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Taylor & Francis Dictionary of American Classical Composers
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Making it HUGE in Video Games
Book SynopsisMaking it HUGE in Video Games recounts the astonishing journey of an unassuming, middle-of-the-bell-curve young man, rising from mundane beginnings to scale the dizzying heights of artistic distinction and financial success in the worldwide video game industry.This is the story of Chance Thomas, a moderately talented musician who struggled and grew to compose original scores for some of the most well-known entertainment properties in the world. Detailed personal accounts and instructive side bars carry readers across the jagged peaks and valleys of an absolutely achievable career in video games. World-famous IP's get personal treatment here The Lord of the Rings, Marvel, Avatar, Dungeons & Dragons, Warhammer, DOTA 2, King Kong, The Settlers, and many more.Readers will discover unvarnished true stories about starting out, pitching and pursuing gigs, negotiating contracts, composing anTable of ContentsIntroductionAcknowledgementsChapter 01. Music Degree... What Now?Chapter 02. Quest for Glory and Grammy AwardsChapter 03. The Lord of the Rings, Part OneChapter 04. King KongChapter 05. Left BehindChapter 06. Academy AwardChapter 07. The Lord of the Rings, Part TwoChapter 08. EA GamesChapter 09. AvatarChapter 10. GDC, GANG, and GSCChapter 11. Warcraft and Other Peripheral Life SaversChapter 12. DOTA 2Chapter 13. Faeria and RoguebookChapter 14. Might & Magic and Combat of GiantsChapter 15. Rise and Fall of HUGEsoundChapter 16. WarhammerChapter 17. Swinging For The FencesChapter 18. Avatar 2Chapter 19. The SettlersChapter 20. Church MusicChapter 21. Securing the Future
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Britten Experienced
Book SynopsisWho writes the books we read about music that excites us, and why? Is classical music' all about class? Related questions underpin this partly polemical study, written by an academic who believes that the Humanities, to be really humane, must confront their methods and aims. Two recent studies of Benjamin Britten have specifically interested the author, who was educated in a world where the composer was a living subject of criticism and praise, his works reflecting values, worries and dramas that were not just about music'. Franklin's response is to question the recent writers, proposing that, like theirs, his own story conditioned when and how he experienced Britten. This he unfolds autobiographically in and around the discussion of specific works. Recalling his encounters with the composer as a schoolboy, as a student and opera-goer, and then as a teacher, he challenges recent assertions about Britten and modernism in the period.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Female Composers Conductors Performers
Book SynopsisDrawing upon extensive archival research, interview material, and musical analysis, Female Composers, Conductors, Performers: Musiciennes of Interwar France, 19191939 presents an innovative study of women working as professional musicians in France between the two World Wars. Hamer positions the activities, achievements, and reception of women composers, conductors, and performers against a contemporary socio-political climate that was largely hostile to female professionalism. The musical styles and techniques of Marguerite Canal, Jeanne Leleu, Germaine Tailleferre, Yvonne Desportes, Elsa Barraine, and Claude Arrieu are discussed with reference to significant works dating from the interwar period. Hamer highlights the activities of Jane Evrard and her Orchestre féminin de Paris as well as the reception of the Orchestra of the Union des Femmes Professeurs et Compositeurs de Musique, a contemporary pro-suffrage organisation that was dedicated to defending the collective intereTable of ContentsList of Music Examples. Preface and Acknowledgements. List of Abbreviations. Part 1:The Contested Boundaries of Interwar musiciennes. Chapter 1: Conservative Politics and Domestic Ideals: The Social Position of musiciennes in Interwar France. Chapter 2:The Challenge of Professional musiciennes: The Education, Career Opportunities, and Reception of Women Musicians. Part 2: Women as Composers. Chapter 3: Early Female Winners of the Prix de Rome: Marguerite Canal and Jeanne Leleu. Chapter 4: In Les Six: The Case of Germaine Tailleferre. Chapter 5: Paul Dukas’s Female Composition Students: Elsa Barraine, Yvonne Desportes, and Claude Arrieu. Part 3: Women as Performers. Chapter 6:Women Conductors and All-Woman Orchestras. Chapter 7: On the Concert Platform: Women as Perfomers. Chapter 8: Conclusion. Bibliography. Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Blixa Bargeld and Einsturzende Neubauten German
Book SynopsisAt the end of his life, Pierre Schaeffer commented that his musical and sound experiments had attempted to go beyond ''do-re-mi''. This had a direct bearing on EinstÃrzende Neubauten''s musical philosophy and work, with the musicians always striving to extend the boundaries of music in sound, instrumentation and purpose. The group are one of the few examples of ''rock-based'' artists who have been able to sustain a breadth and depth of work in a variety of media over a number of years while remaining experimental and open to development. Jennifer Shryane provides a much-needed analysis of the group''s important place in popular/experimental music history. She illustrates their innovations with found- and self-constructed instrumentation, their Artaudian performance strategies and textual concerns, as well as their methods of independence. EinstÃrzende Neubauten have also made a consistent and unique contribution to the development of the independent German Language Contemporary MusicTrade Review'... this book is an important contribution to the research of German popular music.' Popular MusicTable of ContentsPart I Context for Destruction; prologue1 Prologue: Being There/Not Being There; Chapter 1 Architecture, Angels and Utopia; Chapter 2 Kattrin’s Drum: Germany & Music – Identity, Politics & Memory; Chapter 3 Free to Make Noise; Chapter 4 Demonic Berlin; Part II Performing Destruction; prologue2 Prologue: ‘They were always quoting Artaud’; Chapter 5 Strategies against the Body; Chapter 6 Strategies against the Corner; Chapter 7 Strategies against the Voice; Chapter 8 Strategies against the Scream; Chapter 9 Strategies against the Text; Part III Performing Reconstruction; prologue3 Prologue: ‘We know we have witnesses’; Chapter 10 ‘A Small Utopia’; conclusion Conclusion ‘To infect others’ Einstürzende Neubauten Warten auf die Barbaren Jo Mitchell’s Reconstruction of Concerto for Voice and Machinery ‘She is Happy like Roadworks’;
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Status Quo Mighty Innovators of 70s Rock
Book SynopsisStatus Quo were one of the most successful, influential and innovative bands of the 1970s. During the first half of the decade, they wrote, recorded and performed a stream of inventive and highly complex rock compositions, developed 12 bar forms and techniques in new and fascinating ways, and affected important musical and cultural trends. But, despite global success on stage and in the charts, they were maligned by the UK music press, who often referred to them as lamebrained three-chord wonders, and shunned by the superstar Disk Jockeys of the era, who refused to promote their music. As a result, Status Quo remain one of the most misunderstood and underrated bands in the history of popular music. Cope redresses that misconception through a detailed study of the band's music and live performances, related musical and cultural subtopics and interviews with key band members. The band is reinstated as a serious, artistic and creative phenomenon of the 1970s scene and shown to be vitalTrade Review2020 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research - WinnerBest Historical Research in Recorded Rock and Popular MusicBest History Table of ContentsList of tables Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1. Quo Vadis Chapter 2. A New Recipe for Pye Chapter 3. Modus Vetus Chapter 4. Rockin’ All Over the Swirls Chapter 5. Praegressus Quo Chapter 6. Softer Ride or a Softer Side? Chapter 7. The Q Factor Bibliography Discography Index
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Taylor & Francis John Cage
Book SynopsisThis annotated bibliography uncovers the wealth of resources available on the life and music of John Cage, one of the most influential and fascinating composers of the twentieth-century. The guide will focus on documentary studies, archival resources, scholarly research, and autobiographical materials, and place the composer and his work in a larger context of postmodern philosophy, art and theater movements, and contemporary politics. It will support emerging scholarship and inquiry for future research on Cage, with carefully selected sources and useful annotations.Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgementsChapter 1: John Cage: History and HistoriographyChapter 2: Catalog of Compositions by InstrumentationChapter 3: Sources and Reference MaterialsChapter 4: Biographical and Historical StudiesChapter 5: Work StudiesChapter 6: Cage in Connection to OthersChapter 7: Compositional Techniques and Aesthetic PhilosophyChapter 8: Political and Social PhilosophyIndex of Authors and EditorsWork IndexSubject Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Research Companion to Modernism in
Book SynopsisModernism in music still arouses passions and is riven by controversies. Taking root in the early decades of the twentieth century, it achieved ideological dominance for almost three decades following the Second World War, before becoming the object of widespread critique in the last two decades of the century, both from critics and composers of a postmodern persuasion and from prominent scholars associated with the new musicology'. Yet these critiques have failed to dampen its ongoing resilience. The picture of modernism has considerably broadened and diversified, and has remained a pivotal focus of debate well into the twenty-first century. This Research Companion does not seek to limit what musical modernism might be. At the same time, it resists any dilution of the term that would see its indiscriminate application to practically any and all music of a certain period.In addition to addressing issues already well established in modernist studies such as aesthetics, Table of ContentsIntroduction Björn Heile and Charles Wilson Part I Foundations 1: The Birth of Modernism – Out of the Spirit of Comedy James R. Currie 2: What Was Contemporary Music? The New, the Modern and the Contemporary in the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) Sarah Collins 3: Institutions, Artworlds, New Music Martin Iddon 4: Modernism and History David J. Code 5: Musical Modernity, the Beautiful and the Sublime Edward Campbell Part II Positions 6: Reactive Modernism J. P. E. Harper-Scott 7: Musical Modernism, Global: Comparative Observations Björn Heile 8: Musical Modernism and Exile: Cliché as Hermeneutic Tool Eva Moreda Rodríguez 9: Modernism: The People’s Music? Robert Adlington 10: Modernism for and of the Masses? On Popular Modernisms Stephen Graham 11: Times Like the Present: De-limiting Music in the Twenty-First Century Charles Wilson 12: The Composer as Communication Theorist M.J. Grant 13: How Does Modernist Music Make You Feel? Between Subjectivity and Affect Trent Leipert Part III Practices 14: Between Modernism and Postmodernism: Structure and Expression in John Adams, Kaija Saariaho and Thomas Adès Alastair Williams 15: Foundations and Fixations: Continuities in British Musical Modernism Arnold Whittall 16: The Balinese Moment in the Montreal New Music Scene as a Regional Modernism Jonathan Goldman 17: Vers une écriture liminale: Serialism, Spectralism and Écriture in the Transitional Music of Gérard Grisey Liam Cagney 18: Contemporary Opera and the Failure of Language Amy Bauer 19: ‘Es klang so alt und war doch so neu!’: Modernist Operatic Culture through the Prism of Staging 'Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg' Mark Berry 20: The Modernism of the Mainstream: An Early Twentieth-Century Ideology of Violin Playing Stefan Knapik
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