Experimental Music

Experimental Music
Author :
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 218
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0521653835
ISBN-13 : 9780521653831
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Synopsis Experimental Music by : Michael Nyman

Composer Michael Nyman's classic 1974 account of the postwar experimental tradition in music.

The Music of Michael Nyman

The Music of Michael Nyman
Author :
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages : 266
Release :
ISBN-10 : 1859282105
ISBN-13 : 9781859282106
Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Synopsis The Music of Michael Nyman by : Pwyll ap Siôn

Nyman's rise to international prominence during the last three decades has made him one of the world's most successful living composers. His music has nevertheless been criticized for its parasitic borrowing of other composers' ideas and for its relentless self-borrowing. In this first book-length study in English, Pwyll ap Siôn places Nyman's writings within the general context of Anglo-American experimentalism, minimalism and post-minimalism, and provides a series of useful contexts from which controversial aspects of Nyman's musical language can be more clearly understood and appreciated.

Michael Nyman: Collected Writings

Michael Nyman: Collected Writings
Author :
Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 396
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781317096856
ISBN-13 : 1317096851
Rating : 4/5 (56 Downloads)

Synopsis Michael Nyman: Collected Writings by : Pwyll ap Siôn

For over three decades Michael Nyman's music has succeeded in reaching beyond the small community of contemporary music aficionados to a much wider range of listeners. An important element in unlocking the key to Nyman's success lies in his writings about music, which preoccupied him for over a decade from the late 1960s to the early 1980s. During this time Nyman produced over 100 articles, covering almost every conceivable musical style and genre - from the Early Music revival and the West's interest in 'world' music, or from John Cage and minimalism to rock and pop. Nyman initiated a number of landmark moments in the course of late twentieth-century music along the way: he was one of the first to critique the distinction between the European avant-garde and the American experimental movement; he was the first to coin the term 'minimalism' in relation to the music of (then largely unknown) Steve Reich and Terry Riley, and later Philip Glass; the first to seriously engage with the music of the English experimental tradition and the importance of Cornelius Cardew, and to identify the importance of Art Colleges in nurturing and developing a radical alternative to modernism; and one of the first writers to grasp the significance of post-minimalists such as Brian Eno and Harold Budd, and to realize how these elements could be brought together into a new aesthetic vision for his own creative endeavours, which was formulated during the late 1970s and early 80s. Much of what transformed and defined Nyman's musical character may be found within the pages of this volume of his writings, comprehensively edited and annotated for the first time, and including previously unpublished material from Nyman's second interview with Steve Reich in 1976. There is also much here to engage the minds of those who are interested in pre-twentieth century music, from Early and Baroque music (Handel and Purcell in particular) to innovative features in Haydn, spatial elements in Berlioz, or Bruckner and Mahler's symphonic works.

The Music of Michael Nyman

The Music of Michael Nyman
Author :
Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 251
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781351542265
ISBN-13 : 1351542265
Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Synopsis The Music of Michael Nyman by : Pwyll ap Siôn

Nyman's rise to international prominence during the last three decades has made him one of the world's most successful living composers. His music has nevertheless been criticized for its parasitic borrowing of other composers' ideas and for its relentless self-borrowing. In this first book-length study in English, Pwyll ap Si laces Nyman's writings within the general context of Anglo-American experimentalism, minimalism and post-minimalism, and provides a series of useful contexts from which controversial aspects of Nyman's musical language can be more clearly understood and appreciated. Drawing upon terms informed by intertextual theory in general, appropriation and borrowing are first introduced within the context of twentieth-century art music and theory. Intertextual concepts are explained and their terms defined before Nyman's musical language is considered in relation to a series of intertextual classifications and types. These types then form the basis of a more in-depth study of his works during the second half of the book, ranging from opera and chamber music to film. Rather than restricting style and technique, Nyman's intertextual approach, on the contrary, is shown to provide his music with an almost infinite amount of variety, flexibility and diversity, and this has been used to illustrate a wide range of technical, aesthetic and expressive forms. He composes with his ear towards the past as if it were a rich quarry to mine, working like a musical archaeologist, uncovering artefacts and chiselling fresh and vibrant sonic edifices out of them.

The Oxford Handbook of Music and Disability Studies

The Oxford Handbook of Music and Disability Studies
Author :
Publisher :
Total Pages : 953
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780199331444
ISBN-13 : 0199331448
Rating : 4/5 (44 Downloads)

Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Music and Disability Studies by : Blake Howe

Like race, gender, and sexuality, disability is a social and cultural construction. Music, musicians, and music-making simultaneously embody and shape representations and narratives of disability. Disability -- culturally stigmatized minds and bodies -- is one of the things that music in all times and places can be said to be about.

Jane Campion's The Piano

Jane Campion's The Piano
Author :
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 224
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0521597218
ISBN-13 : 9780521597210
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis Jane Campion's The Piano by : Harriet Elaine Margolis

An examination of Jane Campion's The Piano from a variety of critical perspectives.

The Commissar Vanishes

The Commissar Vanishes
Author :
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
Total Pages : 192
Release :
ISBN-10 : 080505295X
ISBN-13 : 9780805052954
Rating : 4/5 (5X Downloads)

Synopsis The Commissar Vanishes by : David King

A New York Times Notable Book, 1997 The lavishly illustrated and often darkly hilarious retelling of Soviet history through the doctored photographs under Stalin. The Commissar Vanishes has been hailed as a brilliant, indispensable record of an era. The Commissar Vanishes offers a unique and chilling look at how one man--Joseph Stalin--manipulated the science of photography to advance his own political career and erase the memory of his victims. Over the past thirty years David King has assembled the world's largest archive of doctored Soviet photographs, the best of which appear here, in a book Tatyana Tolstaya, in The New York Review of Books, called "an extraordinary, incomparable volume."

No Documents, No Escape

No Documents, No Escape
Author :
Publisher : University of California Press
Total Pages : 272
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780520295278
ISBN-13 : 0520295277
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Synopsis No Documents, No Escape by : Christophe Levaux

Rising out of the American art music movement of the late 1950s and 1960s, minimalism shook the foundations of the traditional constructs of classical music, becoming one of the most important and influential trends of the twentieth century. The emergence of minimalism sparked an active writing culture around the controversies, philosophies, and forms represented in the music’s style and performance, and its defenders faced a relentless struggle within the music establishment and beyond. Focusing on how facts about music are constructed, negotiated, and continually remodeled, We Have Always Been Minimalist retraces the story of these battles that—from pure fiction to proven truth—led to the triumph of minimalism. Christophe Levaux’s critical analysis of literature surrounding the origins and transformations of the stylistic movement offers radical insights and a unique new history.

The Piano

The Piano
Author :
Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 399
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780300253924
ISBN-13 : 0300253923
Rating : 4/5 (24 Downloads)

Synopsis The Piano by : Susan Tomes

A fascinating history of the piano explored through 100 pieces chosen by one of the UK's most renowned concert pianists "Tomes . . . casts her net widely, taking in chamber music and concertos, knotty avant-garde masterworks and (most welcome) jazz."--Richard Fairman, Financial Times, "Best Books of 2021: Classical Music" "[One of] the most beautiful books I got my hands on this year. . . . About the shaping of this maddening, glorious, unconquerable instrument."--Jenny Colgan, Spectator, "Books of the Year" An astonishingly versatile instrument, the piano allows just two hands to play music of great complexity and subtlety. For more than two hundred years, it has brought solo and collaborative music into homes and concert halls and has inspired composers in every musical genre--from classical to jazz and light music. Charting the development of the piano from the late eighteenth century to the present day, pianist and writer Susan Tomes takes the reader with her on a personal journey through 100 pieces including solo works, chamber music, concertos, and jazz. Her choices include composers such as Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Robert Schumann, Tchaikovsky, Debussy, Gershwin, and Philip Glass. Looking at this history from a modern performer's perspective, she acknowledges neglected women composers and players including Fanny Mendelssohn, Maria Szymanowska, Clara Schumann, and Amy Beach.

Pedagogy of the Depressed

Pedagogy of the Depressed
Author :
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages : 185
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781501364594
ISBN-13 : 1501364596
Rating : 4/5 (94 Downloads)

Synopsis Pedagogy of the Depressed by : Christopher Schaberg

This book is one English professor's assessment of university life in the early 21st century. From rising mental health concerns and trigger warnings to learning management systems and the COVID pandemic, Christopher Schaberg reflects on the rapidly evolving landscape of higher education. Adopting an interdisciplinary public humanities approach, Schaberg considers the frequently exhausting and depressing realities of college today. Yet in these meditations he also finds hope: collaboration, mentoring, less grading, surface reading, and other pedagogical strategies open up opportunities to reinvigorate teaching and learning in the current turbulent decade.