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The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

Autor: Colin Larkin

Número de Páginas: 4183

This text presents a comprehensive and up-to-date reference work on popular music, from the early 20th century to the present day.

Coherence in New Music: Experience, Aesthetics, Analysis

Autor: Mark Hutchinson

Número de Páginas: 231

What does it mean to talk about musical coherence at the end of a century characterised by fragmentation and discontinuity? How can the diverse influences which stand behind the works of many late twentieth-century composers be reconciled with the singular immediacy of the experiences that they can create? How might an awareness of the distinctive ways in which these experiences are generated and controlled affect the way we listen to, reflect upon and write about this music? Mark Hutchinson outlines a novel concept of coherence within Western art music from the 1980s to the turn of the millennium as a means of understanding the work of a number of contemporary composers, including Thomas Adès, Kaija Saariaho, Tō ru Takemitsu and György Kurtág, whose music cannot be fitted easily into a particular compositional school or analytical framework. Coherence is understood as a multi-layered phenomenon experienced, above all, in the act of listening, but reliant upon a variety of other aspects of musical experience, including compositional statements, analysis, and connections of aesthetic, as well as listeners' own, imaginative conceptualisations. Accordingly, the approach taken...

To Last a Lifetime

Autor: Patricia White

Número de Páginas: 245

Beautiful, flame-haired Benny Melody was born to hardship and adversity. Handsome Beal Addison gave her his dream of building a timber dynasty. She loved him as a child, loved and wanted him as she grew into womanhood, but she never dreamed he would leave Oregon and return with an elegant wife. Beal was married, but even as Benny grew into beauty, married Beal's brother and joined his battle for justice, and eventually ruled her own mighty empire, Benny was driven by a consuming passion. Her heart would always belong to Beal. Her love for him was passionate, willful, and strong enough To Last a Lifetime.

Musical Vitalities

Autor: Holly Watkins

Número de Páginas: 207

Does it make sense to refer to bird song—a complex vocalization, full of repetitive and transformative patterns that are carefully calculated to woo a mate—as art? What about a pack of wolves howling in unison or the cacophony made by an entire rain forest? Redefining music as “the art of possibly animate things,” Musical Vitalities charts a new path for music studies that blends musicological methods with perspectives drawn from the life sciences. In opposition to humanist approaches that insist on a separation between culture and nature—approaches that appear increasingly untenable in an era defined by human-generated climate change—Musical Vitalities treats music as one example of the cultural practices and biotic arts of the animal kingdom rather than as a phenomenon categorically distinct from nonhuman forms of sonic expression. The book challenges the human exceptionalism that has allowed musicologists to overlook music’s structural resemblances to the songs of nonhuman species, the intricacies of music’s physiological impact on listeners, and the many analogues between music’s formal processes and those of the dynamic natural world. Through close readings...

Journal of the Assembly of the State of New York

Autor: New York (state). Legislature. Assembly

Número de Páginas: 1446

Includes special sessions.

The People's Praise Book, Or, Carmina Sanctorum

Autor: Henry Martin Sanders , George Claude Lorimer

Número de Páginas: 470

The Musical Herald and Tonic Sol-fa Reporter

Número de Páginas: 440

Hymns and Songs of Praise for Social and Sabbath Worship

Autor: Roswell Dwight Hitchcock , Zachary Eddy , Philip Schaff

Número de Páginas: 382

Carmina Sanctorum

Autor: Roswell Dwight Hitchcock , Zachary Eddy , Lewis Ward Mudge

Número de Páginas: 462

Carmina Sanctorum

Número de Páginas: 460

Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music

Autor: Mark Allan Powell

Número de Páginas: 1096

These essays provide bandmember lists, complete discographies, lists of awards, artist-website addresses, biographies of the artists, and reviews of their work."--BOOK JACKET.