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...methods involve the reconstruction of what seventeenth and eighteenth-century music actually sounded like when performed. He explains: "In all periods, you only have a certain amount of evidence that is passed on to you. Some of it is the most direct--the composer's marks on the page--some of it is circumstantial--the instruments or the voices that he suggests--some of it is even one circle further out--the context or the assumptions of the time. If you put all those together, I think you can get a pretty good working diagram of the arena in which...
Brazilian artist and poet Ana Miranda tackles political intrigue in seventeenth-century Brazil in her first novel, Bay of All Saints and Every Conceivable...
...buildings in the seventeenth-andeighteenth-century town of Quebec weren'tperfect-they were crooked and lived-in and worn.The cobblestones weren't perfect but filthy andcrumbling, broken by horse drawn carriages thattoppled over, dirtied by horses who left trails ofstench and defecation...
Having chaired the English, History and History and Literature Departments, as well as the doctoral program in the History of American Civilization, Heimert is a preeminent professor of seventeenth century America, his colleagues...
...protest letter to the National Football League demanding enforcement of the league's 1985 policy of equal access to players for male and female journalists. Late last week N.F.L. Commissioner Paul Tagliabue announced that Wyche, who had violated league media-relations policy twice before, would be fined one-seventeenth of his annual salary, an estimated $30,000. It was the highest penalty ever levied against an N.F.L. coach...