Music In The Landscape

Author : Em Marshall
Publisher : Robert Hale
ISBN 13 : 9780709084686
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music in the Landscape written by Em Marshall and published by Robert Hale. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Music in the Landscape' is an exuberant celebration of British composers and the landscape. It explores the lives of some of our nation's greatest musical names and sets them within the context of the rich variety of their native countryside.

Author : David Nicholas Buck
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351804960
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Musicology for Landscape written by David Nicholas Buck and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-05-12 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing conceptually and directly on music notation, this book investigates landscape architecture’s inherent temporality. It argues that the rich history of notating time in music provides a critical model for this under-researched and under-theorised aspect of landscape architecture, while also ennobling sound in the sensory appreciation of landscape. A Musicology for Landscape makes available to a wider landscape architecture and urban design audience the works of three influential composers – Morton Feldman, György Ligeti and Michael Finnissy – presenting a critical evaluation of their work within music, as well as a means in which it might be used in design research. Each of the musical scores is juxtaposed with design representations by Kevin Appleyard, Bernard Tschumi and William Kent, before the author examines four landscape spaces through the development of new landscape architectural notations. In doing so, this work offers valuable insights into the methods used by landscape architects for the benefit of musicians, and by bringing together musical composition and landscape architecture through notation, it affords a focused and sensitive exploration of temporality and sound in both fields.

Author : Denise Von Glahn
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252052951
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sounds of Place written by Denise Von Glahn and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Composers like Charles Ives, Duke Ellington, Aaron Copland, and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich created works that indelibly commemorated American places. Denise Von Glahn analyzes the soundscapes of fourteen figures whose "place pieces" tell us much about the nation's search for its own voice and about its ever-changing sense of self. She connects each composer's feelings about the United States and their reasons for creating a piece to the music, while analyzing their compositional techniques, tunes, and styles. Approaching the compositions in chronological order, Von Glahn reveals how works that celebrated the wilderness gave way to music engaged with humanity's influence--benign and otherwise--on the landscape, before environmentalism inspired a return to nature themes in the late twentieth century. Wide-ranging and astute, The Sounds of Place explores high art music's role in the making of national myth and memory.

Author : Richard King
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 057133881X
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lark Ascending written by Richard King and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally from Newport, Gwent, for the last eighteen years Richard King has lived in the hill farming country of Radnosrshire, Powys. He is the author of Original Rockers, which was shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize, and How Soon Is Now?, both published by Faber.

Author : David Grubbs
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822377101
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Records Ruin the Landscape written by David Grubbs and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-03 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Cage's disdain for records was legendary. He repeatedly spoke of the ways in which recorded music was antithetical to his work. In Records Ruin the Landscape, David Grubbs argues that, following Cage, new genres in experimental and avant-garde music in the 1960s were particularly ill suited to be represented in the form of a recording. These activities include indeterminate music, long-duration minimalism, text scores, happenings, live electronic music, free jazz, and free improvisation. How could these proudly evanescent performance practices have been adequately represented on an LP? In their day, few of these works circulated in recorded form. By contrast, contemporary listeners can encounter this music not only through a flood of LP and CD releases of archival recordings but also in even greater volume through Internet file sharing and online resources. Present-day listeners are coming to know that era's experimental music through the recorded artifacts of composers and musicians who largely disavowed recordings. In Records Ruin the Landscape, Grubbs surveys a musical landscape marked by altered listening practices.

Author : Benedict Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108475434
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Music and Romanticism written by Benedict Taylor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stimulating new approach to understanding the relationship between music and culture in the long nineteenth century.

Author : Daniel M. Grimley
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 9781843832102
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grieg written by Daniel M. Grimley and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text examines the role which music and landscape played in the formation of Norwegian cultural identity in the 19th century, and the function that landscape has performed in Edvard Grieg's work. Grieg's work presents several perspectives on the relationships between music, landscape and identity.

Author : Jean Ferris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781264296088
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America's musical landscape written by Jean Ferris and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this book America's Musical Landscape, 9e, basic musical terms and concepts is introduced using selected examples of outstanding American music"--

Author : Frederick Law Olmsted
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Park for Detroit written by Frederick Law Olmsted and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Katie Rios
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793619174
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book “This Is America” written by Katie Rios and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In“This Is America”: Race, Gender, and Politics in America’s Musical Landscape, Katie Rios argues that prominent American artists and musicians build encoded gestures of resistance into their works and challenge the status quo. These artists offer both an interpretation and a critique of what “This Is America” means. Using Childish Gambino’s video for “This Is America” as a starting point, Rios considers how elements including clothing, hairstyles, body movements, gaze, lighting effects, distortion, and word play symbolize American dissonance. From Laurie Anderson’s presence in challenging authority and playing with traditional gender roles in her works, to the Black female feminism and social activism of Beyoncé, Rhiannon Giddens, and Janelle Monáe, to hip hop as resistance in the age of Trump, to sonic and visual variety in the musical Hamilton, the subjects are as powerful as they are topical. Rios explores the ways in which artists relate to and represent underrepresented groups, especially groups that are not traditionally perceived as having a majority voice. The encoded resistances recur across performances and video recordings so that they begin to become recognizable as repeated acts of resistance directed at injustices based on a number of categories, including race, gender, class, religion, and politics.