A companion volume to the reprint of The Nine Symphonies of Beethoven, this book is a lucid but non-technical analysis written in the author's characteristically accessible style. Composer, conductor and pianist himself, Antony Hopkins is uniquely placed to share with the reader his view of these works.A general introduction precedes this detailed study which, with its many musical examples, provides a welcome and refreshing exploration of seven of Beethoven's finest and best-loved compositions.

The Seven Concertos of Beethoven

Arts & Photography

Hopkins, Antony

Music

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This volume contains Allan Ramsay's "Enquiry into the Situation and Circumstances of Horace's Sabine Villa". It also features essays about Ramsay, Jacob More, Jacob Philipp Hackert, the garden and country house in 18th-century British thought, and the archaeology of the Licenza Valley. The aims of the editors are three-fold: to print the text as Ramsay would have wished to, had he been able; to publish the related illustrations by Hackert, More and Ramsay; and to provide some basic background facts and commentary. They hope to help the contemporary reader understand the antiquarian context in which Ramsay was writing and to appreciate Ramsay's contribution to our understanding of the site conventionally known as Horace's Villa.

Alan Ramsay and the Search for Horace's Villa

History

Brown, Iain Gordon

Europe

Accounts of the key artists who furthered the development of the art of watercolours have long been a feature of the history of British art, but this book places the watercolourists' achievement in the broader context of the emergence of a new professional group with its own distinctive identity. Illustrated throughout and drawing on a wealth of primary research, this book examines the multifarious relationship that evolved between watercolourists and oil painters, artisans and amateurs in this period and, in particular, describes the alliances they forged in order to enhance their status and ensure the commercial viability of their work.

The Emergence of the Professional Watercolourist: Contentions and Alliances in the Artistic Domain, 1760-1824 (British Art and Visual Culture Since 1750 New Readings)

Smith, Greg

Painting

This volume and a second (on "Design, Image and Acting") include many of the papers given at a conference held at the Globe Theatre in August 1997. The essays examine a range of themes related to Renaissance dramatic production, including costume and stage design, the representation of theatrical figures in texts and illustrations, as well as on the stage; what dramatic texts may reveal about their staging, and comparisons and contrasts between English and continental traditions.

The Renaissance Theatre: Texts, Performance, and Design: English and Italian Theatre

Literature & Fiction

Society for Renaissance Studies (Great Britain)

History & Criticism

This two-volume set (of "The English and Italian Theatre" and "Design, Image and Acting") includes many of the papers given at a conference held at the Globe Theatre in August 1997. The essays examine a range of themes related to Renaissance dramatic production, including costume and stage design, the representation of theatrical figures in texts and illustrations, as well as on the stage; what dramatic texts may reveal about their staging, and comparisons and contrasts between English and continental traditions.

The Renaissance Theatre: Texts, Performance and Design

Performing Arts

Catalan-born composer Roberto Gerhard (1896-1970) left significant legacies - both musical and documentary. Exiled in Cambridge with the onset of the Spanish Civil War, he gradually achieved wide recognition by performers and conductors, in both Britain and America, as a composer whose music was essential to the modern repertoire. In this work, Meirion Bowen collects many of the composer's articles, reviews, lectures and broadcasts to demonstrate the full extent and continuity of Gerhard's artistic and creative thinking. The writings have been arranged thematically to emphasize the evolution of Gerhard's musical interests. His attachment to Spanish and Catalonian traditions broadened into a fascination with folk music of all kinds. His studies with Schoenberg in the mid 1920s gave him the key to his own creative individuality; thereafter, his imaginative vitality led him eventually to experiment with electronic and concrete music and he continued breaking new ground, even in his final years.

Gerhard on Music: Selected Writings

BOWEN, Meirion

Gerhard, Roberto

In this title, the author argues that in the pages of Symbolist journals the modern reader can unearth an "other" 19th century, revealed as a creative realm in which writers allow themselves more artistic freedom than in their more formal, literary creations. In the journal they tested experimental theories, composed offbeat poetic texts and offered their opinions on a vast array of cultural phenomena. The aim of the book is to show that the Symbolist journals bear witness to a more personal, erratic, and innovative face of an aesthetic movement and a historical moment that have in many ways become cliched. The author also suggests that the development of interdisciplinarity in the Symbolist journals represents an influential aesthetic notion that went on to play a crucial role in 20th-century artistic expression, discernible in the schools of Modernism and Surrealism.

Symbolist Journals: A Culture of Correspondence (European Cultural Transition, 13)

Genova, Pamela Antonia

The Victorian Comic Spirit: New Perspectives (Nineteenth Century)

Ancient Civilizations

The years between Attlee and Wilson, with their transition from austerity to affluence, are sometimes stereotyped as halcyon days of industrial peace, but also a time of lost opportunity, when real opportunities to reform industrial relations and restructure trade unionism were squandered. This collection of essays aims to remedy the dearth of research on the trade unionism of the immediate post-war years and to go behind the facade and puncture myths. Written by authors from a range of disciplines, it focuses on the politics of trade unionism - not only unions' relations with political parties and the stte but also on the politics of workplace conflict and industrial action. It covers conventional issues such as relations between the unions and the Labour Party; but also discusses the diverse, neglected topics such as media coverage, union education, the Cold War and communism, and the political forces forging the discipline of industrial relations. The book's analysis of major strikes suggests that an understanding of the developing militancy of the 1950s is essential to understanding the trade unionism of the 1960s and 1970s.

British Trade Unions and Industrial Politics: The Post-War Compromise, 1945-64 (Studies in Labour History)

Business & Money

Economics

The years 1964-79 constitute a turbulent period in labour history and the high tide of trade unionism in 20th-century Britain. This volume of essays from contributors from varied disciplines subjects these years to historical scrutiny. Centred on a conception of industrial politics which sees what happened at the grassroots as being as vital as what happened in Parliament and Congress House, it takes a fresh look at well-rehearsed themes and re-examines the policies of the Labour and Conservative Parties. It also provides for analysis of neglected topics such as the role of the Communist, Trotskyist and rank-and-file organizations, as well as of issues of class, gender and ethnicity.

British Trade Unions and Industrial Politics: The High Tide of Trade Unionism, 1964-79 (Studies in Labour History)

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