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Verdi and the French aesthetic verse, stanza, and melody in nineteenth-century opera / by Giger, Andreas, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Rhythm and stanza in French and Italian librettos ; French and Italian melodic aesthetics and practice ca. 1830-1870 ; Episode: Design, middleground rhythm, and phrase -- French melody in Verdi's operas. Jérusalem and its influence on the subsequent Italian operas ; Les Vêpres siciliennes and its influence on the subsequent Italian operas ; Don Carlos and after.…”
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Writing Anthropologists, Sounding Primitives : The Poetry and Scholarship of Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, and Ruth Benedict / by Reichel, A. Elisabeth

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : poets, anthropologists, primitives -- Of mumbling melody, soft singing, and slow speech : constructions of sonic otherness in the poetry of Edward Sapir -- On alternating sounds : musical alterities in Sapir's poetry and critical writings -- Interlude : French-Canadian folk songs in translation -- "For you have given me speech!" …”
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman and her contemporaries literary and intellectual contexts /

Table of Contents: “…Tuttle -- Creating great women : Mary Austin and Charlotte Perkins Gilman / Melody Graulich -- From near-dystopia to utopia : a source for Herland in Inez Haynes Gillmore's Angel Island / Charlotte Rich -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman's With her in Ourland : Herland meets heterodoxy / Lisa A. …”
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