Le nozze di Figaro

Le nozze di Figaro
Author: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Publisher: Alma Books
Total Pages: 131
Release: 2018-01-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0714545333

John Wells introduces the opera with a high-spirited account of the action-packed career of the author, in many respects the prototype of Figaro himself. Basil Deane explores the score: he shows that Mozart's characters are illuminated here not so much in soliloquies but in their reactions to each other. Composer Stephen Oliver discusses how the comedy exists not just in the words but, essentially, in the music. The full Italian text is given, with a note on the order of scenes in Act Three and the alternative passages Mozart wrote for the 1789 revival. The classic translation of E.J. Dent is an excellent way to get to know the twists and turns of the plot and the stylish wit of da Ponte's innuendos.Contents: A Society Marriage, John Wells; A Musical Commentary, Basil Deane; Music and Comedy in 'The Marriage of Figaro, Stephen Oliver; Beaumarchais's Characters; Le nozze di Figaro: Libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte; The Marriage of Figaro: English version by Edward J. Dent

The Cambridge Companion to Sappho

The Cambridge Companion to Sappho
Author: P. J. Finglass
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 587
Release: 2021-04-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107189055

A detailed up-to-date survey of the most important woman writer from Greco-Roman antiquity. Examines the nature and context of her poetic achievement, the transmission, loss and rediscovery of her poetry, and the reception of that poetry in cultures far removed from ancient Greece, including Latin America, India, China, and Japan.

The Church History of Ethiopia

The Church History of Ethiopia
Author: Michael Geddes
Publisher: Hansebooks
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-07-13
Genre:
ISBN: 9783337245153

The Church History of Ethiopia - Wherein, among other things, the two great splendid Roman missions into that empire are placed in their true light; to which are added. is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1696. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

Richard Pococke’s Letters from the East (1737-1740)

Richard Pococke’s Letters from the East (1737-1740)
Author: Rachel Finnegan
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 500
Release: 2020-10-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004440054

In Richard Pococke’s Letters from the East (1737-1740), Rachel Finnegan provides edited transcripts of the full run of correspondence from Richard Pococke’s famous eastern voyage from 1737-41. In this new volume, Finnegan combines updated biographical accounts of the traveller and his correspondents (his mother, Elizabeth Pococke and his uncle and patron, Bishop Thomas Milles) from vol. 1 of the original edition of Letters from Abroad (2011) with transcriptions of the letters from vol. 3 of the series (2013), together with new material that has hitherto been unpublished. Thus, in a single volume, she sets the context of the life and times of the traveller and his family against the background of this voluminous corpus of fascinating correspondence, which can be read in conjunction with Pococke’s own published account of his travels, A Description of the East and Some Other Countries (1743-45).

Moorings

Moorings
Author: Josiah Blackmore
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0816648328

Delving into the Portuguese imperial experience, 'Moorings' enriches our understanding of historical and literary imagination during a significant period of Western expansion.