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Book Synopsis I Sang the Unsingable by : Bethany Beardslee
Download or read book I Sang the Unsingable written by Bethany Beardslee and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2017 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoir of Bethany Beardslee, the iconic American soprano known as the composer's singer.
Book Synopsis Thinking In and About Music by : Zachary Bernstein
Download or read book Thinking In and About Music written by Zachary Bernstein and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Milton Babbitt (1916-2011) was, at once, one of the century's foremost composers and a founder of American music theory. These two aspects of his creative life--"thinking in" and "thinking about" music, as he would put it--nourished each other. Theory and analysis inspired fresh compositional ideas, and compositional concerns focused theoretical and analytical inquiry. Accordingly, this book undertakes an excavation of the sources of his theorizing as a guide to analysis of his music. In Thinking In and About Music, author Zachary Bernstein shows how Babbitt's idiosyncratic synthesis of ideas from Heinrich Schenker, analytic philosophy, and cognitive science--at least as much as more obviously relevant predecessors such as Arnold Schoenberg--provide insight into his aesthetics and compositional technique. At the same time, a close look at his music reveals a host of concerns unaccounted for in his theories, some of which seem to directly contradict theoretical expectations. Bernstein argues, therefore, that new analytical models are needed to complement those suggested by Babbitt's theories. Departing from the serial logic of most previous work on the subject--and in an attempt to discuss Babbitt's music as it is actually heard rather than just deciphered--the book brings to bear theories of gesture and embodiment, rhetoric, text setting, and temporality. The result is a richly multi-faceted look at one of the twentieth century's most fascinating musical minds.
Download or read book Landslide written by Minna Proctor and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Landslide is that rare book that somehow succeeds in being both knowing and open–hearted, both formally sly and emotionally direct. Its timeless subjects—grief, storytelling, the giving up of childish things—are rendered in ways that are as movingly honest as they are probing and unfamiliar. A swift, compelling read.” —Adam Haslett, author of Imagine Me Gone Minna Zallman Proctor's Landslide is a captivating collection of interconnected personal essays. These “true stories” explore the author’s complicated relationship with her mother—who was diagnosed with cancer at age fifty–seven and died fifteen years later—and the ways in which their connection was long the “prime mover” of Proctor’s life, the subtle force coursing beneath her adulthood. As such, these vibrant essays also narrate the trials and triumphs of Proctor’s own life—shifting between America and Italy (and loving “being a foreigner, the constant sense of unfamiliarity that supplanted all of my expectations and disappointments”), her bumpy first marriage, the profound pleasure she takes in motherhood, and the confounding experience of trying to arrange a Jewish burial for her “Jewish, not quite Jewish” mother. Proctor has an integrity and humor that is never extinguished despite life’s mounting difficulties. She also slyly questions her own narrative throughout. “Not having told this story before means I never fixed many details in my memory,” she writes. “[I] have to rely on flashes, the transparent stills that hang in my mind, made of smell, the way the light casts, the wind on skin.” The essays in this book are a sharply intelligent exploration of what happens when death and divorce unmoor you from certainties, and about the unreliable stories we tell ourselves, and others, in order to live.
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Book Synopsis Wagner's "Tristan Und Isolde"; An Essay on the Wagnerian Drama by : George Ainslie Hight
Download or read book Wagner's "Tristan Und Isolde"; An Essay on the Wagnerian Drama written by George Ainslie Hight and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Music in American Religious Experience by : Philip V. Bohlman
Download or read book Music in American Religious Experience written by Philip V. Bohlman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-12-08 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the appearance of The Bay Psalm Book in 1640, music has served as a defining factor for American religious experience and has been of fundamental importance in the development of American identity and psyche. The essays in this long-awaited volume explore the diverse ways in which music shapes the distinctive presence of religion in the United States and address the fullness of music's presence in American religious history. Timely, challenging, and stimulating, this collection will appeal to students and scholars of American history, American studies, religious studies, theology, musicology, and ethnomusicology, as well as to practicing sacred musicians.
Book Synopsis African Music, Power, and Being in Colonial Zimbabwe by : Mhoze Chikowero
Download or read book African Music, Power, and Being in Colonial Zimbabwe written by Mhoze Chikowero and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-24 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new history of music in Zimbabwe, Mhoze Chikowero deftly uses African sources to interrogate the copious colonial archive, reading it as a confessional voice along and against the grain to write a complex history of music, colonialism, and African self-liberation. Chikowero's book begins in the 1890s with missionary crusades against African performative cultures and African students being inducted into mission bands, which contextualize the music of segregated urban and mining company dance halls in the 1930s, and he builds genealogies of the Chimurenga music later popularized by guerrilla artists like Dorothy Masuku, Zexie Manatsa, Thomas Mapfumo, and others in the 1970s. Chikowero shows how Africans deployed their music and indigenous knowledge systems to fight for their freedom from British colonial domination and to assert their cultural sovereignty.
Book Synopsis Masters of Music by : Anna Alice Chapin
Download or read book Masters of Music written by Anna Alice Chapin and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Quarterly Journal by : National Centre for the Performing Arts (India)
Download or read book Quarterly Journal written by National Centre for the Performing Arts (India) and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Lawrence Tibbett, Singing Actor by : Andrew Farkas
Download or read book Lawrence Tibbett, Singing Actor written by Andrew Farkas and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1989 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Amadeus). This is the first collection of writings that deal with the life and career of the great American baritone, Lawrence Tibbett. In the articles and interviews selected for inclusion in this volume Tibbett writes about his artistic concerns: voice production, singing and acting on stage and in film, operatic teamwork, opera and the movies, modern music, and a variety of related topics.
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Book Synopsis Ludwig Van Beethoven: Fidelio by : Paul A. Robinson
Download or read book Ludwig Van Beethoven: Fidelio written by Paul A. Robinson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-09-26 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the fascinating musical and dramatic elements within Fidelio, Beethoven's only complete opera.
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Book Synopsis All Music Guide to Classical Music by : Chris Woodstra
Download or read book All Music Guide to Classical Music written by Chris Woodstra and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2005 with total page 1620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering comprehensive coverage of classical music, this guide surveys more than eleven thousand albums and presents biographies of five hundred composers and eight hundred performers, as well as twenty-three essays on forms, eras, and genres of classical music. Original.
Book Synopsis The Course of My Life by : Edward Heath
Download or read book The Course of My Life written by Edward Heath and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-09-28 with total page 1118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Course of My Life is not only the autobiography of one of the most distinguished figures of modern times, but a revealing panoply of twentieth-century political, international and social history. Born in 1916, Edward Heath became a Conservative Member of Parliament in 1950, following a glittering Oxford and military career, and was at the heart of political life for a long time - as Chief Whip (notably during the Suez Crisis), Minister of Labour, Lord Privy Seal at the Foreign Office, Leader of the Conservative Party from 1965-75, and Prime Minister from 1970 to 1974. Since relinquishing the leadership in 1975, he has maintained a central role in world affairs, as well as pursuing his wide musical and sailing interests. Edward Heath writes his autobiography with complete (and often very amusing) candour, offering us valuable and entertaining insights into the events of the past sixty years. He describes the importance of a united Europe, one of the driving influences in his life since he observed a Nuremberg Rally as an undergraduate, and his continuing thoughts on the subject after he took us into the European Community in the 1970s. He discusses the changes in the Conservative Party in his period as an MP and his modernisation of it as its leader, and the major issues of domestic policy, not least the economy, the trade unions and the Troubles in Northern Ireland; these are set against his range of activities on the international stage, including his negotiations with China and Saddam Hussein, shortly before the outbreak of the Gulf War in 1991. Both as a record of a momentous and unequalled career and as an important and frank document of personalities and events, The Course of My Life is as entertaining as it is revealing.
