Idiophone

Author : Amy Fusselman
Publisher : Coffee House Press
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781566895217

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Idiophone by Amy Fusselman Pdf

Leaping from ballet to quiltmaking, from the The Nutcracker to an Annie-B Parson interview, Idiophone is a strikingly original meditation on risk-taking and provocation in art and a unabashedly honest, funny, and intimate consideration of art-making in the context of motherhood, and motherhood in the context of addiction. Amy Fusselman’s compact, beautifully digressive essay feels both surprising and effortless, fueled by broad-ranging curiosity, and, fundamentally, joy.

Author : Lester Parker Monts
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Ethnomusicology
ISBN : 2877230139

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An Annotated Glossary of Vai Musical Language and Its Social Contexts by Lester Parker Monts Pdf

(Peeters 1988)

Author : Carol Fisher Mathieson
Publisher : Mark Twain Media
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1996-07-26
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781580378918

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Music of Many Cultures, Grades 5 - 8 by Carol Fisher Mathieson Pdf

Take students in grades 5 and up on a field trip without leaving the classroom using Music of Many Cultures! In this 80-page book, students explore the musical traditions of Southeast Asia, Latin America, India, ancient Persia, and Africa. The book covers topics such as the bells of Bali, the dances of Latin America, Holi in Allahabad, Bengali poetry duels, and Jongo drums. The book presents and reinforces information through captivating reading passages and a variety of fun, reproducible activities. It also includes a complete glossary, index, and answer key.

Author : Kuss, Malena
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 0292784988

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Music in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Encyclopedic History REANNOUNCE/F05: Volume 2: Performing the Caribbean Experience by Kuss, Malena Pdf

The music of the peoples of South and Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean is treated with unprecedented breadth in this multi-volume work. Taking a sociocultural and human-centered approach, Music in Latin America and the Caribbean gathers the best scholarship from writers all over the world to cover in depth the musical legacies of indigenous peoples, creoles, African descendants, Iberian colonizers, and other immigrant groups that met and mixed in the New World. From these texts, music emerges as the powerful tool that negotiates identities, enacts resistance, performs beliefs, and challenges received aesthetics. More than two decades in the making, this work privileges the perspectives of cultural insiders and emphasizes the role that music plays in human life. Volume 2, Performing the Caribbean Experience, focuses on the reconfiguration of this complex soundscape after the Conquest and on the strategies by which groups from distant worlds reconstructed traditions, assigning new meanings to fragments of memory and welding a fascinating variety of unique Creole cultures. Shaped by an enduring African presence and the experience of slavery and colonization by the Spanish, French, British, and Dutch, peoples of the Caribbean islands and circum-Caribbean territories resorted to the power of music to mirror their history, assert identity, gain freedom, and transcend their experience in lasting musical messages. Essays on pan-Caribbean themes, surveys of traditions, and riveting personal accounts capture the essence of pluralistic and spiritualized brands of creativity through the voices of an unprecedented number of Caribbean authors, including a representative contingent of distinguished Cuban scholars whose work is being published in English translation for the first time in this book. Two CDs with 52 recorded examples illustrate the contributions to this volume.

Author : Neville H. Fletcher,Thomas Rossing
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008-05-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 0387983740

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The Physics of Musical Instruments by Neville H. Fletcher,Thomas Rossing Pdf

While the history of musical instruments is nearly as old as civilisation itself, the science of acoustics is quite recent. By understanding the physical basis of how instruments are used to make music, one hopes ultimately to be able to give physical criteria to distinguish a fine instrument from a mediocre one. At that point science may be able to come to the aid of art in improving the design and performance of musical instruments. As yet, many of the subtleties in musical sounds of which instrument makers and musicians are aware remain beyond the reach of modern acoustic measurements. This book describes the results of such acoustical investigations - fascinating intellectual and practical exercises. Addressed to readers with a reasonable grasp of physics who are not put off by a little mathematics, this book discusses most of the traditional instruments currently in use in Western music. A guide for all who have an interest in music and how it is produced, as well as serving as a comprehensive reference for those undertaking research in the field.

Author : Casey A. Mullin
Publisher : A-R Editions, Inc.
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780895799111

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Many Pathways for Discovery by Casey A. Mullin Pdf

Many Pathways for Discovery is a manual for metadata practitioners learning music cataloging for the first time, as well as a ready reference tool for more experienced practitioners. It is intended to serve as a companion guide to general music cataloging instruction, focusing on what has traditionally been considered the more advanced skillset of “subject analysis.” It provides guidance for answering the “W-questions” about music content: What is it? (genre/form); What is it for, or, How is it performed? (medium of performance); Who is it by and Who is it for? (demographic aspects); When was it created? (chronological aspects); Where was it created? (geographic aspects) This book is primarily geared toward a metadata environment based on MARC 21 encoding and on vocabularies developed by the Library of Congress, namely, the Medium of Performance Thesaurus for Music (LCMPT), the Genre/Form Terms for Library and Archival Materials (LCGFT), and the Demographic Group Terms (LCDGT). Comparisons to legacy practices involving Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) are included. Additional chapters address encoding of faceted descriptors in Linked Data environments, and on discovery possibilities for end users. A bibliography of foundational and supplemental resources is provided.

Author : Horst Leuchtmann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783111505732

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Dictionary of Terms in Music / Wörterbuch Musik by Horst Leuchtmann Pdf

Author : Don Michael Randel
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 1020 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2003-11-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 0674011635

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The Harvard Dictionary of Music by Don Michael Randel Pdf

This classic reference work, the best one-volume music dictionary available, has been brought completely up to date in this new edition. Combining authoritative scholarship and lucid, lively prose, the Fourth Edition of The Harvard Dictionary of Music is the essential guide for musicians, students, and everyone who appreciates music. The Harvard Dictionary of Music has long been admired for its wide range as well as its reliability. This treasure trove includes entries on all the styles and forms in Western music; comprehensive articles on the music of Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Near East; descriptions of instruments enriched by historical background; and articles that reflect today’s beat, including popular music, jazz, and rock. Throughout this Fourth Edition, existing articles have been fine-tuned and new entries added so that the dictionary fully reflects current music scholarship and recent developments in musical culture. Encyclopedia-length articles by notable experts alternate with short entries for quick reference, including definitions and identifications of works and instruments. More than 220 drawings and 250 musical examples enhance the text. This is an invaluable book that no music lover can afford to be without.

Author : Murray Campbell,Clive A. Greated,Arnold Myers
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Music
ISBN : 0198165048

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Musical Instruments by Murray Campbell,Clive A. Greated,Arnold Myers Pdf

A reference guide to musical instruments.

Author : Nicolae Sfetcu
Publisher : Nicolae Sfetcu
Page : 6042 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Music Sound by Nicolae Sfetcu Pdf

A guide for music: compositions, events, forms, genres, groups, history, industry, instruments, language, live music, musicians, songs, musicology, techniques, terminology , theory, music video. Music is a human activity which involves structured and audible sounds, which is used for artistic or aesthetic, entertainment, or ceremonial purposes. The traditional or classical European aspects of music often listed are those elements given primacy in European-influenced classical music: melody, harmony, rhythm, tone color/timbre, and form. A more comprehensive list is given by stating the aspects of sound: pitch, timbre, loudness, and duration. Common terms used to discuss particular pieces include melody, which is a succession of notes heard as some sort of unit; chord, which is a simultaneity of notes heard as some sort of unit; chord progression, which is a succession of chords (simultaneity succession); harmony, which is the relationship between two or more pitches; counterpoint, which is the simultaneity and organization of different melodies; and rhythm, which is the organization of the durational aspects of music.

Author : Stephen M. Tomecek,Steve Tomecek
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781604131697

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Music by Stephen M. Tomecek,Steve Tomecek Pdf

From the music that thumps through a listener's headphones to the strains of an orchestra tuning up for a performance, science plays a vital role in how we hear and create music.

Author : J.W. Love,Adrienne Kaeppler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1116 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351544320

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The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music by J.W. Love,Adrienne Kaeppler Pdf

First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : John H. Beck
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 727 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317747673

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Encyclopedia of Percussion by John H. Beck Pdf

The Encyclopedia of Percussion is an extensive guide to percussion instruments, organized for research as well as general knowledge. Focusing on idiophones and membranophones, it covers in detail both Western and non-Western percussive instruments. These include not only instruments whose usual sound is produced percussively (like snare drums and triangles), but those whose usual sound is produced concussively (like castanets and claves) or by friction (like the cuíca and the lion’s roar). The expertise of contributors have been used to produce a wide-ranging list of percussion topics. The volume includes: (1) an alphabetical listing of percussion instruments and terms from around the world; (2) an extensive section of illustrations of percussion instruments; (3) thirty-five articles covering topics from Basel drumming to the xylophone; (4) a list of percussion symbols; (5) a table of percussion instruments and terms in English, French, German, and Italian; and (6) an updated section of published writings on methods for percussion.

Author : George W. Senoga-Zake
Publisher : Uzima Publishing House
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Folk dance music
ISBN : 9966855025

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Folk Music of Kenya by George W. Senoga-Zake Pdf

Author : Gabriel Pareyon,Silvia Pina-Romero,Octavio A. Agustín-Aquino,Emilio Lluis-Puebla
Publisher : Springer
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-20
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319473376

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The Musical-Mathematical Mind by Gabriel Pareyon,Silvia Pina-Romero,Octavio A. Agustín-Aquino,Emilio Lluis-Puebla Pdf

This book presents a deep spectrum of musical, mathematical, physical, and philosophical perspectives that have emerged in this field at the intersection of music and mathematics. In particular the contributed chapters introduce advanced techniques and concepts from modern mathematics and physics, deriving from successes in domains such as Topos theory and physical string theory. The authors include many of the leading researchers in this domain, and the book will be of value to researchers working in computational music, particularly in the areas of counterpoint, gesture, and Topos theory.