Daphnis and Chloe François Michaud's History of the

François Michaud's History of the Crusades

Great classic by Icelandic poet/chieftain chronicles the reigns of 16 high kings descended from the warrior-wizard god Odin

books on musical spirits

In an informative Foreword to this edition

Daphnis and Chloe François Michaud's History of theComposed for Diaghilev and the Ballet Russes, Daphnis and Chlo was drawn from an ancient Greek fable about a pair of abandoned infants who grow up together, fall in love, and are delivered from the treachery of pirates by the god Pan. Upon receipt of the commission for this work, Ravel announced his intention to "compose a vast musical fresco, less scrupulous as to archaism than faithful to the Greece of my dreams, which inclined readily enough to