Modern music and after [[electronic resource] /] / Paul Griffiths

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910461304503321
• Autore: Griffiths Paul <1947 Nov. 24->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Oxford University Press, c2010
• ISBN: 1-283-12128-X; 9786613121288; 0-19-979228-3
• Edizione: [3rd ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (475 p.)
• Disciplina: 780.9/04
• Soggetti: Music - 20th century - History and criticism; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 425-439) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Prelude; 1945; 1956; 1965; 1975; 1989; 2001; Resources; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Over three decades, Paul Griffiths's survey has remained the definitive study of music since the Second World War; this fully revised and updated edition re-establishes Modern Music and After as the preeminent introduction to the music of our time. The disruptions of the war, and the struggles of the ensuing peace, were reflected in the music of the time: in Pierre Boulez's radical reformation of compositional technique and in John Cage's development of zen music; in Milton Babbitt's settling of the serial system and in Dmitry Shostakovich's unsettling symphonies; in Karlheinz Stockhausen's de

A symposion of praise [[electronic resource] ] : Horace returns to lyric in Odes IV / / Timothy S. Johnson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910452323803321
• Autore: Johnson Timothy S
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Madison, Wisc., : University of Wisconsin Press, c2004
• ISBN: 1-282-26971-2; 9786612269714; 0-299-20743-9
• Descrizione fisica: xxi, 320 p
• Collana: Wisconsin studies in classics
• Disciplina: 874/.01
• Soggetti: Laudatory poetry, Latin - History and criticism; Lyric poetry - History and criticism; Odes, Latin - History and criticism; Praise in literature; Electronic books.; Rome In literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-300) and indexes.

The world's beaches [[electronic resource] /] / Orrin H. Pilkey ... [et al.]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910456711803321
• Autore: Pilkey Orrin H. <1934->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010
• ISBN: 1-283-27801-4; 9786613278012; 0-520-94894-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (301 p.)
• Disciplina: 551.45/7
• Soggetti: Beaches; Seashore; Coasts; Coast changes; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "A global guide to the science of the shoreline."--subtitle from cover.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. The global character of beaches -- pt. 2. How to read a beach -- pt. 3. The global threat to beaches.
• Sommario/riassunto: Take this book to the beach; it will open up a whole new world. Illustrated throughout with color photographs, maps, and graphics, it explores one of the planet's most dynamic environments-from tourist beaches to Arctic beaches strewn with ice chunks to steaming hot tropical shores. The World's Beaches tells how beaches work, explains why they vary so much, and shows how dramatic changes can occur on them in a matter of hours. It discusses tides, waves, and wind; the patterns of dunes, washover fans, and wrack lines; and the shape of berms, bars, shell lags, cusps, ripples, and blisters. What is the world's longest beach? Why do some beaches sing when you walk on them? Why do some have dark rings on their surface and tiny holes scattered far and wide? This fascinating, comprehensive guide also considers the future of beaches, and explains how extensively people have affected them-from coastal engineering to pollution, oil spills, and rising sea levels.