The Mechanic Muse - 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 Mechanic Muse write by Hugh Kenner. This book was released on 1988-04. The Mechanic Muse available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With his customary wit and erudition, one of America's most celebrated and distinguished critics examines the response of literary Modernism to environmental changes caused by technology. Focusing on Eliot, Pound, Joyce, and Beckett, Hugh Kenner explores how inventions as various as the linotype, the typewriter, the subway, and the computer altered the way these writers viewed and depicted the world. Whether discussing Joyce's acute awareness of the nuances of typesetting or Beckett's experiments with a "proto-computer-language," Kenner consistently approaches the works of these authors from fresh angles and offers a wealth of anecdotes and asides that will delight both the general reader and the literary specialist.
The Companion to The Mechanical Muse: The Piano, Pianism and Piano Music, c.1760–1850
The Companion to The Mechanical Muse: The Piano, Pianism and Piano Music, c.1760–1850 - 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 Companion to The Mechanical Muse: The Piano, Pianism and Piano Music, c.1760–1850 write by Derek Carew. This book was released on 2016-03-23. The Companion to The Mechanical Muse: The Piano, Pianism and Piano Music, c.1760–1850 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Intended as a supplement to The Mechanical Muse: The Piano, Pianism and Piano Music, c.1760-1850, this Companion provides additional information which, largely for reasons of space but also of continuity, it was not possible or desirable to include in that volume. The book is laid out alphabetically and full biographical entries are provided for all musical figures mentioned, including composers, performers, theoreticians and teachers, as well as piano makers and publishers of music, within the period covered by The Mechanical Muse. There are also entries on figures of importance from outside the period but whose influence is palpably important within it, such as J.S. Bach. As well as biographical information, all these entries contain lists of principal works and a section on further reading so that readers can follow up people and matters of particular interest. Also included in The Companion are entries devoted to particular works and other information of relevance, such as descriptions of musical forms, characteristics of dances and so on, as well as some technical information on music and explanations of technical terms pertaining to keyboard instruments themselves and to ways of playing them. This Companion is not intended to replace existing reference books such as Grove or Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, but will be useful for those who desire to know more about a particular topic and do not necessarily have access to more specialist reference works, or time to visit large or specialist libraries. As such it is indispensable to users of The Mechanical Muse.
The Mechanical Muse: The Piano, Pianism and Piano Music, c.1760-1850
The Mechanical Muse: The Piano, Pianism and Piano Music, c.1760-1850 - 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 Mechanical Muse: The Piano, Pianism and Piano Music, c.1760-1850 write by Derek Carew. This book was released on 2017-07-05. The Mechanical Muse: The Piano, Pianism and Piano Music, c.1760-1850 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book charts the piano's accession from musical curiosity to cultural icon, examining the instrument itself in its various guises as well as the music written for it. Both the piano and piano music were very much the product of the intellectual, cultural and social environments of the period and both were subject to many influences, directly and indirectly. These included character (individualism), the vernacular ('folk/popular') and creativity (improvisation), all of which are discussed generally and with respect to the music itself. Derek Carew surveys the most important pianistic genres of the period (variations, rondos, and so on), showing how these changed from their received forms into vehicles of Romantic expressiveness. The piano is also looked at in its role as an accompanying instrument. The Mechanical Muse will be of interest to anyone who loves the piano or the period, from the non-specialist to the music postgraduate.
"The Mechanical Muse: The Piano, Pianism and Piano Music, c.1760?850 "
"The Mechanical Muse: The Piano, Pianism and Piano Music, c.1760?850 " - 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 Mechanical Muse: The Piano, Pianism and Piano Music, c.1760?850 " write by Derek Carew. This book was released on 2017-07-05. "The Mechanical Muse: The Piano, Pianism and Piano Music, c.1760?850 " available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book charts the piano's accession from musical curiosity to cultural icon, examining the instrument itself in its various guises as well as the music written for it. Both the piano and piano music were very much the product of the intellectual, cultural and social environments of the period and both were subject to many influences, directly and indirectly. These included character (individualism), the vernacular ('folk/popular') and creativity (improvisation), all of which are discussed generally and with respect to the music itself. Derek Carew surveys the most important pianistic genres of the period (variations, rondos, and so on), showing how these changed from their received forms into vehicles of Romantic expressiveness. The piano is also looked at in its role as an accompanying instrument. The Mechanical Muse will be of interest to anyone who loves the piano or the period, from the non-specialist to the music postgraduate.
The Muse in the Machine
The Muse in the Machine - 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 Muse in the Machine write by T. R. Hummer. This book was released on 2011-08-15. The Muse in the Machine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Music, race, politics, and conscience. In these eight essays written over the span of a decade and a half, T. R. Hummer explains how, for him, such abiding concerns revolve around the practice of poetry and the evolution of a culturally responsible personal poetics. Hummer writes about the suicide of poet Vachel Lindsay, the culture wars at the National Endowment for the Arts, the 1991 Persian Gulf War, the divided soul of his native American South, and the salving, transcendent practice of musicianship. Inevitably entwined with a personal or cultural component, Hummer's criticism is thus grounded in experience that is always familiar and often straight to the heart in its rightness. In one of those statements of "poetic purpose" that goes hand in hand with a residency, guest editorship, or lecture tour, Hummer once wrote that "poetry inhabits and enunciates an incommensurable zone between individual and collective, between body and body politic, an area very ill-negotiated by most of us most of the time. Our culture, with its emphasis on the individual mind and body, teaches us very little about how even to think about the nature of this problem. . . . E pluribus unum is a smokescreen: what pluribus; what unum? And yet this phrase is an American mantra, as if it explained something." This is a quintessential Hummer moment: a writer has just given himself a good reason to quit. What Hummer knows must happen next is what The Muse in the Machine is all about.
