Twentieth-Century Analytic Philosophy
Published: 2000-07-15 | ISBN: 0231112203 | PDF | 304 pages | 1.04 MB

Sergey Prokofiev - Piano Sonatas 1 - 4 (Yefim Bronfman)
Classical | EAC: FLAC+Cue+Log | 1 Cd, Cover+Booklet | 191 Mb
Label: Brilliant - Date: 1991/1993

"In breathing new life into the symphony, sonata, and concerto, Sergey Prokofiev emerged as one of the truly original musical voices of the twentieth century. Bridging the worlds of pre-revolutionary Russia and the Stalinist Soviet Union, Prokofiev enjoyed a successful worldwide career as composer and pianist. As in the case of most other Soviet-era composers, his creative life and his music came to suffer under the duress of official Party strictures. Still, despite the detrimental personal and professional effects of such outside influences, Prokofiev continued until the end of his career to produce music marked by a singular skill, inventiveness, and elan.

Bela Bartok - String Quartets - Complete (Emerson String Quartet)
Classical | EAC: FLAC+Cue+Log | 2 Cd, Cover+Booklet | 888 Mb
Label: DG - Date: 1988

"Through his far-reaching endeavors as composer, performer, educator, and ethnomusicolgist, Bela Bartok emerged as one of the most forceful and influential musical personalities of the twentieth century. Born in Nagyszentmiklos, Hungary (now Romania), on March 25, 1881, Bartok began his musical training with piano studies at the age of five, foreshadowing his lifelong affinity for the instrument. Following his graduation from the Royal Academy of Music in 1901 and the composition of his first mature works -- most notably, the symphonic poem Kossuth (1903) -- Bartok embarked on one of the classic field studies in the history of ethnomusicology. With fellow countryman and composer Zoltan Kodaly, he traveled throughout Hungary and neighboring countries, collecting thousands of authentic folk songs. Bartok's immersion in this music lasted for decades, and the intricacies he discovered therein, from plangent modality to fiercely aggressive rhythms, exerted a potent influence on his own musical language.

Easley Blackwood - Chamber Music for Piano and Strings
Classical | EAC: FLAC+Cue+Log | 1 Cd, Cover+Booklet | 330 Mb
Label: Cedille - Date: 2005

"American Midwest-born composer Easley Blackwood achieved international attention through his work in microtonality, but sustained his reputation through two periods of more conservative composition. His experiments in use of a 19-note, evenly tempered scale remain significant, even after his settling on a musical language that pre-dates the twentieth century. His four decades at the University of Chicago afforded him a base from which he was able to refine his structural ideas and train another generation of American composers. Blackwood also achieved acclaim as a pianist in both his own works and those of his contemporaries.

Ghetto Images in Twentieth-Century American Literature: Writing Apartheid (The Future of Minority Studies)
Publisher: P...ve M....lan | ISBN: 0230115934 | 2012 | PDF | 316 pages | 5.1 MB