CASSANDRA'S SONG

CASSANDRA'S SONG
Author: Carole Gift Page
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2011-11-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1459222415

A MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN? Determined to marry off her widowed father, concert pianist Cassandra Rowlands had finally met the perfect stepmother candidate—only to find herself falling for the woman’s son. Enigmatic, reclusive Antonio Pagliarulo was everything Cassandra had learned to avoid. Yet she found herself helplessly drawn to the passionate tenor, certain her feelings couldn’t possibly be mutual…. After years of self-imposed solitude, Antonio cared about Cassandra more than he had ever dreamed it was possible to love a woman. But he knew the minister’s beautiful daughter was no stranger to heartache. He couldn’t possibly expect her to understand his secret burden—or why he could never be free to marry….

A Song for Quiet

A Song for Quiet
Author: Cassandra Khaw
Publisher: Tordotcom
Total Pages: 71
Release: 2017-08-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0765397390

Cassandra Khaw returns with A Song for Quiet, a new standalone Persons Non Grata novella from the world of Hammers on Bone, finalist for the British Fantasy Award and the Locus Award, and which Kameron Hurley called "a long leap into the gory, the weird, and the fantastic." Deacon James is a rambling bluesman straight from Georgia, a black man with troubles that he can't escape, and music that won't let him go. On a train to Arkham, he meets trouble — visions of nightmares, gaping mouths and grasping tendrils, and a madman who calls himself John Persons. According to the stranger, Deacon is carrying a seed in his head, a thing that will destroy the world if he lets it hatch. The mad ravings chase Deacon to his next gig. His saxophone doesn't call up his audience from their seats, it calls up monstrosities from across dimensions. As Deacon flees, chased by horrors and cultists, he stumbles upon a runaway girl, who is trying to escape the destiny awaiting her. Like Deacon, she carries something deep inside her, something twisted and dangerous. Together, they seek to leave Arkham, only to find the Thousand Young lurking in the woods. The song in Deacon’s head is growing stronger, and soon he won’t be able to ignore it any more. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Mortal Voice in the Tragedies of Aeschylus

The Mortal Voice in the Tragedies of Aeschylus
Author: Sarah Nooter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2017-10-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107145511

This book argues that the voice is a crucial link between bodies, thought, and mortal identity in the tragedies of Aeschylus. It first presents conceptions of the voice in Greek poetry and philosophy and then shows how Aeschylus' tragedies gain meaning from the rubric and performance of voice.

Faces of Silence in Ancient Greek Literature

Faces of Silence in Ancient Greek Literature
Author: Efi Papadodima
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 387
Release: 2020-04-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3110695650

The volume offers new insights into the intricate theme of silence in Greek literature, especially drama. Even though the topic has received respectable attention in recent years, it still lends itself to further inquiry, which embraces silence's very essence and boundaries; its applications and effects in particular texts or genres; and some of its technical features and qualities. The particular topics discussed extend to all these three areas of inquiry, by looking into: silence's possible role in the performance of epic and lyric; its impact on the workings of praise-poetry; its distinct deployments in our five complete ancient novels; Aristophanic, comic and otherwise, silences; the vocabulary of the unspeakable in tragedy; the connections of tragic silence to power, authority, resistance, and motivation; female tragic silences and their transcendence, against the background of male oppression or domination; famous tragic silences as expressions of the ritualized isolation of the individual from both human and divine society. The emerging insights are valuable for the broader interpretation of the relevant texts, as well as for the fuller understanding of central values and practices of the society that created them.

Paths of Song

Paths of Song
Author: Rosa Andújar
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 501
Release: 2018-02-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3110573997

Paths of Song: The Lyric Dimension of Greek Tragedy analyzes the multiple and varied evocations of choral lyric in fifth-century Greek tragedy using a variety of methodological approaches that illustrate the myriad forms through which lyric is present and can be presented in tragedy. This collection focuses on different types of interaction of Greek tragedy with lyric poetry in fifth-century Athens: generic, mythological, cultural, musical, and performative. The collected essays demonstrate the dynamic and nuanced relationship between lyric poetry and tragedy within the larger frame of Athenian song- and performance-culture, and reveal a vibrant and symbiotic co-existence between tragedy and lyric. Paths of Song illustrates the effects that this dynamic engagement with lyric possibly had on tragic performances, including performances of satyr drama, as well as on processes of survival and reputation, selection and refiguration, tradition and innovation. The volume is of particular interest to scholars in the field of classics, cultural studies, and the performing arts, as well as to readers interested in poetic transmission and in cultural evolution in antiquity.

The Music of Tragedy

The Music of Tragedy
Author: Naomi A. Weiss
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2024-05-21
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0520401441

The Music of Tragedy offers a new approach to the study of classical Greek theater by examining the use of musical language, imagery, and performance in the late work of Euripides. Naomi Weiss demonstrates that Euripides’ allusions to music-making are not just metatheatrical flourishes or gestures towards musical and religious practices external to the drama but closely interwoven with the dramatic plot. Situating Euripides’ experimentation with the dramaturgical effects of mousike within a broader cultural context, she shows how much of his novelty lies in his reinvention of traditional lyric styles and motifs for the tragic stage. If we wish to understand better the trajectories of this most important ancient art form, The Music of Tragedy argues, we must pay closer attention to the role played by both music and text.

Musical Design in Aeschylean Theater

Musical Design in Aeschylean Theater
Author: William C. Scott
Publisher: Dartmouth College Press
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2000-09-26
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1611681812

Essential for those who want to see ancient plays producedÑeither physically in the theater or imaginatively in their own minds.

Transformational analysis in practice: Music-analytical studies on composers and musicians from around the world

Transformational analysis in practice: Music-analytical studies on composers and musicians from around the world
Author: Bozhidar Chapkanov
Publisher: Vernon Press
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2023
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1648898130

'Transformational analysis in practice' is a Must-Have for everyone working in the field or aspiring to develop their music-analytical and theoretical skills in transformational theory. This co-authored book puts together a plethora of analytical studies, diverse both in the repertoires covered and the methodologies employed. It is a much-needed anthology in this sub-field of music analysis, which has been developing and growing in recent years, reaching ever wider outlets in English-speaking countries and beyond, from dedicated conference panels to YouTube videos. The book is divided into four parts based on the repertoires under discussion. Part I encompasses four analytical studies on familiar composers from the European Romanticism of the nineteenth century. Part II analyzes the music of less familiar composers from Brazil and Turkey. Part III offers four contrasting ways to adapt the analytical capabilities of neo-Riemannian theory to the post-tonal music of the twentieth century. Catering to the interests of jazz performers and researchers, as well as those into popular music production, Part IV offers transformational analytical approaches to both notated and improvised jazz, emphasizing John Coltrane’s performance. Providing an invaluable synthesis of a wide range of analytical studies, this book will be an essential companion for many musicology students, as well as for performers and composers.