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X-Ray Rock Art Of Australia And Southeast Asia, Paul Faulstich

Pitzer Faculty Publications and Research

Throughout the world, cultures have expressed social, economic, and religious concerns through art. As the oldest surviving artistic form, rock art illustrates mankind's continuing effort to understand his place in the material and immaterial worlds. The study of rock art can lend an important insight into prehistory, as it provides the earliest illustration of beliefs, technologies, and activities.

Book Review: "Radical Christianity: A Reading Of Recovery" By Christopher Rowland, Vincent L. Wimbush

CGU Faculty Publications and Research

Christopher Rowland, Lecturer in Divinity, Dean and Fellow of Jesus College, University of Cambridge, has written a fascinating and provocative book. Although drawing upon years of research on Christian origins, especially on apocalypticism in Judaism and early Christianity, this book goes far beyond antiquarian exegetical interests and questions. It is a most interesting attempt to determine the origins, then chart and account for major developments in the course of one type of Christian ethic and orientation-a type of "radical Christianity" rooted in apocalypticism.

Editorial, Issue 5, 1990, Alvin White

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

No abstract provided.

The Humanistic Aspects Of Mathematics And Their Importance, Philip J. Davis

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

No abstract provided.

Mathematics — A Significant Force In Our Culture, Harald M. Ness

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

No abstract provided.

What Has Mathematics Got To Do With Values?, Stephen Lerman

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

No abstract provided.

Mathematics And Ethics, Reuben Hersh

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

No abstract provided.

A Social View Of Mathematics: Iimplications For Mathematics Education, Stephen Lerman

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

No abstract provided.

Tempo In Mahler As Recollected By Natalie Bauer-Lechner, Nancy M. Raabe

Performance Practice Review

"There is no standard concert hall repertoire in which lack of sensitivity to tempo and Expression marks is more damaging than Mahler's symphonies. Their coherence lies in a series of tonal relationships emphasized by thematic connections, and tempo provides the medium through which these connections are made. Drawing on the writings of Mahler's friend Natalie Bauer-Lechner, the importance of tempo in Mahler's works is illustrated by the composer's own words."

Table Of Contents

Performance Practice Review

Front matter and Table of Contents from the Spring 1990 (3/1) issue of Performance Practice Review.

"'Musica Ficta': Theories Of Accidental Inflections In Vocal Polyphony From Marchetto De Padova To Gioseffo Zarlino" By Karol Berger, Don Harrán

Performance Practice Review

Harran discusses and reviews Berger's 1987 book.

"The Florentine Camerata: Documentary Studies And Translations." By Claude V. Palisca, Hugh Wiley Hitchcock

Performance Practice Review

Hitchcock discusses and reviews Palisca's 1989 book.

Questions Concerning The Edition Of The 'Goldberg Variations' In The Neue Bach Ausgabe, Erich Schwandt

Performance Practice Review

The edition of BWV 988 has a number of serious errors that make it unsuitable for performance or study. The editor, Christoph Wolff, has introduced arbitrary readings, redistributed articulation marks, and misread ornaments. The editors of the Neue Bach Ausgabe ought to consider withdrawing the edition. (Rabin, Ronald J.)

"J. S. Bach As Organist: His Instruments, Music And Performance Practices" George Stauffer And Ernest May, Eds., Kimberly Marshall

Performance Practice Review

Marshall discusses and reviews Stauffer and May's 1986 book.

"Performance Practices In Classic Piano Music" By Sandra P. Rosenblum, A. Peter Brown

Performance Practice Review

Brown discusses and reviews Rosenblum's 1988 book.

"Bel Canto: The Teaching Of The Classical Italian Song-Schools, Its Decline And Restoration" By Lucie Manén, Philip Lieson Miller

Performance Practice Review

Miller discusses and reviews Manén's 1987 book.

"'Historical Performance': The Journal Of Early Music America" Paul C. Echols, Ed., George Houle

Performance Practice Review

Houle discusses and reviews the periodical published by Early Music America.

"Clavichord Music Of Johann Kuhnau And C. P. E. Bach" Joan Benson, Clavichordist., E. Eugene Helm

Performance Practice Review

Helm discusses and reviews Benson' 1987 recording.

Contributors/End Matter

Performance Practice Review

List of contributors to the Spring 1990 (3/1) issue of Performance Practice Review.

Front Matter/Table Of Contents

Performance Practice Review

Cover, Table of Contents, and Copyright Information.

Performance Practice: A Manifestation Of Our Time?, Roland Jackson

Performance Practice Review

Contrasts the antihistorical, conceptualist attitude (treating the past as our conception of it) of certain performance critics with the historical, realist position (holding that a discoverable reality can be found in the past) of certain performance-practice exponents.

A Letter By The Composer About "Giovanni D'Arco" And Some Remarks On The Division Of Musical Direction In Verdi's Day, Martin Chusid

Performance Practice Review

A relatively long letter from Giuseppe Verdi to the Florentine vocal director Pietro Romani, reproduced here, indicates the tempos for individual numbers of his opera Giovanna d'Arco. Verdi had a general preference for quicker tempos. The letter also provides valuable evidence for the different roles of the vocal director (Maestro di cappella, Maestro al cembalo, Maestro della musica, Maestro delle opere, or Maestro concertatore) and concertmaster, who served as the orchestra's leader, suggesting an account of the evolution of divided direction of Italian opera into the modern situation of direction by a single conductor.

Villanescas Of The Virtuosi: Lasso And The Commedia Dell'arte, Martha Farahat

Performance Practice Review

"Little is known about the music of the 16th- and 17th-c. Commedia dell'arte due to the improvisatory nature of the genre. The most detailed account of a commedia performance is in the composer Massimo Troiano's Discorsi... describing the festivities on the occasion of the wedding of Wilhelm V, Duke of Bavaria and Renee of Lorraine (1568). This account only mentions a few musical pieces: the music between acts and one internal song by Roland de Lassus, the kapellmeister. It is possible that Troiano did not mention all the music; close scrutiny of Lassus's 1581 Libri di villanelle... reveals that some …

Communications, George Houle, Alexander Silbiger

Performance Practice Review

Various communications concerning previous topics covered in Performance Practice Review

Announcements/Contributors

Performance Practice Review

Describes current events such as conferences and musicological projects relating to performance practice.

Lists of contributors from the Fall 1990 (3/2) of Performance Practice review.

"Ornamentation And Improvisation In Mozart." By Frederick Neumann., Malcolm S. Cole

Performance Practice Review

Reviews and critiques Neumann's 1986 book.

Performance Practice Bibliography (1989)

Performance Practice Review

Ongoing bibliography of recent articles and books pertaining to performance practice.

Women Writers Of The French-Speaking Caribbean: An Overview, Marie-Denise Shelton

CMC Faculty Publications and Research

The concept of Caribbean literature is relatively recent, validated by the growing awareness in the Caribbean of a common historical, cultural, and geopolitical experience that transcends national diversity. To state that there is a Caribbean literature is to recognize the existence of a certain relationship with language and the world which constitutes what some have called the Caribbean discourse.

The Rise Of Urban Texas, Char Miller, David R. Johnson

Pomona Faculty Publications and Research

Texas contains three of the nation's ten largest cities, but their existence has not yet affected the hold that the state's rural heritage has on Texas' imagination--or so Texans' attachment to two nineteenth-century cultural landmarks, the Alamo and the Chisholm Trail, would suggest. As the shrine of Texas liberty, the Alamo continually generates elegies to the manly courage and bravery of the fallen heroes of 1836.

The Lamanite View Of Book Of Mormon History, Richard Bushman

CGU Faculty Publications and Research

History is one of the spoils of war. In great conflicts, the victors almost always write the history; the losers' story is forgotten. We remember the patriots' version of the American Revolution, not the loyalists'; the Northern account of the Civil War, not the Southern story of the War between the States. Ordinarily the winners' account of event commands our memories as completely as their armies controlled the battlefield. The reverse is true of the Book of Mormon. The Lamanites vanquished the Nephites and survived; yet by virtue of a record that went into the earth with them, the Nephites' …