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Suitable for SSAATB unaccompanied, this short piece sets a
fifteenth-century penitential poem.
Suitable for SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied, this setting is
composed for the Feast of Corpus Christi.
The book presents selected papers at the 8th Conference on Sound
and Music Technology (CSMT) held in November 2020, at Taiyuan,
Shanxi, China. CSMT is a multidisciplinary conference focusing on
audio processing and understanding with bias on music and acoustic
signals. The primary aim of the conference is to promote the
collaboration between art society and technical society in China.
In this proceeding, the paper included covers a wide range topic
from speech, signal processing, music understanding, machine
learning and signal processing for advanced medical diagnosis and
treatment applications; which demonstrates the target of CSMT
merging arts and science research together.its content caters to
scholars, researchers, engineers, artists, and education
practitioners not only from academia but also industry, who are
interested in audio/acoustics analysis signal processing, music,
sound, and artificial intelligence (AI).
Tom Waits's distinctive persona, his bourbon-soaked growl, and his
incorporation of musical styles from blues to experimental to
vaudeville have secured for him a top-shelf cult following and an
extraordinary critical respect. His raw form of expression and his
evocative lyrics work together to form an emotional chronicle of
society's misfits, outcasts, and lowlifes. He is not the sort of
composer to chase after shiny red fire trucks to awesome blazing
fires, but instead looks after the intangible dreams found
dissipating in the last wisp of smoke from a cigarette, held in the
weathered hands of a broken soul. Here, author Corinne Kessel
pursues Waits into this distinctly murky and unsettled atmosphere
to address in particular Waits's enduring questions of reality,
landscape, and identity. The idea of the Wanderer - someone who
seeks an escape from all of life's problems and dreams himself into
oblivion - serves as the fundamental personality type around which
all Waits's music revolves. Ten years of producing and touring
across Canada and the U.S. with The Black Rider, Waits's macabre
folktale adaptation, has given author Corinne Kessel direct access
to this American genius's creative process and his associates. In
this comprehensive analysis, Kessel examines all of the many
characters that have appeared throughout the course of Waits's
musical career, from Closing Time (1973) to Orphans: Brawlers,
Bawlers, and Bastards (2006). Also included are appendices listing
Internet resources, tribute albums and covers, and Waits's own
extensive contributions to film and theatre.
for SSA and piano An attractive setting of traditional words to a
melody ascribed to the American hymnwriter Robert Lowry. Scott
employs his considerable arranging skills to stylish effect by
contrasting unison verse sections with mellifluous wordless
choruses. All is underpinned by an idiomatic and supportive
accompaniment for piano or organ. This piece is also available in
an SATB version.
This book from Jürgen Claus is a milestone among the books
dedicated to the planet sea A knowledgeable overview of marine
architectures from both the Pacific and Atlantic regions Discusses
the seascape as a fluid studio for visual artists
Working with Sound is an exploration of the ever-changing working
practices of audio development in the era of hybrid collaboration
in the games industry. Through learnings from the pre-pandemic
remote and isolated worlds of audio work, sound designers,
composers and dialogue designers find themselves equipped uniquely
to thrive in the hybrid, remote, and studio-based realms of today's
fast-evolving working landscapes. With unique insights into
navigating the worlds of isolation and collaboration, this book
explores ways of thinking and working in this world, equipping the
reader with inspiration to sustainably tackle the many stages of
the development process. Working with Sound is an essential guide
for professionals working in dynamic audio teams of all sizes, as
well as the designers, producers, artists, animators and
programmers who collaborate closely with their colleagues working
on game audio and sound.
This collection contains all the extant shorter pieces by Rebecca
Clarke for cello and piano, both original compositions and
arrangements. Clarke's transcriptions make up around half of her
works for cello. They are always carefully crafted, and are
therefore often significantly different from the orginals.
This edited volume explores the role of arts and meditation within
educational settings, and looks in particular at the preventive and
developmental function of the arts in educational contexts through
different theoretical perspectives. Encompassing research from an
array of disciplines including theatre, psychology, neuroscience,
music, psychiatry, and mindfulness, the book draws insights
relevant to a broad spectrum of interdisciplinary fields. Chapters
are divided into thematic sections, each outlining praxes and
emphasising how educating within and through the arts can provide
tools for critical thinking, creativity and a sense of agency,
consequently fulfilling the need of well-being and contributing
towards human flourishing. Ultimately, the book focuses on the role
the arts have played in our understanding of physical and mental
health, and demonstrates the new-found significance of the
discipline in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. With its
interdisciplinary and timely nature, this book will be essential
reading for scholars, academics, and post-graduate researchers in
the field of arts education, creative therapies, neuroscience,
psychology, and mindfulness.
Suitable for viola (or violin) and cello, Clarke's duo is in two
contrasted movements and was originally written as a concert piece
for the composer to play with the English cellist May Mukle.
for TTBB and organ with optional brass and percussion or orchestra
A festal setting of this familiar tune, imposing and exciting but
not difficult, with a few thrillingly unexpected harmonies and
modulations. Score and parts for brass and percussion are available
on hire.
Music recommendation systems are becoming more and more popular.
The increasing amount of personal data left by users on social
media contributes to more accurate inference of the user's musical
preferences and the same to quality of personalized systems. Health
recommendation systems have become indispensable tools in decision
making processes in the healthcare sector. Their main objective is
to ensure the availability of valuable information at the right
time by ensuring information quality, trustworthiness,
authentication, and privacy concerns. Medical doctors deal with
various kinds of diseases in which the music therapy helps to
improve symptoms. Listening to music may improve heart rate,
respiratory rate, and blood pressure in people with heart disease.
Sound healing therapy uses aspects of music to improve physical and
emotional health and well-being. The book presents a variety of
approaches useful to create recommendation systems in healthcare,
music, and in music therapy.
Examining corporeal expressions of indigenousness from an
historical perspective, this book highlights the development of
cultural hybridity in New Zealand via the popular performing arts,
contributing new understandings of racial, ethnic, and gender
identities through performance. The author offers an insightful and
welcome examination of New Zealand performing arts via case studies
of drama, music, and dance, performed both domestically and
internationally. As these examples show, notions of modern New
Zealand were shaped and understood in the creation and reception of
popular culture. Highlighting embodied indigenous cultures of the
past provides a new interpretation of the development of New
Zealand's cultural history and adds an unexplored dimension in
understanding the relationships between M?ori (indigenous New
Zealander) and P?keh? (non-M?ori) throughout the late nineteenth
and into the early twentieth centuries.
This volume is the first book-length account of Yves Montand's
controversial tour of the Soviet Union at the turn of the years
1956/57. It traces the mixed messages of this internationally
visible act of cultural diplomacy in the middle of the turbulent
Cold War. It also provides an account of the celebrated French
singer-actor's controversial career, his dedication to music and to
peace activism, as well as his widespread fandom in the USSR. The
book describes the political background for the events of the year
1956, including the changing Soviet atmosphere after Stalin's
death, portrays the rising transnational stardom of Montand in the
1940s and 1950s, and explores the controversies aroused by his plan
to visit Moscow after the Hungarian Uprising. The book pays
particular attention to Montand's reception in the USSR and his
concert performances, drawing on unique archival material and oral
history interviews, and analyses the documentary Yves Montand Sings
(1957) released immediately after his visit.
Vocal Traditions: Training in the Performing Arts explores the 18
most influential voice training techniques and methodologies of the
past 100 years. This extensive international collection highlights
historically important voice teachers, contemporary leaders in the
field, and rising schools of thought. Each vocal tradition
showcases its instructional perspective, offering backgrounds on
the founder(s), key concepts, example exercises, and further
resources. The text's systematic approach allows a unique
pedagogical evaluation of the vast voice training field, which not
only includes university and conservatory training but also private
session and workshop coaching as well. Covering a global range of
voice training systems, this book will be of interest to those
studying voice, singing, speech, and accents, as well as
researchers from the fields of communication, music education, and
performance. This book was originally published as a series in the
Voice and Speech Review journal.
Suitable for SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied, this is an
arrangement of the well-known tune from Piae Cantiones known as the
carol Personent Hodie. It includes words full of Easter joy.
Suitable for double SATB choir and handbells, this title celebrates
the way in which we can bring our divided world together through
singing. The handbell accompaniment is included in the vocal score.
It is useful for festival programming.
The relationship between music and the nervous system is now the
subject of intense interest for scientists and people in the
humanities, but this is by no means a new phenomenon. This volume
sets out the history of the relationship between neurology and
music, putting the advances of our era into context.
This book examines the performance of Bauls, 'folk' performers from
Bengal, in the context of a rapidly globalizing Indian economy and
against the backdrop of extreme nationalistic discourses.
Recognizing their scope beyond the musical and cultural realm,
Sukanya Chakrabarti engages in discussing the subversive and
transformational potency of Bauls and their performances.
In-Between Worlds argues that the Bauls through their musical,
spiritual, and cultural performances offer 'joy' and
'spirituality,' thus making space for what Dr. Ambedkar in his
famous 1942 speech had identified as 'reclamation of human
personality'. Chakrabarti destabilizes the category of 'folk' as a
fixed classification or an origin point, and fractures homogeneous
historical representations of the Baul as a 'folk' performer and a
wandering mendicant exposing the complex heterogeneity that
characterizes this group. Establishing 'folk-ness' as a performance
category, and 'folk festivals' as sites of performing 'folk-ness,'
contributing to a heritage industry that thrives on imagined and
recreated nostalgia, Chakrabarti examines different sites that
produce varied performative identities of Bauls, probing the limits
of such categories while simultaneously advocating for polyvocality
and multifocality. While this project has grounded itself firmly in
performance studies, it has borrowed extensively from fields of
postcolonial studies and subaltern histories, literature,
ethnography and ethnomusicology, and cosmopolitan studies.
Jazz and Death: Reception, Rituals, and Representations critically
examines the myriad and complex interactions between jazz and
death, from the New Orleans "jazz funeral" to jazz in heaven or
hell, final recordings, jazz monuments, and the music’s own
presumed death. It looks at how fans, critics, journalists,
historians, writers, the media, and musicians have narrated,
mythologized, and relayed those stories. What causes the
fascination of the jazz world with its deaths? What does it say
about how our culture views jazz and its practitioners? Is jazz
somehow a fatal culture? The narratives surrounding jazz and death
cast a light on how the music and its creators are perceived.
Stories of jazz musicians typically bring up different tropes,
ranging from the tragic, misunderstood genius to the notion that
virtuosity somehow comes at a price. Many of these narratives tend
to perpetuate the gendered and racialized stereotypes that have
been part of jazz’s history. In the end, the ideas that encompass
jazz and death help audiences find meaning in a complex musical
practice and come to grips with the passing of their revered
musical heroes -- and possibly with their own mortality.
for viola and piano This piece is one of the finest compositions
for viola by one of the instrument's greatest players. It is
luxuriant in melodic inventions and startlingly beautiful in its
instrumental colours. The piano is a full partner to the viola,
contributing an equal share of melodic interest and colouristic
effects.
This book examines the intersection between sound and modernity in
dramatic and musical performance in Manila and the Asia-Pacific
between 1869 and 1948. During this period, tolerant political
regimes resulted in the globalization of capitalist relations and
the improvement of transcontinental travel and worldwide
communication. This allowed modern modes of theatre and music
consumption to instigate the uniformization of cultural products
and processes, while simultaneously fragmenting societies into
distinct identities, institutions, and nascent nation-states.
Taking the performing bodies of migrant musicians as the locus of
sound, this book argues that the global movement of acoustic
modernities was replicated and diversified through its multiple
subjectivities within empire, nation, and individual agencies. It
traces the arrival of European travelling music and theatre
companies in Asia which re-casted listening into an act of modern
cultural consumption, and follows the migration of Manila musicians
as they engaged in the modernization project of the neighboring
Asian cities.
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