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The Mystery of Music

Author : Lewis M. Holmes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692197877

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Why do we like music? What does it do for us? How has it become part of our being? Questions about the origin and relevance of human musicality have fascinated many of the greatest thinkers in history, including Confucius, Plato, Rousseau, and Darwin. This book is a novel approach to the subject. The text is built around brief biographies, or 'profiles, ' of thirty musicians from the distant past. These musicians lived between approximately 2500 BCE and 1500 CE at locations that span half the globe. They came from a variety of social classes, and the group includes both men and women. The biographies provide a unique glimpse into the geographical spread and variety of ancient musical life. They form the basis for an exploration of the 'why, ' 'what, ' and 'how' of our attraction to music. As described in this book, ancient musical activities resembled those of the present: The Mesopotamian princess Enheduanna composed hymns to her gods. The Greek composer Pindar sold songs about athletes. The Roman emperor Nero got an ego boost by singing on stage. The Arabian songstress Jamila performed erotic music for her ecstatic fans. The European troubadour Marcabru used music to criticize upper-class immorality. The blind Japanese lutenist Akashi no Kakuichi composed a massive and influential musical war epic. Present-day musicians carry out a number of social, political, religious, entertainment, and other functions in society. Information from the profiles demonstrates that ancient musical practice involved carrying out the same musical functions as at present. To the author's knowledge, this is the first time that such a conclusion has been based on firm historical evidence. This evidence of constancy through different historical stages adds support to the view that human musicality is a genetically determined trait, rather than a characteristic that is acquired from the individual's cultural context. The text reviews and comments on evolutionary theories concerning the acquisition of musicality. 'Musical entrainment, ' which has recently received a great deal of attention from evolutionary scientists, is singled out for special attention. Examples taken from the profiles and elsewhere help to clarify this rather obscure concept. The book is introduced by an historical overview of the ideas expressed by philosophers, scientists, and others about music. Appendices to the text establish the relation of this study to traditional ethnomusicology and describe the anthropological framework that has been employed. More than 400 bibliographic references and a detailed index complete the presentation.

The Song That I Am

Author : Elisabeth-Paule Labat
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780879076801

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The Song That I Am by Elisabeth-Paule Labat Pdf

The Song That I Am: On the Mystery of Music is a short but full-to-the-brim essay on the decisive role that great music (whether Bach, Tavener, or Gregorian chant) ought to play in the spiritual life. With admirable restraint Élisabeth-Paule Labat shares her interior experience of music and thus continually opens up fresh vistas through worlds of sound and spirit. With her uncanny gift of language, Labat precisely describes soundings and yearnings of the soul that many of us glimpse fleetingly. Because "only the lover sings" (St. Augustine), her final illumination is that the experience of profound music ought to transform us into the beauty that we hear.

Pink Floyd: The Music and the Mystery

Author : Andy Mabbett
Publisher : Omnibus Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780857124180

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Pink Floyd: The Music and the Mystery by Andy Mabbett Pdf

A chronology and analysis of albums, shows, and recordings by Pink Floyd and individual band members as solo artists.

The Mystery of Music

Author : Walter E. Koons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105042403209

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The Mystery of Samba

Author : Hermano Vianna
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807898864

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The Mystery of Samba by Hermano Vianna Pdf

Samba is Brazil's "national rhythm," the foremost symbol of its culture and nationhood. To the outsider, samba and the famous pre-Lenten carnival of which it is the centerpiece seem to showcase the country's African heritage. Within Brazil, however, samba symbolizes the racial and cultural mixture that, since the 1930s, most Brazilians have come to believe defines their unique national identity. But how did Brazil become "the Kingdom of Samba" only a few decades after abolishing slavery in 1888? Typically, samba is represented as having changed spontaneously, mysteriously, from a "repressed" music of the marginal and impoverished to a national symbol cherished by all Brazilians. Here, however, Hermano Vianna shows that the nationalization of samba actually rested on a long history of relations between different social groups--poor and rich, weak and powerful--often working at cross-purposes to one another. A fascinating exploration of the "invention of tradition," The Mystery of Samba is an excellent introduction to Brazil's ongoing conversation on race, popular culture, and national identity.

The Devil in Music

Author : Kate Ross
Publisher : Felony & Mayhem Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781937384722

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Julian Kestrel, gentleman sleuth and dandy, becomes fascinated with the unsolved case of the murder of a Milanese aristocrat and the disappearance of his protégé, a brilliant young English opera singer. What has become of the singer’s fiancée and the aristocrat’s notoriously surly manservant? Could the murder be tied to Italy’s tumultuous politics? Furthermore, the murdered marquis left a widow whose beauty makes Kestrel’s heart skip faster.

The Mystery of Musical Creativity

Author : Hermann Beckh
Publisher : Temple Lodge Publishing
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781912230389

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The Mystery of Musical Creativity by Hermann Beckh Pdf

‘Beckh ventures into provinces that I have not had the opportunity of investigating myself…’ – Rudolf Steiner Lost for decades, the manuscript of Hermann Beckh’s final lectures on the subject of music present fundamentally new insights into its cosmic origins. Beckh characterises the qualities of musical development, examines select musical works (that represent for him the peak of human ingenuity), and throws new light on the nature and source of human creativity and inspiration. Published here for the first time, the lectures demonstrate a distinctive approach founded on the raw material of musical perception. Beckh discusses the whistling wind, the billowing wave, the song of the birds and particularly the theme of longing. Never losing the ground from under his feet, he penetrates perennial themes: from the yearning for real spontaneity and the ‘Mystery background’ uniting heaven and earth, to spiritual knowledge that can meet the demands of the twenty-first century. Out of the cosmic context, Beckh writes to the individual situation. From there, he seeks again the re-won cosmic context. He does not write as a musical specialist and then turn to universal human concerns; rather, Beckh writes from universal human concerns and reveals music as of special concern to everyone. In addition to the transcripts of fifteen lectures, this book contains a valuable introduction and editorial footnotes. It also features appendices including Beckh’s essay ‘The Mystery of the Night in Wagner and Novalis’; reminiscences of Beckh by August Pauli and Harro Rückner; Donald Francis Tovey’s ‘Wagnerian harmony and the evolution of the Tristan-chord’, and several contemporaneous reviews of Beckh’s published works.

The James Bond Songs

Author : Adrian Daub,Charles Kronengold
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-31
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190234546

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The James Bond Songs by Adrian Daub,Charles Kronengold Pdf

Starting with 1964's Goldfinger, every James Bond film has followed the same ritual, and so has its audience: after an exciting action sequence the screen goes black and the viewer spends three long minutes absorbing abstract opening credits and a song that sounds like it wants to return to 1964. In The James Bond Songs authors Adrian Daub and Charles Kronengold use the genre to trace not only a changing cultural landscape, but also evolving conceptions of what a pop song is. They argue that the story of the Bond song is the story of the pop song more generally, and perhaps even the story of its end. Each chapter discusses a particular segment of the Bond canon and contextualizes it in its era's music and culture. But the book also asks how Bond and his music reflected and influenced our feelings about such topics as masculinity, race, money, and aging. Through these individual pieces the book presents the Bond song as the perfect anthem of late capitalism. The Bond songs want to talk about the fulfillment that comes from fast cars, shaken Martinis and mindless sex, but their unstable speakers, subjects, and addressees actually undercut the logic of the lifestyle James Bond is sworn to defend. The book is an invitation to think critically about pop music, about genre, and about the political aspects of popular culture in the twentieth century and beyond.

What Is Music?

Author : Philip Dorrell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Music
ISBN : 1411621174

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This books outlines the author's new and original scientific theory about music - that music is a super-stimulus for the perception of musicality, where musicality is a perceived aspect of speech that provides information about the speaker's internal mental state.

The Mystery of the Stolen Music

Author : Gertrude Chandler Warner
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1995-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0785776028

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For use in schools and libraries only. The Alden children are thrilled when a famous orchestra comes to their town to perform, and when an original Mozart score turns up missing, they solve the mystery of its disappearance.

The Mystery of Music

Author : Kenneth Keaton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0757587674

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Mysteries in the Music

Author : Jim Berkenstadt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1958727105

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Mysteries in the Music by Jim Berkenstadt Pdf

Mysteries in the Music: Case Closed examines some of the secrets, myths, legends, hoaxes, conspiracies, and the wildly inexplicable events that are such an intriguing part of rock and roll history. Travel back to the 1950s to uncover "Who Really Discovered Elvis Presley?" Revisit the 1960s when a folk troubadour tried forming a supergroup with The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. Transport back to Jamaica 1976 to discover whether the CIA tried to assassinate reggae superstar Bob Marley. Discover whether The Beach Boys actually stole a song from cult leader Charles Manson. Uncover the secrets behind Nirvana's Nevermind album. Best-selling author Jim Berkenstadt, the Rock And Roll Detective®, has spent decades researching the players behind these famous soundtracks and the mysteries hidden within the music itself. These questions have intrigued rock and roll fans for so long because no one has ever asked eyewitnesses the tough questions or dug through the primary sources and documentary evidence left behind... until now. Unsolved for decades, the stories of pop music lore have been unearthed-and the truth is finally revealed.

Mystery Train

Author : Greil Marcus
Publisher : Plume Books
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015009434005

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The Mystery of Music Text

Author : Kenneth Keaton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1753-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1465277951

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The Violin Conspiracy

Author : Brendan Slocumb
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593315439

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GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK! • Ray McMillian is a Black classical musician on the rise—undeterred by the pressure and prejudice of the classical music world—when a shocking theft sends him on a desperate quest to recover his great-great-grandfather’s heirloom violin on the eve of the most prestigious musical competition in the world. “I loved The Violin Conspiracy for exactly the same reasons I loved The Queen’s Gambit: a surprising, beautifully rendered underdog hero I cared about deeply and a fascinating, cutthroat world I knew nothing about—in this case, classical music.” —Chris Bohjalian, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Flight Attendant and Hour of the Witch Growing up Black in rural North Carolina, Ray McMillian’s life is already mapped out. But Ray has a gift and a dream—he’s determined to become a world-class professional violinist, and nothing will stand in his way. Not his mother, who wants him to stop making such a racket; not the fact that he can’t afford a violin suitable to his talents; not even the racism inherent in the world of classical music. When he discovers that his beat-up, family fiddle is actually a priceless Stradivarius, all his dreams suddenly seem within reach, and together, Ray and his violin take the world by storm. But on the eve of the renowned and cutthroat Tchaikovsky Competition—the Olympics of classical music—the violin is stolen, a ransom note for five million dollars left in its place. Without it, Ray feels like he's lost a piece of himself. As the competition approaches, Ray must not only reclaim his precious violin, but prove to himself—and the world—that no matter the outcome, there has always been a truly great musician within him.