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Book Beyond the Score

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nicholas Cook
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 0199357404
  • Pages : 482 pages

Download or read book Beyond the Score written by Nicholas Cook and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Beyond the Score: Music as Performance, author Nicholas Cook supplants the traditional musicological notion of music as writing, asserting instead that it is as performance that music is loved, understood, and consumed. This book reconceives music as an activity through which meaning is generated in real time, as Cook rethinks familiar assumptions and develops new approaches. Focusing primarily but not exclusively on the Western 'art' tradition, Cook explores perspectives that range from close listening to computational analysis, from ethnography to the study of recordings, and from the social relations constructed through performance to the performing (and listening) body. In doing so, he reveals not only that the notion of music as text has hampered academic understanding of music, but also that it has inhibited performance practices, placing them in a textualist straightjacket. Beyond the Score has a strong historical emphasis, touching on broad developments in twentieth-century performance style and setting them into their larger cultural context. Cook also investigates the relationship between recordings and performance, arguing that we do not experience recordings as mere reproductions of a performance but as performances in their own right. Beyond the Score is a comprehensive exploration of new approaches and methods for the study of music as performance, and will be an invaluable addition to the libraries of music scholars-including musicologists, music theorists, and music cognition scholars-everywhere.

Book Beyond the Score

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jim Sheard
  • Publisher : New Leaf Publishing Group
  • Release : 2011-05-01
  • ISBN : 1614583277
  • Pages : 96 pages

Download or read book Beyond the Score written by Jim Sheard and published by New Leaf Publishing Group. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most golfers strive to improve their scores. But like any pursuit it is empty without meaningful relationships with people and with God. In Beyond the Score, author Jim Sheard guides the reader to look beyond the last scorecard to the relationships that happen on and off the course. In an easy to read format, Sheard inspires others to pursue relationships with the same drive to succeed. Beyond the Score offers eighteen relationship keys based on the Scriptures and wisdom. He states, "For me, it is much more than a book about golf, it is a book about relationships, horizontal relationships with other people and the vertical relationship with God through Jesus." Performance on the course is important, but relationships last Beyond the Score. Beyond the Score is a book you will want to keep around for years. And it’s the perfect gift for friends, executives, and team members. Jim Sheard is an industrial psychology and human resources expert. After a 35-year career in corporate America, he has authored and co-authored eight books including In His Grip which has sold over 750,000 copies.

Book Knowing the Score

Download or read book Knowing the Score written by David Papineau and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Knowing the Score, philosopher David Papineau uses sports to illuminate some of modern philosophy's most perplexing questions. As Papineau demonstrates, the study of sports clarifies, challenges, and sometimes confuses crucial issues in philosophy. The tactics of road bicycle racing shed new light on questions of altruism, while sporting family dynasties reorient the nature v. nurture debate. Why do sports competitors choke? Why do fans think God will favor their team over their rivals? How can it be moral to deceive the umpire by framing a pitch? From all of these questions, and many more, philosophy has a great deal to learn. An entertaining and erudite book that ranges far and wide through the sporting world, Knowing the Score is perfect reading for armchair philosophers and Monday morning quarterbacks alike.

Book The Body Keeps the Score

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bessel A. Van der Kolk
  • Publisher : Penguin Books
  • Release : 2015-09-08
  • ISBN : 0143127748
  • Pages : 466 pages

Download or read book The Body Keeps the Score written by Bessel A. Van der Kolk and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published by Viking Penguin, 2014.

Book Beyond the Final Score

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  • Author : Victor D. Cha
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 9780231154901
  • Pages : 212 pages

Download or read book Beyond the Final Score written by Victor D. Cha and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Beijing Olympics will be remembered as the largest, most expensive, and most widely watched event of the modern Olympic era. But did China present itself as a responsible host and an emergent international power, much like Japan during the 1964 Tokyo Games and South Korea during the 1988 Seoul Games? Or was Beijing in 2008 more like Berlin in 1936, when Germany took advantage of the global spotlight to promote its political ideology at home and abroad?Beyond the Final Score takes an original look at the 2008 Beijing games within the context of the politics of sport in Asia. Asian athletics are bound up with notions of national identity and nationalism, refracting political intent and the processes of globalization. For China, the Beijing Games introduced a liberalizing ethos that its authoritative regime could ignore only at its peril. Victor D. Cha-former director of Asian affairs for the White House-evaluates Beijing's contention with this pressure, considering the intense scrutiny China already faced on issues of counterproliferation, global warming, and free trade.

Book Beyond the Final Score

Download or read book Beyond the Final Score written by Tom Osborne and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-10-27 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's More To Life Than The Game Legendary college football coach Tom Osborne, a former NFL player and Nebraska Congressman, shares his life's wisdom in this powerful collection of stories, advice and spiritual insights. Available Fall 2009 2...

Book Behind Bars

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  • Author : Elaine Gould
  • Publisher : Faber Music Ltd
  • Release : 2016-08-17
  • ISBN : 0571590039
  • Pages : 694 pages

Download or read book Behind Bars written by Elaine Gould and published by Faber Music Ltd. This book was released on 2016-08-17 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behind Bars is the indispensable reference book for composers, arrangers, teachers and students of composition, editors, and music processors. In the most thorough and painstakingly researched book to be published since the 1980s, specialist music editor Elaine Gould provides a comprehensive grounding in notational principles. This full eBook version is in fixed-layout format to ensure layout and image quality is consistent with the original hardback edition. Behind Bars covers everything from basic rules, conventions and themes to complex instrumental techniques, empowering the reader to prepare music with total clarity and precision. With the advent of computer technology, it has never been more important for musicians to have ready access to principles of best practice in this dynamic field, and this book will support the endeavours of software users and devotees of hand-copying alike. The author's understanding of, and passion for, her subject has resulted in a book that is not only practical but also compellingly readable. This seminal and all-encompassing guide encourages new standards of excellence and accuracy and, at 704 pages, it is supported by 1,500 music examples of published scores from Bach to Xenakis. This is the full eBook version of the original hardback edition.

Book The Schenker Project

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nicholas Cook
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
  • Release : 2007-09-28
  • ISBN : 0195170563
  • Pages : 368 pages

Download or read book The Schenker Project written by Nicholas Cook and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2007-09-28 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Book Score of a Lifetime

Download or read book Score of a Lifetime written by Terry Boers and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For 25 years, Chicago sports fans invited Terry Boers into their homes, cars, and offices as one of the premier voices of WSCR radio. Covering the latest championships and trades, and always ready to offer up timely takes, Boers was a Windy City constant until his retirement in 2017. In his highly-anticipated memoir, Boers delivers a trove of lively anecdotes and personal reflections from his life and journey through sports media--from raucous banter with Mike Ditka during The Score's early days to the Cubs' World Series celebration in 2016. A must-read for any of the thousands of listeners who made Boers part of their daily routine, The Score of a Lifetime is a freewheeling, frank portrait of a man, a career, a station no one thought would survive, and a city that loves its sports.

Book Inside the Score

Download or read book Inside the Score written by Rayburn Wright and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jazz arranging approached through the analysis of full scores of jazz compositions.

Book Too Much Money

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  • Author : Dominick Dunne
  • Publisher : Ballantine Books
  • Release : 2010-09-28
  • ISBN : 0345464109
  • Pages : 290 pages

Download or read book Too Much Money written by Dominick Dunne and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2010-09-28 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last two years have been monstrously unpleasant for high-society journalist Gus Bailey. When he falls for a fake story and implicates a powerful congressman in some rather nasty business on a radio program, Gus becomes embroiled in a slander suit. The stress makes it difficult for him to focus on his next novel, which is based on the suspicious death of billionaire Konstantin Zacharias. The convicted murderer is behind bars, but Gus is not convinced that justice was served. There are too many unanswered questions, and Konstantin’s hot-tempered widow will do anything to conceal the truth. Featuring favorite characters and the affluent world Dunne first introduced in People Like Us, Too Much Money is a mischievous, compulsively readable tale by the most brilliant society chronicler of our time—the man who knew all the secrets and wasn’t afraid to share them.

Book Staying in the Game

Download or read book Staying in the Game written by Adrienne Lawrence and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical guide to shutting down workplace sexual harassment so it doesn't derail your career or your life, from the first on-air personality to sue ESPN for sexual harassment. Even in the #MeToo era, studies show that women in the workforce continue to harbor misconceptions about sexual harassment and are unprepared to respond when it happens. Lawyer and former ESPN anchor Adrienne Lawrence has learned to advocate for herself and other women. In this book, she offers much-needed insight on topics such as: • Identifying the five types of harassers and the five types of coworkers who enable them • Researching company culture and history to identify sexual harassment hotbeds • Properly documenting inappropriate behavior • Preparing for retaliation and mental health hurdles such as anxiety and depression • Managing public exposure and figuring out when to leverage the power of the media and/or lawyer up This essential guide helps women navigate the complicated realities of sexual harassment and teaches them how to be their own best advocates in toxic work environments.

Book Beyond Test Scores

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jack Schneider
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2017-08-14
  • ISBN : 0674976398
  • Pages : 337 pages

Download or read book Beyond Test Scores written by Jack Schneider and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-14 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Test scores are the go-to metric of policy makers and anxious parents looking to place their children in the best schools. Yet standardized tests are a poor way to measure school performance. Using the diverse urban school district of Somerville MA as a case study, Jack Schneider’s team developed a new framework to assess educational effectiveness.

Book The Body Keeps the Score

Download or read book The Body Keeps the Score written by Bessel van der Kolk and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - OVER 3 MILLION COPIES SOLD 'Dr. van der Kolk's masterpiece combines the boundless curiosity of the scientist, the erudition of the scholar, and the passion of the truth teller' Judith Herman, author of Trauma and Recovery The effects of trauma can be devastating for sufferers, their families and future generations. Here one of the world's experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for treatment, moving away from standard talking and drug therapies and towards an alternative approach that heals mind, brain and body. 'Fascinating, hard to put down, and filled with powerful case histories. . . . the most important series of breakthroughs in mental health in the last thirty years' Norman Doidge, author of The Brain that Changes Itself 'An astonishing and important book. The trauma Bible. I cannot recommend it enough for anyone struggling with...well...anything' Tara Westover

Book Even the Score

Download or read book Even the Score written by Beth Ehemann and published by Montlake Romance. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because he is missing spending time with his kids, single father, sports agent Andy Shaw seeks help at his agency. Hard-working and gorgeous Danicka Douglas applies, and Andy finds it more and more difficult to ignore his crush. But when she is threatened by a stalker, Andy must cross the line between professional and very personal in order to keep her safe.

Book Explorations in Music

Download or read book Explorations in Music written by Joanne Haroutounian and published by . This book was released on 1993-04-01 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Third in a series designed to expand the idea of music theory to points beyond the written page, to have students realize that the music they are performing, listening to, and composing evolves from the realm of music theory. Book 4 covers key signatures, rhythm, time signatures, major scales, fifths, intervals, and triads.

Book Musical Practice as a Form of Life

Download or read book Musical Practice as a Form of Life written by Eva-Maria Houben and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2019-09-30 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is musical practice connected with everyday life? Eva-Maria Houben shows that performing music as an activity - indeed, as playing - is a meaningful shift from an approach based on structural analysis. Musical practice, Eva-Maria Houben contends, can be understood as open and never finished. Such an emphasis on repetition offers freedom from perfection, productivity, and purpose, thus allowing meaning to unfold in specific situations, places, and relationships. Musical practice can become a form of life and a reality in its own right. The study includes musical examples from the 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries as well as contemporary music.