Music Late And Soon

Author : Robyn Sarah
Publisher : Biblioasis
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781771963572

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Music, Late and Soon by Robyn Sarah Pdf

Shortlisted for the J.I. Segal Awards Best Quebec Book on a Jewish Theme • Shortlisted for the The Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction A poet rediscovers the artistic passion of her youth—and pays tribute to the teacher she thought she’d lost. After thirty-five years as an “on-again, off-again, uncoached closet pianist,” poet and writer Robyn Sarah picked up the phone one day and called her old piano teacher, whom she had last seen in her early twenties. Music, Late and Soon is the story of her return to studying piano with the mentor of her youth. In tandem, she reflects on a previously unexamined musical past: a decade spent at Quebec’s Conservatoire de Musique, studying clarinet—ostensibly headed for a career as an orchestral musician, but already a writer at heart. A meditation on creative process in both music and literary art, this two-tiered musical autobiography interweaves past and present as it tracks the author’s long-ago defection from a musical career path and her late re-embrace of serious practice. At its core is a portrait of an extraordinary piano teacher and of a relationship remembered and renewed.

Author : Ilan Stavans
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1751 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798216109280

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Latin Music [2 volumes] by Ilan Stavans Pdf

This definitive two-volume encyclopedia of Latin music spans 5 centuries and 25 countries, showcasing musicians from Celia Cruz to Plácido Domingo and describing dozens of rhythms and essential themes. Eight years in the making, Latin Music: Musicians, Genres, and Themes is the definitive work on the topic, providing an unparalleled resource for students and scholars of music, Latino culture, Hispanic civilization, popular culture, and Latin American countries. Comprising work from nearly 50 contributors from Spain, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States, this two-volume work showcases how Latin music—regardless of its specific form or cultural origins—is the passionate expression of a people in constant dialogue with the world. The entries in this expansive encyclopedia range over topics as diverse as musical instruments, record cover art, festivals and celebrations, the institution of slavery, feminism, and patriotism. The music, traditions, and history of more than two dozen countries—such as Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Spain, and Venezuela—are detailed, allowing readers to see past common stereotypes and appreciate the many different forms of this broadly defined art form.

Author : Elvis Costello
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780698140653

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Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink by Elvis Costello Pdf

The perfect gift for music lovers and Elvis Costello fans, telling the story behind Elvis Costello’s legendary career and his iconic, beloved songs. Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink provides readers with a master’s catalogue of a lifetime of great music. Costello reveals the process behind writing and recording legendary albums like My Aim Is True, This Year’s Model, Armed Forces, Almost Blue, Imperial Bedroom, and King of America. He tells the detailed stories, experiences, and emotions behind such beloved songs as “Alison,” “Accidents Will Happen,” “Watching the Detectives,” “Oliver’s Army,” “Welcome to the Working Week,” “Radio Radio,” “Shipbuilding,” and “Veronica,” the last of which is one of a number of songs revealed to connect to the lives of the previous generations of his family. Costello chronicles his musical apprenticeship, a child's view of his father Ross MacManus' career on radio and in the dancehall; his own initial almost comical steps in folk clubs and cellar dive before his first sessions for Stiff Record, the formation of the Attractions, and his frenetic and ultimately notorious third U.S. tour. He takes readers behind the scenes of Top of the Pops and Saturday Night Live, and his own show, Spectacle, on which he hosted artists such as Lou Reed, Elton John, Levon Helm, Jesse Winchester, Bruce Springsteen, and President Bill Clinton. The idiosyncratic memoir of a singular man, Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink is destined to be a classic.

Author : Eva Moreda Rodríguez
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190215866

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Music Criticism and Music Critics in Early Francoist Spain by Eva Moreda Rodríguez Pdf

In 'Music Criticism and Music Critics in Early Francoist Spain', Eva Moreda Rodríguez presents a kaleidoscopic portrait of the diverse and often divergent writings of music critics in the early years of the Franco regime. Carefully selecting contemporary writings by well-known music critics, Moreda Rodríguez contextualizes music criticism written during the Franco regime within the broader intellectual history of Spain from the nineteenth century onwards.--Publisher description.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1538 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Drama
ISBN : IND:30000047224435

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Musical Courier by Anonim Pdf

Vols. for 1957-61 include an additional (mid-January) no. called Directory issue, 1st-5th ed. The 6th ed. was published as the Dec. 1961 issue.

Author : Lehman Engel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015013960789

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Their Words are Music by Lehman Engel Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : HARVARD:32044044303782

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The Musical Times and Singing-class Circular by Anonim Pdf

Author : Max Wilk
Publisher : Easton Studio Press, LLC
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781935212591

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They're Playing Our Song by Max Wilk Pdf

Originally published in 1973, when it won the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award , reprinted and revised several times since, They're Playing Our Song is a classic oral history of American popular music. Now further updated with new material and new photographs, this book is indispensable for anyone interested in the Great American Songbook of the 20th Century, original, classic and timeless songs and lyrics as popular today as ever.

Author : J. A. (John Alexander) Fuller-Maitland,George Grove, Sir
Publisher : Philadelphia : T. Presser
Page : 842 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Music
ISBN : UIUC:30112014372848

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A Dictionary of Music and Musicians : (A.D. 1450-1889) by J. A. (John Alexander) Fuller-Maitland,George Grove, Sir Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1244 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Music
ISBN : NYPL:33433085183774

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Freunds Musical Weekly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ben Lerner
Publisher : FSG Originals
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780374712334

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The Hatred of Poetry by Ben Lerner Pdf

No art has been denounced as often as poetry. It's even bemoaned by poets: "I, too, dislike it," wrote Marianne Moore. "Many more people agree they hate poetry," Ben Lerner writes, "than can agree what poetry is. I, too, dislike it and have largely organized my life around it and do not experience that as a contradiction because poetry and the hatred of poetry are inextricable in ways it is my purpose to explore." In this inventive and lucid essay, Lerner takes the hatred of poetry as the starting point of his defense of the art. He examines poetry's greatest haters (beginning with Plato's famous claim that an ideal city had no place for poets, who would only corrupt and mislead the young) and both its greatest and worst practitioners, providing inspired close readings of Keats, Dickinson, McGonagall, Whitman, and others. Throughout, he attempts to explain the noble failure at the heart of every truly great and truly horrible poem: the impulse to launch the experience of an individual into a timeless communal existence. In The Hatred of Poetry, Lerner has crafted an entertaining, personal, and entirely original examination of a vocation no less essential for being impossible.

Author : James Duff Brown,Stephen Samuel Stratton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015018119019

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British Musical Biography by James Duff Brown,Stephen Samuel Stratton Pdf

Author : Yiu-Wai Chu
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9789888390588

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Hong Kong Cantopop by Yiu-Wai Chu Pdf

Cantopop was once the leading pop genre of pan-Chinese popular music around the world. In this pioneering study of Cantopop in English, Yiu-Wai Chu shows how the rise of Cantopop is related to the emergence of a Hong Kong identity and consciousness. Chu charts the fortune of this important genre of twentieth-century Chinese music from its humble, lower-class origins in the 1950s to its rise to a multimillion-dollar business in the mid-1990s. As the voice of Hong Kong, Cantopop has given generations of people born in the city a sense of belonging. It was only in the late 1990s, when transformations in the music industry, and more importantly, changes in the geopolitical situation of Hong Kong, that Cantopop showed signs of decline. As such, Hong Kong Cantopop: A Concise History is not only a brief history of Cantonese pop songs, but also of Hong Kong culture. The book concludes with a chapter on the eclipse of Cantopop by Mandapop (Mandarin popular music), and an analysis of the relevance of Cantopop to Hong Kong people in the age of a dominant China. Drawing extensively from Chinese-language sources, this work is a most informative introduction to Hong Kong popular music studies. “Few scholars I know of have as thorough a knowledge of Cantopop as Yiu-Wai Chu. The account he provides here—of pop music as a nexus of creative talent, commoditized culture, and geopolitical change—is not only a story about postwar Hong Kong; it is also a resource for understanding the term ‘localism’ in the era of globalization.” —Rey Chow, Duke University “Yiu-Wai Chu’s book presents a remarkable accomplishment: it is not only the first history of Cantopop published in English; it also manages to interweave the sound of Cantopop with the geopolitical changes taking place in East Asia. Combining a lucid theoretical approach with rich empirical insights, this book will be a milestone in the study of East Asian popular cultures.” —Jeroen de Kloet, University of Amsterdam

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1060 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015023769147

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Musical Times and Singing Class Circular by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gerald Bordman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 936 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2001-03-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199771172

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American Musical Theater by Gerald Bordman Pdf

Gerald Bordman's American Musical Theatre has become a landmark book since its original publication in 1978. In this third edition, he offers authoritative summaries on the general artistic trends and developments for each season on musical comedy, operetta, revues, and the one-man and one-woman shows from the first musical to the 1999/2000 season. With detailed show, song, and people indexes, Bordman provides a running commentary and assessment as well as providing the basic facts about each production.