The Muse Sings

Author : Ed Cray
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Music
ISBN : 0252067894

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The Erotic Muse by Ed Cray Pdf

If you've ever wanted to know the "correct" words to "Roll Me Over," or wondered where the melody of "Sweet Betsy from Pike" came from, this book can answer your questions. Extensively revised and including forty more songs than its predecessor, this new edition of The Erotic Muse is a unique scholarly collection of bawdy or forbidden American folksongs. Ed Cray presents the full texts of some 125 songs, with melodies for most of them and detailed annotations for all. His lively commentary places the songs in historical, social, and, where appropriate, psychological context.

Author : Joseph Bryan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1756
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0023151918

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The Muse's Choice. A favourite Collection of Songs, set for the Violin, German Flute&Harpsicord ... Book 1st by Joseph Bryan Pdf

Author : Nicole J. Camastra
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476690162

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Hemingway, Fitzgerald and the Muse of Romantic Music by Nicole J. Camastra Pdf

Both Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald grew up in the Midwest and were strongly influenced by Romantic music, anchored by the aesthetic tastes of the German immigrants who settled across that region. Hemingway's ear for form and Fitzgerald's penchant for lyricism stem from early and frequent exposure to such masters as Johannes Brahms and Franz Schubert. Nostalgia is typically associated with romanticism, and the acoustic longing found in Hemingway and Fitzgerald's fiction resonates with it, characterized in the narrative voices in Hemingway's Winner Take Nothing, Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night, and other of their fiction from the early thirties. Understanding that each writer has his own kind of musical biography charts new ways to read material we already think we know. Reading their work within a musico-historical context means acknowledging it as an extension of the 19th century; it means reading them as Romantic Modernists. This work reads each author's prose musically, considering how Romantic music inspired their craft and distinguished their work through the pivotal juncture of the early to mid-1930s, when each man faced an artistic crisis of conscience. Initial chapters provide background information in music history. Following chapters focus on how the life of each author was shaped by music and how they worked with specific influences that grew out of steady interactions with it, evidence of which is found in archival documents and collections.

Author : J. B. Reid
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015081217104

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A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert Burns Incorporating a Glossary of Scotch Words by J. B. Reid Pdf

Author : Danielle Fosler-Lussier
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780472054503

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Music on the Move by Danielle Fosler-Lussier Pdf

Music is a mobile art. When people move to faraway places, whether by choice or by force, they bring their music along. Music creates a meaningful point of contact for individuals and for groups; it can encourage curiosity and foster understanding; and it can preserve a sense of identity and comfort in an unfamiliar or hostile environment. As music crosses cultural, linguistic, and political boundaries, it continually changes. While human mobility and mediation have always shaped music-making, our current era of digital connectedness introduces new creative opportunities and inspiration even as it extends concerns about issues such as copyright infringement and cultural appropriation. With its innovative multimodal approach, Music on the Move invites readers to listen and engage with many different types of music as they read. The text introduces a variety of concepts related to music’s travels—with or without its makers—including colonialism, migration, diaspora, mediation, propaganda, copyright, and hybridity. The case studies represent a variety of musical genres and styles, Western and non-Western, concert music, traditional music, and popular music. Highly accessible, jargon-free, and media-rich, Music on the Move is suitable for students as well as general-interest readers.

Author : Ian Peddie
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Music
ISBN : 0754651142

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The Resisting Muse by Ian Peddie Pdf

This volume examines the various ways popular music has been deployed as anti-establishment and how such opposition both influences and responds to the music produced. The book's contemporary focus (largely post-1975) allows for comprehensive coverage of extremely diverse forms of popular music in relation to the creation of communities of protest. The Resisting Muse examines how the forms and aims of social protest music are contingent upon the audience's ability to invest the music with the 'appropriate' political meaning.

Author : Poulheria Kyriakou
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110615272

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Theocritus and his native Muse by Poulheria Kyriakou Pdf

Hellenistic poets opted and were very likely expected to deal meaningfully, and perhaps competitively, with the tradition they inherited. They also needed to secure the goodwill of actual or potential patrons. Apollonius, the author of a novel heroic epic, eschews references to literary polemics and patronage. Callimachus often adopts a polemical stance against some colleagues in order to suggest his poetic excellence. Theocritus chooses a third way, which has not been investigated adequately. He avoids antagonism but ironizes the theme of poetic excellence and distances himself from the tradition of competitive success. He does not cast his narrators as superior to predecessors and contemporaries but stresses the advantages and merits of colleagues. This rejection of conceit is connected with a major strand in Theocritean poetry: the power of word, including song, to provide assistance to characters in distress is a major open issue. Language is versatile and potent but not all-powerful. Song gives pleasure but is not a panacea while instruction and advice are never helpful and may even prove harmful. Most genuine pieces are ambiguous and open-ended so that the aspirations of characters are not presented as doomed to failure.

Author : Michal Smoira Cohn,Shlomo Giora Shoham
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781443818834

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The Mission and Message of Music by Michal Smoira Cohn,Shlomo Giora Shoham Pdf

This book is an English re-writing of the original Hebrew edition, published by Dvir Publishing House, in 2007, and written jointly with the late Herzl Shmueli. The book probes into the nature and quality of the beauty and meaning of music. According to the authors, these have to be found within the musical phenomena themselves and serve as the basis for the aesthetical criteria of all music. They maintain that similar to every linguistic phenomena, music is a message in sound that moves, within a certain time limit, from musician to listener. The musician on the one hand, and the listener on the other, are the two focal points between which the musical process takes place. Music is thus a covenant between the musician and the listener. One sends the musical message, the other takes it up and internalizes it; one is the initiator, the other proves the successful outcome of the artistic process. The book is intended for music connoisseurs and for all who are intersted in artistic thought, in general, and in musical thoughts in particular. Every professional concept that had to be included in the book is duly explained, so that any interested reader is able to broaden the scope of his/her outlook.

Author : James Currie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Scottish poetry
ISBN : NYPL:33433074843966

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Poems and Songs by James Currie Pdf

Author : James Currie,Charles Rogers
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385331549

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Poems and Songs by James Currie,Charles Rogers Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

Author : Jeff T. Johnson
Publisher : punctum books
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781947447448

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Trouble Songs by Jeff T. Johnson Pdf

Poet, critic, and hybrid-genre artist Johnson tracks the use of trouble in word, concept, and practice in this debut of brief, elliptical, lyric essays. He moves through a wide swath of 20th- and 21st-century music, always alert to a sense of melancholy shared among songwriters, their songs, and their listeners in the ever-growing web of popular music. "When we say 'trouble,' we refer to the history of trouble whether or not we have it in mind. When we sing trouble, we sing (with) history," Johnson writes. "A Trouble Song is a complaint, a grievance, an aside, a come-on, a confession, an admission, a resignation, a plea. It's an invitation-to sorrow." The effect of all this trouble is dizzying. Highly annotated-often to personal, humorous, and hidden effects-the book weaves among genres, chronologies, and various forms of trouble to ask "Where are we in song? Who are we in song?" Johnson suggests that an answer lies somewhere in the locus of singer, song, and listener-the "essential relations in the Trouble Song." Detouring into philosophy, cultural theory, and verse, Johnson works multilaterally to explore what trouble in popular music does to connect listeners, embolden them, and open a space from which trouble can be addressed across time.

Author : Ευφροσύνη Σπέντζου,Don Fowler
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0199240043

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Cultivating the Muse by Ευφροσύνη Σπέντζου,Don Fowler Pdf

Cultivating the Muse looks beyond the secure and benign images traditionally associated with inspiration in classical literature and scholarship. In contrast to the shapeless collectivity of the Muses in ancient accounts, this collection aspires to redeem their shape in other more vitalforms, closer or more distant incarnations of the ever-elusive maiden. Protagonists -- or victims -- in a complex game of cultural exploration, the alternative Muses and muse-like figures of this book are manipulated, abused, or effaced, but at the same time they also advocate or resist their fatesand explore their own powers of persuasion. Inspiration is here not so much explored in its traditional cultic dimensions, but rather invoked for its capacity to trigger fervent debates about power, desire, knowledge, identity, and gender in the societies of ancient Greece and Rome.

Author : Ed Cray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Music
ISBN : IND:30000079183418

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The Erotic Muse by Ed Cray Pdf

If you've ever wanted to know the correct words to Roll Me Over, or wondered where the melody of The Hootchie Kootchie Song came from, this book can answer your questions. Extensively revised, this new edition of The Erotic Muse presents the full texts of some 125 songs, with melodies for most of them and detailed annotations for all. -Capturing the kick and stir of history as it unfolded, American Datelines reveals the courage, hope, and grit of the American experience as chronicled in the headlines of the nation's public press from the earliest issue of The Boston News-Letter to the major newspapers of today. The original articles in this compelling collection are arranged chronologically and appear as they were first published, providing a lively and unique view of the events that have most influenced politics and culture. Readers can experience the thrill and excitement of breaking news from the real story of Jesse James and the capture of Al Capone to a vibrant portrayal of baseball's first professional African American player and a probing look at the shocking New York Armory show where modern art was born. newsworthy additions, including the fall of the Berlin Wall, the O. J. Simpson trial, the Clinton impeachment trial, the home run race between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa, and Bush v. Gore.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1813
Category : Ballads, English
ISBN : HARVARD:32044058158882

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Airs to the songs by Anonim Pdf

Author : Filippomaria Pontani,Stefan Weise
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110652758

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The Hellenizing Muse by Filippomaria Pontani,Stefan Weise Pdf

Traditionally, the history of Ancient Greek literature ends with Antiquity: after the fall of Rome, the literary works in ancient Greek generally belong to the domain of the Byzantine Empire. However, after the Byzantine refugees restored the knowledge of Ancient Greek in the west during the early humanistic period (15th century), Italian scholars (and later their French, German, Spanish colleagues) started to use Greek, a purely literary language that no one spoke, for their own texts and poems. This habit persisted with various ups and downs throughout the centuries, according to the development of Greek studies in each country. The aim of this anthology - the first one of this kind - is to give a selective overview of this kind of humanistic poetry in Ancient Greek, embracing all major regions of Europe and trying to concentrate on remarkable pieces of important poets. The ultimate goal of the book is to shed light on an important and so far mostly neglected aspect of the European heritage.