Musica Poetica

DescriptionPsalms Through the Centuries: Volume Two provides the first ever extensive commentary on the Jewish and Christian reception history of t...

Publisher: Pendragon PressAuthor(s): Siglind BruhnIllustration(s): 17 b/w.Number of pages: 288Collection: Dimension and DiversityPublication date: ...

Samuel Barber (1910-1981) is one of the most admired and honored American composers of the twentieth century. An unabashed Romantic, largely indepe...

DescriptionBringing together interdisciplinary leaders in methodology and arts-based research (ABR), this comprehensive handbook explores the syner...

A photographic tribute to France's most lyrical, romantic, and poetic musical tradition.Publisher: PrestelAuthor(s): Olaf SalieIllustration(s): 200...

DescriptionThe world is made of seductions. In Quincy Troupe's Seduction, the "I" becomes the "Eye, " serving as metaphor and witness in a narrativ...

Drawing extensively upon the poet's unpublished manuscripts-poems, journals, essays, and letters-as well as all his published works, Marjorie Perlo...

DescriptionA collection of wildly inventive portraits of musician Tom Waits, the result of a 30-year collaboration with photographer and illustrato...

Invokes and critiques the relationship between blues-based popular music and poetry in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The volume is anch...

This Swiss composer's conceptual and practical guide to the mind/body overlap in music and martial artsOver the past 20 years, Swiss musician and c...

Lyric traces the history of the term from its classical origins through the early modern, Romantic and Victorian periods and up to the twentieth ce...

This is the third volume of a projected six-volume set of the complete Vulgate Bible. Compiled and translated in large part by Saint Jerome at the ...

Reducere. In Poetic Operations artist and theorist micha cárdenas considers contemporary digital media, artwork, and poetry in order to articulate trans of c...

- Bruce Springsteen, legendary rock 'n' roll star, live on stage!- Photos by Janet Macoska, whose work has appeared in Rolling Stone, Creem, Mojo, ...

Building on numerous original close readings of works by Homer, Hesiod, and other ancient Greek poets, Richard P. Martin articulates a broad and pr...

Reducere. The long-awaited sequel to Songwriters on Songwriting, often called "the songwriter's bible, " More Songwriters on Songwriting goes to the heart of...

Reducere. Essential Spirituality beautifully articulates the benefits of spiritual living in the material world.-Dan Millman, author, Everyday Enlightenment ...

Softcops renders the philosophy of Foucault as a music-hall turn and Victorian freakshow "theatre and history combine to give such intelligent fun"...

Reducere. DescriptionWith exclusive access to Strummer's friends, relatives, and fellow musicians, music journalist Chris Salewicz penetrates the soul of an ...

Reducere. Embark on a pilgrimage through the great cathedrals of the world. Gernot Candolini and Jennifer Brandon invite readers to experience some of the ex...

Reducere. The "blk alter" of Avery R. Young's poetic vision makes its stunning debut in a multidisciplinary arsenal entitled, neckbone: visual verses. Young'...

Reducere. "Black Music Is" is a poetic love letter to Black music and history, through the ears of Bebop the cat. The book weaves poetry and pop-surrealist i...

Reducere. Reveals the presence of God in the creative works of human life and culture What are the "poetics of everyday life"? What can they teach us about G...

Odin is arguably one of the most enigmatic and complex characters in Norse mythology. Revered since the Viking Age, Odin has been called the greate...

"Other people locked themselves away and hid from their demons. Townes flung open his door and said, 'Come on in.'" So writes Harold Eggers, Townes...

The inspiring and poetic memoir of the young New Wave musician whose improbable Cold War heroics opened the clandestine world of Leningrad punk and...

Reducere. Hailed by Publishers Weekly as "not only the best writing on the ever-changing folk singer, but also some of the best writing about any musician ar...

Reducere. Composer John Luther Adams makes his home in the boreal forest near Fairbanks, Alaska, where he has created a unique musical world grounded in the ...

Reducere. In this transcendent memoir, grounded in tribal myth and ancestry, music and poetry, Joy Harjo, one of our leading Native American voices, details ...

The Hum of the World is an invitation to contemplate what would happen if we heard the world as attentively as we see it. Balancing big ideas, play...

Reducere. Poetry. Fiction. Asian American Studies. This is a work of fiction during which the characters interact in the form of poetic novellas. Born on the...

Reducere. Parents and children will love Thor -- the dog who eats everything. Perfect for pre-school and grammar school children, with its lyrical, rhythmica...

Reducere. Andrei Bely is best known for the modernist masterwork Petersburg, a paradigmatic example of how modern writers strove to evoke the fragmentation o...

Reducere. Fun, poetical and inspiring challenges for teaching the arts--for students of all ages and teachers of all disciplinesThe almost 100 arts assignmen...

Reducere. An exploration of vocal change and ethical dynamismWays of Voice explores techniques of voice production in North India, from Bollywood to raga mus...

DescriptionCarol Ann Duffy has been a bold and original voice in British poetry since the publication of Standing Female Nude in 1985. Since then s...

Reducere. First passed down orally through innumerable generations of minstrels before the presence of Christianity in Scandinavia, and written down eventual...

Reducere. A career-spanning account of the artistry and politics of Bob Dylan's songwriting Bob Dylan's reception of the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature has ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Sybil RosenThis is an intimate glimpse into the turbulent life of Texas music legend Blaze Foley (1949-1989), seen through ...

Reducere. In Selected Poems, we experience the full range of James Schuyler's achievement, confirming that he was among the late twentieth century's truly vi...

Reducere. DescriptionOrganized into ten sections with each devoted to a poetic concept, The Practicing Poet begins with "Discovering New Material, " "Finding...

Reducere. King is an African-American boy with naturally locked hair who sees Engineering and Technology as Art. Through poetic lingo, he pulls young readers...

Reducere. Beautiful and lyrical, Chioma Urama's A Body of Water is a poetic exploration of ancestry in the American South. These poems are the result of a co...

Reducere. Lomba is a young journalist living under military rule in Lagos, Nigeria, the most dangerous city in the world. His mind is full of soul music and ...

Reducere. Like the original, The Crafty Poet II is organized into ten sections. We again end with "Revision, " but this time we also begin with it in "Revisi...

Reducere. this moment leads to the door of rebirt the door opens to the se the rose of tim --Bei Da The Rose of Time: New & Selected Poems presents a glowing...

Description◆ A fox's quest to search for food turns out to be a life-changing lesson in how to be good. A sublime fable told in verse and rhyme ◆Fo...

Reducere. Literary Nonfiction. African & African American Studies. Music. Translated by Olivia C. Harrison and Teresa Villa-Ignacio. Artwork by Julie Simon-T...

Reducere. Life of Chopin by Franz LisztFrédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic era who wrote primarily for solo p...

Reducere. A Rave Fable. This play hurls one of Greek tragedy's most compelling sagas into a sleek netherworld of sex, drugs and trance music. Iphigenia is th...

DescriptionSince the 1970s, American bioacoustician and musician Bernie Krause has recorded more than five thousand hours of natural habitats, incl...

Reducere. The Queen is the third volume in The Errand graphic novel series. In each book of this series, Leo La Fleur and Adam Oehlers use poetic language an...

Reducere. Essential Spirituality beautifully articulates the benefits of spiritual living in the material world.-Dan Millman, author, Everyday Enlightenment ...

DescriptionScreamin' Jay Hawkins released "I Put a Spell On You" in 1956. The song, that never made it to the charts when it was released, would ev...

DescriptionJoy Harjo's play Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light is the centerpiece of this collection that includes essays and interviews co...

Peter Kline's Mirrorforms is a daring, experimental collection of poems in which language reaches its most pressurized state. Kline has invented a ...

Reducere. Created with the purpose to inspire others to face their fears, overcome their weaknesses, and challenge the mind to think beyond its normal abilit...

Reducere. In a powerful, poetic missive, award-winning author-illustrator Maxine Beneba Clarke celebrates the meaning behind the words Black Lives Matter. Li...

Description"Poetic musings on a life well-lived--one that is still moving forward, always creating, always luminous. This isn't your typical autobi...

Reducere. Barbara Hurd's Listening to the Savage weaves rich explorations of science, history, mythology, literature, and music. The listening of the book de...

Reducere. "Tamez's poetry disturbs the mind with its bravery of language, musical indictments of culture, and profound good heart. She is one of our great ly...

Reducere. This treasury of 33 works features all eight of the Humoresques, Op. 101, including the immensely popular No. 7 in G-flat Major; all 12 of the Silh...

Reducere. 2017 Caldecott Honor 2017 Coretta Scott King Honor 2017 Charlotte Zolotow Award A 2016 New York Times Best Illustrated Book This poetic, nonfiction...

"Steve Earle brings to his prose the same authenticity, poetic spirit, and cinematic energy he projects in his music. I'll Never Get Out of This Wo...

Reducere. DescriptionFor the misfits, there will always be music. As the sound track to basement parties, late-night drives, and solitary rituals of self-pit...

Reducere. In Who Do You Think You Are? Reflections Of A Writer's Life, Joseph Torra ponders his thirty plus years as a poet, novelist, editor, publisher, and...

Reducere. FINALLY, A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO TEACHING BEAUTY From classroom d cor, to poetic infusion, to music and art appreciation, classical Christian educatio...

Reducere. When a little girl has doubts about the color of her skin, her mother shows her all the wonderful, beautiful things brown can be This message of se...

Reducere. Though Wittgenstein wrote on the same subjects that dominate the work of other analytic philosophers -- the nature of logic, the limits of language...

Reducere. Celebrated poet Julie Kane returns to her Boston Irish Catholic roots in this collection about mothers and daughters shaped by the forces of Irish ...