Download or read book Ten Masterpieces of Music written by Harvey Sachs and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some pieces of music survive. Most fall into oblivion. What gives the ten masterpieces selected for this book their exceptional vitality? In this penetrating volume, Harvey Sachs, acclaimed biographer and historian of classical music, takes readers into the hearts of ten extraordinary works of classical music in ten different genres, showing both the curious novice and the seasoned listener how to recognize, appreciate, and engage with these masterpieces on a historical and compositional level. Far from what is often thought, classical music is neither dead nor dying. As a genre, it is constantly evolving, its pieces passing through countless permutations and combinations yet always retaining that essential élan vital, or life force. The works collected here, composed in the years between 1784 and 1966, are a testament to this fact. As Sachs skillfully demonstrates, they have endured not because they were exceptionally well-made or interesting but because they were created by composers—Mozart and Beethoven; Schubert, Schumann, Berlioz, Verdi, and Brahms; Sibelius, Prokofiev, and Stravinsky—who had a particular genius for drawing music out of their deepest wellsprings. “Through music,” Sachs writes, “they universalized the intimate.” In describing how music actually sounds, Ten Masterpieces of Music seems to do the impossible, animating the process of composing as well as the coming together of disparate scales and melodies, trills and harmonies. It tells us, too, how particular compositions came to be, often revealing that the pieces we now consider “classic” were never intended to be so. In poignant, exquisite prose, Sachs shows how Mozart, a former child prodigy under constant pressure to produce new music, hastily penned Piano Concerto No. 17 in G major, one of his finest piano concertos, for a teenage student, and likewise demonstrates how Goethe’s Faust, Part One, became a springboard for the musical imagination of the French composer Berlioz. As Sachs explains, these pieces are not presented as candidates for a new “Top Ten.” They represent neither the most well-known nor the most often-performed works of each composer. Instead, they were chosen precisely because he had something profound to say about them, about their composers, about how each piece fits into its composer’s life, and about how each of these lives can be contextualized by time and place. In fact, Sachs encourages readers to form their own favorites, and teaches them how to discern special characteristics that will enhance their own listening experiences. With Ten Masterpieces of Music, it becomes evident that Sachs has lived with these pieces for a veritable lifetime. His often-soaring descriptions of the works and the dramatic lives of the men who composed them bring a heightened dimension to the musical perceptions of all listeners, communicating both the sheer improbability of a work becoming a classic and why certain pieces—these ten among them—survive the perilous test of time.
Download or read book Ten Masterpieces of Music written by Harvey Sachs and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some pieces of music survive. Most fall into oblivion. What gives the ten masterpieces selected for this book their exceptional vitality? In this penetrating volume, Harvey Sachs, acclaimed biographer and historian of classical music, takes readers into the hearts of ten extraordinary works of classical music in ten different genres, showing both the curious novice and the seasoned listener how to recognize, appreciate, and engage with these masterpieces on a historical and compositional level. Far from what is often thought, classical music is neither dead nor dying. As a genre, it is constantly evolving, its pieces passing through countless permutations and combinations yet always retaining that essential élan vital, or life force. The works collected here, composed in the years between 1784 and 1966, are a testament to this fact. As Sachs skillfully demonstrates, they have endured not because they were exceptionally well-made or interesting but because they were created by composers—Mozart and Beethoven; Schubert, Schumann, Berlioz, Verdi, and Brahms; Sibelius, Prokofiev, and Stravinsky—who had a particular genius for drawing music out of their deepest wellsprings. “Through music,” Sachs writes, “they universalized the intimate.” In describing how music actually sounds, Ten Masterpieces of Music seems to do the impossible, animating the process of composing as well as the coming together of disparate scales and melodies, trills and harmonies. It tells us, too, how particular compositions came to be, often revealing that the pieces we now consider “classic” were never intended to be so. In poignant, exquisite prose, Sachs shows how Mozart, a former child prodigy under constant pressure to produce new music, hastily penned Piano Concerto No. 17 in G major, one of his finest piano concertos, for a teenage student, and likewise demonstrates how Goethe’s Faust, Part One, became a springboard for the musical imagination of the French composer Berlioz. As Sachs explains, these pieces are not presented as candidates for a new “Top Ten.” They represent neither the most well-known nor the most often-performed works of each composer. Instead, they were chosen precisely because he had something profound to say about them, about their composers, about how each piece fits into its composer’s life, and about how each of these lives can be contextualized by time and place. In fact, Sachs encourages readers to form their own favorites, and teaches them how to discern special characteristics that will enhance their own listening experiences. With Ten Masterpieces of Music, it becomes evident that Sachs has lived with these pieces for a veritable lifetime. His often-soaring descriptions of the works and the dramatic lives of the men who composed them bring a heightened dimension to the musical perceptions of all listeners, communicating both the sheer improbability of a work becoming a classic and why certain pieces—these ten among them—survive the perilous test of time.
Download or read book 10 Masterpieces of Ancient Greek Literature written by Homer and published by Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The earliest surviving works of ancient Greek literature, dating back to the early Archaic period, are the two epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey. These two epics, along with the Homeric Hymns and the two poems of Hesiod, Theogony and Works and Days, comprised the major foundations of the Greek literary tradition that would continue into the Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman periods. This carefully selected collection contains: The Odyssey of Homer, The Works and Days, Theogony of Hesiod, The Complete Poems of Sappho, Medea of Euripides, Antigone of Sophocles, Oresteia of Aeschylus: Agamemnon, The Choephori, Eumenides, The Odes of Anacreon
Download or read book The Adventure Collection 10 Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die Illustrated written by Jonathan Swift and published by Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adventure! Real-life adventures from history and fictitious adventures inspired by what could be! Journeys to captivate your mind, enthrall your spirit, and get the blood moving in your veins! This collection holds the best time-tested tales of adventure that have been read and reread by millions of readers throughout the ages. Beware! By opening this book, you risk immersing yourself in Robinson Crusoe’s incredible struggle to survive after being shipwrecked on a desert island; or discovering the witty and brave exploits of Robin Hood; or submerging yourself with the Nautilus on its underwater voyage. You might even find yourself answering the ancient call of your ancestors from a snowy ridge deep in the Yukon. Are you ready to brave the adventure? This collection includes: Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe Howard Pyle - The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Jonathan Swift - Gulliver’s Travels Jules Verne - A Journey to the Center of the Earth Jules Verne - Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea Mark Twain - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island Rudyard Kipling - The Jungle Book Jack London - White Fang
Download or read book Master Pieces written by Will Lach and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mix and match pieces of the world's greatest artworks from Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa to Gilbert Stuart's George Washington to create new portraits. Flip Flora's pretty hairstyle on the head of a Kabuki actor. Top Frida Kahlo with the straw hat of Vincent van Gogh. Printed on heavy board and laminated, Master-Pieces will stand up to the most enthusiastic flipping, at home or in the classroom. Including full images with captions, short descriptions of the works, and artists’ biographies, it features artworks from the world’s most magnificent public collections, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art to the Louvre. With one thousand possible portrait combinations, Master-Pieces will have children looking at art in a whole new way. Featured artists include Leonardo da Vinci · Vincent van Gogh · Frida Kahlo · Sandro Botticelli · Gilbert Stuart · Toshusai Sharaku · Archibald J. Motley Jr. · Giuseppe Arcimboldo · Rogier van der Weyden · Diego Velázquez Featured museums include The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · Museum of Fine Arts, Boston · National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC · Art Institute of Chicago · The Louvre, Paris · The Uffizi, Florence · Skokloster Castle, Sweden · The Prado, Madrid · Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
Download or read book Ten Masterpieces written by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ten Scripts written by Jay Han-San and published by Litres. This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Divorce accountant (Brian) from LA wrote ten screenplays, his wife threw them away during divorce. The garbage collector (Keel) found it and kept after reading. Being a good Samaritan he put them all anonymously on the front porch of the heavyweight veteran of the film industry (Winston) whose garbage he’d been collecting for several years. It was Winston’s wife who convinced him to go through all of them, which he did with pleasure. He tried to find the author but his searches ended nowhere...
Download or read book David s Sling written by Victoria C. Gardner Coates and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout Western history, the societies that have made the greatest contributions to the spread of freedom have created iconic works of art to celebrate their achievements. Yet despite the enduring appeal of these works—from the Parthenon to Michelangelo’s David to Picasso’s Guernica—histories of both art and democracy have ignored this phenomenon. Millions have admired the artworks covered in this book but relatively few know why they were commissioned, what was happening in the culture that produced them, or what they were meant to achieve. Even scholars who have studied them for decades often miss the big picture by viewing them in isolation from a larger story of human striving. David’s Sling places into context ten canonical works of art executed to commemorate the successes of free societies that exerted political and economic influence far beyond what might have been expected of them. Fusing political and art history with a judicious dose of creative reconstruction, Victoria Coates has crafted a lively narrative around each artistic object and the free system that inspired it. This book integrates the themes of creative excellence and political freedom to bring a fresh, new perspective to both. In telling the stories of ten masterpieces, David’s Sling invites reflection on the synergy between liberty and human achievement.
Download or read book The Expanding Art of Comics written by Thierry Groensteen and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Expanding Art of Comics: Ten Modern Masterpieces, prominent scholar Thierry Groensteen offers a distinct perspective on important evolutions in comics since the 1960s through close readings of ten seminal works. He covers over half a century of comics production, sampling a single work from the sixties (Ballad of the Salt Sea by Hugo Pratt), seventies (The Airtight Garage of Jerry Cornelius by Moebius), eighties (Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons), and nineties (Epileptic by David B.). Then this remarkable critic, scholar, and author of The System of Comics and Comics and Narration delves into recent masterpieces, such as Building Stories by Chris Ware. Each of these books created an opening, achieved a breakthrough, offered a new narrative model, or took up an emerging tendency and perfected it. Groensteen recaptures the impact with which these works, each in its own way, broke with what had gone before. He regards comics as an expanding art, not only because groundbreaking works such as these are increasing in number, but also because it is an art that has only gradually become aware of its considerable potential and is unceasingly opening up new expressive terrain.
Download or read book Early Childhood Themes Using Art Masterpieces written by Sandra E. Fisher and published by Teacher Created Resources. This book was released on 2001 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Maths masterpieces written by Gunter Schymkiw and published by R.I.C. Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Masterpieces of European Painting 1800 1920 in the Metropolitan Museum of Art written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2007 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Graded List of Studies and Songs for Singing Teachers and Singers written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Masterpieces for the Organ written by William Crane Carl and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ten Masterpieces written by Camille Mauclair and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vitruvius the Ten Books on Architecture written by Vitruvius Pollio and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Masterpieces written by Orson Scott Card and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-03-02 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of the best science fiction short stories of the 20th century as selected and evaluated by critically-acclaimed author Orson Scott Card. Featuring stories from the genre's greatest authors: Isaac Asimov • Arthur C. Clarke • Robert A. Heinlein • Ursula K. Le Guin • Ray Bradbury • Frederik Pohl • Harlan Ellison • George Alec Effinger • Brian W. Aldiss • William Gibson & Michael Swanwick • Theodore Sturgeon • Larry Niven • Robert Silverberg • Harry Turtledove • James Blish • George R. R. Martin • James Patrick Kelly • Karen Joy Fowler • Lloyd Biggle, Jr. • Terry Bisson • Poul Anderson • John Kessel • R.A. Lafferty • C.J. Cherryh • Lisa Goldstein • Edmond Hamilton In much of the science fiction of the past, the twenty-first century existed only in the writers’ imaginations. Now that it’s here, it’s time to take a look back at the last one hundred years in science fiction through the works of the most celebrated and acclaimed authors of the century—to see where we’ve been and just how far we’ve come. Along with a critical essay by Orson Scott Card reassessing science fiction in the twentieth century, Masterpieces includes short fiction by writers who have forged a permanent place for science fiction in the popular culture of today...and tomorrow. It offers a glimpse of the greatest works that mixed science with fiction in trying to figure out humanity’s place in the universe. Featuring bold, brave, and breathtaking stories, this definitive collection will stand the test of time in both this century and those to come.
