Caesars Commentarii de bello Gallico

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interviews and conversations with John C. Tibbetts

Schumann: A Chorus of Voices is a significant contribution to Schumann's 200th-birthday year, 2010. In these hitherto unpublished interviews and conversations, more than thirty biographers, musicians, critics, and commentators offer their own unique perspectives on Schumann's life, work, controversies, and place in the history of Romantic music. Gathered by Schumann scholar John C. Tibbetts during more than thirty years of travel and research, these intimate and informal talks take the reader "backstage" to the rehearsal hall, scholar's study, archive, and music festival. Included are musicians Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Erich Leinsdorf, Jörg Demus, Emanuel Ax, Elly Ameling, Thomas Hampson, Steven Isserlis, Marin Alsop; scholars and biographers Jacques Barzun, Nancy B. Reich, Peter Ostwald, Leon Plantinga, and Larry Todd; critics and commentators Martin Bookspan, Eugenia Zuckerman, and Maurice Sendak; and archivists Gerd Nauhaus, Ute Baer, and Joachim Draheim. The accompanying disc features Van Cliburn Gold Medalist Jose Feghali performing and discussing Schumann's Carnaval, Opus 9, and pianist Ronald Brautigam performing the complete Noveletten, Opus 21 [Publisher description].

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Yves Chartier

Poète, hagiographe, computiste, théoricien et compositeur, le moine Hucbald de Saint-Amand (v. 850-930) fut l'un des principaux représentants de la « Renaissance carolingienne ». Son oeuvre met en lumière un important chapitre de l'histoire de la théorie musicale occidentale : celle du solfège (avant le mot) et du premier essai connu d'écriture musicale sur lignes que l'on peut déchiffrer avec sûreté. Accompagnée de sa première traduction en langue française et d'un substantiel commentaire musicologique, cette édition critique de la Mvsica hucbaldienne complète l'édition de tous les grands traités latins de musique des IXe et Xe siècles. Le musicien trouvera également dans ce livre, transcrits en notation moderne d'après l'ensemble de la tradition manuscrite la plus fiable, les plus anciens exemples de trope, de séquence (prosule) et d'office liturgique (historia) dont l'auteur est connu avec certitude. L'auteur est professeur d'histoire de la musique à l'Université d'Ottawa. (Extrait de la 4e de couverture)

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Paula T. Connolly

Long seen by writers as a vital political force of the nation, children's literature has been an important means not only of mythologizing a certain racialized past but also, because of its intended audience, of promoting a specific racialized future. Stories about slavery for children have served as primers for racial socialization. This first comprehensive study of slavery in children's literature, Slavery in American Children's Literature, 1790-2010, also historicizes the ways generations of authors have drawn upon antebellum literature in their own re-creations of slavery.

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Jonathan H. Grossman

"In The Art of Alibi, Jonathan H. Grossman reconstructs the relation of the novel to nineteenth-century law courts. During the Romantic era, courthouses and trial scenes frequently found their way into the plots of English novels. As Grossman states, "by the Victorian period, theses scenes represented a powerful intersection of narrative form with a complementary and competing structure for storytelling." He argues that the courts, newly fashioned as a site in which to orchestrate voices and reconstruct stories, arose as a cultural presence influencing the shape of the English novel.". "Weaving examinations of novels such as William Godwin's Caleb Williams, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and Charles Dicknens's The Pickwick Papers and Oliver Twist, along with a reading of the new Royal Courts of Justice, Grossman charts the exciting changes occurring within the novel, especially crime fiction, that preceded and led to the invention of the detective mystery in the 1840s."--BOOK JACKET.