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Author : Robert E. Sweet
Publisher : Arborville Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Music Universe, Music Mind written by Robert E. Sweet and published by Arborville Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christoph Wolff
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393651797
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)
Download or read book Bach's Musical Universe: The Composer and His Work written by Christoph Wolff and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concentrated study of Johann Sebastian Bach’s creative output and greatest pieces, capturing the essence of his art. Throughout his life, renowned and prolific composer Johann Sebastian Bach articulated his views as a composer in purely musical terms; he was notoriously reluctant to write about his life and work. Instead, he methodically organized certain pieces into carefully designed collections. These benchmark works, all of them without parallel or equivalent, produced a steady stream of transformative ideas that stand as paradigms of Bach’s musical art. In this companion volume to his Pulitzer Prize–finalist biography, Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician, leading Bach scholar Christoph Wolff takes his cue from his famous subject. Wolff delves deeply into the composer’s own rich selection of collected music, cutting across conventional boundaries of era, genre, and instrument. Emerging from a complex and massive oeuvre, Bach’s Musical Universe is a focused discussion of a meaningful selection of compositions—from the famous Well-Tempered Clavier, violin and cello solos, and Brandenburg Concertos to the St. Matthew Passion, Art of Fugue, and B-minor Mass. Unlike any study undertaken before, this book details Bach’s creative process across the various instrumental and vocal genres. This array of compositions illustrates the depth and variety at the essence of the composer’s musical art, as well as his unique approach to composition as a process of imaginative research into the innate potential of his chosen material. Tracing Bach’s evolution as a composer, Wolff compellingly illuminates the ideals and legacy of this giant of classical music in a new, refreshing light for everyone, from the amateur to the virtuoso.
Author : Daniel Levitin
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 : 9780241987353
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (873 download)
Download or read book This is Your Brain on Music written by Daniel Levitin and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2019-07-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using musical examples from Bach to the Beatles, Levitin reveals the role of music in human evolution, shows how our musical preferences begin to form even before we are born and explains why music can offer such an emotional experience. Music is an obsession at the heart of human nature, even more fundamental to our species than language. In This Is Your Brain On Music Levitin offers nothing less than a new way to understand it, and its role in human life
Author : Edward W. Sarath
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 143844723X
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Improvisation, Creativity, and Consciousness written by Edward W. Sarath and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jazz, America's original art form, can be a catalyst for creative and spiritual development. With its unique emphasis on improvisation, jazz offers new paradigms for educational and societal change. In this provocative book, musician and educator Edward W. Sarath illuminates how jazz offers a continuum for transformation. Inspired by the long legacy of jazz innovators who have used meditation and related practices to bring the transcendent into their lives and work, Sarath sees a coming shift in consciousness, one essential to positive change. Both theoretical and practical, the book uses the emergent worldview known as Integral Theory to discuss the consciousness at the heart of jazz and the new models and perspectives it offers. On a more personal level, the author provides examples of his own involvement in educational reform. His design of the first curriculum at a mainstream educational institution to incorporate a significant meditation and consciousness studies component grounds a radical new vision.
Author : Marvin Bram
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0557464633
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (574 download)
Download or read book The Art of Fugue written by Marvin Bram and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-09-29 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long ago, an unusually fulfilling way to live was widely practiced. Knowledge of that way to live was suppressed, and so it remained -- until now. Long ago, it was possible to put all one's thoughts down in writing. The way to do that was forgotten -- until now. This book restores the ancient meaning of community and it brings back the technique for revealing one's thoughts fully. THE ART OF FUGUE does these two things in works of the imagination and of interdisciplinary scholarship.
Author : Robert E. Sweet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780965043816
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (438 download)
Download or read book All Kinds of Time written by Robert E. Sweet and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All Kinds of Time is a celebration of the creative spirit of Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso and the expansive Creative Music Studio family, which has enabled CMS to remain vital, forty-three years after its founding. This book is a sequel to Music Universe, Music Mind: Revisiting the Creative Music Studio, Woodstock, New York, (Arborville Publishing, 1996, ISBN 0-9650438-4-3), The first book is a history of the Creative Music Studio, which covers the period when Karl Berger met Don Cherry and joined his band in Paris in the middle 1960s to the year 1984, when the Creative Music Studio ceased to exist as a viable facility with a home of its own. All Kinds of Time picks up where Music Universe, Music Mind left off and relates events in CMS history that have led to its current state of vitality in 2016.
Author : David Borgo
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780826417299
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (172 download)
Download or read book Sync Or Swarm written by David Borgo and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2005-12-12 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a study of musical improvisation, using theories from cultural and cognitive studies. The author presents a systemic view, with chapters funneling outward in scope from the perspective of a solo improviser to that of a group interacting in performance, to the long-term dynamics of an improvising group from formation to dissolution.
Author : Ed Sarath
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538111713
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Black Music Matters written by Ed Sarath and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Music Matters: Jazz and the Transformation of Music Studies is one of the first books to promote the reform of music studies with a centralized presence of jazz and black music to ground American musicians in a core facet of their true cultural heritage. Ed Sarath applies an emergent consciousness-based worldview called Integral Theory to music studies while drawing upon overarching conversations on diversity and race and a rich body of literature on the seminal place of black music in American culture. Combining a visionary perspective with an activist tone, Sarath installs jazz and black music in as a foundation for a new paradigm of twenty-first-century musical training that will yield an unprecedented skill set for transcultural navigation among musicians. Sarath analyzes prevalent patterns in music studies change discourse, including an in-depth critique of multiculturalism, and proposes new curricular and organizational systems along with a new model of music inquiry called Integral Musicology. This jazz/black music paradigm further develops into a revolutionary catalyst for development of creativity and consciousness in education and society at large. Sarath’s work engages all those who share an interest in black-white race dynamics and its musical ramifications, spirituality and consciousness, and the promotion of creativity throughout all forms of intellectual and personal expression.
Author : David Borgo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501368850
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Sync or Swarm, Revised Edition written by David Borgo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-02-10 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The revised edition of Sync or Swarm promotes an ecological view of musicking, moving us from a subject-centered to a system-centered view of improvisation. It explores cycles of organismic self-regulation, cycles of sensorimotor coupling between organism and environment, and cycles of intersubjective interaction mediated via socio-technological networks. Chapters funnel outward, from the solo improviser (Evan Parker), to nonlinear group dynamics (Sam Rivers trio), to networks that comprise improvisational communities, to pedagogical dynamics that affect how individuals learn, completing the hermeneutic circle. Winner of the Society for Ethnomusicology's Alan Merriam prize in its first edition, the revised edition features new sections that highlight electro-acoustic and transcultural improvisation, and concomitant issues of human-machine interaction and postcolonial studies.
Author : Jeanne Bamberger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199589836
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Discovering the Musical Mind written by Jeanne Bamberger and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following her distinguished earlier career as a concert pianist and later as a music theorist, Jeanne Bamberger conducted countless case studies analysing musical development and creativity within the classroom environment. 'Discovering the musical mind' draws together these classic studies, and offers the chance to revisit and reconsider some of the conclusions she drew at the time.
Author : Daniel Fischlin
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819566829
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)
Download or read book The Other Side of Nowhere written by Daniel Fischlin and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2004-03-30 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars, composers and performers write about the art of jazz improvisation.
Author : Ajay Heble
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472903756
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)
Download or read book Jamming the Classroom written by Ajay Heble and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2023-10-12 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a mix of collaborative autoethnography, secondary literature, interviews with leading improvisers, and personal anecdotal material, Jamming the Classroom discusses the pedagogy of musical improvisation as a vehicle for teaching, learning, and enacting social justice. Heble and Stewart write that to “jam the classroom” is to argue for a renewed understanding of improvisation as both a musical and a social practice; to activate the knowledge and resources associated with improvisational practices in an expression of noncompliance with dominant orders of knowledge production; and to recognize in the musical practices of aggrieved communities something far from the reaches of conventional forms of institutionalized power, yet something equally powerful, urgent, and expansive. With this definition of jamming the classroom in mind, Heble and Stewart argue that even as improvisation gains recognition within mainstream institutions (including classrooms in universities), it needs to be understood as a critique of dominant institutionalized assumptions and epistemic orders. Suggesting a closer consideration of why musical improvisation has been largely expunged from dominant models of pedagogical inquiry in both classrooms and communities, this book asks what it means to theorize the pedagogy of improvised music in relation to public programs of action, debate, and critical practice.
Author : Ted Ownby
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496811593
Total Pages : 1461 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)
Download or read book The Mississippi Encyclopedia written by Ted Ownby and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2017-05-25 with total page 1461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perfect book for every Mississippian who cares about the state, this is a mammoth collaboration in which thirty subject editors suggested topics, over seven hundred scholars wrote entries, and countless individuals made suggestions. The volume will appeal to anyone who wants to know more about Mississippi and the people who call it home. The book will be especially helpful to students, teachers, and scholars researching, writing about, or otherwise discovering the state, past and present. The volume contains entries on every county, every governor, and numerous musicians, writers, artists, and activists. Each entry provides an authoritative but accessible introduction to the topic discussed. The Mississippi Encyclopedia also features long essays on agriculture, archaeology, the civil rights movement, the Civil War, drama, education, the environment, ethnicity, fiction, folklife, foodways, geography, industry and industrial workers, law, medicine, music, myths and representations, Native Americans, nonfiction, poetry, politics and government, the press, religion, social and economic history, sports, and visual art. It includes solid, clear information in a single volume, offering with clarity and scholarship a breadth of topics unavailable anywhere else. This book also includes many surprises readers can only find by browsing.
Author : Robert G. O'Meally
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231123518
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (235 download)
Download or read book Uptown Conversation written by Robert G. O'Meally and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Uptown Conversation' asserts that jazz is not only a music to define, it is a culture. The essays illustrate how for more than a century jazz has initiated a call and response across art forms, geographies, and cultures, inspiring musicians, filmmakers,painters and poets.
Author : Jeff Schwartz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315311755
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (153 download)
Download or read book Free Jazz written by Jeff Schwartz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-23 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Free Jazz: A Research and Information Guide offers carefully selected and annotated sources on free jazz, with comprehensive coverage of English-language academic books, journal articles, and dissertations, and selective coverage of trade books, popular periodicals, documentary films, scores, Masters’ theses, online texts, and materials in other languages. Free Jazz will be a major reference tool for students, faculty, librarians, artists, scholars, critics, and serious fans navigating this literature.
Author : Tim Lawrence
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822390855
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Hold On to Your Dreams written by Tim Lawrence and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hold On to Your Dreams is the first biography of the musician and composer Arthur Russell, one of the most important but least known contributors to New York’s downtown music scene during the 1970s and 1980s. With the exception of a few dance recordings, including “Is It All Over My Face?” and “Go Bang! #5,” Russell’s pioneering music was largely forgotten until 2004, when the posthumous release of two albums brought new attention to the artist. This revival of interest gained momentum with the issue of additional albums and the documentary film Wild Combination. Based on interviews with more than seventy of his collaborators, family members, and friends, Hold On to Your Dreams provides vital new information about this singular, eccentric musician and his role in the boundary-breaking downtown music scene. Tim Lawrence traces Russell’s odyssey from his hometown of Oskaloosa, Iowa, to countercultural San Francisco, and eventually to New York, where he lived from 1973 until his death from AIDS-related complications in 1992. Resisting definition while dreaming of commercial success, Russell wrote and performed new wave and disco as well as quirky rock, twisted folk, voice-cello dub, and hip-hop-inflected pop. “He was way ahead of other people in understanding that the walls between concert music and popular music and avant-garde music were illusory,” comments the composer Philip Glass. “He lived in a world in which those walls weren’t there.” Lawrence follows Russell across musical genres and through such vital downtown music spaces as the Kitchen, the Loft, the Gallery, the Paradise Garage, and the Experimental Intermedia Foundation. Along the way, he captures Russell’s openness to sound, his commitment to collaboration, and his uncompromising idealism.
Author : Stephen Nachmanovitch, PhD
Publisher : New World Library
ISBN 13 : 1608686159
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (86 download)
Download or read book The Art of Is written by Stephen Nachmanovitch, PhD and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A MASTERFUL BOOK ABOUT BREATHING LIFE INTO ART AND ART INTO LIFE "Stephen Nachmanovitch's The Art of Is is a philosophical meditation on living, living fully, living in the present. To the author, an improvisation is a co-creation that arises out of listening and mutual attentiveness, out of a universal bond of sharing that connects all humanity. It is a product of the nervous system, bigger than the brain and bigger than the body; it is a once-in-a-lifetime encounter, unprecedented and unrepeatable. Drawing from the wisdom of the ages, The Art of Is not only gives the reader an inside view of the states of mind that give rise to improvisation, it is also a celebration of the power of the human spirit, which — when exercised with love, immense patience, and discipline — is an antidote to hate." — Yo-Yo Ma, cellist
