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In "The World of William Byrd", John Harley builds on his previous work, "William Byrd: Gentleman of the Chapel Royal (Ashgate, 1997)", in order to place the composer more clearly in his social context. He provides new information about Byrd's youthful musical training, and reveals how in his adult life his music emerged from a series of overlapping family, business and social networks. These networks and Byrd's navigation within and between them are examined, as are the lives of a number of the individuals comprising them. ... Read more

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Shows just how sick and twisted people were then...
This journal includes graphic depictions of human torture. It is not a romanticized version of a lovely plantation. Byrd shows his true nature with vivid depictions of how cruel he treated his "slaves". Great book to help research plantations.

Excellent glimpse of the routine of a colonial plantation
The diary is a colorful and frequently candidcommentary by William Byrd annotating the triumphs, obligations, and frustrations of a landed colonial gentleman.Although entries, at times, resort to bare bones notations of his meals, exercise, and literary pursuits, others offer key opportunities to view plantation management, slave issues, travel, sickness, economics, social life, and politics of the early 1700's.This diary is a complement to any personal library/study and required in any collection even faintly touching upon the early American and/or British colonial period.It's a shame that it and Wm Byrd's other diary are not available to the public at this time. ... Read more

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Masterpiece of American prose and history; early 18th-century account of surveying expedition. Official, printed account by Byrd on facing pages with private ms. secret-history, telling scandals, bawdy exploits of commissioners among Indians, settlers. Map, reproduction of manuscript pages. Introduction by Percy Adams.
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William Byrd II (1674-1744) was an important figure in the history of colonial Virginia: a founder of Richmond, an active participant in Virginia politics, and the proprietor of one of the colony's greatest plantations. But Byrd is best known today for his diaries. Considered essential documents of private life in colonial America, they offer readers an unparalleled glimpse into the world of a Virginia gentleman. This book joins Byrd's Diary, Secret Diary, and other writings in securing his reputation as one of the most interesting men in colonial America.

Edited and presented here for the first time, Byrd's commonplace book is a collection of moral wit and wisdom gleaned from reading and conversation. The nearly six hundred entries range in tone from hope to despair, trust to dissimulation, and reflect on issues as varied as science, religion, women, Alexander the Great, and the perils of love. A ten-part introduction presents an overview of Byrd's life and addresses such topics as his education and habits of reading and his endeavors to understand himself sexually, temperamentally, and religiously, as well as the history and cultural function of commonplacing. Extensive annotations discuss the sources, background, and significance of the entries. ... Read more

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Throughout his distinguished career, Philip Brett wrote about the music of the Tudor period. He carried out pathbreaking work on the life and music of William Byrd (c.1540-1623), both as an editor and a historian. He also studied other composers working during the period, including John Taverner, Thomas Tallis, Orlando Gibbons, and Thomas Weelkes. Collecting these influential essays together for the first time, this volume is a tribute to Brett's agile mind and to his incomparable skill at synthesizing history and musical analysis.
Byrd was a prominent court composer, but also a Catholic. Besides important instrumental music and English songs, he wrote a great deal of sacred music, some for his Protestant patrons, and some for his fellow Catholics who celebrated mass in secret. Ranging from the report of Brett's findings on the Paston manuscripts, an unpublished round-table paper that he delivered a few months before his untimely death,to his monograph-length study of Byrd's magnum opus, Gradualia, the essays collected here consider both sacred and secular music, and vocal and instrumental traditions, providing an intimate glimpse into what was unique about Byrd and his music. Elegantly written, with the particular brilliance for which Brett was known, this book opens a fascinating window onto one of the most fruitful periods of English musical history. ... Read more

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The Border, with its frantic commerce in drugs, human beings, electronic gadgets, money and other economic units, is a lens into the future of the "new world economy." But it’s misunderstood, disparaged, cheated and even sentimentalized by the national media portraying it from its Big Brother perspective. PURO BORDER is a remedy to that bias, creating a collage rooted in the best writing from both sides of the border, plus photographs and grafitti revealing life en la frontera.

In the 80s and 90s, with the militarization and fencing of the border, the United States became the prototype of the world’s largest gated community. The sibling of the militarization was NAFTA, the child of corporate and bureaucratic America. The headlines are everywhere: U.S. Marines shoot and kill 17-year-old Esequiel Hernandez in Redford, Texas; Donaldo Luis Colossio is assassinated in a Tijuana barrio; gargantuan drug busts and equally huge deliveries of stuff across the line.

But underneath the ink are millions of people who live and work in this cultural, linguistic and geographic soup. The indigenous peoples of the region, like the Tohono O’odham, will tell you that the border is a make-believe line. They know because it crosses through the heart of their ancient homeland. And in Juárez the line is real enough. There, over 300 young women, mostly workers in the booming maquila industries, have been disappeared. The media on the other side have mostly ignored this tragic fact.

Writers north of the line include Luis Alberto Urrea, Charles Bowden, Leslie Marmon Silko, Debbie Nathan, Robert Draper, Cecilia Balli, Terrence Poppa, Gary Paul Nabhan, Ofelia Zepeda, Bobby Byrd and Doug Peacock.

Mexican contributors include Francisco Vasquez Mendoza, Juan Villoro, Julian Herbert, Luis Humberto Crosthwaite, Roberto Castillo Udiarte and Julian Cardona. ... Read more

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This text provides a study of William Byrd's life and works, taking in to account the most up to date scholarship. The biographical section includes many facts about Byrd and his family, while in the chapters dealing with his music, an attempt is made to outline the chronology of his compositions. It begins with a detailed account of Byrd's life, based on an examination of original documents, which are quoted extensively. The book continues with a survey of Byrd's music which pays particular attention to its chronological development, and links it where possible to the events and background of his life. A series of appendices includes additional texts of important documents, and a summary catalogue of works. ... Read more

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William Byrd is the most celebrated English composer of the 16th and early 17th centuries. Widely studied and performed, his works are consider models of their time and continue to fascinate students and scholars centuries later. This book is an entirely revised edition of the original Byrd CRM published by Garland in 1987. In the intervening decade, a mountain of new Byrd research has occurred; meanwhile, some of the older references mentioned in the original CRM have become outdated or outmoded. Plus, new editions of Byrd's music have made his complete musical compositions available as never before. This book has been completely reworked and enlarged, and a new introduction to Byrd research will outline the latest thinking about the composer and his times. The body of the book has been increased from 1500 to 2000 entries, with particular emphasis on the last decade's explosion of book-length works on Byrd and his music. William Byrd will be a guide that serves as a ready reference for students and scholars as well as an interesting to read and useful book for anyone who wants to know where to begin to learn more about this important composer. ... Read more

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Mis-titled?
I was disappointed to learn that, despite the title, this is not really the "diary"of William Byrd II. Sections of hisdiary are included, but this is more properly understood as a biography, with relatively little primary material.The conclusions of an academic historian may be interesting, but if the book is billed as a "diary," I would prefer to see theprimary material in its entirety, and then conclude whether or not the professor has itright! ... Read more

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"A brilliant . . . analysis of the fragile hegemony and identities of colonial Virginia's elite men. . . . On the Sources of Patriarchal Rage compellingly illuminates the ragged edge where masculinity and colonial identity meet. . . .[the book] will undoubtedly send Jefferson scholars scurrying back to their notes. . . . Most significant, by being among the first to tackle the subject of masculinity in early America, Lockridge forces colonial scholars to reexamine the lives of men they thought they already knew too well."
—William and Mary Quarterly

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A twisted interpretation of the founding father's views
This is an attempt to understand the psychology of the late 18th century Virginia gentry by exploring the writings of some of its more prominent male menbers.Lockridge culls his evidence from the commonplace books of Thomas Jefferson and William Byrd, in which the subjects collected jokes, quotations, and parables that they found to be particularly illuminative.While Lockridge acknowledges that the perspectives of two men cannot be wholly transferable to their entire class, he hopes that his subjects are representational enough that some insight into the general beliefs of the gentry can be found in their writings.However, by focusing on narrow periods in the authors' lives in a strictly constructed context, while adding a heavy dose of his own (questionable) psychoanalysis, Lockridge excludes much evidence that could provide a more balanced assesment of gentry values.

Lockridge rests his case on the belief that the personality failings of Jefferson and Byrd were somehow representational of a broad misogynistic conviction among upper-class Virginia men.While continuously undermining his own argument by admitting that among the scores of commonplaces he has read, he found nothing similar to the "misogynistic rage" uncovered in the writings of these two men, he is nonetheless certain that these aberrations were somehow deeply reflective of true patriarchal hatred for women.Despite the fact that his own sources make clear that these expressions of misogyny appeared in response to personal failures with women (Byrd was spurned in romance, and Jefferson was unhappily controlled by his mother during his rebellious teenage years) Lockridge argues that it is not enough to agree that these outbursts were reflective of bad personal experiences with women, but that we need to "understand what mental categories are invoked on such an occasion."Understanding what Lockridge means by this would be far more enlightening, however. He goes on to insist that because entries concerning women appear in the same time frame as those about power and rebellion, they must be indisputably connected in the authors' minds, despite the fact that the two men had much to say about these themes in other contexts.

Despite the problems in the work, the conclusions Lockridge ultimately draws about patriarchy are rather convincing, though more concrete evidence than he has presented would be required to prove them.He argues that rather than fearing women for their sexual or political power, it was economic control that most consternated gentrymen, as widows had the ability to control their own property (though Jefferson's attempts to change the legal code so that females could inherit property from their parents would seem to contradict the idea that he personally felt this way.)

Lockridge claims that the point of his study was simply to show that males were under pressure from women because female economic power had the potential to undermine male hegemony in controlling the structure of their newly created world.This is certainly a valid and interesting point; it is thus all the more unfortunate that the body of his essay does little to reinforce it. ... Read more

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Of the handful of early American libraries of great significance, few rivaled the depth and breadth of William Byrd's collection. Made accessible for the first time, this library tells us much about its early American intellectual milieu. This exhaustive bibliography with its thorough introduction presents the great library and its collector in their rightful cultural context. Enhanced by a mammoth forty-page index to the over 2,500 items, this book will be an invaluable resource for literary and cultural historians, book collectors, and anyone who seeks a better understanding of reading and the circulation of ideas in early America. ... Read more