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Paul Brian Heise's The Wound That Will Never Heal is an original
allegorical reading of Richard Wagner's epic music drama The Ring
of the Nibelung. Heise challenges the standard view that Wagner
merely dramatizes the conflict between love and power and
demonstrates instead that his greatest work is an allegory
exploring humanity's longing for transcendent value and that
quest's paradoxical establishment of a science-based secular
society. By employing a more extensive analysis of primary evidence
than any prior interpretation, The Wound That Will Never Heal is
the first interpretation to propose and sustain a global and
conceptually coherent account of the entire Ring.
Theory for Today's Musician, Third Edition, recasts the scope of
the traditional music theory course to meet the demands of the
professional music world, in a style that speaks directly and
engagingly to today's music student. It uses classical, folk,
popular, and jazz repertoires with clear explanations that link
music theory to musical applications. The authors help prepare
students by not only exploring how music theory works in art music,
but how it functions within modern music, and why this knowledge
will help them become better composers, music teachers, performers,
and recording engineers. This broadly comprehensive text merges
traditional topics such as part writing and harmony (diatonic,
chromatic, neo-tonal and atonal), with less traditional topics such
as counterpoint and musical process, and includes the
non-traditional topics of popular music songwriting, jazz harmony
and the blues. The accompanying companion website provides
interactive exercises that allow students to practice foundational
theory skills. Written by experienced authors, both active
classroom teachers for many years, Theory for Today's Musician is
the complete and ideal theory text to enable today's student to
accomplish their musical goals tomorrow. Updated and corrected
throughout, the Third Edition includes: Expanded coverage of
atonality and serialism, now separated into two chapters. Broadened
treatment of cadences, including examples from popular music.
Substantially rewritten chapter on songwriting. Interactive
features of the text simplified to two types, "Concept Checks" and
"Review and Reinforcement," for greater ease of use. New and
updated musical examples added throughout. Charts, illustrations,
and musical examples revised for increased clarity. Audio of
musical examples now provided through the companion website. The
accompanying Workbook offers exercises and assignments to accompany
each chapter in the book. A companion website houses online
tutorials with drills of basic concepts, as well as audio. The
hardback TEXTBOOK is also paired with the corresponding paperback
WORKBOOK in a discounted PACKAGE (9780815371731).
Ever since the nineteenth century, descriptions of musical form
have tended to rely heavily on architectonic analogies. In
contrast, earlier discussions more often invoked the metaphor of a
journey to describe the structure of a composition. In Journeys
Through Galant Expositions, author L. Poundie Burstein encourages
readers to view the form of Galant music through this earlier
metaphorical lens, much as those who composed, performed,
improvised, and listened to music in the mid-1700s would have
experienced it. By elucidating eighteenth-century ideas regarding
musical form and applying them to works by a wide range of
composers - including Haydn and Mozart, as well as a host of others
who are often overlooked - this innovative study provides an
accessible new window into the music of this time. Rather than
dissecting concepts from the 1700s as a mere historical exercise or
treating them as a precursor of later theories, Burstein
invigorates the ideas of theorists such as Heinrich Christoph Koch
and shows how they can directly impact our understanding and
appreciation of Galant music as audiences and performers.
Play Piazzolla is a unique collection of 13 tangos by the
Argentinian master of tango nuevo arranged for easy solo guitar.
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