Jonathan Harvey Song Offerings And White As Jasmine

Author : Michael Downes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351630801

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Jonathan Harvey: Song Offerings and White as Jasmine by Michael Downes Pdf

Jonathan Harvey (1939-2012) was one of Britain's leading composers: his music is frequently performed throughout Europe, the United States (where he lived and worked) and Japan. He is particularly renowned for his electro-acoustic music, an aspect on which most previous writing on his work has focused. The present volume is the first detailed study of music from Harvey's considerable body of work for conventional forces. It focuses on two pieces that span one of the most fertile periods in Harvey's output: Song Offerings (1985; awarded the prestigious Britten Award), and White as Jasmine (1999). The book explores the links between the two works - both set texts by Hindu writers, employ a solo soprano, and adumbrate a spiritual journey - as well as showing how Harvey's musical language has evolved in the period between them. It examines Harvey's techniques of writing for the voice, for small ensemble (Song Offerings), and for large orchestra, subtly and characteristically enhanced with electronic sound (White as Jasmine). It shows how Harvey's music is informed by his profound understanding of Eastern religion, as well as offering a clear and accessible account of his distinctive musical language. Both works use musical processes to dramatic and clearly audible effect, as the book demonstrates with close reference to the accompanying downloadable resources. The book draws on interviews with the composer, and benefits from the author's exclusive access to sketches of the two works. It contextualises the works, showing how they are the product of a diverse series of musical influences and an engagement with ideas from both Eastern and Western religions. It also explores how Harvey continued to develop the musical and spiritual preoccupations revealed in these pieces in his later work, up to and including his third opera, Wagner Dream (2007).

Author : Oana Andreica
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783031111464

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Music as Cultural Heritage and Novelty by Oana Andreica Pdf

This book provides a multifaceted view on the relation between the old and the new in music, between tradition and innovation. This is a much-debated issue, generating various ideas and theories, which rarely come to unanimous conclusions. Therefore, the book offers diverse perspectives on topics such as national identities, narrative strategies, the question of musical performance and musical meaning. Alongside themes of general interest, such as classical repertoire, the music of well-established composers and musical topics, the chapters of the book also touch on specific, but equally interesting subjects, like Brazilian traditions, Serbian and Romanian composers and the lullaby. While the book is mostly addressed to researchers, it can also be recommended to students in musicology, ethnomusicology, musical performance, and musical semiotics.

Author : Erling E. Guldbrandsen,Julian Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107127210

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Transformations of Musical Modernism by Erling E. Guldbrandsen,Julian Johnson Pdf

This collection brings fresh perspectives to bear upon key questions surrounding the composition, performance and reception of musical modernism.

Author : Paul Griffiths
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 0199792283

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Modern Music and After by Paul Griffiths Pdf

Over three decades, Paul Griffiths's survey has remained the definitive study of music since the Second World War; this fully revised and updated edition re-establishes Modern Music and After as the preeminent introduction to the music of our time. The disruptions of the war, and the struggles of the ensuing peace, were reflected in the music of the time: in Pierre Boulez's radical reformation of compositional technique and in John Cage's development of zen music; in Milton Babbitt's settling of the serial system and in Dmitry Shostakovich's unsettling symphonies; in Karlheinz Stockhausen's development of electronic music and in Luigi Nono's pursuit of the universally human, in Iannis Xenakis's view of music as sounding mathematics and in Luciano Berio's consideration of it as language. The initiatives of these composers and their contemporaries opened prospects that haven't yet stopped unfolding. This constant expansion of musical thinking since 1945 has left us with no singular history of music; Griffiths's study accordingly follows several different paths, showing how and why they converge and diverge. This new edition of Modern Music and After discusses not only the music of the fifteen years that have passed since the previous edition, but also the recent explosion of scholarly interest in the latter half of the twentieth century. In particular, the book has been expanded to incorporate the variety of responses to the modernist impasse experienced by composers of the 1980s and 1990s. Griffiths then moves the book into the twenty-first century as he examines such highly influential composers as Helmut Lachenmann and Salvatore Sciarrino. For its breadth, wealth of detail, and characteristic wit and clarity, the third edition of Modern Music and After is required reading for the student and the enquiring listener.

Author : John W. Barker
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781580464109

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Wagner and Venice Fictionalized by John W. Barker Pdf

The first account of how Wagner's last years and his death in Venice have been mythologized in novels and other works of the creative imagination. The vast literature about Richard Wagner and his works includes a surprising number of fictional works, including novels, plays, satires, and an opera. Many of these deal with his last years and his death in Venice in 1883 -- andeven a fabricated eleventh-hour romance. These fictional treatments -- many presented here in English for the first time -- reveal a striking evolution in the way that Wagner's character and reputation have been viewed over more than a century. They offer insights into changing contexts in Western intellectual and cultural history. And they make clear how much Wagner's associations with Venice have become part of the accumulated mythology of "thefloating city." John Barker's Wagner and Venice Fictionalized: Variations on a Theme will be of interest to all lovers of opera, Venice, and European culture generally. John W. Barker is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, specializing in medieval (including Venetian) history. He is also a passionate music lover and record collector, and an active music critic and journalist.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105024912367

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International Who's who in Music and Musicians' Directory by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 984 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015057473343

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International Who's who in Classical Music by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1972 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025902979

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People of Today by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015057473160

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Gramophone by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1058 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Audio equipment industry
ISBN : UCSD:31822037230737

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The Gramophone by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kate Morton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781439152812

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The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton Pdf

Withdrawing from a family party to the solitude of her tree house, 16-year-old Laurel Nicolson witnesses a shocking murder that throughout a subsequent half century shapes her beliefs, her acting career and the lives of three strangers from vastly different cultures. By the best-selling author of The Distant Hours. Reprint. 200,000 first printing.

Author : Tamora Pierce
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-21
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781481439626

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The Woman Who Rides Like a Man by Tamora Pierce Pdf

On her first tour as a knight errant, Alanna assumes a position of influence with a fierce desert tribe, makes some changes in the role of women in the society, and continues her own emotional development.

Author : Edward Venn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351580366

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Thomas Adès: Asyla by Edward Venn Pdf

Thomas Adès (b. 1971) is an established international figure, both as composer and performer, with popular and critical acclaim and admiration from around the world. Edward Venn examines in depth one of Adès’s most significant works so far, his orchestral Asyla (1997). Its blend of virtuosic orchestral writing, allusions to various idioms, including rave music, and a musical rhetoric encompassing both high modernism and lush romanticism is always compelling and utterly representative of Adès’s distinctive compositional voice. The reception of Asyla since its premiere in 1997 by Sir Simon Rattle and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) has been staggering. Instantly hailed as a classic, Asyla won the 1997 Royal Philharmonic Society Award for Large-Scale Composition. An internationally acclaimed recording made of the work was nominated for the 1999 Mercury Music Prize, and in 2000, Adès became the youngest composer (and only the third British composer) to win the Grawemeyer prize, for Asyla. Asyla is fast becoming a repertory item, rapidly gaining over one hundred performances: a rare distinction for a contemporary work.

Author : Poppy Brite
Publisher : Dell
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307768285

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Lost Souls by Poppy Brite Pdf

Vampires . . . they ache, they love, they thirst for the forbidden. They are your friends and lovers, and your worst fears. “A major new voice in horror fiction . . . an electric style and no shortage of nerve.”—Booklist At a club in Missing Mile, N.C., the children of the night gather, dressed in black, look for acceptance. Among them are Ghost, who sees what others do not; Ann, longing for love; and Jason, whose real name is Nothing, newly awakened to an ancient, deathless truth about his father, and himself. Others are coming to Missing Mile tonight. Three beautiful, hip vagabonds—Molochai, Twig, and the seductive Zillah, whose eyes are as green as limes—are on their own lost journey, slaking their ancient thirst for blood, looking for supple young flesh. They find it in Nothing and Ann, leading them on a mad, illicit road trip south to New Orleans. Over miles of dark highway, Ghost pursues, his powers guiding him on a journey to reach his destiny, to save Ann from her new companions, to save Nothing from himself. . . . “An important and original work . . . a gritty, highly literate blend of brutality and sentiment, hope and despair.”—Science Fiction Chronicle

Author : Chantele Sedgwick
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781634500036

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Love, Lucas by Chantele Sedgwick Pdf

A 2015 Whitney Award Nominee! A powerful story of loss, second chances, and first love, reminiscent of Sarah Dessen and John Green. When Oakley Nelson loses her older brother, Lucas, to cancer, she thinks she’ll never recover. Between her parents’ arguing and the battle she’s fighting with depression, she feels nothing inside but a hollow emptiness. When Mom suggests they spend a few months in California with Aunt Jo, Oakley isn’t sure a change of scenery will alter anything, but she’s willing to give it a try. In California, Oakley discovers a sort of safety and freedom in Aunt Jo’s beach house. Once they’re settled, Mom hands her a notebook full of letters addressed to her—from Lucas. As Oakley reads one each day, she realizes how much he loved her, and each letter challenges her to be better and to continue to enjoy her life. He wants her to move on. If only it were that easy. But then a surfer named Carson comes into her life, and Oakley is blindsided. He makes her feel again. As she lets him in, she is surprised by how much she cares for him, and that’s when things get complicated. How can she fall in love and be happy when Lucas never got the chance to do those very same things? With her brother’s dying words as guidance, Oakley knows she must learn to listen and trust again. But will she have to leave the past behind to find happiness in the future? Sky Pony Press, with our Good Books, Racehorse and Arcade imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of books for young readers—picture books for small children, chapter books, books for middle grade readers, and novels for young adults. Our list includes bestsellers for children who love to play Minecraft; stories told with LEGO bricks; books that teach lessons about tolerance, patience, and the environment, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.