Departing from traditional binary views of East/West, the contributors to this volume consider the countries and the peoples of the region on their own terms. and a groundbreaking project of vital significance to the field of cultural studies at both 'western' and 'eastern' geographical locations.' - Elwira Grossman Over the Wall/After the Fall maps a new discourse on the evolution of cultural life in Eastern Europe following the end of communism. The production draws on a cycle of medieval Latin songs known as Codex Buranus and onР’В . In contrast to Avvakum, Carmina Burana is unequivocally Western, beginning with the Latin title, which can be translated as The Songs of Beuern. His prose translations make the poems accessible also to those with little or no Latin.-Janet M. Walsh's unmatched erudition in Latin literature furnishes lucid grammatical explanations, incisive analysis of goliardic literary values and technique, and illuminating references to ancient and medieval parallels. Walsh's book should be a vade mecum for anyone who would teach the Carmina Burana on any level and be of considerable value in general to medievalists, comparatists, and those in related disciplines.-New England Classical Newsletter and Journal 'Teachers, students, and any reader interested in medieval lyric will find this volume a clear and useful approach to intrinsically interesting texts.-Renaissance Quarterly 'The most scholarly and most helpful presentation of a group of these captivating lyrics that has yet appeared in English.-Peter Dronke, University of Cambridge 'A superb volume, fully worthy of these famous but often misunderstood poems. New England Classical Newsletter and Journal 'Teachers, students, and any reader interested in medieval lyric will find this volume a clear and useful approach to intrinsically interesting texts. Includes thirty-two full-page plates (with accompanying captions) depicting medieval manuscript and book production. Reprinted from the best modern editions, the selections have been extensively glossed with grammatical notes geared toward students of classical Latin who may be reading medieval Latin for the first time. Headnotes to individual selections have been recast as interpretive essays, and the original bibliographic paragraphs have been expanded.

To help place the selections within their wider historical, social, and political contexts, Pucci has written extensive introductory essays for each of the new edition's five parts. The new edition also includes a substantive grammatical introduction by Alison Goddard Elliott. This new edition of the classic anthology retains its breadth of coverage, but increases its depth by adding fourteen new selections, doubling the coverage of women writers, and expanding a quarter of the original selections. Harrington's Mediaeval Latin, the standard medieval Latin anthology used in the United States since its initial publication in 1925, has now been completely revised and updated for today's students and teachers by Joseph Pucci. Meyer through careful physical study ofР’В . Schmeller ( Carmina Burana, Stuttgart, 1847), who prints the songs as they are recorded in the manuscript, an ordering that was later corrected by W. The Carmina Burana have been edited by J. Although the history of modern dance in these two countries is closely linked, the author describes how each country has kept its own unique and distinctive style. Subsequently, the artists of the New German Tanztheater revitalized German theatre traditions by blending new content with some of the American contemporary dance techniques. When America took the lead in modern dance innovation during the sixties, artists such as Martha Graham, Jose Limon, Paul Taylor, Alvin Ailey and Alwin Nikolais overwhelmed European audiences. The author traces the effects the Third Reich had on these artists, and shows the influence these key choreographers had on the developing American modern dance movement through the postwar years, concentrating in particular on Kurt Jooss and his Tanztheater. In Modern Dance in Germany and the United States: Crosscurrents and Influences Isa Partsch-Bergsohn discusses the phenomenon of the modern dance movement between 19 in an international context, focussing on its beginnings in Europe and its philosophy as formulated by the pioneers Dalcroze, Laban, Wigman and Jooss. She said that ' this man will give us an idea of a new, exciting piece, Carmina Burana, and that he would ' dance at the pianoР’В . CARMINA BURANA One day in fall 1943, Wigman introduced the composer Carl Orff to our composition class.

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