Download or read book Valeriy Polekh written by David Gladen and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2018-05-28 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading Russian hornist Valeriy Polekh recalls his fascinating friends, life and career, spanning the early Soviet era to the collapse of Russian communism. From a factory sponsored orchestra, he rose to high levels of musicianship and Russian society. Translated by David Gladen.
Download or read book The Horn written by Renato Meucci and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich and fascinating account of one of music history's most ancient, varied, and distinctive instruments From its origins in animal horn instruments in classical antiquity to the emergence of the modern horn in the seventeenth century, the horn appears wherever and whenever humans have made music. Its haunting, timeless presence endures in jazz and film music, as well as orchestral settings, to this day. In this welcome addition to the Yale Musical Instrument Series, Renato Meucci and Gabriele Rocchetti trace the origins of the modern horn in all its variety. From its emergence in Turin and its development of political and diplomatic functions across European courts, to the revolutionary invention of valves, the horn has presented in innumerable guises and forms. Aided by musical examples and newly discovered sources, Meucci and Rocchetti's book offers a comprehensive account of an instrument whose history is as complex and fascinating as its music.
Download or read book Music of the Soviet Era 1917 1991 written by Levon Hakobian and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-11-25 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a comprehensive and detailed survey of music and musical life of the entire Soviet era, from 1917 to 1991, which takes into account the extensive body of scholarly literature in Russian and other major European languages. In this considerably updated and revised edition of his 1998 publication, Hakobian traces the strikingly dramatic development of the music created by outstanding and less well-known, ‘modernist’ and ‘conservative’, ‘nationalist’ and ‘cosmopolitan’ composers of the Soviet era. The book’s three parts explore, respectively, the musical trends of the 1920s, music and musical life under Stalin, and the so-called ’Bronze Age’ of Soviet music after Stalin’s death. Music of the Soviet Era: 1917–1991 considers the privileged position of music in the USSR in comparison to the written and visual arts. Through his examination of the history of the arts in the Soviet state, Hakobian’s work celebrates the human spirit’s wonderful capacity to derive advantage even from the most inauspicious conditions.
Download or read book Valeriy Polekh written by Gladen David (author) and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Music News from Prague written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ionospheres written by Robert Schunk and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-20 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the physical, plasma and chemical processes controlling ionospheres, upper atmospheres and exospheres, for researchers and graduates.
Download or read book Dennis Brain written by Stephen Gamble and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British horn player Dennis Brain (1921-1957) is commonly described by such statements as "the greatest horn player of the 20th Century," "a genius," and "a legend." He was both a prodigy and popularizer, famously performing a concerto on a garden hose in perfect pitch. On his usual concert instrument his tone was of unsurpassed beauty and clarity, complemented by a flawless technique. The recordings he made with Herbert von Karajan of Mozart's horn concerti are considered the definitive interpretations. Brain enlisted in the English armed forces during World War II for seven years, joining the National Symphony Orchestra in wartime in 1942. After the war he filled the principal horn positions in both the Philharmonia and Royal Philharmonic Orchestras. He later formed his own wind quintet and began conducting. Composers including Benjamin Britten and Paul Hindemith lined up to write music for him. Even fifty years after his tragic death at the age of 36 in an auto accident in 1957, Peter Maxwell Davies was commissioned to write a piece in his honor. Stephen Gamble and William Lynch have conducted numerous interviews with family, friends, and colleagues and uncovered information in the BBC archives and other lesser known sources about recordings that were previously unknown. This volume describes Brain's life and analyzes in depth his musical career. Its appendices of information on performances will appeal to music historians, and its details on Brain's instruments and equipment will be useful to horn players.
Download or read book Ninth Joint International Symposium on Atmospheric and Ocean Optics Atmospheric Physics written by Gennadii G. Matvienko and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Creative Hornist written by Jeffrey Agrell and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-20 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conventional horn wisdom has always been that one simply doesn't go exploring with the horn. It simply isn't done. You play the ink. Basta! Other instruments - say, instruments with a jazz tradition - are allowed off the leash, but horn? Uh-uh, no way, no how. It's too difficult. It's dumb. It's dangerous (you might make a mistake!). It's scary. It's not the norm. It's embarrassing. You're too young. You're too old. You haven't had the proper training. You don't have time. It's against the rules/tradition/laws of man and nature. Why bother? There's nothing out that there that the experts haven't already discovered. What are you going to play, anyway? If you try to make something up, it will sound mistake-ridden and bad. Who do you think you are? Remember what happened to Icarus and his winged experiments! Be sensible! Just. Don't.The arguments, brimming propriety and good sense, go on and on. They are, in fact, built in to our unconscious fundamental understanding of our definition of horn playing, so that the mere idea of 'exploring' with the horn almost never occurs to us, and any flicker of desire to do so is immediately rejected - if it ever surfaces at all. The Creative Hornist is a collection of countervailing and iconoclastic essays and information to persuade you to create your own music and discover your own musical voice. Don't wait any longer. Start now - today! - enjoying the other half of music and musicianship that has been missing.
Download or read book Horn Player s Audition Handbook written by Arthur LaBar and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 1999-10-19 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Horn Player's Audition Handbook provides a handy, one-volume reference guide to the literature, especially for those players preparing for an imminent auditions, containing, as it does, the repertoire most frequently asked for by American orchestras. Since audition lists almost always include a few "non-standard" works, the well-versed student will also want to have employed the more comprehensive collections of excerpts in the course of his/her general preparation for an orchestral career. However, the advantages of having the most "important" audition material under one cover will readily be appreciated and makes this book a welcome addition to the literature.
Download or read book Advances in Geosciences written by Kenji Satake and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2010 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This invaluable volume set of Advances in Geosciences continues the excellent tradition of the Asia-Oceania scientific community in providing the most up-to-date research results on a wide range of geosciences and environmental science. The information is vital to the understanding of the effects of climate change, extreme weathers on the most populated regions and fastest moving economies in the world. Besides, these volumes also highlight original papers from many prestigious research institutions which are doing cutting edge study in atmospheric physics, hydrological science and water resource, ocean science and coastal study, planetary exploration and solar system science, seismology, tsunamis, upper atmospheric physics and space science.
Download or read book THE BOOK OF REVELATION FROM ALPHA TO OMEGA written by Roy Martin and published by Urlink Print & Media, LLC. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roy Martin is a college graduate with thirty-one years of service as an employee with the United States Government, but this is obviously not what qualifies him to write the Book of Revelation From Alpha to Omega. What would qualify someone to write about the very book in the Bible that many people shun, even preachers? The only requirement is that God calls for any task is at God's discretion. He doesn't have anyone he depends on to help him make his selections. Roy was leading a Bible study group in his church when someone said they would like to study the book of Revelation. Roy agreed to continue to lead the study group. He did in-depth research and kept detailed notes of what he found. After about six study sessions, Roy said that God spoke these distinctive words to him, "I want you to put this in a book." Shortly after this, God spoke to him again and said, " e title of this book shall be ¬ e Book of Revelation From Alpha to Omega." What a title! Whenever the writing became very difficult, Roy would remember the title, and it would inspire him to press on.
Download or read book Mistaken Obsession written by Eve Grafton and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-29 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bethany Randford arrived in Buenos Aries, Argentina, from Australia in the hunt for a small hotel she could possibly afford. She had seen it advertised in a hotel real estate newspaper and called ahead to book a visit to see if it would be what she was hoping for. She was met at the airport by Alessandro Rodrigos who was the hotel manager and for them both it was love at first sight. After a month they were married and it was only a short time later their differences surfaced. When their 2 year old son was kidnapped it was the turning point to reassess their marriage.Sandro's father had been shot at the family ranch and was unable to walk which made Sandro very busy with his care. Meanwhile a woman who claimed she was impregnated by Sandro's uncle was causing trouble, she claimed her son was the now dead elder brother's child and as the woman with the Mistaken Obsession would not leave them alone, despite all the proof they could find to change her story. Sandro's father shot Maria and her son after her husband Matias died of a terrible poisoning attack, which Sandro accused Maria of saying she had to get Matias out of the way to make a claim against the ranch as he was trying to stop her.Eventually all was resolved and Sandro and Bethany and their two children set off to Paris to visit with Ana, Sandro's sister that he had not seen for some years. However, it was not the joyful reunion they intended.
Download or read book Mental Actions written by Lucy O'Brien and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-06-11 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume investigates the neglected topic of mental action, and shows its importance for the metaphysics, epistemology, and phenomenology of mind. Twelve specially written essays address such questions as the following: Which phenomena should we count as mental actions — imagining, remembering, judging, for instance? How should we explain our knowledge of our mental actions, and what light does that throw on self-knowledge in general? What contributions do mental actions make to our consciousness? What is the relationship between the voluntary and the active, in the mental sphere? What are the similarities and differences between mental and physical action, and what can we learn about each from the other?
Download or read book The Alphorn through the Eyes of the Classical Composer written by Frances Jones and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘The Alphorn through the Eyes of the Classical Composer’ is the first and definitive book to be written about the alphorn in English. It has been written with English-speaking readers in mind, as it examines the extensive interest of primarily non-Swiss composers, writers and artists in the alphorn as a symbol of the Alps, the influence and significance of the alphorn in culture, literature and the arts across the globe, and the ways in which the instrument has been specifically utilised by the Swiss as the iconic representation of their country. This book also explores the use of the musical language of the alphorn call, to ascertain why and how such references as those of Berlioz or Beethoven can convey so much meaning. Dr Jones seeks out what it is that a composer brings into the concert hall, the theatre, the opera house, the church, or the drawing room by such a quotation, to what heritage they are referring, and upon what basis there are grounds for an assumption that such a reference will be understood by an audience. The book, which will be of interest to researchers in Swiss cultural studies and ethnomusicology, builds on Dr Jones’s research and PhD thesis. The six chapters deal with a variety of topics, including a basic introduction to the alphorn and an exploration of the promotion of the instrument as the symbol of Switzerland, as well as the reasons behind symbolic references to alphorn motifs by European and British composers in concert repertoire, jazz and film.
Download or read book The Ionosphere written by Dave Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Horn Technique written by Gunther Schuller and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1962 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gunther Schuller is a well-known composer, conductor, educator, and author of books on jazz; his remarkable career also includes playing in the horn section of the Cincinnati Symphony while still in his teens and in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra as Principal Horn from 1945 to 1959. Firstpublished in 1962, this revised edition of his classic book to horn playing includes an extensive guide to the literature for the instrument, with listings of more than 1,000 pieces from the solo, chamber, and orchestral repertory.
