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Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial The Beautiful Ones (Spanish Edition)
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Plan B Records Madonna. Una biografía / Madonna. A Biography
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Urano Sonido de Los Beatles, El
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Editatum GuíaBurros Música Clásica: Para los que aún no
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Contra Freak Scene: Los Chalados E Inconformistas Que
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Libros del Kultrum Mi Historia: Memorias del Fundador de the Who
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Libros del Kultrum Con Las Horas Contadas: Memorias
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Libros del Kultrum Keith Jarrett: Una Biografía
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Museum Tusculanum Press Royal Danish Orchestra: The World's Oldest
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Museum Tusculanum Press Johann Adolph Scheibe: A Catalogue of His Works
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River Publishers Engineering of Music for the Digital Age
Book SynopsisMusical scores like literature, poetry, and technical manuals are documents. The central tenet of this book is that musical composition in the digital age is a form of document engineering. In essence, music shares with other forms of creative content generation from poetry to prose, and from science to science fiction the need for structure, flow, and sources for creativity.Musical composition is considered in this book as the creative process of engineering musical documents with regards to its arrangement, form, texture, and instrumentation, etc. This document then instructs a performance or the creation of an alternative document, such as a recording. In this book, the arrangement of phrases, patterns, and structures seen in music will be illustrated to give new composers a starting point to begin planning and making decisions about their own compositions.The book will also guide those who need assistance in completing a piece. While this is a book about musical composition, it is not meant to be a manual on music theory. Instead, the book keeps its focus on the structural elements of a composition. Its aim is to give the audience a structural road map for composing; whether they are starting a piece from the first note, having a melody in mind already, or need help overcoming a creative hurdle. The book examines compositions that clearly define a form or technique. Among the key compositional elements are: Form, Phrase, Period, and Expression in Composition Rhythm/Motive Melody and Harmony Tonal Center Mode Mixture and Modulation Accompaniment/Instrumentation/Orchestration Composition Techniques and Notation Targeted examples cover all stages of writing a piece, helping to build the reader's composition from the first note into a complete work without promoting a style or harmonic practice. Each chapter contains a sidebar addressing helping the composer to add creative sources for the music making process. Finally, the book concludes with a chapter on creativity in terms of how composed music can affect our lives and even our fairy tales.
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Museum Tusculanum Press J P E Hartmann og hans kreds: Volume 4 -- En
Book SynopsisThis fourth volume of J P E Hartmann og hans kreds. En komponistfamilies breve 1780-1900 (J.P.E. Hartmann and his Circle. The Correspondence of a Composer Family 1780-1900) contains hitherto unknown letters which have been privately owned until now. The particular focus is on J P E Hartmann's son Emil Hartmann and his struggle for recognition as a composer and not because of his relatives. The letters elucidate this struggle and provide a wealth of information on both the everyday life and the musical scene in the second half of the 19th century in which Emil Hartmann travelled a great deal in Germany where he was a well-known figure. Thus, letters from German celebrities, such as Richard Strauss and Max Bruch are included.
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Silvana Contracts, Wills, Marriages and Rings: Opera and
Book SynopsisOpera, for its inherent multimedia nature (text, music, scenography, ballet, representation), lends itself to interdisciplinary, including those that touch upon legal topics. The stories told in the great masterpieces of European opera are, frequently, based on facts relevant for criminal law. Murders, abductions, extortions, kidnappings, massacres, and other types of crimes have filled the stories of opera since its origin. In much of musical theatre, including the masterpieces by Verdi, Donizetti, Bellini, Wagner, and many others,there are, also issues addressed that touch upon the less obvious areas of private law: librettos often talk about contracts, donations, wills, weddings, family relationships, debts and money issues in general. In Gaetano Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore, Nemorino - in love with the beautiful but indifferent Adina - is the victim of a real contract scam perpetrated by Dulcamara. In La sonnambula by Vincenzo Bellini, Elvino snatches the engagement ring given to Amina thinking she was unfaithful: he revokes a donation made in view of marriage, and maybe breaks a rule of law. In Richard Wagner's Das Rheingold, one witnesses a sensational case of breach of contract, to be read in the light of the emergence, in the nineteenth century, of a new sensibility for market economy and the increasingly central value of contracts in social relations. In Le nozze di Figaro by Mozart, there is a strange marriage vow, executed in order to guarantee the repayment of a debt.
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White Star Jimi Hendrix 1967-1970: The Guitarist Who Made
Book SynopsisJimi Hendrix has been for sure a unique guitarist and a master of rock music, who, with his early death, aged 27, entered the Rock'n'roll Hall of Fame with all the glory it takes. The never-heard-before result of his continuous improvement was contained in just three albums Are You Experienced?, Axis: Bold as Love and Electric Ladyland. A deep focus on the three most important years of Hendrix's career, closely followed by Assante, skilled author and real expert on rock music. Unedited photos, quotes, legendary interviews and deep research to outline the iconic figure of this rock legend.
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Amsterdam University Press The Apollonian Clockwork: On Stravinsky
Book Synopsis‘I think my music deserves to be considered as a whole’, Igor Stravinsky remarked at the end of a long and restless career, and that is exactly what the authors of The Apollonian Clockwork do. In 1982, convinced that there is no essential difference between ‘early’ and ‘late’ Stravinsky, Louis Andriessen and Elmer Schönberger were the first to write a monograph on the composer which radically breaks with the habit of dividing his works into ‘Russian’, ‘neoclassical’ and ‘serial’. In an essay which continually shifts in its approach, style and perspective, the authors elaborate on their insight that a single, immutable compositional attitude underlies the whole of Stravinsky’s oeuvre. By this token the book not only offers an analysis of the composer’s protean work and artistry but takes example by it as well.Trade Review"If you have any abiding interest in 20th-century music, buy this book and read it at once. If music as culture means anything to you, buy this book. It made so little splash the first time around that I've hardly run into anyone who's aware of it. But any composer living would give his left arm to be assured that so witty, wise, creative, simpatico, and insightful a book would be written about him after his death. Richard Taruskin has aptly called it "The one book about Stravinsky Stravinsky would have liked." And, thanks to an editorial miracle, it has reappeared after some 15 years' unforgivable absence." Kyle Gann - Village VoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgements - 10 Contents - 14 Translator's Note - 16 Preface - 18 Chapter I - 20 Chapter II - 82 Chapter III - 156 Chapter IV - 221 Chapter V - 274 List of Sources - 296 Index - 306
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Double 9 Booksllp Under The Greenwood Tree; Or, The Mellstock Quire
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Leuven University Press Wolfgang Rihm, a Chiffre: The 1980s and Beyond
Book SynopsisThe elusive and ungraspable in Rihm’s musicWolfgang Rihm ( b. Karlsruhe, 1952) is the most performed living German composer. With his personal, expressive, and versatile music, he became the most prominent representative of his generation. His individual approach to music was established in the 1980s and he continues to explore and enlarge his original concepts today. His 1980s work is at the core of this book, more specifically his instrumental music: the Chiffre cycle and the string quartets. Thinking about Rihm includes reflecting on his interest in philosophy, his relation to fine arts, his awareness of principles found in nature, and his references to important composers from the past. His music is embedded in the past and the actuality in modernism and postmodernism. Notwithstanding Rihm’s generosity in essays and introductions to his works, many aspects of the ‘inner sound’ of his music stay an elusive, ungraspable ‘chiffre’: a challenge for the analyst.With Foreword by Richard McGregor (Professor Emeritus, University of Cumbria)This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).Trade Review'ook voor minder geschoolde lezers heeft het vele boeiende aspecten [...] Rihmologen zullen er vast dankbaar gebruik van maken'OpusKlassiek, Emanuel Overbeeke , januari 2018 * OpusKlassiek.nl *Table of ContentsForeword by Richard McGregorIntroduction Analysed CompositionsPart I - Style 1 Between Classical and Individual Individual Position Specific Terminology and Tools Generative Pole and Generated Elements Generative Pole versus Rewriting and Overwriting Fragmentation Disturbance Single Event Focal Pitch and Focal Pitch Aggregate Process and Planning Form Relationship between Form and Structure Conclusion of the Composition 2 Between Modernism and Postmodernism Position towards Postmodernism Position towards Modernism Musical Backgrounds in Modernism and Nineteenth Century Philosophical Influences in Postmodernism Philosophical Influences in Modernism 3 Musical Traces Dealing with Allusion and Quotation Verbal Allusions in the Chiffre Cycle Allusion to a Style: Baroque Allusion to a Composer: Varèse Allusion to a Composition: Schubert’s Octet 4 Fine Arts The Music of Painting Fine Arts Parallels: Different Viewpoints Fine Arts Parallels: Rihm’s Viewpoints Line Drawing Colour Layering and Overpainting Large Drawing Kurt Kocherscheidt The Sound of Wood 5 Repetition Create a State by (non-)Repetition Repetition as Questioning Repetition as Writer’s Block Repetition as Unique Event Repetition versus Generating Elements Repetition in the Context of Style 6 Nature and Proportions Rhizome Proportions in Nature Symmetry and Balance Proportions in Music 7 Studying Proportions Dis-Kontur, Sub-Kontur and Klavierstück Nr. 4 Schwebende Begegnung String Quartet no. 4 Proportion Typology Part II - Analysis 8 Integrated Approach Sound as a Whole Some Examples Integrated Analytical Tool Moment Analysis of the Chiffre Cycle 9 Parameter Characteristics Melody Melodic Compositions Melodic Element Harmony Metatonality Micro-interval Dissonance The Tritone-Triad Chord Chain Cluster Informal Harmony and Texture Tempo – Metre – Rhythm Dynamics – Articulation – Timbre Youth Experience Timbre and Resonance Resonance and Fine Arts Silence Texture 10 String Quartet in the 1980s: String Quartets nos. 5-8 Aesthetic viewpoints Group Formation versus Individual Quartets Common First Note f# The Importance of Pitch f# Transitions in String Quartet No. 5 Transitions in String Quartet No. 6 Transitions in String Quartet No. 7 Transitions in String Quartet No. 8 Closing Pitch Two Pairs of String Quartets Notebook Quartets: Hidden Structure String Quartet no. 7: Arch Form String Quartet no. 8: Structure based on Fibonacci Series 11 Group Formation: Chiffre Cycle The Meaning of “Chiffre” Chiffre: a Cycle 12 Chiffre Cycle: Harmony The Tritone-Triad Chromatic Cluster Harmonic Rhythm and Chordal Density Consonance versus Dissonance Focal Pitch 13 Chiffre Cycle: Resonance Chiffre I: Resonance Space versus Sound Space Chiffre IV: Resonance Research Chiffre VIII: Meta-resonance Sound Space 14 Chiffre Cycle: Cyclic Elements Cyclic Elements: Typology Repeated Passage Overwritten Passage Repeated Single Instrumental Part Cyclic Elements: Similar Event Returning Concept Cyclic Elements: Three Figures Figure 1: Generated Elements Figure 2: Generated Elements Figure 3: Generative Poles and Generated Elements 15 Chiffre Cycle: Symmetry Melodic Symmetry Rhythmic Symmetry Time Signature Symmetry Harmonic Symmetry Total Symmetry Symmetrical Placing 16 Chiffre Cycle: Proportions Tempo Indications Tempo Changes Time Signature Proportions in the Chiffre Cycle Proportions in Chiffre I Proportions in Chiffre II Proportions in Chiffre III Proportions in Chiffre IV Proportions in Bild Proportions in Chiffre V Proportions in Chiffre VI Proportions in Chiffre VII Proportions in Chiffre VIII Proportions in Nach-Schrift Proportions of Length in the Chiffre Pieces Comparison: Chiffre II, V and VI Comparison: Chiffre II and VII Conclusions Final Conclusions Appendix – Division in Sections Notes Selected Bibliography General Index Index of Compositions by Wolfgang Rihm
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Cannibal/Hannibal Publishers Deus
Book SynopsisThis stylish rock'n'roll book is published on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of dEUS. It sums up the aura and the specific character of the successful Antwerp-based band by means of the best photographs and private pictures. Included are the highlights of dEUS; tour photos and a view behind the scenes by, among others, Federica Agamennoni, Behnam Bornak, Stefan De Batselier, Charlie De Keersmaeker, Bert Dentant, Kris Dewitte, Kristien Dirkx, Steve Gullick, Bache Jespers, Alex Salinas, Cassandre Sturbois, Senne Van der Ven, Maarten Vanden Abeele and Stephan Vanfleteren. With a foreword by Brian Molko, Placebo frontman.
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Rogan House Byrds Requiem For The Timeless Volume 2
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LMH Publishing Bob Marley: Reggae King of the World
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Reflections: The Magic, Music And Mathematics Of
Book SynopsisThis is an exciting if not rambling account of events of Raymond Smullyan's four lives — as a mathematical logician, musician, magician, and author — together with thoughts that come to his mind as he recalls them. This book includes topics from some of Smullyan's twenty-six books, as well as many of his favorite anecdotes and jokes. It also presents some generalizations of theorems of the great logicians Gödel and Tarski, and discusses logic in general, and how he won his wife with a logic trick! Smullyan also relates some of his teaching experiences, and expresses his views on mathematical education, and how our present textbooks are primarily responsible for its decline! About his life as a pianist, Smullyan relates a good deal about his experiences with the Piano Society — a wonderful organization to which he is a staunch contributor, and how he has had such delightful relations with many of its members. Last but not least, Smullyan recounts how he has known some lovely ladies over the years.Table of ContentsEarly Childhood; Later Childhood; High School; Beginning College; Chicago, University, Music, Magic; Dartmouth, Princeton; After Graduation; Diagonalization, Love, Logic, Letters; The Piano Society; Lovely Ladies I Have Known;
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Reflections: The Magic, Music And Mathematics Of
Book SynopsisThis is an exciting if not rambling account of events of Raymond Smullyan's four lives — as a mathematical logician, musician, magician, and author — together with thoughts that come to his mind as he recalls them. This book includes topics from some of Smullyan's twenty-six books, as well as many of his favorite anecdotes and jokes. It also presents some generalizations of theorems of the great logicians Gödel and Tarski, and discusses logic in general, and how he won his wife with a logic trick! Smullyan also relates some of his teaching experiences, and expresses his views on mathematical education, and how our present textbooks are primarily responsible for its decline! About his life as a pianist, Smullyan relates a good deal about his experiences with the Piano Society — a wonderful organization to which he is a staunch contributor, and how he has had such delightful relations with many of its members. Last but not least, Smullyan recounts how he has known some lovely ladies over the years.Table of ContentsEarly Childhood; Later Childhood; High School; Beginning College; Chicago, University, Music, Magic; Dartmouth, Princeton; After Graduation; Diagonalization, Love, Logic, Letters; The Piano Society; Lovely Ladies I Have Known;
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Weldon Owen, Incorporated Eddie Cochran: In Person!: The Lost Treasures of
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Schott Musik International GmbH & Co KG Bram Stoker’s Dracula
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