Download or read book The secrets of the hidden canons in J S Bach s masterpieces written by Giovanni Pietro Orefice and published by Youcanprint. This book was released on 2024-02-08 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why does J.S. Bach's music deeply resonate in our soul and in our churches like no other one? How can treasures keep hidden in a work that was studied and explored during three centuries?You'll find here the lonely and passionate discovery of marvelous multiple canons structures in many of the famous works of a music history's giant, crowned by surprising revelations, that give some new path of attributing the pieces. The analysis of the historical and cultural context and of some contemporaries' masterpiece let emerge Bach's outstanding earing and compositive talent, explaining his excellence during the organ tournaments. This unveiling is the starting point for a speculative journey using room-acoustics, psycho-acoustics and music performer's practice knowledges to explain why Bach did adopt this compositive strategy, this "secret ingredient" to excel.
Download or read book The secrets of the hidden canons in J S Bach s masterpieces I segreti dei canoni nascosti nei capolavori di J S Bach written by Giovanni Pietro Orefice and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perché la musica di J.S. Bach risuona nella nostra anima e nelle chiese come nessun'altra? Come fanno ad esserci tesori ancora nascosti in un'opera studia- ta e sviscerata da tre secoli? In questo libricino (Büchlein) si dipana un in- gegnoso percorso di scoperta di strutture rimaste incredibilmente nascoste in molte opere famose di un mostro sacro della storia della musica come Bach. È un'avventura solitaria e appassionata che ha tracciato la vita dell'autore per decenni, premiata da rivelazioni sorprendenti, che illuminano punti oscuri di alcuni spartiti, oggetto di dispute musicali, o che permettono di completare pezzi mancanti o abbozzati di altri spartiti, o di attribuirne la paternità. Dopo una analisi leggera del contesto storico e culturale ed un confronto con opere di altri musicisti della sua epoca, emerge la stupefacente capacità uditiva e compositiva di Bach, che sbaraglia acusticamente gli altri compositori di tutti i tempi, come sbaragliò i suoi concorrenti nei tornei di improvvisazione all'organo. La scoperta delle meravigliose strutture di canone multiplo è la base della ricerca speculativa della seconda parte del testo, tra acustica delle sale, psicoacustica e pratica esecutiva, volta a spiegare perché Bach abbia adottato questa strategia compositiva, questo "ingrediente segreto" di successo.verborgene mehrstimmige Kanons - canons multiples cachés -
Download or read book The Canons and Fugues of J S Bach written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of original analyses of J.S. Bach's fugues and canons, with links to external Internet resources on J.S. Bach.
Download or read book Evening in the Palace of Reason written by James R. Gaines and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2006-02-28 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johann Sebastian Bach created what may be the most celestial and profound body of music in history; Frederick the Great built the colossus we now know as Germany, and along with it a template for modern warfare. Their fleeting encounter in 1757 signals a unique moment in history where belief collided with the cold certainty of reason. Set at the tipping point between the ancient and modern world, Evening in the Palace of Reason captures the tumult of the eighteenth century, the legacy of the Reformation, and the birth of the Enlightenment in this extraordinary tale of two men.
Download or read book Matthaus Passion St Matthew Passion written by J.S. Bach and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach written by Johann Sebastian Bach and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 2001-01-02 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here's a newly engraved edition of this famous book used by teachers and students for centuries. Includes Arias, Chorales, Marches, Menuets, Partitas, Polonaises, Suites, a Rondeau, Musette, Sarabande, Prelude, and several pieces for voice. This edition, which follows the Callwey edition of 1935, contains the music J. S. Bach presented to his wife, Anna Magdalena, in an ornate book in 1725 as a birthday present.. Kalmus Editions are primarily reprints of Urtext Editions, reasonably priced and readily available. They are a must for students, teachers, and performers.
Download or read book The Great Passion written by James Runcie and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From acclaimed bestselling author James Runcie, a meditation on grief and music, told through the story of Bach's writing of the St. Matthew Passion. In 1727, Stefan Silbermann is a grief-stricken thirteen-year-old, struggling with the death of his mother and his removal to a school in distant Leipzig. Despite his father's insistence that he try not to think of his mother too much, Stefan is haunted by her absence, and, to make matters worse, he's bullied by his new classmates. But when the school's cantor, Johann Sebastian Bach, takes notice of his new pupil's beautiful singing voice and draws him from the choir to be a soloist, Stefan's life is permanently changed. Over the course of the next several months, and under Bach's careful tutelage, Stefan's musical skill progresses, and he is allowed to work as a copyist for Bach's many musical works. But mainly, drawn into Bach's family life and away from the cruelty in the dorms and the lonely hours of his mourning, Stefan begins to feel at home. When another tragedy strikes, this time in the Bach family, Stefan bears witness to the depths of grief, the horrors of death, the solace of religion, and the beauty that can spring from even the most profound losses. Joyous, revelatory, and deeply moving, The Great Passion is an imaginative tour de force that tells the story of what it was like to sing, play, and hear Bach's music for the very first time.
Download or read book Style and Idea written by Arnold Schoenberg and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most influential collections of music ever published, Style and Idea includes Schoenberg’s writings about himself and his music as well as studies of many other composers and reflections on art and society.
Download or read book Bach s Musical Universe The Composer and His Work written by Christoph Wolff and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concentrated study of Johann Sebastian Bach’s creative output and greatest pieces, capturing the essence of his art. Throughout his life, renowned and prolific composer Johann Sebastian Bach articulated his views as a composer in purely musical terms; he was notoriously reluctant to write about his life and work. Instead, he methodically organized certain pieces into carefully designed collections. These benchmark works, all of them without parallel or equivalent, produced a steady stream of transformative ideas that stand as paradigms of Bach’s musical art. In this companion volume to his Pulitzer Prize–finalist biography, Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician, leading Bach scholar Christoph Wolff takes his cue from his famous subject. Wolff delves deeply into the composer’s own rich selection of collected music, cutting across conventional boundaries of era, genre, and instrument. Emerging from a complex and massive oeuvre, Bach’s Musical Universe is a focused discussion of a meaningful selection of compositions—from the famous Well-Tempered Clavier, violin and cello solos, and Brandenburg Concertos to the St. Matthew Passion, Art of Fugue, and B-minor Mass. Unlike any study undertaken before, this book details Bach’s creative process across the various instrumental and vocal genres. This array of compositions illustrates the depth and variety at the essence of the composer’s musical art, as well as his unique approach to composition as a process of imaginative research into the innate potential of his chosen material. Tracing Bach’s evolution as a composer, Wolff compellingly illuminates the ideals and legacy of this giant of classical music in a new, refreshing light for everyone, from the amateur to the virtuoso.
Download or read book New Bach Reader written by Hans T David and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1999-10-26 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The New Bach Reader' contains a collection of documents intended to bring the composer to life.
Download or read book Godel Escher Bach written by Douglas R. Hofstadter and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this book applies Godel's seminal contribution to modern mathematics to the study of the human mind and the development of artificial intelligence.
Download or read book Cantata Texts Sacred and Secular written by Johann Sebastian Bach and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Complexity written by M. Mitchell Waldrop and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “If you liked Chaos, you’ll love Complexity. Waldrop creates the most exciting intellectual adventure story of the year” (The Washington Post). In a rarified world of scientific research, a revolution has been brewing. Its activists are not anarchists, but rather Nobel Laureates in physics and economics and pony-tailed graduates, mathematicians, and computer scientists from all over the world. They have formed an iconoclastic think-tank and their radical idea is to create a new science: complexity. They want to know how a primordial soup of simple molecules managed to turn itself into the first living cell—and what the origin of life some four billion years ago can tell us about the process of technological innovation today. This book is their story—the story of how they have tried to forge what they like to call the science of the twenty-first century. “Lucidly shows physicists, biologists, computer scientists and economists swapping metaphors and reveling in the sense that epochal discoveries are just around the corner . . . [Waldrop] has a special talent for relaying the exhilaration of moments of intellectual insight.” —The New York Times Book Review “Where I enjoyed the book was when it dove into the actual question of complexity, talking about complex systems in economics, biology, genetics, computer modeling, and so on. Snippets of rare beauty here and there almost took your breath away.” —Medium “[Waldrop] provides a good grounding of what may indeed be the first flowering of a new science.” —Publishers Weekly
Download or read book Mahler in Context written by Charles Youmans and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-19 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mahler in Context explores the institutions, artists, thinkers, cultural movements, socio-political conditions, and personal relationships that shaped Mahler's creative output. Focusing on the contexts surrounding the artist, the collection provides a sense of the complex crosscurrents against which Mahler was reacting as conductor, composer, and human being. Topics explored include his youth and training, performing career, creative activity, spiritual and philosophical influences, and his reception after his death. Together, this collection of specially commissioned essays offers a wide-ranging investigation of the ecology surrounding Mahler as a composer and a fuller appreciation of the topics that occupied his mind as he conceived his works. Readers will benefit from engagement with lesser known dimensions of Mahler's life. Through this broader contextual approach, this book will serve as a valuable and unique resource for students, scholars, and a general readership.
Download or read book The Faber Pocket Guide to Bach written by Sir Nicholas Kenyon and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-03-17 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The music of J.S.Bach has a unique power and attraction some 300 years after it was written. From annual performances of the great Passions and BBC Radio 3's hugely successful Bach Christmas, to its use in adverts, films and popular arrangements, the imaginative strength of Bach's music continues to draw listeners to explore its mysteries. This new Pocket Guide looks at all Bach's music, sacred and secular, and explores why he speaks so profoundly to our age about both the spiritual and the sensual in life. Among the features of this easy-to-use book: The Bach Top Ten Bach: The music work by work Performing Bach today Bach: The life year by year What people said about Bach Accessible and easy to use, Nicholas Kenyon provides for the first time an up-to-date survey of all Bach's major works in the light of the latest research, from Masses to Cantatas, Concertos to Suites, and recommends the best CDs and further reading.
Download or read book The Elements of Orchestral Arrangement written by William Lovelock and published by Collins Educational. This book was released on 1968 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Interpreting Popular Music written by David Brackett and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a well-developed vocabulary for discussing classical music, but when it comes to popular music, how do we analyze its effects and its meaning? David Brackett draws from the disciplines of cultural studies and music theory to demonstrate how listeners form opinions about popular songs, and how they come to attribute a rich variety of meanings to them. Exploring several genres of popular music through recordings made by Billie Holiday, Bing Crosby, Hank Williams, James Brown, and Elvis Costello, Brackett develops a set of tools for looking at both the formal and cultural dimensions of popular music of all kinds.
