Author: Bruce Arnold Publisher: muse eek publishing ISBN: 1594894302 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 66
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This book explores Improvising over Classical Music. The examples in the book were recorded by Spooky Actions, a New York based ensemble created by John Gunther and Bruce Arnold. Spooky Actions has produced a diverse set of recordings include the music of 20th century composers Anton Webern, Arnold Schoenberg and Olivier Messiaen; interpretations of Native American music Volume One and Volume Two, and well as a recording of Early Music from the 2nd century BC through the 1500’s. Their unique and compelling sound is being met with critical acclaim and widespread interest.
Author: Catherine Rollin Publisher: Alfred Music ISBN: 1470625075 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 30
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In Museum Masterpieces, Book 4, composer Catherine Rollin has created musical expressions of some of the great works of art found in museums throughout the world. The paintings that inspired these pieces are beautifully displayed on a four-page color insert at the center of the book, along with historical notes about each painting. Titles: *At the Front (George Cochran Lambdin) *Dancers (Theo van Doesburg) *Dancers, Pink and Green (Edgar Degas) *Improvisation (Childe Hassam) *The Kiss (Gustav Klimt) *States of Mind: The Farewells (Umberto Boccioni) *Summer (Thomas Dewing) *Watson and the Shark (John Singleton Copley)
Author: Catherine Rollin Publisher: Alfred Music ISBN: 1470625040 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 30
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In Museum Masterpieces, Book 1, composer Catherine Rollin has created musical expressions of some of the great works of art found in museums throughout the world. The paintings that inspired these pieces are beautifully displayed on a four-page color insert at the center of the book, along with historical notes about each painting. Titles: *American Gothic (Grant Wood) *Black Square and Red Square (Kazimir Malevich) *Carmencita (William Merritt Chase) *A Dash for the Timber (Frederic Remington) *L'étoile (The Star) (Edgar Degas) *Le fifre (The Fife Player) (Édouard Manet) *Mona Lisa (Leonardo da Vinci) *The Nut Gatherers (William-Adolphe Bouguereau) *Reeds and Cranes (Suzuki Kiitsu) *Senecio (Paul Klee)
Author: John J. Mortensen Publisher: ISBN: 0190920394 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 223
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Keyboard artists in the time of J.S. Bach were simultaneously performers, composers, and improvisers. By the twentieth century, however, the art of improvisation was all but lost. Today, vanishingly few classically-trained musicians can improvise with fluent, stylistic integrity. Many now question the system of training that leaves players dependent upon the printed page, and would welcome a new approach to musicianship that would enable modern performers to recapture the remarkable creative freedom of a bygone era. The Pianist's Guide to Historic Improvisation opens a pathway of musical discovery as the reader learns to improvise with confidence and joy. Useful as either a college-level textbook or a guide for independent study, the book is eminently practical. Author John Mortensen explains even the most complex ideas in a lucid, conversational tone, accompanied by hundreds of musical examples. Mortensen pairs every concept with hands-on exercises for step-by-step practice of each skill. Professional-level virtuosity is not required; players of moderate skill can manage the material. Suitable for professionals, conservatory students, and avid amateurs, The Pianist's Guide leads to mastery of improvisational techniques at the Baroque keyboard.
Author: Bruce Ellis Benson Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521009324 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 218
Book Description
This book is an important contribution to the philosophy of music. Bruce Benson's concern is the phenomenology of music making as an activity. He offers a radical thesis that it is improvisation that is primary in the moment of music making.It will be a provocative read.
Author: Alex Ross Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN: 1429932880 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 706
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Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007 Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007 A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007 In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between the century's most influential composers and the wider culture. The Rest Is Noise is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music.
Author: Sylvia Rabinof Publisher: Alfred Music ISBN: 9781457432484 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 92
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Pianist and composer Sylvia Rabinof has written beautiful accompaniments to 15 masterpieces from the world's most celebrated composers. Intermediate to Early Advanced; for two pianos, four hands. Titles: * Musette from Notebook for Anna Magdalena (Bach) * Minuet in G Major from Notebook for Anna Magdalena (Bach) * Minuet in G Minor from Notebook for Anna Magdalena (Bach) * Für Elise (Beethoven) * Chaconne on Air "Dido’s Lament" from Dido and Aeneas (Purcell) * Ländler in D Major (Beethoven) * Ländler in A Minor (Schubert) * The Happy Farmer (Schumann) * Pour le Lute (Little Prelude No. 3 in C Minor) (Bach) * Invention No. 8 in F Major (Bach) * Solfeggietto (C. P. E. Bach) * Rondo Alla Turca from Sonata in A Major, K. 331 (Mozart) * Invention No. 13 in A Minor (Bach) Clair de Lune from Suite bergamasque (Debussy) * Sonata in C Major, K. 545 (First Movement) (Mozart). 88 pages.
Author: Dynise Balcavage Publisher: Facts On File ISBN: 9780791020821 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 124
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Narrates the life of the German-born musical genius who lost his hearing completely by age fifty and who is renowned as one of the world's greatest composers.
Author: Alex Ross Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN: 1429977612 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 384
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One of The Telegraph's Best Music Books 2011 Alex Ross's award-winning international bestseller, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, has become a contemporary classic, establishing Ross as one of our most popular and acclaimed cultural historians. Listen to This, which takes its title from a beloved 2004 essay in which Ross describes his late-blooming discovery of pop music, showcases the best of his writing from more than a decade at The New Yorker. These pieces, dedicated to classical and popular artists alike, are at once erudite and lively. In a previously unpublished essay, Ross brilliantly retells hundreds of years of music history—from Renaissance dances to Led Zeppelin—through a few iconic bass lines of celebration and lament. He vibrantly sketches canonical composers such as Schubert, Verdi, and Brahms; gives us in-depth interviews with modern pop masters such as Björk and Radiohead; and introduces us to music students at a Newark high school and indie-rock hipsters in Beijing. Whether his subject is Mozart or Bob Dylan, Ross shows how music expresses the full complexity of the human condition. Witty, passionate, and brimming with insight, Listen to This teaches us how to listen more closely.
Author: Rafael Reina Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317180127 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 455
Book Description
Most classical musicians, whether in orchestral or ensemble situations, will have to face a piece by composers such as Ligeti, Messiaen, Varèse or Xenakis, while improvisers face music influenced by Dave Holland, Steve Coleman, Aka Moon, Weather Report, Irakere or elements from the Balkans, India, Africa or Cuba. Rafael Reina argues that today’s music demands a new approach to rhythmical training, a training that will provide musicians with the necessary tools to face, with accuracy, more varied and complex rhythmical concepts, while keeping the emotional content. Reina uses the architecture of the South Indian Karnatic rhythmical system to enhance and radically change the teaching of rhythmical solfege at a higher education level and demonstrates how this learning can influence the creation and interpretation of complex contemporary classical and jazz music. The book is designed for classical and jazz performers as well as creators, be they composers or improvisers, and is a clear and complete guide that will enable future solfege teachers and students to use these techniques and their methodology to greatly improve their rhythmical skills. An accompanying website of audio examples helps to explain each technique. For examples of composed and improvised pieces by students who have studied this book, as well as concerts by highly acclaimed karnatic musicians, please copy this link to your browser: http://www.contemporary-music-through-non-western-techniques.com/pages/1587-video-recordings
Author: Bruce Arnold
Author: Catherine Rollin
Author: Catherine Rollin
Author: John J. Mortensen
Author: Bruce Ellis Benson
Author: Alex Ross
Author: Sylvia Rabinof
Author: Dynise Balcavage
Author: Alex Ross
Author: Rafael Reina