Early French Polyphony - 11th-century organa and tropes Les premières polyphonies françaises Frühe Mehrstimmigkeit aus Frankreich Organa und Tropen des 11.Jahrhunderts Ensemble Gilles Binchois dir: Dominique Vellard recorded at the Abbaye of Murbach, Alsace, 14-18 october 1994 DDD TT: 70:22 | APE (EAC Rip) + CUE | Covers | 254 Mo |

Valeria Finucci, Valeria Finucci, Kevin Brownlee, Elizabeth A.Clark, Gianna Pomata, Nancy Siraisi, "Generation and Degeneration: Tropes of Reproduction in Literature and History from Antiquity through Early Modern Europe" Duke University Press | 2001-05 | ISBN: 0822326442, 0822326558 | 336 pages | PDF | 2,7 MB

… writing is rendered oddly accessible by the unperturbed facility of his band. Highlights include the brisk, rolling rhythms and animated piano/drum conversation heard on "Configurations"; the highly angular juxtaposition of melody and bassline on "Atlantean Tropes"; the dark, suggestive world of the anti-death penalty ballad "Numbers," which lasts not even two minutes; and the stirring quartet remake of "Trident" (a far slower trio version appeared on Iyer's 1998 …

Tropical Truth(s) De Gruyter; 1 edition | April 16, 2010 | ISBN-10: 3110230208 | 428 pages | PDF | 3.2 Mb Tropes are not only rhetorical means, which are used as a creative and / or persuasive linguistic means in poetry and public speech. They are also a cognitive tool which helps people to understand the world and to express their world.

… by Dawn Upshaw who lends the extra touch of eloquence in the shifting landscape that also includes the music of Morton Feldman's ''Madame Press Died Last Week at Ninety,'' a delicious, tiny memoir of his onetime piano teacher; Ingram Marshall's ''Fog Tropes,'' a haunting tone-picture that merges taped sounds of San Francisco into an instrumental ensemble; and the quiet grief of the young David Diamond in his 1938 ''Elegy in Memory of Maurice Ravel,'' noting the passing of his friend and teacher with the …

Colbie Caillat - Coco - Deluxe Edition (2008) Pop | MP3 | VBR 256kbps avg | 85,2 MB | English | RAR “Sweetness rules on Colbie Caillat's debut, Coco, which is perhaps only appropriate for an album bearing that name, but the record doesn't play like a toasty mug of chocolate on a winter's day, it's a sugary lemonade on a breezy summer afternoon. It's light and comforting, a familiar blend of sunny pop and singer/songwriter tropes that flirt with cliche but never sound hackneyed”

… the material gathered so far on the New Albion label out of San Francisco. This is a versatile and rewarding collection of alternative, contemporary classical, 20th century new age, and minimalist ambience. Ingram Marshall's expansive and dark opener, "Fog Tropes," bellows canyons of sound with tuned fog horns, brass sextet, and other ambient sounds. The Japanese composer Somei Satoh drifts in next on a cloud of sweet melancholy, with "Birds in Warped Time II" from his album Litania. As …

… at university and became both a popular writer and an influential socialist intellectual with a moderately scandalous list of affairs with women. Most of his science fiction dates from early in his career – in a few short years, he invented many of the obsessional tropes of the genre from The Time Machine to contact with hostile aliens (in The War of the Worlds and The First Men in the Moon) to suspended animation (in The Sleeper Awakes) and the temporary uplift of animals to sapience (in The Island of …

… for an album bearing that name, but the record doesn't play like a toasty mug of chocolate on a winter's day, it's a sugary lemonade on a breezy summer afternoon. It's light and comforting, a familiar blend of sunny pop and singer/songwriter tropes that flirt with cliche but never sound hackneyed -- a lighter, brighter spin on Norah Jones that sounds like an ideal soundtrack to a few hours in a cozy coffeehouse or a montage on Grey's Anatomy, whatever comes first. If that gives the impression that Caillat …

… Don DeLillo, Michael Dorris, Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison, Thomas Pynchon, Carol Shields, and Robert Stone, all of whom incorporate aspects of chaos theory in one or more of their novels. They accomplish this through their disruption of conventional linear narrative forms and their use of strategic tropes of chaos and order, but also--and more significantly for an understanding of the interaction of science and fiction--through their self-conscious embrace of the current rhetoric of chaos theory. My Blog