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The Natural Musician

Author : Dina Kirnarskaya
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199560137
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book The Natural Musician written by Dina Kirnarskaya and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-11 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the great mysteries of music is how it affects us in multitude of ways. Whether talking about our individual tastes as listeners, or individual differences as performers, what are the psychological qualities that can turn some people into great musicians, but not others? Is it down to genes, sheer hard work, or some other quality in the individual? The Natural Musician is the story of how we become composers, performers, or just discriminating listeners. It searches for those psychological traits essential for turning one into a musician. Unlike many others, Kirnarskaya does believe in the existence of talent, but argues that it is due to multiplicative factors, which she describes, analyses, and shows how to test. She also sheds light on the essence and origins of perfect pitch, examines the triumphs and tortures of musical prodigies, and considers the implications of her theories for the teaching of music. After a foreword from the legendary conductor, Gennady Rodhestvensky, the book looks at our basic musical faculties - how we perceive sounds, distinguish their pitch and structure, and recognise rhythm. It then examines the nature of musical empathy - what it is that allows us to perceive and emotionally connect with music. The second part of the book focuses on the creative processes behind writing music. The third section deals with music education, looking at the role of innate and inherited characteristics in the formation of talent, and considering why many who excel at an early age, burn out later on. The book ends exploring how musical development can shape the human brain, strengthening other cognitive faculties, including those unrelated to music. This is a book that will fascinate anyone with an interest in music and musicians, from the fields of music psychology and education, to musicians themselves, whether amateur and professional.

The Natural Musician

Author : Dina Kirnarskai︠a︡
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780191701795
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Natural Musician written by Dina Kirnarskai︠a︡ and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What turns some people into great musicians, but not others? Is it down to genes, sheer hard work, or some other quality in the individual? Exploring how we become composers, performers, or discriminating listeners, this book searches for those psychological traits essential for turning one into a musician.

A Natural History of the Piano

Author : Stuart Isacoff
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307701425
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book A Natural History of the Piano written by Stuart Isacoff and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully illustrated, totally engrossing celebration of the piano, and the composers and performers who have made it their own. With honed sensitivity and unquestioned expertise, Stuart Isacoff—pianist, critic, teacher, and author of Temperament: How Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilization—unfolds the ongoing history and evolution of the piano and all its myriad wonders: how its very sound provides the basis for emotional expression and individual style, and why it has so powerfully entertained generation upon generation of listeners. He illuminates the groundbreaking music of Mozart, Beethoven, Liszt, Schumann, and Debussy. He analyzes the breathtaking techniques of Glenn Gould, Oscar Peterson, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Arthur Rubinstein, and Van Cliburn, and he gives musicians including Alfred Brendel, Murray Perahia, Menahem Pressler, and Vladimir Horowitz the opportunity to discuss their approaches. Isacoff delineates how classical music and jazz influenced each other as the uniquely American art form progressed from ragtime, novelty, stride, boogie, bebop, and beyond, through Scott Joplin, Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, Bill Evans, Thelonious Monk, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Cecil Taylor, and Bill Charlap. A Natural History of the Piano distills a lifetime of research and passion into one brilliant narrative. We witness Mozart unveiling his monumental concertos in Vienna’s coffeehouses, using a special piano with one keyboard for the hands and another for the feet; European virtuoso Henri Herz entertaining rowdy miners during the California gold rush; Beethoven at his piano, conjuring healing angels to console a grieving mother who had lost her child; Liszt fainting in the arms of a page turner to spark an entire hall into hysterics. Here is the instrument in all its complexity and beauty. We learn of the incredible craftsmanship of a modern Steinway, the peculiarity of specialty pianos built for the Victorian household, the continuing innovation in keyboards including electronic ones. And most of all, we hear the music of the masters, from centuries ago and in our own age, brilliantly evoked and as marvelous as its most recent performance. With this wide-ranging volume, Isacoff gives us a must-have for music lovers, pianists, and the armchair musician.

The Book of Music and Nature

Author : David Rothenberg
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819574961
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)

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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.

Musical Messenger

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Musical Messenger written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Monthly Musical Record

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book The Monthly Musical Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Music Lesson

Author : Victor L. Wooten
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440637695
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book The Music Lesson written by Victor L. Wooten and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Grammy-winning musical icon and legendary bassist Victor L. Wooten comes an inspiring parable of music, life, and the difference between playing all the right notes…and feeling them. The Music Lesson is the story of a struggling young musician who wanted music to be his life, and who wanted his life to be great. Then, from nowhere it seemed, a teacher arrived. Part musical genius, part philosopher, part eccentric wise man, the teacher would guide the young musician on a spiritual journey, and teach him that the gifts we get from music mirror those from life, and every movement, phrase, and chord has its own meaning...All you have to do is find the song inside. “The best book on music (and its connection to the mystic laws of life) that I've ever read. I learned so much on every level.”—Multiple Grammy Award–winning saxophonist Michael Brecker

The Musician

Author : Xuefeng Liu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781478869771
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (697 download)

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Download or read book The Musician written by Xuefeng Liu and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-22 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In ancient China, a young musician named Yu Boya gained fame for his talents. On the night of the Moon Festival, he encounters a mysterious woodcutter who is also a musician and admires Boya's most famous song: Lofty Mountains and Flowing Water. Their friendship deepens and Boya vows to play the song for his new friend every year on the festival night. But the next year, upon hearing of his friend's death, Boya smashes his instrument and never plays again. To this day, the word for "close friendship" means "understanding the music."

CHOÁ - An Educational Musician Game Is Born

Author : Maestro Orlando Andrade Correia
Publisher : Maestro Orlando Andrade
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book CHOÁ - An Educational Musician Game Is Born written by Maestro Orlando Andrade Correia and published by Maestro Orlando Andrade. This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the age of thirty-six I began the realization of my musical dreams, i glimpsed the possibility of transmitting my acquired knowledge in the musical universe to all who wished to develop this playful knowledge. The CHOÁ game gave my initial yummy an exponential increase in musical dissemination, being even more effective with those who have no prior musical knowledge. After overcoming so many musician-educational obstacles I managed to fulfill my dream of singing sweet melodies on the violin, which led me to learn bow viola, consequently cello and double bass. As author of the game, I own the rights to the production and commercialization of the game, but it is my desire to partner with national and international companies for the production and marketing of the game. Interested companies should buy the right to produce and market the game, since the copyright will be permanently over my power. Maestro Orlando Andrade [email protected] +55 (85) 9 9785 6585

Music

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 654 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Music written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Music

Author : William Smythe Babcock Mathews
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 654 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Music written by William Smythe Babcock Mathews and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Music in the Georgian Novel

Author : Pierre Dubois
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107108500
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Music in the Georgian Novel written by Pierre Dubois and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-13 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the literary representation of music in the Georgian novel against its musical, aesthetic and cultural background.

The Musical Quarterly

Author : Oscar George Sonneck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 750 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Musical Quarterly written by Oscar George Sonneck and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

How Music Works

Author : David Byrne
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0804188947
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book How Music Works written by David Byrne and published by Crown. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • David Byrne’s incisive and enthusiastic look at the musical art form, from its very inceptions to the influences that shape it, whether acoustical, economic, social, or technological—now updated with a new chapter on digital curation. “How Music Works is a buoyant hybrid of social history, anthropological survey, autobiography, personal philosophy, and business manual”—The Boston Globe Utilizing his incomparable career and inspired collaborations with Talking Heads, Brian Eno, and many others, David Byrne taps deeply into his lifetime of knowledge to explore the panoptic elements of music, how it shapes the human experience, and reveals the impetus behind how we create, consume, distribute, and enjoy the songs, symphonies, and rhythms that provide the backbeat of life. Byrne’s magnum opus uncovers thrilling realizations about the redemptive liberation that music brings us all.

Musical Observer

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 864 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Musical Observer written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Musician

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 754 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Musician written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Developing the Musician

Author : Mary Stakelum
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131715178X
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Developing the Musician written by Mary Stakelum and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To what extent does research on musical development impact on educational practices in school and the community? Do musicians from classical and popular traditions develop their identities in different ways? What do teachers and learners take into consideration when assessing progress? This book takes a fresh look at 'the musician' and what constitutes 'development' within the fields of music psychology and music education. In doing so, it explores the relationship between formative experiences and the development of the musician in a range of music education settings. It includes the perspectives of classroom teachers, popular musicians, classical musicians and music educators in higher education. Drawn from an international community of experienced educators and researchers, the contributors offer a range of approaches to research. From life history through classroom observation to content analysis, each section offers competing and complementary perspectives on contemporary practice. The book is an essential resource for musicians, educators, researchers and policy makers, offering insight into the reality of practice from those working within established traditions - such as the conservatoire and school settings - and from those who are currently emerging as significant forces in the fields of popular music education and community music.