The Sounds Of Place

Author : Denise Von Glahn
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780252052958

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The Sounds of Place by Denise Von Glahn Pdf

Composers like Charles Ives, Duke Ellington, Aaron Copland, and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich created works that indelibly commemorated American places. Denise Von Glahn analyzes the soundscapes of fourteen figures whose "place pieces" tell us much about the nation's search for its own voice and about its ever-changing sense of self. She connects each composer's feelings about the United States and their reasons for creating a piece to the music, while analyzing their compositional techniques, tunes, and styles. Approaching the compositions in chronological order, Von Glahn reveals how works that celebrated the wilderness gave way to music engaged with humanity's influence--benign and otherwise--on the landscape, before environmentalism inspired a return to nature themes in the late twentieth century. Wide-ranging and astute, The Sounds of Place explores high art music's role in the making of national myth and memory.

Author : Alison Tokita,Hugh de Ferranti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317091639

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Music, Modernity and Locality in Prewar Japan: Osaka and Beyond by Alison Tokita,Hugh de Ferranti Pdf

This anthology addresses the modern musical culture of interwar Osaka and its surrounding Hanshin region. Modernity as experienced in this locale, with its particular historical, geographic and demographic character, and its established traditions of music and performance, gave rise to configurations of the new, the traditional and the hybrid that were distinct from their Tokyo counterparts. The Taisho and early Showa periods, from 1912 to the early 1940s, saw profound changes in Japanese musical life. Consumption of both traditional Japanese and Western music was transformed as public concert performances, music journalism, and music marketing permeated daily life. The new bourgeoisie saw Western music, particularly the piano and its repertoire, as the symbol of a desirable and increasingly affordable modernity. Orchestras and opera troupes were established, which in turn created a need for professional conductors, and both jazz and a range of hybrid popular music styles became viable bases for musical livelihood. Recording technology proliferated; by the early 1930s, record players and SP discs were no longer luxury commodities, radio broadcasts reached all levels of society, and ’talkies’ with music soundtracks were avidly consumed. With the perceived need for music that suited 'modern life', the seeds for the pre-eminent position of Euro-American music in post-Second-World war Japan were sown. At the same time many indigenous musical genres continued to thrive, but were hardly immune to the effects of modernization; in exploring new musical media and techniques drawn from Western music, performer-composers initiated profound changes in composition and performance practice within traditional genres. This volume is the first to draw together research on the interwar musical culture of the Osaka region and addresses comprehensively both Western and non-Western musical practices and genres, questions the common perception of their being wholly separate domains

Author : David George Haskell
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781984881564

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Sounds Wild and Broken by David George Haskell Pdf

Finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction and the 2023 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Winner of the Acoustical Society of America's 2023 Science Communication Award “[A] glorious guide to the miracle of life’s sound.” —The New York Times Book Review A lyrical exploration of the diverse sounds of our planet, the creative processes that produced these marvels, and the perils that sonic diversity now faces We live on a planet alive with song, music, and speech. David Haskell explores how these wonders came to be. In rain forests shimmering with insect sound and swamps pulsing with frog calls we learn about evolution’s creative powers. From birds in the Rocky Mountains and on the streets of Paris, we discover how animals learn their songs and adapt to new environments. Below the waves, we hear our kinship to beings as different as snapping shrimp, toadfish, and whales. In the startlingly divergent sonic vibes of the animals of different continents, we experience the legacies of plate tectonics, the deep history of animal groups and their movements around the world, and the quirks of aesthetic evolution. Starting with the origins of animal song and traversing the whole arc of Earth history, Haskell illuminates and celebrates the emergence of the varied sounds of our world. In mammoth ivory flutes from Paleolithic caves, violins in modern concert halls, and electronic music in earbuds, we learn that human music and language belong within this story of ecology and evolution. Yet we are also destroyers, now silencing or smothering many of the sounds of the living Earth. Haskell takes us to threatened forests, noise-filled oceans, and loud city streets, and shows that sonic crises are not mere losses of sensory ornament. Sound is a generative force, and so the erasure of sonic diversity makes the world less creative, just, and beautiful. The appreciation of the beauty and brokenness of sound is therefore an important guide in today’s convulsions and crises of change and inequity. Sounds Wild and Broken is an invitation to listen, wonder, belong, and act.

Author : Norman Allison Calkins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : English language
ISBN : HARVARD:32044029009883

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Ear and Voice Training by Means of Elementary Sounds of Language by Norman Allison Calkins Pdf

Author : Henry Romaine Pattengill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : English language
ISBN : UOM:39015071613603

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A Manual of Orthography and Elementary Sounds by Henry Romaine Pattengill Pdf

Author : Seán Street
Publisher : Springer
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319586762

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Sound Poetics by Seán Street Pdf

This book examines sonic signals as something both heard internally and externally, through imagination, memory and direct response. In doing so it explores how the mind 'makes' sound through experience, as it interprets codes on the written page, and creates an internal leitmotif that then interacts with new sounds made through an aural partnership with the external world, chosen and involuntary exposure to music and sound messages, both friendly and antagonistic to the identity of the self. It creates an argument for sound as an underlying force that links us to the world we inhabit, an essential part of being in the same primal sense as the calls of birds and other inhabitants of a shared earth. Street argues that sound as a poetic force is part of who we are, linked to our visualisation and sense of the world, as idea and presence within us. This incredibly interdisciplinary book will be of great interest to scholars of radio, sound, media and literature as well as philosophy and psychology.

Author : Eliza Boardman Burnz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HN1TDF

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Phonic Shorthand for Schools, Business Writing and Reporting by Eliza Boardman Burnz Pdf

Author : Angeliki Sioli,Elisavet Kiourtsoglou
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-18
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789462703216

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The Sound of Architecture by Angeliki Sioli,Elisavet Kiourtsoglou Pdf

How sound and its atmospheres transform architecture Acoustic atmospheres can be fleeting, elusive, or short-lived. Sometimes they are constant, but more often they change from one moment to the next, forming distinct impressions each time we visit certain places. Stable or dynamic, acoustic atmospheres have a powerful effect on our spatial experience, sometimes even more so than architecture itself. This book explores the acoustic atmospheres of diverse architectural environments, in terms of scale, program, location, or historic period—providing an overview of how acoustic atmospheres are created, perceived, experienced, and visualized. The contributors explore how sound and its atmospheres transform architecture and space. Their essays demonstrate that sound is a tangible element in the design and staging of atmospheres and that it should become a central part of the spatial explorations of architects, designers, and urban planners. The Sound of Architecture will be of interest to architectural historians, theorists, students, and practicing architects, who will discover how acoustic atmospheres can be created without complex and specialized engineering. It will also be of value to scholars working in the field of history of emotions, as it offers evocative descriptions of acoustic atmospheres from diverse cultures and time periods.

Author : María de los Ángeles Gómez González,Teresa Sánchez Roura
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501502941

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English Pronunciation for Speakers of Spanish by María de los Ángeles Gómez González,Teresa Sánchez Roura Pdf

English Pronunciation for Speakers of Spanish fills a gaping hole in the market for books on English phonetics and pronunciation because it not only combines theoretical issues and applications to practice, but it also adopts a contrastive English-Spanish approach to better suit the needs of Spanish-speaking learners of English (SSLE), enabling them to build gradually on the knowledge gained in each chapter. The book covers the key concepts of English phonetics and phonology in seven chapters written in an accessible and engaging style: 1. Phonetics and Phonology 2. The Production and Classification of Speech Sounds 3. Vowels and Glides 4. Consonants 5. Segment Dynamics: Aspects of Connected Speech 6. Beyond the Segment: Stress and Intonation 7. Predicting Pronunciation from Spelling (and vice versa) Features: in-text audio illustrations, as well as over a hundred written and audio exercises with corresponding keys and different kinds of artwork (Tables, Figures, illustrations, spectrograms, etc.) classic readings in the discipline in the Further Reading section of each chapter highlights the phonetic contrasts and specific cues that are more important to aid comprehension in English and offers guidelines on "correct" pronunciation habits to help SSLE sound as close as possible to native English The book's companion website, EPSS Multimedia Lab, can be used on computers, smartphones and tablets, and is useful for the self-taught student and the busy lecturer alike. Features of the website: a complete sound bank defining and illustrating the sounds of English RP as compared with those of Peninsular Spanish written definitions and animated diagrams, videos and original recordings (by native speakers of English and Spanish) showing the articulation of each sound, alongside its most common spellings, as well as pronunciation practice for individual words and whole sentences a comprehensive selection of over a hundred written and audio exercises (with their keys) for practice both at home or in the language lab audio files corresponding to the audio illustrations given in the written book a repository of useful resources by topics and a list of online glossaries and pronunciation dictionaries

Author : Mathew J. Bartkowiak
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 0786444800

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Sounds of the Future by Mathew J. Bartkowiak Pdf

Covering titles ranging from Rocketship X-M (1950) to Wall-E (2008), these insightful essays measure the relationship between music and science fiction film from a variety of academic perspectives. Thematic sections survey specific compositions utilized in science fiction movies; Broadway's relationship with the genre; science fiction elements in popular songs; the conveyance of subjectivity and identity through music; and such individual composers as Richard Strauss (2001: A Space Odyssey) and Bernard Herrmann (The Day the Earth Stood Still).

Author : John Connell,Chris Gibson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134699124

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Sound Tracks by John Connell,Chris Gibson Pdf

Sound Tracks is the first comprehensive book on the new geography of popular music, examining the complex links between places, music and cultural identities. It provides an interdisciplinary perspective on local, national and global scenes, from the 'Mersey' and 'Icelandic' sounds to 'world music', and explores the diverse meanings of music in a range of regional contexts. In a world of intensified globalisation, links between space, music and identity are increasingly tenuous, yet places give credibility to music, not least in the 'country', and music is commonly linked to place, as a stake to originality, a claim to tradition and as a marketing device. This book develops new perspectives on these relationships and how they are situated within cultural and geographical thought.

Author : Royal Society (Great Britain)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : UVA:X002000806

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Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1062 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11788373

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Proceedings and transactions of the Royal Society of Canada by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Waugh,Jane Carter,Carly Desmond
Publisher : Learning Matters
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781473927063

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Lessons in Teaching Phonics in Primary Schools by David Waugh,Jane Carter,Carly Desmond Pdf

Lesson planning in line with the new Primary National Curriculum! Phonics is taught every day in primary schools across England. It is fully embedded in the National Curriculum and is a huge part of teaching children to read. How do you ensure that you understand both what and how to teach? How do you separate good phonics teaching from the many phonics schemes that are used? What does a good phonics lesson look like? This text provides exemplar lessons in phonics and supports you to teach tricky words, alternative spellings, and pronunciation as well as addressing other phonics teaching challenges. It explores the most popular phonics schemes and shows you how good phonics teaching works across schemes. The adaptable and inspired lesson plans included, highlight how phonics teaching can be fun, offering ideas for teaching phonics outdoors, whole class phonics teaching and nonsense words. Did you know that this book is part of the Lessons in Teaching series? WHAT IS THE LESSONS IN TEACHING SERIES? Suitable for any teacher at any stage of their career, the books in this series are packed with great ideas for teaching engaging, outstanding lessons in your primary classroom. The Companion Website accompanying the series includes extra resources including tips, lesson starters, videos and Pinterest boards. Books in this series: Lessons in Teaching Grammar in Primary Schools, Lessons in Teaching Computing in Primary Schools, Lessons in Teaching Number and Place Value in Primary Schools, Lessons in Teaching Reading Comprehension in Primary Schools, Lesson in Teaching Phonics in Primary Schools

Author : Louisa Ellen Barnes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Shorthand
ISBN : UVA:X000875450

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Barnes' Shorthand Manual by Louisa Ellen Barnes Pdf