Download or read book Michael Nyman The Piano Collection written by Wise Publications and published by Wise Publications. This book was released on 2005-10-19 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nyman is one of the most commercially successful composers of the 20th century and his music has struck a chord with audiences the world over. His award-winning scores have graced countless significant films including The Piano, Detroit: Ruin Of A City and Gattaca. This special collection of Nyman's Piano music includes previously unpublished works from Nyman's 2005 CD The Piano Sings. All works have been transcribed and restored to solo Piano arrangements, offering his most successful and best-loved pieces in one superb volume. Songlist: - All Imperfect Things - The Attraction Of The Pedalling Ankle - Big My Secret - Candlefire - Chasing Sheep Is Best Left To Shepherds - Chatterbox Waltz - The Departure - Diary Of Love - The Embrace - The Exchange - Franklyn - Goodbye Moortie - The Heart Asks Pleasure First - Here To There - If - Jack - Lost And Found - The Mood That Passes Through You - The Morrow - Odessa Beach - The Schoolroom - Sheep ’n’ Tides - Silver-Fingered Fling - Time Lapse - Why?
Download or read book Experimental Music written by Michael Nyman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-07-29 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Composer Michael Nyman's classic 1974 account of the postwar experimental tradition in music.
Download or read book Michael Nyman The Piano Collection written by and published by Wise Publications. This book was released on 2005-10 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-five of Nyman's pieces, transcribed and restored to solo piano.
Download or read book The Music of Michael Nyman written by Pwyll ap Siôn and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nyman's rise to international prominence during the last three decades has made him one of the world's most successful living composers. His music has nevertheless been criticized for its parasitic borrowing of other composers' ideas and for its relentless self-borrowing. In this first book-length study in English, Pwyll ap Siôn places Nyman's writings within the general context of Anglo-American experimentalism, minimalism and post-minimalism, and provides a series of useful contexts from which controversial aspects of Nyman's musical language can be more clearly understood and appreciated.
Download or read book 150 More of the Most Beautiful Songs Ever Songbook written by Hal Leonard Corp. and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2006-07-01 with total page 1363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). A fitting follow-up to one of the most popular songbooks ever 150 of the Most Beautiful Songs Ever , this collection contains 150 more classics with no duplication of songs between the two volumes. Songs include: All I Ask of You * All the Way * Beautiful in My Eyes * Can You Feel the Love Tonight * Change the World * Cry Me a River * Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful? * Don't Know Why * Dream a Little Dream of Me * Easy Living * Everything Happens to Me * A Fine Romance * Grow Old with Me * I Remember You * I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm * Imagine * Let's Fall in Love * Love Me Tender * Misty * My Heart Will Go on (Love Theme from Titanic ) * They Say It's Wonderful * Time After Time * A Whole New World * Wonderful Tonight * You Raise Me Up * and more.
Download or read book The Library of Modern Piano Music written by Amsco Publications and published by Wise Publications. This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Library Of Modern Piano Music strives to illustrate the vigour and variety of modern piano music. These original compositions span standalone pieces, albums, suites and arrangements from talents as diverse as Igor Stravinsky, Francis Poulenc, Lennox Berkeley, Witold Lutosławski , Hans Werner Henze, Peter Maxwell Davies, Philip Glass and Ludovico Einaudi. As well as these concert pieces, a number of works have been written specially for screen. From Michael Nyman’s celebrated music for ‘The Piano’ to Richard Rodney Bennett’s score for the now rarely seen but superb 1980s miniseries of ‘Tender Is The Night’, there is ample proof of the richness added to international screen dramas by first-rate composers. These and over 100 more piano pieces make The Library Of Modern Piano Music a true classic.
Download or read book Michael Nyman Revisiting The Piano written by Chester Music and published by Chester Music. This book was released on 1998-06-01 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available for the first time for solo piano, Revisiting the Piano presents four fabulous arrangements from the motion-picture soundtrack to The Piano, plus two of the film’s favourite themes. This is another wonderfully presented edition with stills from the film, an original manuscript sketch/ note from Nyman to lead actress Holly Hunter, who performed the pieces in the film, and an introduction on Michael Nyman’s music and influences. With clean and accurate engravings, this is the perfect way to explore the touching music of Michael Nyman, an imaginative and instinctive composer. Songlist: - Big My Secret - Here To There - Lost And Found - The Embrace - All Imperfect Things - The Heart Asks Pleasure First
Download or read book Michael Nyman Collected Writings written by Pwyll ap Siôn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over three decades Michael Nyman's music has succeeded in reaching beyond the small community of contemporary music aficionados to a much wider range of listeners. An important element in unlocking the key to Nyman's success lies in his writings about music, which preoccupied him for over a decade from the late 1960s to the early 1980s. During this time Nyman produced over 100 articles, covering almost every conceivable musical style and genre - from the Early Music revival and the West's interest in 'world' music, or from John Cage and minimalism to rock and pop. Nyman initiated a number of landmark moments in the course of late twentieth-century music along the way: he was one of the first to critique the distinction between the European avant-garde and the American experimental movement; he was the first to coin the term 'minimalism' in relation to the music of (then largely unknown) Steve Reich and Terry Riley, and later Philip Glass; the first to seriously engage with the music of the English experimental tradition and the importance of Cornelius Cardew, and to identify the importance of Art Colleges in nurturing and developing a radical alternative to modernism; and one of the first writers to grasp the significance of post-minimalists such as Brian Eno and Harold Budd, and to realize how these elements could be brought together into a new aesthetic vision for his own creative endeavours, which was formulated during the late 1970s and early 80s. Much of what transformed and defined Nyman's musical character may be found within the pages of this volume of his writings, comprehensively edited and annotated for the first time, and including previously unpublished material from Nyman's second interview with Steve Reich in 1976. There is also much here to engage the minds of those who are interested in pre-twentieth century music, from Early and Baroque music (Handel and Purcell in particular) to innovative features in Haydn, spatial elements in Berlioz, or Bruckner and Mahler's symphonic works.
Download or read book The Piano written by Susan Tomes and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating history of the piano explored through 100 pieces chosen by one of the UK's most renowned concert pianists "Tomes . . . casts her net widely, taking in chamber music and concertos, knotty avant-garde masterworks and (most welcome) jazz."--Richard Fairman, Financial Times, "Best Books of 2021: Classical Music" "[One of] the most beautiful books I got my hands on this year. . . . About the shaping of this maddening, glorious, unconquerable instrument."--Jenny Colgan, Spectator, "Books of the Year" An astonishingly versatile instrument, the piano allows just two hands to play music of great complexity and subtlety. For more than two hundred years, it has brought solo and collaborative music into homes and concert halls and has inspired composers in every musical genre--from classical to jazz and light music. Charting the development of the piano from the late eighteenth century to the present day, pianist and writer Susan Tomes takes the reader with her on a personal journey through 100 pieces including solo works, chamber music, concertos, and jazz. Her choices include composers such as Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Robert Schumann, Tchaikovsky, Debussy, Gershwin, and Philip Glass. Looking at this history from a modern performer's perspective, she acknowledges neglected women composers and players including Fanny Mendelssohn, Maria Szymanowska, Clara Schumann, and Amy Beach.
Download or read book Peaceful Piano Solos written by Hal Leonard Corp. and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Piano Solo Songbook). Relax at the piano with this exceptional collection of satisfying and profoundly beautiful pieces to play. Songs include: American Beauty Theme (Thomas Newman) * Big My Secret (from The Piano ) (Michael Nyman) * Cinema Paradiso Love Theme (Ennio Morricone) * Dawn (from Pride & Prejudice ) (Dario Marianelli) * Fly (Ludovico Einaudi) * In the Morning Light (Yanni) * Light of the Seven (from Game of Thrones ) (Ramin Djawadi) * Metamorphosis Two (Philip Glass) * A Model of the Universe (from The Theory of Everything ) (Johann Johannsson) * Somewhere in Time Theme (John Barry) * Watermark (Enya) * Written on the Sky (Max Richter) * and more.
Download or read book Jane Campion s The Piano written by Harriet Elaine Margolis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of Jane Campion's The Piano from a variety of critical perspectives.
Download or read book The Music of Michael Nyman written by Pwyll ap Siôn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nyman's rise to international prominence during the last three decades has made him one of the world's most successful living composers. His music has nevertheless been criticized for its parasitic borrowing of other composers' ideas and for its relentless self-borrowing. In this first book-length study in English, Pwyll ap Si laces Nyman's writings within the general context of Anglo-American experimentalism, minimalism and post-minimalism, and provides a series of useful contexts from which controversial aspects of Nyman's musical language can be more clearly understood and appreciated. Drawing upon terms informed by intertextual theory in general, appropriation and borrowing are first introduced within the context of twentieth-century art music and theory. Intertextual concepts are explained and their terms defined before Nyman's musical language is considered in relation to a series of intertextual classifications and types. These types then form the basis of a more in-depth study of his works during the second half of the book, ranging from opera and chamber music to film. Rather than restricting style and technique, Nyman's intertextual approach, on the contrary, is shown to provide his music with an almost infinite amount of variety, flexibility and diversity, and this has been used to illustrate a wide range of technical, aesthetic and expressive forms. He composes with his ear towards the past as if it were a rich quarry to mine, working like a musical archaeologist, uncovering artefacts and chiselling fresh and vibrant sonic edifices out of them.
Download or read book All Imperfect Things the Solo Piano Music of Michael Nyman written by Sally Whitwell and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Piano Playbook Film Music written by Wise Publications and published by Wise Publications. This book was released on 2013-05-08 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Piano Playbook: Film Music features superb new solo Piano arrangements of 45 inspiring film music pieces. Song List: - Le Moulin (from Amelie) - Any Other Name (from American Beauty) - Angela Undress (from American Beauty) - Frank Lucas (from American Gangster) - Theme (from Atonement) - Prelude/Main Theme (from The Belles Of St Trinian's) - All Love Can Be (from A Beautiful Mind) - End Credits (from Between Strangers) - Underwater (from Big Fish) - Theme (from Breakfast At Tiffany's) - Theme (from Brokeback Mountain) - Reprise (from Catch Me If You Can) - End Credits (from Catch Me If You Can) - Funeral (from The Constant Gardener) - Justin's Breakdown (from The Constant Gardener) - Kothbiro (from The Constant Gardener) - The Eternal Vow (from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) - The Artifact And Living (from Donnie Darko) - Evan And God (from Evan Almighty) - Love Theme (from Elizabeth: The Golden Age) - Theme (from The English Patient) - Promise Me (from First Knight) - Feather Theme (from Forrest Gump) - Eva's Theme (from Freedom Writers) - The Departure (from Gattaca) - Theme (from Ghost) - Honor Him (from Gladiator) - We Are Now Free (from Gladiator) - Theme (from The Great Escape) - Maestro (from The Holiday) - Prologue (from In Bruges) - Walking Bruges (from In Bruges) - Ray At The Mirror (from In Bruges) - L'Origine Nascosta (from Intouchables) - Cache-Cache (from Intouchables) - Glasgow Love Theme (from Love Actually) - Nocturne in C-sharp minor (from The Pianist) - The Heart Asks Pleasure First (from The Piano) - Theme (from The Pink Panther) - Adagio For Strings (from Platoon) - Theme (from Ratatouille) - Theme (from Road To Perdition) - Suite (from Romeo And Juliet [1968]) - Balcony Scene (from Romeo + Juliet [1996]) - Theme (from Somewhere In Time) - Reprise (from Spirited Away) - Hatikvah (from "The Hope") (from Munich) - End Credits (from Munich) - Hymn To The Fallen (from Saving Private Ryan) - Theme (from Schindler's List) - Ritornare (from This Is England) - George Smiley (from Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) - It's A Life (from The Truman Show)
Download or read book Heinemann GCSE Music written by Mark Phillips and published by Heinemann. This book was released on 2002 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing audio CDs with relevant excerpts and a CD-ROM with supporting files, this pack offers an integrated approach to the requirements of performing, composing, listening and appraising for Key Stage 4. The pack also offers a copy of the student book and a teacher's resource file.
Download or read book Michael Nyman Collected Writings written by Pwyll ap Siôn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over three decades Michael Nyman's music has succeeded in reaching beyond the small community of contemporary music aficionados to a much wider range of listeners. An important element in unlocking the key to Nyman's success lies in his writings about music, which preoccupied him for over a decade from the late 1960s to the early 1980s. During this time Nyman produced over 100 articles, covering almost every conceivable musical style and genre - from the Early Music revival and the West's interest in 'world' music, or from John Cage and minimalism to rock and pop. Nyman initiated a number of landmark moments in the course of late twentieth-century music along the way: he was one of the first to critique the distinction between the European avant-garde and the American experimental movement; he was the first to coin the term 'minimalism' in relation to the music of (then largely unknown) Steve Reich and Terry Riley, and later Philip Glass; the first to seriously engage with the music of the English experimental tradition and the importance of Cornelius Cardew, and to identify the importance of Art Colleges in nurturing and developing a radical alternative to modernism; and one of the first writers to grasp the significance of post-minimalists such as Brian Eno and Harold Budd, and to realize how these elements could be brought together into a new aesthetic vision for his own creative endeavours, which was formulated during the late 1970s and early 80s. Much of what transformed and defined Nyman's musical character may be found within the pages of this volume of his writings, comprehensively edited and annotated for the first time, and including previously unpublished material from Nyman's second interview with Steve Reich in 1976. There is also much here to engage the minds of those who are interested in pre-twentieth century music, from Early and Baroque music (Handel and Purcell in particular) to innovative features in Haydn, spatial elements in Berlioz, or Bruckner and Mahler's symphonic works.
Download or read book The Ashgate Research Companion to Minimalist and Postminimalist Music written by Keith Potter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years the music of minimalist composers such as La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich and Philip Glass has, increasingly, become the subject of important musicological reflection, research and debate. Scholars have also been turning their attention to the work of lesser-known contemporaries such as Phill Niblock and Eliane Radigue, or to second and third generation minimalists such as John Adams, Louis Andriessen, Michael Nyman and William Duckworth, whose range of styles may undermine any sense of shared aesthetic approach but whose output is still to a large extent informed by the innovative work of their minimalist predecessors. Attempts have also been made by a number of academics to contextualise the work of composers who have moved in parallel with these developments while remaining resolutely outside its immediate environment, including such diverse figures as Karel Goeyvaerts, Robert Ashley, Arvo Pärt and Brian Eno. Theory has reflected practice in many respects, with the multimedia works of Reich and Glass encouraging interdisciplinary approaches, associations and interconnections. Minimalism’s role in culture and society has also become the subject of recent interest and debate, complementing existing scholarship, which addressed the subject from the perspective of historiography, analysis, aesthetics and philosophy. The Ashgate Research Companion to Minimalist and Postminimalist Music provides an authoritative overview of established research in this area, while also offering new and innovative approaches to the subject.
