Bach S Architecture Of Gratitude

Author : James Crooks
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780228020653

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Bach’s Architecture of Gratitude by James Crooks Pdf

Every lover of music finds themselves, at privileged moments, in ecstasy – certain that what they are hearing has captured, somehow, an incontrovertible truth. In Bach’s Architecture of Gratitude James Crooks explores this profound aesthetic experience in a case study of J.S. Bach’s Mass in B Minor – widely considered among the greatest works of the western choral canon. The book begins with an investigation of compositional principles – of what we might call the mass’s musical architecture. Crooks argues that in its cathedral-like structure, Bach gives us a detailed map of the spiritual journey it triggers. This journey culminates in our apprehension of the world as a gift. And that means, in turn, that the mode of knowing appropriate to its musical ecstasy is gratitude. In the gratitude of aesthetic experience, we learn something crucial about the genuine nature of our own identity, our relations with others, and the character of the things around us. Bach’s genius lies in his capacity to frame these lessons in the mass’s choruses, solos, and duets. Spotlighting the wisdom embedded in gratitude, Bach’s Architecture of Gratitude celebrates music as a pathway to understanding our deepest selves and our intimacy with the world.

Author : James Crooks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0228020638

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Bach's Architecture of Gratitude by James Crooks Pdf

Every lover of music finds themselves, at privileged moments, in ecstasy - certain that what they are hearing has captured, somehow, an incontrovertible truth. In Bach's Architecture of Gratitude James Crooks explores this profound aesthetic experience in a case study of J.S. Bach's Mass in B Minor - widely considered among the greatest works of the western choral canon. The book begins with an investigation of compositional principles - of what we might call the Mass's musical architecture. Crooks argues that in its cathedral-like structure, Bach gives us a detailed map of the spiritual journey it triggers. This journey culminates in our apprehension of the world as a gift. And that means, in turn, that the mode of knowing appropriate to its musical ecstasy is gratitude. In the gratitude of aesthetic experience, we learn something crucial about the genuine nature of our own identity, our relations with others, and the character of the things around us. Bach's genius lies in his capacity to frame these lessons in the Mass's choruses, solos and duets. Spotlighting the wisdom embedded in gratitude, Bach's Architecture of Gratitude celebrates music as a pathway to understanding our deepest selves and our intimacy with the world.

Author : James Crooks
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780228020646

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Bach’s Architecture of Gratitude by James Crooks Pdf

Every lover of music finds themselves, at privileged moments, in ecstasy – certain that what they are hearing has captured, somehow, an incontrovertible truth. In Bach’s Architecture of Gratitude James Crooks explores this profound aesthetic experience in a case study of J.S. Bach’s Mass in B Minor – widely considered among the greatest works of the western choral canon. The book begins with an investigation of compositional principles – of what we might call the mass’s musical architecture. Crooks argues that in its cathedral-like structure, Bach gives us a detailed map of the spiritual journey it triggers. This journey culminates in our apprehension of the world as a gift. And that means, in turn, that the mode of knowing appropriate to its musical ecstasy is gratitude. In the gratitude of aesthetic experience, we learn something crucial about the genuine nature of our own identity, our relations with others, and the character of the things around us. Bach’s genius lies in his capacity to frame these lessons in the mass’s choruses, solos, and duets. Spotlighting the wisdom embedded in gratitude, Bach’s Architecture of Gratitude celebrates music as a pathway to understanding our deepest selves and our intimacy with the world.

Author : Associate Professor of Music History Erinn E Knyt,Erinn E. Knyt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780197625491

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Ferruccio Busoni As Architect of Sound by Associate Professor of Music History Erinn E Knyt,Erinn E. Knyt Pdf

"This book presents a broad view of Busoni's compositional activities as not only connected to musical traditions of the past, especially the music of J.S. Bach and W.A. Mozart, but also as closely aligned with contemporary interest in experimentalism. Developments during the twentieth century included new means of pitch organization, the spatialization of sound, and the expansion of formal structures. Busoni helped pioneer these trends by writing pieces in which sound radiates from different directions, by creating montage formal structures, and by freely using all twelve pitches of the chromatic scale without avoiding consonances. In the process, the book brings Busoni's music into discourse with recent multivalent accounts of modernism in music that move beyond notions of rupture with the past as well as beyond elitist esotericism. In addition, it reveals that many of Busoni's innovations were rooted in interdisciplinary thinking that reconciled the spatial and the temporal in unique manners. While his abstract metaphysical notions of music transcended physical boundaries, the realization of his ideas was informed by an understanding of tangible architectural spaces and styles fostered by the study of buildings and floor plans. In addition, he engaged in a rich exchange of ideas with contemporary architects and artists, such as Henry Van de Velde and members of the Weimar Bauhaus. The book concludes by documenting ways Busoni's spatialized architectural music left a lasting imprint on future generations of composers, artists, and early film pioneers, such as Hans Richter, Heinrich Neugeboren, Wladimir Vogel, Stefan Wolpe, and Edgard Varèse"--

Author : Paul Elie
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781429945950

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Reinventing Bach by Paul Elie Pdf

The story of a revolution in music and technology, told through a century of recordings of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach In Reinventing Bach, his remarkable second book, Paul Elie tells the electrifying story of how musicians of genius have made Bach's music new in our time, at once restoring Bach as a universally revered composer and revolutionizing the ways that music figures into our lives. As a musician in eighteenth-century Germany, Bach was on the technological frontier—restoring organs, inventing instruments, and perfecting the tuning system still in use today. Two centuries later, pioneering musicians began to take advantage of breakthroughs in audio recording to make Bach's music the sound of modern transcendence. The sainted organist Albert Schweitzer played to a mobile recording unit set up at London's Church of All Hallows in order to spread Bach's organ works to the world beyond the churches. Pablo Casals, recording at Abbey Road Studios, made Bach's cello suites existentialism for the living room; Leopold Stokowski and Walt Disney, with Fantasia, made Bach the sound of children's playtime and Hollywood grandeur alike. Glenn Gould's Goldberg Variations opened and closed the LP era and made Bach the byword for postwar cool; and Yo-Yo Ma has brought Bach into the digital present, where computers and smartphones put the sound of Bach all around us. In this book we see these musicians and dozens of others searching, experimenting, and collaborating with one another in the service of Bach, who emerges as the very image of the spiritualized, technically savvy artist. Reinventing Bach is a gorgeously written story of music, invention, and human passion—and a story with special relevance in our time, for it shows that great things can happen when high art meets new technology.

Author : Ritu Bhatt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780415534741

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Rethinking Aesthetics by Ritu Bhatt Pdf

Rethinking Aesthetics is the first book to bring together prominent voices in the fields of architecture, philosophy, aesthetics, and cognitive sciences to radically rethink the relationship between body and design. These essays argue that aesthetic experiences can be nurtured at any moment in everyday life, thanks to recent discoveries by researchers in neuroscience, phenomenology, somatics, and analytic philosophy of the mind, who have made the correlations between aesthetic cognition, the human body, and everyday life much clearer. The essays, by Yuriko Saito, Juhani Pallasmaa, and Richard Shusterman, among others, range from an integrated mind-body approach to chair design, to Zen Buddhist notions of mindfulness, to theoretical accounts of existential relationships with buildings, to present a full spectrum of possible inquiries. By placing the body in the center of design, Rethinking Aesthetics opens new directions for rethinking the limits of both essentialism and skepticism.

Author : Jochen Boeder,Bernhard Groene
Publisher : tredition
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783849576622

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The Architecture of SAP ERP by Jochen Boeder,Bernhard Groene Pdf

This book - compiled by software architects from SAP - is a must for consultants, developers, IT managers, and students working with SAP ERP, but also users who want to know the world behind their SAP user interface.

Author : James Crooks
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780773554382

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We Find Ourselves Put to the Test by James Crooks Pdf

Does the world we inhabit offer us hospitality or indifference? This question is central to the spiritual literature of all cultures. In We Find Ourselves Put to the Test James Crooks returns to the Bible’s book of Job to explore the enduring relevance of that question and its philosophical dimensions. Beginning with the puzzle of Job’s famous stoicism and nihilism in the face of loss, Crooks explores the contradictions of suffering as dramatized in the dialogue between Job and his friends. How is it that the friends’ attempt to comfort Job with a rational explanation of his misfortune devolves seamlessly into victim blaming? How is it that Job’s own renunciation of life at the nadir of his pain converts into an intellectual patience that outlasts the advocates of rational explanation? We Find Ourselves Put to the Test gives a portrait of the suffering protagonist looking into the heart of a creation that is, by necessity, both indifferent and hospitable. A philosophical exploration of one of the most enigmatic books in the Bible, We Find Ourselves Put to the Test goes beyond critical interpretation and suggests a way of reading the book of Job that is animated by a consideration of the reader’s narratives and communities, and the limits of his or her own understanding.

Author : Dreck Spurlock Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 855 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781135956295

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African American Architects by Dreck Spurlock Wilson Pdf

Since 1865 African-American architects have been designing and building houses and public buildings, but the architects are virtually unknown. This work brings their lives and work to light for the first time.

Author : University of Michigan. Board of Regents
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1518 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39076006643725

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Regents' Proceedings by University of Michigan. Board of Regents Pdf

Author : University of Michigan. Board of Regents
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1520 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:49015003101806

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Proceedings of the Board of Regents by University of Michigan. Board of Regents Pdf

Author : Stephen Hughes
Publisher : Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-18
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781871184327

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Copperopolis: Landscapes of the Early Industrial Period in Swansea by Stephen Hughes Pdf

Dadansoddiad darluniadol o dirlun diwydiannol ardal Abertawe yn adlewyrchu dylanwad hanes a datblygiad y diwydiant copr ar fywyd cymdeithasol ac economaidd, addysgol a chrefyddol y fro yn ystod y 18fed a'r 19eg ganrif. Dros 300 o luniau du-a-gwyn. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru

Author : Sheng-Lung Peng,Souvik Pal,Lianfen Huang
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-13
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030335960

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Principles of Internet of Things (IoT) Ecosystem: Insight Paradigm by Sheng-Lung Peng,Souvik Pal,Lianfen Huang Pdf

This book discusses the evolution of future-generation technologies through the Internet of things, bringing together all the related technologies on a single platform to offer valuable insights for undergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers, academics and industry practitioners. The book uses data, network engineering and intelligent decision- support system-by-design principles to design a reliable IoT-enabled ecosystem and to implement cyber-physical pervasive infrastructure solutions. It takes readers on a journey that begins with understanding the insight paradigm of IoT-enabled technologies and how it can be applied. It walks readers through engaging with real-time challenges and building a safe infrastructure for IoT-based, future-generation technologies. The book helps researchers and practitioners to understand the design architecture through IoT and the state of the art in IoT countermeasures. It also highlights the differences between heterogeneous platforms in IoT-enabled infrastructure and traditional ad hoc or infrastructural networks, and provides a comprehensive discussion on functional frameworks for IoT, object identification, IoT domain model, RFID technology, wearable sensors, WBAN, IoT semantics, knowledge extraction, and security and privacy issues in IoT-based ecosystems. Written by leading international experts, it explores IoT-enabled insight paradigms, which are utilized for the future benefit of humans. It also includes references to numerous works. Divided into stand-alone chapters, this highly readable book is intended for specialists, researchers, graduate students, designers, experts, and engineers involved in research on healthcare-related issues.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UCSD:31822027034685

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Process, Architecture by Anonim Pdf

Author : Nannette Snow Emerson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HN1DVE

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A Thanksgiving Story by Nannette Snow Emerson Pdf