“The only love affair I have ever had was with music.” Maurice Ravel A compelling celebration of more than 90 of the world’s most influential composers from the medieval period to the present day, Composers reveals the fascinating stories of their lives, loves, and works. Biographical entries – introduced with a stunning portrait of each featured composer – trace the friendship...(展开全部)

菲尔・G・古尔丁（Phil G.Goulding） 1921年生于旧金山，成长在克里夫兰，在纽约州北部的汉敦学院学习，第二次世界大战期间在海军服役。自1950年以来，他定居于华盛顿，担任过报社记者、助理国防部长和石油工业的业务主管。二十年前，他写了一本关于五角大楼、报界和公众的书《肯定与否定》（Confirmor Deny）。 晚年，他凭着对古典音乐的浓厚兴趣，结合自己长期研究心得，花了7年时间写成此书，并成为西方古典音乐入门的经典之作。

In the new edition of this highly successful book, Harold Schonberg has traced the consecutive line of composers from Claudio Monteverdi to the tonalists of the 1990s through a series of fascinating biographical chapters. Music, the author contends, is a continually evolving art, and there have been no geniuses, however, great, who have not been influenced by their predecessors...(展开全部)

The illusion that ethnography is a matter of sorting strange and irregular facts into familiar and orderly categories-this is magic, that is technology-has long since been exploded. What it is instead, however, is less clear. That it might be a kind of writing, putting things to paper, has now and then occurred to those engaged in producing it, consuming it, or both. But the ex...(展开全部)

克利福德·格尔兹（Clifford Geertz,1926—2006），1926年生于美国加州，在俄亥俄州安蒂奥克学院学习文学和哲学，1950年在该校获哲学学士学位。之后进入哈佛大学，师从C.克拉克洪学习人类学并于1956年获得人类学博士学位。曾先后在芝加哥大学、斯坦福大学、麻省理工学院、普林斯顿高等研究院社会科学部等著名学府讲学或担任教职。 作为象征人类学和解释人类学的代表人物，格尔兹以其在印度尼西亚和摩洛哥的田野工作为基础，对宗教、文化等领域的研究影响巨大，著有：《爪哇宗教》（1960）、《被信奉的伊斯兰教》（1968）、《文化的解释》（1973）、《尼加拉：19世纪巴厘剧场国家》（1980）、《地方性知识》（1983）、《论著与生活》（1988），《追寻事实》（1995）等，并先后获得了美国社会学会索罗金奖、美国人文－自然科学院社会科学奖、日本...(展开全部)

This major work, now available in paperback, by one of the worlda s leading anthropologists discusses the style, imagery and metaphor of the great anthropologists, thereby developing Geertza s claim that doing good anthropology is like writing good literature.

The illusion that ethnography is a matter of sorting strange and irregular facts into familiar and orderly categories-this is magic, that is technology-has long since been exploded. What it is instead, however, is less clear. That it might be a kind of writing, putting things to paper, has now and then occurred to those engaged in producing it, consuming it, or both. But the ex...(展开全部)

克利福德·格尔兹（Clifford Geertz,1926—2006），1926年生于美国加州，在俄亥俄州安蒂奥克学院学习文学和哲学，1950年在该校获哲学学士学位。之后进入哈佛大学，师从C.克拉克洪学习人类学并于1956年获得人类学博士学位。曾先后在芝加哥大学、斯坦福大学、麻省理工学院、普林斯顿高等研究院社会科学部等著名学府讲学或担任教职。 作为象征人类学和解释人类学的代表人物，格尔兹以其在印度尼西亚和摩洛哥的田野工作为基础，对宗教、文化等领域的研究影响巨大，著有：《爪哇宗教》（1960）、《被信奉的伊斯兰教》（1968）、《文化的解释》（1973）、《尼加拉：19世纪巴厘剧场国家》（1980）、《地方性知识》（1983）、《论著与生活》（1988），《追寻事实》（1995）等，并先后获得了美国社会学会索罗金奖、美国人文－自然科学院社会科学奖、日本...(展开全部)

This major work, now available in paperback, by one of the worlda s leading anthropologists discusses the style, imagery and metaphor of the great anthropologists, thereby developing Geertza s claim that doing good anthropology is like writing good literature.

In the new edition of this highly successful book, Harold Schonberg traces the consecutive line of composers from Monteverdi to the tonalists of the 1990s through a series of fascinating biographical chapters. Music is a continually evolving art, and there have been no geniuses, however great, who have not been influenced by their predecessors. The great composers are here pres...(展开全部)