James MacMillan Studies
Title | James MacMillan Studies PDF eBook |
Author | George Parsons |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 265 |
Release | 2020-08-06 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1108492533 |
Eleven international scholars analyse key works by Sir James MacMillan, and contextualise his unique musical-theological approach.
The Music of James MacMillan
Title | The Music of James MacMillan PDF eBook |
Author | Phillip A. Cooke |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9781783273706 |
Known for his orchestral, operatic and choral works, James MacMillan (b. 1959) appeals across the spectrum of contemporary music making. James MacMillan appeals across the spectrum of contemporary music making and is particularly celebrated for his orchestral, operatic and choral pieces. This book, published in time to mark the composer's sixtieth birthday, is thefirst in-depth look at his life, work and aesthetic. From his beginnings in rural Ayrshire and his early work with Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, through the international breakthrough success of The Confession of Isobel Gowdie, the continuing success of works such as the percussion concerto Veni, Veni, Emmaneul and his choral pieces, to his current position as one of the most prominent British composers of his generation, the book explores MacMillan's compositional influences over time. It looks closely at his most significant works and sets them in a wider context defined by contemporary composition, culture and the arts in general. The book also considers MacMillan's strong Catholic faith and how this has influenced his work, along with his politics and his on-going relationship with Scottish nationalism. With the support of the composer and his publisher and unprecedented access to interviews and previously unpublished materials, the book not only provides an appraisal of MacMillan's work but also insights into what it means to be a prominent composer and artist in the twenty-first century. PHILLIP A. COOKE is a Composer and Senior Lecturer and Head of Music at the University of Aberdeen. He has previously co-edited The Music of Herbert Howells for Boydell.
Educational Research
Title | Educational Research PDF eBook |
Author | James H. McMillan |
Publisher | |
Pages | 415 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9780132748070 |
This book educates students to become intelligent consumers of educational research and introduces basic research principles to those who may eventually use research in their work. Principles for conducting research and criteria for evaluating its overall credibility are presented in a concise manner, with numerous excerpts from published studies, to enable students to learn to read, understand, and evaluate research, and judge the usefulness of the findings for educational practice. There is extensive use of aides to facilitate student learning, including chapter objectives, roadmaps and concept maps, study questions, consumer tips, over 150 examples from published articles (also includes full length articles), and author reflections. The Sixth Edition includes a more extensive presentation of experimental and quasi-experimental design, consistent with the current emphasis on conducting "scientific research," qualitative data analysis, effect size, and two new chapters devoted to mixed-method studies and action research.
The Sonic Episteme
Title | The Sonic Episteme PDF eBook |
Author | Robin James |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 164 |
Release | 2019-12-02 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1478007370 |
In The Sonic Episteme Robin James examines how twenty-first-century conceptions of sound as acoustic resonance shape notions of the social world, personhood, and materiality in ways that support white supremacist capitalist patriarchy. Drawing on fields ranging from philosophy and sound studies to black feminist studies and musicology, James shows how what she calls the sonic episteme—a set of sound-based rules that qualitatively structure social practices in much the same way that neoliberalism uses statistics—employs a politics of exception to maintain hegemonic neoliberal and biopolitical projects. Where James sees the normcore averageness of Taylor Swift and Spandau Ballet as contributing to the sonic episteme's marginalization of nonnormative conceptions of gender, race, and personhood, the black feminist political ontologies she identifies in Beyoncé's and Rihanna's music challenge such marginalization. In using sound to theorize political ontology, subjectivity, and power, James argues for the further articulation of sonic practices that avoid contributing to the systemic relations of domination that biopolitical neoliberalism creates and polices.
Fundamentals of Educational Research
Title | Fundamentals of Educational Research PDF eBook |
Author | James H. McMillan |
Publisher | |
Pages | 450 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9780133579161 |
Revised edition of: Educational research. 6th ed. A2012.
Studies in Henry James
Title | Studies in Henry James PDF eBook |
Author | Richard P. Blackmur |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Pages | 262 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780811208642 |
"A bibliographical note: Blackmur's essays on Henry James": p. 243-244. Includes index.
James Sprunt Historical Studies
Title | James Sprunt Historical Studies PDF eBook |
Author | William Whatley Pierson (Jr.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 522 |
Release | 1926 |
Genre | History |
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