thematic bibliography
21symphony — /sim feuh nee/, n., pl. symphonies. 1. Music. a. an elaborate instrumental composition in three or more movements, similar in form to a sonata but written for an orchestra and usually of far grander proportions and more varied elements. b. an… …
22Chamber music — For other uses, see Chamber music (disambiguation). Frederick the Great plays a flute concert in his summer palace Sanssouci; painting by Adolph Menzel Chamber music is a form o …
23History of cartography — The Fra Mauro map, one of the greatest memorial of medieval cartography, was made around 1450 by the Venetian monk Fra Mauro. It is a circular world map drawn on parchment and set in a wooden frame, about two meters in diameter Cartography (from… …
24Marc Lacroix — Marc Guy Albert Marie Lacroix [pronunciation: mɑːk lakʁwa ] is a biochemist (educated at University of Liège) and a researcher (b: 28 April 1963 in Verviers, Wallonia, Belgium) who specializes in breast cancer biology, metastasis and… …
25Lorenzo Domínguez — (1901 1963)Lorenzo Domínguez (Santiago de Chile 1901 Mendoza, Argentina 1963) was a prolific Latin American sculptor whose art is a deliberate and personal synthesis of pre Columbian and Rapa Nui (Easter Island) aesthetics with a European… …
26Spanish literature — Introduction the body of literary works produced in Spain. Such works fall into three major language divisions: Castilian, Catalan, and Galician. This article provides a brief historical account of each of these three literatures and… …
27SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY, JEWISH — Fantasy is a genre of literature in which realistic narratives are disrupted by unnatural or unexplainable events. The term Science Fiction (SF) emerged during the 1930s as a catchall descriptor for a publishing category with roots traceable to… …
28Symphonic poem — A symphonic poem or tone poem is a piece of orchestral music in one movement in which some extramusical program provides a narrative or illustrative element. This programme may come from a poem, a story or novel, a painting, or another source.… …
29Symphonic Poems (Liszt) — The Symphonic Poems (S.95 107) are a series of 13 orchestral works by Hungarian composer Franz Liszt. The first twelve were composed in the decade 1848 58 (though some use material conceived earlier); the last, Von der Wiege bis zum Grabe ( From… …
30Maurice Merleau-Ponty — Full name Maurice Merleau Ponty Born 14 March 1908 Died 4 May 1961 Era 20th century philosophy …
