The Silent Musician

Author : Mark Wigglesworth
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022662255X
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Silent Musician written by Mark Wigglesworth and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-03-21 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conductor—tuxedoed, imposingly poised above an orchestra, baton waving dramatically—is a familiar figure even for those who never set foot in an orchestral hall. As a veritable icon for classical music, the conductor has also been subjected to some ungenerous caricatures, presented variously as unhinged gesticulator, indulged megalomaniac, or even outright impostor. Consider, for example: Bugs Bunny as Leopold Stokowski, dramatically smashing his baton and then breaking into erratic poses with a forbidding intensity in his eyes, or Mickey Mouse in Fantasia, unwittingly conjuring dangerous magic with carefree gestures he doesn’t understand. As these clichés betray, there is an aura of mystery around what a conductor actually does, often coupled with disbelief that he or she really makes a difference to the performance we hear. The Silent Musician deepens our understanding of what conductors do and why they matter. Neither an instruction manual for conductors, nor a history of conducting, the book instead explores the role of the conductor in noiselessly shaping the music that we hear. Writing in a clever, insightful, and often evocative style, world-renowned conductor Mark Wigglesworth deftly explores the philosophical underpinnings of conducting—from the conductor’s relationship with musicians and the music, to the public and personal responsibilities conductors face—and examines the subtler components of their silent art, which include precision, charisma, diplomacy, and passion. Ultimately, Wigglesworth shows how conductors—by simultaneously keeping time and allowing time to expand—manage to shape ensemble music into an immersive, transformative experience, without ever making a sound.

Author : Michael Miller
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101588756
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Idiot's Guide to Conducting Music written by Michael Miller and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complex art of conducting may look effortless to the casual onlooker, however, it requires a great deal of knowledge and skill. The success of a performance hinges on the director's ability to keep the group playing together and interpreting the music as the composer intended. The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Conducting Music shows student and novice conductors how to lead bands, orchestras, choirs, and other ensembles effectively through sight-reading, rehearsals, and performances.

Author : Tom Service
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571268714
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music as Alchemy written by Tom Service and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How are conductors' silent gestures magicked into sound by a group of more than a hundred brilliant but belligerent musicians? The mute choreography of great conductors has fascinated and frustrated musicians and music-lovers for centuries. Orchestras can be inspired to the heights of musical and expressive possibility by their maestros, or flabbergasted that someone who doesn't even make a sound should be elevated to demigod-like status by the public. This is the first book to go inside the rehearsal rooms of some of the most inspirational orchestral partnerships in the world - how Simon Rattle works at the Berlin Philharmonic, how Mariss Jansons deals with the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam, and how Claudio Abbado creates the world's most luxurious pick-up band every year with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra. From London to Budapest, Bamberg to Vienna, great orchestral concerts are recreated as a collection of countless human and musical stories.

Author : Warren M. Sherk
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780810876866
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Film and Television Music written by Warren M. Sherk and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music has played a critical component in the success of films. This volume compiles over 100 years of writings devoted to the subject of film and television music and its practitioners.

Author : Vera Mattlin Jiji
Publisher : Cello Playing for Music Love
ISBN 13 : 1412095603
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cello Playing for Music Lovers written by Vera Mattlin Jiji and published by Cello Playing for Music Love. This book was released on 2007 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You can teach yourself to play the cello. This comprehensive, authoritative guide covers basics to Bach. Including 116 selections, it explains reading music, playing-by-ear and theory. Play-along CD.

Author : John Mauceri
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0451494032
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maestros and Their Music written by John Mauceri and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exuberant, uniquely accessible, beautifully illustrated look inside the enigmatic art and craft of conducting, from a celebrated conductor whose international career has spanned half a century. John Mauceri brings a lifetime of experience to bear in an unprecedented, hugely informative, consistently entertaining exploration of his profession, rich with anecdotes from decades of working alongside the greatest names of the music world. With candor and humor, Mauceri makes clear that conducting is itself a composition: of legacy and tradition, techniques handed down from master to apprentice--and more than a trace of ineffable magic. He reveals how conductors approach a piece of music (a calculated combination of personal interpretation, imagination, and insight into the composer's intent); what it takes to communicate solely through gesture, with sometimes hundreds of performers at once; and the occasionally glamorous, often challenging life of the itinerant maestro. Mauceri, who worked closely with Leonard Bernstein for eighteen years, studied with Leopold Stokowski, and was on the faculty of Yale University for fifteen years, is the perfect guide to the allure and theater, passion and drudgery, rivalries and relationships of the conducting life.

Author : Elizabeth A. H. Green
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Modern Conductor written by Elizabeth A. H. Green and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1969 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sean Williams
Publisher : Clarion Books
ISBN 13 : 054481620X
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Impossible Music written by Sean Williams and published by Clarion Books. This book was released on 2019 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a class for the newly deaf, former musician Simon meets G and his quest to create an entirely new form of music helps him better understand her, himself, and his relationship to the hearing world.

Author : Melody Bober
Publisher : Alfred Music
ISBN 13 : 9781457427732
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christmas Memories, Book 2 written by Melody Bober and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 2007-07-18 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Christmas Season brings wonderful traditions and thus creates happy memories. The sharing of traditional Christmas carols is one such tradition. In Christmas Memories, Book 2, Melody Bober shares some of her favorite carols arranged in her signature style with lyrical melodies and lush harmonies. Titles: * Angels We Have Heard on High * Away in a Manger * The First Noel * Good Christian Men, Rejoice * I Saw Three Ships * It Came Upon a Midnight Clear * O Come, All Ye Faithful * Silent Night

Author : H. P. Lovecraft
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1609773101
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Music of Erich Zann written by H. P. Lovecraft and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-02-10 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: H. P. Lovecraft was one of the greatest horror writers of all time. His seminal work appeared in the pages of legendary Weird Tales and has influenced countless writer of the macabre. This is one of those stories.