Author: Frederick Neuma
Publisher: Princeton University Pre
Keywords: baroque, emphasis, bach, special, music, post, ornamentation
Number of Pages: 648
Published: 1983-12-01
List price: $94.00
ISBN-10: 0691027072
ISBN-13: 9780691027074
Author: Neal Stephenso
Publisher: HarperTorch
Keywords: cycle, baroque, quicksilver
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2006-02-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0060833165
ISBN-13: 9780060833169
In Quicksilver, the first volume of the "Baroque Cycle," Neal Stephenson launches his most ambitious work to date. The novel, divided into three books, opens in 1713 with the ageless Enoch Root seeking Daniel Waterhouse on the campus of what passes for MIT in eighteenth-century Massachusetts. Daniel, Enoch’s message conveys, is key to resolving an explosive scientific battle of preeminence between Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz over the development of calculus. As Daniel returns to London aboard the Minerva, readers are catapulted back half a century to recall his years at Ca
Author: Neal Stephenso
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: vol, cycle, baroque, quicksilver
Number of Pages: 960
Published: 2004-10-01
List price: $15.99
ISBN-10: 0060593083
ISBN-13: 9780060593087
In Quicksilver, the first volume of the "Baroque Cycle," Neal Stephenson launches his most ambitious work to date. The novel, divided into three books, opens in 1713 with the ageless Enoch Root seeking Daniel Waterhouse on the campus of what passes for MIT in eighteenth-century Massachusetts. Daniel, Enoch’s message conveys, is key to resolving an explosive scientific battle of preeminence between Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz over the development of calculus. As Daniel returns to London aboard the Minerva, readers are catapulted back half a century to recall his years at Ca
Author: Neal Stephenso
Publisher: William Morrow
Keywords: vol, cycle, baroque, quicksilver
Number of Pages: 944
Published: 2003-09-01
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0380977427
ISBN-13: 9780380977420
In Quicksilver, the first volume of the "Baroque Cycle," Neal Stephenson launches his most ambitious work to date. The novel, divided into three books, opens in 1713 with the ageless Enoch Root seeking Daniel Waterhouse on the campus of what passes for MIT in eighteenth-century Massachusetts. Daniel, Enoch’s message conveys, is key to resolving an explosive scientific battle of preeminence between Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz over the development of calculus. As Daniel returns to London aboard the Minerva, readers are catapulted back half a century to recall his years at Ca
Author: H. C. Robbins Lando
Publisher: University Of Chicago Pre
Keywords: baroque, voice, vivaldi
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1996-08-15
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0226468429
ISBN-13: 9780226468426
Vivaldi boasted that he could compose a concerto faster than a scribe could copy one. Despite his prolificacy, The Four Seasons, and the majority of his already published work had fallen into obscurity by the time of his death in poverty in 1741. Most of his music-concertos, sonatas, operas, and sacral music-has been published only recently.Very little has been written on Vivaldi for the nonspecialist, especially in English. Landon rediscovers the composer in this accessible and musically informed biography while presenting documentation of the musician’s life discovered after the Baroqu
Author: Mississippi Arts Pav
Publisher: UNSPECIFIED VENDOR
Keywords: dresden, baroque, glory
Published: 2004
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1122674775
ISBN-13: 9781122674775
Author: Neal Stephenso
Publisher: HarperTorch
Keywords: cycle, baroque, vagabonds, king
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2006-03-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0060833173
ISBN-13: 9780060833176
A chronicle of the breathtaking exploits of "Half-Cocked Jack" Shaftoe -- London street urchin-turned-legendary swashbuckling adventurer -- risking life and limb for fortune and love while slowly maddening from the pox. . . and Eliza, rescued by Jack from a Turkish harem to become spy, confidante, and pawn of royals in order to reinvent a contentious continent through the newborn power of finance.
