Awesome Eightieth Album and Music Offers

Charles Rosen, the pianist and man of letters, is perhaps the single most influential writer on music of the past half-century While Rosen's vast range as a writer and performer is encyclopedic, it has focused particularly on the living "canonical" repertory extending from Bach to Boulez. Inspired in its liveliness and variety of critical approaches by Charles Rosen's challenging work, Variations on the Canon offers original essays by some of the world's most eminent musical scholars. Contributors address such issues as style and compositional technique, genre, influence and modeling, and reception history; develop insights afforded by close examination of compositional sketches; and consider what language and metaphors might most meaningfully convey insights into music. However diverse the modes of inquiry, each essay sheds new light on the works of those composers posterity has deemed central to the modern Western musical tradition. Contributors: Pierre Boulez, Scott Burnham, Elliott Carter, Robert Curry, Walter Frisch, David Gable, Philip Gossett, Jeffrey Kallberg, Joseph Kerman, Richard Kramer, William Kinderman, Lewis Lockwood, Sir Charles Mackerras, Robert L. Marshall, Robert P. Morgan, Charles Rosen, Julian Rushton, David Schulenberg, László Somfai, Leo Treitler, James Webster, and Robert Winter. Robert Curry is principal of the Conservatorium High School and honorary senior lecturer in the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Sydney; David Gable is assistant professor of music at Clark-Atlanta University; Robert L. Marshall is Louis, Frances, and Jeffrey Sachar Professor Emeritus of Music at Brandeis University..
Price: $53.94 [Notify me when price goes down.]

In this affirmative journal, May Sarton describes both hardships and joys in the daily round of her life in old age--physical struggles counterbalanced by the satisfactions of friendship, nature, critical recognition, and creative spark. Readers both old and new will cherish this latest dispatch from her ongoing journey. Photos..
Price: $4.48 [Notify me when price goes down.]

The Anglo-American Trade Directory is a unique and comprehensive guide to over 18,000 British and American companies and their transatlantic business links. Published in association with the American Chamber of Commerce (UK), it has established itself as the leading source of information on these companies. In addition, it provides a wealth of valuable material for businesses wishing to establish relations or set up new companies on either side of the Atlantic. The Directory provides

a comprehensive list of over 18,000 companies, contact names, market sectors, turnover figures, etc.

easy to useincluding alphabetical, classified and regional listings

well established and completely up to date.
Price: $98.55 [Notify me when price goes down.]

These two volumes contain eighteen invited papers by distinguished mathematicians in honor of the eightieth birthday of Israel M. Gelfand, one of the most remarkable mathematicians of our time. Gelfand has played a crucial role in the development of functional analysis during the last half-century. His work and his philosophy have in fact helped shape our understanding of the term 'functional analysis'. The papers in these volumes largely concern areas in which Gelfand has a very strong interest today, including geometric quantum field theory, representation theory, combinatorial structures underlying various 'continuous' constructions, quantum groups and geometry.

The second of the two volumes contains the somewhat more 'geometric' papers, although such a designation is to a certain extent arbitrary, because of the breadth of the papers.

Volume 2: 1996 * 380 pp., 23 illus. * Hardcover * $54.50 * ISBN 0-8176-3855-5 * Progress in Mathematics, Volume 132 Two Volume Set: $84.50 * ISBN 0-8176-3860-1

PM 131 / Vol. I CONTRIBUTORS: K. Aomoto • R. Brylinksi and B. Kostant • I.B. Frenkel & V.G. Turaev • M. Kapranov and D. Kazhdan • M. Kontsevich and S. Vishik • G. Lusztig • O. Mathieu • C. Moeglin • I.M. Singer • E. Witten.
Price: $38.99 [Notify me when price goes down.]