Musical Concerns

Author : Jerrold Levinson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191648426
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Musical Concerns written by Jerrold Levinson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-04-02 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a new collection of essays, all of them dealing with music, by Jerrold Levinson, one of the most prominent philosophers of art today. It follows in the line of Levinson's earlier collections, Music, Art, and Metaphysics (1990), The Pleasures of Aesthetics (1996), and Contemplating Art (2006), and is representative of the most stimulating work being done under the rubric of analytic aesthetics. The essays, which are wide-ranging, should appeal to aestheticians, philosophers, musicologists, music theorists, music critics and music lovers of all kinds. Three of the twelve essays comprising the volume have not previously been published, and in somewhat of a departure for Levinson, four of the essays focus on music in the jazz tradition.

Author : Jerrold Levinson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019966966X
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Musical Concerns written by Jerrold Levinson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a new collection of essays on music by Jerrold Levinson, one of the most prominent philosophers of art today. The essays are wide-ranging and represent some of the most stimulating work being done within analytic aesthetics. Three of the essays are previously unpublished, and four of them focus on music in the jazz tradition.

Author : William L. Cahn
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415972819
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creative Music Making written by William L. Cahn and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most musicians focus on learning technique (learning how to play an instrument), rather than on developing an individual, unique voice. Creative Music Making focuses on the creative development of musicians from all levels of experience and in all styles of music. Based on the author's experience leading workshops for performers around the world, the easy-to-follow exercises in this text will enable any musician--from beginner to professional--to improve creativity and self-expression. Creative Music Making will open the ears of all musicians, vocalists or instrumentalists, in classical, popular, or jazz styles, to a world of new possibilities.

Author : Nikos Ordoulidis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501369458
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Musical Nationalism, Despotism and Scholarly Interventions in Greek Popular Music written by Nikos Ordoulidis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the relationship between Greek Orthodox ecclesiastical music and laiko (popular) song in Greece. Laiko music was long considered a lesser form of music in Greece, with rural folk music considered serious enough to carry the weight of the ideologies founded within the establishment of the contemporary Greek state. During the 1940s and 1950s, a selective exoneration of urban popular music took place, one of its most popular cases being the originating relationships between two extremely popular musical pieces: Vasilis Tsitsanis's “Synnefiasmeni Kyriaki” (Cloudy Sunday) and its descent from the hymn “Ti Ypermacho” (The Akathist Hymn). During this period the connection of these two pieces was forged in the Modern Greek conscience, led by certain key figures in the authority system of the scholarly world. Through analysis of these pieces and the surrounding contexts, Ordoulidis explores the changing role and perception of popular music in Greece.

Author : James Green
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aristotle's Musical Problems written by James Green and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Musical Times and Singing-class Circular written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Aysegul Durakoglu
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527583724
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nietzsche and Music written by Aysegul Durakoglu and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2022-06-24 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) was not only a philosopher who loved and wrote about music; he was also a musician, pianist, and composer. In this ground-breaking volume, philosophers, historians, musicians, and musicologists come together to explore Nietzsche’s thought and music in all its complexity. Starting from the role that music played in the formation and articulation of Nietzsche’s thought, as well as the influence that contemporary composers had on him, the essays provide an in-depth analysis of the structural and stylistic aspects of his compositions. The volume highlights the significance of music in Nietzsche’s life and looks deeply at his musical experiments which led to a new and radically different style of composition in relation with his philosophical thought. It also traces the influence that Nietzsche had on many other musicians and musical genres, from Russian composers to current rock music and heavy metal.

Author : Rachael Durkin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000563359
Total Pages : 637 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Music and Modern Literature written by Rachael Durkin and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-05-26 with total page 637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern literature has always been obsessed by music. It cannot seem to think about itself without obsessing about music. And music has returned the favour. The Routledge Companion to Music and Modern Literature addresses this relationship as a significant contribution to the burgeoning field of word and music studies. The 37 chapters within consider the partnership through four lenses—the universal, opera and literature, musical and literary forms, and popular music and literature—and touch upon diverse and pertinent themes for our modern times, ranging from misogyny to queerness, racial inequality to the claimed universality of whiteness. This Companion therefore offers an essential resource for all who try to decode the musico-literary exchange.

Author : Gabriel Solis
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520940962
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Monk's Music written by Gabriel Solis and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-12-05 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thelonious Monk (1917-1982) was one of jazz's greatest and most enigmatic figures. As a composer, pianist, and bandleader, Monk both extended the piano tradition known as Harlem stride and was at the center of modern jazz's creation during the 1940s, setting the stage for the experimentalism of the 1960s and '70s. This pathbreaking study combines cultural theory, biography, and musical analysis to shed new light on Monk's music and on the jazz canon itself. Gabriel Solis shows how the work of this stubbornly nonconformist composer emerged from the jazz world's fringes to find a central place in its canon. Solis reaches well beyond the usual life-and-times biography to address larger issues in jazz scholarship—ethnography and the role of memory in history's construction. He considers how Monk's stature has grown, from the narrowly focused wing of the avant-garde in the 1960s and '70s to the present, where he is claimed as an influence by musicians of all kinds. He looks at the ways musical lineages are created in the jazz world and, in the process, addresses the question of how musicians use performance itself to maintain, interpret, and debate the history of the musical tradition we call jazz.

Author : Peter Pesic
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262027275
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music and the Making of Modern Science written by Peter Pesic and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging exploration of how music has influenced science through the ages, from fifteenth-century cosmology to twentieth-century string theory. In the natural science of ancient Greece, music formed the meeting place between numbers and perception; for the next two millennia, Pesic tells us in Music and the Making of Modern Science, “liberal education” connected music with arithmetic, geometry, and astronomy within a fourfold study, the quadrivium. Peter Pesic argues provocatively that music has had a formative effect on the development of modern science—that music has been not just a charming accompaniment to thought but a conceptual force in its own right. Pesic explores a series of episodes in which music influenced science, moments in which prior developments in music arguably affected subsequent aspects of natural science. He describes encounters between harmony and fifteenth-century cosmological controversies, between musical initiatives and irrational numbers, between vibrating bodies and the emergent electromagnetism. He offers lively accounts of how Newton applied the musical scale to define the colors in the spectrum; how Euler and others applied musical ideas to develop the wave theory of light; and how a harmonium prepared Max Planck to find a quantum theory that reengaged the mathematics of vibration. Taken together, these cases document the peculiar power of music—its autonomous force as a stream of experience, capable of stimulating insights different from those mediated by the verbal and the visual. An innovative e-book edition available for iOS devices will allow sound examples to be played by a touch and shows the score in a moving line.