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Classic and Romantic Music: A Comprehensive Surveyby Friedrich Blume, Herter NortonISBN 0571113540 (0-571-11354-0)
Softcover, Faber & Faber, Limited
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Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke 1892-1910by Jane Bannard Greene, Herter NortonISBN 0393004767 (0-393-00476-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Letters to a Young Poetby Rainer Maria Rilke, Franz Xaver Kappus, Herter NortonISBN 0393310396 (0-393-31039-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Letters to a Young Poet'Book summary:It would take a deeply cynical heart not to fall in love with Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet. At the end of this millennium, his slender book holds everything a student of the century could want: the unedited thoughts of (arguably) the most important European poet of the modern age. Rilke wrote these 10 sweepingly emotional letters in 1903, addressing a former student of one of his own teachers. The recipient was wise enough to omit his own inquiries from the finished product, which means that we get a marvelously undiluted dose of Rilkean aesthetics and exhortation.
The poet prefaced each letter with an evocative notation of the city in which he wrote, including Paris, Rome, and the outskirts of Pisa. Yet he spends most of the time encouraging the student in his own work, delivering a sublime, one-on-one equivalent of the modern writing workshop:
Go into yourself and test the deeps in which your life takes rise; at its source you will find the answer to the question whether you must create. Accept it, just as it sounds, without inquiring into it. Perhaps it will turn out that you are called to be an artist. Then take that destiny upon yourself and bear it, its burden and its greatness, without ever asking what recompense might come from outside.
Every page is stamped with Rilke's characteristic grace, and the book is free of the breathless effect that occasionally mars his poetry. His ideas on gender and the role of the artist are also surprisingly prescient. And even his retrograde comment on the "beauty of the virgin" (which the poet derives from the fact that she "has not yet achieved anything") is counterbalanced by his perception that "the sexes are more related than we think." Those looking for an alluring image of the solitary artist--and for an astonishing quotient of wisdom--will find both in Letters to a Young Poet. --Jennifer Buckendorff [via]More editions of Letters to a Young Poet:
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The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Briggeby Rainer Maria Rilke, Herter NortonISBN 0393308812 (0-393-30881-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge'Book summary:First published in Paris in 1910, Rilke's Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge is one the first great modernist novels, the account of poet-aspirant Brigge in his exploration of poetic individuality and his reflections on the experience of time as death approaches. This new translation by Burton Pike is a reaction to overly stylized previous translations, and aims to capture not only the beauty but also the strangeness, the spirit, of Rilke's German. [via]
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Sonnets To Orpheusby Rainer Maria Rilke, Herter NortonISBN 0393328856 (0-393-32885-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sonnets To Orpheus'Book summary:One of the literary masterpieces of the century, this translation is now presented with facing-page German.
To Rilke himself the Sonnets to Orpheus were "perhaps the most mysterious in the way they came up and entrusted themselves to me, the most enigmatic dictation I have ever held through and achieved; the whole first part was written down in a single breathless act of obedience, between the 2nd and 5th of February, without one word being doubtful or having to be changed." With facing-page German. [via]More editions of Sonnets To Orpheus:
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The Story of Music an Historical Sketch of the Changes in Musical Formby Paul Bekker, Herter NortonISBN 1417932937 (1-4179-3293-7)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Story of Music an Historical Sketch of the Changes in Musical Form'Book summary:1927. Translation by M.D. Herter Norton and Alice Kortschak. Contents: How to Approach the History of Music; Early Characteristics-The Greeks; Gregorian Music-First to Tenth Centuries; Polyphony, a New Art-Tenth to Fourteenth Centuries; The Netherlands; Polyphonic and Harmonic Music-Sixteenth Century; Instrumental Harmony; The Italians-Opera and Oratorio-Seventeenth Century; Bach and Handel; The Successors of Bach and Handel; Haydn; Gluck; Mozart; Beethoven; Early Romanticism-Weber and Schubert; National Romanticism in Concert and Opera; Wagner, Verdi, Bizet; Late Romanticism in Concert and Opera; and Modern Trends. [via]
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Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilkeby Rainer Maria Rilke, Herter NortonISBN 0393310388 (0-393-31038-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke'Book summary:Born in 1875, the German lyric poet Rainer Maria Rilke published his first collection of poems in 1898 and went on to become renowned for his delicate depiction of the workings of the human heart.
These translations by M.D. Herter Norton offer Rilke's work to the English-speaking world in an accurate, sensitive, modern version. [via]More editions of Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke:
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