A Musical View of the Universe
Title | A Musical View of the Universe PDF eBook |
Author | Ellen B. Basso |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Pages | 372 |
Release | 2017-11-15 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1512819654 |
A Musical View of the Universe is a study of the relationships between spoken myth and musical ritual in a native Brazilian community, the Carib-speaking Kalpalo of the Upper Xingu Basin. The book focuses on the meanings created and expressed through performance of artistic processes in which sound symbols provide a unifying interpretive matrix. Through sound symbols, Kalpalo ideas about types of beings, their relationships, and activities of mind are conceived, represented, and rendered apparent. The book includes the first collection of South American Indian narratives translated directly from the original language from taped performances. Ellen B. Basso's translations take into account the interaction among participants in the storytelling situation and the qualities of narrative performance that result.
Ancient Light
Title | Ancient Light PDF eBook |
Author | Alan P. Lightman |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 188 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9780674033634 |
Tells the story of cosmology, including its history, the theories and the evidence, the new discoveries, the outstanding questions and controversies.
Bach's Musical Universe: The Composer and His Work
Title | Bach's Musical Universe: The Composer and His Work PDF eBook |
Author | Christoph Wolff |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 2020-03-24 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0393651797 |
A concentrated study of Johann Sebastian Bach’s creative output and greatest pieces, capturing the essence of his art. Throughout his life, renowned and prolific composer Johann Sebastian Bach articulated his views as a composer in purely musical terms; he was notoriously reluctant to write about his life and work. Instead, he methodically organized certain pieces into carefully designed collections. These benchmark works, all of them without parallel or equivalent, produced a steady stream of transformative ideas that stand as paradigms of Bach’s musical art. In this companion volume to his Pulitzer Prize–finalist biography, Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician, leading Bach scholar Christoph Wolff takes his cue from his famous subject. Wolff delves deeply into the composer’s own rich selection of collected music, cutting across conventional boundaries of era, genre, and instrument. Emerging from a complex and massive oeuvre, Bach’s Musical Universe is a focused discussion of a meaningful selection of compositions—from the famous Well-Tempered Clavier, violin and cello solos, and Brandenburg Concertos to the St. Matthew Passion, Art of Fugue, and B-minor Mass. Unlike any study undertaken before, this book details Bach’s creative process across the various instrumental and vocal genres. This array of compositions illustrates the depth and variety at the essence of the composer’s musical art, as well as his unique approach to composition as a process of imaginative research into the innate potential of his chosen material. Tracing Bach’s evolution as a composer, Wolff compellingly illuminates the ideals and legacy of this giant of classical music in a new, refreshing light for everyone, from the amateur to the virtuoso.
Macro Photography
Title | Macro Photography PDF eBook |
Author | Don Komarechka |
Publisher | Don Komarechka Photography |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 2021-05-07 |
Genre | Photography |
ISBN | 0986820482 |
Step into a world of photography that most artists consider magical. The closer you get to things, the more fascinating they become. Unimaginable details can be captured with the aid of special photography techniques and equipment, detailed at length within these pages. Macro photographers play by a different rulebook. The challenges faced from the subject matter, the equipment and even the laws of physics make this an ambitious genre of photography. It can be abstract, it can tell stories, and it can spark your imagination. Author and “Mad Scientist” photographer Don Komarechka covers every area of macro photography, from simple beginnings and tips to help you get the most out of your first macro lens, all the way through a masterclass in the obscure. Topics include: - Redefining the rules of composition - Finding and exploring narratives we ignore - The challenges of magnification - Camera equipment choices and recommendations - Inexpensive ways to get “closer” - Controlling and sculpting light - Overcoming shallow focus - Using water droplets as lenses for enchanted refractions - The art of photographic discovery: “what if?” - Winter macro: snowflakes and freezing soap bubbles - Ultraviolet fluorescence macro - Stereoscopic 3D macro photography - MANY more topics down the rabbit hole
Man's View of the Universe
Title | Man's View of the Universe PDF eBook |
Author | Gerald E. Tauber |
Publisher | Random House Value Publishing |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN |
Music, Science, Philosophy
Title | Music, Science, Philosophy PDF eBook |
Author | Jamie C. Kassler |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 2023-05-31 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 100094669X |
This book stresses the interrelatedness of knowledge by extricating models that cut across traditional disciplinary boundaries. For example, science can find models from the technology and semantic field of music, music can find its models from the technology and semantic field of science, and each domain may be guided by a philosophical or metaphysical principle - thus, the title of the book. But the book itself is structured as a mirror image of its title. Chapters 1-6 provide instances of the role of music in such domains as epistemology and logic, as well as in the early modern sciences of developmental biology, continuum mechanics, anatomy and physiological psychology, whereas Chapters 7-10 provide instances of what some other domains of knowledge have given back to the philosophy and theory of music.
The Music of the Spheres
Title | The Music of the Spheres PDF eBook |
Author | Jamie James |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 1995-06 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780387944746 |
For centuries, scientists and philosophers believed the universe was a stately; ordered mechanism - mathematical and musical. The smooth operation of the cosmos created a divine harmony (perfect, spiritual, eternal) which composers sought to capture and express. With The Music of the Spheres, readers will see how this scientific philosophy emerged, how it was shattered by changing views of the universe and the rise of Romanticism, and to what extent (if at all) it survives today. From Pythagoras to Newton, Bach to Beethoven, and on into the twentieth century, it is a spellbinding examination of the interwoven fates of science and music throughout history.