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  • THE ROUTLEDGE INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK OF EQUITY AND INCLUSION IN EDUCATION
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    THE ROUTLEDGE INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK OF EQUITY AND INCLUSION IN EDUCATION
    PAUL DOWNES, GUOFANG LI, LORE VAN PRAAG, STEPHEN LAMB
    Providing a cornerstone to the global debate on equity and inclusion within education, this handbook explores equity issues pertaining to poverty and social class, race, ethnicity, sociocultural, sociolinguistic exclusion in education and recognises intersectionality and gender across these dimensions. This carefully curated collection of essays written by international experts...

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  • MUSIC AND SENTIMENTALISM IN THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES
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    MUSIC AND SENTIMENTALISM IN THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES
    STEPHEN DOWNES
    In a wide-ranging study of sentimentalism’s significance for styles, practices and meanings of music in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a series of interpretations scrutinizes musical expressions of sympathetic responses to suffering and the longing to belong. The book challenges hierarchies of artistic value and the associated denigration of sentimental feeling in gend...

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  • MODELS AND MODELING IN THE SCIENCES
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    MODELS AND MODELING IN THE SCIENCES
    STEPHEN M. DOWNES
    Biologists, climate scientists, and economists all rely on models to move their work forward. In this book, Stephen M. Downes explores the use of models in these and other fields to introduce readers to the various philosophical issues that arise in scientific modeling. Readers learn that paying attention to models plays a crucial role in appraising scientific work. This book f...

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  • SZYMANOWSKI, EROTICISM AND THE VOICES OF MYTHOLOGY
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    SZYMANOWSKI, EROTICISM AND THE VOICES OF MYTHOLOGY
    STEPHEN DOWNES
    The desire to voice the artistic revelation of the truth of a precarious, multi-faceted, yet integrated self lies behind much of Szymanowski's work. This self is projected through the voices of deities who speak languages of love. The unifying figure is Eros, who may be embodied as Dionysus, Christ, Narcissus or Orpheus, and the gospel he proclaims tells of the resurrection and...

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  • THE MUSE AS EROS
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    THE MUSE AS EROS
    STEPHEN DOWNES
    The Muse has long been figured as a divine or erotically alluring consort to the virile male artist, who may inspire him or lead him to the edge of madness. This book explores the changing cultural expressions of the relationship between the male artist with a beloved, imagined or desired Muse, to offer new and penetrating perspectives on musical representations and transformat...

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  • THE SZYMANOWSKI COMPANION
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    THE SZYMANOWSKI COMPANION
    STEPHEN DOWNES
    The Polish composer Karol Szymanowski is one of the most fascinating musical figures of the early twentieth century. His works included four symphonies, two violin concertos, the operas Hagith and King Roger, the ballet-pantomime Harnasie, the oratorio Stabat Mater, as well as numerous piano, violin, vocal and choral compositions. The profile and popularity of Szymanowski's mus...

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  • AESTHETICS OF MUSIC
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    AESTHETICS OF MUSIC
    STEPHEN DOWNES
    Aesthetics of Music: Musicological Approaches is an anthology of fourteen essays, each addressing a single key concept or pair of terms in the aesthetics of music, collectively serving as an authoritative work on musical aesthetics that remains as close to 'the music' as possible. Each essay includes musical examples from works in the 18th, 19th, and into the 20th century. Topi...

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