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Companion to Baroque Music
The Companion to Baroque Music is an illuminating survey of musical life in Europe and the New World from 1600 to 1750. With informative essays on the social, national, geographical, and cultural contexts of the music and musicians of the period by such internationally known scholars as Peter Holman, Louise Stein, Michael Talbot, Julie Anne Sadie, Stanley Sadie, and David Fuller, the Companion offers a fresh perspective on the musical styles and performance practices of the Baroque era. The Companion to Baroque Music is an illuminating survey of musical life in Europe and the New World from 1600 to 1750. With informative essays on the social, national, geographical, and cultural contexts of the music and musicians of the period by such internationally known scholars as Peter Holman, Louise Stein, Michael Talbot, Julie Anne Sadie, Stanley Sadie, and David Fuller, the Companion offers a fresh perspective on the musical styles and performance practices of the Baroque era.
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A Theater of Diplomacy
The seventeenth-century French diplomat François de Callières once wrote that "an ambassador resembles in some way an actor exposed on the stage to the eyes of the public in order to play great roles." The comparison of the diplomat to an actor became commonplace as the practice of diplomacy took hold in early modern Europe. More than an abstract metaphor, it reflected the rich culture of spectacular entertainment that was a backdrop to emissaries' day-to-day lives. Royal courts routinely honored visiting diplomats or celebrated treaty negotiations by staging grandiose performances incorporating dance, music, theater, poetry, and pageantry. These entertainments—allegorical ballets, masqu...
Thermal Spray 2004
This proceedings volume representing the second International Thermal Spray Conference (May 2004, Osaka, Japan) contains 232 papers and 93 poster presentations. Arrangement is in sections on applications, characterization methods for coating properties, coating technologies for vehicle engines, cold spray, consumables for thermal spraying, corrosion protection, economics and quality, HVOF processes and materials, innovative equipment and process technology, modeling and simulation, nanostructured materials, photocatalytic materials, process diagnostics, protective coatings against wear and erosion, and thermal barrier coatings. No index is provided, but the included CD- ROM presumably contains the contents in a searchable format. Annotation :2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
From the Perspective of the Self
Brush's critical study of the Essays examines the complex process of writing a self-portrait, showing the ways in which it is an entirely different enterprise from writing autobiography. The author discusses how Montaigne revealed his "mind in motion," and the most remarkable feature of that mind, skepticism. He treats Montaigne's development of a conversational voice and explicates how Montaigne's intense self-examination became an evolutionary process which had consequences in his life and literature.
