The Language of the Modes

The Language of the Modes
Author: Frans Wiering
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2013-10-11
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1135683417

The Language of the Modes provides a study of modes in early music through eight essays, each dealing with a different aspects of modality. The volume codifies all known theoretical references to mode, all modally ordered musical sources, and all modally cyclic compositions. For many music students and listeners, the "language of the modes" is a deep mystery, accustomed as we are to centuries of modern harmony. Wiering demystifies the modal world, showing how composers and performers were able to use this structure to create compelling and beautiful works. This book will be an invaluable source to scholars of early music and music theory. in early music through eight essays, each dealing with a different aspects of modality. It codifies all known theoretical references to mode, all modally ordered musical sources, and all modally cyclic compositions. This book will be an invaluable source to scholars of early music.

Phrasis

Phrasis
Author: Wendy Xu
Publisher: Ottoline Prize
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9781934200940

This second collection by Wendy Xu develops her lyricism--a seraphic, extractive poetics--in the serenely personalized landscape of Brooklyn.

Peripatetic Rhetoric After Aristotle

Peripatetic Rhetoric After Aristotle
Author: William Wall Fortenbaugh
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Total Pages: 438
Release:
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781412830669

Interest in ancient rhetoric and its relevance to modern society has increased dramatically over recent decades. In North America, departments of speech and communications have experienced a noticeable renaissance of concern with ancient sources. On both sides of the Atlantic, numerous journals devoted to the history of rhetoric are now being published. Throughout, Aristotle's central role has been acknowledged, and there is also a growing awareness of the contributions made by Theophrastus and the Peripatetics. Peripatetic Rhetoric After Aristotle responds to this recent interest in rhetoric and peripatetic theory. The chapters provide new insights into Peripatetic influence on different periods and cultures: Greece and Rome, the Syrian- and Arabic-speaking worlds, Europe in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, and the international scene today. Contributors to this volume include Maroun Aouad, Lucia Calboli Montefusco, Thomas Conley, Tiziano Dorandi, Lawrence D. Green, Doreen C. Innes, George A. Kennedy, Michael Leff, and Eckart Schutrumpf. This comprehensive analysis of the history of rhetoric ranges from the early Hellenistic period to the present day. It will be of significant interest to classicists, philosophers, and cultural historians.

Origins

Origins
Author: Eric Partridge
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 989
Release: 2006-05-23
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1134942176

This etymological dictionary gives the origins of some 20,000 items from the modern English vocabulary, discussing them in groups that make clear the connections between words derived by a variety of routes from originally common stock. As well as giving the answers to questions about the derivation of individual words, it is a fascinating book to browse through, and includes extensive lists of prefixes, suffixes, and elements used in the creation of new vocabulary.