Choruses, Signed (16 results)

Softcover book in FINE condition. Signed by the author on the title page. Stated first printing/first edition. Community Word project stamp on front end paper. Actual book is pictured. See images provided. Tight binding. All pages clean without any markings, notations, or folds. Synopsis Quincy Troupe launches a pyrotechnic display of jazz rhythms, political commentary, sports tributes, travelogues, and architectural abstracts in his latest volume of poetry, withChoruses. Merging traditional poetic form with contemporary content, Troupe fashions "words & sounds that build bridges toward a new tongue" , as he writes in "Song," an ars poetica. Only Troupe could write a sestina chronicling the mass suicide of Heaven's Gate, or a villanelle for Michael Jordan: "rising up in time, michael jordan hangs like an ikon, suspended in space / / his eyes two radar screens screwed like nails into the mask of his face." A masterful technician, Troupe experiments with free verse as well, repeating the same words in three different line-break configurations in "Images: Three Variations of Shape & Form." From haiku to tonka, from Mark McGwire to Sammy Sosa, from bebop to hip hop, these choruses "become sound tracks lifted off a poet's tongue, / / syllables, within moments, are transformed into song." "Troupe's sixth collection covers a wide cultureal bandwidth: the Monica-gate scandal, the Heaven's Gate mass suicide; jazz greats like Miles Davis (Troupe's Miles: The Biography is the standard) and Richard Muhal Abrams; sports stars like Michael Jordon, Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire; lesser know artists like GeorgeLEwis & the Dancers at Laguna Pueblo, painter Robert Colescott and many more. Perhaps to formally mirror the mix, Troupe puts sonnets, villanelles and sestinas in the midst of his more characteristic jazz-inflected free-verse lines. The best poems here, however, eschew traditional European forms, and foreground Troupe's mastery of a sprawling American vernacular: "the tongue in his hands now was once a saxophone when whole,/ was a blur of fingers whooshing through golden keys of his voice belling/ . . . .conjures up spirits, the drumbeat of strong hearts goosing everything along." Troupe doesn't quite go as far into uninhibited linguistic musicality as, say, Clark Coolidge, Will Alexander or the best rhapsodic passages in Kerouac. Yet his unwillingness to forgo teh referential severrs a powerful didactic function beyond "the tough aesthetics" of contemporary poetry, as Troupe often employ About the Author Featured on two PBS poetry series, Troupe is the author of seven volumes of poetry including Transcircularities, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year and Minnesotabased Talking Volumes bookclub selection. In addition to children's books on Magic Johnson and Stevie Wonder, Troupe chronicled his friendship with Miles Davis in Miles and Me, soon to be a feature film. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Signed by Quincy Troupe on the title page. Signed by Author(s).

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Printing. Signed by Author Signed by Author Inscribed and signed by Troupe on dedication page in blue ink and dated 10/13/2000; no creases in spine, no slant, bumped tips, light edgewear, tight binding, NO age toning, 111 clean and unmarked pages, stated first printing. Signed by Author.

Stapled wraps. Condition: Good. Signed by author to the inside front cover: Sing-Cerely Nelson T. Huffman". Top corner of book is bent. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 15 pages; Signed by Author.

trade paperback. First edition. 8vo. Pictorial wrappers. Inscribed by Kostelanetz on the front end paper. A nearly fine bright copy, a few pale stains on cover.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First Printing. Boldly inscribed by the author and dated in year of publication. Stated first printing/first edition. Previous owner's notes from the reading laid-in. Author has won two American Book Awards and a Peabody Award. Signed by Author(s).

First Edition. Inscribed and Signed by the author. First Printing. Very Good to Near Fine condition. Signed.

Offprint, stapled. Condition: Gut. pp. 117-131. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - With dedication by the author. - Title page a bit browned, author's name underlined, slightly dog eared, otherwise good and clean. - From the text: For more than a century there has been steady, if not quite raging, debate over the number and identity of secondary choruses in Aeschylus Supplices. In the Egyptian herald scene, are the lyrics sung by the herald or by his band of henchmen? In the exodos, where unquestionably there is a lyric dialogue and debate over the proper claims of Aphrodite, are the participants the Danaids and their handmaidens, the Danaids and Argive men-at-arms, or simply the Danaids divided into hemichoruses? The debate has not produced a consensus, at least not for the herald scene, but in the exodos a strong trend is observable when we tabulate the choices (for both scenes) made in the principal editions of this century. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. N/A (illustrator). First Edition. Unpaginated, contains 278 numbered hymns and responsive readings + topical index, general index, and benediction. Rare title, but this was the ONLY SIGNED Copy that I could find offered for sale online when this was listed! Circa 1958 based on dated author signature. Dark burgandy HC Book has bright gilt font on fc, and is in FINE Shape. Sharp corners and spine ends, crisp boards, decorated eps, no foxing, square, tight, clean, without any po names or marks, faint musty odor. No DJ as issued. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. 'Garden of Music' by Bob Thompson (Front Cover Illustration) (illustrator). 1st Published: 2001 by Arrangement With. 486 + xvi + pp. SIGNED & WARMLY INSCRIBED BY EDITOR!!! Editor's inscription to the previous owner! A rare, hard-to-find, scarce, true collectible gem! A wonderful copy! A great, almost spotlessly clean copy! Solidly and tightly bound, essentially and nearly flawless copy with minimal internal and external wear and use. Copy with crisp and bright pages, with very light shelf wear. Occasional very light pencil markings on text. Smooth covers. Over-sized and/or over weight book; may require additional postage. Please note that large and/or heavy items may incur extra shipping charge for both domestic and/or international shipments. SIGNED BY EDITOR!!!

Wraps. Condition: Very good. 11p, quarto. A very good copy in tan wraps, slight rippling to pages. This copy is SIGNED by three - Dr. Clarence Blachly and R. Deane Shure (O Silent Hills) and Mrs. Volkmer, for whom the song was written.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. First Printing. Very Fine in grey cloth, in a Very Fine dustwrapper, not price-clipped. 111pp. This copy nicely INSCRIBED by the Author (to third parties), and SIGNED in the year of publication on the dedication page. Q21054.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hard cover with unclipped dust jacket, both in very good condition. Dedication to Professor Stephen Harrison is penned to FEP, signed by editor Fiona Macintosh. Light shelfwear only, including minor rubbing and creasing to DJ edges. Boards are in fine condition, pages tightly bound, content unmarked. CN. Signed and Dedicated By Editor.

8vo. pp [14]. Copiously illustrated with black and white line drawings. Inscribed by the illustrator and author for Alison and Edward Lowbury: "Alison & Edward Lowbury, At Birmingham 19th Jan 86." Very good indeed.

Soft. Condition: Good. Soft covers bright and colourful, corners on front cover bumped, signed by Editor on title page, pages clean and bright, unmarked, binding firm. Size: 4to. Signed by Editor.

Studienpartitur. Schmal Gr. 2° (54 x 27 cm). (2) 49 S. OBr. 1. Ausgabe. Mit eigenhändiger Widmung des Komponisten (1923-2006). Text deutsch und englisch. Ligeti was already interested in the text of the Requiem especially in Dies Irae when he got the commission from the Swedish Radio's Contemporary Music concert series to compose Requiem in 1963. He finished the four parts (Introitus, Kyrie, Dies Irae, Lacrimosa) in 1965. In the same year it was premiered in Stockholm. Won the first prize of the International Society of Contemporary Music and the Berlin Prize for this composition.Parts of the composition appeared in Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey and in Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. György Ligeti (1923-2006) was a Hungarian (Transylvanian) born composer. Studied at the Music Academy of Cluj and Budapest. After his graduation he started to collect folk music in Romania and taught composing and counterpointing at the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. He left Hungary after the revolution in 1956, and started to work at the radio station in Cologne where he made acquaintance with Karlheinz Stockhausen who had a major influence on his art. In 1959 settled down in Vienna and became citizen in 1967. Taught at the Universities of Darmstadt, Stockholm, Stanford and Hamburg. Under the influence of Stockhausen he started to compose music for electronic instruments like Artikulation and Atmosphères. This gave him reputation in the Western European music scene. After these works he gave up composing electronic music but his experiences with such instruments made and effect on his later compositions. His music could be characterised as a mixture of Western avant-garde music and Hungarian folk music combined with sense of humour and absurd. Ligeti's pieces (Lontano, Lux Aeterna, Requiem) were used as film music - among others - in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining and Eyes Wide Shut also in Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island.