Williams The Bells of Russia

History and Technology
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-5463-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 58, 298 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Williams, Edward V.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Jazz
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Antiquitäten, Sammelobjekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

FrontMatter, pg. i
Contents, pg. vii
Illustrations, pg. xi
Tables, pg. xiii
Preface, pg. xv
Acknowledgments, pg. xvii
Author's Explanatory Notes, pg. xix
1. Voices of Ancient Trumpets, pg. 3
2. Holy Wood and Holy Iron, pg. 10
3. Bells in the Medieval World, pg. 20
4. The Rise of Bells in Russia, pg. 31
5. Bells in Muscovite Russia, pg. 44
6. Bells in Imperial Russia, pg. 57
7. Tower Clocks, pg. 69
8. Tuned Bells in Imperial Russia, pg. 81
9. The Russian Bell: Between Europe and Asia, pg. 97
10. The Russian Bell: From The Foundry to the Bell Tower, pg. 114
11. The Muscovite Crescendo in Bell Founding, pg. 135
12. The Tale of Tsar-Kolokol, pg. 148
13. The Last of Russia's Great Bells, pg. 166
14. Bronze Avatars of a Religio-Political Ideology, pg. 173
Appendices, pg. 177
Notes, pg. 187
Glossary, pg. 243
Bibliography, pg. 247
Index, pg. 259