Music and the Skillful Listener - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Music and the Skillful Listener write by Denise Von Glahn. This book was released on 2013-04-09. Music and the Skillful Listener available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For Denise Von Glahn, listening is that special quality afforded women who have been fettered for generations by the maxim "be seen and not heard." In Music and the Skillful Listener, Von Glahn explores the relationship between listening and musical composition focusing on nine American women composers inspired by the sounds of the natural world: Amy Beach, Marion Bauer, Louise Talma, Pauline Oliveros, Joan Tower, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Victoria Bond, Libby Larsen, and Emily Doolittle. Von Glahn situates "nature composing" among the larger tradition of nature writing and argues that, like their literary sisters, works of these women express deeply held spiritual and aesthetic beliefs about nature. Drawing on a wealth of archival and original source material, Von Glahn skillfully employs literary and gender studies, ecocriticism and ecomusicology, and the larger world of contemporary musicological thought to tell the stories of nine women composers who seek to understand nature through music.
Music and the Skillful Listener
Music and the Skillful Listener - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Music and the Skillful Listener write by Denise Von Glahn. This book was released on 2013-04-09. Music and the Skillful Listener available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explores the relationship between listening and musical composition focusing on nine American women composers inspired by the sounds of the natural world
The Sounds of Place
The Sounds of Place - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Sounds of Place write by Denise Von Glahn. This book was released on 2021-09-14. The Sounds of Place available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Composers like Charles Ives, Duke Ellington, Aaron Copland, and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich created works that indelibly commemorated American places. Denise Von Glahn analyzes the soundscapes of fourteen figures whose "place pieces" tell us much about the nation's search for its own voice and about its ever-changing sense of self. She connects each composer's feelings about the United States and their reasons for creating a piece to the music, while analyzing their compositional techniques, tunes, and styles. Approaching the compositions in chronological order, Von Glahn reveals how works that celebrated the wilderness gave way to music engaged with humanity's influence--benign and otherwise--on the landscape, before environmentalism inspired a return to nature themes in the late twentieth century. Wide-ranging and astute, The Sounds of Place explores high art music's role in the making of national myth and memory.
Listening to Music
Listening to Music - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Listening to Music write by Douglas Moore. This book was released on 1963. Listening to Music available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Here is a book written for all who derive real pleasure from listening to music and want to learn more about it. Its aim is to increase enjoyment through intelligent appreciation. Without presupposing any technical knowledge on the part of the reader, Douglas Moore explains what happens in a piece of music, analyzing familiar compositions as examples.First he discusses music as a language--how it conveys definite thoughts and feelings. Then he takes up in turn the various elements found in all music--tone, rhythm, melody, harmony; finally, he shows why music must have form and traces its development from the simplest folk-song to the complex modern symphony.Douglas Moore's skillful interpretation of musical expression makes this an ideal handbook for those who wish to develop their own taste through a fuller understanding of how music speaks to the listener.
Skillful listening
Skillful listening - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Skillful listening write by Aaron Green. This book was released on 2011. Skillful listening available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
