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Over the centuries, the work of painters, poets, and performers has often been the harbinger or catalyst of change, or perhaps only a reflection of the surrounding culture. Steve Scott believes the arts working within the context of the church can help us through the uncertain transition to the future. Cherished ideologies, philosophies, and modes of expression are being destroyed--yet out of this destruction comes the possibility for renewal ...

This comprehensive book looks at the philosophical side of music - how it is connected with emotions and morals - before giving biographies of selected composers, looking at various instruments, and ending with a critique of music in England. The four main sections are: Philosophical, Biographical, Instrumental and Music in England. A very wide variety of subjects are covered - short biographies and analyses of the works of the great composers...

Vulgar Latin is called the speech of the middle classes, as it grew out of Classic Latin. It is not an independent offshoot of Old Latin, it continues the Classic, not the primitive, vowel system. The Vulgar Latin period lasted from about 200 BC to about 600 AD and it is most sharply differentiated from Classic Latin in the last few centuries of this epoch. At the time of original publication in 1907, C. H. Grandgent was Professor of Romance L...

For two centuries the works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau have been read and reread and perpetually annotated. Rousseau's ideas on education were so original when first published in 1762 that they still have claims to novelty. In the cause of education he has been a great incitor of ideas in others, the initiator of the modern movement, the "leader" of most of the educators who came after him. Gabriel Compayré is the author of History of Pedagogy, ...