Music in the Moment
Title | Music in the Moment PDF eBook |
Author | Jerrold Levinson |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780801474293 |
"Jerrold Levinson's new book, Music in the Moment, makes a major contribution to the now flourishing field of philosophy of music. He has a daring thesis about music listening that is going to shake up the experts, and pose for them, and for us all...
Music in the Moment
Title | Music in the Moment PDF eBook |
Author | Jerrold Levinson |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 2018-09-05 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1501727664 |
What is required for a listener to understand a piece of music? Does aural understanding depend upon reflective awareness of musical architecture or large-scale musical structure? Jerrold Levinson thinks not. In contrast to what is commonly assumed, Levinson argues that basic understanding of music only requires properly grounded, present-focused attention, and that virtually everything in the comprehension of extended pieces of music that suggests explicit architectonic awareness can be explained without positing conscious grasp of relationships across broad spans. Levinson rejects the notion that keeping music's large-scale form before the mind is somehow essential to fundamental understanding of it. As evidence, he describes in detail the experience of listening to a wide range of music. He defends, with some qualifications, the views of nineteenth-century musician and psychologist Edmund Gurney, author of The Power of Sound, who argued that musical comprehension requires only attention to the evolution of music from moment to moment. Music theory standardly misapprehends the experience and mindset of most who know and love classical music, concludes Levinson. His book is a defense of the passionate and attentive, though architectonically unconcerned, music listener.
The Melodramatic Moment
Title | The Melodramatic Moment PDF eBook |
Author | Katherine Hambridge |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 295 |
Release | 2018-07-16 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 022656309X |
We seem to see melodrama everywhere we look—from the soliloquies of devastation in a Dickens novel to the abject monstrosity of Frankenstein’s creation, and from Louise Brooks’s exaggerated acting in Pandora’s Box to the vicissitudes endlessly reshaping the life of a brooding Don Draper. This anthology proposes to address the sometimes bewilderingly broad understandings of melodrama by insisting on the historical specificity of its genesis on the stage in late-eighteenth-century Europe. Melodrama emerged during this time in the metropolitan centers of London, Paris, Vienna, and Berlin through stage adaptations of classical subjects and gothic novels, and they became famous for their use of passionate expression and spectacular scenery. Yet, as contributors to this volume emphasize, early melodramas also placed sound at center stage, through their distinctive—and often disconcerting—alternations between speech and music. This book draws out the melo of melodrama, showing the crucial dimensions of sound and music for a genre that permeates our dramatic, literary, and cinematic sensibilities today. A richly interdisciplinary anthology, The Melodramatic Moment will open up new dialogues between musicology and literary and theater studies.
Dreams of Difference, Songs of the Same
Title | Dreams of Difference, Songs of the Same PDF eBook |
Author | Amy Herzog |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
Pages | 245 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0816660875 |
Musical spectacles are excessive and abstract, reconfiguring time and space and creating intense bodily responses. Amy Herzog's engaging work examines those instances where music and movement erupt from within more linear narrative frameworks. The representational strategies found in these films are often formulaic, repeating familiar story lines and stereotypical depictions of race, gender, and class. Yet she finds the musical moment contains a powerful disruptive potential. Dreams of Difference, Songs of the Same investigates the tension and the fusion of difference and repetition in films to ask, How does the musical moment work? Herzog looks at an eclectic mix of works, including the Soundie and Scopitone jukebox films, the musicals of French director Jacques Demy, the synchronized swimming spectacles of Esther Williams, and an apocalyptic musical by Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-liang. Several refrains circulate among these texts: their reliance on clichés, their rewriting of cultural narratives, and their hallucinatory treatment of memory and history. Drawing on the philosophical work of Gilles Deleuze, she explores all of these dissonances as productive forces, and in doing so demonstrates the transformative power of the unexpected.
The Blue Moment
Title | The Blue Moment PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Williams |
Publisher | Faber & Faber Classical Music & Dance |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Jazz |
ISBN | 9780571245079 |
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The Power of Sound
Title | The Power of Sound PDF eBook |
Author | Edmund Gurney |
Publisher | London : Smith, Elder |
Pages | 586 |
Release | 1880 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN |
Managed to a Moment: Success in the Elementary Music Classroom
Title | Managed to a Moment: Success in the Elementary Music Classroom PDF eBook |
Author | Mari Schay |
Publisher | Heritage Music Press |
Pages | 114 |
Release | 2019-09 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780787766085 |
Here's a lifeline for anyone who's had a frustrating day, week, or month in the elementary music classroom--and that, of course, includes all of us. Teaching music is hard. This insightful and affirming book makes it easier, outlining strategies for all the details that make your classroom a successful learning environment. You'll learn ways to manage yourself and your workload; your relationships with colleagues, students, and families; and how to plan and deliver curriculum.