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Author : John Blacking
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 28,28 MB
Release : 1989-11-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521319249
John Blacking restates and reflects upon observations and attitudes relevant to contemporary problems of ethnomusicology and music education.
Author : John Blacking
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 29,51 MB
Release : 1987-11-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521265003
Taking Grainger's views as his starting point and heading each chapter with a quotation from Grainger's writings, John Blacking restates and reflects upon observations and attitudes relevant to contemporary problems of ethnomusicology and music education. Professor Blacking discusses these issues in the light of his own research, musical experience and convictions.
Author : Frank Callaway
Publisher :
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 30,12 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Composers
ISBN :
Author : Suzanne Robinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 48,95 MB
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 1317125029
Unaccountably, Percy Grainger has remained on the margins of both American music history and twentieth-century modernism. This volume reveals the well-known composer of popular gems to be a self-described ’hyper-modernist’ who composed works of uncompromising dissonance, challenged the conventions of folk song collection and adaptation, re-visioned the modern orchestra, experimented with ’ego-less’ composition and designed electronic machines intended to supersede human application. Grainger was far from being a self-sufficient maverick working in isolation. Through contact with innovators such as Ferrucio Busoni, Léon Theremin and Henry Cowell; promotion of the music of modern French and Spanish schools; appreciation of vernacular, jazz and folk musics; as well as with the study and transcription of non-Western music; he contested received ideas and proposed many radical new approaches. By reappraising Grainger’s social and historical connectedness and exploring the variety of aspects of modernity seen in his activities in the British, American and Australian contexts, the authors create a profile of a composer, propagandist and visionary whose modernist aesthetic paralleled that of the most advanced composers of his day, and, in some cases, anticipated their practical experiments.
Author : Anthony Storr
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 21,64 MB
Release : 2015-05-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 1501122096
Why does music have such a powerful effect on our minds and bodies? It is the most mysterious and most tangible of all forms of art. Yet, Anthony Storr believes, music today is a deeply significant experience for a greater number of people than ever before. In this book, he explores why this should be so. Drawing on a wide variety of opinions, Storr argues that the patterns of music make sense of our inner experience, giving both structure and coherence to our feelings and emotions. It is because music possesses this capacity to restore our sense of personal wholeness in a culture which requires us to separate rational thought from feelings that many people find it so life-enhancing that it justifies existence.
Author : Benjamin Koen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 10,5 MB
Release : 2008-11-03
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0195337077
This volume establishes the discipline of medical ethnomusicology and expresses its broad potential. It also is an expression of a wider paradigm shift of innovative thinking and collaboration that fully embraces both the health sciences and the healing arts.
Author : Mervyn Cooke
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 30,75 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780851158303
Investigation into the influence of Eastern music on Britten's composition. Benjamin Britten's interest in the musical traditions of the Far East had a far-reaching influence on his compositional style; this book is the first to investigate the highly original cross-cultural synthesis he was able to achieve through the use of material borrowed from Balinese, Japanese and Indian music. Britten's visit to Indonesia and Japan in 1955-6 is reconstructed from archival sources, and shown to have had a profound impact on his subsequent work: the techniques of Balinese gamelan music were used in the ballet The Prince of the Pagodas (1957), and then became an essential feature of Britten's compositional style, at their most potent in Death in Venice(1973). The No drama and Gagaku court music of Japan were the inspiration for the trilogy of church parables Britten composed in the 1960s. The precise nature of these influences is discussed; Britten's sporadic borrowings from Indian music are also fully analysed. There is a survey of critical responses to Britten's cross-cultural experiments. Dr MERVYN COOKE lectures in music at the University of Nottingham.
Author : Avron Levine White
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 35,50 MB
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 1317227808
This collection of essays, first published in 1987, provides a sociological treatment of many musical forms – rock, jazz, classical – with special emphasis on the perspective of the practising musician. Among the topics covered are the legal structures governing musical production and the question of copyright; recording and production technology; the social character of musical style; and the impact of lyrical content, considered socially and historically.
Author : Jeremy Begbie
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 13,42 MB
Release : 2007-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 0801026954
A world-renowned scholar and musician helps Christians respond with theological discernment to music.
Author : Alan R. Harvey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 20,56 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0198786859
Music is central to human cultural and intellectual experience. It is vitally important for the welfare of human society and - this book argues - should become more widely accepted in our community as a mainstream educational and therapeutic tool. This book explores the importance of music throughout human evolution, and its continued relevance to modern-day human society. Throughout, the emphasis is on the origin of music and how (and where) it is processed in our brains, exploring in detail the genetic and cultural evolution of modern, loquacious humans, how we may have evolved with unique neural and cognitive architecture, and why two complementary but distinct communication systems - language and music - remain a human universal. In addition the book explores, in some depth, the different theories that have been put forward to explain why musical communication was (and remains) advantageous to our species, with a particular emphasis on the role of music and dance in enhancing altruistic and prosocial behaviours. The author suggests that music, and the social harmonization it brings, was of vital importance in early humans as we became more and more individualized by the emergence of modern language and the modern mind, and the realization that we are mortal. Music, Evolution, and the Harmony of Souls demonstrates the evolutionary sociobiological importance of music as a driver of cooperative and interactive behaviour throughout human existence, and what this evolutionary imperative means to twenty-first century humanity and beyond, from social and medical/neurological perspectives