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The No-Regrets Guide to Retirement
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 199

The No-Regrets Guide to Retirement

Learn to take control of your finances and your retirement with this one-stop Australian financial planning bible Have you ever wondered if you have enough money to make it through retirement? The No-Regrets Retirement Guide: How to Live Well, Invest Wisely and Make Your Money Last provides readers with a definitive answer to that question, as well as many others you may have always wanted to ask. Qualified financial planner and author Patricia Howard offers no-nonsense guidance on what it takes to get you to, and through, retirement. You’ll learn how to: Develop a positive and productive mindset as you enter retirement Take control of your finances, regardless of how much money you make or have Learn how to live on invested income rather than earned income Understand and learn to avoid the biggest pitfalls people commonly encounter as they approach retirement Perfect for people entering or already in retirement, The No-Regrets Retirement Guide also belongs on the bookshelves of anyone interested in ensuring they are in a financial position to enjoy their golden years.

Nervous Reactions
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 297

Nervous Reactions

Nervous Reactions considers Victorian responses to Romanticism, particularly the way in which the Romantic period was frequently constructed in Victorian-era texts as a time of nervous or excitable authors (and readers) at odds with Victorian values of self-restraint, moderation, and stolidity. Represented in various ways—as a threat to social order, as a desirable freedom of feeling, as a pathological weakness that must be cured—this nervousness, both about and of the Romantics, is an important though as yet unaddressed concern in Victorian responses to Romantic texts. By attending to this nervousness, the essays in this volume offer a new consideration not only of the relationship betw...

Where Do We Live
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 68

Where Do We Live

THE STORY: In the summer of 2001 in New York City, two young men from the same apartment building find their lives intersecting, as each struggles to make sense of a changing world.

Bohème
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 222

Bohème

This guide presents a unique collection of critical, analytical and documentary essays on Puccini's most popular opera. It includes new studies on the background to Parisian bohemianism, Puccini's musical language, and the opera's stage history as well as the genesis of the opera, the structure of the libretto, and aspects of the work's reception.

Gluck
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 512

Gluck

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-07-05
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This volume presents a collection of essays by leading Gluck scholars which highlight the best of recent and classic contributions to Gluck scholarship, many of which are now difficult to access. Tracing Gluck‘s life, career and legacy, the essays offer a variety of approaches to the major issues and controversies surrounding the composer and his works and range from the degree to which reform elements are apparent in his early operas to his contribution to changing perceptions of Hellenism. The introduction identifies the major topics investigated and highlights the innovatory nature of many of the approaches, particularly those which address perceptions of the composer in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This volume, which focuses on one of the most fascinating and influential composers of his era, provides an indispensable resource for academics, scholars and libraries.

Words Unspoken
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 294

Words Unspoken

Bestselling Author Daniel L. Walker debuts his first mystery- suspense novel, which was inspired by 2 poems” Words Unspoken” and “Concerned Feelings” he wrote for his bestselling novel God’s Rain: Poetry of Love, Life, and Family in 2013. Over a span of 20 years the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania has lived in fear because their loved ones are being kidnapped and murdered. Detective Michael Cruise is trying his best to bring the killer or killers to justice, but he is out of proper resources to be successful. All the evidence is pointing toward Brent Carter, but he has avoided detection because of his wealthy family. Telsa Johnson does something that has never been done before, escape from Brent Carter. It’s only a matter of time before everything that was a secret will finally be exposed.

The Modern Castrato
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 265

The Modern Castrato

The Modern Castrato: Gaetano Guadagni and the Coming of a New Operatic Age chronicles the career of the most significant castrato of the second half of the eighteenth-century. Guadagni may have been the only singer of the time fully able to understand the demands and opportunities of this reform, as well to possess the intelligence and self-knowledge to realize that it suited his skills, limitations and temperament perfectly--making him the first castrato to embrace the concepts of modern singing.

Cherubino's Leap
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 241

Cherubino's Leap

Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Preliminaries -- 1. The Chromatic Moment in Enlightenment Thought -- Moments Musicaux -- 2. The Fugal Moment: On a Few Bars in Mozart's Quintet in C Major, K. 515 -- 3. Hearing the Silence: On a Much-Theorized Moment in a Sonata by Emanuel Bach -- The Klopstock Moment -- 4. Oden von Klopstock in Musik gesetzt ... -- 5. Composing Klopstock: Gluck contra Bach -- 6. Beethoven: In Search of Klopstock -- Dramma per Musica -- 7. Anagnorisis: Gluck and the Theater of Recognition -- 8. Cherubino's Leap -- 9. Konstanze's Tears -- Works Cited -- Index

The Triumph of Pleasure
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 332

The Triumph of Pleasure

With a particular focus on the court ballet, comedy-ballet, opera, and opera-ballet, Georgia J. Cowart tells the long-neglected story of how the festive arts deployed an intricate network of subversive satire to undermine the rhetoric of sovereign authority.

A History of Opera
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 432

A History of Opera

A comprehensive history of opera that traces each milestone in opera history from the 16th century Camerata through the next 400 years, and featurrd in depth analysis of all important genres: the Baroque, Classical, and Romantic eras, Bel Canto, Opera Buffa, German Romanticism, Wagner and music drama, Verismo, Impressionism, Expressionism, Serialism, and much more.