Geoffrey Poole: an introductory note on his music

Tempo ◽  
1983 ◽  
pp. 12-19
Author(s):  
Andrew Burn
Keyword(s):  
Personal Style ◽  
Major Work ◽  
Introductory Note

Like his contemporaries Nigel Osborne and John Casken, Geoffrey Poole (born 1949) is among the most promising voices of his generation. Yet he is not so well known as either of them—despite commissions from the BBC, Hallé, and Kings' Singers, the recording of a major work, many broadcasts, and his winning the Clements Prize and a Radcliffe Award. Possibly this situation arose because Poole didn't gain a publishing contract early in his career, but that has had its advantages since it allowed him the opportunity to develop his personal style away from the limelight.

CHARLES SHADLE (b. 1960)The Hills of Dawn (2012)

2021 ◽  
pp. 206-209
Author(s):  
Jane Manning
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Personal Style ◽  
Short Cycle ◽  
Standard Notation ◽  
Introductory Note ◽  
American Poet ◽  
American Composer ◽  
Romantic Music ◽  
Opening And Closing

This chapter focuses on American composer Charles Shadle’s The Hills of Dawn (2012). This beautifully-written short cycle ought to be snapped up eagerly by young artists in particular. It is a perfect length for a recital. The range is tailored to accommodate a light voice, and occasional deep notes do not require powerful projection. Shadle successfully blends elements of English and American post-Romantic music, with an occasional nudge towards Hindemithian neoclassicism, to forge a thoroughly fresh and engaging personal style. The music flows spontaneously and motivic connections between the songs create a feeling of unity, with the piano’s introductions and postludes helping to establish mood and character. Three short middle movements are framed by more substantial opening and closing songs. Standard notation is employed, without key signatures. In an introductory note, the composer reveals a deep, personal affinity with the texts, which he sets with care and sensitivity. The five chosen poems by Native American poet Alexander Lawrence Posey are assembled ‘to suggest the passage from dawn to dusk on a mid-summer’s day’.

Personal Style of the Guatemalan Therapist

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beatriz E. Cadena ◽  
Ana Vides ◽  
Maria del Pilar Grazioso
Keyword(s):  
Personal Style

Personal Style Indicator

1979 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terry D. Anderson ◽  
Everett T. Robinson ◽  
Ken Keis
Keyword(s):  
Personal Style

Ken Russell's Wartime Imagery

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 539-555 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin M. Flanagan
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
War Films ◽  
Personal Style ◽  
American Cinema ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Second World ◽  
Wartime Experience ◽  
National Experience

This article traces Ken Russell's explorations of war and wartime experience over the course of his career. In particular, it argues that Russell's scattered attempts at coming to terms with war, the rise of fascism and memorialisation are best understood in terms of a combination of Russell's own tastes and personal style, wider stylistic and thematic trends in Euro-American cinema during the 1960s and 1970s, and discourses of collective national experience. In addition to identifying Russell's recurrent techniques, this article focuses on how the residual impacts of the First and Second World Wars appear in his favoured genres: literary adaptations and composer biopics. Although the article looks for patterns and similarities in Russell's war output, it differentiates between his First and Second World War films by indicating how he engages with, and temporarily inhabits, the stylistic regime of the enemy within the latter group.

Thomas More et l’ouverture humaniste

Moreana ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 51 (Number 195- (1-2) ◽  
pp. 186-209
Author(s):  
Marie-Claire Phélippeau
Keyword(s):  
General Introduction ◽  
Thomas More ◽  
Major Work ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Fiction Writer

This article is to be understood as a general introduction to Thomas More, the humanist. Confronted with the new ideas coming from the rest of Europe, More is influenced by the rediscovery of Greek texts. With his humanist friends, William Lily and Erasmus, he becomes a translator, a poet, a polemicist and a fiction writer. The article starts by defining the terms Renaissance and Humanism, laying the stress of the secularization of thought, and continues by recalling Thomas More’s action against the rigidity of Oxford University in the battle about Greek. The humanist’s portrait then continues with the evocation of More’s qualities as a pedagogue, a poet and a dialogue writer to finish with More’s role as a reformer and an Epicurean in his major work Utopia. The conclusion insists on the re-affirmation of man in the Renaissance world.

Roshdi Rashed

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 279-295
Author(s):  
Mohammed Aref
Keyword(s):  
Review Essay ◽  
Great Book ◽  
Mathematical Language ◽  
Single Word ◽  
Major Work ◽  
Galileo Galilei ◽  
Elementary Knowledge ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Universe

This review essay introduces the work of the Egyptian scientific historian and philosopher Roshdi Rashed, a pioneer in the field of the history of Arab sciences. The article is based on the five volumes he originally wrote in French and later translated into Arabic, which were published by the Centre for Arab Unity Studies and which are now widely acclaimed as a unique effort to unveil the achievements of Arab scientists. The essay reviews this major work, which seems, like Plato’s Republic to have “No Entry for Those Who Have No Knowledge of Mathematics” written on its gate. If you force your way in, even with elementary knowledge of computation, a philosophy will unfold before your eyes, described by the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei as “written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes—I mean the universe—but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written. This book is written in the mathematical language, and the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it; without which one wanders in vain through a dark labyrinth.” The essay is a journey through this labyrinth where the history of world mathematics got lost and was chronicled by Rashed in five volumes translated from the French into Arabic. It took him fifteen years to complete.

Jessica Jung: three decades of the modern-classic aesthetic sequencing

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adib Rifqi Setiawan
Keyword(s):  
Social Influence ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Personal Style

This article examines what it has been and continues to be like for Jessica Jung to be multi-faceted artist-businesswoman in the industry of entertainment. It explores the powerful of female's personal style in developing a form of social influence and address the positive and negative consequences that may follow.

MYTH IN SAM SHEPARD’S “THE GOD OF HELL” AND ITS POLITICAL IMPLICATION

2019 ◽  
pp. 32-38
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
American Culture ◽  
The Political ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Political Implication ◽  
Major Work ◽  
Sam Shepard ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Political Myth ◽  
The World

The article introduces the creative work of the famous American playwright Sam Shepard, whose works are almost unknown to our Uzbek reader. His plays are well known throughout the world; they influenced the formation of the worldview of readers of different nations and show the peculiarities of American culture. Despite the worldwide fame of Sam Shepard’s works, they are not studied well by literary critics. In America and Europe his works have been studied in details for a long period, and even several monographs in English have been written. However, neither in the Russian speaking, nor in the domestic literary criticism there is yet no major work on Shepard's works. The article also deals with the artistic features of the political myth of the “American dream” in one of the most scandalous plays, “The God of Hell,” dedicated to the protest against the war in Iraq. Thus, this study, which touches upon some issues of Shepard's creative work in connection with his innovative artistic originality, to a certain extent, seeks to fill this gap.

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