Benjamin's library : modernity, nation, and the Baroque

Signale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought

Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)

Inventing the Baroque: A Critical History of Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Debates -- The Renaissance of the German Baroque in the "Epistemo-Critical Prologue" -- Locating Baroque Style -- Origin and the "Heroic" Age of the German Literary Baroque -- The Plays Are the Thing: Textual Politics and the German Drama -- The Origin of the Silesian School: Nationalism and the Baroque Tragic Drama -- Collecting the Baroque: Editing the German Dramatic Tradition -- The Task of the Translator: Shakespeare as German Tragic Drama -- Melancholy Germans: War Theology, Allegory, and the Lutheran Baroque -- Benjamin's Hamlet in the Crosshairs of War Theology -- Reforming the Baroque: Benjamin on Warburg on Luther -- Allegory, Emblems, and Gryphius's Catharina von Georgien.

The Italian trumpet [sound recording].

Concerti, cantatas & canzoni from the Italian Baroque & Venetian Renaissance

Concerti, cantatas and canzoni from the Italian Baroque and Venetian Renaissance

Sonatas, cornett, strings, continuo, F major.

Concertos, op. 7. No. 3; arr.

Sonatas, trumpets (2), strings, continuo, D major.

All'armi ò pensieri.

Concertos, trumpet, string orchestra, D major.

Concertos, oboe, string orchestra, RV 451, C major; arr.

Concertos, trumpets (2), string orchestra, RV 537, C major.

Modo per imparare a sonare di tromba. Entrate imperiali. N. 1.

Instrumental music. Selections.

Canzoni, 1o libro. A 2. canti (1634), no. 2; arr.

Orfeo. Toccata.

Capricci armonici da chiesa e da camera. Sonata, no. 1-2.

Arias, soprano, trumpet, continuo. Mio tesoro.

Arias, soprano, trumpet, continuo. In terra la guerra.

Su le sponde del Tebro

The classical tradition : Greek and Roman influences on western literature

A Galaxy book

Galaxy book.

The fall of the Greek and Roman civilization -- The dark ages -- The middle ages -- The renaissance -- The dark ages: English literature -- Secular poetry -- Christian poetry -- British church v. Roman church -- Christian Anglo-Saxons v. pagan Northmen -- The middle ages: French literature -- Ovid and romantic love -- The romance of the rose -- Dante and pagan antiquity -- Towards the renaissance: Petrarch, Boccaccio, Chaucer -- The renaissance: translation -- The renaissance: drama -- The renaissance: epic -- The renaissance: pastoral and romance -- Rabelais and Montaigne -- Shakespeare's classics -- The renaissance and afterwards: lyric poetry -- Transition -- The battle of the books -- A note on baroque -- Baroque tragedy -- Satire -- Baroque prose -- The time of revolution -- Parnassus and Antichrist -- A century of scholarship -- The symbolist poets and James Joyce -- The reinterpretation of the myths -- Conclusion.

Dressing the past

Ancient textiles series ;

Haute couture in the bronze age: a history of Minoan female costumes from Thera / You are what you wear: Scythian costume as identity / "On the borders of east and west" : a reconstruction of Roman provincial and Barbarian dress in the Hungarian National Museum / A weaver's voice: making reconstructions of Danish iron age textiles / Iconography and costume from the late iron age in Scandinavia / Tools, textile production and society in Viking age Birka / Spotlight on medieval Scandinavian dress: sources and interpretations / Tailored criticism: the use of renaissance and baroque garments as sources of information / Costume in a museological context: dealing with costume and dress from modern Danish history / Cut, stitch and fabrics: female dress in the past 200 years / Ancient female costume: from silent cinema to Hollywood glamour

50 things you should know about music

Fifty things you should know about music

50 things you should know about

50 things you should know about.

How music works. Orchestral instruments ; Brass instruments ; Woodwind ; Stringed instruments -- Playing percussion ; How music is written down ; Chords ; What does a conductor do? ; The choir ; Expression markings ; The science of music -- Music through the ages. Medieval music, 500-1400 ; Renaissance music, 1400-1600 ; Baroque music, 1600-1740 ; Classical music, 1740-1800 ; Romantic period, 1800-1900 ; Twentieth century, 1900-2000 ; Film music -- Musical genres. Blues ; Gospel ; Jazz ; R&B and soul ; Country music ; Rock music ; Heavy metal ; Reggae ; Pop music ; Rap and hip hop ; House -- Music from around the world. Folk music ; Native North American music ; Aboriginal music ; African music ; Steel drums ; Latin music ; Samba drumming ; Chinese music ; Japanese music ; Indian music ; Gamelan -- Amazing instruments. Groovy guitars ; Peculiar pianos ; Bizarre brass ; Funky flutes ; The pipe organ.

Cultural authority in Golden Age Spain

Spain

Parallax

Parallax (Baltimore, Md.)

Tradition and authority in Lope de Vega's La Dorotea / Textual discontinuities and the problems of closure in the Spanish drama of the Golden Age / Creative space : ideologies of discourse in Góngora's Polifemo / Góngora and the footprints of the voice / Postmodernism and the Baroque in María de Zayas / Homographesis in Salicio's song / Literary continuity, social order, and the invention of the Picaresque / Cervantes and the paternity of the English novel / "I" of the beholder : self and other in some golden age texts / History and modernity in the Spanish Golden Age : secularization and literary self-assertion in Don Quijote / "Matter of America" : Cervantes romances Inca Garcilaso de la Vega / Discourse of empire in the Renaissance / Role of discontinuity in the formation of national culture / Cosmological time and the impossibility of closure : a structural element in Spanish Golden Age narratives

The history and literature of the wind band and wind ensemble

The history and literature of the wind band and wind ensemble

History and literature of the wind band and wind ensemble.

The wind band and wind ensemble before 1500 -- The renaissance wind band and wind ensemble -- The baroque wind band and wind ensemble -- The wind band and wind ensemble of the Classic Period, 1750-1800 -- The nineteenth-century wind band and wind ensemble -- A catalog of multi-part repertoire for wind instruments or for undesignated instrumentation before 1600 Baroque wind band and wind ensemble repertoire Classical period wind band and wind ensemble repertoire Nineteenth-century wind band and wind ensemble repertoire A supplementary catalog of wind band and wind ensemble repertoire A catalog of wind repertoire before the twentieth century for one to five players A second supplementary catalog of early wind band and wind ensemble repertoire Name index, volumes 1-12, the history and literature of the wind band and wind ensemble.

Beyond Florence : the contours of medieval and early modern Italy

Florence redux / In and out of Florence / The other Florence within FLorence / A world of its own: economy, society, and religious life in the Tuscan Mugello at the time of Dante / The country parish at late medieval lucca / "Do not say that this is a man from Assisi / Concubines, lovers, prostitutes: infamy and female identity in medieval Bologna / Lost faith: a Roman prosecutor reflects on notaries' crimes / Pilgrim-tourism in late medieval Venice / The hermit returns: sanctity and the city in the March of Ancona / In the shop of the lord: Bernardino of Siena and popular devotion / "Angels of peace": the social drama of the Jesuit mission in early modern Southern Italy / Topographies of power in the urban centers of medieval Italy: communes, bishops, and public authority / In search of the quiet city: civic identity and papal state building in fourteenth-century Orvieto / Back to the future: remaking the commune in Ducal Modena / The Spanish foundations of late renaissance and baroque Rome / Where is beyond Florence?

How to look at and understand great art [videorecording].

The Great courses fine arts & music

Great courses (DVD). Music & fine arts.

The importance of first Impression -- Where am I? point of view and focal point -- Color: description, symbol and more -- Line: description and expression -- Space, shape, shade, and shadow -- Seeing the big picture: composition -- The illusion: getting the right perspective -- Art that moves us: time and motion -- Feeling with our eyes: texture and light -- Drawing: dry, liquid, and modern media -- Printmaking: relief and intaglio -- Modern printmaking: planographic -- Sculpture: salt cellars to monuments -- Development of painting: tempera and oils -- Modern painting: acrylics and assemblages -- Subject matters -- Signs: symbols, icons, and indexes in art -- Portraits: how artists see others -- Self-portraits: how artists see themselves -- Landscapes: art of the great outdoors -- Putting it all together -- Early Renaissance: humanism emergent -- Northern Renaissance: devil in the details -- High Renaissance: humanism perfected -- Mannerism and Baroque: distortion and drama -- Going Baroque: north versus south -- 18th century reality and decorative Rococo -- Revolutions: neoclassicism and romanticism -- Postimpressionism: form and content re-viewed -- Expressionism: empathy and emotion -- Cubism: an experiment in form -- Abstraction/Modernism: new visual languages -- Dada found objects/Surreal doodles and dreams -- Postmodernism: focus on the viewer -- Your next museum visit: do it yourself.

Transnational Italian studies

Transnational modern languages ;

Language Translation and Transnational Creative Practices in Italian Culture / Renaissance Translators, Transnational Literature, and Intertraffique / Linguistic landscapes of urban Italy: perspectives on transnational identities / Transnational Flows and Translanguaging Repertoires: Exploring Multilingualism and Migration in Contemporary Italy / Speaking Transnationally from the Italian Diaspora / Spatiality Transnationalism and the Epic Tradition in Baroque Italian Travel Literature / 'La fuga dei cervelli', the Grand Tour, and the circulation of knowledge: Transnational Italian culture in the long eighteenth century / Italians in Hollywood / Italy and Italian Studies in the Transnational Space of Migration and Colonial Routes / Mobile homes: transnational subjects and the (re)creation of home spaces / Temporality Making Premodern Time: Guittone, Dante, and Petrarch / Italian Renaissance Costume Books: Imagining Nation in an Increasingly Transnational World / Translating People and Places between Sicily and the United States, 1880-1960 / Addressing the Representation of the Italian Empire and its Afterlife / Subjectivity Dante and the Transnational Turn / Conscience, Consciousness, The Unconscious: The Italian Subject and Psychoanalysis / Speaking in class: accented voices in transnational Italian cinema / Transnational Subjectivities and Victimhood in Italy after the 2001 Genoa G8 Summit / Queer Translanguagers Versus Inclusive Language: Translingual Practices and Queer Italian Studies

Creating place in early modern European architecture

Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700

Visual and material culture, 1300-1700.

Introduction: Embracing Specificity, Embracing Place / 1. Architecture on Paper : The Development and Function of Architectural Drawings in the Renaissance / Part I. Marking Place. 2. The Santacroce Houses along the Via in Publicolis in Rome : Law, Place and Residential Architecture in the Early Modern Period / 3. Towards a New Architecture of Cosmic Experience / 4. Architecture for Music : Sonorous Spaces in Sacred Buildings in Renaissance and Baroque Rome / Part II. Teaching Place. 5. The Spedale di Santa Maria della Scala and the Construction of Siena / 6. Places of Knowledge between Ulm and the Netherlands in the Seventeenth Century : The Kunstkammer of Johannes Faulhaber / 7. Nicola Zabaglia's Scaffoldings for the Maintenance of Architectural Space in St. Peter's Basilica and throughout Europe in the Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries / Part III. Excavating Place. 8. Building on 'Hollow Land' : Skill and Expertise in Foundation-Laying Practices in the Low Countries in the Fifteenth to the Seventeenth Centuries / 9. The 'Conquest' and Construction of an Urban Place : The Insula dei Gesuiti in Venice in the Early Modern Period / 10. Exploring the Book of Fortresses

Exploring electric kiln techniques : a collection of articles from Ceramics Monthly

Electric kiln techniques

Collection of articles from Ceramics Monthly

Ceramics Monthly.

Introduction : power to the people -- Functional pottery : a colorful story -- Transitions and transformations : from reduction to wood fire to cone 6 electric / Ray Bub's reassembled ring teapots / Glaze recipes from Ray Bub -- Shuji Ikeda / A dialogue with Lisa Orr / Jared Jaffe's functional fantasies / Sculptural work : the significance of the surface -- Deeply rooted / Suggestive symbols / Mary Barringer's conversations / Keisuke Mizuno -- JoAnn Schnabel / The totemic sculptures of Ted Vogel / A personal aesthetic / The decorated surface : adding pattern and imagery -- The allure of slipware / Washington Ledesma's parade of personalities / Marty Ray / Never be afraid to play / Living tile / Thomas Orr's ceramic paintings / Sun Chao : a new way with crystals / Majolica : from the Renaissance to the space age -- Invisible gesture / Morgen Hall -- Steve Davis-Rosenbaum / Contempo-Baroque Majolica, the art of Simona Alexandrov / Another season, another palette / The building blocks of electric kiln pottery : clay and glaze formulation -- Low-fire redware bodies / Red clays for mid-range oxidation / Versatile cone 06-6 clays and engobes / Porcelain slip glaze / Layered cone 6 and cone 06 glazes / The fugitive blue chun / Awka oil-spot glaze / Electric kiln copper reds / More electric kiln copper reds / Cone 5 blue glazes / Crystalline glazes : a precise method / No more gerstley borate / Substitutions for gerstley borate