Author: Mark SlobinPublisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819570788
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
A vividly illustrated, richly anecdotal account of over 150 years of music at Wesleyan University
Music at Wesleyan
Author: Mark SlobinPublisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819570788
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
A vividly illustrated, richly anecdotal account of over 150 years of music at Wesleyan University
Ransoms
Author: Leslie NorrisMusic 109
Author: Alvin LucierPublisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819572985
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Composer and performer Alvin Lucier brings clarity to the world of experimental music as he takes the reader through more than a hundred groundbreaking musical works, including those of Robert Ashley, John Cage, Charles Ives, Morton Feldman, Philip Glass, Pauline Oliveros, Steve Reich, Christian Wolff, and La Monte Young. Lucier explains in detail how each piece is made, unlocking secrets of the composers' style and technique. The book as a whole charts the progress of American experimental music from the 1950s to the present, covering such topics as indeterminacy, electronics, and minimalism, as well as radical innovations in music for the piano, string quartet, and opera. Clear, approachable and lively, Music 109 is Lucier's indispensable guide to late 20th-century composition. No previous musical knowledge is required, and all readers are welcome.
Music at Wesleyan
Author: Richard Kenelm WinslowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Music and Cinema
Author: James BuhlerPublisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819564117
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
A wide-ranging look at the role of music in film.
Music at Wesleyan
Author: Mark SlobinPublisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819570796
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
This is the first account of the evolution of music at Wesleyan University, a campus known since the mid-nineteenth century for its musical life—first as the "Singing College of New England" and then, after 1960, as the home of a renowned undergraduate and graduate department that integrates world music studies with more traditional Western and experimental musical forms. Through excerpts from accounts in the campus newspaper over the earlier decades and eyewitness accounts by key figures in recent times, the book compactly surveys a wide range of musical formations, practices, repertoires, and events from the 1830s to the early 2000s. Vividly illustrated with both historical and contemporary images, Music at Wesleyan presents a portrait of the school that today blends educational innovation and cultural diversity with creative passion and intellectual rigor, and includes a foreword by Richard K. Winslow, the John Spencer Camp Professor of Music, Emeritus at Wesleyan University. A companion digital archive at http://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/maw_audio/ features audio files of glee club, gamelan, jazz, experimental, African, Indian, and other performances.
The Wesleyan Song Book
Author: Karl Pomeroy HarringtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Students' songs
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Music, Society, Education
Author: Christopher SmallPublisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819572233
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Cited by Soundpost as "remarkable and revolutionary" upon its publication in 1977, Music, Society, Education has become a classic in the study of music as a social force. Christopher Small sets out to examine the social implications of Western classical music, effects that until recently have been largely ignored or dismissed by most musicologists. He strives to view the Western musical tradition "through the mirror of these other musics [Balinese and African] as it were from the outside, and in so doing to learn something of the inner unspoken nature of Western culture as a whole." As series co-editor Robert Walser writes, "By pointing to the complicity of Western culture with Western imperialism, Small challenges us to create a future that is more humane than the past. And by writing a book that enables us to rethink so fundamentally our involvements with music, he teaches us how we might get there."
Wesleyan College of Music Quarterly Bulletin
Author: Illinois Wesleyan UniversityPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Wild Music
Author: Maria SonevytskyPublisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819579173
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Recipient of the 2020 Lewis Lockwood Award from the American Musicological Society What are the uses of musical exoticism? In Wild Music, Maria Sonevytsky tracks vernacular Ukrainian discourses of "wildness" as they manifested in popular music during a volatile decade of Ukrainian political history bracketed by two revolutions. From the Eurovision Song Contest to reality TV, from Indigenous radio to the revolution stage, Sonevytsky assesses how these practices exhibit and re-imagine Ukrainian tradition and culture. As the rise of global populism forces us to confront the category of state sovereignty anew, Sonevytsky proposes innovative paradigms for thinking through the creative practices that constitute sovereignty, citizenship, and nationalism.