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Music, Art, Literature
REFERENCE WORKS
EDITED BY DENIS HOLLIER "This remarkable collection...is far more than a survey of 12 centuries of writing in France. It is a fascinating, generally very readable and almost always unpredictable ramble through the thick and varied garden of culture tended for these many centuries by the French people." --New York Times
"May well be the indispensable one-volume reference work on the subject of music--classical, ethnic, pop or rock...If you must know the difference between the Lydian and Mixolydian modes, you can find that lucidly described, but not to the exclusion of a note on the practice and etymology of doo-wop." --Herbert Glass, Los Angeles Times
DON MICHAEL RANDEL This classic reference work contains nearly 6000 entries, authored by over 70 top musicologists. Combining authoritative scholarship with concise, lively prose and hundreds of illustrations, The New Harvard Dictionary of Music is an essential guide for all music lovers and the indispensable companion to The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music.
DON MICHAEL RANDEL An incomparable guide to 5500 figures in the history of music, this volume brings together all the pertinent biographical information about composers, performers, music theorists, and instrument makers from the days of praise chants to the bop and pop of today.
DON MICHAEL RANDEL This compact guide to the history and performance of music is an authoritative reference work, offering definitions of musical terms; succinct characterizations of the various forms of musical composition; entries that identify individual operas, oratorios, symphonic poems, and other works; illustrated descriptions of instruments; and capsule summaries of the lives and careers of composers, performers, and theorists. Like its distinguished parent volumes, The Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians provides clearly written information on all periods in music history, with particularly comprehensive coverage of the twentieth century.
Literary Biographies of One Hundred Black Women Writers, 1900-1945 EDITED BY LORRAINE E. ROSES, RUTH E. RANDOLPH In this ground-breaking collection of literary biographies, many with pictures, authors Lorraine Elena Roses and Ruth Elizabeth Randolph chronicle the lives and works of 100 black women novelists, short-story writers, playwrights, poets, essayists, critics, historians, journalists, and editors writing in the United States between 1900 and 1945.
COMPREHENSIVE WORKS
ABBOTT LOWELL CUMMINGS In a rich blend of architectural and social history, Abbott Lowell Cummings reconstructs some of our nation's first houses. This is a splendid story of innovations, of restless, migratory people and their architectural and social responses to their environment. It is the first chapter in the long saga of America's preoccupation with technology, showing how it affected the early American home.
ALASTAIR FOWLER "Whatever literature is, it's to be found in A History of English Literature. Not just in the quotes, but in Fowler's own prose, sentence by sentence, in the architecture of his chapters, in the spirit of his book. It could well be that Fowler himself has created a work that should be included in the canon of literary works we all deserve to know first-hand." --Christian Science Monitor
Enlarged Edition HAROLD KIRKER Charles Bulfinch (1763-1844), son of a wealthy and cultivated Boston family, exerted a wide influence on architecture in New England. As architect and Boston selectman, he was responsible for the great development of Old Boston. Later he was appointed architect for the final stages of the Capitol in Washington. In this fully illustrated record of commissions, Harold Kirker sets forth the fascinating career of America's first native-born architect.
French Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum AGNES MONGAN, MIRIAM STEWART The Harvard University Art Museums hold one of the world's finest collections of early nineteenth-century drawings; the nearly 500 works reproduced in this catalogue include the most significant groups of drawings outside France by the masters of the age--David, Gericault, Ingres, Delacroix, and Prud'hon. Although familiar to scholars, the collection has never been the subject of a comprehensive catalogue, and many of the drawings are published here for the first time.
EDITED BY ULRICH MULLER, PETER WAPNEWSKI
GAY ROBINS What did art, and the architecture that housed it, mean to the ancient Egyptians? Why did they invest such vast wealth and effort in its production? These are the puzzles Gay Robins explores as she examines the objects of Egyptian art--the tombs and wall paintings, the sculpture and stelae, the coffins, funerary papyri, and amulets--from its first flowering in the Early Dynastic period to its final resurgence in the time of the Ptolemies.
TRANSLATED BY ALAN S. TRUEBLOOD "A selection of the Mexican nun's work in excellent versions by Alan Trueblood. It successfully reflects the versatility of Sor Juana, whose styles range from spirited popular lyrics, some incorporating snatches of Nahuatl or Afro-Spanish refrains, to the learned conceits of her full-blown Gongorist manner." --London Review of Books
From the Pharaohs to the Fall of the Roman Empire THE IMAGE OF THE BLACK IN WESTERN ART, VOLUME II, PART 1 From the Demonic Threat to the Incarnation of Sainthood THE IMAGE OF THE BLACK IN WESTERN ART, VOLUME II, PART 2 Africans in the Christian Ordinance of the World (Fourteenth to the Sixteenth Century) THE IMAGE OF THE BLACK IN WESTERN ART, VOLUME IV, PART 1 THE IMAGE OF THE BLACK IN WESTERN ART, VOLUME IV, PART 2 GENERAL EDITOR LADISLAS BUGNER
CHARLES ROSEN New York Times Notable Book of the Year Winner of ASCAP--Deems Taylor Award American Musicological Society's Kinkeldey Award Yorkshire Post Music Book of the Year Award Best New Book in the category of Arts/Association of American Publishers/Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division
PRIMARY SOURCES
Variorum Edition EMILY DICKINSON EDITED BY R. W. FRANKLIN This three-volume work contains the largest number of Dickinson's poems ever assembled, arranged chronologically and drawn from a range of archives. The text of each manuscript is rendered individually, including, within the capacity of standard type, her spelling, capitalization, and punctuation.
3 Volume Set EMILY DICKINSON EDITED BY THOMAS H. JOHNSON
Volume IV, Representative Men RALPH WALDO EMERSON
HAROLD FREDERIC This Faustian tale of the spiritual disintegration of a young minister, written in the 1890s, deals subtly and powerfully with the impact of science on innocence and the collective despair that marked the transition into the modern age. In its realism, The Damnation of Theron Ware foreshadows Howells; in its conscious imagery it prefigures Norris, Crane, Henry James, and the "symbolic realism" of the twentieth century. Its author, Harold Frederic, internationally famous as London correspondent for the New York Times, wrote the novel two years before his death.
The Correspondence of Samuel Beckett and Alan Schneider EDITED BY MAURICE HARMON Samuel Beckett claimed he couldn't talk about his work, but he proves remarkably forthcoming in these pages, which document the thirty-year working relationship between the playwright and his principal producer in the United States, Alan Schneider. The 500 letters capture the world of theater as well as the personalities of their authors.
Selected Letters EDITED BY LEON EDEL
JOHN KEATS Here is the first reliable edition of Keats's complete poems designed expressly for general readers and students. Jack Stillinger provides helpful explanatory notes to the poems which give dates of composition, identify quotations and allusions, gloss names and words not included in the ordinary desk dictionary, and refer the reader to the best critical interpretations of the poems. The new introduction provides central facts about Keats's life and career, describes the themes of his best work, and speculates on the causes of his greatness.
Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard, a Facsimile Edition JOHN KEATS EDITED BY JACK STILLINGER
Letters and Theoretical Writings COLLECTED WORKS OF VELIMIR KHLEBNIKOV, VOLUME II Prose, Plays, and Supersagas COLLECTED WORKS OF VELIMIR KHLEBNIKOV, VOLUME III Selected Poems VELIMIR KHLEBNIKOV Dubbed "a Columbus of new poetic continents" because of his search for a poetics as diverse as the universe itself, Velimir Khlebnikov is the creator of some of the most extraordinary poems in the Russian language.
Black Women Writing, 1900-1950 EDITED BY LORRAINE E. ROSES, RUTH E. RANDOLPH In poems, stories, memoirs, and essays, dozens of African-American women writers--some famous, many just discovered--give us a sense of a distinct inner voice and an engagement with their larger double culture. Harlem's Glory unfolds a rich tradition of writing by African-American women, hitherto mostly hidden, in the first half of the twentieth century.
SHELLEY AND HIS CIRCLE, 1773-1822 [VOLUMES 3 AND 4] SHELLEY AND HIS CIRCLE, 1773-1822 [VOLUMES 5 AND 6] SHELLEY AND HIS CIRCLE, 1773-1822 [VOLUMES 7 AND 8] SHELLEY AND HIS CIRCLE, 1773-1822 [VOLUMES 9 AND 10] PERCY B. SHELLEY
HELEN VENDLER Helen Vendler, widely regarded as our most accomplished interpreter of poetry, here serves as an incomparable guide to some of the best-loved poems in the English language. In detailed commentaries on Shakespeare's 154 sonnets, Vendler reveals previously unperceived imaginative and stylistic features of the poems, pointing out not only new levels of import in particular lines, but also the ways in which the four parts of each sonnet work together to enact emotion and create dynamic effect.
ANNE BRADSTREET
Volumes 1 and 2 JOHN KEATS EDITED BY HYDER EDWARD ROLLINS
Weimar Essays SIEGFRIE KRACAUER
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