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Author : william gardiner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book the music of nature written by william gardiner and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Rothenberg
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819574961
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)
Download or read book The Book of Music and Nature written by David Rothenberg and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-25 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative book, assembled by the editors of the renowned periodical Terra Nova, is the first anthology published on the subject of music and nature. Lush and evocative, yoking together the simplicities and complexities of the world of natural sound and the music inspired by it, this collection includes essays, illustrations, and plenty of sounds and music. The Book of Music and Nature celebrates our relationship with natural soundscapes while posing stimulating questions about that very relationship. The book ranges widely, with the interplay of the texts and sounds creating a conversation that readers from all walks of life will find provocative and accessible. The anthology includes classic texts on music and nature by 20th century masters including John Cage, Hazrat Inrayat Khan, Pierre Schaeffer, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Toru Takemitsu. Innovative essays by Brian Eno, Pauline Oliveros, David Toop, Hildegard Westerkamp and Evan Eisenberg also appear. Interspersed throughout are short fictional excerpts by authors Rafi Zabor, Alejo Carpentier, and Junichiro Tanazaki. The audio material for the book, available online at http://www.wesleyan.edu/wespress/musicandnaturecd/, includes fifteen tracks of music made out of, or reflective of, natural sounds, ranging from Babenzele Pygmy music to Australian butcherbirds, and from Pauline Oliveros to Brian Eno.
Author : David Rothenberg
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780819564085
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (64 download)
Download or read book The Book of Music and Nature written by David Rothenberg and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative book and CD explore the relationship of music and the natural world.
Author : Peter R. Marler
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080473555
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Nature's Music written by Peter R. Marler and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2004-10-05 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The voices of birds have always been a source of fascination. Nature's Music brings together some of the world's experts on birdsong, to review the advances that have taken place in our understanding of how and why birds sing, what their songs and calls mean, and how they have evolved. All contributors have strived to speak, not only to fellow experts, but also to the general reader. The result is a book of readable science, richly illustrated with recordings and pictures of the sounds of birds. Bird song is much more than just one behaviour of a single, particular group of organisms. It is a model for the study of a wide variety of animal behaviour systems, ecological, evolutionary and neurobiological. Bird song sits at the intersection of breeding, social and cognitive behaviour and ecology. As such interest in this book will extend far beyond the purely ornithological - to behavioural ecologists psychologists and neurobiologists of all kinds.* The scoop on local dialects in birdsong* How birdsongs are used for fighting and flirting* The writers are all international authorities on their subject
Author : Maureen McCarthy Draper
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1573228982
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (732 download)
Download or read book Nature of Music written by Maureen McCarthy Draper and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2001-11-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important book that answers how music affects your mood and how music affects your brain Music has a profound influence on our lives; affecting how we think, how we act, how we feel-even who we are. By learning more about the intimate relationship between music and ourselves, we can begin to harness that power and better our lives. A classical pianist, Draper writes about the ways in which the great works of the classical canon can help us cope with grief, give dimension to the mysteries of beauty and faith, aid us in recovery from illness, inspire us to create, or just give us a boost of energy. This unique guide includes an extensive music bibliography with selections to suit moods, calm nerves, inspire, and heal. Anyone from the novice to the aficionado will find new ways to hear music as they never have before.
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Author : William Gardiner (Member of the Academy of St. Cecilia, at Rome.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Music of Nature; Or, An Attempt to Prove that what is Passionate and Pleasing in the Art of Singing, Speaking, and Performing Upon Musical Instruments, is Derived from the Sounds of the Animated World, Etc. [With Musical Notes.] written by William Gardiner (Member of the Academy of St. Cecilia, at Rome.) and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth Eva Leach
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501727575
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Sung Birds written by Elizabeth Eva Leach and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is birdsong music? The most frequent answer to this question in the Middle Ages was resoundingly "no." In Sung Birds, Elizabeth Eva Leach traces postmedieval uses of birdsong within Western musical culture. She first explains why such melodious sound was not music for medieval thinkers and then goes on to consider the ontology of music, the significance of comparisons between singers and birds, and the relationship between art and nature as enacted by the musical performance of late-medieval poetry. If birdsong was not music, how should we interpret the musical depiction of birdsong in human music-making? What does it tell us about the singers, their listeners, and the moral status of secular polyphony? Why was it the fourteenth century that saw the beginnings of this practice, continued to this day in the music of Messiaen and others?Leach explores medieval arguments about song, language, and rationality whose basic terms survive undiminished into the present. She considers not only lyrics that have their singers voice the songs or speech of birds but also those that represent other natural, nonmusical, sounds such as human cries or the barks of dogs. The dangerous sweetness of birdsong was invoked in discussions of musical ethics, which, because of the potential slippage between irrational beast and less rational woman in comparisons with rational human masculinity, depict women's singing as less than fully human. Leach's argument comes full circle with the advent of sound recording. This technological revolution-like its medieval equivalent, the invention of the music book-once again made the relationship between music and nature an acute preoccupation of Western culture.
Author : Mark Changizi
Publisher : BenBella Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1935618830
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (356 download)
Download or read book Harnessed written by Mark Changizi and published by BenBella Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-08-02 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The scientific consensus is that our ability to understand human speech has evolved over hundreds of thousands of years. After all, there are whole portions of the brain devoted to human speech. We learn to understand speech before we can even walk, and can seamlessly absorb enormous amounts of information simply by hearing it. Surely we evolved this capability over thousands of generations. Or did we? Portions of the human brain are also devoted to reading. Children learn to read at a very young age and can seamlessly absorb information even more quickly through reading than through hearing. We know that we didn't evolve to read because reading is only a few thousand years old. In Harnessed, cognitive scientist Mark Changizi demonstrates that human speech has been very specifically “designed" to harness the sounds of nature, sounds we've evolved over millions of years to readily understand. Long before humans evolved, mammals have learned to interpret the sounds of nature to understand both threats and opportunities. Our speech—regardless of language—is very clearly based on the sounds of nature. Even more fascinating, Changizi shows that music itself is based on natural sounds. Music—seemingly one of the most human of inventions—is literally built on sounds and patterns of sound that have existed since the beginning of time. From Library Journal: "Many scientists believe that the human brain's capacity for language is innate, that the brain is actually "hard-wired" for this higher-level functionality. But theoretical neurobiologist Changizi (director of human cognition, 2AI Labs; The Vision Revolution) brilliantly challenges this view, claiming that language (and music) are neither innate nor instinctual to the brain but evolved culturally to take advantage of what the most ancient aspect of our brain does best: process the sounds of nature ... it will certainly intrigue evolutionary biologists, linguists, and cultural anthropologists and is strongly recommended for libraries that have Changizi's previous book." From Forbes: “In his latest book, Harnessed, neuroscientist Mark Changizi manages to accomplish the extraordinary: he says something compellingly new about evolution.… Instead of tackling evolution from the usual position and become mired in the usual arguments, he focuses on one aspect of the larger story so central to who we are, it may very well overshadow all others except the origin of life itself: communication."
Author : David George Haskell
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 052542752X
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (254 download)
Download or read book The Songs of Trees written by David George Haskell and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Marketing Blurb
Author : Kathleen Dean Moore
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1640093680
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Earth's Wild Music written by Kathleen Dean Moore and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At once joyous and somber, this thoughtful gathering of new and selected essays spans Kathleen Dean Moore's distinguished career as a tireless advocate for environmental activism in the face of climate change. In this meditation on the music of the natural world, Moore celebrates the call of loons, howl of wolves, bellow of whales, laughter of children, and shriek of frogs, even as she warns of the threats against them. Each group of essays moves, as Moore herself has been moved, from celebration to lamentation to bewilderment and finally to the determination to act in defense of wild songs and the creatures who sing them. Music is the shivering urgency and exuberance of life ongoing. In a time of terrible silencing, Moore asks, who will forgive us if we do not save nature's songs?
Author : Timothy Rice
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199794375
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Ethnomusicology: A Very Short Introduction written by Timothy Rice and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explaining that musicality is an essential touchstone of the human experience, a concise introduction to the study of the nature of music, its community and its cultural values explains the diverse work of today's ethnomusicologists and how researchers apply anthropological and other social disciplines to studies of human and cultural behaviors. Original.
Author : Flora R. Levin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521518903
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (215 download)
Download or read book Greek Reflections on the Nature of Music written by Flora R. Levin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-27 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Flora Levin explores how and why music was so important to the ancient Greeks. She examines the distinctions that they drew between the theory of music as an art ruled by number and the theory wherein number is held to be ruled by the art of music. These perspectives generated more expansive theories, particularly the idea that the cosmos is a mirror-image of music's structural elements and, conversely, that music by virtue of its cosmic elements - time, motion, and the continuum - is itself a mirror-image of the cosmos. These opposing perspectives gave rise to two opposing schools of thought, the Pythagorean and the Aristoxenian. Levin argues that the clash between these two schools could never be reconciled because the inherent conflict arises from two different worlds of mathematics. Her book shows how the Greeks' appreciation of the profundity of music's interconnections with philosophy, mathematics, and logic led to groundbreaking intellectual achievements that no civilization has ever matched.
Author : 蔡志忠
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9787801885142
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (851 download)
Download or read book 庄子说 written by 蔡志忠 and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jules Combarieu
Publisher : London : K. Paul, Trench, Trübner
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Music, Its Laws and Evolution written by Jules Combarieu and published by London : K. Paul, Trench, Trübner. This book was released on 1910 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lang Elliott
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811729680
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (296 download)
Download or read book The Calls of Frogs and Toads written by Lang Elliott and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These superb collections of field recordings and descriptions offer unparalleled access to the sounds and calls of numerous popular and less well known birds and amphibians. Each book and CD provides an introduction to the sound repertoire of species living in eastern and central North America--a variety of calls from each species are included, along with an in-depth description and explanation of their significance. In addition to color photographs of the most common species, the text offers a fascinating look at the science of avian and amphibian calls, making these guides indispensable aids for the outdoor enthusiast.
Author : William Gardiner
Publisher : Franklin Classics Trade Press
ISBN 13 : 9780344100314
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The Music of Nature written by William Gardiner and published by Franklin Classics Trade Press. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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Author : William Gardiner (Member of the Academy of St. Cecilia, at Rome.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Music of Nature; Or, An Attempt to Prove that what is Passionate and Pleasing in the Art of Singing, Speaking, and Performing Upon Musical Instruments, is Derived from the Sounds of the Animated World, Etc. [With Musical Notes.] written by William Gardiner (Member of the Academy of St. Cecilia, at Rome.) and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
