of West London, language: English, abstract: The essays are divided into three sections: those featuring some of the composers whose music has been of particular significance to me; then a group of pieces on …
Explorations - 20 Essays In and Around Music, Sound, Literature and Places
Häftad, 2012
448 kr
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Sali Herman. A Brief Appraisal
E-bok, 2015
15 kr
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Essay from the year 2015 in the subject Art - Visual artists, , language: English, abstract: The artist Sali Herman was born in Switzerland in 1898 and studied at the Zurich Technical School. His first exhibition (of watercolours) was in 1918. In 1920 he won a Carnegie Fund grant for a portrait of …
