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One of the most popular of all violin concerti, this baroque masterpiece of "program" music was composed as a musical illustration of four sonnets. Painstakingly researched by baroque authority Dr. Eleanor Selfridge-Field, this miniature score edition offers a modern, authoritative, and up-to-date edition that incorporates Vivaldi's Italian descriptive notes directly in the music.
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Very Colourful!.......2002-12-08
This book from the Metropolitan Museum of Art is so cute!
It took awhile to get to me but well worth the wait! Aside from the rich pictures of 18th century scenery and people, this book can also be used as a picture book for children.
With the sonnets for each season, the pictures lets your imagination go back in time. The 4 seasons are wonderful concerti and the pictures helped imagine the music on another level.
The only thing that was lacking was the CD that went with it. I did not find it to be the best recording, but good nonetheless.
th 4 seasons.......2000-03-29
This is truely a beautiful piece of music, is a pleasure to play
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Vivaldi boasted that he could compose a concerto faster than a scribe could copy one. Despite his prolificacy, The Four Seasons, and the majority of his already published work had fallen into obscurity by the time of his death in poverty in 1741. Most of his music-concertos, sonatas, operas, and sacral music-has been published only recently.
Very little has been written on Vivaldi for the nonspecialist, especially in English. Landon rediscovers the composer in this accessible and musically informed biography while presenting documentation of the musician's life discovered after the Baroque revival in the 1930s. This book includes illustrations of eighteenth-century Venice and several newly translated letters, thoroughly evoking the style of the time and revealing some of the more personal aspects of Vivaldi's life.
"Belongs on the shelf of every serious music student."—Kirkus
"Gives a good feel for Vivaldi's life and times . . . and describes particularly well how Vivaldi has been revived."—Booklist
"Robbins Landon is marvelously entertaining, extravagantly learned."—The Independent
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Viva Vivaldi!.......2005-02-01
There are not many biographies about Vivaldi because, unfortunately, only a scetch of his life is known. This biography is probably the best contemporary book on him. It is not only a good synopsis of his life but it also has very good insights on his life and music. Landon's insights are especially good when he comments on specific works of Vivaldi. Vivaldi is rightly known as a master concerto composor. However, his voluminous output also included other genre, notably many beautiful operas and sacred works. Landon does a fine job in his book of commenting on these works also and proposing that, epsecially the sacred works, need to be better appreciated and popularized. As a Vivaldi buff (and there are very few of us) I highly recommend this book.
A Baroque favourite!!.......2002-12-08
If you love baroque music and are a fan of Vivaldi you will enjoy this book! H.C. Robbins Landon has really shown alot of research in this book and gives you details about Vivaldi's work and place in society. When I read the book I was amazed at the documents and letters written by Vivaldi. The illustrations provided in this text gave me a clearer insight as to how things were like in 18th century Italy.
Also when I was read this book I now have more respect for Vivaldi's work. The amount of work he did when he was alive was amazing.(Basically, he was a workaholic!). I am glad that his works have not been neglected and are now preserved.
Bravo Landon for showing us that there is more to Vivaldi than just the 4 seasons!
A superb Vivaldi's biography.......2001-09-04
A superbly written and thoroughly researched book. I found the language superb.
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Vivaldi (Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers)
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Vivaldi: Voice of the Baroque
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This series of biographies presents the great composers against the background of their times. Each draws on personal letters and recollections, engravings, paintings and, when they exist, photographs, to present a complete picture of the composer's life.
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a man of mystery.......2000-01-13
Vivaldi's life and personality are fascinating, especially because there are so many mysteries unsolved. Even the author of this book, John Booth, is a mystery. Who is this person? It says on the cover that this is the first music-related book this man has written. Well, he has done a terrific job! :-)
Entertaining!.......1999-11-26
For Vivaldi lovers who don't like dry and scholastic biographies, this can be confidently recommended as the first book, or even the only book, to read about the composer. I enjoyed it from beginning to end. The author really tells the story of this fascinating composer in a very engaging way! Bravo!
In fact, I would recommend every biography in this series. Pictures and photos about the composer's life and times really give the readers a lot of atmospheres and extra feelings. It's far more enjoyable this way when one reads a biography!
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One of the most popular of all violin concerti, composed as musical illustrations of 4 sonnets. New, clean computer-generated score. Editorial Notes.
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Very Nice Score.......2001-02-01
This is a very good musical score of Vivaldi's Four Seasons and the rest of opus 8. My only disappointment was that the harpsichord (continuo) was not scored (which would have been extremely useful in 'Autumn' or 'Storm at Sea').
This score is great!!! My orchestra loved it!.......1999-09-03
This score is great!!! My orchestra loved it! I know you will too
The best available score of "The Four Seasons".......1997-04-14
This is no doubt the best music score Dover Publications (which generally publishes high quality reprints of older editions) has ever put out. Not only is the score of this set of Vivaldi's Op. 8 concertos--consisting of the "Four Seasons" and eight other works--freshly edited from a computer database version of the 1725 first edition by Dr. Eleanor Selfridge-Field, but it is beautifully typeset and contains ample "Critical Notes" and variant passages. And the price is an outright steal! Every lover of Vivaldi owes it to himself or herself to get this magnificent score
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These magnificent concertos are distinguished from all other ensemble music of their time by their emphasis on virtuosity, their rhythmic exuberance, flexible instrumentation, independent approaches to thematic development, and their genuine innovations in concerto form. Newly edited under the expert guidance of Dr. Eleanor Selfridge-Field, this work appears in full score.
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This book is great!.......2002-01-08
This is a great Vivaldi book. Most of the concertos have similar melodies, but have entirely different moods. There are so many concertos that it takes a long time to play them all. I believe it is a great buy and it has comments at the end of the book telling you how the pieces were obtained, etc.
A good score.......2001-01-31
While listening to music, I like to have a score with me. This book is quite complete and clear. Listening to the music and have my thought flowing with music. This book helps me to understnad the harmony of these melodies.
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This edition collects in one volume all four concertos that make up "The Four Seasons." The combined retail value of the component publications that make up this collection (50263030 - Spring, 50263040 - Summer, 50262990 - Fall, 50263000 - Winter), at $7.95 each, totals $31.80. This "Complete" edition is an extraordinary value.
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- full of errors
- Is not useful for improve your game
- Not useful for improve your game
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Probabilities & Alternatives in Bridge
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Antonio Vivaldi
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A good bridge player uses psychology and imagination as tools in the game but calculating odds and probabilities while at the table are equally important. Includes a reference guide for computing specific chances.
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full of errors.......2003-12-13
interesting mathematical idea with some instructive hands
but the calculations are full of errors and the numbers used are plain wrong - whole tables are missing in the probability section which is the main useful reference, though these are full of mistakes as well
in short the book is a waste of time
Is not useful for improve your game.......2003-11-21
This book is only a curiosity, maybe a mathematic who likes bridge can enjoy it but not the bridge players who want improve their score since they can not use the calculator machine in the table.....i dont recommend it
Not useful for improve your game.......2003-11-21
Is not useful for improve your game since can be interesting for some mathematics who likes bridge game is not useful for bridge player in live game, you can not use your calculator machine in the table!!!!!
Is a curiosity book, i dont recommend it for improve your level.
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Antonio Vivaldi: The Red Priest of Venice
Karl Heller
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Antonio Vivaldi's rediscovery after World War II quickly led him from obscurity to his present renown as one of the most popular 18th-century composers. Heller's biography presents the important facets of his life, his works, and his influence on music history.
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Vivaldi's finest compositions for flute solo and string orchestra. Op. 10: Concerto No. 1 in F, "The Sea Tempest" (RV433); Concerto No. 2 in G minor, "Night" (RV439); Concerto No. 3 in D, "The Goldfinch" (RV428); Concerto No. 4 in G (RV435); Concerto No. 5 in F (RV434); and Concerto No. 6 in G (RV437).
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Another Year in Africa
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This digital document is an article from Market Africa Mid-East, published by Media Contact Resources, Inc. on September 1, 2002. The length of the article is 413 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: ANOTHER PUNISHING YEAR FOR ISRAELI CONSUMERS.(nation's economy is performing poorly)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
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This digital document is an article from WWP-Business Opportunities in Africa & the Middle East, published by Worldwide Projects, Inc. on February 1, 2004. The length of the article is 1263 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Date: February 1, 2004
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This is the story of the twilight of colonialism and birth and development of a major new African nation seen from a unique standpoint from a "subject" of a colony and from a leading role in independence and laced with the bucaneering of big business. This story begins in journalism in Cyprus and moves to Northern Rhodesia where the author played a leading role as an international businessman on his own account and in multinational corporations, and in the politics of independence leading to the new nation of Zambia. He was at the heart of Zambia's political and business development.
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Africa - Another Side of the Coin.......2003-12-01
This personal account of African nationhood strikes a lot nerves and leaves the reader with a lot to think about on a number of levels. Put together it provides a real roller-coaster ride of emotions and insights. The book builds up beautifully in the first chapters, providing the reader with a love for Africa - full of warmth, humour and joy. The author's level-headed account of British rule and the radicalisation of white politics juxtapositioned with the black struggle for independence is fabulous. By portraying the feelings of both sides at the time and without demonising either side, it argues a strong case for tolerance, understanding and humanity on a rock bed of libertarian values. The subsequent chapters describing the gradual changes of Zambia's UNIP government are thrilling as one gradually gets caught in the middle between one's loyalty for Kaunda's original Humanism and the realisation that the regime was not what it was supposed to be.
At the end, when it has all gone so horribly wrong, the reader is left with an understanding for how it went wrong. Uniquely, it is that understanding which may provide the reader with a respect for Africa and a feeling that for Africa there can indeed be a prosperous future in waiting. The book is a personal story of ideology versus reality, but it is also powerful background reading for any person about to move to or work with Africa.
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