Sudden Music

Author : David Rothenberg
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780820323183

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Sudden Music by David Rothenberg Pdf

"The accompanying audio disc features eleven original compositions by Rothenberg, none previously released on CD. Included are a duet with clarinet and white-crested laughing bird and a duet with clarinet and Samchillian TipTipTip Cheeepeeeee, and electronic computer instrument played by its inventor, Leon Gruenbaum. Also featured are multicultural works blending South Indian veena and Turkish G-clarinet with spoken text from the Upanishads; a piece commissioned by the Tanglewood Contemporary Music Festival with readings of texts by E.O. Wilson accompanied by clarinet and electronics; and improvisations based on Tibetan Buddhist music, Japanese shakuhachi music, and the image of a black crow on white snow."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : David Rothenberg
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0820323187

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Sudden Music by David Rothenberg Pdf

"The accompanying audio disc features eleven original compositions by Rothenberg, none previously released on CD. Included are a duet with clarinet and white-crested laughing bird and a duet with clarinet and Samchillian TipTipTip Cheeepeeeee, and electronic computer instrument played by its inventor, Leon Gruenbaum. Also featured are multicultural works blending South Indian veena and Turkish G-clarinet with spoken text from the Upanishads; a piece commissioned by the Tanglewood Contemporary Music Festival with readings of texts by E.O. Wilson accompanied by clarinet and electronics; and improvisations based on Tibetan Buddhist music, Japanese shakuhachi music, and the image of a black crow on white snow."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Hugh Reginald Haweis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Emotions
ISBN : UOM:39015007594032

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Music and Morals by Hugh Reginald Haweis Pdf

Author : Michael Trimble,Robert Ignatius Letellier,Dale Hesdorffer
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781527575356

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Sudden Death in Opera by Michael Trimble,Robert Ignatius Letellier,Dale Hesdorffer Pdf

An aspect of dying in opera, rarely observed or commented on, is Sudden Unexpected Death. There are many deaths in this melodramatic genre: most follow expected causes like murder, suicide, or old age. This book explores those deaths which occur without obvious natural causes. These are often central to the overall drama of the opera, representing denouements forming the epiphany of the story and the apotheosis for the audience. The book identifies 50 operas where such events occur, exploring the role of the dramatis personae, the circumstances of their dying, and specific themes that emerge. These include a preponderance of females, especially in the 19th century, who die mainly at the end of the operas, often in the context of tragedy. It charts the growing awareness in the medical sciences of the unconscious forces driving human behaviour, including liminal mental states and trances, which influenced these operas and continue to affect human behaviour to the present day. In addition, the changing philosophies that are intertwined with operatic narratives, in particular stemming from Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, are important in the book’s exegesis, as is the special role of Wagner’s compositions. This leads to the exploration of recurrent concepts such as the Liebestod, the ewig Weibliche and redemption itself.

Author : James Kennaway
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317176466

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Bad Vibrations by James Kennaway Pdf

Music has been used as a cure for disease since as far back as King David's lyre, but the notion that it might be a serious cause of mental and physical illness was rare until the late eighteenth century. At that time, physicians started to argue that excessive music, or the wrong kind of music, could over-stimulate a vulnerable nervous system, leading to illness, immorality and even death. Since then there have been successive waves of moral panics about supposed epidemics of musical nervousness, caused by everything from Wagner to jazz and rock 'n' roll. It was this medical and critical debate that provided the psychiatric rhetoric of "degenerate music" that was the rationale for the persecution of musicians in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. By the 1950s, the focus of medical anxiety about music shifted to the idea that "musical brainwashing" and "subliminal messages" could strain the nerves and lead to mind control, mental illness and suicide. More recently, the prevalence of sonic weapons and the use of music in torture in the so-called War on Terror have both made the subject of music that is bad for the health worryingly topical. This book outlines and explains the development of this idea of pathological music from the Enlightenment until the present day, providing an original contribution to the history of medicine, music and the body.

Author : Nicky Losseff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351548649

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"Silence, Music, Silent Music " by Nicky Losseff Pdf

The contributions in this volume focus on the ways in which silence and music relate, contemplate each other and provide new avenues for addressing and gaining understanding of various realms of human endeavour. The book maps out this little-explored aspect of the sonic arena with the intention of defining the breadth of scope and to introduce interdisciplinary paths of exploration as a way forward for future discourse. Topics addressed include the idea of 'silent music' in the work of English philosopher Peter Sterry and Spanish Jesuit St John of the Cross; the apparently paradoxical contemplation of silence through the medium of music by Messiaen and the relationship between silence and faith; the aesthetics of Susan Sontag applied to Cage's idea of silence; silence as a different means of understanding musical texture; ways of thinking about silences in music produced during therapy sessions as a form of communication; music and silence in film, including the idea that music can function as silence; and the function of silence in early chant. Perhaps the most all-pervasive theme of the book is that of silence and nothingness, music and spirituality: a theme that has appeared in writings on John Cage but not, in a broader sense, in scholarly writing. The book reveals that unexpected concepts and ways of thinking emerge from looking at sound in relation to its antithesis, encompassing not just Western art traditions, but the relationship between music, silence, the human psyche and sociological trends - ultimately, providing deeper understanding of the elemental places both music and silence hold within world philosophies and fundamental states of being. Silence, Music, Silent Music will appeal to those working in the fields of musicology, psychology of religion, gender studies, aesthetics and philosophy.

Author : Christopher Miller
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 061838278X

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Sudden Noises from Inanimate Objects by Christopher Miller Pdf

Written as liner notes to fictional music, Christopher Miller's uproarious debut novel skewers conventions in a work of high entertainment and imagination. In Sudden Noises from Inanimate Objects, the complete works of the prodigiously cranky composer Simon Silber get their diablolical due from Silber's official biographer -- a man who grows to hate his subject. Not content with simply discussing Silber's odd musical oeuvre -- whose highlights include an hourlong performance of the "Minute Waltz," an etude composed on a telephone keypad, and a transcription of crow caws -- the commentator veers into a delightfully venomous exposé of a musician whose grandiose ambitions far exceed his actual talent.

Author : Christelle Cazaux,Agnese Pavanello,Martina Papiro
Publisher : Schwabe Verlag (Basel)
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9783796549731

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Tanz und Musik by Christelle Cazaux,Agnese Pavanello,Martina Papiro Pdf

Wie beeinflussen Tanzbewegungen die musikalische Spielweise? Und umgekehrt: Welche Wirkung hat die musikalische Interpretation auf die Ausführung einer Choreografie? Wie stehen tänzerische und melodische Phrasierung zueinander? Derlei Fragen zum Verhältnis von Tanz und Musik ergeben sich sowohl bei der praktischen Ausführung als auch bei der Erforschung historischer ‹Tanzmusik›. Entsprechend vielseitig sind die Zugänge, mit denen dieser interdisziplinäre Band ‹Tanzmusik› vom Mittelalter bis zur Romantik untersucht, kontextualisiert und im Sinne historischer Musikpraxis erschließt. Im Mittelpunkt steht die Wechselbeziehung zwischen Klang und Bewegung in verschiedenen historischen Repertoires, Gattungen und Formen.

Author : Mrs. Disney Leith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CORNELL:31924013204841

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A Martyr Bishop, and Other Verses by Mrs. Disney Leith Pdf

Author : LaJun M. Cole,Valora Shaw-Cole,John Eckhardt
Publisher : Destiny Image Publishers
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780768443592

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Sudden Breakthrough by LaJun M. Cole,Valora Shaw-Cole,John Eckhardt Pdf

Our hope is not that God will answer next week, next month or even next year but suddenly! This book takes a glimpse inside the lives of biblical characters who needed God to answer, heal, deliver, and bring increase to their lives and received exactly what they were expecting. As you read through the pages of the book you will be inspired, enco

Author : I.Q. Hunter,Matthew Melia
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781501347535

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The Jaws Book by I.Q. Hunter,Matthew Melia Pdf

After 45 years, Steven Spielberg's Jaws remains the definitive summer blockbuster, a cultural phenomenon with a fierce and dedicated fan base. The Jaws Book: New Perspectives on the Classic Summer Blockbuster is an exciting illustrated collection of new critical essays that offers the first detailed and comprehensive overview of the film's significant place in cinema history. Bringing together established and young scholars, the book includes contributions from leading international writers on popular cinema including Murray Pomerance, Peter Krämer, Sheldon Hall, Nigel Morris and Linda Ruth Williams, and covers such diverse topics as the film's release, reception and canonicity; its representation of masculinity and children; the use of landscape and the ocean; its status as a western; sequels and fan-edits; and its galvanizing impact on the horror film, action movie and contemporary Hollywood itself.

Author : Susan D. Crafts,Daniel Cavicchi,Charles Keil,Music in Daily Life Project
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1993-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 0819562645

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My Music by Susan D. Crafts,Daniel Cavicchi,Charles Keil,Music in Daily Life Project Pdf

A first-hand exploration of the diverse roles music plays in people's lives.

Author : Suzanne Nalbantian,Paul M. Matthews
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780190462338

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Secrets of Creativity by Suzanne Nalbantian,Paul M. Matthews Pdf

Secrets of Creativity: What Neuroscience, the Arts, and Our Minds Reveal draws on insights from leading neuroscientists and scholars in the humanities and the arts to probe creativity in its many contexts, in the everyday mind, the exceptional mind, the scientific mind, the artistic mind, and the pathological mind. Components of creativity are specified with respect to types of memory, forms of intelligence, modes of experience, and kinds of emotion. Authors in this volume take on the challenge of showing how creativity can be characterized behaviorally, cognitively, and neurophysiologically. The complementary perspectives of the authors add to the richness of these findings. Neuroscientists describe the functioning of the brain and its circuitry in creative acts of scientific discovery or aesthetic production. Humanists from the fields of literature, art, and music give analyses of creativity in major literary works, musical compositions, and works of visual art.

Author : John Dickson,Chuck D. Pierce
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781459606876

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Worship As It Is in Heaven by John Dickson,Chuck D. Pierce Pdf

According to the Psalms, God is enthroned on the praises of His people---and it is from that throne that He governs the heavens and the earth. If this picture of God's rule, found throughout the Scriptures, is accurate, shouldn't the Body of Christ seek to praise the King of heaven and earth in ways that release His kingdom government into specific circumstances? John A. Dickson and Chuck D. Pierce, coauthors of Worship As It Is In Heaven, offer the Church a fresh look at heaven's pattern of worship, instituted in David's tabernacle and renewed through Jesus' approach in the earliest days of the Church.

Author : George Barlow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600082673

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Love-songs by George Barlow Pdf