Download or read book sthetik und Komposition written by Gianmario Borio and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Silencing the Sounded Self written by Christopher Shultis and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christopher Shultis observes an intriguing contrast between John Cage's affinity for Thoreau and fellow composer Charles Ives' connection with Emerson. Although both Thoreau and Emerson have been called transcendentalists, they held different views about the relationship between nature and humanity and the artistÍs role in creativity. Shultis explores the artist's "sounded" or "silenced" selves-the self that takes control of the creative experience versus the one that seeks to coexist with it-and shows how understanding this distinction allows a better understanding of Cage. Having placed Cage in this experimental tradition of music, poetry, and literature, Shultis offers provocative interpretations of Cage's aesthetic views, especially as they concern the issue of non-intention, and addresses some of his most path-breaking music as well as several experimentally innovative written works.
Download or read book Composing Japanese Musical Modernity written by Bonnie C. Wade and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-01-13 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When we think of composers, we usually envision an isolated artist separate from the orchestra—someone alone in a study, surround by staff paper—and in Europe and America this image generally has been accurate. For most of Japan’s musical history, however, no such role existed—composition and performance were deeply intertwined. Only when Japan began to embrace Western culture in the late nineteenth century did the role of the composer emerge. In Composing Japanese Musical Modernity, Bonnie Wade uses an investigation of this new musical role to offer new insights not just into Japanese music but Japanese modernity at large and global cosmopolitan culture. Wade examines the short history of the composer in Japanese society, looking at the creative and economic opportunities that have sprung up around them—or that they forged—during Japan’s astonishingly fast modernization. She shows that modernist Japanese composers have not bought into the high modernist concept of the autonomous artist, instead remaining connected to the people. Articulating Japanese modernism in this way, Wade tells a larger story of international musical life, of the spaces in which tradition and modernity are able to meet and, ultimately, where modernity itself has been made.
Download or read book Apparitions written by Berthold Hoeckner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apparitions takes a new look at the critical legacy of one of the 20th century's most important and influential thinkers about music, Theodor W. Adorno. Bringing together an international group of scholars, the book offers new historical and critical insights into Adorno's theories of music and how these theories, in turn, have affected the study of contemporary art music, popular music, and jazz.
Download or read book New Music New Allies written by Amy C. Beal and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-07-04 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Music, New Allies documents how American experimental music and its practitioners came to prominence in the West German cultural landscape between the end of the Second World War in 1945 and the reunification of East and West Germany in 1990. Beginning with the reeducation programs implemented by American military officers during the postwar occupation of West Germany and continuing through the cultural policies of the Cold War era, this broad history chronicles German views on American music, American composers’ pursuit of professional opportunities abroad, and the unprecedented dissemination and support their music enjoyed through West German state-subsidized radio stations, new music festivals, and international exchange programs. Framing the biographies of prominent American composer-performers within the aesthetic and ideological contexts of the second half of the twentieth century, Amy C. Beal follows the international careers of John Cage, Henry Cowell, Earle Brown, Morton Feldman, David Tudor, Frederic Rzewski, Christian Wolff, Steve Reich, Pauline Oliveros, Conlon Nancarrow, and many others to Donaueschingen, Darmstadt, Cologne, Bremen, Berlin, and Munich.
Download or read book John Cage written by Rob Haskins and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American writer, composer, artist, and philosopher John Cage (1912–92) is best known for his experimental composition 4’33,” a musical score in which the performer does not play an instrument during the duration of the piece. The purpose, Cage said, was for the audience to listen to the sounds of the environment around them while the piece was performed. Groundbreaking pieces such as 4’33”, as well as Sonatas and Interludes not only established Cage as a leading figure in the postwar avant-garde movement, but also cemented the enduring controversy surrounding his work. In this new biography, Rob Haskins explores Cage’s radical approach to art and aesthetics and his belief that everyday life and art are one and the same. Scrutinizing Cage’s emphasis on chance over intention, which rejected traditional artistic methods and caused an uproar among his peers, Haskins elucidates the ideas that lay behind these pillars of Cage’s work. Haskins also demystifies the influence of Eastern cultures, particularly Zen Buddhism, on Cage, including his use of the Chinese text I Ching as his standard composition tool in all his work after 1951. Adding to our understanding of the art, music, and ideas of the twentieth century, this book provides an engaging look at a man who continues to challenge and inspire artists worldwide.
Download or read book Before Sound written by Tiziano Manca and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2023-09-30 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Before Sound, composer Tiziano Manca investigates the premises for and consequences of a major change in his compositional practice: this change emphasizes the temporality of sound and, more recently, the relationship between sounding body and musician. It calls into question the traditional conception of composition and its relation to sound material. Accordingly, Manca examines the theoretical and aesthetic reasons for this shift by interweaving aesthetic reflection on his work with historical research on the notion of musical material and the theory of sound production.
Download or read book Music of Japan Today written by E. Michael Richards and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-20 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music of Japan Today examines cross-cultural confluences in contemporary Japanese art-music through multiple approaches from twenty international composers, performers, and scholars. Like the format of the MOJT symposia (1992-2007) held in the United States, the book is in two parts. In Part I, three award-winning Japanese composers discuss the construction of their compositional techniques and aesthetic orientations. Part II contains nineteen essays by scholars and creative musicians, arranged in a general chronological frame. The first section discusses connections of the music and ideas of Japanese composers during the time surrounding the Second World War to Japan’s politics; section two presents recent perspectives on the music and legacy of Japan’s most internationally renowned composer, Toru Takemitsu (1930-96). Section three investigates innovative, cross-cultural uses of Japanese and Western instruments (grouped by common instrumental families - voice, flutes, strings), shaped by historical traditions, physical design, and acoustic characteristics and constraints. Section four examines computer music by mid-career composers, and the final section looks at four current Japanese societies, within and “off-shore” Japan, and their music: spirituality and wind band music in Japan, avant-garde sound artists in Tokyo, Japanese composers in the UK, and the role of cell phone ringtones in the Japanese music market.
Download or read book Notes written by Music Library Association and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book John Cage written by Sara Haefeli and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-06 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This annotated bibliography uncovers the wealth of resources available on the life and music of John Cage, one of the most influential and fascinating composers of the twentieth-century. The guide will focus on documentary studies, archival resources, scholarly research, and autobiographical materials, and place the composer and his work in a larger context of postmodern philosophy, art and theater movements, and contemporary politics. It will support emerging scholarship and inquiry for future research on Cage, with carefully selected sources and useful annotations.
Download or read book Basic Mediantic Blues Mediantic written by Werner Pöhlert and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Lexikon zeitgen ssischer Musik aus sterreich written by Bernhard Günther and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 1282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians written by Stanley Sadie and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book EQUI Animo written by Wiebke Haas and published by Franzis Verlag. This book was released on 2018-07-30 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lassen wir Wiebke Haas einfach in über 220 ganz besonderen Fotografien von Pferden sprechen und vielleicht gelingt ein kleiner Einblick in die Seele dieser wundervollen Individuen. Dieses Buch ist ein Bildband, kein Lehrbuch, keine Anleitung – es ist eine Hommage an die Schönheit der Pferde, ein Buch der Muße für jeden Pferdefreund. In vier Chaptern zeigt Wiebke Haas ihre ganz persönliche Welt der Pferde, die ihr ganzes Leben bestimmen: „In meinem Leben dreht sich alles um Pferde. Ich weiß selber gar nicht genau, wie es dazu gekommen ist, denn für mich fühlt es sich an, als wäre ich bereits als »Pferdemensch« auf die Welt gekommen. Sicherlich wird es den meisten Pferdefreunden und Pferdehaltern ähnlich gehen. Kein Tag in meinem Leben vergeht, in dem ich mich nicht mit den Tieren beschäftige. Im Übrigen ist es mir ein Rätsel, warum nicht alle Menschen auf der Welt mit dem »Pferdevirus« infiziert sind.“ Chapter I - EQUUS – Indoor- und Studioporträts von einzigartiger Intensität. Diese Art zu fotografieren ist das ganz Spezielle und Unverkennbare an Wiebke Haas, die weltweit Anerkennung in Form von zahlreichen Auszeichnungen erhalten hat. „Die Arbeit mit Pferden im Studio bedeutet für mich vor allem eines: mich voll und ganz auf mein Gegenüber einzulassen. Umgebungsfaktoren, wie Wetter oder Hintergrund, spielen keine Rolle. Das ganze Setting ist auf das Wesentliche reduziert – auf das Pferd als Motiv selbst.“ Chapter II - HORSESTYLE – oder ganz einfach: Pferde haben ihren eigenen Kopf, und der ist ganz unverkennbar individuell, so wie der Charakter jedes Pferdes. „Pferde nicht nur abzubilden, sondern richtige, fast schon menschliche Posen aus ihnen herauszulocken, ist eine meiner größten Leidenschaften. Wichtig ist es mir bei diesem Projekt vor allem, dass die Pferde nicht nur ihre Mähnen schütteln, sondern der Eindruck einer echten Frisur entsteht. Gesichtsausdruck und Choreografie der Haare entstehen dabei nicht zufällig, sondern sind sorgsam geplant und ausgewählt. So unterschiedlich die Stars der Horsestyle-Serie sind, so verschieden sind auch ihre Charaktere.“ Chapter III - HOOFBEATS – der Hufschlag, der Rhythmus der Hufe lässt unser Herz pulsieren und uns eine einzigartige Verbindung zu diesen edlen Geschöpfen finden. „Die Bilder im Freien stellen für einen Fotografen eine ganz andere Herausforderung dar als Shootings mit Kunstlicht. Dabei gilt es, den Hintergrund passend zum Motiv wirken zu lassen. Ich muss mich nach Tageszeit und Licht richten und das Pferd in einem viel größeren Radius dorthin lenken, wo ich es brauche. Dabei gilt es vor allem, die Models so zu motivieren, dass sie sich freiwillig von ihrer temperamentvollen, starken Seite zeigen oder dass sie mir bei Porträtaufnahmen einen ganz intensiven Blick schenken.“ Chapter IV - WILD THINGS – ja, es gibt sie noch, die vollkommen frei in der Wildbahn lebenden Pferde. Frei von Menschen und der damit verbundenen Domestikation. Und doch gibt es eine Verbindung, ein unsichtbares Band zwischen Mensch und Animalis. „Ich habe mich in meinem Leben noch nie so sicher gefühlt wie direkt in einer Pferdegruppe. Die Wildpferde sind hoch sensibel und nehmen ihre Umgebung sehr genau wahr. Diese Sensibilität ist heimischen Pferden oftmals abtrainiert worden.“ Großformatiger Bildband mit über 220, teils preisdotierten Pferde-Porträts von Wiebke Haas
Download or read book The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians Egypt to Flor written by Stanley Sadie and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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