Rigadoon

Rigadoon
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Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
Total Pages : 300
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ISBN-10 : 1564781623
ISBN-13 : 9781564781628
Rating : 4/5 (23 Downloads)

Synopsis Rigadoon by : Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Often comic and always angry, the first-person autobiographical narrator, with his wife and their cat in tow, takes the reader with him on his flight from Paris to Denmark after finding himself on the losing side of World War II. The train rides that encompass the novel are filled with madness and mercy, as Céline, a physician, aids refugees while ignoring his own medical needs.Céline's inventive style and black humor profoundly influenced many writers who came after him, including Kurt Vonnegut, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and Charles Bukowski. As Kurt Vonnegut states in his introduction to this edition, "[Céline] demonstrated that perhaps half of all experience, the animal half, had been concealed by good manners. No honest writer or speaker will ever want to be polite again."

A Dictionary of Musical Terms

A Dictionary of Musical Terms
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 470
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ISBN-10 : BL:A0026143464
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis A Dictionary of Musical Terms by : John Stainer

The Art of Dancing Explained by Reading and Figures

The Art of Dancing Explained by Reading and Figures
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 352
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105042660188
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Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Synopsis The Art of Dancing Explained by Reading and Figures by : Kellom Tomlinson

The title page indicates the book was completed in 1724. However, the cost of the thirty-five full-page plates precluded publication until 1735. In this treatise of two parts, Tomlinson (c. 1690-1753?) sets forth the principles of Baroque dance. Book one covers description of twenty nine steps; book two discusses the minuet, including four methods of performing the minuet step.

The Bee

The Bee
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 302
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ISBN-10 : HARVARD:32044009541459
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (59 Downloads)

Synopsis The Bee by : Oliver Goldsmith

Jean-Philippe Rameau

Jean-Philippe Rameau
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Publisher : Courier Corporation
Total Pages : 674
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0486262006
ISBN-13 : 9780486262000
Rating : 4/5 (06 Downloads)

Synopsis Jean-Philippe Rameau by : Cuthbert Girdlestone

Definitive, full-scale biography and critical study of great 18th-century composer. Rameau's life and times, influence on Gluck, acoustic and harmonic theories, other topics, plus full treatment of great operas and ballets. Over 300 musical examples.

Programs

Programs
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 1224
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ISBN-10 : NYPL:33433075603609
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Synopsis Programs by : Boston Symphony orchestra