Download or read book Carlos Chavez written by Robert L. Parker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1998.The purpose of this volume is to list as completely as possible Chávez’s compositions, which number close to two hundred works, and to present a digest of selected literature germane to his multi-faceted professional activity. This literature, which began in the 1920s and continues to grow, is almost entirely in Spanish and English, reflecting the main arenas in which he worked—Mexico, other Hispanic language countries, the United States, and England. Each research guide offers a selective, annotated list of writings, in all European languages, about one or more composers. There are also lists of works by the composer, unless these are available elsewhere. Biographical sketches and guides to library resources, organizations, and specialists are presented. As appropriate to the individual composer, there are maps, photographs, or other illustrative matter, glossaries, and indexes.

Download or read book The Matica and Beyond written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-05-06 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Matica and Beyond is a comparative study of the cultural associations established to further national movements in nineteenth-century Europe by publishing literary and scientific texts in the national language.

Download or read book Music and Modernity in Enlightenment Spain written by Ana P Sánchez-Rojo and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2024-07-09 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By showing how music intersected with wider cultural affairs, such as philosophy and criticism, this book connects music and the modern in eighteenth-century Spain within the context of Enlightenment thought. Histories of modern Europe often present late eighteenth-century Spain as a backward place, haunted by the Inquisition and struggling to keep pace with modernity. While Spain under Charles III (1759-1788) pushed for economic and cultural modernization, many elites and the public at large resisted Enlightenment ideas. For conservatives, the modern would in time show its fragility, and Spain would withstand the collapse thanks to its firm grounding in the pillars of monarchy, religion, and traditional forms of knowledge. One source of this solid foundation was long-established musical knowledge based on the rules of counterpoint. In contrast, modernizers argued that Spain could be true to its essence, yet modern and cosmopolitan at the same time: they favoured cosmopolitan genres, such as Italian opera and artistic expression rather than counterpoint rules. At other times, ambivalence toward modernity produced creative uses of music, such as reinterpretations of pastoral and sentimental topics to accommodate reformist political trends. To both sides, music was crucial to the integrity of the Spanish nation. Whether and how Spain became modern would in many ways be defined and reinforced by the kinds of music that Spaniards composed and witnessed on stage. Through the study of press debates, opera and musical theatre productions, this book shows how music intersected with wider cultural affairs, such as philosophy and criticism, medicine and the human body, civilization, Bourbon policy and sentimentality. Music and Modernity in Enlightenment Spain for the first time connects music and the modern in eighteenth-century Spain within the context of Enlightenment thought.

Download or read book Reinventing Sound written by Enrique Encabo and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-28 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent years have witnessed a true technological revolution with a global impact upon all areas of society, from entertainment to education. Technology, changing and evolving at increasing speed, undoubtedly shapes ways of seeing the world, something which requires profound reflection in terms of how reality is understood. It is undeniable that in this audiovisual world music plays a leading and prominent role. This is particularly notable when considering the importance of music in relation to the way it is featured on mobile devices and as manifested in terms of other communication technologies, its impact on new narrative forms and the prominence of audiovisual fiction in advertising, and the new ways of creating, receiving and disseminating music on the Internet. This book is divided into two sections, “New Media, New Audiences” and “Music, Cinema and Audiovisual Practices: New Approaches”, and the sixteen essays brought together here are the work of an international group of scholars who deal with different geographical and cultural contexts. One of the highlights of this volume is its interdisciplinary re-reading of a complex phenomenon that is undoubtedly a fundamental part of contemporary culture. As such, this collection will be of particular interest to both scholars and non-specialist readers.

Download or read book Music and Power in Early Modern Spain written by Timothy M. Foster and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the representation of music in early modern Spanish literature and reveals how music was understood within the framework of the Harmony of the Spheres, emanating from cosmic harmony as directed by the creator. The Harmony of Spheres was not ideologically neutral but rather tied to the earthly power structures of the Church, Crown, and nobility. Music could be "true," taking the listener closer to the divine, or "false," leading the listener astray. As such, music was increasingly seen as a potent weapon to be wielded in service of earthly centers of power, which can be observed in works such as vihuela songbooks, the colonial chronicle of the Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, and in the palace theater of Pedro Calderón de la Barca. While music could be a powerful metaphor mapping onto ideological currents of imperial Spain, this volume shows that it also became a contested site where diverse stakeholders challenged the Harmonic Spheres of Influence. Music and Power in Early Modern Spain is a useful tool for upper-level undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars interested in musicology, music history, Spanish literature, cultural studies, and transatlantic studies in the early modern period.

Download or read book Thoughts written by Jasser Membreno and published by Jasser Membreno. This book was released on 2015-03-27 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are surrounded by images in our daily life as never before. In Jasser Membreno's beautiful book,Pensamientos, he relieves our saturation from the dense mundane and lifts us into the heights of human imagination, on a masterful flight to the world of his unique imagery and abstract poetry. It is a journey through his surrealistic narrative without a narrative, with fantastical creatures--reawakening our imagination from the overexposed visual landscape of our bit-filled times to the thrilling recollection of the reality and absurdity of our dream worlds. He reminds us of the vastness of the human mind. On entering this universe you will often find yourself in two places at once, and equally as often in two languages at once. Translated from English into Spanish, laid side by side, Gloria Alvarez has kept the keen sonic sensibility present in Membreno's pointed poetry, at times coy, at times absurd.

Download or read book Challenges of the Educational System in Contemporary Society written by Antolí Martínez, Jordi Manuel and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2023-01-27 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The educational system across the world has experienced a significant transformation just within the past two decades. With this transformation came an array of challenges that are imperative to solve in order to cultivate an inclusive, efficient, and constructive educational system. To address these challenges, innovations in learning design, educational policies, educational technology, and more have been developed. It is essential that these innovations and research are shared and applied. Challenges of the Educational System in Contemporary Society presents an overview of the pedagogical innovation experienced in the 21st century. It shares a novel and transformative view on education practice. Using empirical research, as well as including theoretical chapters, this volume tackles some of the most relevant topics currently discussed in educational sciences. Covering topics such as intercultural awareness, emotional recognition, and gender equality policies, this premier reference source is an indispensable resource for administrators and educators of both K-12 and higher education, government officials, preservice teachers, teacher educators, librarians, researchers, and academicians.

Download or read book The Sweet Penance of Music written by Alejandro Vera and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book provides a fresh, comprehensive view of the musical life and its cultural context in Santiago, Chile, from its foundation in 1541 to the end of the colonial period, roughly in 1810. Combining the study of archival documents, secondary sources and music scores, it deals with different aspects of musical life in the cathedral (chap. 1), convents and monasteries (chap. 2), private houses (chap. 3) and public spaces (chap. 4), considering, as well, the life and function of musicians as crucial agents in the music field. Despite its focus on a particular city of Latin America, it raises this issue from a broad perspective that explores its links with other urban centers (especially Lima), within the globalizing framework of the colonial system. The idea of music as a "sweet penance," belonging to a nun harpist in a convent of Santiago at the end of the eighteenth century, gives rise to consider duality as an essential trait of the period and its music"--

Download or read book What Makes Music European written by Marcello Sorce Keller and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2011-11-17 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We seldom consider how much we mistakenly presume in hewing to definitions of music that differ dramatically from the standpoint of other cultures. In What Makes Music European, Marcello Sorce Keller examines the limitations of accepted wisdom about the concept of music in Euro-Western culture. His investigations of the conclusions reached by music researchers of the past several decades considerably upsets the concepts relied upon by the concert-going public. Sorce Keller insightfully asks: Who makes the music? Should music be original, and how much can it be? Why do people identify with songs, pieces, styles, and repertoire? Why is music so ideological? Why do we misunderstand the music of different times and places, and why do we enjoy doing so? He also explores the juxtaposition of economy, society, and music making, as well as the concept of "illegal harmonies." In What Makes Music European, Sorce Keller addresses the little-discussed matters that are essential to an understanding of how music intersects with the life of so many people. Readers are offered an approach for thinking about music that depends as much on its history as on the concepts and attitudes of the social sciences. What Makes Music European concisely demonstrates, to those familiar with Western music, how peculiar Euro-Western concepts of music appear from a cross-cultural perspective. At the same time, it encourages ethnomusicologists to apply their knowledge to Western music and explain to its public how much of what listeners take for granted is, at the very least, highly debatable.

Download or read book The Very Thought of You El Mismo Pensamiento De Ti written by Gary Puchett and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about a separate world within our many worlds of people that love the magic of dancing, sharing space on a dance floor with a mature partner or even solo as so many precious Ladies do when their so called men are too busy trying to capture the attention of some younger woman, not realizing just how foolish they really look, These mature woman are so much more in tune with life and the allure of the magic of a romantic evening; given a choice I would personally dance with a more seasoned woman, I would want her to take me to the same sky where she is, as the younger ladies will soon understand it’s the wisdom most mature real men seek in a lady, there is so much beauty and elegance with a seasoned woman that knows she’s all woman. Through my eyes she can feel me asking her to fill my heart with her smile, allowing me to touch the rhythm of her soul, this only comes from experience and time, without this kind of woman, the night, and the dance, has lost its charm, despues de todo, la dama es la danza—no quiero separarme de ti meaning (after all, the lady, is the dance, and I do not want to separate from you.

Download or read book Boccherini s Body written by Elisabeth Le Guin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation A study of how the physical processes of learning to play a piece of music can enrich and inform the mental process of studying and analyzing the music, using the cello music of Luigi Boccherini as a case study.

Download or read book The United States Catalog Supplement January 1918 June 1921 written by Eleanor E. Hawkins and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The United States Catalog Books in Print January 1 1912 written by H.W. Wilson Company and published by Minneapolis ; New York : H.W. Wilson. This book was released on 1921 with total page 2174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hearing Voices written by Sarah Finley and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019-02 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hearing Voices takes a fresh look at sound in the poetry and prose of colonial Latin American poet and nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648/51-95). A voracious autodidact, Sor Juana engaged with early modern music culture in a way that resonates deeply in her writing. Despite the privileging of harmony within Sor Juana's work, however, links between the poet's musical inheritance and subjects such as acoustics, cognition, writing, and visual art have remained unexplored. These lacunae have marginalized nonmusical aurality and contributed to the persistence of both ocularcentrism and a corresponding visual dominance in scholarship on Sor Juana--and indeed in early modern cultural production in general. As in many areas of her work, Sor Juana's engagement with acoustical themes restructures gendered discourses and transposes them to a feminine key. Hearing Voices focuses on these aural conceits in highlighting the importance of sound and--in most cases--its relationship with gender in Sor Juana's work and early modern culture. Sarah Finley explores attitudes toward women's voices and music making; intersections of music, rhetoric, and painting; aurality in Baroque visual art; sound and ritual; and the connections between optics and acoustics. Finley demonstrates how Sor Juana's striking aurality challenges ocularcentric interpretations and problematizes paradigms that pin vision to logos, writing, and other empirical models that traditionally favor men's voices. Sound becomes a vehicle for women's agency and responds to anxiety about the female voice, particularly in early modern convent culture.

Download or read book Pieces of Thoughts and Feelings Fragmentos De Pensamientos Y De Sentimientos written by Pablo Soto Caudillo and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-10-11 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rose growing in the light of love . . . ; the soul coming to rest within the warmth of inspiration . . . , or love shining like a star in the darkness . . . , these and other thoughts expressed in this collection are the result of feelings of the heart blending with life experience; this is the poetry of Pablo Soto Caudillo. Simple words and a soft-spoken poetic voice communicate his free verse of love, hope, and promise. In addition, his simplicity and imagination not only bring to life the characters that occupy the time and space of his lyric verse, but also create an environment touched by magic and wonder, bewilderment and uncertainty, confrontation and courage, or love and separation. Through his free verse and lyric verse, Pablo Soto Caudillo will reach out to all reading age groups. For the reader of Spanish as well as for the student studying the Spanish language, the bilingual section will allow the reader to view the poets interpretation of life via the English verse or the Spanish translation. Without a doubt, Pieces of Thoughts and Feelings (Fragmentos de Pensamientos y de Sentimientos) and Other Reflections of the Soul is a pleasant escape into the art of poetry.

Download or read book Mario Lavista written by Ana R. Alonso-Minutti and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Composer, pianist, editor, writer, and pedagogue Mario Lavista (1943-2021) was a central figure of the cultural and artistic scene in Mexico and one of the leading Ibero-American composers of his generation. His music is often described as evocative and poetic, noted for his meticulous attention to timbre and motivic permutation, and his creative trajectory was characterized by its intersections with the other arts, particularly poetry and painting. Understanding analysis as an affective practice, this study explores the intertextual connections between the multiple texts-musical or otherwise-that are present in Lavista's music. It argues that, through adopting an interdisciplinary and transhistorical approach to music composition, Lavista forged a cosmopolitan imaginary to challenge imposed stereotypes of what Mexican music should sound like. This imaginary becomes a strategy of resistance against imperialist agendas placed upon postcolonial peripheries. Departing from traditional biographical and chronological frameworks that exalt masters and masterworks, this book offers a nuanced, personal narrative informed by conversations with composers, performers, artists, choreographers, poets, writers, and filmmakers. Implementing an innovative mosaic of methodologies, from archival work, to musical and intertextual analysis, oral history, and (auto)ethnography, this book is the first to offer a contextual framing of Lavista's career within a panoramic view of contemporary music practices in Mexico during the past fifty years"--

Download or read book National Union Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes entries for maps and atlases.