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Tempesta is the stormy musical language employed whenever a composer wishes to inspire terror in an audience. This study explores the large repertoire of such music to examine programmatic storm depictions and the idea of tempesta as a topic in instrumental music.

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Tempesta is the stormy musical language employed whenever a composer wishes to inspire terror in an audience. This study explores the large repertoire of such music to examine programmatic storm depictions and the idea of tempesta as a topic in instrumental music.

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Deals with Precisionism and its ten leading practitioners: George Ault, Peter Blume, Ralston Crawford, Charles Demuth, Preston Dickinson, O. Louis Guglielmi, Louis Lozowick, Morton L. Schamberg, Charles Sheeler and Niles Spencer. Each artist is the subject of a chapter with a biographical sketch.

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Combines aesthetic and cultural insights with a variety of illustrations to make a statement about Chinese art and society.

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Terrence Malick and the Thought of Film explores how the experience of viewing Terrence Malick's films enables imaginative acts of philosophical interpretation. Useful for both professional philosophers interested in film and scholars of cinema intrigued by philosophy, this book shows the ways Malick's films cast philosophy in new cinematic light.

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Discusses Malick's films as individual objects, as a corpus, within contemporary film studies, and within a wider cultural discussion.

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Grounded in film studies, philosophical inquiry, and the emerging field of scholarship that combines the two disciplines, this title discusses Terrence Malick's films as individual objects, as a corpus, within contemporary film studies, and within a wider cultural discussion.

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Explores the interaction between two of the most powerful socio-cultural movements in the post-war years - the literary forces of the Beat Generation and the musical energies of rock and its attendant culture.

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A highly readable history of the innumerable links between two of the most revolutionary artistic movements of the last 60 years.

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Collections of textiles-historic costume, quilts, needlework samplers, and the like-have benefited greatly from the digital turn in museum and archival work. Both institutional online repositories and collections-based social media sites have fostered unprecedented access to ...

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With Thank You Music Lovers, Greenwood Press continues to expand its excellent series of discographies. Although subtitled a biodiscography, Mirtle's book is primarily a chronology of recordings, playdates, and radio and television shows. . . .

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The description for this book, Thayer's Life of Beethoven, Part I, will be forthcoming.

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"Tenth paperback printing, for the first time in two volumes, 1991"--Title page verso.

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This book ranks the top 100 silent film stars based on a scale that considers creativity, originality, chemistry with fellow performers, and other factors. The author also promotes some lesser-known performers, singles out each artists best works, and identifies key films available on DVD.

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THE 12 DAYS of CHRISTMAS

This story is one that began centuries ago. Everyone knows the song and it's one that has lived on to this day. It marks an important seasonal message but with an element of gaiety and humor in the images that only a creative artist mind could portray.

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The 1960s on Film tells the narrative of the 1960s through the lens of the movie camera, analyzing 10 films that focus on the people, events, and issues of the decade.

Films create both an impression of and at times for younger audiences a primary definition of events, people, and issues of an era.

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