The Musical Charlatan

The Musical Charlatan
Author: Johann Kuhnau
Publisher: Camden House
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1997
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781571131423

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This first English translation of a late Baroque German novel makes available one of the most interesting and entertaining works of the seventeenth century. Kuhnau, a noted musician, composer and editor, writes in an unusually realistic style, describing the chequered career of the charlatan Caraffa, who believes that in order to succeed in the musical world in Germany, one must pretend to be an Italian. His tricks and deceptions, which his German colleagues see through with little difficulty, provide memorable comic scenes, and at the same time the book gives an informative picture of every-day life, especially that of the contemporary musical world in particular.

Charlatan

Charlatan
Author: Pope Brock
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2008-02-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0307409651

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The inspiration for the 2016 Sundance Film Festival documentary, NUTS!. “An extraordinary saga of the most dangerous quack of all time...entrancing” –USA Today In 1917, John R. Brinkley–America’s most brazen con man–introduced an outlandish surgical method for restoring fading male virility. It was all nonsense, but thousands of eager customers quickly made “Dr.” Brinkley one of America’s richest men–and a national celebrity. The great quack buster Morris Fishbein vowed to put the country’ s “most daring and dangerous” charlatan out of business, yet each effort seemed only to spur Brinkley to new heights of ingenuity, and the worlds of advertising, broadcasting, and politics soon proved to be equally fertile grounds for his potent brand of flimflam. Culminating in a decisive courtroom confrontation, Charlatan is a marvelous portrait of a boundlessly audacious rogue on the loose in an America ripe for the bamboozling.

Charlatans

Charlatans
Author: Robin Cook
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2017-08-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 073521249X

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The explosive new thriller from New York Times-bestselling author and master of the medical thriller Robin Cook. Newly minted chief resident at Boston Memorial Hospital Noah Rothauser is swamped in his new position, from managing the surgical schedules to dealing with the fallouts from patient deaths. Known for its medical advances, the famed teaching hospital has fitted several ORs as “hybrid operating rooms of the future”—an improvement that seems positive until an anesthesia error during a routine procedure results in the death of an otherwise healthy man. Noah suspects Dr. William Mason, an egotistical, world-class surgeon, of an error during the operation and of tampering with the patient’s record afterward. But Mason is quick to blame anesthesiologist, Dr. Ava London. When more anesthesia-related deaths start to occur, Noah is forced to question all of the residents on his staff, including Ava, and he quickly realizes there’s more to her than what he sees. A social-media junkie, Ava has created multiple alternate personas for herself on the Internet. With his own job and credibility now in jeopardy, Noah must decide which doctor is at fault and who he can believe—before any more lives are lost.

The Musician in Literature in the Age of Bach

The Musician in Literature in the Age of Bach
Author: Stephen Rose
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2011-02-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1107004284

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Analysing novels and autobiographies from Bach's Germany, this book presents new insights into the lives, mindset and status of musicians.

The Musician as Entrepreneur, 1700-1914

The Musician as Entrepreneur, 1700-1914
Author: William Weber
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2004-11-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780253344564

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Leading international scholars consider the socio-economic history of Classical and Romantic musicians.

The Book of Charlatans

The Book of Charlatans
Author: Jamāl al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Jawbarī
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 528
Release: 2020-11-10
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1479897639

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Uncovering the professional secrets of con artists and swindlers in the medieval Middle East The Book of Charlatans is a comprehensive guide to trickery and scams as practiced in the thirteenth century in the cities of the Middle East, especially in Syria and Egypt. The author, al-Jawbarī, was well versed in the practices he describes and may well have been a reformed charlatan himself. Divided into thirty chapters, his book reveals the secrets of everyone from “Those Who Claim to be Prophets” to “Those Who Claim to Have Leprosy” and “Those Who Dye Horses.” The material is informed in part by the author’s own experience with alchemy, astrology, and geomancy, and in part by his extensive research. The work is unique in its systematic, detailed, and inclusive approach to a subject that is by nature arcane and that has relevance not only for social history but also for the history of science. Covering everything from invisible writing to doctoring gemstones and quack medicine, The Book of Charlatans opens a fascinating window into a subculture of beggars’ guilds and professional con artists in the medieval Arab world. A bilingual Arabic-English edition.

The Music of Pavel Haas

The Music of Pavel Haas
Author: Martin Čurda
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2020-06-03
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0429781733

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The Czech composer Pavel Haas (1899–1944) is commonly positioned in the history of twentieth-century music as a representative of Leoš Janáček’s compositional school and as one of the Jewish composers imprisoned by the Nazis in the concentration camp of Terezín (Theresienstadt). However, the nature of Janáček’s influence remains largely unexplained and the focus on the context of the Holocaust tends to yield a one-sided view of Haas’s oeuvre. The existing scholarship offers limited insight into Haas’s compositional idiom and does not sufficiently explain the composer’s position with respect to broader aesthetic trends and artistic networks in inter-war Czechoslovakia and beyond. This book is the first attempt to provide a comprehensive (albeit necessarily selective) discussion of Haas’s music since the publication of Lubomír Peduzzi’s ‘life and work’ monograph in 1993. It provides the reader with an enhanced understanding of Haas’s music through analytical and hermeneutical interpretation as well as cultural and aesthetic contextualisation, and thus reveal the rich nuances of Haas’s multi-faceted work which have not been sufficiently recognised so far.

The Best of The Charlatans

The Best of The Charlatans
Author: Charlatans UK (Musical group)
Publisher: Faber Music Limited
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2005
Genre: Rock music
ISBN: 9780571524471

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Features 26 of The Charlatan's best-loved songs, transcribed in guitar tab, complete with guitar chord boxes.

The Charlatan

The Charlatan
Author: Jim Munroe (magician.)
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Christian biography
ISBN: 9780983346241

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Jim Munroe tells his story of how he lived his passion for amazing audiences as a magician. MAZE, more than just a magic show, has entertained crowds and raised thought-provoking discussions. Life-threatening leukemia, doubts, heartache, loss and other lows in his life, matched by faith, restoration, and success speak to our own struggles and dreams.

The Singer and the Charlatan

The Singer and the Charlatan
Author: D. C. Fergerson
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2016-12-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9781540528032

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Leanna Moonbody has big dreams and even bigger plans. Not content to merely play for coins on the streets of Kingsfield, Leanna has her eyes on the horizon. With plans to move to the music capital of Saul and spend her days singing at the amphitheater, Leanna packs her bags and takes off on the journey of a lifetime. Along the way she's joined by a motley crew of adventurers who are as hilarious as they are haphazard. With a precarious trickster in their midst, Leanna's simple move turns upside-down as she and new pal Priestess Trixi make their way to Saul with a following in tow. Dodging lovesick stalkers, deranged halflings, and gathering adoring fans as they go, Trixi and Leanna take off into the sunset, ready to make their dreams come true in the most ridiculous ways possible.