Paradoxes of defence [[electronic resource] ] : wherein is proued the true grounds of fight to be in the short auncient weapons, and that the short sword hath aduantage of the long sword or long rapier. And the weakenesse and imperfection of the rapier-fights displayed. Together with an admonition to the noble, ancient, victorious, valiant, and most braue nation of Englishmen, to beware of false teachers of defence, and how they forsake their owne naturall fights: with a briefe commendation of the noble science or exercising of armes. By George Siluer Gentleman

• Record Nr.: UNISA996391387003316
• Autore: Silver George <fl. 1599.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, : Printed [by Richard Field] for Edvvard Blount, 1599
• Descrizione fisica: [12], 72 p., plate : ill. (woodcut)
• Soggetti: Fencing
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Printer's name from STC.; The first leaf is blank.; Running title reads: George Siluer his Paradoxes of defence.; The "plate" is a woodcut.; Reproduction of the original in the Folger Shakespeare Library.
• Sommario/riassunto: eebo-0055

Jewish Religious Music in Nineteenth-Century America : Restoring the Synagogue Soundtrack / / Judah M. Cohen

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910793494303321
• Autore: Cohen Judah M
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Bloomington, Indiana, : Indiana University Press, [2019]; Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2021; ©[2019]
• ISBN: 0-253-04023-X; 0-253-04024-8
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 309 pages) : music
• Disciplina: 781.76/0097309034
• Soggetti: Synagoge; Juden; Kirchenmusikpflege; Synagogue music; Jews - Music; Synagogue music - United States - 19th century - History and criticism; Jews - United States - Music - History and criticism; Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Electronic books.; United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Early strata : of choirs and reform through the mid-nineteenth century -- The sound of German Jewry : hymnals and singing societies in Wilhelm Fischer's zemirot -- Yisrael -- Bildungsmusik : G.M. Cohen, B'nai B'rith, and the voices of American Jewish cultivation -- Musical populists : G.S. Ensel, Simon Hecht, and the quest for the singing congregation -- The 1866 Sulzerfeier : the Viennese model and the grandeur of the urban worship -- A new cantor, a new repertoire : zimrath yah -- The path to the union hymnal -- Conclusion : restoring the soundtrack of Jewish life in nineteenth-century America.
• Sommario/riassunto: Jewish Music in Nineteenth Century America looks at key Jewish ; American musical figures and texts from the 19th century, demonstrating the significant influence central European traditions had during this period and complicating the notion that American Jewish musical traditions "progressed" from solo chant to canters and choirs.