Hardly Children

Childhood acute leukemias are one of the main causes of death in children aged 1 to 14 years in some countries; and unfortunately, we have been unable to prevent it. Certainly, a good parcel of it is due to the poor understanding about its etiology. This book aims to describe the most important theories and hypothesis regarding childhood acute leukemia. Written by the most outstanding researchers in the field, this book intends to contribute to a greater understanding of the etiology of this disease.

Romantic and late-Romantic musicological literature tended to conceive the history of music in terms of a succession of Great Men (women were normally ignored), frequently neglecting the relationship between a genius composer and his or her cultural context, as well as the aesthetics of the era in dialogue with that of the preceding generations. In the case of P. I. Tchaikovsky, this approach is even more flawed than in that of other composers. Undeniably, the great Russian musician was a genius in his own right. Equally undeniably, his music can hardly be understood in isolation from its cultural framework, and, in particular, from the composer’s interest in the music of earlier musicians of the Classical and Romantic era.