Search Results: Theme With Variations by Church Richard

Ernest Benn, 'Shilling Books of New Poetry' series, London [1928], 1928. Book. Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First edition. 30pp. Stapled card wrappers. The staples rusted and the wrappers quite fox-spotted and a little dusty, and with a touch of further mostly marginal spotting throughout. Nineteen poems. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

The Teaching Company, 1/1/2006. 3rd. Audio CD. Like New. 10x6x4. 48 sound discs, in 6 boxes + 1 course guidebook. pt. 1. lecture 1. Music as a mirror ; lecture 2. Sources--the ancient world and the early church ; lecture 3. Middle Ages ; lecture 4. Introduction to the Renaissance ; lecture 5. Renaissance mass ; lecture 6. Madrigal ; lecture 7. Introduction to the Baroque era ; lecture 8. Style features of Baroque-era music. pt. 2. lecture 9. National styles--Italy and Germany ; lecture 10. Fugue ; lecture 11. Baroque opera, pt. 1 ; lecture 12, Baroque opera, pt. 2 ; lecture 13. Oratorio ; lecture 14. Lutheran Church cantata ; lecture 15. Passacaglia ; lecture 16. Ritornello form and the Baroque concerto. pt. 3. lecture 17. Enlightenment and an introduction to the classical era ; lecture 18. Viennese classical style--homophony and cadence ; lecture 19. Classical-era form--theme and variations ; lecture 20. Classical-era form--minuet and trio : Baroque antecedents ; lecture 21. Classical-era… Read More

Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2019. Book. Fine. Hardback. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Cloth-bound sewn hardback with colour dustwrapper. Many illustrations in full colour, index. Essays by Nicola Coldstream, John Harper, Sarah Brown, Philippa Turner, Cathy Oakes, Glyn Coppack, Richard Oram, Richard Fawcett, Lizzie Swarbrick, Rachel Moss, Madeleine Gray, and P. S. Barnwell. 280pp. This book is the fourth in a series on Places of Worship in Britain and Ireland, which will ultimately extend to the twenty-first century. The period covered by this volume is often seen as one of decline and is over-shadowed by the great changes of the sixteenth-century Reformation. Taking the period on its own terms, however, the contributors to this volume show that there was much innovation, vitality and creativeness as much in worship as in architecture. The main focus for much of the innovation was in collegiate churches, but parish buildings and worship continued to evolve, and established… Read More

Large archive of 1507 letters, 6631 manuscript pp., dated 31 October 1884 to 19 May 1964; plus over 300 pieces of ephemera related to the Babb and Conant families.
Note: A complete inventory of the collection, and biographical sketches of its main correspondents, can be emailed upon request.
Persis Loring Conant (1887-1964) and Hugh Webster Babb (1887-1971)
Persis Loring Conant was born on 29 May 1887. She was the daughter of merchant Frederick "Pardi" Odell Conant (1857-1928) and his wife Eva "Mardi" Merrill (1852-1936)
of Portland, Maine. Persis' father prepared for college in the public schools of Portland and under private instructors, and entered Bowdoin College, where he received the degree of Bachelor of Science in 1880 and Master of Arts in 1883. A distant cousin of the Conant family was James Bryant Conant (1893-1978) an American chemist, a transformative President of Harvard University, and the first U.S. Ambassador to West Germany.
Earlier, in 1874, Frederick went to California, by way of… Read More