Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Musical Gift, a collection of ... Pianoforte music by different authors
Author: The Musical Gift
Author: Jim SykesPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190912049
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The Musical Gift tells Sri Lanka's music history as a story of giving between humans and nonhumans, and between populations defined by difference. Author Jim Sykes argues that in the recent past, the genres we recognize today as Sri Lanka's esteemed traditional musics were not originally about ethnic or religious identity, but were gifts to gods and people intended to foster protection and/or healing. Noting that the currently assumed link between music and identity helped produce the narratives of ethnic difference that drove Sri Lanka's civil war (1983-2009), Sykes argues that the promotion of connected music histories has a role to play in post-war reconciliation. The Musical Gift includes a study of how NGOs used music to promote reconciliation in Sri Lanka, and it contains a theorization of the relations between musical gifts and commodities. Eschewing a binary between the gift and identity, Sykes claims the world's music history is largely a story of entanglement between both paradigms. Drawing on fieldwork conducted widely across Sri Lanka over a span of eleven years--including the first study of Sinhala Buddhist drumming in English and the first ethnography of music-making in the former warzones of the north and east--this book brings anthropology's canonic literature on "the gift" into music studies, while drawing on anthropology's recent "ontological turn" and "the new materialism" in religious studies.
Musical gift
Author: Musical Record and Review
Author: Dexter SmithMusic for the Piano
Author: James FriskinPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486229181
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
First published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston in 1954.
Piano Girl Playbook
Author: Robin Meloy GoldsbyPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493056204
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
A pianist in lounges and lobbies around the world, Robin Meloy Goldsby tells her warm-hearted stories by linking people she has met with places she has played. Along the way, she connects the humanity of her audiences—princes and paupers, dreamers and doers, moguls, mobsters, wanna-bes, and has-beens—with the quiet soundtrack of her peripatetic, melodic life. Goldsby's autobiographical stories and essays deliver insights into the art and craft of piano playing, the merits of live music, and how the right song at the right moment can add color and depth to a drab, one dimensional world. Music, it turns out, connects us in unpredictable ways.
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Author: The amateur's musical library
Author: Charles JarvisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Piano music
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
The Musical Record
Author: Etude
Author: Theodore PresserPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 912
Book Description
Includes music.