Bøger af Owen Wright

The gut-wrenching story of how one of Australia’s finest surfers overcame a brain injury and despair to win an Olympic medal.

Four bright and creative young elementary students decided to write a story for their teacher, family, and friends.

The ??yat al-ma?l?b by Ibn Kurr is the only theoretical text of any substance that can be considered representative of musicological discourse in Cairo during the first half of the fourteenth century CE. Owen Wright provides the first modern edition of the text itself, together with a detailed glossary.

Analyses a single recording of classical Persian music made by Touraj Kiaras, a distinguished singer, accompanied by four noted instrumentalists. This book presents an analysis that identifies salient structural features, whether of the individual components or of the whole, in a way accessible to the western reader.

Demetrius Cantemir has several reputations, for Romanians he is a national cultural figure; on the intellectual map of 18th-century Europe he is seen as an important historian; and in Turkey, he is recognized for his music. This text examines Cantemir's life and studies his work in these fields.