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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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In contrast to histories of twentieth century public health that focus exclusively on the local, national, or international levels, 'Shifting Boundaries' explores the connections or 'zones of contact' between the three levels. The interpretive essays, written by distinguished historians of public health and medicine, focus on four topics: the oscillation between governmental and non-governmental (public) agencies as sites of responsibility for addressing public health problems; the harmonization of nation states' agendas with those of international agencies; the development by public health experts of knowledge that is both placeless and respectful of place; and the transportability of model solutions across borders. The volume breaks new ground in its treatment of public health as a political endeavor by highlighting strategies to prevent or alleviate disease as a matter not simply of medical techniques, but of political values and commitments. Contributors: Peter Baldwin, Iris Borowy, James A. Gillespie, Graham Mooney, Lion Murard, Dorothy Porter, Sabine Schleiermacher, Susan Gross Solomon, Paul Weindling, and Patrick Zylberman. Susan Gross Solomon is professor of political science at the University of Toronto. Lion Murard and Patrick Zylberman are both senior researchers at CERMES (Centre de Recherche Médecine, Sciences, Santé et Société), CNRS-EHESS-INSERM, Paris.
History, 20th Century --- Public Health --- Public health --- Santé publique --- history --- History --- Histoire --- #SBIB:316.334.3M50 --- #SBIB:35H436 --- Organisatie van de gezondheidszorg: algemeen, beleid --- Beleidssectoren: welzijn, volksgezondheid en cultuur --- Santé publique --- Community health --- Health services --- Hygiene, Public --- Hygiene, Social --- Public health services --- Public hygiene --- Social hygiene --- Health --- Human services --- Biosecurity --- Health literacy --- Medicine, Preventive --- National health services --- Sanitation --- Europa --- Europe. --- Europe --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Northern Europe --- Southern Europe --- Western Europe --- Abendland --- Okzident --- Europäer --- Bacteriologist. --- Biomedical ideas. --- Biomedical research. --- Biomedical sciences. --- Charles Nicolle. --- Colonial medicine. --- Cross-national standardization. --- Early twentieth century. --- French history. --- French imperial ideology. --- International agencies. --- Kim Pelis. --- Local-level institutions. --- Medical history. --- Medicine history. --- Nation-states. --- National Institutes of Health. --- National boundaries. --- Original initiatives. --- Pasteur Institute of Tunis. --- Policymaking prerogatives. --- Public Health. --- Sociocultural context. --- Twentieth century.
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