Author: Suzannah Clark Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 9780964031777 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 0
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Music in Time probes the temporality of music from many perspectives, in response to Christopher F. Hasty's groundbreaking Meter as Rhythm. The essays bridge the conventional divides between theory, history, ethnomusicology, aesthetics, performance practice, cognitive psychology, and dance studies.
Author: Daniel Barenboim Publisher: Verso Books ISBN: 1844674703 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 184
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In this eloquent book, Daniel Barenboim draws on his profound and uniquely influential engagement with music to argue for its central importance in our everyday lives. While we may sometimes think of personal, social and political issues as existing independently of each other, Barenboim shows how music teaches that this is impossible. Turning to his intense involvement with Palestine, he examines the transformative power of music in the world, from his own performances of Wagner in Israel and his foundation, with Edward Said, of the internationally acclaimed West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. Music Quickens Time reveals how the sheer power and eloquence of music offers us a way to explore and shed light on the way in which we live, and to illuminate and resolve some of the most intractable issues of our time.
Author: Jennifer Bryant Publisher: Eerdmans Publishing Company ISBN: 0802852297 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 32
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Presents the story of how French composer Olivier Messiaen was able to overcome the desolation of a World War II prison camp through the power of music.
Author: Christopher Hasty Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 9780195356533 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 328
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In this book Christopher Hasty presents a striking new theory of musical duration. Drawing on insights from modern "process" philosophy, he advances a fully temporal perspective in which meter is released from its mechanistic connotations and recognized as a concrete, visceral agent of musical expression. Part one of the book reviews oppositions of law and freedom, structure and process, determinacy and indeterminacy in the speculations of theorists from the eighteenth century to the present. Part two reinterprets these contrasts to form a highly original account of meter that engages diverse musical repertories and aesthetic issues.
Author: Gwendolyn Hooks Publisher: Confetti Kids ISBN: 9781620143438 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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Henry's drum practice at home is too loud so he goes outside and when he sees his friends playing jump rope he figures out a way to play drums and play with his friends.
Author: Mariusz Kozak Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190080221 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 325
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What is musical time? Where is it manifested? How does it enter into our experience, and how do we capture it in our analyses? A compelling approach among works on temporality, phenomenology, and the ecologies of the new sound worlds, Enacting Musical Time argues that musical time is itself the site of the interaction between musical sounds and a situated, embodied listener, created by the moving bodies of participants engaged in musical activities. Author Mariusz Kozak describes musical time as something that emerges when the listener enacts her implicit knowledge about "how music goes," from deliberate inactivity, to such simple actions as tapping her foot in time with the beat, to dancing in a way that engages her entire body. Kozak explores this idea in the context of modernist and postmodernist musical styles, where composers create unfamiliar and idiosyncratic temporal experiences, blur the line between spectatorship and participation, and challenge conventional notions of form. Basing his discussion on the phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty and on the ecological psychology of J. J. Gibson, Kozak examines different aspects of musical structure through the lens of embodied cognition and what phenomenologists call "lived time." A bold new theory derived from an unprecedented fusion of research perspectives, Enacting Musical Time will engage scholars across a range of disciplines, from music theory, music cognition, cognitive science, continental philosophy, and social anthropology.
Author: Sam Taplin Publisher: Usborne ISBN: 9780794544850 Category : Languages : en Pages : 10
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Sometimes, after lunchtime, after a family cook-out, or after playing, babies and toddlers need some quiet time to rest, relax and have some quality time with their parents. This book will be the perfect tool to allow children and their parents to have a calmer moment. Listen to the quiet music as you follow a band of little animals going down a river on a raft playing classics like Pachelbel's canon and other famous soothing music.
Author: Suzannah Clark
Author: John Burnside
Author: Daniel Barenboim
Author: Jennifer Bryant
Author: Christopher Hasty
Author: Christopher P. Gordon
Author: Gwendolyn Hooks
Author: Ed Soph
Author: Mariusz Kozak
Author: Sam Taplin