In Search Of A Concrete Music

Author : Pierre Schaeffer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520265734
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Search of a Concrete Music written by Pierre Schaeffer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-11-26 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: A la recherche d'une musique concrete / Pierre Schaeffer. Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1952.

Author : Terence Dwyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Composing with Tape Recorders written by Terence Dwyer and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1971 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Pierre Schaeffer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520967461
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Treatise on Musical Objects written by Pierre Schaeffer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Treatise on Musical Objects is regarded as Pierre Schaeffer’s most important work on music and its relationship with technology. Schaeffer expands his earlier research in musique concrète to suggest a methodology of working with sounds based on his experiences in radio broadcasting and the recording studio. Drawing on acoustics, physics, and physiology, but also on philosophy and the relationship between subject and object, Schaeffer’s essay summarizes his theoretical and practical work in music composition. Translators Christine North and John Dack present an important book in the history of ideas in Europe that will resonate far beyond electroacoustic music.

Author : Guthrie P. Ramsey
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520243331
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Race Music written by Guthrie P. Ramsey and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-11-22 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the vast and various terrain of African American music, this text begins with an account of the author's own musical experiences with family and friends on the South Side of Chicago. It goes on to explore the global influence and social relevance of African American music.

Author : M.S.J Gan
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780412790508
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cement and Concrete written by M.S.J Gan and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1997-05-08 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cement and concrete are of great interest to the construction and civil engineering communities. This study provides an appreciation of the complex nature of these materials and a realization that most of the failures involving concrete constructions are preventable.

Author : Aaron Copland
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101513144
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What to Listen For in Music written by Aaron Copland and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in trade paperback: “The definitive guide to musical enjoyment” (Forum). In this fascinating analysis of how to listen to both contemporary and classical music analytically, eminent American composer Aaron Copland offers provocative suggestions that will bring readers a deeper appreciation of the most viscerally rewarding of all art forms.

Author : Pierre Schaeffer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520265742
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Search of a Concrete Music written by Pierre Schaeffer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-11-26 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suitable for those interested in contemporary musicology or media history, this title offers a translation of the author's pioneering work - at once a journal of his experiments in sound composition and a treatise on the raison d'etre of concrete music.

Author : Anthony Storr
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501122096
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book MUSIC AND THE MIND written by Anthony Storr and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why does music have such a powerful effect on our minds and bodies? It is the most mysterious and most tangible of all forms of art. Yet, Anthony Storr believes, music today is a deeply significant experience for a greater number of people than ever before. In this book, he explores why this should be so. Drawing on a wide variety of opinions, Storr argues that the patterns of music make sense of our inner experience, giving both structure and coherence to our feelings and emotions. It is because music possesses this capacity to restore our sense of personal wholeness in a culture which requires us to separate rational thought from feelings that many people find it so life-enhancing that it justifies existence.

Author : Nadine Hubbs
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520937953
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Queer Composition of America's Sound written by Nadine Hubbs and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-10-18 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this vibrant and pioneering book, Nadine Hubbs shows how a gifted group of Manhattan-based gay composers were pivotal in creating a distinctive "American sound" and in the process served as architects of modern American identity. Focusing on a talented circle that included Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson, Leonard Bernstein, Marc Blitzstein, Paul Bowles, David Diamond, and Ned Rorem, The Queer Composition of America's Sound homes in on the role of these artists' self-identification—especially with tonal music, French culture, and homosexuality—in the creation of a musical idiom that even today signifies "America" in commercials, movies, radio and television, and the concert hall.

Author : Kristen Alvanson
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 1916405231
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book XYZT written by Kristen Alvanson and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genre-defying fiction that accelerates "cross-cultural dialogue" into a kaleidoscopic rush of sensory estrangements, fairy tales, and alien encounters. "There's really no difference between us and them, so we're told…." Based on the author's experiences of living as an American in Iran, Kristen Alvanson's XYZT is a wildly imaginative dramatization of the idea of a "dialogue of civilizations" and its potentially outlandish ramifications. As part of an advanced technological test program, volunteers are shuttled back and forth between the US and Iran, hidden from the watchful eyes of immigration police and state bureaucracies. Each is given a single opportunity to be received by a local host and to have a brief authentic experience of what it means to live as “them” before being transported back home. But far from heralding the bliss of mutual recognition, the experiment unleashes a series of displacements so disorienting that the fabric of reality begins to fray. Ordinary people become entangled in extraordinary situations, and everyday life bleeds into mythological encounters, alternate universes and dark psychedelic journeys in alien lands where the real and the imaginary are indistinguishable. A treasury of tales told from multiple perspectives and in a multiplicity of styles, XYZT is an audacious cross-genre experiment, a firsthand memoir of what it means to see what "they" see, and a science-fictional, nonstandard engagement with anthropology in which cross-cultural encounters take on all the unpredictable features of a contemporary fairy tale.