Joseph Auner's Books

A Schoenberg Reader

Documents of a Life

By: Joseph Auner

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Arnold Schoenberg’s close involvement with many of the principal developments of twentieth-century music, most importantly the break with tonality and the creation of twelve-tone composition, generated controversy from the time of his earliest works to the present day. This authoritative new collection of Schoenberg’s essays, letters, literary writings, musical sketches, paintings, and drawings offers fresh insights into the composer’s life, work, and thought. The documents, many previously unpublished or untranslated, reveal the relationships between various aspects of Schoenberg’s activities in composition, music theory, criticism, painting, performance, and teaching. They also show the significance of events in his personal and family life, his evolving Jewish identity, his political concerns, and his close interactions with such figures as Gustav and Alma Mahler, Alban Berg, Wassily Kandinsky, and Thomas Mann. Extensive commentary by Joseph Auner places the documents and materials in context and traces important themes throughout Schoenberg’s career from turn-of-century Vienna to Weimar Berlin to nineteen-fifties Los Angeles.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

474

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

030012712X

ISBN 13

9780300127126

A Schoenberg Reader

Documents of a Life

By: Joseph Auner

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

A Schoenberg Reader

Documents of a Life

By: Joseph Auner

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

474

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

030012712X

ISBN 13

9780300127126

Graded Ferroelectrics, Transpacitors and Transponents

By: Joseph V. Mantese,S. Pamir Alpay

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Graded Ferroelectrics, Transpacitors and Transponents

By: Joseph V. Mantese,S. Pamir Alpay

It has been more than 80 years since Valasek first recognized the existence of a dielectric analogue to ferromagnetism, ferroelectricity, in Rochelle salt. Much as with semiconductor research, the initial studies of ferroelectric materials focused on homogeneous materials. Unlike semiconductor research, however, which rapidly expanded into n- homogeneous structures and devices, investigations of compositionally graded and layered ferroelectrics have been relatively recent endeavors. Indeed, many of the most significant results and analysis pertaining to polarization-graded ferroelectrics have only appeared in publication within the last ten years. Further extensions of these concepts to the general class of order-parameter graded ferroic materials, as depicted on the cover of this book, have (with one exception) been totally lacking. It was thus with a great deal of excitement that we assembled the manuscript for this book. The primary focus of this study is directed toward polarization-graded ferroelectrics and their active components, transpacitors; however, the findings presented here are quite general. The theory of graded 2 and 5; whereas, much of the ferroics is put on a solid foundation in chapters introductory material relies more heavily upon analogy. This was done so as to provide the reader with an intuitive approach to graded ferroics, thereby enabling them to see heterogeneous ferroics as clearly logical extensions of passive semiconductor junction devices such as p-n and n-p diodes and their active manifestations, transistors, to: transpacitors, transductors, translastics, and ultimately to the general active ferroic elements, transponents.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

161

Publisher

Springer Science & Business Media

Published Date

ISBN 10

0387233202

ISBN 13

9780387233208

Weapons of Mass Destruction

The Search for Global Security

By: Joseph M. Siracusa,Aiden Warren

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Weapons of Mass Destruction

The Search for Global Security

By: Joseph M. Siracusa,Aiden Warren

Whether possessed by a state or non-state actor, the specter of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs), and more specifically, nuclear weapons and their associated material, present a significant threat to global security. Notwithstanding the fact that there are fewer nuclear weapons today than the massive stockpiles that existed during the height of the Cold War, the complexities relating to nuclear security have in many ways intensified amid globalization and porous borders. More states in volatile regions possess such weapons, UN Security Council states are busily modernizing their weapons, and non-states actors have made it clear their intention to use such weapons should they attain them. The emerging prospect of a cyber-attack, or a misunderstanding that could potentially evolve into a limited regional nuclear war, would both have dire global ramifications and are scenarios that should not be considered farfetched. Additionally, concerns pertaining to chemical and biological weapons, the associated ramifications relating to nuclear terrorism, and broader limitations of the NPT regime, all pose major challenges to global stability. In considering all of these areas, this foundational primer for the Rowman and Littlefield WMD Series seeks to inform and advance policy debate in ways that support international security, while also adding important connective tissue between analytical areas in the IR and historical domains that often remain separate. Offering a comprehensive analysis of the evolution and current status of WMDs, this volume will be of great interest to scholars, analysts, and students of security studies, international history, and international relations.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

279

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield

Published Date

ISBN 10

1442242388

ISBN 13

9781442242388

Extraordinary Measures

Disability in Music

By: Joseph N. Straus

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Extraordinary Measures

Disability in Music

By: Joseph N. Straus

Approaching disability as a cultural construction rather than a medical pathology, this book studies the impact of disability and concepts of disability on composers, performers, and listeners with disabilities, as well as on discourse about music and works of music themselves. For composers with disabilities--like Beethoven, Delius, and Schumann--awareness of the disability sharply inflects critical reception. For performers with disabilities--such as Itzhak Perlman and Evelyn Glennie--the performance of disability and the performance of music are deeply intertwined. For listeners with disabilities, extraordinary bodies and minds may give rise to new ways of making sense of music. In the stories that people tell about music, and in the stories that music itself tells, disability has long played a central but unrecognized role. Some of these stories are narratives of overcoming-the triumph of the human spirit over adversity-but others are more nuanced tales of accommodation and acceptance of life with a non-normative body or mind. In all of these ways, music both reflects and constructs disability.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

224

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0199831408

ISBN 13

9780199831401

Broken Beauty

Musical Modernism and the Representation of Disability

By: Joseph N. Straus

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Broken Beauty

Musical Modernism and the Representation of Disability

By: Joseph N. Straus

Preeminent music theorist and leader in the study of music and disability Joseph Straus presents a truly groundbreaking take on musical modernism--demonstrating in an expansive and vivid multimedia presentation that modernist music is inextricably entwined with attitudes toward disability. In Broken Beauty, Straus argues that the most characteristic features of musical modernism--fractured forms, immobilized harmonies, conflicting textural layers, radical simplification of means in some cases, and radical complexity and hermeticism in others--can be understood as musical depictions of disability conditions, including deformity/disfigurement, mobility impairment, madness, idiocy, and autism. Against the traditional medical model of disability, which sees it as a bodily defect requiring diagnosis and normalization or cure, this new sociocultural model of disability sees it as cultural artifact, something that is created by and creates culture. Straus places this revised model of disability against a wide range of canonical, high-art concert music from the first decades of the century through the 1950s. Broken Beauty illustrates how disability is right at the core of musical modernism; it is one of the things that musical modernism is fundamentally about.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

225

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0190871229

ISBN 13

9780190871222

A Dictionary of Books relating to America, From its Discovery to the Present Time.

Vol. V.

By: Joseph Sabin

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

A Dictionary of Books relating to America, From its Discovery to the Present Time.

Vol. V.

By: Joseph Sabin

Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

578

Publisher

BoD – Books on Demand

Published Date

ISBN 10

3752519924

ISBN 13

9783752519921

Cultural Narratives of Old Age in the Lives, Work, and Reception of Old Musicians

By: Joseph Straus

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Cultural Narratives of Old Age in the Lives, Work, and Reception of Old Musicians

By: Joseph Straus

Operating largely within the world of European-American classical music, this book discusses the creative work of old musicians—composers, performers, listeners, and scholars—and how those forms of music- making are received and understood. Like everything else about old age, music-making is usually understood as a decline from a former height, a deficiency with respect to a youthful standard. Against this ageist mythology, this book argues that composing oldly, performing oldly, and listening oldly are distinctive and valuable ways of making music—a difference, not a deficit; to be celebrated, not ignored or condemned. Instead of the usual biomedical or gerontological understanding of old age, with its focus on bodily, cognitive, and sensory decline, this book follows Age Studies in seeing old age through a cultural lens, as something created and understood in culture. This book seeks to identify the ways that old musicians (composers, performers, listeners, and scholars) accept, resist, adapt, and transform the cultural scripts for the performance of old age. Musicking oldly (making music in old age) often represents an attempt to rewrite ageist cultural scripts and to find ways of flourishing musically in a largely hostile landscape.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

161

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Published Date

ISBN 10

1040114571

ISBN 13

9781040114575

Bosch and Bruegel

From Enemy Painting to Everyday Life

By: Joseph Leo Koerner

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Bosch and Bruegel

From Enemy Painting to Everyday Life

By: Joseph Leo Koerner

A bold new interpretation of two northern Renaissance masters In this visually stunning and much anticipated book, acclaimed art historian Joseph Koerner casts the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel in a completely new light, revealing how the painting of everyday life was born from what seems its polar opposite: the depiction of an enemy hell-bent on destroying us. Supreme virtuoso of the bizarre, diabolic, and outlandish, Bosch embodies the phantasmagorical force of painting, while Bruegel, through his true-to-life landscapes and frank depictions of peasants, is the artistic avatar of the familiar and ordinary. But despite their differences, the works of these two artists are closely intertwined. Bruegel began his career imitating Bosch's fantasies, and it was Bosch who launched almost the whole repertoire of later genre painting. But Bosch depicts everyday life in order to reveal it as an alluring trap set by a metaphysical enemy at war with God, whereas Bruegel shows this enemy to be nothing but a humanly fabricated mask. Attending closely to the visual cunning of these two towering masters, Koerner uncovers art history’s unexplored underside: the image itself as an enemy. An absorbing study of the dark paradoxes of human creativity, Bosch and Bruegel is also a timely account of how hatred can be converted into tolerance through the agency of art. It takes readers through all the major paintings, drawings, and prints of these two unforgettable artists—including Bosch’s notoriously elusive Garden of Earthly Delights, which forms the core of this historical tour de force. Elegantly written and abundantly illustrated, the book is based on Koerner’s A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, a series given annually at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. Published in association with the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Please note: All images in this ebook are presented in black and white and have been reduced in size.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

432

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0691253005

ISBN 13

9780691253008

Throughout

Art and Culture Emerging with Ubiquitous Computing

By: Ulrik Ekman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Throughout

Art and Culture Emerging with Ubiquitous Computing

By: Ulrik Ekman

Leading media scholars consider the social and cultural changes that come with the contemporary development of ubiquitous computing. Ubiquitous computing and our cultural life promise to become completely interwoven: technical currents feed into our screen culture of digital television, video, home computers, movies, and high-resolution advertising displays. Technology has become at once larger and smaller, mobile and ambient. In Throughout , leading writers on new media -- including Jay David Bolter, Mark Hansen, N. Katherine Hayles, and Lev Manovich -- take on the crucial challenges that ubiquitous and pervasive computing pose for cultural theory and criticism. The thirty-four contributing researchers consider the visual sense and sensations of living with a ubicomp culture; electronic sounds from the uncanny to the unremarkable; the effects of ubicomp on communication, including mobility, transmateriality, and infinite availability; general trends and concrete specificities of interaction designs; the affectivity in ubicomp experiences, including performances; context awareness; and claims on the real in the use of such terms as augmented reality and mixed reality.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

664

Published Date

ISBN 10

0262305259

ISBN 13

9780262305259

Book's by Joseph Auner

A Schoenberg Reader

A Schoenberg Reader

A Schoenberg Reader

A Schoenberg Reader

Graded Ferroelectrics, Transpacitors and Transponents

Graded Ferroelectrics, Transpacitors and Transponents

Weapons of Mass Destruction

Weapons of Mass Destruction

Extraordinary Measures

Extraordinary Measures

Broken Beauty

Broken Beauty

A Dictionary of Books relating to America, From its Discovery to the Present Time.

A Dictionary of Books relating to America, From its Discovery to the Present Time.

Cultural Narratives of Old Age in the Lives, Work, and Reception of Old Musicians

Cultural Narratives of Old Age in the Lives, Work, and Reception of Old Musicians

Bosch and Bruegel

Bosch and Bruegel

Throughout

Throughout

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email