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In 'Beethoven's Century: Essays on Composers and Themes', world-renowned musicologist Hugh Macdonald draws together many of his richest essays on music from Beethoven's time into the early twentieth century. The essays are here revised and updated, and some are printed in English for the first time. 'Beethoven's Century' addresses perennial questions of what music meant to the composer and his audiences, how it was intended to be played, and how today's audiences can usefully approach it. Opening with a revealing analysis of Beethoven's not always generous regard for his listeners, the essays probe aspects of Schubert's musical personality, the brief friendship between Berlioz and Schumann, Liszt's abilities as a conductor, and Viennese views of Wagner as expressed by Hugo Wolf. Essays on comic opera and trends in French opera librettos in the late nineteenth century reflect the author's long-standing sympathy for French music, and strikingly eccentric personalities in the world of music, such as Paganini, Alkan, Skryabin, and Janácek, are brought to life. 'Beethoven's Century' concludes with a wry look at some startling developments in early twentieth-century music that have often been overlooked. Hugh Macdonald has taught music at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford, and Glasgow, and since 1987 has been Avis H. Blewett Distinguished Professor of Music at Washington University, St. Louis. He has written books on Skryabin and Berlioz, and is a regular pre-concert speaker for the Boston and St. Louis Symphony Orchestras.

Music --- Musique --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Alkan. --- Beethoven. --- Berlioz. --- French opera. --- Hugo Wolf. --- Janácek. --- Liszt. --- Paganini. --- Schubert. --- Schumann. --- Scriabin. --- Skryabin. --- Viennese views. --- Wagner. --- analysis. --- audience. --- comic opera. --- composer. --- conductor. --- development. --- early twentieth century. --- early twentieth-century music. --- eccentric personalities. --- friendship. --- libretti. --- music. --- musical personality. --- play. --- trends.

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The demand for equality has been at the heart of the politics of the Left in the twentieth century, but what did theorists and politicians on the British Left mean when they said they were committed to 'equality'? How did they argue for a more egalitarian society? Which policies did they think could best advance their egalitarian ideals? Equality and the British Left provides the first comprehensive answers to these questions. It charts debates about equality from the progressive liberalism and socialism of the early twentieth century to the arrival of the New Left and revisionist social democ.

Equality --- Socialism --- Liberalism --- Right and left (Political science) --- Left (Political science) --- Left and right (Political science) --- Right (Political science) --- Political science --- Egalitarianism --- Inequality --- Social equality --- Social inequality --- Sociology --- Democracy --- Liberty --- History --- Great Britain --- Economic policy --- Social policy. --- British Left. --- L. T. Hobhouse. --- New Left. --- early twentieth century. --- economic egalitarianism. --- egalitarian society. --- equality. --- progressive liberalism. --- revisionist social democracy. --- socialism.

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This first miscellany volume to be published by the Church of England Record Society contains eight edited texts covering aspects of the history of the Church from the Reformation to the early twentieth century. The longest contribution is a scholarly edition of W.J. Conybeare's famous and influential article on nineteenth-century "Church Parties"; other documents included are the protests against Archbishop Cranmer's metropolitical powers of visitation, the petitions to the Long Parliament in support of the Prayer Book, and Randall Davidson's memoir on the role of the archbishop of Canterbury in the early twentieth century. Stephen Taylor is Professor in the History of Early Modern England, University of Durham. Contributors: PAUL AYRIS, MELANIE BARBER, ARTHUR BURNS, JUDITH MALTBY, ANTHONY MILTON, ANDREW ROBINSON, STEPHEN TAYLOR, BRETT USHER, ALEXANDRA WALSHAM

283 --- Anglikaanse Kerk. American Episcopal Church --- Church of England --- Anglican Church --- Anglikanskai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ --- Ecclesia Anglicana --- Kirche von England --- United Church of England and Ireland --- History --- England --- Angleterre --- Anglii︠a︡ --- Inghilterra --- Engeland --- Inglaterra --- Anglija --- England and Wales --- Church history --- HISTORY / Europe / General. --- Archbishop Cranmer. --- Church Parties. --- Church of England. --- Early twentieth century. --- History. --- Long Parliament. --- Prayer Book. --- Randall Davidson. --- Reformation.

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"American Crusade analyzes the attitudes of Christian communities in the United States toward the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, and World War I"--

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Prolific and personable, innovative and contentious, Cyril Scott (1879-1970) was considered to be one of the most promising young talents in modern British music at the turn of the twentieth century. He was a member of the 'Frankfurt Group' (together with Percy Grainger, Norman O'Neill, Roger Quilter and Balfour Gardiner), his music was performed by some of the leading conductors of the time in Britain and on the Continent, and his friends included highly influential figures in European literature, art and politics. Apart from his music, Scott was the author of many books on alternative medicine, psychology, Occultism, Theosophy and comparative religion. He also wrote fiction, autobiography, and poetry. Scott embodied a unique time in a particularly unique way. His aesthetic ideas informed both his professional creative practice and his manner of living. He was not merely a composer, but an artist in the broadest possible sense of the term. This book provides the first comprehensive account of Scott's life and influences as well as an outline and contextualization of his aesthetic thinking. It traces his changing conception of the function of art and the role of the artist from his formative exposure to Symbolism through his friendship with the German poet Stefan George, to his exploration of Western and Eastern esoteric traditions, showing how the prevailing cross-pollination of ideas allowed him to develop a fully integrated rationale for his art and life. The story of Scott's development guides the reader through some of the most fascinating intellectual discourses of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century Europe. Sarah Collins' current research focuses on British music aesthetics and criticism in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. She has a particular interest in the interaction between turn-of-the-century conceptions of the function of criticism, theories of critical intuition and questions of moral philosophy. She lectured at the University of Queensland from 2006 and joined the faculty of Monash University in 2012.

Composers -- Europe -- Biography. --- Music -- Europe -- 19th century -- History and criticism. --- Music -- Europe -- 20th century -- History and criticism. --- Scott, Cyril, 1879-1970. --- Music --- Music, Dance, Drama & Film --- Composers --- Scott, Cyril, --- Scott, Cyril Meir, --- Skott, S. --- Skott, Siril Meĭr, --- Scott, S., --- Aesthetics. --- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Composers & Musicians. --- Aesthetic thinking. --- Art and life. --- British music. --- Comparative religion. --- Cyril Scott. --- Early-twentieth-century Europe. --- Frankfurt Group. --- Late-nineteenth-century Europe. --- Occultism. --- Percy Grainger. --- Stefan George. --- Symbolism. --- Theosophy. --- Western and Eastern esoteric traditions.