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Hal Leonard Corporation Reflections: The Piano Music of Maurice Ravel
The piano music of Maurice Ravel is among the most thrilling the most colorful and for pianists the most challenging of the repertoire. This book is about how performers and listeners can discover it and relate to it ä how it sounds and feels under the fingers and within the receptive imagination. But to write about those experiences to explore the background influences and impulses behind Ravel's music is to be engaged in a form of biography. Discovering the delicate melancholy of the ÊPavaneÊ and the ÊSonatineÊ the astounding virtuosity of ÊGaspard de la nuitÊ and the exotic tone painting of ÊMiroirs (Reflections)Ê leads to the question Who was the extraordinary person who created this? ÞHere are indispensable insights into the literary origins of ÊGaspard de la nuitÊ the derivation of the water imagery in ÊJeux d'eauÊ and the sensuous delights of ÊMiroirsÊ. The chapter on ÊValses nobles et sentimentalesÊ illuminates Ravel's meticulously controlled sense of irony. ÊLe tombeau de CouperinÊ is related to the impact of the First World War on his psyche and to the refuge he sought in the civilizing values of the age of Watteau and Couperin. Intimate and perceptive ÊReflectionsÊ is inescapably about the life of Maurice Ravel ä reflections by way of the piano music on an exceptionally private but immensely attractive man.
£31.98
Academic Studies Press Strange Journey: John R. Friedeberg Seeley and the Quest for Mental Health
This biographical history follows the iconoclastic career of John R. Friedeberg Seeley, pre-eminent “Pop Sociologist” and Mental Health Activist of the 1950s. Seeley’s "strange journey" began as a British Home Child, estranged from his cosmopolitan German-Jewish family. Seeley progressed through the ranks of the Canadian Army Medical Corps, and the University of Chicago, to achieve prominence as the author of Crestwood Heights, a defining work of postwar social science. He led an ambitious mental health project in Canadian schools, and was a founding father of York University. However, Seeley’s struggle with mental illness and Jewish identity brought him into conflict with the Canadian establishment. His career ended in academic exile, but his dream of a mental health revolution still resonates.
£21.59
Oxford University Press Roberts & Zuckerman's Criminal Evidence
Roberts and Zuckerman's Criminal Evidence is the eagerly-anticipated third of edition of the market-leading text on criminal evidence, fully revised to take account of developments in legislation, case-law, policy debates, and academic commentary during the decade since the previous edition was published. With an explicit focus on the rules and principles of criminal trial procedure, Roberts and Zuckerman's Criminal Evidence develops a coherent account of evidence law which is doctrinally detailed, securely grounded in a normative theoretical framework, and sensitive to the institutional and socio-legal factors shaping criminal litigation in practice. The book is designed to be accessible to the beginner, informative to the criminal court judge or legal practitioner, and thought-provoking to the advanced student and scholar: a textbook and monograph rolled into one. The book also provides an ideal disciplinary map and work of reference to introduce non-lawyers (including forensic scientists and other expert witnesses) to the foundational assumptions and technical intricacies of criminal trial procedure in England and Wales, and will be an invaluable resource for courts, lawyers and scholars in other jurisdictions seeking comparative insight and understanding of evidentiary regulation in the common law tradition.
£61.00