Author: Michael William Graham JenkinsPublisher:
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John Stanley, His Life and Instrumental Works
Author: Michael William Graham JenkinsPublisher:
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The Life and Works of John Stanley (1712-86)
Author: A. Glyn WilliamsPublisher:
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Category : Composers
Languages : en
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John Stanley, "A Miracle of Art and Nature"
Author: John Richard PrescottPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 200
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This dissertation explores the life and career of John Stanley, an eighteenth-century blind organist, composer, conductor and impresario. Most historians of blindness discuss Stanley but merely repeat biographical material without adding any particular insights relating to his blindness. As for twentieth-century musicologists, they have largely ignored Stanley's blindness. The conclusion is that Stanley's blindness, despite being present in most of his reception, is not treated as a defining factor. This study pursues new questions about Stanley's blindness. His disability is given pride of place, and perspectives from the fields of disability studies and minority studies are central to the work. A biographical sketch precedes a discussion of the role of Stanley's blindness in his reception. The central role of Stanley's amanuensis and sister-in-law, Anne Arlond, leads to a discussion of issues of gender, and the general invisibility of caregivers. Chapter 2 explores those aspects of Stanley's life that required an engagement with literate music. In performance of his own solo music, as a church musician, he had little need to deal with literate music since memory and improvisation were central to his success; but literacy becomes important in his compositions published or written for other instruments. Here the role of the amanuensis is crucial. Literacy in Stanley's musical education is explored, with references to a treatise by a contemporary blind organist (who discusses the teaching of blind students). This leads to conclusions that Stanley's career and working methods were not so different from those of blind people working in oral traditions. In Chapter 3, Stanley's education is compared to that of both his musical contemporaries, both sighted and blind, of his non-musical blind contemporaries. Attention is also given to his own active role in the education of blind musicians. Stanley's story definitively challenges the notion that education for the blind did not exist before the late eighteenth century and the formalized institutions for the education of the blind that developed after his death. Chapter 4 turns to Stanley as disabled performer and performer of disability. A survey of literature from the field of performance studies dealing with disabled performers opens the door to considering "performance" as self-conscious stage performance as well as the performance of disability in everyday life. Stanley did not self-consciously foreground his disability. However, I explore how passing in itself is a performance of disability. I discuss how able-bodied people aided in Stanley's "passing" and how Stanley's choices of instrument and roles in performance were influenced by his blindness. Stanley skillfully manipulated his performance of disability, both on and off stage. Chapter 5 explores the relationship of Stanley's blindness to his compositional process with particular focus on his organ voluntaries. I discuss the liminal place that voluntaries occupy, somewhere between composition, memory, and improvisation. Such compositional techniques as repeated material and contrapuntal process served as powerful memory aids to a blind musician like Stanley. I discuss the importance of figured bass notation as a dictational shorthand used by Stanley and his amanuensis. I conclude that Stanley's blindness did have effects on his compositional process. He was able to make effective use of common compositional techniques to assist in memory, performance, and dictation of these pieces. Chapter 6 discusses my personal experiences as a blind musicologist and musician. The concept of "covering" (the partial hiding of one's minority status) is also developed, describing ways in which I attempted to "cover" my blindness in my personal and academic life. My double minority status being blind and gay and my gradual journey of uncovering both statuses. This uncovering has lead to this dissertation as a piece of scholarship that fully incorporates my status as a blind man and musician. An appendix considers the various laudatory verses written in honor of Stanley, using as a comparison poems written in honor of Bach and Handel.
John Stanley (1712-1786).
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The English composer John Stanley (1712-1786) wrote cantatas, organ voluntaries, concerti grossi, oratorios, and instrumental sonatas. Classical Net provides a discography of some of Stanley's concertos and organ works, as well as an image of the composer.
Miscellanea Musicologica
Author: John Stanley
Author: Bill SchellyPublisher: Fantagraphics Books
ISBN: 1606999907
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 186
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This is a deluxe, full-color, coffee table book biography; the first of one of America’s greatest storytellers. It's filled with beautifully reproduced artwork from the comic books Little Lulu, and his creations Melvin Monster and Thirteen(Going on Eighteen); rare drawings and cartoons; and never-before-seen photographs. Bill Schelly tells Stanley’s life story through interviews with his family, friends, and colleagues: his childhood in Harlem and the Bronx, life with his strict Irish Catholic mother, his education at Parsons, his first job as an animator at Max Fleischer Studios, and his years working as a commercial artist, before finding his true métier in comic books during World War II (while battling clinical depression and alcoholism).
The Musical Standard
Author: Musical Standard
Author: Concert Life in London from Mozart to Haydn
Author: Simon McVeighPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521028906
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
This book is a detailed investigation of a lively and innovative period in London's cultural life.
The Life of Mr. John Stanley ... with ... His Behaviour in the Condemned Hole to His Death; ... Four Letters, Etc
Author: John STANLEY (Captain.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 128
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