Herter Norton, M. D. (Mary Dows) 1892-1985

Overview

Works:	94 works in 336 publications in 3 languages and 9,584 library holdings
Genres:	Personal correspondence Criticism, interpretation, etc Poetry Sonnets Fiction Autobiographies Music Short stories Novels Autobiographical fiction
Roles:	Translator, Author, Arranger, Contributor, Editor, Recipient, Adapter, Creator
Classifications:	PT2635.I65, 831.912

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about M. D Herter Norton

The mysticism of Rilke: Sonnets to Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke ; translated by M.D. Herter Norton ... by George Zabriskie( )
Rilke as Letter Writer by Hermann J Weigand( Book )
Enlarged horizons ; Translations from the poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke ; by M.D. Herter Norton ... by Louis Untermeyer( )
by W.W. Norton & Company( )

Most widely held works by M. D Herter Norton

Classic and romantic music : a comprehensive survey by Friedrich Blume( Book )

15 editions published between 1970 and 1979 in 3 languages and held by 1,246 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This book examines the concepts of?classic? and?romantic? in their historical contexts and discusses the varying interpretations they have undergone, separately and in relation to each other. For each period, the author surveys the development of style characteristics, the treatment of rhythm, meter, and temp, of harmony and tonality, of motive and theme, genres and forms. He also considers such problems as national styles and the social position of music

Translations from the poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke by Rainer Maria Rilke( Book )

18 editions published between 1938 and 1993 in English and German and held by 1,004 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The four ages of music by Walter Wiora( Book )

5 editions published between 1965 and 1967 in English and German and held by 899 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The sonnets to Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke( Book )

24 editions published between 1942 and 2006 in English and German and held by 875 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Rilke's 'Sonnets to Orpheus' appear simple, even casual, at first reading, but have a content which resonates far beyond the familiar legend of Orpheus and Eurydice

The art of string quartet playing : practice, technique, and interpretation by M. D Herter Norton( Book )

19 editions published between 1962 and 1966 in English and held by 790 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Letters to a young poet by Rainer Maria Rilke( Book )

16 editions published between 1934 and 2004 in English and German and held by 731 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Letters written to Franz Xaver Kappus during the years 1903-1908

The notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke( Book )

19 editions published between 1930 and 2009 in English and German and held by 725 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A semi-autobiographical novel in the form of a diary. A young man "lives in a cheap room in Paris while his belongings rot in storage. Every person he sees seems to carry their death within them and with little but a library card to distinguish him from the city's untouchables, he thinks of the deaths, and ghosts, of his aristocratic family, of which he is the sole living descendant."--Goodreads

The story of music : an historical sketch of the changes in musical form by Paul Bekker( Book )

10 editions published between 1927 and 2013 in English and held by 601 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Hauptbeschreibung In Paul Bekkers ""Musikgeschichte"" verdichten sich die in seinen unmittelbar vorangehenden Schriften entwickelten Teilaspekte zu einer musikgeschichtlichen Gesamtschau, in die auch die Musik seiner Gegenwart integriert ist. Bekker ging es nicht um die Entfaltung musikgeschichtlichen Faktenreichtums, sondern sein Anliegen war es, dem Laien vorzuführen, ""wie wir Musikgeschichte überhaupt zu sehen und zu begreifen haben"", und so die ""innere Gesetzlichkeit der geschichtlichen Erscheinung begreiflich zu machen."" Ausdrücklich setzte er sich von der ""darwinistischen"" Vorstell

Wartime letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1914-1921 by Rainer Maria Rilke( Book )

10 editions published between 1940 and 1968 in English and German and held by 521 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Letters by Rainer Maria Rilke( Book )

4 editions published in 1945 in English and Undetermined and held by 472 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Stories of God by Rainer Maria Rilke( Book )

15 editions published between 1932 and 1992 in English and German and held by 308 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Rainer Maria Rilke felt that the world and all its joys most truly belonged to the young, and in 'Stories of God' he captured for them the magic, charm and wisdom of fairy and folk tales

Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke by Rainer Maria Rilke( Book )

2 editions published between 1948 and 1969 in English and held by 188 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910 by Rainer Maria Rilke( Book )

6 editions published between 1945 and 2007 in English and held by 183 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The art of the fugue by Johann Sebastian Bach( )

6 editions published in 1936 in No Linguistic content and Undetermined and held by 155 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Renaissance and Baroque music : a comprehensive survey by Friedrich Blume( Book )

18 editions published between 1967 and 1978 in English and German and held by 153 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Contains two essays written by Blume on the history of music in the Renaissance and the Baroque periods

String quartet playing; a new treatise on chamber music, its technic and interpretation by M. D Herter Norton( Book )

5 editions published in 1925 in English and held by 110 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The lay of the love and death of Cornet Christopher Rilke by Rainer Maria Rilke( Book )

5 editions published between 1959 and 1963 in English and held by 106 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke by Rainer Maria Rilke( Book )

4 editions published in 1932 in English and German and held by 99 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The short story of the death in action of Cornet Rilke of Langenau, standard-bearer of an Austrian cavalry regiment in Hungary during the Great Turkish War of 1663

Lovesongs : for soprano, violin and piano by Donald Waxman( )

1 edition published in 1989 in English and held by 54 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The art of the fugue = die kunst der fuge by Johann Sebastian Bach( Recording )

2 editions published in 1985 and held by 53 WorldCat member libraries worldwide