Hindemith. [Mit Noten.] - London [usw.]: Oxford Univ. Press 1970. 59 S. 8°
Title | Hindemith. [Mit Noten.] - London [usw.]: Oxford Univ. Press 1970. 59 S. 8° PDF eBook |
Author | Ian Kemp |
Publisher | London ; New York : Oxford University Press |
Pages | 72 |
Release | 1970 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
Capturing Sound
Title | Capturing Sound PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Katz |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 2010-10-07 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0520261054 |
Fully revised and updated, this text adds coverage of mashups and auto-tune, explores recent developments in file sharing, and includes an expanded conclusion and bibliography.
Instruments for New Music
Title | Instruments for New Music PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Patteson |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 251 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0520288025 |
Listening to instruments -- "The joy of precision" : mechanical instruments and the aesthetics of automation -- "The alchemy of tone" : Jörg Mager and electric music -- "Sonic handwriting" : media instruments and musical inscription -- "A new, perfect musical instrument" : the trautonium and electric music in the 1930s -- The expanding instrumentarium
The Melancholy Science
Title | The Melancholy Science PDF eBook |
Author | Gillian Rose |
Publisher | Verso Books |
Pages | 289 |
Release | 2014-01-07 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 178168152X |
The Melancholy Science is Gillian Rose’s investigation into Theodor Adorno’s work and legacy. Rose uncovers the unity discernable among the many fragments of Adorno’s oeuvre, and argues that his influence has been to turn Marxism into a search for style. The attempts of Adorno, Lukács and Benjamin to develop a Marxist theory of culture centred on the concept of reification are contrasted, and the ways in which the concept of reification has come to be misused are exposed. Adorno’s continuation for his own time of the Marxist critique of philosophy is traced through his writings on Hegel, Kierkegaard, Husserl and Heidegger. His opposition to the separation of philosophy and sociology is shown by examination of his critique of Durkheim and Weber, and of his contributions to the dispute over positivism, his critique of empirical social research and his own empirical sociology. Gillian Rose shows Adorno’s most important contribution to be his founding of a Marxist aesthetic that offers a sociology of culture, as demonstrated in his essays on Kafka, Mann, Beckett, Brecht and Schönberg. Finally, Adorno’s ‘Melancholy Science’ is revealed to offer a ‘sociology of illusion’ that rivals both structural Marxism and phenomenological sociology as well as the subsequent work of the Frankfurt School.
Harun Farocki
Title | Harun Farocki PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Elsaesser |
Publisher | Amsterdam University Press |
Pages | 415 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 905356635X |
Filmmaker, film essayist, installation artist, writer: the Berlin artist Harun Farocki has devoted his life to the power of images. Over the thirty-plus years of his career, Farocki has explored not the images of life but rather the life of images that surrounds us in newspapers, cinema, books, television, and advertising. Harun Farocki examines, from different critical perspectives, his vast oeuvre, which includes three feature films, critical media pieces, children’s television features, “learning films” in the tradition of Brecht, and installation pieces. Interviews, a selection of Farocki’s own writings, and an annotated filmography complete a valuable biography of this pioneering artist and his legendary career.
Origin of Negative Dialectics
Title | Origin of Negative Dialectics PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Buck-Morss |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 1979-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0029051509 |
Susan Buck-Morss examines and stresses the significance of Critical Theory for young West Germ intellectuals after World War II. Looking at the differences between German and American situations during this time period, Origin of Negative Dialectics convincingly sketches the learning process that ended in antagonism. “[The Origin of Negative Dialectics] is by far the best introduction for the American reader to the complex, esoteric, and illusive structure of thought of one of the most seminal Marxian thinkers of the twentieth century. It belongs on the same shelf as Martin Jay’s history of the Frankfurt School, The Dialectical Imagination.” – Lewis A. Coser, State University of New York, Stony Brook
Bach's Cello Suites, Volumes 1 and 2
Title | Bach's Cello Suites, Volumes 1 and 2 PDF eBook |
Author | Allen Winold |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 279 |
Release | 2007-05-10 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 025301347X |
J. S. Bach's Suites for Unaccompanied Cello are among the most cherished and frequently played works in the entire literature of music, and yet they have never been the subject of a full-length music analytical study. The musical examples herein include every note of all movements (so one needs no separate copy of the music while reading the book), and undertakes both basic analyses—harmonic reduction, functional harmonic analysis, step progression analysis, form analysis, and syntagmatic and paradigmatic melodic analysis—and specialized analyses for some of the individual movements. Allen Winold presents a comprehensive study intended not only for cellists, but also for other performers, music theorists, music educators, and informed general readers.