1985 celebrated the 300th anniversary of the births of Bach, Handel and Scarlatti. This volume covers all three composers and contains essays from an international team of scholars. Some essays make a contribution towards a better understanding of one or other composer, but at least half of them are concerned with ideas connecting two or even all three of them. The essays are concerned with many aspects of the music - technical, chronological, critical, speculative, theoretical and (importantly) practical - and the distinguished contributors have often endeavoured to ask questions rather than jump to conclusions. Every essay makes fresh points and can open up new avenues for players and (in the broadest sense) students, especially in the present climate of wishing to return to 'authentic conditions of performance'.

In a collection of real-life stories of motherhood, a columnist and author of Fifty Acres and a Poodle chronicles the joys and challenges of raising children on Sweetwater Farm, from the spring-time births of a number of farm animals to her teenage daughter Anna's first summer romance. Reprint. 22,500 first printing.

In a collection of real-life stories of motherhood, a columnist and author of Fifty Acres and a Poodle chronicles the joys and challenges of raising children on Sweetwater Farm, from the spring-time births of a number of farm animals to her teenage daughter Anna's first summer romance. 20,000 first printing.

In this mostly light-hearted yet occasionally devastating exploration of her school life, Myerson attempts to answer the question with all the energy and courage she never quite managed to put into school PE.

The author of Fifty Acres and a Poodle continues her story as she deals with her own mother's grave illness, her struggle to understand her mother, and her own journey to motherhood, in a heartwarming account highlighted by a cast of old and new characters. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

A columnist and urban refugee describes her odyssey from city life to rural bliss and from single to married in a whimsical account of a first year on a fifty-acre farm in western Pennsylvania, as she describes her new two- and four-legged friends, including Sassy the mule, her wedding present to her new husband. Reprint.

A columnist and urban refugee describes her odyssey from city life to rural bliss and from single to married in a whimsical account of a first year on a fifty-acre farm in western Pennsylvania, as she describes her new two- and four-legged friends, including Sassy the mule, her wedding present to her new husband. 15,000 first printing.

Twenty-four women born in 1900 reflect on a century of social and political changes, discussing the triumphs of family and career, struggles with discrimination, and the heartbreaks of losing spouses to war and death camps. (view table of contents)

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