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Brian Ferneyhouh est l'une des personnalités les plus importantes et les plus fascinantes de la musique actuelle ; c'est aussi l'une des plus difficiles à cerner. Ses œuvres, qui furent révélées vers la fin des années soixante, ne renoncent ni à une expressivité que l'on pourrait presque qualifier de romantique, ni à la complexité d'une élaboration rigoureuse. Elles se situent au-delà des problématiques des années cinquante et soixante, que Ferneyhough a su parfaitement intégrer, tout en s'opposant radicalement aux tendances restauratrices des années soixante-dix. Dans ce volume, Brian Ferneyhough retrace sa propre évolution, commentant chacune de ses œuvres, et s'explique sur leur signification profonde, notamment sur leurs déterminations et leurs implications extra-musicales ; il parle de sa manière de travailler, de la fonction de sa notation, du rôle des interprètes... et il analyse deux de ses œuvres. Différents auteurs posent sur sa musique un regard critique, musicographique, philosophique, ou analytique. Brian Ferneyhough est né à Coventry en 1943. Il y a fait ses études de musique, puis a suivi les cours de composition de Lennox Berkeley à Londres (1964-1967), Ton de Leeuw à Amsterdam (1 968-1 969) et Klaus Huber à Baie (1969). Il a enseigné la composition à Freiburg-im-Breisgau de 1 973 à 1986, ainsi qu'à Darmstadt (cours d'été depuis 1976) et Milan (depuis 1984) ; il a fait de nombreuses lectures, notamment à Helsinki, Glasgow, Arezzo et Dartington. Il travaille aujourd'hui à San Diego en Californie. Parmi ses oeuvres les plus importantes, on compte trois Quatuors à cordes, Transit, le cycle des Carceri d'invenzione, la pièce d'orchestre La Terre est un Homme, et la série des Time and Motion Studies.

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Comme toutes les provinces, l'Anjou a eu ses historiens. Natifs ou venus s'y installer, ils ont retracé l'histoire de cette région, de ses princes, de ses élus, de ses habitants. Cette histoire, ils l'ont écrite avec les méthodes, les objectifs, parfois les préjugés et les passions de leur temps. Les quinze chapitres de cet ouvrage collectif font découvrir les historiens angevins du Moyen Âge à la fin du XXe siècle, parfois peu connus ou oubliés, et mettent en évidence les relations entre l'évolution générale des méthodes de l'histoire et les artisans locaux de cette science en construction et en renouvellement. Si un certain esprit de clocher se manifeste jusqu'au XIXe siècle, les auteurs angevins n'ont cependant jamais mis leur science au service d'un patriotisme local revendicatif. Le goût pour l'histoire des habitants de cette région se combine avec un attachement au patrimoine monumental pour construire un certain art de vivre attaché aux traditions. Ce livre permet de réfléchir au lien entre histoire provinciale ou départementale et histoire nationale. Exaltée au Moyen Âge, puis parfois dépréciée ou mise au service d'une histoire nationale en construction, l'histoire d'un espace provincial a été au XXe siècle le laboratoire d'un renouvellement de cette discipline, vers une histoire totale dont les sources ne peuvent être trouvées qu'au plus près du terrain, mais dont le cadre varie constamment du micro-local au mondial.

Historians --- Historiens --- Biography --- Biographies --- Anjou (France) --- History --- Histoire --- Anjou --- Anjou (France) - History --- historiographie --- historien --- histoire

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Jones, Barry Owen (1932– ). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. Educated at Melbourne University, he was a public servant, high school teacher, television and radio performer, university lecturer and lawyer before serving as a Labor MP in the Victorian Parliament 1972–77 and the Australian House of Representatives 1977–98. He took a leading role in reviving the Australian film industry, abolishing the death penalty in Australia, and was the first politician to raise public awareness of global warming, the ‘post-industrial’ society, the IT revolution, biotechnology, the rise of ‘the Third Age’ and the need to preserve Antarctica as a wilderness. In the Hawke Government, he was Minister for Science 1983–90, Prices and Consumer Affairs 1987, Small Business 1987–90 and Customs 1988–90. He became a member of the Executive Board of UNESCO, Paris 1991–95 and National President of the Australian Labor Party 1992–2000, 2005–06. He was Deputy Chairman of the Constitutional Convention 1998. His books include Decades of Decision 1860– (1965), Joseph II (1968), Age of Apocalypse (1975), and he edited The Penalty is Death (1968). Sleepers, Wake!: Technology and the Future of Work was published by Oxford University Press in 1982, became a bestseller and has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Swedish and braille. The fourth edition was published in 1995. Knowledge Courage Leadership, a collection of speeches and essays, appeared in 2016.

Biography --- Biographies --- History --- Life histories --- Memoirs --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Genealogy --- dictionary --- biography

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Dictionaries of national biography are a long-established and significant genre of biographical and historical writing, existing in many forms across the globe. This book brings together practitioners from around the English‑speaking world to reflect on national biographical dictionary projects’ recent cultural journeys, and the challenges presented to them by such developments as the transition to a digital environment, a new alertness to the need to represent diversity, and the rise of transnationalism. Exploring their paths forward, the chapters of this book collectively make a powerful argument for the continued value and importance of large‑scale collaborative biographical dictionary research.

Biography --- Biographies --- History --- Life histories --- Memoirs --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Genealogy --- Great Britain --- National biography --- dictionary

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Volume 19 of the Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB) contains concise biographies of individuals who died between 1991 and 1995. The first of two volumes for the 1990s, it presents a colourful montage of late twentieth-century Australian life, containing the biographies of significant and representative Australians. The volume is still in the shadow of World War II with servicemen and women who enlisted young appearing, but these influences are dimming and there are now increasing numbers of non-white, non-male, non-privileged and non-straight subjects. The 680 individuals recorded in volume 19 of the ADB include Wiradjuri midwife and Ngunnawal Elder Violet Bulger; Aboriginal rights activist, poet, playwright and artist Kevin Gilbert; and Torres Strait Islander community leader and land rights campaigner Eddie Mabo. HIV/AIDS child activists Tony Lovegrove and Eve Van Grafhorst have entries, as does conductor Stuart Challender, 'the first Australian celebrity to go public' about his HIV/AIDS condition in 1991. The arts are, as always, well-represented, including writers Frank Hardy, Mary Durack and Nene Gare, actors Frank Thring and Leonard Teale and arts patron Ian Potter. We are beginning to see the effects of the steep rise in postwar immigration flow through to the ADB. Artist Joseph Stanislaw Ostoja-Kotkowski was born in Poland. Pilar Moreno de Otaegui, co-founded the Spanish Club of Sydney. Chinese restaurateur and community leader Ming Poon (Dick) Low migrated to Victoria in 1953. Often we have a dearth of information about the domestic lives of our subjects; politician Olive Zakharov, however, bravely disclosed at the Victorian launch of the federal government’s campaign to Stop Violence Against Women in 1993 that she was a survivor of domestic violence in her second marriage. Take a dip into the many fascinating lives of the Australian Dictionary of Biography.

Biography: general --- Collected biographies --- Dictionaries of biography (Who's Who) --- history --- biography --- Dictionary --- Australian --- ADB