Music As Dream

Author : John Berryman
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-21
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781466879638

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The Dream Songs by John Berryman Pdf

The complete Dream Songs--hypnotic, seductive, masterful--as thrilling to read now as they ever were John Berryman's The Dream Songs are perhaps the funniest, saddest, most intricately wrought cycle of oems by an American in the twentieth century. They are also, more simply, the vibrantly sketched adventures of a uniquely American antihero named Henry. Henry falls in and out of love, and is in and out of the hospital; he sings of joy and desire, and of beings at odds with the world. He is lustful; he is depressed. And while Henry is breaking down and cracking up and patching himself together again, Berryman is doing the same thing to the English language, crafting electric verses that defy grammar but resound with an intuitive truth: "if he had a hundred years," Henry despairs in "Dream Song 29," "& more, & weeping, sleepless, in all them time / Henry could not make good." This volume collects both 77 Dream Songs, which won Berryman the Pulitzer Prize in 1965, and their continuation, His Toy, His Dream, His Rest, which was awarded the National Book Award and the Bollingen Prize in 1969. The Dream Songs are witty and wild, an account of madness shot through with searing insight, winking word play, and moments of pure, soaring elation. This is a brilliantly sustained and profoundly moving performance that has not yet-and may never be-equaled.

Author : Lennie Gallant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-02
Category : Lyricists
ISBN : 0993789609

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Peter's Dream by Lennie Gallant Pdf

Singer-songwriter Lennie Gallant and visual artist Karen Gallant are brother and sister who grew up in Rustico, Prince Edward Island. They were influenced by their surroundings in similar and profound ways, yet chose to channel their creativity through different media. Lennie and Karen have long dreamed of working together on a project and this wonderful book is the result. Peter's Dream is an opportunity for you to experience their respective visions through exciting pairings of lyric and image that will pull you into new worlds rich in drama, pathos, and celebration -- as well as a healthy dose of East Coast lore. Rendered by two powerful and perceptive storytellers, these works were created over a lifetime of independent craftsmanship. But while preparing this book, both artists discovered that they have been unknowingly collaborating all along! Prepare to be moved and inspired by these talented siblings, now realizing their shared dream together.

Author : Stevie Nicks
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007-07-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781458466860

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Stevie Nicks - Greatest Hits (Songbook) by Stevie Nicks Pdf

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). Assembles 14 smash hits from this mystical singer/songwriter's solo career, as well as her days fronting Fleetwood Mac: Bella Donna * Edge of Seventeen * If Anyone Falls * Landslide * Leather and Lace * Rhiannon * Sorcerer * Stand Back * Stop Draggin' My Heart Around * Talk to Me * more.

Author : Patrick Lacoursière
Publisher : La Montagne secrète
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 2923163060

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Dodo la planète do, 2 by Patrick Lacoursière Pdf

Beautifully recorded lullabies from around the world are sung in the language of origin along with an illustrated bedtime story--in English, Spanish, and French--about an imaginary journey to unknown lands. Performers Sylva Balassanian, Mary Fujiwara Burke, Juan Jose Carranza, Hart-Rouge, H'sao, Paul Kunigis, and Nathalie Picard share their culture in offering lovely, warm lead vocals and harmonies, supported by a highly skilled group of musicians playing more than 30 different instruments. The earth-toned, dreamlike illustrations reflect both the subject and country of origin of each song.

Author : Frederic Rowland Marvin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HN1P73

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Dream Music by Frederic Rowland Marvin Pdf

Author : Nancy Faber,Randall Faber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02
Category : Piano
ISBN : 1616776390

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Piano Adventures, Sightreading Level 2b by Nancy Faber,Randall Faber Pdf

(Faber Piano Adventures ). Good sightreading skill is a powerful asset for the developing musician. Carefully composed variations of the Level 2B Lesson Book pieces help the student see the "new" against the backdrop of the "familiar." Fun, lively characters instruct students and motivate sightreading with a spirit of adventure and fun.

Author : Franco Sciannameo,Alessandra Carlotta Pellegrini
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780810884250

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Music as Dream by Franco Sciannameo,Alessandra Carlotta Pellegrini Pdf

Music as Dream: Essays on Giacinto Scelsi showcases recent scholarly criticism on the music and philosophy of the brilliantly original composer Giacinto Scelsi. In this collection, Franco Sciannameo and Alessandra Carlotta Pellegrini select and translate into English for the first time essays that reflect the evolution of recent scholarship on Scelsi’s musical compositions. Music as Dream opens with “The Scelsi Case,” which erupted shortly after Scelsi’s death in 1988 when composer Vieri Tosatti claimed ownership of his works. This quarrel reached its zenith in the pages of PianoTime’s March 1989 issue, where musicologist Guido Zaccagnini questioned a group of noted composers, writers, and arts managers about whether a composer can claim sole authorship for a work accomplished in collaboration with others. The essays are wide-ranging in scope. French musicologist Michelle Biget-Mainfroy, a specialist in “gestural” piano writing, offers an in-depth study of Scelsi’s complex piano output; Gianmario Borio looks at Scelsi’s “Sound as Compositional Process”; Alessandra Montali examines and details Scelsi’s theoretical and literary writings; Luciano Martinis and Franco Sciannameo explore the lives and whereabouts of obscure composers Giacinto Sallustio, Walther Klein, and Richard Falk, who were Scelsi’s collaborators until the early 1940s when Tosatti took sole charge; Alessandra Carlotta Pellegrini elaborates on Scelsi’s most important composition of his first period, presenting a tour-de-force that pieces together its complex story through research at the newly organized Scelsi Archive at the Fondazione Isabella Scelsi in Rome; and Friedrich Jaecker’s and Sandro Marrocu’s essays also draw on research conducted at the archive of Fondazione. Finally, an updated bibliography and discography conclude the book

Author : Ben Folds
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781984817280

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A Dream About Lightning Bugs by Ben Folds Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the genre-defying icon Ben Folds comes a memoir that is as nuanced, witty, and relatable as his cult-classic songs. “A Dream About Lightning Bugs reads like its author: intelligent, curious, unapologetically punk, and funny as hell.”—Sara Bareilles NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND PASTE Ben Folds is a celebrated American singer-songwriter, beloved for songs such as “Brick,” “You Don’t Know Me,” “Rockin’ the Suburbs,” and “The Luckiest,” and is the former frontman of the alternative rock band Ben Folds Five. But Folds will be the first to tell you he’s an unconventional icon, more normcore than hardcore. Now, in his first book, Folds looks back at his life so far in a charming and wise chronicle of his artistic coming of age, infused with the wry observations of a natural storyteller. In the title chapter, “A Dream About Lightning Bugs,” Folds recalls his earliest childhood dream—and realizes how much it influenced his understanding of what it means to be an artist. In “Measure Twice, Cut Once” he learns to resist the urge to skip steps during the creative process. In “Hall Pass” he recounts his 1970s North Carolina working-class childhood, and in “Cheap Lessons” he returns to the painful life lessons he learned the hard way—but that luckily didn’t kill him. In his inimitable voice, both relatable and thought-provoking, Folds digs deep into the life experiences that shaped him, imparting hard-earned wisdom about both art and life. Collectively, these stories embody the message Folds has been singing about for years: Smile like you’ve got nothing to prove, because it hurts to grow up, and life flies by in seconds. Praise for A Dream About Lightning Bugs “Besides being super talented, and an incredibly poignant and multifaceted musician, Ben Folds is a fantastic author. I couldn’t put this book down—and not just because I taped it to my hand. Ben takes us into his mind and into his process from the very beginnings of his childhood to where he is today—one of the greatest musicians and writers that has ever graced the art.”—Bob Saget

Author : Pierre Hache
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1999205952

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Muse by Pierre Hache Pdf

Muse, a ukulele-themed children's book, is both a touching tale about friendship, feelings and the power of imagination, and a fun introduction to rhythm and music!

Author : Margarita Engle
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780544102293

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Drum Dream Girl by Margarita Engle Pdf

Follows a girl in the 1920s as she strives to become a drummer, despite being continually reminded that only boys play the drums, and that there has never been a female drummer in Cuba. Includes note about Millo Castro Zaldarriaga, who inspired the story, and Anacaona, the all-girl dance band she formed with her sisters.

Author : Carmeli Argana
Publisher : PartridgeIndia
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781482897395

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Music Dream by Carmeli Argana Pdf

Alexi works in Star Records, a place where all your music dreams come true. Or do they? So far, things haven't been exactly dreamy for Alexi. Alexi is working for the biggest pop sensation in the country as a laundress. Brianna and Celeste have turned Star Records into a place of torture for Alexi and Alexi's best friend moved far away from her. Alexi has no one she can really trust. But then things started looking up for her. Lucy, her BFF, returns for a holiday and a competition turns up for all employees. This could be Alexi's chance to finally get her life back on track. But wherever something bright turns up, something dark follows. Her chances of winning are becoming slimmer by the day and worse, the competition was even getting in the way of Alexi's friendship with Lucy. Will Alexi have to choose? Who else could possibly help her fix everything in time to stop Brianna from winning unfairly?

Author : Wai-Chung Ho
Publisher : Springer
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811075339

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Culture, Music Education, and the Chinese Dream in Mainland China by Wai-Chung Ho Pdf

This book focuses on the rapidly changing sociology of music as manifested in Chinese society and Chinese education. It examines how social changes and cultural politics affect how music is currently being used in connection with the Chinese dream. While there is a growing trend toward incorporating the Chinese dream into school education and higher education, there has been no scholarly discussion to date. The combination of cultural politics, transformed authority relations, and officially approved songs can provide us with an understanding of the official content on the Chinese dream that is conveyed in today’s Chinese society, and how these factors have influenced the renewal of values-based education and practices in school music education in China.

Author : David Toop
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781441102775

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Into the Maelstrom: Music, Improvisation and the Dream of Freedom by David Toop Pdf

Shortlisted for the Penderyn Music Book Prize 2017. In this first installment of acclaimed music writer David Toop's interdisciplinary and sweeping overview of free improvisation, Into the Maelstrom: Music, Improvisation and the Dream of Freedom: Before 1970 introduces the philosophy and practice of improvisation (both musical and otherwise) within the historical context of the post-World War II era. Neither strictly chronological, or exclusively a history, Into the Maelstrom investigates a wide range of improvisational tendencies: from surrealist automatism to stream-of-consciousness in literature and vocalization; from the free music of Percy Grainger to the free improvising groups emerging out of the early 1960s (Group Ongaku, Nuova Consonanza, MEV, AMM, the Spontaneous Music Ensemble); and from free jazz to the strands of free improvisation that sought to distance itself from jazz. In exploring the diverse ways in which spontaneity became a core value in the early twentieth century as well as free improvisation's connection to both 1960s rock (The Beatles, Cream, Pink Floyd) and the era of post-Cagean indeterminacy in composition, Toop provides a definitive and all-encompassing exploration of free improvisation up to 1970, ending with the late 1960s international developments of free music from Roscoe Mitchell in Chicago, Peter Brötzmann in Berlin and Han Bennink and Misha Mengelberg in Amsterdam.

Author : Nancy Faber,Randall Faber
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781616773410

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ChordTime Piano Music from China - Level 2B by Nancy Faber,Randall Faber Pdf

(Faber Piano Adventures ). ChordTime Piano Music from China takes Level 2B pianists on a musical trip through original Chinese compositions, folk songs, and dance themes. Mid-elementary students will enjoy analyzing the pentatonic scales and intervals that make up the distinctive Chinese sound. A picture tour and historical information provide rich context, while LeLe the musical panda highlights key performance details and invites creative improvisation. Songs include: Divertimento * Lady Meng Jiang * The Little Bird Song * Little Dance Song * Luchai Flowers * The Luhua Rooster * Picking Flowers * Talk Back.

Author : Richard Koechli
Publisher : tredition
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-19
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9783347928381

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Music and Transcendence - Story of a Dream Team by Richard Koechli Pdf

Music exhilarates, enchants, fires, liberates, calms, comforts, heals. Like hardly any other medium, it lets us take off into a world beyond time and space. How does that work? What is the mystery of sound? There are theories, suppositions and hunches from the most diverse fields, but in no epoch has it been possible to lift the veil definitively. Tenaciously, playfully and at times ironically, Swiss musician and book author Richard Koechli searches for answers as to how and why music touches us and, in the sense of transcendence, even takes us beyond ourselves. What processes are going on there, in the brain and in the soul? How has all this influenced the history of humanity? Meticulously, Koechli examines explanations from musicology, natural science, psychology, music therapy, sociology, literature, philosophy, mysticism, spirituality and metaphysics. He passionately quotes legendary stars as they experience the magic. Worried, he also asks why, since time immemorial, the «drug» of music is often not enough for us, why we believe we can top the high with some substance or occult practice. Last but not least, Richard Koechli ends the 200-page book with a fascinating foray through the history of «Psychedelic Rock», because it was this music from the hippie era that taught him how to take off. And in his role as a multiple award-winning blues musician and singer-songwriter, he complements it all with a very personal album: «Transcendental Blues» (download link in the book), a complex musical trip through the ups and downs of being human. For anyone involved in music in any way. A relevant book because it multiplies respect for the mystery of sounds. A stirring one, because it takes the love for music to infinity.