The Bells of Russia

The Bells of Russia
Author: Edward V. Williams
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2014-07-14
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1400854636

This generously illustrated book records the story of Russia's bells--the thousands of awe inspiring instruments that gave voice to the visual splendors of Russian Orthodoxy and to the political aspirations of the tsars. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Village Bells

Village Bells
Author: Alain Corbin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 416
Release: 1999
Genre: Change ringing
ISBN: 9780333752807

Nature

Nature
Author: Sir Norman Lockyer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 630
Release: 1879
Genre: Electronic journals
ISBN:

The Bells

The Bells
Author: Richard Harvell
Publisher: Random House Canada
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2010-09-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307358259

Dazzling, enchanting and epic, The Bells is the confession of a thief, kidnapper and unlikely lover — a boy with the voice of an angel whose exquisite sense of hearing becomes both his life's tragic curse and its greatest blessing. Moses Froben was born in a belfry high in the Swiss Alps, the bastard son of a deaf-mute woman banished to the church tower to ring each day the Loudest and Most Beautiful Bells in the land. His life is simple but he is content, until the day his father recognizes Moses's singular sense of hearing and its power to expose his sins. Cast into the world with only his ears to protect and guide him, Moses finds refuge in the choir of the great Abbey of St. Gall and becomes its star singer, only to endure the horrifying act of castration meant to preserve his angelic voice and turn him into a musico. In a letter to his son, Moses recounts his humble birth in eighteenth-century Switzerland and his life as a novice monk, and tells of the two noble friends — and a forbidden lover — whom he cherished during his chaotic years in Mozart's Vienna as apprentice to the great Gaetano Guadagni, and even as he ascended Europe's most celebrated stages as Lo Svizzero. But in this letter he will also reveal the astonishing secrets of his past and answer the question that has shadowed his fame: how did Moses Froben, world-renowned musico, come to raise a son who by all rights he could never have sired?

Time of the Bells

Time of the Bells
Author: Richard F. Pourade
Publisher:
Total Pages: 288
Release: 1961
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

Tells the story of how the California missions were founded, how they prospered and then died.