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Thomas Forrest Kelly
This is the first book about melismas, or long melodies sung to a single vowel. Using the evidence of medieval creative minds, Thomas Forrest Kelly uncovers the melisma as a…
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Thomas Forrest
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the…
Join Thomas Forrest on a daring adventure to the islands of New Guinea and the Moluccas in the late 18th century. This thrilling account of his voyage aboard the Tartar…
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A Voyage to New Guinea and the Moluccas, from Balambangan - Including an account of Magindano, Sooloo, and other islands. Performed in the Tartar Galley, belonging to the Honourable East…
In 1774, East India Company employee Thomas Forrest (c.1729-c.1802) embarked on a year-long voyage to explore the archipelago between Malaysia and New Guinea, in a small boat with a local…
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Professor Thomas Forrest Kelly
This text takes a look back at the debut performances of five famous musical compositions: Monteverdi’s Orfeo , Handel’s Messiah , Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony , Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique and Stravinsky’s…
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Identifies and collects the surviving sources of an important repertory of early medieval music; this is the so-called Beneventan Chant, used in southern Italy in the early middle ages, before…
How music functioned in the middle ages, what it meant to its hearers, and how it was performed: these are the subjects of this fascinating volume. The studies collected here…
From the High Middle Ages the dominance of Gregorian chant has obscured the fact that musical practice in early medieval Europe was far richer than has hitherto been recognized. Despite…
Plainchant is the music that underpins essentially all other music of the middle ages, and is the music that is most abundantly preserved. It is a subject that has engaged…
From at least the eighth century and for about a thousand years the repertory of music known as Georgian chant, or plainsong, formed the largest body of written music. But…
What was it like at the opening night of Mozart’s Don Giovanni or Wagner’s Das Rheingold ? This introduction to the world of opera takes us behind the scenes, during…
A you are there guide to masterpieces of Western music.
The writing down of music is one of the triumphant technologies of the West. Without writing, the performance of music involves some combination of memory and improvisation. This volume deals…
Thomas Forrest Kelly (Harvard University)
An entertaining history of how musicians learned to record music for all time, filled with art that sings.
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A beautifully illustrated, full colour history of scrolls and their uses in medieval life.
Forrest McDonald
Examines Jefferson’s performance as president, delineating the ideology and agrarian ideal underlying his decisions and actions and evaluating his abilities as policymaker, administrator, and diplomat.
Thomas Jordan
Title: The campaigns of Lieut.-Gen. N.B. Forrest: band of Forrest’s cavalry.
Author: Thomas Jordan
Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana
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Based on Joseph Sabin’s famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500–1926…
Victor Regnault,Thomas Forrest Betton
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either…
The only authoritative exploration of music in Western Europe during the medieval period for over a quarter-century, this volume is essential for students of the early history of music. Leading…
Thomas Jordan,J. Pryor
In June 1861, practically unschooled, without military training or experience, Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821–1877) enlisted in the Confederate Army as a private. Yet by the Civil War’s end he was…
Thomas Forrest Kelly (Professor of Music, Professor of Music, Harvard University)
A collection of studies of the Exultet rolls of southern Italy, covering the text, music and ceremonial uses of the objects, with a special focus on their manufacture and purpose…
Thomas Jordon,John P Pryor
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to…
Thomas Jordan,J P Pryor
The campaigns of Lieutenant general N. B. Forrest and of Forrest’s Cavalry is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1868. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on…
Thomas Franklin Berry
Professor of Music Thomas Forrest Kelly
From Gregorian chant to Bach’s Brandenburg Concerti, the music of the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods is both beautiful and intriguing, expanding our horizons as it nourishes our souls. In…
Thomas Jordan, Nathan Bedford Forrest
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the…
Brian Steel Wills
Nathan Bedford Forrest was a renowned cavalryman who fought during the American Civil War. This book presents an analysis of his life, from childhood in Mississippi, to wealth from the…
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