About the Book
This work presents a study of religion, history of science, "Pygmalion", "Medea", and expression and representation in music. This material is for use with Blocks 4-5 from the course.
Table of Contents:
CONTENTS: SECTION A: Studying Religion; A1 Eileen Barker, 'Transcendental meditation (TM)'; A2 Denise Denniston and Peter McWilliams, 'What TM is'; A3 John Bowker, 'I live by faith: the religions described'; A4 Eileen Barker, 'New religious movements: definitions, variety and numbers'; A5 Ninian Smart, 'The nature of a religion and the nature of secular worldviews'; A6 David R. Kinsley, Introduction: Benares'; A7 Jaya Chaliha and Bunny Gupta, 'Durga Puja in Calcutta'; SECTION B: Here's History of Science; B1 Alfred Russel Wallace, The South Wales farmer; B2 Alfred Russel Wallace, Among the Uaupe's; B3 Charles Darwin, Among the Fuegians; B4 Alfred Russel Wallace, A new kind of baby; B5 Alfred Russel Wallace, Natural selection; B6 Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay-Papuan boundary; B7 Alfred Russel Wallace, The origin of human races; B8 Alfred Russel Wallace, Notes of a se'ance with Miss Nicholl, 1866; B9 Alfred Russel Wallace, Notes of a se'ance with Miss Nicholl, 1867; B10 Alfred Russel Wallace, Human selection; SECTION C: Studying Pygmalion; C1 Ovid, Pygmalion in Love with a Statue; C2 Lise Pedersen, 'Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew vs. Shaw's Pygmalion: male chauvinism vs. women's lib?; SECTION D: Medea; D1 Reviews of a modern theatre performance of Medea at the Lyric, Hammersmith, 1986; D2 Ruth Hazel, 'Monsters and stars: Medea in a modern context'; D3 Lysias; D4 Xenophon, Memorabilia; D5a Demosthenes 59.16 Quotation of law); D5b Demosthenes, 59.122; D6 Aristophanes, Frogs; D7 Aristophanes, Women at the Thesmophoria (Festival Time); D8a James Morwood, extract from Medea; D8b David Stuttard, extract from Medea; D8c David Wiles, extract from Medea; D8d Augusta Webster, The Medea of Euripides; D9 Margaret Williamson, 'A woman's place in Euripides' Medea'; D10 P.E. Easterling, 'The infanticide in Euripides' Medea'; SECTION E: Expression and Representation in Music; E1 Donald Macintyre, 'The inheritance'; E2 'The song of a girl ravished away by the fairies in South Uist'; E3 Leonard Bernstein, Chichester Psalms; E4 White Man Sleeps; E5 Penny Clough, 'A survey of the younger generation of South African composers'; E6 Benjamin Britten, Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings (1943); E7 John Culshaw, "Ben" a tribute to Benjamin Britten'; E8 Dmitri Shostakovitch, Testimony; E9 J.S. Bach, Brandenburg Concerto No.2; E10 Howard Mayer Brown, 'Pedantry or liberation? A sketch of the historical performance movement'; E11 John Duarte, 'Edward Elgar'; E12 R. Philip, 'Implications for the future'; E13 Sylvia Olden Lee and Evelyn Simpson-Curenton, 'Scandalize my name'; E14 Cherubini, Me'de'e , (1797), 'Numi, venite a me'; E15 Mozart, Don Giovanni (1787) 'Finch'han del vino'; E16 Maude Vale'rie White, 'The throstle'; E17 Anon., 'Kiss me my love and welcome/Drops of brandy'; E18 J.O. Urmson, 'The ethics of musical performance'; E19 Joachim Kaiser, 'Music and recordings'; E20 Hugh Aldersey-Williams, 'Sound designs that release the music of architecture'; E21 Ailie Munro, 'Setting the scene'; E22 Arnold Schoenberg, 'Musical dynamics 1929'; E23 Arnold Schoenberg, 'Vibrato c .1940';
