The Influence of Hans Jonas’ Principle of Responsibility
Hans Jonas was a German philosopher who questioned the way man uses scientific knowledge and technology. His philosophical analysis culminated in the work 'The Responsibility Principle, an essay in ethics for technological civilisation' (1979), in which he addresses three main themes: criticism of traditional ethics, the use of technology and scientific knowledge, and the heuristic of fear. The discussion presents the principle of responsibility in the form of a new imperative: 'act in such a way that the effects of your action are compatible with the permanence of authentic human life on Earth'. The global environmental crisis, unbridled consumption and the indiscriminate exploitation of natural resources make Jonah's presuppositions relevant and topical, and they have been recognised in various areas. In this work we seek to identify the influence and importance of Jonas' thinking in order to highlight the urgency of building new behaviours (in individual actions) and new paradigms (in collective actions), so that the biosphere is treated with dignity, and so that those to come have the right to enjoy it as the current generation does.
A Survey of Solo Works for the Violoncello
A Survey for Solo Works for the Violoncello is a resource for cellists and non-cellists alike. Spanning the history of the cello through the lens of the pieces written for it, the reader will gain insight into the pieces, composers, and players that shaped the cello's destiny from its earliest entries to the current day. The book surveys the breadth of music written for the cello and is organized into three main genres of compositions: Unaccompanied Works, Works with Piano, and Works for Cello and Orchestra. The reader will encounter, in great detail, 200 works from the Baroque to present day, including standard works and those that are lesser known. Recognized composers of cello music, such as Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Dvorak, Shostakovich, Kodaly, and Britten are, of course, present, but that only tells part of the story. This survey shines a light on composers and pieces not as well known that deserve their place in study and performance.
From the Madeira Chamber Orchestra to the Madeira Classical Orchestra
At a time when the "Golden Jubilee" (50 years) of the Madeira Classical Orchestra Association [AOCM] has been completed, it seemed important to us to mark this milestone of longevity through a historical/sociological incursion into its foundation and organisational evolution. In this brief note, our main concern is to analyse the organisational impact, but also the behaviour and functioning of those who have been part of the Association's social bodies; as well as to detect in the AOCM, as sometimes in other social organisations, characteristics for which conditions of adaptation and systemic evolution have manifested themselves throughout its history.
The Public Health nurse in the care of the elderly with HIV/AIDS
Discussions about the increase in the elderly population have been gaining momentum in recent decades, as it is a reflection of advances in the field of health and the reduction in the birth rate. This change in age structure inspires caution, since the number of HIV/AIDS cases among the elderly is growing, requiring greater attention from public authorities and health professionals. This book has the following objectives: To identify nursing actions in the care and monitoring of elderly people living with HIV/AIDS in a municipal health polyclinic; To describe what measures have been adopted by nurses in the unit to help the elderly cope with this process of becoming ill; To analyze the perceptions of public health nurses about their role in relation to HIV/AIDS in old age.
A History of Stringed Keyboard Instruments
This book explores the history of keyboard instruments from their fourteenth-century origins to the development of the modern piano. It reveals the principles of their design and describes structural and mechanical developments through the medieval and renaissance periods and eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries, as well as the early music revival. Stewart Pollens identifies and describes the types of keyboard instruments played by major composers and virtuosi through the ages and provides the reader with detailed instructions on their regulating, stringing, tuning and voicing drawn from historical sources.
A History of Welsh Music
From early medieval bards to the bands of the 'Cool Cymru' era, this book looks at Welsh musical practices and traditions, the forces that have influenced and directed them, and the ways in which the idea of Wales as a 'musical nation' has been formed and embedded in popular consciousness in Wales and beyond. Beginning with early medieval descriptions of musical life in Wales, the book provides both an overarching study of Welsh music history and detailed consideration of the ideas, beliefs, practices and institutions that shaped it. Topics include the eisteddfod, the church and the chapel, the influence of the Welsh language and Welsh cultural traditions, the scholarship of the Celtic Revival and the folk song movement, the impacts of industrialization and digitization, and exposure to broader trends in popular culture, including commercial popular music and sport.
A Hound Dog Tale
The release of the song "Hound Dog" in 1953 marked a turning point in American popular culture, and throughout its history, the hit ballad bridged divides of race, gender, and generational conflict. Ben Wynne's A Hound Dog Tale discusses the stars who made this rock 'n' roll standard famous, from Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton to Elvis Presley, along with an eclectic cast of characters, including singers, songwriters, musicians, record producers and managers, famous television hosts, several lawyers, and even a gangster or two. Wynne's examination of this American classic reveals how "Hound Dog" reflected the values and issues of 1950s American society, and sheds light on the lesser-known elements of the song's creation and legacy. A Hound Dog Tale will capture the imagination of anyone who has ever tapped a foot to the growl of a blues riff or the bark of a rock 'n' roll guitar.
Goin’ Down De Mont
Leicester's De Montfort Hall has enjoyed an incredibly rich history, playing host to the greatest names in modern popular music. From Buddy Holly's appearance on 16 March 1958 through to legendary shows by The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan in the 1960s; from groundbreaking concerts by Pink Floyd and Genesis in the early 1970s to cutting-edge performances by the Clash and Blondie later that decade; and from numerous Marillion shows recorded at the venue to Kasabian's triumphant homecoming gigs in the 2000s, the Hall's stage has been graced by the famous and influential alike. Goin' Down De Mont tells the story of that history through the eyes of those who were there to witness it. Within its lavishly illustrated pages, you'll find - Over 270 stories from over 160 shows from 1958 to the present day- Stories by Ian Hunter (Mott the Hoople), Steve Hackett (Genesis), Kathy Bushnell (Emily Muff ), Baz Warne (The Stranglers) and Leicester's very own Rich Barton (Diesel Park West), Jon Lord (Deep Purple, Whitesnake), Tom Meighan (Kasabian), Roger Chapman (Family), Tony Byker (Gaye Bykers on Acid) and Dave Bartram (Showaddywaddy)- Over 70 never-before-seen onstage photographs taken at the Hall, many in full colour- Pictures of memorabilia, including signed programmes, backstage passes and ticket stubs- A comprehensive gigography listing almost 1,000 shows- A discography of all the known, legitimate live recordings made at the Hall
The Piano Magic Touch
LIONEL BOWMANFor over half a century, pianist Lionel Bowman brought exhilaration, inspiration, and enlightenment to an international audience. A crowded, and distinguished career, with innumerable recitals, and concerto appearances - both live and for radio and television broadcast (in, inter alia, France, Britain, Holland, Switzerland, Scandinavia, Turkey, the United States, Israel, and many countries in Africa) - was recognised by election to Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Music, and entry in the New Grove Dictionary as a Beethoven exponent of integrity. Professor Bowman's contribution in this sphere has been immense. At a time when it was not fashionable to do so, he pioneered, in South Africa, the performance of the complete cycle of Beethoven's piano concertos. It was a feat accomplished on five occasions. He did much else in South Africa - more, perhaps, than any other musician before or since - to make the keyboard works of Beethoven accessible to large numbers of people. As well, he gave first performances in that country of works as diverse as Falla's Nights in the Gardens of Spain and Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No 3.More enduringly, perhaps, initially as Senior Lecturer in piano at the University of Stellenbosch, and later as Associate Professor, he earned, as a tireless and inspiring teacher, the gratitude of students on two continents who have been the beneficiaries of his unique guidance. Professor Bowman's contribution to piano pedagogy - the product of a lifetime dedicated to the consideration and resolution of technical keyboard problems - can hardly be exaggerated. Certainly, this has been recognised in Australia where, on numerous occasions, he toured the continent, giving master classes and concerts at, among other institutions, the Universities of Western Australia and Adelaide, the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, and the Western Australian Academy of the Performing Arts. Neville Cohn Music Critic, Argus Cape Town, The West Australian. Official accompanist and music producer, SABC THE AUTHOR Wallace Tate has made a significant contribution throughout a long and distinguished career as a senior examiner, Director of Studies, and later Director of the Australian Music Examinations Board, President of the West Australian Music Teachers' Association, Vice President of the Federation of Australian Music Teachers' Association, and as lecturer, adjudicator, pianist, and piano teacher. He has taught, performed and studied in England and the United States. He has also taught various subjects, including piano performance, for the Department (now School) of Music at the University of Western Australia, and at the WA Academy of Performing Arts. He received the Western Australian Award, on behalf of the National Critics Award Committee, Sydney for services to music in 1975 for originating musical development, particularly among the young.
Platformed! How Streaming, Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence Are Shaping Music Cultures
Grounded in more than a decade of field research, this book uses empirical examples, quantitative data, and qualitative interviews with young music consumers as well as music industry professionals to understand how the platforms behind music production, distribution and listening work in our digital society. Bringing together the perspectives from science and technology studies, media studies, and the political economy of digital platforms, the book outlines the process of mutual construction between music digital platforms and the cultural value of music in today's society, and also reflects on the complicated relationship between the power of platforms and the agency of listeners.
Messiaen in Context
Exploring the many dimensions of Messiaen's life, thought and music, this book provides fresh perspectives on the contexts within which the composer worked, the intellectual currents that influenced him, and the influence he himself exerted on twentieth-century music. It enables a holistic understanding of this 'mondial' French composer in relation to the wider world, including his engagement with and refiguration of theology through music, the performance and reception of his work, the ways in which his aesthetics and conceptual universe have been understood by his students, and how his legacy continues to evolve. Reappraising known facts and adding new interpretations from a variety of inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary viewpoints, Messiaen in Context provides a fresh understanding and engagement with one of the most significant musicians of the twentieth century.
Simple Pop Songs - The Easiest Easy Piano Songs - Sheet Music with Lyrics
(Easy Piano Songbook). This big collection lets even beginners play 50 hit songs from today's top artists including BTS, Billie Eilish, Glass Animals, Selena Gomez, Halsey, Dua Lipa, Post Malone, Olivia Rodrigo, Ed Sheeran, Harry Styles, Taylor Swift, and more. Each song is presented in the easiest of arrangements for piano and include lyrics, perfect for sight-reading practice. Songs include: All Too Well * Bad Liar * Better Days * Better Now * Blinding Lights * Break My Heart * Close to Me * Cold Heart (PNAU Remix) * Dance Monkey * Drivers License * Easy on Me * Everything I Wanted * Heat Waves * Holy * If I Didn't Love You * Kings & Queens * Lose You to Love Me * Love Again * Old Town Road (Remix) * Permission to Dance * Shivers * Someone You Loved * Walk Me Home * Willow * Without Me * Without You * You Say * and more.
Queerbetika
"Queerbetika" is a term used to describe the queering of the genre of rebetika-an urban Greek popular song from the late 19th century to the 1950s-through academic or creative interventions. This book explores queerness and homosexuality in rebetika through its exponents, sites of performance, gay supporters and song lyrics. This is the first study and anthology in either Greek or English to investigate such an important but overlooked theme in the study of this genre.
A Rhythm for Wellbeing
This book reflects on a journey as a shamanic healer and a psychotherapist, and how the integration of psychotherapy and traditional healing methods emerged. It explores an initial training in cognitive behavioural psychotherapy, to gestalt therapy, to body therapy, to energy healing and shamanism, to develop a unified theory. It explores the process by means of a dialogue between a psychotherapist, a shamanic healer, an academic and an integrative therapist. This is placed in a dialogue within the therapist herself. Later chapters give examples of the unified theory in practice, including both individual and in group settings. Opening and closing chapters contextualise the work in the context of developments on the internet in the areas of wellbeing and therapeutic practices drawing on different cultures.
Music Glocalization and the Composer
Music Glocalization and the Composer: The Case of Franz Xaver Scharwenka (1850-1924) examines the life, milieu, and music of composer Franz Xaver Scharwenka. Mikolaj Rykowski argues that Scharwenka held the ability to function on a global scale relatively early in music history, founding conservatories in Berlin and New York, becoming one of the first artists to record music using cutting-edge audio technology of his time, namely the Welte-Mignon rolls, and by staging his own opera at The Met. Using a relatively new methodological perspective called music glocalization, Rykowski enables us to explore the composer's cultural roots in Poland and observe how the nineteenth century global sense of nationality influenced his musical output.
Sacred and Secular Intersections in Music of the Long Nineteenth Century
Sacred and Secular Intersections in Music of the Long Nineteenth Century: Church, Stage, and Concert Hall explores interconnections of the sacred and the secular in music and aesthetic debates of the long nineteenth century. The essays in this volume view the category of the sacred not as a monolithic attribute that applies only to music written for and performed in a religious ritual. Rather, the "sacred" is viewed as a functional as well as a topical category that enhances the discourse of cross-pollination of musical vocabularies between sacred and secular compositions, church and concert music. Using a variety of methodological approaches, the contributors articulate how sacred and religious identities coalesce, reconcile, fuse, or intersect in works from the long nineteenth century that traverse an array of genres and compositional styles.
Villa-Lobos and Modernism
Villa-Lobos and Modernism: The Apotheosis of Cannibal Music provides a new assessment of the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos in terms of his contributions to the Modernist Movement of the twentieth century. In this profound study, Ricardo Averbach elevates Cultural Cannibalism as a major manifestation of the Modernist aesthetics and Villa-Lobos as its top exponent in the music field. Villa-Lobos's anthropophagic appetite for multiple opposing aesthetics enlightens through the juxtaposition of contradictory elements, leaving a legacy of unmatched originality, a glittering kaleidoscope of sounds that draw from the radical power of Josephine Baker to the outrageous extravagance of Carmen Miranda, from Dada to Einstein's counterintuitive scientific findings, from folklorism to atonality. The constructed analyses use the works of Stravinsky as a familiar and popular touchstone for accessing Villa-Lobos as the leading exponent of an aesthetic movement that has been neglected due to a traditional Eurocentric view of Modernism. Averbach opens up new possibilities for the study of twentieth-century music, in general, while unveiling how much our present aesthetics owes to the Modernist ideas introduced by the Brazilian composer.
Streaming Music, Streaming Capital
In Streaming Music, Streaming Capital, Eric Drott analyzes the political economy of online music streaming platforms. Attentive to the way streaming has reordered the production, circulation, and consumption of music, Drott examines key features of this new musical economy, including the roles played by data collection, playlisting, new methods of copyright enforcement, and the calculation of listening metrics. Yet because streaming underscores how uneasily music sits within existing regimes of private property, its rise calls for a broader reconsideration of music's complex and contradictory relation to capitalism. Drott's analysis is not simply a matter of how music is formatted in line with dominant measures of economic value; equally important is how music eludes such measures, a situation that threatens to reduce music to a cheap, abundant resource. By interrogating the tensions between streaming's benefits and pitfalls, Drott sheds light on music's situation within digital capitalism, from growing concentrations of monopoly power and music's use in corporate surveillance to issues of musical value, labor, and artist pay.
For the Love of Music
For almost 200 years, wind bands and wind band musicians were the pre-eminent form of large instrumental ensemble performance practice in Canada. From the earliest documented evidence of a "band of music" in 1770 Halifax to the post-World War II explosion of curricular school band programs across the country, bands were a genuine expression of popular musical culture. They attracted the best musicians in the villages, towns and cities they called home and ranged in ability from ensembles barely beyond the beginner stage to professional organizations, like the Anglo-Canadian Leather Company Band, that were internationally renowned.More importantly, those that performed in and led these groups also served as our first music infrastructure. They became music teachers, instrument importers, sheet music distributors and concert promoters. It was through their efforts that the foundations were laid for our present-day symphony orchestras, operatic societies, conservatories and music schools. Some of these musical pioneers were also composers. They created a small body of wind-band literature, often written for their own ensembles, that reflected the highest compositional standards of their time.The present volume, richly illustrated with historical photographs and musical examples, is a long-overdue attempt to document the story of Canada's wind bands and the Canadian music they played.
Neumatic Integration & Interpretation a Theory In Musicology Resource Guide
Today it will have been more than three centuries before the unveiling of what is called the "Lost Harmonics". In many ways, this was her calling or moreover the great commission; and there she wrestled with the idea to define that which was lost until now; and like a dream that cometh in the night there she would unearth the ensuing sounds of the Minor 2nd chords and the one called the 10th. But, she would be remiss without the 12th and that of the 14th for these are the lost harmonics. Suddenly would emerge out from the cloud with Soundwave Technology.
Streaming Music, Streaming Capital
In Streaming Music, Streaming Capital, Eric Drott analyzes the political economy of online music streaming platforms. Attentive to the way streaming has reordered the production, circulation, and consumption of music, Drott examines key features of this new musical economy, including the roles played by data collection, playlisting, new methods of copyright enforcement, and the calculation of listening metrics. Yet because streaming underscores how uneasily music sits within existing regimes of private property, its rise calls for a broader reconsideration of music's complex and contradictory relation to capitalism. Drott's analysis is not simply a matter of how music is formatted in line with dominant measures of economic value; equally important is how music eludes such measures, a situation that threatens to reduce music to a cheap, abundant resource. By interrogating the tensions between streaming's benefits and pitfalls, Drott sheds light on music's situation within digital capitalism, from growing concentrations of monopoly power and music's use in corporate surveillance to issues of musical value, labor, and artist pay.
Performing Folk Songs
Performing Folk Songs is the first full-length volume to explore English folk singing from the perspective of performance studies. Using archival sources, family repertoire and recorded performances of interviewees, this book argues that archives and repertoires are produced in sensory environments and through embodied encounters. Autoethnography, sensory ethnography, life-writing and landscape writing are used to explore the affective and emotional aspects of learning songs 'by heart'. Drawing on her experience as a folk singer, Bennett contributes to discourse on English folk traditions in the 21st century and brings performance scholarship to the contemporary folk song resurgence. In analyzing the performance of English folk songs in the affective context of the archive and the landscape, the book engages with and contributes original insights to scholarship on folk music, performance studies, affect theory, cultural geography and intangible cultural heritage studies.
Bob Marley and the Wailers
Explore the entire, incredible journey of Bob Marley and the Wailers, and their enduring legacy, in this unique visual history. More than four decades after Marley's death, he and his bandmates remain the most famous reggae artists of all time--and one of the most famous bands of all time, period.Illustrated with photos and memorabilia from all phases of their journey, Bob Marley and the Wailers illuminates the lives and times of the man and his collaborators. Their evolution from early-'60s Jamaican ska act to international superstars was not just improbable, but unprecedented for an act from an underdeveloped country. As you make your way through the band's story, you will see the crucial role they played in establishing reggae as a globally popular form of music, and the influence that the Rastafari movement had on their lives and sound; plus, how Marley's socially conscious lyrics and actions made him a universal symbol of pride and justice. This beautifully designed volume includes: A complete history of the band, right up to Marley's untimely death in 1981, and his continuing influence todayFantastic performance and candid off-stage photographyImages of rare memorabiliaSidebars from a roster of respected music journalistsCoverage of the 2024 Bob Marley biopic One LoveThis is the definitive illustrated biography of Bob Marley and the Wailers--a must-have for every fan of the world music legend.
Faur矇 Studies
Faur矇 Studies showcases new research from leading scholars in the United States, United Kingdom, and France into this influential French composer of the fin de si癡cle. This book features interpretations of individual works and musical analyses, as well as studies of compositional pedagogy, social history, and aesthetics. Accessible to a wide range of readers, this volume also provides a valuable overview of Faur矇 research from the composer's lifetime to the present. As part of Cambridge Composer Studies, Faur矇 Studies adds momentum to new research into this major composer, which includes recently launched critical editions of his music.
Cultivated by Hand
Scattered in archives and historical societies across the United States are hundreds of volumes of manuscript music, copied by hand by eighteenth-century amateurs. Often overlooked, amateur music making played a key role in the construction of gender, class, race, and nation in the post-revolution years of the United States. These early Americans, seeking ways to present themselves as genteel, erudite, and pious, saw copying music by hand and performing it in intimate social groups as a way to make themselvescode--/codeand their new nationcode--/codeappear culturally sophisticated. Following a select group of amateur musicians, Cultivated by Hand makes the case that amateur music making was both consequential to American culture of the eighteenth century and aligned with other forms of self-fashioning. This interdisciplinary study explores the social and material practices of amateur music making, analyzing the materiality of manuscripts, tracing the lives of individual musicians, and uncovering their musical tastes and sensibilities. Author Glenda Goodman explores highly personal yet often denigrated experiences of musically "accomplished" female amateurs in particular, who grappled with finding a meaningful place in their lives for music. Revealing the presence of these unacknowledged subjects in music history, Cultivated by Hand reclaims the importance of such work and presents a class of musicians whose labors should be taken into account.
Relaxing Piano
Welcome to "Relaxing Piano Music," a captivating compilation of carefully selected piano solo pieces crafted by composer Juliano. Each composition in this book is designed to evoke a sense of tranquility, introspection, and meditation, making it perfect for both intermediate and advanced piano players seeking to immerse themselves in a musical journey of serenity. Whether you seek solace in the soothing melodies or aspire to enchant others with your performance, "Relaxing Piano Music" offers a profound and enriching musical endeavor. Each piece reflects Juliano's diverse compositional style, encompassing elements of Neo-classical, classical, and cinematic music. Embark on a musical odyssey that transcends boundaries and touches the soul.
U2’s Songs of Trauma and Hope
In U2's Songs of Trauma and Hope: "Between the Midnight and the Dawning", Ingunn R繪ysland and Charles Ivan Armstrong show that trauma is an important theme for U2. While this leads the band to confront extreme instances of grief and suffering, this does not prevent them to cross (in the words of their song "A Sort of Homecoming") "the fields of mourning to a light that's in the distance." Theories from trauma and memory studies are deployed in the examination of song lyrics and performances by U2, spanning from the early days of the band to more recent times. In their exploration of light and dark, of hope and trauma within the U2 catalogue, R繪ysland and Armstrong acknowledge the complexity of the songs, addressing different layers, including romantic as well as divine allegory. The authors also address the band's troublesome lyrics, with an entire chapter devoted to "Sunday Bloody Sunday," as well as the role of multidirectional memory and significant places, so-called lieux de m矇moire, in U2's dealings with a ranger of historical conflicts and crises. They further examine how music plays an important part in the path of healing from traumatic wounds, analysing the reception of the songs. Ultimately, it is suggested, U2 shows us how to get "through the night."
The Music of the How to Train Your Dragon Trilogy
One of the many reasons why children and adults love the How to Train Your Dragon films is the music. John Powell composed the music for all three films, maintaining thematic consistency while writing new themes for each film. This book serves as a score guide for the How to Train Your Dragon trilogy. Every note has been examined to thoroughly discuss the music for Hiccup, Toothless and the other dragons, Vikings, and the enemies and friends that they encounter. It features interviews with the composer and nearly 100 musical excerpts.
Listening After Nature
Listening After Nature examines the constructions and erasures that haunt field recording practice and discourse. Analyzing archival and contemporary soundworks through a combination of post-colonial, ecological and sound studies scholarship, Mark Peter Wright recodes the Field; troubles conceptions of Nature; expands site-specificity; and unearths hidden technocultures. What exists beyond the signal? How is agency performed and negotiated between humans and nonhumans? What exactly is a field recording and what are its pedagogical potentials? These questions are operated by a methodology of listening that incorporates the spaces of audition, as well as Wright's own practice-based reflections. In doing so, Listening After Nature posits a range of novel interventions. One example is the "Noisy-Nonself," a conceptual figuration with which to comprehend the presence of reticent recordists. "Contact Zones and Elsewhere Fields" offers another unique contribution by reimagining the relationship between the field and studio. In the final chapter, Wright explores the microphone by tracing its critical and creative connections to natural resource extraction and contemporary practice. Listening After Nature auditions water and waste, infrastructures and animals, technologies and recordists, data and stars. It grapples with the thresholds of sensory perception and anchors itself to the question: what am I not hearing? In doing so, it challenges Western universalisms that code the field whilst offering vibrant practice-based possibilities.
Laiyah The Ladybug
Sweet.Relatable.Easy to read.A ladybug is a small and gentle. Laiyah the Ladybug is set on taking small steps to make bigdifferences.She's there to help children.She's there to calm animals.And she's there to give hope to parents.But are all her noble efforts just that or can we learn something for tiny Ladybug?Join Laiyah as she meets humans and animals alike going through challenges that every childand adult can relate to. She will teach you how to manage them all and the reveal the secret to happiness.
A Dance Book
This book works as a tool to ignite and trigger the creative potential of those invested in pursuing a physical exploration in dance and improvisation. It introduces a newly developed method of my own, the "X method", who's sole purpose is to ease and facilitate a fun and enjoyable, but also rich and meaningful, accessible way to experience and explore the moving the body in guided improvisation and to enjoy Dance.If you dance as an enthusiast, student, teacher, professional, choreographer, or simply a curious person that likes to explore the body in motion, than this book is definitely for you.This method was developed to help its user in a way that they can channel the flow oft heir creativity, from and to; dancers, choreographers, physical artists, circus performers, etc... and others alike that in their explorations, end up spending long hours in the studio researching movement.I developed this method so that this studio time could become extremely productive but also fun, intuitive, playful, and at the same time, deep and meaningful for all those involved. Everyone can benefit from it, as it is an easy way to allow for creativity to spawn. Weather from yourself, your dancers, physical performers or others involved, you'll be able to bring the outcome of your work with this method, as a new element that you can add to the pallet of your creative process.Another thing you can expect from this method, is that it allows for a shared creative journey, one that becomes an interchanging collaboration of engagement, where everyone feels involved and a part of.
A Dance Book
This book works as a tool to ignite and trigger the creative potential of those invested in pursuing a physical exploration in dance and improvisation. It introduces a newly developed method of my own, the "X method", who's sole purpose is to ease and facilitate a fun and enjoyable, but also rich and meaningful, accessible way to experience and explore the moving the body in guided improvisation and to enjoy Dance.If you dance as an enthusiast, student, teacher, professional, choreographer, or simply a curious person that likes to explore the body in motion, than this book is definitely for you.This method was developed to help its user in a way that they can channel the flow oft heir creativity, from and to; dancers, choreographers, physical artists, circus performers, etc... and others alike that in their explorations, end up spending long hours in the studio researching movement.I developed this method so that this studio time could become extremely productive but also fun, intuitive, playful, and at the same time, deep and meaningful for all those involved. Everyone can benefit from it, as it is an easy way to allow for creativity to spawn. Weather from yourself, your dancers, physical performers or others involved, you'll be able to bring the outcome of your work with this method, as a new element that you can add to the pallet of your creative process.Another thing you can expect from this method, is that it allows for a shared creative journey, one that becomes an interchanging collaboration of engagement, where everyone feels involved and a part of.
Rameau
New Edition, revised and updated, with colour illustrations. The previous edition was consulted by Donald Macleod and referenced during his episodes on Rameau for BBC Radio 3's Composer of the Week in 2022. Graham Sadler, Shirley Thompson and Jonathan Williams, editors of The Operas of Rameau, published by Routledge in 2022, cited it as a 'substantial biography'.Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) was both the greatest French composer and the most influential scientist of music of the 18th century. His personality was as complex and as singular as his music and his ideas. When he finally achieved fame as an opera composer he polarised Parisian society like no other artistic figure of his time.Simon Trowbridge's book is the first general study of Rameau's life and work to be published in English in over half a century. It is both an elegant introduction to Rameau and an exploration of his significance as a major figure in the cultural and intellectual life of Paris during the middle decades of the 18th century. Rameau emerges as a musician who was politically as well as artistically radical, an often paradoxical figure who worked within the official realms of the Op矇ra and the court but who remained his own man.
Robert Schumann and Richard Wagner as Music Critics
The music reviews of Robert Schumann and Richard Wagner are central documents of 19th-century German musical culture. This book takes a closer look at the way these texts were written and explores the significant contributions Schumann and Wagner made to the discourse of musical appraisal. To that effect, the author raises fundamental questions that have thus far remained unaddressed: What textual features characterize the critical writings? How do Schumann and Wagner understand their roles as critics of music? And in what way do they reach out to the reader? Rather than understanding these critical writings exclusively as a gateway to the compositions and musical aesthetics of Schumann and Wagner, this book analyzes the texts through the lens of pragmatics, narratology and discourse analysis. Using this interdisciplinary perspective, the author proposes to understand Schumann and Wagner within the broader medial and discursive context of German 'Kritik'. He challenges the dominant narrative that brands Schumann and Wagner as elitist Romantic critics, demonstrating instead that they actively encourage their readers to form their own judgements. This volume is an indispensable resource for scholars of German literature, periodicals and music alike.
Music in Medieval Rituals for the End of Life
For centuries of European history, singing for a person at the moment of death was considered to be the ideal accompaniment to a life's ending. In Music in Medieval Rituals for the End of Life, author Elaine Stratton Hild examines and recovers the chants sung for the dying during the Middle Ages, beginning in the late eighth century. Along with the first editions of these melodies, she offers considerations of the functions that music played within the deathbed rituals, arguing that the chants served as vehicles with which communities offered comfort to a dying person. The book presents close readings of rituals from diverse communities, each as they appear in a single source. The rituals' chants are transcribed into modern notation and analyzed, both for their text-music relationships and for their functions within the rituals. Hild shows that within the widespread practice, local versions of the liturgies--along with their chant repertories--remained unstandardized throughout the Middle Ages. Yet some commonalities are evident among these varied local practices. One is the use of song. Beginning in the ninth century, sources most often prescribe chant, not the Eucharist, for the final moments of life. Another commonality is the positive depiction of the afterlife conveyed by the chants. Created for the powerful and the poor, the educated and the uneducated, women and men, monastics, clerics, and laity, these manuscripts offer a glimpse into the religious practices that distinguished communities from one another and also bound them together within a single tradition.
The Creation of Beethoven’s Nine Symphonies
Offers a unique investigation of the composition of the entire corpus of Beethoven's symphonies, reconstructing their creation through the most extensive study of Beethoven's sketches yet. Beethoven's nine symphonies are a cornerstone of Western classical music and have revolutionised it. Composers succeeding Beethoven found their output measured against this master's work. But how did his symphonies come into being and how did they reach their final form? These are the questions this book seeks to answer. Barry Cooper has been one of the leading advocates of the need for extensive studies of Beethoven's sketches, and we see him here applying his usual investigative rigour to the study of the symphonies. For most of the symphonies the sketches have not previously been fully examined. In contrast, Cooper's book provides a much deeper exploration of these sketches, along with autograph scores, corrected copies and first editions, while the Beethoven correspondence offers additional information on the first publication and performances of the symphonies. The result is a clear overview of the creation of each symphony in turn, placed within the context of musical life in Beethoven's Vienna. Another strand of the investigation covers Beethoven's unfinished symphonies and how they helped to provide the fertile soil from which the finished ones grew. Most of those did not progress beyond a few bars, but two, known as No. 0 and No. 10, were sketched extensively. This book therefore offers a unique investigation of the composition of the entire corpus of Beethoven's symphonies, reconstructing their creation from Beethoven's rather than posterity's viewpoint.
Dylan, Lennon, Marx and God
Bob Dylan and John Lennon are two of the most iconic names in popular music. Dylan is arguably the twentieth century's most important singer-songwriter. Lennon was founder and leader of the Beatles who remain, by some margin, the most covered songwriters in history. While Dylan erased the boundaries between pop and poetry, Lennon and his band transformed the genre's creative potential. The parallels between the two men are striking but underexplored. This book addresses that lack. Jon Stewart discusses Dylan's and Lennon's relationship; their politics; their understanding of history; and their deeply held spiritual beliefs. In revealing how each artist challenged the restrictive social norms of their day, the author shows how his subjects asked profound moral questions about what it means to be human and how we should live. His book is a potent meditation and exploration of two emblematic figures whose brilliance changed Western music for a generation.
21st-century’s Most Inspirational Songs
What matters is how music affects you; it doesn't matter what kind of music inspires you. Your eyes may open and your mind may become more deeply engaged when listening to music. You can be energised, kept company, and otherwise void moments filled by music.Maybe you're entangled in tangles in your life. You can use music to get through the day, decompress, find solutions to your problems, and simply clear your mind. You might be motivated to confront it again one day.Maybe music can heal. The proper music has the power to transport you to a place of awe and devotion, to take you beyond reality and send you gliding with the angels. It might inspire optimism, spark your creativity, and enable you to change your
Unspooled
Well into the new millennium, the analog cassette tape continues to claw its way back from obsolescence. New cassette labels emerge from hipster enclaves while the cassette's likeness pops up on T-shirts, coffee mugs, belt buckles, and cell phone cases. In Unspooled, Rob Drew traces how a lowly, hissy format that began life in office dictation machines and cheap portable players came to be regarded as a token of intimate expression through music and a source of cultural capital. Drawing on sources ranging from obscure music zines to transcripts of Congressional hearings, Drew examines a moment in the early 1980s when music industry representatives argued that the cassette encouraged piracy. At the same time, 1980s indie rock culture used the cassette as a symbol to define itself as an outsider community. Indie's love affair with the cassette culminated in the mixtape, which advanced indie's image as a gift economy. By telling the cassette's long and winding history, Drew demonstrates that sharing cassettes became an acceptable and meaningful mode of communication that initiated rituals of independent music recording, re-recording, and gifting.
Liszt in Context
Liszt in Context explores the political, social, philosophical and professional currents that surrounded Franz Liszt and illuminates the competing forces that influenced his music. Liszt was immersed in the religious, political and cultural debates of his day, and moved between institutions, places, and social circles with ease. All of this makes for a rich contextual tapestry against which Liszt composed some of the most iconic, popular, and also contentious music of the nineteenth century. His significance and astonishing reach cannot be over-stated, and his presence in nineteenth-century European culture, and his continuing influence into the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, are overwhelming. The focus on context, reception, and legacy that this volume provides reveals the multifaceted nature of Liszt's impact during his lifetime and beyond.
Rock Guitar Virtuosos
The guitar has been an integral part of popular music and mainstream culture for many decades and in many places of the world. This Element examines the development and current state of virtuosic rock guitar in terms of playing, technology, and culture. Supported by technological advances such as extended-range guitars, virtuosos in the twenty-first century are exploring ways to expand standard playing techniques in a climate where ever-higher levels of perfection are expected. As musician-entrepreneurs, contemporary rock guitar virtuosos record, produce, and market their music themselves; operate equipment companies; and sell merchandise, tablature, and lessons online. For their social media channels, they regularly create videos and interact with their followers while having to balance building their tribe and finding the time to develop their craft to stay competitive. For a virtuoso, working situations have changed considerably since the last century; the aloof rock star has been replaced by the approachable virtuoso-guitarist-composerinnovator-producer-promoter-YouTuber-teacher-entrepreneur.
Unspooled
Well into the new millennium, the analog cassette tape continues to claw its way back from obsolescence. New cassette labels emerge from hipster enclaves while the cassette's likeness pops up on T-shirts, coffee mugs, belt buckles, and cell phone cases. In Unspooled, Rob Drew traces how a lowly, hissy format that began life in office dictation machines and cheap portable players came to be regarded as a token of intimate expression through music and a source of cultural capital. Drawing on sources ranging from obscure music zines to transcripts of Congressional hearings, Drew examines a moment in the early 1980s when music industry representatives argued that the cassette encouraged piracy. At the same time, 1980s indie rock culture used the cassette as a symbol to define itself as an outsider community. Indie's love affair with the cassette culminated in the mixtape, which advanced indie's image as a gift economy. By telling the cassette's long and winding history, Drew demonstrates that sharing cassettes became an acceptable and meaningful mode of communication that initiated rituals of independent music recording, re-recording, and gifting.
Autobiographical Recollections of Charles-Marie Widor (1844-1937)
The last of the Romantics, Widor narrated his recollections in 1936, bringing to life his diverse experiences from the time of Louis Philippe to the cusp of World War II. Widor's Toccata is the most famous organ piece composed in the past three hundred years--since Bach's ubiquitous Toccata in D Minor. Linked inseparably with the organ through his ten seminal organ symphonies and legendary sixty-four years as organist at Saint-Sulpice, Widor drew crowds of doting admirers from all walks of life around himself and Cavaill矇-Coll's great organ of one hundred stops. It is apparent throughout these "Autobiographical Recollections" that Widor was well-connected, moving with ease among the intelligentsia, presidents, politicians, royalty, nobility, patrons, and artists. A keen observer and a man of sophistication and extraordinary erudition, Widor was an all-embracing musician and notable historical figure who led an active life beyond his famous organ gallery. As permanent secretary of the Academy of Fine-Arts, he was the cultural ambassador of France for more than twenty years. Few musicians of any era have had a broader experience, wider sphere of influence, and greater number of significant and varied accomplishments. Preceded by a comprehensive Preface, these "Autobiographical Recollections," narrated in the last months of Widor's life, are translated into English for the first time, meticulously edited, and profusely annotated. The persons, political details, and historical events that Widor spoke of with great fluency are identified in notes that give the reader a full understanding of the narrative. Several appendixes and a trove of hitherto unpublished photos illuminate the text.
Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Adulthood and Aging
In a recording, what sounds count as music? Sounds made by a musician's body--including inhales, finger taps, and grunts--have for decades been dismissed as extraneous noises. In Sounds as They Are: The unwritten music in classical recordings, author Richard Beaudoin pioneers a field of inquiry into non-notated sounds in recordings of classical music, recognizing often-overlooked sounds made by the bodies of performers and their recording equipment as music. Beaudoin classifies such sounds via inclusive track analysis (ITA), a bold new theory based on a comprehensive census of audible events on a given recording, and then codifies their musical function. He builds a typology across four large categories: sounds of breath (inhaling and exhaling), sounds of touch (guitar squeaks, piano pedals), sounds of effort (grunting and moaning), and surface noise (on early recording formats). Breaths are shown to be as complex and diverse as chords. Touch sounds create empathy with listeners. Effortful vocalizations reveal connections between music-making and sex. The measurement of surface noise reveals moments of synchronization with the meter of the recorded piece. He draws analogies between unwritten music and painting, photography, poetry, psychology, and government. The book's methodology is intertwined with the aesthetics and ethics of non-notated sounds: who is allowed to make them, and how they are received by listeners, critics, and scholars. Beaudoin uncovers insidious inequalities across music studies and the recording industry, including the silencing of body and breath sounds along lines of gender and race. Sounds as They Are demonstrates the expressive, interpretive, and embodied possibilities that emerge when all sounds are valued coequally and asks music theory to face a simple truth: that all sounds deserve recognition.
Music and Astronomy
This book explores the profound and ancient relationship between music and astronomy. Throughout history, Music has occupied a significant place among the disciplines of the Quadrivium, which also include Geometry, Arithmetic, and Astronomy. The captivating bond between these two realms has not only inspired eminent scientists like Kepler, Newton, and Einstein, but has also captured the imagination of NASA and astronauts in modern times. The author delves into various aspects of the intersection between music and astronomy, encompassing everything from ancient cosmological beliefs to groundbreaking discoveries such as the cosmic background radiation and gravitational waves. This enthralling theme has not only stimulated renowned artists like David Bowie and Elton John, but has also served as a muse for movies like Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Within the book, readers will find an extensive photo gallery and a specially curated soundtrack that enhances the reading experience. It caters to a broad audience, appealing to those with a general interest in both music and astronomy, as well as to specialized individuals in either field of study.
How To Play The Guitar Properly In 12 Weeks
Michael Macdonald is a classically trained musician who has studied and taught the guitar for more than 30 years. He has developed this programme to teach complete beginners how to play the guitar properly.At the end of the 12 weeks, having worked through the lessons and accompanying video tutorials, you will be able to confidently perform 4 pieces of music from start to finish: a 12-bar blues song, a rock song, a piece of traditional flamenco music and a classical guitar composition.Each piece has been chosen to teach the essential techniques and knowledge required for your continued learning: You will play with and without a plectrum, play basic chords fluently, learn the names of the notes and chords on the guitar and how to tune it.You will strum various different rhythms as well as pick melodies.You will learn the theory and style behind each piece with the guitar in your hand, and you will build a solid foundation on which to continue learning and spend the rest of your life proudly calling yourself a guitarist.
The Guidebook to Self-Releasing Your Music
The Guidebook to Self-Releasing Your Music is a must-have resource for anyone looking to release their music-equally valuable for first timers as well as for seasoned experts who want the latest information on technology and industry developments. Matthew Whiteside focuses on the areas that musicians can manage themselves, and highlights-with humour and encouragement-the potential benefits and pitfalls along the way.
Sounding Human
An expansive analysis of the relationship between human and machine in music. From the mid-eighteenth century on, there was a logic at work in musical discourse and practice: human or machine. That discourse defined a boundary of absolute difference between human and machine, with a recurrent practice of parsing "human" musicality from its "merely mechanical" simulations. In Sounding Human, Deirdre Loughridge tests and traverses these boundaries, unmaking the "human or machine" logic and seeking out others, better characterized by conjunctions such as and or with. Sounding Human enters the debate on posthumanism and human-machine relationships in music, exploring how categories of human and machine have been continually renegotiated over the centuries. Loughridge expertly traces this debate from the 1737 invention of what became the first musical android to the creation of a "sound wave instrument" by a British electronic music composer in the 1960s, and the chopped and pitched vocals produced by sampling singers' voices in modern pop music. From music-generating computer programs to older musical instruments and music notation, Sounding Human shows how machines have always actively shaped the act of music composition. In doing so, Loughridge reveals how musical artifacts have been--or can be--used to help explain and contest what it is to be human.
