Music At Hand

Author : Jonathan De Souza
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190271138

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From prehistoric bone flutes to pipe organs to digital synthesizers, instruments have been important to musical cultures around the world. Yet, how do instruments affect musical organization? And how might they influence players' bodies and minds? Music at Hand explores these questions with a distinctive blend of music theory, psychology, and philosophy. Practicing an instrument, of course, builds bodily habits and skills. But it also develops connections between auditory and motor regions in a player's brain. These multi-sensory links are grounded in particular instrumental interfaces. They reflect the ways that an instrument converts action into sound, and the ways that it coordinates physical and tonal space. Ultimately, these connections can shape listening, improvisation, or composition. This means that pianos, guitars, horns, and bells are not simply tools for making notes. Such technologies, as creative prostheses, also open up possibilities for musical action, perception, and cognition. Throughout the book, author Jonathan De Souza examines diverse musical case studies-from Beethoven to blues harmonica, from Bach to electronic music-introducing novel methods for the analysis of body-instrument interaction. A companion website supports these analytical discussions with audiovisual examples, including motion-capture videos and performances by the author. Written in lucid prose, Music at Hand offers substantive insights for music scholars, while remaining accessible to non-specialist readers. This wide-ranging book will engage music theorists and historians, ethnomusicologists, organologists, composers, and performers-but also psychologists, philosophers, media theorists, and anyone who is curious about how musical experience is embodied and conditioned by technology.

Author : Jonathan De Souza
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190271114

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Music at Hand shows how sound, action, and perception are connected in instrumental performance, asking how this integration affects listening, improvisation, and composition. Traversing disciplinary boundaries and diverse musical styles, this innovative book analyzes forms of musical experience that are both embodied and conditioned by technology.

Author : Theodore Edel
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1994-11-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 0253319056

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Piano Music for One Hand by Theodore Edel Pdf

"Bravo to Edel on his excellent presentation of the subject! . . . highly recommended . . . " —ARBA 96 ". . . filled with information for pianists with injured hands and for players and teachers seeking unusual repertoire or ways of developing left-hand technique." —Clavier "Thanks to Edel for cataloging this largely unknown area of piano repertoire and to Indiana University Press for publishing this most welcomed book." —American Music Teacher A descriptive catalog of solos, chamber works, and concertos with piano parts written for one hand, including nearly 1,000 solo compositions for the left hand. Publication data, length, level of difficulty, style, and often brief biographical information about the composer are provided for each piece.

Author : JJ Heller
Publisher : WaterBrook
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-20
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780593193266

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Hand to Hold by JJ Heller Pdf

This heartwarming picture book reassures children that a parent’s love never lets go—based on the poignant lyrics of JJ Heller’s beloved lullaby “Hand to Hold.” “May the living light inside you be the compass as you go / May you always know you have my hand to hold.” With delightful illustrations and an engaging rhyme scheme, this book offers the promise of security and love every child’s heart longs to know. From skipping stones and counting stars to climbing trees and telling stories, every moment is wrapped snugly in the certain warmth of a parent’s presence and God’s blessing. With poignancy and joy, this bedtime read captures the unconditional love parents want their children to know but so often fail to express amid the chaos of daily life.

Author : GLENDA. GOODMAN
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197776995

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Cultivated by Hand by GLENDA. GOODMAN Pdf

Cultivated by Hand aligns the overlooked history of amateur musicians in the early years of the United States with little-understood practices of music book making. It reveals the pervasiveness of these practices, particularly among women, and their importance for the construction of gender, class, race, and nation.

Author : John C. Tibbetts,Michael Saffle,William A. Everett
Publisher : Springer
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319924717

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Performing Music History by John C. Tibbetts,Michael Saffle,William A. Everett Pdf

Performing Music History offers a unique perspective on music history and performance through a series of conversations with women and men intimately associated with music performance, history, and practice: the musicians themselves. Fifty-five celebrated artists—singers, pianists, violinists, cellists, flutists, horn players, oboists, composers, conductors, and jazz greats—provide interviews that encompass most of Western music history, from the Middle Ages to contemporary classical music, avant-garde innovations, and Broadway musicals. The book covers music history through lenses that include “authentic” performance, original instrumentation, and social context. Moreover, the musicians interviewed all bring to bear upon their respective subjects three outstanding qualities: 1) their high esteem in the music world as immediately recognizable names among musicians and public alike; 2) their energy and devotion to scholarship and the recovery of endangered musical heritages; and 3) their considerable skills, media savvy, and showmanship as communicators. Introductory essays to each chapter provide brief synopses of historical eras and topics. Combining careful scholarship and lively conversation, Performing Music History explores historical contexts for a host of fascinating issues.

Author : Al Perkins
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780553539011

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Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb by Al Perkins Pdf

Illus. in full color. A madcap band of dancing, prancing monkeys explain hands, fingers, and thumbs to beginning readers.

Author : Helen Winter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9798892879521

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Play Easy Piano Songs with Just One Hand by Helen Winter Pdf

This book is for adults who are absolute beginners in music. You don't have to read sheet music or have any kind of musical background. No previous knowledge is necessary. None at all. If you don't know musical notes well, you can PLAY BY LETTER. There are 7 sections and 43 songs. All songs are adapted for beginners and can be played with just one hand. Some songs in this book have several versions, with one of them being more advanced. This will allow you to see how the same melody can be played in different keys. Whatever your age, it is never too late to begin to play the piano (or any keyboard instrument). For middle-aged people, learning a musical instrument can be a great digital detox, and it also can unlock the door to a new interest or forgotten emotions. Songs from Around the World Lost My Gold Ring Cherry Blossom Au Clair de la Lune Gretel, Pastetel A Ram Sam Sam Debka Hora La Cucaracha Oh Susannah Traditional Kids Songs Skip, Skip, Skip to My Lou This Old Man Baby Bumble Bee Rain, Rain, Go Away It's Raining Row Row Your Boat Itsy Bitsy Spider Happy Birthday Ring Around the Rosie Christmas Songs Jolly Old Saint Nicholas We Wish You a Merry Christmas Jingle Bells The First Noel Amazing Grace Silent Night Nursery Rhyme Songs London Bridge Mary Had a Little Lamb Do You Know the Muffin Man? Humpty Dumpty Cobbler, Mend My Shoe Little Jack Horner Classic composer songs Beethoven Ode to Joy Brahms. Lullaby Mozart. 3 Songs on One Melody Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star Baa Baa Black Sheep Alphabet Song Repetitive Songs My Hat I like to Eat (Apples and Bananas) Ten Little Fingers The Bear Went Over the Mountain The Wheels on the Bus Old Mother Hubbard Play Songs in Different Keys Hot Cross Buns Are You Sleeping Old McDonald

Author : Timothy J. O'Brien,David Ensminger
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780292745155

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Mojo Hand by Timothy J. O'Brien,David Ensminger Pdf

Presents the life of the acclaimed blues musician, known for songs whose topics ranged from his African American roots to space exploration, and focuses on his eccentric style of guitar playing and his lasting influences in music.

Author : David Sudnow
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0262691612

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Ways of the Hand by David Sudnow Pdf

This is David Sudnow's classic account of how his hands learned to improvise jazz on the piano. David Sudnow is the author of Passing On and editor of Studies in Social Interaction. Since writing this book, he has developed a piano training method based on its insights.

Author : John Lithgow
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781442467446

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Never Play Music Right Next to the Zoo by John Lithgow Pdf

A lively and lyrical picture book jaunt from actor and author John Lithgow! Oh, children! Remember! Whatever you may do, Never play music right next to the zoo. They’ll burst from their cages, each beast and each bird, Desperate to play all the music they’ve heard. A concert gets out of hand when the animals at the neighboring zoo storm the stage and play the instruments themselves in this hilarious picture book based on one of John Lithgow’s best-loved tunes.

Author : Eckart Altenmüller,Jürg Kesselring,Mario Wiesendanger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0199298726

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Music, Motor Control and the Brain by Eckart Altenmüller,Jürg Kesselring,Mario Wiesendanger Pdf

The motor actions that can be witnessed as a virtuoso musician performs can be so fast, so accomplished, so precise, as to seem somehow superhuman. The musician has to produce the movements, monitor those they have already made and the subsequent result, co-ordinate their hands, fingers, eyes, and perhaps throat and diaphragm. These achievements are of course the product of hundreds, even thousands of hours of practice - playing scales, studies, time and time again. But those hours of practice by no means guarantee that great musicianship will result. This technical prowess has to be combined with a range of other, perhaps, less tangible qualities. This book explores the secrets of musical virtuosity. It presents a comprehensive account of music and motor cognition, examining the neural basis of music making - our understanding of which is just starting to be enhanced by brain imaging. It considers the effect on our brains of prolonged music making. It explores the motor processes across a range of instruments (vocal, string, wind, percussion) and within different performance situations. It also considers what happens when things start to go wrong - why motor problems occur in so many professional musicians in later life, and the possible therapies for such problems. Music is a topic of considerable interest within the brain sciences. With contributions from leading psychologists, neuroscientists, and neurologists, this book makes a unique contribution to our understanding of music and the brain.

Author : Kingsley Day
Publisher : Barbera Foundation
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Music's Guiding Hand by Kingsley Day Pdf

It was too big a secret to keep and too great a price to pay. Though few details are known of 11th-century Benedictine monk Guido d'Arezzo, he is widely recognized for inventing the language of music. The Hand of Music offers a fictional account as to how an unlikely friendship between two medieval monks might have inspired one of the most important and enduring innovations of the Western world. When a fellow monk continually struggles to learn the sacred songs by rote, Brother Guido devises the musical staff as a way of precisely notating pitch. But in an institution that thrives on tradition and routine, his challenge to the status quo is met with skepticism, resistance, and even punishment. Torn between obedience and his convictions, Brother Guido must decide to submit or rebel—with immediate and enduring consequences.

Author : David Lewin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199890200

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Musical Form and Transformation by David Lewin Pdf

Distinguished music theorist and composer David Lewin (1933-2003) applies the conceptual framework he developed in his earlier, innovative Generalized Musical Intervals and Transformations to the varied repertoire of the twentieth century in this stimulating and illustrative book. Analyzing the diverse compositions of four canonical composers--Simbolo from Dallapiccola's Quaderno musicale di Annalibera ; Stockhausen's Klavierstuck III ; Webern's Op. 10, No. 4; and Debussy's Feux d'articifice --Lewin brings forth structures which he calls "transformational networks" to reveal interesting and suggestive aspects of the music. In this complementary work, Lewin stimulates thought about the general methodology of musical analysis and issues of large-scale form as they relate to transformational analytic structuring. Musical Form and Transformation , first published in 1993 by Yale University Press, was the recipient of an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award.

Author : William Mitchison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10747762

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Hand-Book of the Songs of Scotland, With Music, and descriptive & historical Notes by William Mitchison Pdf