Author: Alan RichPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Music, Mirror of the Arts
Author: Alan RichMusic and Image
Author: Richard LeppertPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521448543
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
An examination of the place and practice of musical life in eighteenth-century England among the upper classes.
Music
Author: DKPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0744024420
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Humans have always made music and this authoritative and lavishly illustrated guide is your companion to its fascinating history across the globe. Music - that mysterious alchemy of harmonies, lyrics, and rhythm - is a constant in our lives. Discover how music has evolved with human society, accompanying our leisure, religious rituals, and popular festivities. Watch its development during prehistory and before musical notation, when melodies were memorized or improvised. Enjoy galleries of historical instruments such as dulcimers, shawms, psalteries, and tabor pipes. The universal language of music is expressed in an astonishing number of styles today, and Music presents its evolution around the globe, including the classical European tradition of JS Bach, the passionate sounds of Spain's flamenco, and the sonic power of electronica and heavy rock. With spectacular timelines of key events and profiles of musicians from Amadeus Mozart to David Bowie, Music is an unrivaled and comprehensive reference. Whether you are into the Blues, Brahms, or Bhangra, it is essential reading and guaranteed to hit the right note.
The Musical Life
Author: W. A. MathieuPublisher: Shambhala Publications
ISBN: 0834829290
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Everyone, according to W.A. Mathieu, is musical by nature—it goes right along with being human. And if you don't believe it, this book will convince you. In a series of interrelated short essays, Mathieu takes the reader on a journey through ordinary experiences to open our ears to the rich variety of music that surrounds us but that we are trained to ignore; such as the variety of pitches produced by different objects, like glassware, furniture, drums—anything you can tap; or sounds that hover on the border of music, like laughter, the clinking of glasses in a toast, or the unintentional falsetto produced by yawning. Along the way the author teaches aspects of music theory that nonmusicians might ordinarily shy away from. He reveals the way of music to be a profoundly spiritual path—one that is everyone's birthright.
Childhood in the Works of Silvina Ocampo and Alejandra Pizarnik
Author: Fiona Joy MackintoshPublisher: Tamesis Books
ISBN: 9781855660953
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
In the final analysis, Ocampo's works achieve equilibrium between childhood and age, whereas Pizarnik's much-discussed poetic crisis of exile from language itself parallels her deep sense of anxiety at being exiled from the world of childhood."--BOOK JACKET.
Mario Lavista
Author: Ana R. Alonso-MinuttiPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197638341
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Composer, pianist, editor, writer, and pedagogue Mario Lavista (1943-2021) was a central figure of the cultural and artistic scene in Mexico and one of the leading Ibero-American composers of his generation. His music is often described as evocative and poetic, noted for his meticulous attention to timbre and motivic permutation, and his creative trajectory was characterized by its intersections with the other arts, particularly poetry and painting. Lavista was a relational composer; he did not write music as a private enterprise but for and alongside people with whom he established close relations. Understanding analysis as an affective practice, author Ana R. Alonso-Minutti explores the intertextual connections between the multiple texts--musical or otherwise--that are present in Lavista's music. Alonso-Minutti argues that, through adopting an interdisciplinary and transhistorical approach to music composition, Lavista forged a cosmopolitan imaginary that challenged stereotypes of what Mexican music should sound like. This imaginary becomes a strategy of resistance against imperialist agendas placed upon postcolonial peripheries. Departing from traditional biographical and chronological frameworks that exalt masters and masterworks, the author offers a nuanced, personal narrative informed by conversations with composers, performers, artists, choreographers, poets, writers, and filmmakers. Through an innovative mosaic of methodologies, from archival work, to musical and intertextual analysis, oral history, and (auto)ethnography, this book is the first in-depth study of Lavista's compositional career and offers a contextual panorama of the contemporary music scene in Mexico
The Aeolian Pipe-organ and Its Music
Author: Aeolian CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Duo-art Music Bulletin
Author: Aeolian CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Player piano
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
The New Music Review and Church Music Review
Author: Music and Music-makers
Author: Constance MorsePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description