Author: Michel Poizat
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801423888
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
French in 1986, is now available in Arthur Denner's fluid and sensitive English translation. Predictably, Poizat's route is not at all a conventional one. Rather than taking as his point of departure the intentions of composers and librettists, he is primarily concerned with the expectations and desires of the audience. He reports on an informal group interview with overnight standees on the Paris Opera House steps as they compare notes on how opera became an addiction.
The Angel's Cry
Author: Michel Poizat
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801423888
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
French in 1986, is now available in Arthur Denner's fluid and sensitive English translation. Predictably, Poizat's route is not at all a conventional one. Rather than taking as his point of departure the intentions of composers and librettists, he is primarily concerned with the expectations and desires of the audience. He reports on an informal group interview with overnight standees on the Paris Opera House steps as they compare notes on how opera became an addiction.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801423888
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
French in 1986, is now available in Arthur Denner's fluid and sensitive English translation. Predictably, Poizat's route is not at all a conventional one. Rather than taking as his point of departure the intentions of composers and librettists, he is primarily concerned with the expectations and desires of the audience. He reports on an informal group interview with overnight standees on the Paris Opera House steps as they compare notes on how opera became an addiction.
A Performer's Guide to Renaissance Music, Second Edition
Author: Jeffery Kite-Powell
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253348668
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Vocal/choral issues. The solo voice in the Renaissance / Ellen Hargis ; On singing and the vocal ensemble I / Alexander Blachly ; On singing and the vocal ensemble II / Alejandro Planchart ; Practical matters of vocal performance / Anthony Rooley -- Wind, string, and percussion instruments. Recorder ; Renaissance flute / Herbert Myers ; Capped double reeds : crumhorn--Kortholt--Schreierpfeif / Jeffery Kite-Powell ; Shawm and curtal / Ross Duffin ; Racket : rackett, Rankett (Ger.), cervelas (Fr.), cervello (It.) / Jeffery Kite-Powell ; Bagpipe / Adam Knight Gilbert ; Cornett / Douglas Kirk ; Sackbut / Stewart Carter -- Bowed instruments / Wendy Gillespie -- The violin / David Douglass -- Plucked instruments / Paul O'Dette -- The harp / Herbert Myers -- Early percussion / Benjamin Harms -- Keyboard instruments / Jack Ashworth -- Practical considerations/instrumentation. Proto-continuo / Jack Ashworth and Paul O'Dette ; Mixed ensembles / James Tyler ; Large ensembles / Jeffery Kite-Powell ; Rehearsal tips for directors / Adam Knight Gilbert ; Performance editions / Frederick Gable -- Performance practice. Tuning and temperament / Ross Duffin ; Pitch and transposition / Herbert Myers ; Ornamentation in sixteenth-century music / Bruce Dickey ; Pronunciation guides / Ross Duffin -- Aspects of theory. Eight brief rules for composing a si placet altus, ca. 1470-1510 / Adam Knight Gilbert ; Renaissance theory / Sarah Mead -- Introduction to Renaissance dance. Early Renaissance dance, 1450-1520 / Yvonne Kendall -- For the early music director. Starting from scratch / Jeffery Kite-Powell.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253348668
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Vocal/choral issues. The solo voice in the Renaissance / Ellen Hargis ; On singing and the vocal ensemble I / Alexander Blachly ; On singing and the vocal ensemble II / Alejandro Planchart ; Practical matters of vocal performance / Anthony Rooley -- Wind, string, and percussion instruments. Recorder ; Renaissance flute / Herbert Myers ; Capped double reeds : crumhorn--Kortholt--Schreierpfeif / Jeffery Kite-Powell ; Shawm and curtal / Ross Duffin ; Racket : rackett, Rankett (Ger.), cervelas (Fr.), cervello (It.) / Jeffery Kite-Powell ; Bagpipe / Adam Knight Gilbert ; Cornett / Douglas Kirk ; Sackbut / Stewart Carter -- Bowed instruments / Wendy Gillespie -- The violin / David Douglass -- Plucked instruments / Paul O'Dette -- The harp / Herbert Myers -- Early percussion / Benjamin Harms -- Keyboard instruments / Jack Ashworth -- Practical considerations/instrumentation. Proto-continuo / Jack Ashworth and Paul O'Dette ; Mixed ensembles / James Tyler ; Large ensembles / Jeffery Kite-Powell ; Rehearsal tips for directors / Adam Knight Gilbert ; Performance editions / Frederick Gable -- Performance practice. Tuning and temperament / Ross Duffin ; Pitch and transposition / Herbert Myers ; Ornamentation in sixteenth-century music / Bruce Dickey ; Pronunciation guides / Ross Duffin -- Aspects of theory. Eight brief rules for composing a si placet altus, ca. 1470-1510 / Adam Knight Gilbert ; Renaissance theory / Sarah Mead -- Introduction to Renaissance dance. Early Renaissance dance, 1450-1520 / Yvonne Kendall -- For the early music director. Starting from scratch / Jeffery Kite-Powell.
Four Tragedies
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780140434583
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 964
Book Description
Contains Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780140434583
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 964
Book Description
Contains Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth.
Diabolus in Musica
Author: Slayer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781575601434
Category : Heavy metal (Music)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Matching folio featuring all 11 songs, including: Bitter Peace * Stain of Mind * Perversions of Pain * and Screaming from the Sky. Plus photos and background to the album.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781575601434
Category : Heavy metal (Music)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Matching folio featuring all 11 songs, including: Bitter Peace * Stain of Mind * Perversions of Pain * and Screaming from the Sky. Plus photos and background to the album.
King Lear
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780140707243
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Powerful tragedy of an aging king, betrayed by his daughters, robbed of his kingdom, descending into madness. Perhaps the bleakest of Shakespeare's tragic dramas, complete with explanatory footnotes.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780140707243
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Powerful tragedy of an aging king, betrayed by his daughters, robbed of his kingdom, descending into madness. Perhaps the bleakest of Shakespeare's tragic dramas, complete with explanatory footnotes.
Diabolus in Musica
Author: Richard Rees
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
To his adoring public his violin playing was divine; to Holy Church he was of The Devil. Written and published as a screenplay, Diabolus in Musica tells the story of Niccolo Paganini, the world's first "music idol" and greatest ever violinist. After 40 years filling theatres across Europe, dies in Nice, Southern France, at the age of 58, his parish priest and embittered enemy, Romolo Caferelli, refuses him a burial and Requiem Mass, claiming that his mesmeric music came from a Faustian pact he made with The Devil, not his own genius. Contested by Paganini's illegitimate son, honouring a promise demanded of him by his father when Achille was five years old, the story of Paganini's life is told through a Papal Inquiry.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
To his adoring public his violin playing was divine; to Holy Church he was of The Devil. Written and published as a screenplay, Diabolus in Musica tells the story of Niccolo Paganini, the world's first "music idol" and greatest ever violinist. After 40 years filling theatres across Europe, dies in Nice, Southern France, at the age of 58, his parish priest and embittered enemy, Romolo Caferelli, refuses him a burial and Requiem Mass, claiming that his mesmeric music came from a Faustian pact he made with The Devil, not his own genius. Contested by Paganini's illegitimate son, honouring a promise demanded of him by his father when Achille was five years old, the story of Paganini's life is told through a Papal Inquiry.
From the Erotic to the Demonic
Author: Derek B. Scott
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195343778
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
From the Erotic to the Demonic demonstrates how different musical styles construct ideas of class, sexuality, and ethnic identity. This book will serve as a model for musicologists who want to take a postmodern approach to their inquiries. The clear and lively arguments are supported by ninety musical examples taken from such diverse sources as opera, symphonic music, jazz, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century popular songs. Derek Scott offers new insights on a range of "high" and "low" musical styles, and the cultures that produced them.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195343778
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
From the Erotic to the Demonic demonstrates how different musical styles construct ideas of class, sexuality, and ethnic identity. This book will serve as a model for musicologists who want to take a postmodern approach to their inquiries. The clear and lively arguments are supported by ninety musical examples taken from such diverse sources as opera, symphonic music, jazz, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century popular songs. Derek Scott offers new insights on a range of "high" and "low" musical styles, and the cultures that produced them.
Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, and Radical Modernism
Author: Vincent Sherry
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195360311
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis developed a highly experimental art; they were attracted simultaneously to political programs remarkably backward in outlook--the autocracies of Fascist Italy and Germany. That paradox, central to the problematic achievement of Anglo-American modernism, is freshly addressed in this study. Here Sherry examines the influence of music and painting on literature, presents original research on European intellectual history, and proposes a new understanding of ideology as a force in the literary imagination. Following the example of continental ideologues, the English modernists use the material of aesthetic experience to prove truths of human nature, making art the basis for social values and recommendations. This sensibility enriches their work, shaping the varied textures of Pound's Cantos and the complex designs of Lewis's painting and fiction, but their mastery of avant-garde techniques endorses the authority of an antique state. Sherry returns their "totalitarian synthesis" of art and politics to its originating moment, following its trajectory from 1910 to the eve of World War II.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195360311
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis developed a highly experimental art; they were attracted simultaneously to political programs remarkably backward in outlook--the autocracies of Fascist Italy and Germany. That paradox, central to the problematic achievement of Anglo-American modernism, is freshly addressed in this study. Here Sherry examines the influence of music and painting on literature, presents original research on European intellectual history, and proposes a new understanding of ideology as a force in the literary imagination. Following the example of continental ideologues, the English modernists use the material of aesthetic experience to prove truths of human nature, making art the basis for social values and recommendations. This sensibility enriches their work, shaping the varied textures of Pound's Cantos and the complex designs of Lewis's painting and fiction, but their mastery of avant-garde techniques endorses the authority of an antique state. Sherry returns their "totalitarian synthesis" of art and politics to its originating moment, following its trajectory from 1910 to the eve of World War II.
The Music Instinct
Author: Philip Ball
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199780072
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
From Bach fugues to Indonesian gamelan, from nursery rhymes to rock, music has cast its light into every corner of human culture. But why music excites such deep passions, and how we make sense of musical sound at all, are questions that have until recently remained unanswered. Now in The Music Instinct, award-winning writer Philip Ball provides the first comprehensive, accessible survey of what is known--and still unknown--about how music works its magic, and why, as much as eating and sleeping, it seems indispensable to humanity. Deftly weaving together the latest findings in brain science with history, mathematics, and philosophy, The Music Instinct not only deepens our appreciation of the music we love, but shows that we would not be ourselves without it. The Sunday Times hailed it as "a wonderful account of why music matters," with Ball's "passion for music evident on every page."
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199780072
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
From Bach fugues to Indonesian gamelan, from nursery rhymes to rock, music has cast its light into every corner of human culture. But why music excites such deep passions, and how we make sense of musical sound at all, are questions that have until recently remained unanswered. Now in The Music Instinct, award-winning writer Philip Ball provides the first comprehensive, accessible survey of what is known--and still unknown--about how music works its magic, and why, as much as eating and sleeping, it seems indispensable to humanity. Deftly weaving together the latest findings in brain science with history, mathematics, and philosophy, The Music Instinct not only deepens our appreciation of the music we love, but shows that we would not be ourselves without it. The Sunday Times hailed it as "a wonderful account of why music matters," with Ball's "passion for music evident on every page."
Franz Liszt: The virtuoso years, 1811-1847
Author: Alan Walker
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801494215
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
The third volume in Alan Walker's magisterial biography of Franz Liszt. "You can't help but keep turning the pages, wondering how it will all turn out: and Walker's accumulated readings of Liszt's music have to be taken seriously indeed."--D. Kern Holoman, New York Review of Books "A conscientious scholar passionate about his subject. Mr. Walker makes the man and his age come to life. These three volumes will be the definitive work to which all subsequent Liszt biographies will aspire."--Harold C. Schonberg, Wall Street Journal "What distinguishes Walker from Liszt's dozens of earlier biographers is that he is equally strong on the music and the life. A formidable musicologist with a lively polemical style, he discusses the composer's works with greater understanding and clarity than any previous biographer. And whereas many have recycled the same erroneous, often damaging information, Walker has relied on his own prodigious, globe-trotting research, a project spanning twenty-five years. The result is a textured portrait of Liszt and his times without rival."--Elliot Ravetz, Time "The prose is so lively that the reader is often swept along by the narrative.... This three-part work... is now the definitive work on Liszt in English and belongs in all music collections."--Library Journal
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801494215
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
The third volume in Alan Walker's magisterial biography of Franz Liszt. "You can't help but keep turning the pages, wondering how it will all turn out: and Walker's accumulated readings of Liszt's music have to be taken seriously indeed."--D. Kern Holoman, New York Review of Books "A conscientious scholar passionate about his subject. Mr. Walker makes the man and his age come to life. These three volumes will be the definitive work to which all subsequent Liszt biographies will aspire."--Harold C. Schonberg, Wall Street Journal "What distinguishes Walker from Liszt's dozens of earlier biographers is that he is equally strong on the music and the life. A formidable musicologist with a lively polemical style, he discusses the composer's works with greater understanding and clarity than any previous biographer. And whereas many have recycled the same erroneous, often damaging information, Walker has relied on his own prodigious, globe-trotting research, a project spanning twenty-five years. The result is a textured portrait of Liszt and his times without rival."--Elliot Ravetz, Time "The prose is so lively that the reader is often swept along by the narrative.... This three-part work... is now the definitive work on Liszt in English and belongs in all music collections."--Library Journal