The Minds Ear

Author : Bruce Adolphe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199937052
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mind's Ear written by Bruce Adolphe and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mind's Ear offers a unique approach to stimulating the musical imagination and inspiring creativity, providing exercises for listeners, performers, and composers in a practical guide that benefits music students at all levels and helps teachers be more effective. Adolphe has written a compelling, valuable guide to the musical imagination.

Author : Bruce Adolphe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197576311
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mind's Ear written by Bruce Adolphe and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-05 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mind's Ear offers a unique approach to stimulating the musical imagination and inspiring creativity, as well as providing detailed exercises aimed at improving the ability to read and imagine music in silence, in the mind's ear. Modelling his exercises on those used in theatre games and acting classes and drawing upon years of experience with improvisation and composition, Bruce Adolphe has written a compelling, valuable, and practical guide to musical creativity that can benefit music students at all levels and help music teachers be more effective and inspiring. This expanded edition offers 34 new exercises inspired by improv comedy, hip-hop sampling and loops, robots, and AI as well as a new section based on Mr. Adolphe's Piano Puzzlers segment on public radio's Performance Today. The book provides provocative ideas and useful tools for professional performers and composers, as well as offering games and exercises to serious listeners that can increase their musical understanding and level of engagement with music in a variety of ways.

Author : Seth S. Horowitz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1608190900
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Universal Sense written by Seth S. Horowitz and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals how the human sense of hearing manipulates how people think, consume, sleep and feel, explaining the hearing science behind such phenomena as why people fall asleep while traveling, the reason fingernails on a chalkboard causes cringing and why songs get stuck in one's head.

Author : J. D. Solomon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780906031025
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mind's Ear written by J. D. Solomon and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Bellos
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0865478724
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Is That a Fish in Your Ear? written by David Bellos and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the Year People speak different languages, and always have. The Ancient Greeks took no notice of anything unless it was said in Greek; the Romans made everyone speak Latin; and in India, people learned their neighbors' languages—as did many ordinary Europeans in times past (Christopher Columbus knew Italian, Portuguese, and Castilian Spanish as well as the classical languages). But today, we all use translation to cope with the diversity of languages. Without translation there would be no world news, not much of a reading list in any subject at college, no repair manuals for cars or planes; we wouldn't even be able to put together flat-pack furniture. Is That a Fish in Your Ear? ranges across the whole of human experience, from foreign films to philosophy, to show why translation is at the heart of what we do and who we are. Among many other things, David Bellos asks: What's the difference between translating unprepared natural speech and translating Madame Bovary? How do you translate a joke? What's the difference between a native tongue and a learned one? Can you translate between any pair of languages, or only between some? What really goes on when world leaders speak at the UN? Can machines ever replace human translators, and if not, why? But the biggest question Bellos asks is this: How do we ever really know that we've understood what anybody else says—in our own language or in another? Surprising, witty, and written with great joie de vivre, this book is all about how we comprehend other people and shows us how, ultimately, translation is another name for the human condition.

Author : David Sulzer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780231193788
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music, Math, and Mind written by David Sulzer and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a lively exploration of the mathematics, physics, and neuroscience that underlie music. Written for musicians and music lovers with any level of science and math proficiency, including none, Music, Math, and Mind demystifies how music works while testifying to its beauty and wonder.

Author : Al Perkins
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0375842799
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ear Book written by Al Perkins and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2008-05-27 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illus. in full color. A boy and his dog listen to the world around them. "Illustrations are big and simple; the text is in verse form."--School Library Journal.

Author : Ben Ratliff
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429956208
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jazz Ear written by Ben Ratliff and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-11-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate exploration into the musical genius of fifteen living jazz legends, from the longtime New York Times jazz critic Jazz is conducted almost wordlessly: John Coltrane rarely told his quartet what to do, and Miles Davis famously gave his group only the barest instructions before recording his masterpiece "Kind of Blue." Musicians are often loath to discuss their craft for fear of destroying its improvisational essence, rendering jazz among the most ephemeral and least transparent of the performing arts. In The Jazz Ear, the acclaimed music critic Ben Ratliff sits down with jazz greats to discuss recordings by the musicians who most influenced them. In the process, he skillfully coaxes out a profound understanding of the men and women themselves, the context of their work, and how jazz—from horn blare to drum riff—is created conceptually. Expanding on his popular interviews for The New York Times, Ratliff speaks with Sonny Rollins, Ornette Coleman, Branford Marsalis, Dianne Reeves, Wayne Shorter, Joshua Redman, and others about the subtle variations in generation, training, and attitude that define their music. Playful and keenly insightful, The Jazz Ear is a revelatory exploration of a unique way of making and hearing music.

Author : Daniel Levitin
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 : 9780241987353
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This is Your Brain on Music written by Daniel Levitin and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2019-07-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using musical examples from Bach to the Beatles, Levitin reveals the role of music in human evolution, shows how our musical preferences begin to form even before we are born and explains why music can offer such an emotional experience. Music is an obsession at the heart of human nature, even more fundamental to our species than language. In This Is Your Brain On Music Levitin offers nothing less than a new way to understand it, and its role in human life

Author : Howard Wells
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ears, Brain and Fingers written by Howard Wells and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: