title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
The Gate of Appreciation
Studies in the Relation of Art to Life | Noyes, Carleton Eldredge, 1872-1950 | en | | The impulse to expression -- The attitude of response -- Technique and the layman -- The value of the medium -- The background of art -- The service of criticism -- Beauty and common life -- The arts of form -- Representation -- The personal estimate. | | Art criticism; Aesthetics; Art appreciation | 2008-11-07 |
On the Execution of Music, and Principally of Ancient Music | Saint-Saëns, Camille, 1835-1921 | en | | | Bowie, Henry P. [Translator] | Music appreciation; Gregorian chants -- History and criticism | 2009-11-07 |
Notes on Life and Letters | Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 | en | | Part I-Letters: Books-1905 -- Henry James-an appreciation-1905 -- Alphonse Daudet-1898 -- Guy de Maupassant-1904 -- Anatole France-1904 -- Turgenev-1917 -- Stephen Crane-a note without dates-1919 -- Tales of the sea-1898 -- An observer in Malaya-1898 -- A happy wanderer-1910 -- The life beyond-1910 -- The ascending effort-1910 -- The censor of plays-an appreciation-1907 -- Part II-Life: Autocracy and war-1905 -- The crime of partion-1919 -- A note on the Polish problem-1916 -- Poland revisited-1915 -- First news-1918 -- "Well done"-1918 -- Tradition-1918 -- Confidence-1919 -- Flight-1917 -- Some reflections on the loss of the Titanic-1912 -- Certain aspects of the admirable inquiry-1912 -- Protection of ocean liners-1914 -- A friendly place. | | | 1997-12-01 |
The Masters and their Music
A series of illustrative programs with biographical,
esthetical, and critical annotations | Mathews, W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock), 1837-1912 | en | | | | Composers -- Biography; Music appreciation | 2008-11-17 |
Music: An Art and a Language | Spalding, Walter Raymond, 1865-1962 | en | | | | Music appreciation; Musical form | 2009-11-28 |
The Enjoyment of Art | Noyes, Carleton Eldredge, 1872-1950 | en | The picture and the man -- The work of art as symbol -- The work of art as beautiful -- Art and appreciation -- The artist. | | | Art criticism; Aesthetics | 2008-11-07 |
Northanger Abbey | Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 | en | | | | Love stories; Books and reading -- Fiction; Satire; Young women -- Fiction; Gothic fiction; England -- Fiction; Horror tales -- Appreciation -- Fiction | 1994-04-01 |
The Pleasures of Ignorance | Lynd, Robert, 1879-1949 | en | | The pleasures of ignorance -- The herring fleet -- The betting man -- The hum of insects -- Cats -- May -- New Year prophecies -- On knowing the difference -- The intellectual side of horse-racing -- Why we hate insects -- Virtue -- June -- On feeling gay -- In the train -- The most curious animal -- The old indifference -- Eggs: an Easter homily -- Enter the spring -- The daredevil barber -- Weeds: an appreciation -- A juror in waiting -- The three-halfpenny bit -- The morals of beans -- On seeing a joke -- Going to the derby -- This blasted world. | | | 2004-09-12 |