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Grieving for an adulterous wife and fleeing debts, the Dutch tailor John Praester set off on a reckless voyage across the seas in 1664. He was never to return. Three short fragments are all that survives of a longer poem cataloguing this tragic expedition, supposedly written by Praester himself. Reproduced for the first time in a digital format, this edition includes an introduction and annotations from Professor Dale Cull. His expansive commentary helps to tease out some of the inherent obfuscations in the piece, providing an illuminating historical and personal context for this unique document. Presented by The Widsith Institute. Please visit www.blackcrownproject.com for more information.
The Saint-Simonians, whose movement flourished in France between 1825 and 1835, are widely recognized for their contributions to history and social thought. Until now, however, no full account has been made of the central role of the arts in their program. In this skillful interdisciplinary study, Ralph P. Locke describes and documents the Saint-Simonians' view of music as an ideological tool and the influence of this view on musical figures of the day. The disciples of Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon, believed that increased industrial production would play a crucial role in improving the condition of the working masses and in shifting power from the aristocratic "drones" to t...
A choral worship cantata for SATB with SST Soli composed by Felix Mendelssohn.