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Musical Vitalities

Author : Holly Watkins
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022659484X
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book Musical Vitalities written by Holly Watkins and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-11-21 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does it make sense to refer to bird song—a complex vocalization, full of repetitive and transformative patterns that are carefully calculated to woo a mate—as art? What about a pack of wolves howling in unison or the cacophony made by an entire rain forest? Redefining music as “the art of possibly animate things,” Musical Vitalities charts a new path for music studies that blends musicological methods with perspectives drawn from the life sciences. In opposition to humanist approaches that insist on a separation between culture and nature—approaches that appear increasingly untenable in an era defined by human-generated climate change—Musical Vitalities treats music as one example of the cultural practices and biotic arts of the animal kingdom rather than as a phenomenon categorically distinct from nonhuman forms of sonic expression. The book challenges the human exceptionalism that has allowed musicologists to overlook music’s structural resemblances to the songs of nonhuman species, the intricacies of music’s physiological impact on listeners, and the many analogues between music’s formal processes and those of the dynamic natural world. Through close readings of Austro-German music and aesthetic writings that suggest wide-ranging analogies between music and nature, Musical Vitalities seeks to both rekindle the critical potential of nineteenth-century music and rejoin the humans at the center of the humanities with the nonhumans whose evolutionary endowments and planetary fates they share.

Musical Vitalities

Author : Holly Watkins
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022659470X
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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The Oxford Handbook of Western Music and Philosophy

Author : Tom?s McAuley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197546269
Total Pages : 1151 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Western Music and Philosophy by : Tom?s McAuley

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Western Music and Philosophy written by Tom?s McAuley and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-04 with total page 1151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether regarded as a perplexing object, a morally captivating force, an ineffable entity beyond language, or an inescapably embodied human practice, music has captured philosophically inclined minds since time immemorial. In turn, musicians of all stripes have called on philosophy as a source of inspiration and encouragement, and scholars of music through the ages have turned to philosophy for insight into music and into the worlds that sustain it. In this Handbook, contributors build on this legacy to conceptualize the rich interactions of Western music and philosophy as a series of meeting points between two vital spheres of human activity. They draw together key debates at the intersection of music studies and philosophy, offering a field-defining overview while also forging new paths. Chapters cover a wide range of musics and philosophies, including concert, popular, jazz, and electronic musics, and both analytic and continental philosophy.

The Oxford Handbook of Music and Intellectual Culture in the Nineteenth Century

Author : Paul Watt
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
ISBN 13 : 019061692X
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Music and Intellectual Culture in the Nineteenth Century written by Paul Watt and published by Oxford Handbooks. This book was released on 2020 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rarely studied in their own right, writings about music are often viewed as merely supplemental to understanding music itself. Yet in the nineteenth century, scholarly interest in music flourished in fields as disparate as philosophy and natural science, dramatically shifting the relationship between music and the academy. An exciting and much-needed new volume, The Oxford Handbook of Music and Intellectual Culture in the Nineteenth Century draws deserved attention to the people and institutions of this period who worked to produce these writings. Editors Paul Watt, Sarah Collins, and Michael Allis, along with an international slate of contributors, discuss music's fascinating and unexpected interactions with debates about evolution, the scientific method, psychology, exoticism, gender, and the divide between high and low culture. Part I of the handbook establishes the historical context for the intellectual world of the period, including the significant genres and disciplines of its music literature, while Part II focuses on the century's institutions and networks - from journalists to monasteries - that circulated ideas about music throughout the world. Finally, Part III assesses how the music research of the period reverberates in the present, connecting studies in aestheticism, cosmopolitanism, and intertextuality to their nineteenth-century origins. The Handbook challenges Western music history's traditionally sole focus on musical work by treating writings about music as valuable cultural artifacts in themselves. Engaging and comprehensive, The Oxford Handbook of Music and Intellectual Culture in the Nineteenth Century brings together a wealth of new interdisciplinary research into this critical area of study.

Creatures of the Air

Author : J.Q. Davies
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226826147
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Creatures of the Air written by J.Q. Davies and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2023-08-11 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of nineteenth-century music in Atlantic worlds told through the history of the art’s elemental medium, the air. Often experienced as universal and incorporeal, music seems an innocent art form. The air, the very medium by which music constitutes itself, shares with music a claim to invisibility. In Creatures of the Air, J. Q. Davies interrogates these claims, tracing the history of music’s elemental media system in nineteenth-century Atlantic worlds. He posits that air is a poetic domain, and music is an art of that domain. From West Central African ngombi harps to the European J. S. Bach revival, music expressed elemental truths in the nineteenth century. Creatures of the Air tells these truths through stories about suffocation and breathing, architecture and environmental design, climate strife, and racial turmoil. Contributing to elemental media studies, the energy humanities, and colonial histories, Davies shows how music, no longer just an innocent luxury, is implicated in the struggle for control over air as a precious natural resource. What emerges is a complex political ecology of the global nineteenth century and beyond.

Audible Infrastructures

Author : Kyle Devine
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019093266X
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Audible Infrastructures written by Kyle Devine and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-11 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our day-to-day musical enjoyment seems so simple, so easy, so automatic. Songs instantly emanate from our computers and phones, at any time of day. The tools for playing and making music, such as records and guitars, wait for us in stores, ready for purchase and use. And when we no longer need them, we can leave them at the curb, where they disappear effortlessly and without a trace. These casual engagements often conceal the complex infrastructures that make our musical cultures possible. Audible Infrastructures takes readers to the sawmills, mineshafts, power grids, telecoms networks, transport systems, and junk piles that seem peripheral to musical culture and shows that they are actually pivotal to what music is, how it works, and why it matters. Organized into three parts dedicated to the main phases in the social life and death of musical commodities resources and production, circulation and transmission, failure and waste this book provides a concerted archaeology of music's media infrastructures. As contributors reveal the material-environmental realities and political-economic conditions of music and listening, they open our eyes to the hidden dimensions of how music is made, delivered, and disposed of. In rethinking our responsibilities as musicians and listeners, this book calls for nothing less than a reconsideration of how music comes to sound.

Managing Stress in Music Education

Author : H. Christian Ii, Bernhard
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000202542
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Managing Stress in Music Education written by H. Christian Ii, Bernhard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-22 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managing Stress in Music Education presents research, theory, possible pitfalls, and strategies for music teachers looking to navigate the challenging climate of potential stressors. Covering a wide range of topics such as sleep, physical movement, nutrition, happiness, gratitude, and mindfulness, this book offers music educators the tools to thrive in a work environment that can often lead to stress and burnout. Readers will examine vignettes of challenged and successful music teachers, and consider new techniques and classic reminders for a healthy enjoyment of work and life. Grounded in research and written in an accessible and concise manner, Managing Stress in Music Education is an excellent addition to any music teacher’s bookshelf.

How Music Helps in Music Therapy and Everyday Life

Author : Dr Gary Ansdell
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1472405714
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (724 download)

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Download or read book How Music Helps in Music Therapy and Everyday Life written by Dr Gary Ansdell and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-02-28 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is music so important to most of us? How does music help us both in our everyday lives, and in the more specialist context of music therapy? This book suggests a new way of approaching these topical questions, drawing from Ansdell's long experience as a music therapist, and from the latest thinking on music in everyday life. Vibrant and moving examples from music therapy situations are twinned with the stories of 'ordinary' people who describe how music helps them within their everyday lives. Together this complementary material leads Ansdell to present a new interdisciplinary framework showing how musical experiences can help all of us build and negotiate identities, make intimate non-verbal relationships, belong together in community, and find moments of transcendence and meaning. How Music Helps is not just a book about music therapy. It has the more ambitious aim to promote (from a music therapist's perspective) a better understanding of 'music and change' in our personal and social life. Ansdell's theoretical synthesis links the tradition of Nordoff-Robbins music therapy and its recent developments in Community Music Therapy to contemporary music sociology and music studies. This book will be relevant to practitioners, academics, and researchers looking for a broad-based theoretical perspective to guide further study and policy in music, well-being, and health.

Vital Voids

Author : Andrew Finegold
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477323287
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book Vital Voids written by Andrew Finegold and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Resurrection Plate, a Late Classic Maya dish, is decorated with an arresting scene. The Maize God, assisted by two other deities, emerges reborn from a turtle shell. At the center of the plate, in the middle of the god’s body and aligned with the point of emergence, there is a curious sight: a small, neatly drilled hole. Art historian Andrew Finegold explores the meanings attributed to this and other holes in Mesoamerican material culture, arguing that such spaces were broadly understood as conduits of vital forces and material abundance, prerequisites for the emergence of life. Beginning with, and repeatedly returning to, the Resurrection Plate, this study explores the generative potential attributed to a wide variety of cavities and holes in Mesoamerica, ranging from the perforated dishes placed in Classic Maya burials, to caves and architectural voids, to the piercing of human flesh. Holes are also discussed in relation to fire, based on the common means through which both were produced: drilling. Ultimately, by attending to what is not there, Vital Voids offers a fascinating approach to Mesoamerican cosmology and material culture.

Producing Excellence

Author : Izabela Wagner
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813575338
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Producing Excellence written by Izabela Wagner and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-25 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Driven by a passion for music, for excellence, and for fame, violin soloists are immersed from early childhood in high-pressure competitions, regular public appearances, and arduous daily practice. An in-depth study of nearly one hundred such children, Producing Excellence illuminates the process these young violinists undergo to become elite international soloists. A musician and a parent of a young violinist, sociologist Izabela Wagner offers an inside look at how her young subjects set out on the long road to becoming a soloist. The remarkable research she conducted—at rehearsals, lessons, and in other educational settings—enabled her to gain deep insight into what distinguishes these talented prodigies and their training. She notes, for instance, the importance of a family culture steeped in the values of the musical world. Indeed, more than half of these students come from a family of professional musicians and were raised in an atmosphere marked by the importance of instrumental practice, the vitality of music as a vocation, and especially the veneration of famous artists. Wagner also highlights the highly structured, rigorous training system of identifying, nurturing, and rewarding talent, even as she underscores the social, economic, and cultural factors that make success in this system possible. Offering an intimate portrait of the students, their parents, and their instructors, Producing Excellence sheds new light on the development of exceptional musical talent, as well as draw much larger conclusions as to “producing prodigy” in other competition-prone areas, such as sports, sciences, the professions, and other arts. Wagner’s insights make this book valuable for academics interested in the study of occupations, and her clear, lively writing is perfect for general readers curious about the ins and outs of training to be a violin soloist.

The Australian Musical News

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 932 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Australian Musical News written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Vitality Supreme

Author : Bernarr Macfadden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Vitality Supreme written by Bernarr Macfadden and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Buffalo Music

Author : Tracey E. Fern
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618723416
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (234 download)

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Download or read book Buffalo Music written by Tracey E. Fern and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2008 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautifully told by Tracey Fern and warmly illustrated by Caldecott Honor winner Lauren Castillo, this is the story of one woman's quest to save the buffalo that once roamed the West. Based on the work of Mary Ann Goodnight, a pioneer credited with forming one of the first captive buffalo herds in the late 1800s and saving them from extinction.

Musical Interpretation, Its Laws and Principles

Author : Tobias Matthay
Publisher : London : J. Williams (limited) ; Boston, Mass. : The Boston music Company (G. Schirmer, Incorporated)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Musical Interpretation, Its Laws and Principles written by Tobias Matthay and published by London : J. Williams (limited) ; Boston, Mass. : The Boston music Company (G. Schirmer, Incorporated). This book was released on 1913 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Tangible in Music

Author : Marko Aho
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315527006
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book The Tangible in Music written by Marko Aho and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-26 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the age of digital music it seems striking that so many of us still want to produce music concretely with our bodies, through the movement of our limbs, lungs and fingers, in contact with those materials and objects which are capable of producing sounds. The huge sales figures of musical instruments in the global market, and the amount of time and effort people of all ages invest in mastering the tools of music, make it clear that playing musical instruments is an important phenomenon in human life. By combining the findings made in music psychology and performative ethnomusicology, Marko Aho shows how playing a musical instrument, and the pleasure musicians get from it, emerges from an intimate dialogue between the personally felt body and the sounding instrument. An introduction to the general aspects of the tactile resources of musical instruments, musical style and the musician is followed by an analysis of the learning process of the regional kantele style of the Perho river valley in Finnish Central Ostrobothnia.

Musical News

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Musical News written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Immanent Vitalities

Author : Kaira M. Cabañas
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520356225
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Immanent Vitalities written by Kaira M. Cabañas and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new reality for the art object has emerged in the world of contemporary art: it is now experienced less as an autonomous, inanimate form and more as an active material agent. In this book, Kaira M. Cabañas describes how such a shift in conceptions of art’s materiality came to occur, exploring key artistic practices in Venezuela, Brazil, and Western Europe from the mid-twentieth century to the present. Immanent Vitalities expands the discourse of new materialisms by charting how artists, ranging from Gego to Laura Lima, distance themselves from dualisms such as mind-matter, culture-nature, human-nonhuman, and even Western–non-Western in order to impact our understanding of what is animate. Tracing migrations of people, objects, and ideas between South America and Europe, Cabañas historicizes changing perceptions about art’s agency while prompting readers to remain attentive to the ethical dimensions of materiality and of social difference and lived experience.