The Forms of Music

Arts & Photography

Tovey, Donald Francis

Music

Yoakum Press

This vintage book contains B. P. Babkin’s 1949 biography of Ivan Pavlov, “Pavlov - A Biography”. Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849–1936) was a Russian physiologist famous for his work in classical conditioning and 'Pavlov's Dog'. He spent his life studying physiology and science, and made numerous significant discoveries that are still relevant today. As a result of his pioneering work, Pavlov was awarded the 1904 Nobel Prize for Physiology. This detailed and uniquely insightful biography will appeal to anyone with an interest in his life and work, and would make for a brilliant addition to any personal collection. Many vintage texts such as this are becoming increasingly rare and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now, in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.

Pavlov - A Biography

Babkin, B.P.

Biographies & Memoirs

Victorian England - Portait of an Age

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

History

Young, G.M.

Europe

<p>Last Poems is the second and last of the two volumes of poems A. E. Housman published during his lifetime. Housman was an emotionally withdrawn man whose closest friend Moses Jackson had been his roommate when he was at Oxford in 1877-1882. In the 1920s, when Jackson was dying in Canada, Housman selected forty-one previously unpublished poems into a volume entitled Last Poems, for him to read.</p>

Last Poems: With a Chapter from Twenty-Four Portraits By William Rothenstein

Literature & Fiction

Housman, A.E.

ROTHENSTEIN,William

History & Criticism

Donald Francis Tovey Born in 1875, Donald Francis Tovey was a British musicologist and composer. He took classical honors with his B. A. at Ox ford in 1898, and became a pianist of the first rank, though he never sought a virtuoso career. From 1914 to 1940 he was Reid Professor of Music at Edinburgh University. He died in 1 940. His other books include Normality and Freedom in Music, The Main Stream of Music, A Musician Talks, Essays in Musical Analysis, and Beethoven. EDITORIAL PREFACE: THE desire to set down upon paper a comprehensive system of musical education was present in the mind of Donald Tovey for the greater part of his life. In 1896, when he was 21, he wrote in a letter to a friend that he had begun a great work quot on the means of Expression in Music quot If ever I finish the thing, into print it shall go. Thirty years later, he was talking about a series of four text-books on music. But into print neither the one scheme nor the other went the final expression of his ideas on music was never written. It never could be written, because it was never final in the mind of that incessant discoverer in music. Nor was his method of writing that of finality. The nearest point to finality which Tovey ever reached in his expression of a formal philosophy in music is to be found in the articles on technique and aesthetics of music as he called them himself in the list of his writings supplied to Who s Who which he contributed to the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Those articles, written from 1906 onwards for the eleventh edition of the Encyclopaedia, and revised again, almost rewritten, for the fourteenth edition in 1929, were necessarily cast in the imposed form of treatises under word-headings. Yet they coalesce very firmly into a clear and coherent testament, almost into a text-book of the art of music in its widest meaning. Like the Glossary to the Essays in Musical Analysis, the entries are unconnected, the whole comprehensive, and while not attempting completeness, afford the reader a wider range of musical thought and a fuller discussion of technical problems than most of the exhaustive and laborious theses now available. Tovey himself set great store by these articles. They formed for him the basis of his teaching at the University of Edinburgh. They are the background to those fuller considerations of musical compositions which are his Essays in Musical Analysis. It was his own proposal that these articles should be gathered together into one volume, an idea expressed to me as long ago as 1926. Means were then taken towards the end of publishing, and it was agreed that Tovey should in his own time make any alterations or correc tions necessary for the new method of presentation. But many other fresh and no doubt more important ideas and schemes came bubbling up into that wonderfully fertile brain, and nothing was done about the book of musical articles. I say more important because, though he was in life so fully occupied, it has now been found possible to publish these articles after the author s death. This book contains all the articles which Tovey wrote for the Encyclopaedia Britannica, as they now appear there, with the exception of one on Modern Music and the biographies. The book was set up from printed slips, and thus follows the text finally approved and corrected by the author. The very long musical examples are printed in full...

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Originally published in 1794, this early work on the American Military is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It contains details on the ranks, discipline, order and regulations of the American military. This is a fascinating work and thoroughly recommended for anyone interested in military history. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Regulations for the Order and Discipline of the Troops of the United States

Stuben, Baron Von

Americas

Architectural Engineering - With Special Reference To High Building Construction - Including Many Examples Of Chicago Office Buildings

Freitag, Joseph Kendall

Reference

History of the Conquest of Mexico

History Of The Conquest Of Mexico

PRESCOTT, WILLIAM H.

Sergeant York And His People

Cowan, Samuel Kinkade

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