The Pleasures Of Music
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Author |
: Aaron Copland |
Publisher |
: Durham : University of New Hampshire |
Total Pages |
: 30 |
Release |
: 1959 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015007592911 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Pleasures of Music by : Aaron Copland
Author |
: John Clark Ferguson |
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Total Pages |
: 104 |
Release |
: 1850 |
ISBN-10 |
: NLS:V000292100 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Pleasures of Music, and Other Poems by : John Clark Ferguson
Author |
: Susan McClary |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 239 |
Release |
: 2012-03-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520952065 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520952065 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis Desire and Pleasure in Seventeenth-Century Music by : Susan McClary
In this book, Susan McClary examines the mechanisms through which seventeenth-century musicians simulated extreme affective states—desire, divine rapture, and ecstatic pleasure. She demonstrates how every major genre of the period, from opera to religious music to instrumental pieces based on dances, was part of this striving for heightened passions by performers and listeners. While she analyzes the social and historical reasons for the high value placed on expressive intensity in both secular and sacred music, and she also links desire and pleasure to the many technical innovations of the period. McClary shows how musicians—whether working within the contexts of the Reformation or Counter-Reformation, Absolutists courts or commercial enterprises in Venice—were able to manipulate known procedures to produce radically new ways of experiencing time and the Self.
Author |
: Aaron Copland |
Publisher |
: Forgotten Books |
Total Pages |
: 30 |
Release |
: 2017-12-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0266559921 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780266559924 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Pleasures of Music (Classic Reprint) by : Aaron Copland
Excerpt from The Pleasures of Music That music gives pleasure is axiomatic. Because that is So, the pleasures of music as a subject for discussion may seem to some of you a rather elementary dish to place be fore so knowing an audience. But I think you will agree that the source of that pleasure, our musical instinct, is not at all elementary; it is, in fact, one of the prime puzzles of consciousness. Why is it that sound waves, when they strike the ear, cause volleys of nerve impulses to flow up into the brain, resulting in a pleasurable sensation? More than that, why is it that we are able to make sense out of these volleys of nerve signals so that we emerge from engulfment in the orderly presentation of sound stimuli as if we had lived through a simulacrum of life, the in stinctive life of the emotions? And why, when safely seated and merely listening, should our hearts beat faster, our temperature rise, our toes start tapping, our minds start racing after the music, hoping it will go one way and watch ing it go another, deceived and disgruntled when we are unconvinced, elated and grateful when we acquiesce? We have a part answer, I suppose, in that the physical nature of sound has been thoroughly explored; but the phe nomenon of music as an expressive, communicative agency remains as inexplicable as ever it was. - We musicians don't ask for much. All we want is to have one investigator tell us why this young fellow seated in row A is firmly held by the musical sounds he hears while his girl friend gets little or nothing out of them, or vice versa. Think how many millions of useless practice hours {might have been saved if some alert professor of genetics had developed a test for musical sensibility, The fascination of music for some human beings was curiously illustrated for me once during a visit I made to the showrooms of a manufacturer of elec tronic organs. As part of my tour I was taken to see the practice room. There, to my surprise, [i found not one but eight aspiring organists, all busily practicing simultanely on eight organs. More surprising still was the fact that not a sound was audible, for all eight performers were listen ing through earphones to their individual instrument. It was an uncanny sight, even for a fellow musician, to watch these grown men mesmerized, as it were, by a silent and in visible genie. On that day I fully realized how mesmerized we ear-minded creatures must seem to our less musically inclined friends. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author |
: Jacques Barzun |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 526 |
Release |
: 1952 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015040461934 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis Pleasures of Music by : Jacques Barzun
Author |
: John Clark FERGUSON |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 104 |
Release |
: 1850 |
ISBN-10 |
: BL:A0026937504 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Pleasures of Music and Other Poems, by J. C. F. ... Lately Published Under the Name of Alfred Lee. Second Edition, Greatly Enlarged by : John Clark FERGUSON
Author |
: Chilly Gonzales |
Publisher |
: Rough Trade Books |
Total Pages |
: 55 |
Release |
: 2020-11-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781912722877 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1912722879 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis ENYA by : Chilly Gonzales
Chilly Gonzales is one of the most exciting, original, hard-to-pin-down musicians of our time. Filling halls worldwide at the piano in his slippers and a bathrobe—in any one night he can be dissecting the musicology of an Oasis hit, giving a sublime solo recital, and displaying his lyrical dexterity as a rapper. In his book about Enya, he asks: Does music have to be smart or does it just have to go to the heart? In dazzling, erudite prose Gonzales delves beyond her innumerable gold discs and millions of fans to excavate his own enthusiasm for Enya's singular music as well as the mysterious musician herself, and along the way uncovers new truths about the nature of music, fame, success and the artistic endeavour.
Author |
: John Clark Ferguson |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 104 |
Release |
: 1850 |
ISBN-10 |
: OXFORD:590358317 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Pleasures of Music, and Other Poems by : John Clark Ferguson
Author |
: Aaron 1900-1990 Copland |
Publisher |
: Hassell Street Press |
Total Pages |
: 32 |
Release |
: 2021-09-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1014752728 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781014752727 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Pleasures of Music by : Aaron 1900-1990 Copland
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author |
: Morten L. Kringelbach |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 352 |
Release |
: 2010 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780195331028 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0195331028 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis Pleasures of the Brain by : Morten L. Kringelbach
Pleasure is fundamental to well-being and the quality of life, but until recently, was barely explored by science. Current research on pleasure has brought about ground-breaking developments on several fronts, and new data on pleasure and the brain have begun to converge from many disparate fields. The time is ripe to present these important findings in a single volume, and so Morten Kringelbach and Kent Berridge have brought together the leading researchers to provides a comprehensive review of our current scientific understanding of pleasure. The authors present their latest neuroscientific research into pleasure, describing studies on the brain's role in pleasure and reward in animals and humans, including brain mechanisms, neuroimaging data, and psychological analyses, as well as how their findings have been applied to clinical problems, such as depression and other disorders of hedonic well-being. To clarify the differences between their views, the researchers also provide short answers to a set of fundamental questions about pleasure and its relation to the brain. This book is intended to serve as both a starting point for readers new to the field, and as a reference for more experienced graduate students and scientists from fields such as neuroscience, psychology, psychiatry, neurology, and neurosurgery.