The Infinite Variety Of Music

Author : Leonard Bernstein
Publisher : Amadeus Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781574674026

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(Amadeus). With style, wit, and expertise, Leonard Bernstein shares his love and appreciation for music in all its varied forms in The Infinite Variety of Music , illuminating the deep pleasure and sometimes subtle beauty it offers. He begins with an "imaginary conversation" with George Washington entitled "The Muzak Muse," in which he argues the values of actively listening to music by learning how to read notes, as opposed to simply hearing music in a concert hall. The book also features the reproduction of five television scripts from Bernstein on the influence of jazz, the timeless appeal of Mozart, musical romanticism, and the complexities of rhythmic innovation. Also included are Bernstein's analyses of symphonies by Dvorak, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, and Brahms, a rare reproduction of a 1957 lecture on the nature of composing, and a report on the musical scene written for the New York Times after his sabbatical leave from directorship of the New York Philharmonic during the 1964-65 season.

Author : Eugene Watters,Matthew Murtagh
Publisher : Gill
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015030938982

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Infinite Variety by Eugene Watters,Matthew Murtagh Pdf

Author : Paul Laird
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317430445

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Leonard Bernstein by Paul Laird Pdf

Beginning with an introductory essay on his achievements, it continues with annotations on Bernstein's voluminous writings, performances, educational work, and major secondary sources.

Author : Elizabeth A. Wells
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781108875912

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Leonard Bernstein in Context by Elizabeth A. Wells Pdf

Designed for students, aficionados of classical music, and historians, this volume offers a wide-ranging, multi-disciplinary and comprehensive view of one of the most important musicians of the twentieth century at his 100th anniversary. Scholars from diverse backgrounds and fields have contributed rich insights into Bernstein's life and work in an approachable style, shedding light on Bernstein's social, professional and ideological contexts including his contemporaries and rivals on Broadway, his artistic collaborations, his celebrity status as a conductor on the international concert circuit, and his involvement in music education via broadcasting. From his early education, through his conducting and composing careers, to his fame as musical and cultural ambassador to the world, this book views Bernstein the man and the artist and provides a fascinating overview of American classical music culture during Bernstein's long career in the public spotlight.

Author : Scot D. Ryersson,Michael Orlando Yaccarino
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Art
ISBN : 1517903718

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"First published in the United States by Viridian Books, New York, 1999; first published in Great Britain by Pimlico, an imprint of Random House Group UK, 2000; first University of Minnesota Press edition published in 2004"--Title page verso.

Author : Adam Harper
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781846949258

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Infinite Music by Adam Harper Pdf

In the last few decades, new technologies have brought composers and listeners to the brink of an era of limitless musical possibility. They stand before a vast ocean of creative potential, in which any sounds imaginable can be synthesised and pieced together into radical new styles and forms of music-making. But are musicians taking advantage of this potential? How could we go about creating and listening to new music, and why should we? Bringing the ideas of twentieth-century avant-garde composers Arnold Schoenberg and John Cage to their ultimate conclusion, Infinite Music proposes a system for imagining music based on its capacity for variation, redefining musical modernism and music itself in the process. It reveals the restrictive categories traditionally imposed on music-making, replaces them with a new vocabulary and offers new approaches to organising musical creativity. By detailing not just how music is composed but crucially how it's perceived, Infinite Music maps the future of music and the many paths towards it.

Author : Leonard Bernstein
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Music
ISBN : 0674920015

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The Unanswered Question by Leonard Bernstein Pdf

Leonard Bernstein's Norton Lectures on the future course of music drew cheers from his Harvard audiences and television viewers. In the re-creation of his talks, the author considers music ranging from Hindu ragas through Mozart and Ravel to Copland, Shoenberg, and Stravinsky.

Author : Paul R. Laird
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0815335172

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Leonard Bernstein by Paul R. Laird Pdf

Beginning with an introductory essay on his achievements, it continues with annotations on Bernstein's voluminous writings, performances, educational work, and major secondary sources.

Author : Leonard bernstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1966-12-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0671370006

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Author : Madhavi Menon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9387693287

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Infinite Variety by Madhavi Menon Pdf

'Elegant, lucid and funny, this book will appeal to as many readers as there are desires.'--Shohini Ghosh 'The history of desire in India, ' writes Madhavi Menon in this splendid book, 'reveals not purity but impurity as a way of life. Not one answer, but many. Not a single history, but multiple tales cutting across laws and boundaries.' In Bhakti poetry, Radha and Krishna disregard marital fidelity, age, time and gender for erotic love. In Sufi dargahs, pirs (spiritual guides) who were married to women are buried alongside their male disciples, as lovers are. Vatsyayana, author of the world's most famous manual of sex, insists that he did not compose it 'for the sake of passion', and remained celibate through the writing of it. Long hair is widely seen as a symbol of sexuality; and yet, shaved off in a temple, it is a sacred offering. Even as the country has a draconian law to punish homosexuality, heterosexual men share the same bed without comment. Hijras are increasingly marginalized; yet gender has historically been understood as fluid rather than fixed. Menon navigates centuries, geographies, personal and public histories, schools of philosophy, literary and cinematic works, as she examines the many--and often surprising--faces of desire in the Indian subcontinent. Her study ranges from the erotic sculptures of Khajuraho to the shrine of the celibate god Ayyappan; from army barracks to public parks; from Empress Nur Jahan's paan to home-made kohl; from cross-dressing mystics to androgynous gods. It shows us the connections between grammar and sex, between hair and war, between abstinence and pleasure, between love and death. Gloriously subversive, full of extraordinary analyses and insights, this is a book you will read to be enlightened and entertained for years.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Music
ISBN : 1574671049

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The Joy of Music by Anonim Pdf

(Amadeus). This classic work is perhaps Bernstein's finest collection of conversations on the meaning and wonder of music. This book is a must for all music fans who wish to experience music more fully and deeply through one of the most inspired, and inspiring, music intellects of our time. Employing the creative device of "Imaginary Conversations" in the first section of his book, Bernstein illuminates the importance of the symphony in America, the greatness of Beethoven, and the art of composing. The book also includes a photo section and a third section with the transcripts from his televised Omnibus music series, including "Beethoven's Fifth Symphony," "The World of Jazz," "Introduction to Modern Music," and "What Makes Opera Grand."

Author : Nicole V. Gagné
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780810879621

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Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music by Nicole V. Gagné Pdf

In the last decade of the 19th century, modernist sensibilities reached a critical mass and emerged more frequently in music as composers began employing dissonance, polyrhythm, atonality, and densities. Conversely, many 20th-century composers eschewed modernist devices and wrote accessible works in a tonal idiom, which drew chiefly on classical, romantic, and folk models. Then the postmodern sensibility followed, with its enthusiasm for the unprecedented availability of virtually every type of music, and it engendered numerous sub-groups, including multiculturalism, minimalism, multimedia, and free improvisation. Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music focuses on modernist and postmodern classical music worldwide from 1890 to the present. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, an extensive bibliography, and over 400 cross-referenced dictionary entries, with more than 60 entries explaining the methods, styles, and acoustic and electronic media peculiar to new music, and over 350 entries giving essential information on the lives and work of the people who have composed and performed that music. Those entries also include pop, jazz, and rock composer/musicians whose work either overlaps the realm of classical music or else is so radical within its own field that it merits discussion in this context. This book is a must for anyone, musician or non-musician, student or professional, who seeks to research and learn more about any significant aspect of modern and contemporary classical music worldwide.

Author : Peter Gradenwitz
Publisher : Berg Publishers
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003251712

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Leonard Bernstein by Peter Gradenwitz Pdf

A study of Leonard Bernstein's career as composer and conductor. Gradenwitz focuses on the man's professional life and achievements. Considering Bernstein's successes and failures over the years, Gradenwitz makes a realistic case for his subject's stature as both a creator and interpretor of music. The result is a generous portrait that is both more pertinent and revealing. ISBN 0-85496-510-6: $25.00.

Author : Paul R. Laird,Hsun Lin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-31
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781538113455

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Historical Dictionary of Leonard Bernstein by Paul R. Laird,Hsun Lin Pdf

Historical Dictionary of Leonard Bernstein contains a chronology, an introduction, an appendix, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries encompassing people whom he befriended or worked with, institutions, orchestras, performance venues, cities, compositional methods, and compositions.

Author : Jonathan D. Green
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Choral conducting
ISBN : 9780810847200

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A Conductor's Guide to Choral-Orchestral Works by Jonathan D. Green Pdf

Surveys large choral-orchestral works written between 1900 and 1972 that contain some English text. Green examines eighty-nine works by forty-nine composers, from Elgar's Dream of Gerontius to Bernstein's Mass.