Intersections and Transpositions

Intersections and Transpositions
Author: Andrew Wachtel
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1998
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780810115804

This collection serves as an introduction to the great variety of approaches being used by Slavicists and historians to situate music and literature in the Russian cultural imagination. Part I focuses on music in art. The nine essays in this section explore the complex interaction of literary and musical texts in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Contributors discuss such writers as Pushkin, Chekhov, and Pasternak, and composers including Musorgsky, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, and Blok. Part II centers on music in life. Its five essays address music as a cultural form, as presented and enjoyed in the home, the theater, and the opera house. This book provides a unique window on The musical, literary, and social interactions that have been typical of modern Russian culture.Contributing to this volume are Thomas P. Hodge, Caryl Emerson, Jennifer Fuller, Justin Weir, Alexander Burry, James Morgan, Andrew Baruch Wachtel, Tim Langen, Jesse Langen, Richard Stites, Ilya Vinitsky, Julie Buckler, Rosamund Bartlett, Boris Gasparov, Nicholas Glossop, and Amy Nelson.

Shostakovich Studies 2

Shostakovich Studies 2
Author: Pauline Fairclough
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2010-11-11
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0521111188

A collection of authoritative and up-to-date scholarship on one of the twentieth century's most important and enigmatic composers.

The Routledge Companion to Music and Modern Literature

The Routledge Companion to Music and Modern Literature
Author: Rachael Durkin
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 637
Release: 2022-05-26
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1000563359

Modern literature has always been obsessed by music. It cannot seem to think about itself without obsessing about music. And music has returned the favour. The Routledge Companion to Music and Modern Literature addresses this relationship as a significant contribution to the burgeoning field of word and music studies. The 37 chapters within consider the partnership through four lenses—the universal, opera and literature, musical and literary forms, and popular music and literature—and touch upon diverse and pertinent themes for our modern times, ranging from misogyny to queerness, racial inequality to the claimed universality of whiteness. This Companion therefore offers an essential resource for all who try to decode the musico-literary exchange.

Essays on the Intersection of Music and Architecture

Essays on the Intersection of Music and Architecture
Author: Mikesch W. Muecke
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2007
Genre: History
ISBN: 1847283373

"Essays on the Intersection of Music and Architecture" is a collection of nine texts written by international scholars. Most of the essays were originally presented at the interdisciplinary conference Architecture Music Acoustics that took place in Toronto, Canada, in June 2006 at Ryerson University. The texts range from historiographical and theoretical explorations of the relations between music and architecture via translations of architectural spaces into music to analytical case studies of architectural spaces for musical performance. The book includes illustrations, author biographies, and an index.

Discovering Group Theory

Discovering Group Theory
Author: Tony Barnard
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2016-12-19
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1315405776

Discovering Group Theory: A Transition to Advanced Mathematics presents the usual material that is found in a first course on groups and then does a bit more. The book is intended for students who find the kind of reasoning in abstract mathematics courses unfamiliar and need extra support in this transition to advanced mathematics. The book gives a number of examples of groups and subgroups, including permutation groups, dihedral groups, and groups of integer residue classes. The book goes on to study cosets and finishes with the first isomorphism theorem. Very little is assumed as background knowledge on the part of the reader. Some facility in algebraic manipulation is required, and a working knowledge of some of the properties of integers, such as knowing how to factorize integers into prime factors. The book aims to help students with the transition from concrete to abstract mathematical thinking.

Elements of Homology Theory

Elements of Homology Theory
Author: Viktor Vasilʹevich Prasolov
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2007
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0821838121

The book is a continuation of the previous book by the author (Elements of Combinatorial and Differential Topology, Graduate Studies in Mathematics, Volume 74, American Mathematical Society, 2006). It starts with the definition of simplicial homology and cohomology, with many examples and applications. Then the Kolmogorov-Alexander multiplication in cohomology is introduced. A significant part of the book is devoted to applications of simplicial homology and cohomology to obstruction theory, in particular, to characteristic classes of vector bundles. The later chapters are concerned with singular homology and cohomology, and Cech and de Rham cohomology. The book ends with various applications of homology to the topology of manifolds, some of which might be of interest to experts in the area. The book contains many problems; almost all of them are provided with hints or complete solutions.

Technical Manual

Technical Manual
Author: United States Department of the Army
Publisher:
Total Pages: 974
Release: 1967
Genre:
ISBN: