The Whistling Blackbird

Author : Robert Morris
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781580463492

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The Whistling Blackbird by Robert Morris Pdf

A collection of essays on new music, composers, and issues in American music criticism and aestheticson by composer and music theorist Robert Morris. The Whistling Blackbird: Essays and Talks on New Music is the long-awaited book of essays from Robert Morris, the greatly admired composer and music theorist. In these essays, Morris presents a new and multifaceted view ofrecent developments in American music. His views on music, as well as his many compositions, defy easy classification, favoring instead a holistic, creative, and critical approach. The Whistling Blackbird contains fourteen essays and talks, divided into three parts, preceded by an "Overture" that portrays what it means to compose music in the United States today. Part 1 presents essays on American composers John Cage, Milton Babbitt, Richard Swift, and Stefan Wolpe. Part 2 comprises talks on Morris's music that illustrate his ideas and creative approaches over forty years of music composition, including his outdoor compositions, an ongoing project that began in 1999. Part 3 includes four essays in music criticism: on the relation of composition to ethnomusicology; on phenomenology and attention; on music theory at the millennium; and on issues in musical time. Threaded throughout this collection of essays are Morris's diverse and seemingly disparate interests and influences. English romantic poetry, mathematical combinatorics, group and set theory, hiking, Buddhist philosophy, Chinese and Japanese poetry and painting, jazz and nonwestern music, chaos theory, linguistics, and the American transcendental movement exist side by side in a fascinating and eclectic portrait of American musical composition at the dawn of the new millennium. Robert Morris is Professor of Music Composition at the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester.

Author : K. N. Dave
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 8120818423

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Birds in Sanskrit Literature by K. N. Dave Pdf

In his monumental research in ancient sanskrit literature the author has restored gaps in lexicons and removed doubts in the later sanskrit works about the identity of a very large number of birds of the Indian sub-continent. The ancient sages of India were great lovers of nature with keen powers of observation and an extraordinary sensitivity about aninal behaviour. The Vedas Puranas, Epics and Samhitas are full of descriptions of birds, animals and plants but the exact identification of names had got lost or confounded over the centuries.

Author : Mario Ortiz-Robles
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134740628

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Literature and Animal Studies by Mario Ortiz-Robles Pdf

Why do animals talk in literature? In this provocative book, Mario Ortiz Robles tracks the presence of animals across an expansive literary archive to argue that literature cannot be understood as a human endeavor apart from its capacity to represent animals. Focusing on the literary representation of familiar animals, including horses, dogs, cats, and songbirds, Ortiz Robles examines the various tropes literature has historically employed to give meaning to our fraught relations with other animals. Beyond allowing us to imagine the lives of non-humans, literature can make a lasting contribution to Animal Studies, an emerging discipline within the humanities, by showing us that there is something fictional about our relation to animals. Literature and Animal Studies combines a broad mapping of literary animals with detailed readings of key animal texts to offer a new way of organizing literary history that emphasizes genera over genres and a new way of classifying animals that is premised on tropes rather than taxa. The book makes us see animals and our relation to them with fresh eyes and, in doing so, prompts us to review the role of literature in a culture that considers it an endangered art form.

Author : Bálint András Varga
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Composers
ISBN : 9781580465939

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The Courage of Composers and the Tyranny of Taste by Bálint András Varga Pdf

Bálint András Varga is perhaps the world's most respected interviewer of living composers. For The Courage of Composers and the Tyranny of Taste: Reflections on New Music, Varga has confronted thirty-three composers with quotations carefully chosen to elicit their thoughts about an issue that is crucial for any serious creative artist: How can one find courage to deal with the sometimes tyrannical expectations of the outside world? The result is an imaginary roundtable at which we encounter fresh, revealing, previously unpublished statements from such world-renowned composers as John Adams, Friedrich Cerha, George Crumb, Sofia Gubaïdulina, Georg Friedrich Haas, Giya Kancheli, György Kurtág, Helmut Lachenmann, Libby Larsen, Robert Morris, and Wolfgang Rihm. Also represented are composers who are becoming more prominent with the passing years -- Chaya Czernowin, Pascal Dusapin, and Rebecca Saunders -- as well as conductor-composer Michael Gielen, festival director Nicholas Kenyon, and music critics Paul Griffiths and Arnold Whittall. In The Courage of Composers and the Tyranny of Taste, composers and other insightful individuals comment on choices made, traps avoided, unforeseen consequences, proud accomplishments, occasional regrets: the whole range of experiences central to artistic creativity. Bálint András Varga isthe acclaimed author of György Kurtág: Three Interviews and Ligeti Homages; Three Questions for 65 Composers; and From Boulanger to Stockhausen: Interviews and a Memoir (all available from University of Rochester Press).

Author : Susan Stein
Publisher : Creative Publishing International
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781589236899

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The Complete Photo Guide to Art Quilting by Susan Stein Pdf

""Reference book covering all techniques used for making art quilts with myriad photographic examples of finsihed quilts"--Provided by publisher"--

Author : Giriraja Shah
Publisher : Abhinav Publications
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Naini Tal (India : District)
ISBN : 9788170173243

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Nainital by Giriraja Shah Pdf

A Gem In Perfect Setting, This Charming Lake Resorts With Its Graceful Willows Encircling The Emerald Mountain Lake. During The Day, The City With Brightly Coloured Villas, Bungalows, Ponies, Rickshaws And Sailboats Beckons The Visitors To Discovers The Town In The Special Way. And As The Sun Sinks Behind The Mountains, The Hill Station Turns Into An Enchanting, Alluring Fairyland. The Lake, Reflecting The Rows Of Lights Dancing In The Water, Weaves A Mysterious Fantasy. That Is How Is Nainital - The Lake Town. There Are Few Hill Stations In India, Which Cater To Such A Wide Variety Of Tastes As Nainital - Famed For Its Scenic Beauty, Sung In Lore And Legend. Nainital Stands By Itself, For It Is An Ideal Resort For All Types Of Holidaymakers The Serious, The Curious And The Pleasure Seeking. Perhaps, Of No Other Hill Station Can It Be Said That India'S Cultural Unity In Diversity Is Not A Mere Slogan But A Living Reality.The Book Has Been Thoughtfully And Beautifully Illustrated By Anup Shah, The Internationally Recognised Nature Photographers.

Author : Neal Alexander
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781789624182

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Ciaran Carson by Neal Alexander Pdf

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. Ciaran Carson is one of the most challenging and inventive of contemporary Irish writers, exhibiting verbal brilliance, formal complexity, and intellectual daring across a remarkably varied body of work. This study considers the full range of his oeuvre, in poetry, prose, and translations, and discusses the major themes to which he returns, including: memory and history, narrative, language and translation, mapping, violence, and power. It argues that the singularity of Carson’s writing is to be found in his radical imaginative engagements with ideas of space and place. The city of Belfast, in particular, occupies a crucially important place in his texts, serving as an imaginative focal point around which his many other concerns are constellated. The city, in all its volatile mutability, is an abiding frame of reference and a reservoir of creative impetus for Carson’s imagination. Accordingly, the book adopts an interdisciplinary approach that draws upon geography, urbanism, and cultural theory as well as literary criticism. It provides both a stimulating and thorough introduction to Carson’s work, and a flexible critical framework for exploring literary representations of space.

Author : Charles Alexander Johns
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Birds
ISBN : HARVARD:32044107221095

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British Birds in Their Haunts by Charles Alexander Johns Pdf

Author : Charles Alexander Johns
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1882-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465511843

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British Birds in Their Haunts by Charles Alexander Johns Pdf

Author : Italo Calvino
Publisher : HMH
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1986-09-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780547542386

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Mr. Palomar by Italo Calvino Pdf

A novel of a delightful eccentric on a search for truth, by the renowned author of Invisible Cities. In The New York Times Book Review, the poet Seamus Heaney praised Mr. Palomar as a series of “beautiful, nimble, solitary feats of imagination.” Throughout these twenty-seven intricately structured chapters, the musings of the crusty Mr. Palomar consistently render the world sublime and ridiculous. Like the telescope for which he is named, Mr. Palomar is a natural observer. “It is only after you have come to know the surface of things,” he believes, “that you can venture to seek what is underneath.” Whether contemplating a fine cheese, a hungry gecko, or a topless sunbather, he tends to let his meditations stray from the present moment to the great beyond. And though he may fail as an objective spectator, he is the best of company. “Each brief chapter reads like an exploded haiku,” wrote Time Out. A play on a world fragmented by our individual perceptions, this inventive and irresistible novel encapsulates the life’s work of an artist of the highest order, “the greatest Italian writer of the twentieth century” (The Guardian).

Author : Karen Anderson
Publisher : Learning Media Ltd
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Children's stories, New Zealand
ISBN : 0478231075

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When I was Young by Karen Anderson Pdf

Contains two stories which involve letters. In the first, Karen writes letters to various family members to find out how difficult it really was to get to school in the old days. In the second, Wild Bill Miggs takes Penny the Postie's advice on how to get real letters written by real people, not by computers. Suggested level: primary.

Author : Danielle Mémoire
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781628973808

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Public Reading Followed by Discussion by Danielle Mémoire Pdf

Who’s really telling this story? That’s the mystery at the heart of Danielle Mémoire’s novel, which opens with a writer on stage at a public reading—a public reading that isn’t one, because she never reads a word, much to the audience’s annoyance. When an audience member finally heckles her, the writer’s response sets off a chain reaction of nested stories that tumble one after another like a row of dominoes. Each storyteller in the series (most are writers at public readings) builds on what’s come before while often radically changing its meaning. Along the way, we encounter fatal stepladders, a painter obsessed with a transom window, a lovestruck dog-walker, and a lost cat restored to its owners through divine intervention. Playful, thought-provoking, and utterly unique, Public Reading Followed by Discussion defies classification and invites every reader to join the game.

Author : J. B. Reid
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 45,6 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 : Joseph Horgan
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-03
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781848890718

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The Song at Your Backdoor by Joseph Horgan Pdf

Taking his backdoor as a starting point, Joseph Horgan explores the natural world. The book spans one autumn and one winter, framed by the departure of the swallows from the author's backyard and concluding with their return. In between, Horgan travels on foot or by bicycle along some still-quiet country lanes of 21st-century rural Ireland. Mingling his observations and thoughts with references from seventh-century poetry to modern geological studies, he encourages us to look again at nature around us and to respect and protect it.

Author : Helen Vendler
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0674634365

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On Extended Wings by Helen Vendler Pdf

Though Wallace Stevens' shorter poems are perhaps his best known, his longer poems, Vendler suggests in this book, deserve equal fame and equal consideration. She proposes that Stevens development as a poet can best be seen, not in description--which must be repetitive--of the abstract bases of his work, but rather in a view of his changing styles.