Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da

Contents: Plainchant, Benedicta es (2:24) -- Motet, Benedicta es / Josquin des Prés (6:55) -- Missa Benedicta es / Palestrina (41:15) -- Plainchant, Nigra sum (1:31) -- Motet, Nigra sum / Lhériter (5:07) -- Missa Nigra sum (35:20) ; Missa Papae Marcelli (36:49) ; Missa brevis (21:24) / Palestrina -- Madrigal, Nasce la gioja mia / Primavera (2:30) -- Missa Nasce la gioja mia / Palestrina (24:22) --...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Gimell 1993

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Summary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010

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Summary: The development of the arts in Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern era is an astonishing record of cultural achievement, from the breathtaking architecture of Gothic cathedrals to the daring visual experiments of the Cubist painters. We all have our favorite artists, periods, or styles from this immensely rich tradition, but how many of us truly know the full sweep of European art? How...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005

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Summary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.

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Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006

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King's Noyse (Musical group)

Contents: Galliard III based on La Mantoana / Giovanni Maria Trabaci (2:55) -- Galliard / Giovanni Leonardo dell'Arpa (2:41) -- Non ha'l ciel cotanti lumi = Heaven hath not so many stars / Claudio Monteverdi (3:01) -- Qual cadavero spirante = Like a dying corpse / Jacopo Peri (4:34) -- Pavane II / Carlo Farina (12:52) -- Se pur è ver = If it be true / Filippo Vitali (5:14) -- Dances from Il scolaro. Aria...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmonia Mundi France 2001

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De Giovanni, Maurizio

Summary: In the abyss of a profound personal crisis, Commissario Ricciardi feels unable to open himself up to life. He has refused the love of both Enrica and Livia and the friendship of his partner, Maione. Contentment for Ricciardi proves as elusive as clues to the latest crime he has been asked to investigate -- amazon.com

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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2017

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Summary: This take on the traditional wuxia film, set in 9th century China, centers on Nie Yinniang, a young woman who was abducted in childhood from a decorated general and raised by a nun who trained her in the martial arts to be an assassin who is directed to slay corrupt government officials. After 13 years of exile, she is returned to the land of her birth with orders to kill her betrothed...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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De Giovanni, Maurizio

Summary: In the middle of a summer heat wave, as Naples prepares for one of its most important holy days, a renowned surgeon falls to his death from the window of his office. For Commissario Ricciardi and Brigadier Maione it is the beginning of an investigation that will bring them into contact with the most torrid, conflicting and enduring of human passions. In the world Ricciardi and Maione are about...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2015

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De Giovanni, Maurizio

Summary: As Naples prepares for its holiday celebrations, behind the facade of order and happiness imposed by the fascist regime lurks terrible poverty and blinding desperation. In a luxurious apartment on the Mergellina Beach the bodies of a fascist militia officer and his wife have been found. The woman has had her throat cut while the man has been stabbed over sixty times. Seemingly, the hands of two...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2014

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De Giovanni, Maurizio

Summary: This is Naples as you've never seen it before. A chaotic, shadowy city full of ominous echoes and dark alleyways where each inhabitant seems too absorbed by his or her own problems to give a damn about anybody else. And that is exactly what makes it possible for a cold, methodical killer to commit his atrocious crimes largely undisturbed, to merge with the crowd as if he were invisible. The...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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De Giovanni, Maurizio

Summary: "A Commissario Ricciardi Neapolitan mystery that packs a real punch. Years ago, Vinnie Sannino left Naples on a ship bound for America, where he found fame and wealth as a boxer. But his gilded life in the new world came to an abrupt end when, during a fight, with a heavy punch to the head of his opponent, Vinnie killed a man in the ring. Now, Vinnie's back in Italy, pining for the woman he...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2018

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De Giovanni, Maurizio

Summary: Springtime proffers fragrant temptations to the men and women of Naples. But evil also lurks in the sweet-smelling spring air. It is one week before Easter, Naples, 1932. At the high-class brothel in the center of town known as Paradiso, Viper, the most famous prostitute of all, is found dead. Suffocated with a pillow. Her last client swears that when he left her she was alive and well. But...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa 2015

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Contents: 3 Branles de Bourgogne / Jacques Moderne --Torion-Pavane-Gaillarde / Pierre Attaignant (Collegium Aureum) -- Soleasi nel mio cor; I'vo piangendo; Rendz-moy mon coeur / Orlando Di Lasso (Cantus CFolln) --Kyrie-Christe-Kyrie; Gloria / Giovanni Pierluigi Da Palestrina (Schola Cantorum Basiliensis) -- Dance music / Tielman Susato (Collegium Aureum) -- Udite, lacrimosi spirti d'averno / Giaches De...

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Publisher / Publication Date: DHM/BMG Classics, c p1997. 1997

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De Giovanni, Maurizio

Summary: They've made a fresh start at the Pizzofalcone precinct of Naples. They fired every member of the investigative branch after they were found guilty of corruption. Now, there's a group of detectives, a new commissario, and a new superintendent. The new cops immediately find themselves investigating a high-profile murder that has the whole town on edge. Heading the investigation is Inspector...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2016

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De Giovanni, Maurizio

Summary: Investigating the death of a duchess in 1931 Naples, Commissario Ricciardi is assisted by Brigadier Maione to connect the victim's demise to her associates in the Neapolitan privileged social circles and the local fascist elite.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2013

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De Giovanni, Maurizio, 1958-

Summary: In 1931 Naples, Commissario Ricciardi, who sees and hears the final seconds in the lives of victims of violent deaths, investigates the murder of an elderly woman who, moonlighting as a fortuneteller and moneylender, had many enemies.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2013

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De Giovanni, Maurizio

Summary: Believing that Matteo, a young boy from the streets of 1930s Naples, was murdered, Commissario Ricciardi must conduct his investigation in secret since his superiors are preparing for a state visit from Benito Mussolini.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2014

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De Giovanni, Maurizio

Summary: Naples, March 1931: a bitter wind stalks the city streets, and murder lies at its chilled heart. As one of the world s greatest tenors, Maestro Vezzi, is found brutally murdered in his dressing room at Naples famous San Carlo Theatre, the enigmatic and aloof Commissario Ricciardi is called in to investigate. Arrogant and bad-tempered, Vezzi was hated by many, but with the livelihoods of the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2012

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Summary: Leonardo da Vinci is well known for his inventions as well as his art. But new evidence shows that many of his ideas were realized long before he sketched them out in his notebooks, some even 1700 years before him.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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Summary: 1. Alleluia - Byrd: Haec Dies; 2. Easter Sequence (Victimae Paschali Laudes - Gregorian Chant); 3. Dum Transisset Sabbatum;4. Sanctus (from Missa Ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la;5. Exsultate Deo; 6. Easter Acclamations - Surrexit Christus Hodie; 7. Before the Ending of the Day (from the Office of Compline); Gregorian Chant; 8. In Pace; 9. Into Thy Hands, O Lord (from the Office of Compline); Gregorian...

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Publisher / Publication Date: American Gramaphone Records 1988

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Zanini De Vita, Oretta

Summary: The long story of pasta in Italy is told through its great variety of shapes.

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2009

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Summary: A middle-aged man living with his elderly mother finds the best way to pay for their debts is to take care of the building manager's mother during the biggest festival of the year. Soon he finds himself with not two but four mothers to keep fed and happy.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2009

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