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Author : Eugenio Maria Fagiani
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1470949873
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (79 download)
Download or read book La Valse Ravel Organ Transcription written by Eugenio Maria Fagiani and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lloyd Schwartz
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022679508X
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Who's on First? written by Lloyd Schwartz and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-08-27 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There is no one quite like Lloyd Schwartz, whose unique combination of comedy and pathos is rare in contemporary American poetry. Over the years and books, Schwartz has developed a pitch-perfect ear for dialogue, producing poems that are hilarious in their depiction of unsettling social situations, while still managing to find the kernel of poignancy buried in everyday encounters. He is a master of the speech-driven style of verse, which is based on overheard, interrupted, or invented conversations that are by turns humorous and deeply unsettling, intimate yet decorous. In the new poems section, Schwartz brings his broad experience across the arts (including his many years as a music critic and commentator) to bear, with poems that recall the feeling of both performing and apprehending a piece of music, say, or a painting, a film, or a poem; he explores the figures depicted within these artworks, their fears and desires, revealing whole unexplored, interior worlds, a universe in a pack of tarot cards. This collection, which gathers the very best of Schwartz's work over his long, distinguished career, amply displays the tenderness and delicacy of feeling that we've come to rely on in his poetry. "Who's on First?" is a fitting capstone to a long life lived in the arts"--
Author : Tony Russell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199881545
Total Pages : 1198 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)
Download or read book Country Music Records written by Tony Russell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-10-07 with total page 1198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than twenty years in the making, Country Music Records documents all country music recording sessions from 1921 through 1942. With primary research based on files and session logs from record companies, interviews with surviving musicians, as well as the 200,000 recordings archived at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum's Frist Library and Archives, this notable work is the first compendium to accurately report the key details behind all the recording sessions of country music during the pre-World War II era. This discography documents--in alphabetical order by artist--every commercial country music recording, including unreleased sides, and indicates, as completely as possible, the musicians playing at every session, as well as instrumentation. This massive undertaking encompasses 2,500 artists, 5,000 session musicians, and 10,000 songs. Summary histories of each key record company are also provided, along with a bibliography. The discography includes indexes to all song titles and musicians listed.
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Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book The Theatre written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen Zank
Publisher : University Rochester Press
ISBN 13 : 1580461891
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Irony and Sound written by Stephen Zank and published by University Rochester Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insightful and exquisitely written reconsideration of Ravel's modernity, his teaching, and his place in twentieth-century music and culture.
Author : John Broven
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780882896083
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (96 download)
Download or read book South to Louisiana written by John Broven and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the history of the music of southern Louisiana and examines the influence of Cajun songs on American popular music
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Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Theatre Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Gottlieb
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 037542122X
Total Pages : 1362 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (754 download)
Download or read book Reading Dance written by Robert Gottlieb and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2008-11-04 with total page 1362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Gottlieb’s immense sampling of the dance literature–by far the largest such project ever attempted–is both inclusive, to the extent that inclusivity is possible when dealing with so vast a field, and personal: the result of decades of reading. It limits itself of material within the experience of today’s general readers, avoiding, for instance, academic historical writing and treatises on technique, its earliest subjects are those nineteenth-century works and choreographers that still resonate with dance lovers today: Giselle, The Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake; Bournonville and Petipa. And, as Gottlieb writes in his introduction, “The twentieth century focuses to a large extent on the achievements and personalities that dominated it–from Pavlova and Nijinsky and Diaghilev to Isadora Duncan and Martha Graham, from Ashton and Balanchine and Robbins to Merce Cunningham and Paul Taylor and Twyla Tharp, from Fonteyn and Farrell and Gelsey Kirkland (“the Judy Garland of Ballet”) to Nureyev and Baryshnikov and Astaire–as well as the critical and reportorial voices, past and present, that carry the most conviction.” In structuring his anthology, Gottlieb explains, he has “tried to help the reader along by arranging its two hundred-plus entries into a coherent groups.” Apart from the sections on major personalities and important critics, there are sections devoted to interviews (Tamara Toumanova, Antoinette Sibley, Mark Morris); profiles (Lincoln Kirstein, Bob Fosse, Olga Spessivtseva); teachers; accounts of the birth of important works from Petrouchka to Apollo to Push Comes to Shove; and the movies (from Arlene Croce and Alastair Macauley on Fred Astaire to director Michael Powell on the making of The Red Shoes). Here are the voices of Cecil Beaton and Irene Castle, Ninette de Valois and Bronislava Nijinska, Maya Plisetskaya and Allegra Kent, Serge Lifar and José Limón, Alicia Markova and Natalia Makarova, Ruth St. Denis and Michel Fokine, Susan Sontag and Jean Renoir. Plus a group of obscure, even eccentric extras, including an account of Pavlova going shopping in London and recipes from Tanaquil LeClerq’s cookbook.” With its huge range of content accompanied by the anthologist’s incisive running commentary, Reading Dance will be a source of pleasure and instruction for anyone who loves dance.
Author : Jessie Fillerup
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520379888
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Magician of Sound written by Jessie Fillerup and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: French composer Maurice Ravel was described by critics as a magician, conjurer, and illusionist. Scholars have been aware of this historical curiosity, but none so far have explained why Ravel attracted such critiques or what they might tell us about how to interpret his music. Magician of Sound examines Ravel's music through the lens of illusory experience, considering how timbre, orchestral effects, figure/ground relationships, and impressions of motion and stasis might be experienced as if they were conjuring tricks. Applying concepts from music theory, psychology, philosophy, and the history of magic, Jessie Fillerup develops an approach to musical illusion that newly illuminates Ravel's fascination with machines and creates compelling links between his music and other forms of aesthetic illusion, from painting and poetry to fiction and phantasmagoria. Fillerup analyzes scenes of enchantment and illusory effects in Ravel's most popular works, including Boléro, La Valse, Daphnis et Chloé, and Rapsodie espagnole, relating his methods and musical effects to the practice of theatrical conjurers. Drawing on a rich well of primary sources, Magician of Sound provides a new interdisciplinary framework for interpreting this enigmatic composer, linking magic and music.
Author : Deborah Mawer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135154604X
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book The Ballets of Maurice Ravel written by Deborah Mawer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maurice Ravel, as composer and scenario writer, collaborated with some of the greatest ballet directors, choreographers, designers and dancers of his time, including Diaghilev, Ida Rubinstein, Benois and Nijinsky. In this book, the first study dedicated to Ravel's ballets, Deborah Mawer explores these relationships and argues that ballet music should not be regarded in isolation from its associated arts. Indeed, Ravel's views on ballet and other stage works privilege a synthesized aesthetic. The first chapter establishes a historical and critical context for Ravel's scores, engaging en route with multimedia theory. Six main ballets from Daphnis et Chlo hrough to Bol are considered holistically alongside themes such as childhood fantasy, waltzing and neoclassicism. Each work is examined in terms of its evolution, premiere, critical reception and reinterpretation through to the present; new findings result from primary-source research, undertaken especially in Paris. The final chapter discusses the reasons for Ravel's collaborations and the strengths and weaknesses of his interpersonal relations. Mawer emphasizes the importance of the performative dimension in realizing Ravel's achievement, and proposes that the composer's large-scale oeuvre can, in a sense, be viewed as a balletic undertaking. In so doing, this book adds significantly to current research interest in artistic production and interplay in early twentieth-century Paris.
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Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Le Guide Musical written by and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : W. J. Thorold
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 686 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Our Players' Gallery written by W. J. Thorold and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Programs of Concerts Conducted by Willem Mengelberg written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael J. Puri
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199876010
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)
Download or read book Ravel the Decadent written by Michael J. Puri and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-23 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The music of Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), beloved by musicians and audiences since its debut, has been a difficult topic for scholars. The traditional stylistic categories of impressionism, symbolism, and neoclassicism, while relevant, have offered too little purchase on this fascinating but enigmatic work. In Ravel the Decadent, author Michael Puri provides an innovative and productive solution by locating the aesthetic origins of this music in the French Decadence and demonstrating the extension of this influence across the length of his oeuvre. From an array of Decadent topics Puri selects three--memory, sublimation, and desire--and uses them to delineate the content of this music, pinpoint its overlap with contemporary cultural discourse, and link it to its biographical context, as well as to create new methods altogether for the analysis and interpretation of music. Ravel the Decadent opens by defining the main concepts, giving particular attention to memory and decadence. It then stakes out contrasting modes of memory in this music: a nostalgic mode that views the past as forever lost, and a more optimistic one that imagines its resurrection and reanimation. Acknowledging Ravel's lifelong identity as a dandy--a figure that embodies the Decadence and its aspiration toward the sublime--Puri identifies possible moments of musical self-portraiture before stepping back to theorize dandyism in European musical modernism at large. He then addresses the dialectic between desire and its sublimation in the pairing of two genres--the bacchanal and the idyl--and leverages the central trio of concepts to offer provocative readings of Ravel's two waltz sets, the Valses nobles et sentimentales and La valse. Puri concludes by invoking the same terms to identify a topic of "faun music" that promises to create new common ground between Ravel and Debussy. Rife with close readings that will satisfy the musicologist, Ravel the Decadent also suits a more general reader through its broadly humanistic key concepts, immersion in contemporary art and literature, and clarity of language.
Author : Charles J. Stivale
Publisher : Guilford Press
ISBN 13 : 9781572303263
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (32 download)
Download or read book The Two-fold Thought of Deleuze and Guattari written by Charles J. Stivale and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 1998-06-05 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari worked together extensively from the 1960s into the 1990s, and the resulting "intersections" of their different sensibilities and modes of knowing fueled powerful alternatives to Marxian and psychoanalytic orthodoxies. Yet readers approaching Deleuze and Guattari's works are often frustrated by the paucity or unfamiliarity of specific examples that might clarify their complex arguments. This timely volume "animates" key concepts and terminology by applying them to provocative readings of literary texts, films, and cultural phenomena--from Apocalypse Now to Cajun music and dance. Drawing extensively from primary and critical sources to elucidate Deleuze and Guattari's theoretical contributions, Stivale reinvigorates their "two-fold thought" for use as an analytical tool in the humanities and social sciences. The book also offers a clear introduction to the precollaborative phase of each thinker's work, an interview Stivale conducted with Guattari, and the first-time English translation of a 1967 essay by Deleuze. Winner--Board of Governors Faculty Recognition Award, Wayne State University
Author : Maurice Ravel
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486430782
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (864 download)
Download or read book A Ravel Reader written by Maurice Ravel and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This outstanding compilation of articles by Ravel (who was a brilliant critic) features reviews, interviews, and some 350 letters from Cocteau, Colette, de Falla, Richard Strauss, Stravinsky, and other major figures of the time.
