Distant Melodies

Author : Edward Dusinberre
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226823431
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Distant Melodies written by Edward Dusinberre and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-11-21 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A combination of memoir and music history, Distant Melodies: Music in Search of Home is a journey of exploration by a member of one of the world's leading string quartets into the related ideas of home, displacement, and retreat in the lives and chamber music of four composers: Antonín Dvořák, Edward Elgar, Béla Bartók and Benjamin Britten. Dvórâk, Bartók, and Britten's American experiences, and Elgar's Piano Quintet and the English landscapes that inspired it, provide the author with a means for exploring the ways in which a piece of music may affirm or alter one's sense of home. The life experiences and notions of development and recapitulation in the music of these composers are the subject of a book that grapples with the universal human predicament of how best to balance past, present, and future, to remember faithfully and yet to move forward. Distant Melodies explores the experience of living with a piece of music over time and the ways in which engaging more closely with these composers has changed the author's own perception of home. This is a book for a wide and diverse audience: professional and amateur musicians, musicologists, and those who follow the careers of modern performing musicians, but more broadly for anyone for whom music provides solace and companionship. It helps us to understand how a piece of music and its associations can help us navigate our daily lives"--

Author : BJ Hoff
Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0736934499
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Distant Music written by BJ Hoff and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first book of the Mountain Song Legacy series readers step into a small Kentucky coal mining town in the late 1800's where hope is found in the hearts of two young girls—the vibrant, red-headed Maggie MacAuley and her fragile friend Summer Rankin. When Jonathan Stuart, the latest in a succession of educators, actually wants to continue teaching in the one-room schoolhouse, then Maggie and Summer know that he is special. So when Jonathan's cherished flute is stolen, the girls try to find a way to restore music to his life. Sorrow and joy follow in the days to come, and through it all Maggie, Jonathan, and a community rediscover the gifts of faith, friendship, and unwavering love.

Author : John Mansfield Thomson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Distant Music written by John Mansfield Thomson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1980 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edward Dusinberre
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022682344X
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Distant Melodies written by Edward Dusinberre and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-11-08 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging blend of memoir and music history, Distant Melodies explores the changing ideas of home, displacement, and return through the lives and chamber music of four composers. How does music played and heard over many years inform one’s sense of home? Writing during the COVID-19 pandemic, when travel is forbidden and distance felt anew, Edward Dusinberre, first violinist of the world-renowned Takács Quartet, searches for answers in the music of composers whose relationships to home shaped the pursuit of their craft—Antonín Dvořák, Edward Elgar, Béla Bartók, and Benjamin Britten. Dusinberre has lived abroad for three decades. At the age of 21, he left his native England to pursue music studies at the Juilliard School in New York. Three years later he moved to Boulder, Colorado. Drawn to the stories of Dvořák’s, Bartók’s, and Britten’s American sojourns as they tried to reconcile their new surroundings with nostalgia for their homelands, Dusinberre reflects on his own evolving relationship to England and the idea of home. As he visits and imagines some of the places crucial to these composers’ creative inspiration, Dusinberre also reflects on Elgar’s unusual Piano Quintet and the landscapes that inspired it. Combining travel writing with revealing insights into the working lives of string quartet musicians, Distant Melodies is a moving and humorous meditation on the relationship between music and home.

Author : Thomas Peattie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316298442
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gustav Mahler's Symphonic Landscapes written by Thomas Peattie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-06 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study Thomas Peattie offers a new account of Mahler's symphonies by considering the composer's reinvention of the genre in light of his career as a conductor and more broadly in terms of his sustained engagement with the musical, theatrical, and aesthetic traditions of the Austrian fin de siècle. Drawing on the ideas of landscape, mobility, and theatricality, Peattie creates a richly interdisciplinary framework that reveals the uniqueness of Mahler's symphonic idiom and its radical attitude toward the presentation and ordering of musical events. The book goes on to identify a fundamental tension between the music's episodic nature and its often-noted narrative impulse and suggests that Mahler's symphonic dramaturgy can be understood as a form of abstract theatre.

Author : Daniel Katz
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810116832
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saying I No More written by Daniel Katz and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study argues that the expression of voicelessness in Beckett is not silence. Rather, the negativity and negation so evident in his work are not simply affirmed, but the emptiness can all too easily itself become an affirmation of power.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1014 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music News written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 1014 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gerald Abraham
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571307280
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Russian Music written by Gerald Abraham and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1939, On Russian Music was conceived by Gerald Abraham as a sequel to his earlier Studies in Russian Music (1935, also in Faber Finds), and complements the previous work in many useful respects. Glinka moves to the forefront via close study of both of his operas. A historical account of the composition of Borodin's Prince Igor enriches the critical study made in the first book. And chapters on Mlada and Tsar Saltan round out Abraham's appreciations of the major operas of Rimsky-Korsakov. There are also critical and historical essays on works by Mussorgsky, Dargomïzhsky, Tchaikovsky and other composers, and analyses that, in their time, threw new light on the programmatic meaning of such well-known compositions as Scheherazade and the Path étique symphony. The book is superbly illustrated with music examples throughout.

Author : Charlotte Bingham
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0553813870
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Distant Music written by Charlotte Bingham and published by Random House. This book was released on 2002 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life was tough in England after the Second World War - at least it was for those who were not part of some particular elite, the fabulously wealthy or the tiny coterie of British film and theatre stars. Little wonder then that Elsie Lancaster, the granddaughter of a theatrical landlady, thinks of nothing else but trying to become one of that shining constellation. Surprising therefore, given their very different origins, that Oliver Plunkett shares the same ambition, for his is the pampered background of old money. Groomed from an early age by his father's theatre-mad butler, there is no other world to which Oliver aspires. No such ambition infuses his best friend, the kooky Coco Hampton. Theatre for her is all about costume, costume, costume. That they all become involved with Portly Cosgrove - sometime manager, and soon-to-be-agent - is part of the inevitable flow of theatrical life, as is the fact that they become emotionally entangled with one another. Come success or failure, the music they dance to is the distant music of fame and fortune, a tune which is often dim and, at other times, tantalisingly clear - only to fade once more.

Author : Anne Shaw Faulkner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What We Hear in Music written by Anne Shaw Faulkner and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: