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Singing in the Age of Anxiety

Author : Laura Tunbridge
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226563602

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In New York and London during World War I, the performance of lieder—German art songs—was roundly prohibited, representing as they did the music and language of the enemy. But as German musicians returned to the transatlantic circuit in the 1920s, so too did the songs of Franz Schubert, Hugo Wolf, and Richard Strauss. Lieder were encountered in a variety of venues and media—at luxury hotels and on ocean liners, in vaudeville productions and at Carnegie Hall, and on gramophone recordings, radio broadcasts, and films. Laura Tunbridge explores the renewed vitality of this refugee musical form between the world wars, offering a fresh perspective on a period that was pervaded by anxieties of displacement. Through richly varied case studies, Singing in the Age of Anxiety traces how lieder were circulated, presented, and consumed in metropolitan contexts, shedding new light on how music facilitated unlikely crossings of nationalist and internationalist ideologies during the interwar period.

The Age of Anxiety

Author : Pete Townshend
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316398978

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The Age of Anxiety by Pete Townshend Pdf

In his debut novel, rock legend Pete Townshend explores the anxiety of modern life and madness in a story that stretches across two generations of a London family, their lovers, collaborators, and friends. A former rock star disappears on the Cumberland moors. When his wife finds him, she discovers he has become a hermit and a painter of apocalyptic visions. An art dealer has drug-induced visions of demonic faces swirling in a bedstead and soon his wife disappears, nowhere to be found. A beautiful Irish girl who has stabbed her father to death is determined to seduce her best friend's husband. A young composer begins to experience aural hallucinations, expressions of the fear and anxiety of the people of London. He constructs a maze in his back garden. Driven by passion and musical ambition, events spiral out of control -- good drugs and bad drugs, loves lost and found, families broken apart and reunited. Conceived jointly as an opera, The Age of Anxiety deals with mythic and operatic themes. Hallucinations and soundscapes haunt this novel in an extended meditation on manic genius and the dark art of creativity.

Daniel: The Age of Anxiety

Author : Peter Pactor
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-08
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781525500855

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Daniel: The Age of Anxiety by Peter Pactor Pdf

Daniel: The Age of Anxiety is the sequel to Daniel: The Age of Discovery. All Daniel's friends and enemies have returned. Daniel continues to struggle to overcome the prejudices against him because of his age, his wealth, and his intelligence. It is hard to be different. Daniel's fear of and certainty about the coming stock market crash followed by a long depression finally drive him to act. All the experts say the economy is good, but Daniel believes they are wrong. He decides to hold public forums to discuss the coming collapse with the hope that he will be able to convince even a few people to get out of the market and to prepare for the crash and depression. Adults not only don't believe him, but they also mock him because of his youth and inexperience. In his quest to warn people that the crash is coming, he sets himself up as a target and acquires more enemies. People believe what they want to believe, and in 1929, people believed that the economy was good and that the bull market would go on forever. It is dangerous to kick other people's sacred cows.

Imperfect Harmony

Author : Stacy Horn
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781616201012

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Imperfect Harmony by Stacy Horn Pdf

“In this one-of-a-kind celebration of singing with others, I’d call her pitch nearly perfect.”—The Atlantic For Stacy Horn, regardless of what is going on in the world or her life, singing in an amateur choir—the Choral Society of Grace Church in New York—never fails to take her to a place where hope reigns and everything good is possible. She’s not particularly religious, and her voice is not exceptional (so she says), but like the 32.5 million other chorus members throughout this country, singing makes her happy. Horn brings us along as she sings some of the greatest music humanity has ever produced, delves into the dramatic stories of conductors and composers, unearths the fascinating history of group singing, and explores remarkable discoveries from the new science of singing, including all the unexpected health benefits. Imperfect Harmony is the story of one woman who has found joy and strength in the weekly ritual of singing and in the irresistible power of song.

The Art of Singing: Discovering And Developing Your True Voice

Author : Jennifer Hamady
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781480332119

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The Art of Singing: Discovering And Developing Your True Voice by Jennifer Hamady Pdf

(Vocal Instruction). Singers of every age, level, and musical genre will benefit from this insightful new book. Topics include: Finding the Voice That Was Never Lost * Language * Learning * The Brain in Singing * Fear and the Psychology of Singing * Putting Theory into Practice (the physiology and technique of singing). Performers of all ages and abilities will gain valuable insight into the mechanics, psychology and physiology of singing. The accompanying audio in Jennifer's own voice captures a conversation about her approach and ideas, as well as exercises that will help you discover and develop your true and best instrument.

The Contemporary Singer

Author : Anne Peckham
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781480333178

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The Contemporary Singer by Anne Peckham Pdf

(Berklee Guide). The second edition of this bestselling, comprehensive guide contains improved vocal workouts and additional topics, including performance anxiety and healthy singing. The companion audio makes this guide an ideal tool for creating a singing course for students of almost any age or gender, who can practice technique along with lead sheets for such standard vocal pieces as "Yesterday" and "I Heard It Through the Grapevine." Topics covered include getting started, posture, belting and diction, maintaining vocal health, microphone technique, and much more.

Singing in the Dark

Author : Ginny Owens
Publisher : David C Cook
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830781881

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Far too often, life’s challenges and questions cause people to fight feelings of doubt and despair, as they search endlessly for hope. In Singing in the Dark, Ginny Owens introduces the reader to powerful ways of drawing closer to God and how the elements of music, prayer, and lament offer rich, vibrant, and joyful communion with Him, especially on the darkest days. Ginny has gained a unique life perspective, as she has lived without sight since age three. She brings rich, biblical teaching that will encourage readers and compel them to dig deep into the beautiful songs, prayers, and poetry of Scripture—the same words through which the people of the Bible flourished in impossible circumstances. Singing in the Dark includes reflection and journaling prompts at the end of each chapter.

Sing Like No One's Listening

Author : Vanessa Jones
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-18
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781529012163

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Sing Like No One's Listening by Vanessa Jones Pdf

Sing Like No One's Listening by Vanessa Jones is a novel about dreaming a dream, finding your voice, and not throwing away your shot! Nettie Delaney hasn't been able to sing a note since her mum died. This wouldn't be a problem if she wasn't now attending Dukes, the most prestigious performing arts college in the country, with her superstar mother's shadow hanging over her. Nettie has her work cut out for her and everyone is watching. But one night, in an empty studio after college, Nettie finds herself suddenly singing, as someone behind the curtain accompanies her on the piano. Maybe all is not lost for Nettie. Maybe she can find her voice again and survive her first year at Dukes. But can she do it before she gets thrown out?

The Juggling Mother

Author : Amanda D. Watson
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774864640

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The Juggling Mother by Amanda D. Watson Pdf

Who is the juggling mother, the woman who quietly flicks dried cereal off her blazer while running a corporate empire? The Juggling Mother explores the figure of contemporary mothering in media representations: a typically white, middle-class woman on the verge of coming undone because of her unwieldy slate of labours. More troublingly, she also serves as a model neoliberal worker who upholds white privilege and notions of mastery, capacity, and productivity. Amanda Watson makes the controversial case that mothers with the most power are complicit in the exclusion of less privileged ones – and in their own undoing.

Room

Author : Emma Donoghue
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-07
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781786821775

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Room by Emma Donoghue Pdf

Kidnapped as a teenage girl, Ma has been locked inside a purpose built room in her captor's garden for seven years. Her five year old son, Jack, has no concept of the world outside and happily exists inside Room with the help of Ma's games and his vivid imagination where objects like Rug, Lamp and TV are his only friends. But for Ma the time has come to escape and face their biggest challenge to date: the world outside Room.

Acceptance and Commitment Coaching

Author : Jon Hill,Joe Oliver
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351346160

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Acceptance and Commitment Coaching by Jon Hill,Joe Oliver Pdf

Jon Hill and Joe Oliver introduce the Acceptance and Commitment Coaching (ACC) model with clarity and accessibility, defining it as an approach that incorporates mindfulness and acceptance, focusing on committed, values-based actions to help coachees make meaningful changes to their lives. Acceptance and Commitment Coaching: Distinctive Features explains the ACC model in such a way that the reader will be able to put it into practice immediately, as well as offering sufficient context to anchor the practical tools in a clear theoretical framework. Split into two parts, the book begins by emphasising ACC’s relevance and its core philosophy before providing an overview of its key theoretical points and the research that supports it. The authors also explain the six key ACC processes: defusion, acceptance, contact with the present moment, self as context, values and committed action, and explain how to use them in practice. Hill and Oliver address essential topics, such as the critical work needed before and as you begin working with a coachee, how to use metaphor as an effective tool as a coach, and they finish by offering helpful tips on how to help coachees maintain their positive changes, how to make ACC accessible to all types of client, how to manage challenging coachees and how to work with both individuals and groups using ACC. Aimed specifically at coaches, the book offers context, examples, practicality and a unique combination of practical and theoretical points in a concise format. Acceptance and Commitment Coaching: Distinctive Features is essential reading for coaches, coaching psychologists and executive coaches in practice and in training. It would be of interest to academics and students of coaching psychology and coaching techniques, as well as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) practitioners looking to move into coaching.

Courtly Song in Late Sixteenth-Century France

Author : Jeanice Brooks
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780226767710

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Courtly Song in Late Sixteenth-Century France by Jeanice Brooks Pdf

In the late sixteenth century, the French royal court was mobile. To distinguish itself from the rest of society, it depended more on its cultural practices and attitudes than on the royal and aristocratic palaces it inhabited. Using courtly song-or the air de cour-as a window, Jeanice Brooks offers an unprecedented look into the culture of this itinerant institution. Brooks concentrates on a period in which the court's importance in projecting the symbolic centrality of monarchy was growing rapidly and considers the role of the air in defining patronage hierarchies at court and in enhancing courtly visions of masculine and feminine virtue. Her study illuminates the court's relationship to the world beyond its own confines, represented first by Italy, then by the countryside. In addition to the 40 editions of airs de cour printed between 1559 and 1589, Brooks draws on memoirs, literary works, and iconographic evidence to present a rounded vision of French Renaissance culture. The first book-length examination of the history of air de cour, this work also sheds important new light on a formative moment in French history.

A Portrait in Four Movements

Author : Andrew Patner
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780226609911

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A Portrait in Four Movements by Andrew Patner Pdf

“Playing in an orchestra in an intelligent way is the best school for democracy.”—Daniel Barenboim The Chicago Symphony Orchestra has been led by a storied group of conductors. And from 1994 to 2015, through the best work of Daniel Barenboim, Pierre Boulez, Bernard Haitink, and Riccardo Muti, Andrew Patner was right there. As a classical music critic for the Chicago Sun-Times and WFMT radio, Patner was able to trace the arc of the CSO’s changing repertories, all while cultivating a deep rapport with its four principal conductors. This book assembles Patner’s reviews of the concerts given by the CSO during this time, as well as transcripts of his remarkable radio interviews with these colossal figures. These pages hold tidbits for the curious, such as Patner’s “driving survey” that playfully ranks the Maestri he knew on a scale of “total comfort” to “fright level five,” and the observation that Muti appears to be a southpaw on the baseball field. Moving easily between registers, they also open revealing windows onto the sometimes difficult pasts that brought these conductors to music in the first place, including Boulez’s and Haitink’s heartbreaking experiences of Nazi occupation in their native countries as children. Throughout, these reviews and interviews are threaded together with insights about the power of music and the techniques behind it—from the conductors’ varied approaches to research, preparing scores, and interacting with other musicians, to how the sound and personality of the orchestra evolved over time, to the ways that we can all learn to listen better and hear more in the music we love. Featuring a foreword by fellow critic Alex Ross on the ethos and humor that informed Patner’s writing, as well as an introduction and extensive historical commentary by musicologist Douglas W. Shadle, this book offers a rich portrait of the musical life of Chicago through the eyes and ears of one of its most beloved critics.

The Art of Singing

Author : Enrico Tetrazzini, Luisa Caruso
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783732627936

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The Art of Singing by Enrico Tetrazzini, Luisa Caruso Pdf

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Renegotiating French Identity

Author : Jane F. Fulcher
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190681524

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Renegotiating French Identity by Jane F. Fulcher Pdf

In Renegotiating French Identity, Jane Fulcher addresses the question of cultural resistance to the German occupation and Vichy regime during the Second World War. Nazi Germany famously stressed music as a marker of national identity and cultural achievement, but so too did Vichy. From the opera to the symphony, music did not only serve the interests of Vichy and German propaganda: it also helped to reveal the motives behind them, and to awaken resistance among those growing disillusioned by the regime. Using unexplored Resistance documents, from both the clandestine press and the French National Archives, Fulcher looks at the responses of specific artists and their means of resistance, addressing in turn Pierre Schaeffer, Arthur Honegger, Francis Poulenc, and Olivier Messiaen, among others. This book investigates the role that music played in fostering a profound awareness of the cultural and political differences between conflicting French ideological positions, as criticism of Vichy and its policies mounted.