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This book develops a comprehensive understanding of the unique
sound worlds of key regions in the Global South, through an
auto-ethnographic method of self-reflective conversations with
prominent sound practitioners from South Asia, Africa, the Middle
East and Latin America. The conversations navigate various
trajectories of sound practices, illuminating intricate sonic
processes of listening, thinking through sounds, ideating,
exposing, and performing with sound. This collection of
conversations constitutes the main body of the book, including
critical and scholarly commentaries on aural cultures, sound theory
and production. The book builds a ground-up approach to nurturing
knowledge about aural cultures and sonic aesthetics, moving beyond
the Eurocentric focus of contemporary sound studies. Instead of
understanding sound practices through consumption and
entertainment, they are explored as complex cultural and aesthetic
systems, working directly with the practitioners themselves, who
largely contribute to the development of the sonic methodologies.
Refocusing on the working methods of practitioners, the book
reveals a tension between the West's predominant
colonial-consumerist cultures, and the collective desires of
practitioners to resist colonial models of listening by expressing
themselves in terms of their arts and craft, and their critical
faculties. Conversations with: Clarence Barlow, Sandeep Bhagwati,
Rajesh K. Mehta, Sharif Sehnaoui, Ximena Alarco n Di az, Hardi
Kurda, Mario de Vega, Luka Mukhavele, Khyam Allami, Cedrik Fermont,
Khaled Kaddal, David Velez, Juan Duarte, Youmna Saba, Abdellah M.
Hassak, Mariana Marcassa, Amanda Gutie rrez, Syma Tariq, Alma
Laprida, Siamak Anvari, Mohamad Safa, Debashis Sinha, Zouheir
Atbane, Constanza Bizraelli, Jatin Vidyarthi, Joseph Kamaru,
Surabhi Saraf, Isuru Kumarasinghe, Hemant Sreekumar.
for SATB and french horn Larsen takes three nursery rhymes,
familiar to every adult from their childhood, and uses the vocal
lines and horn to personify the characters in each rhyme. In the
first nursery rhyme, 'There was a little girl, ' the horrid little
girl cavorts through the piece spouting blatant parallel fifths and
brassy nonsense syllables and the setting of the last rhyme 'Try,
try again' embodies success amidst many failed attempts
An anthem for SATB and organ that is suitable for Pentecost. The
strong hymn-like tune builds through the addition of a descant to a
powerful climax.
A consummate insider as the girlfriend of Lindsey Buckingham,
Fleetwood Mac singer and guitarist, Carol Ann Harris leads fans
into the very heart of the band's storms between 1976 and 1984.
From interactions between the band and other stars--Mick Jagger,
Eric Clapton, and Dennis Wilson--to the chaotic animosity between
band members, this memoir combines the sensational account of some
of the world's most famous musicians with a thrilling love story.
The parties, fights, drug use, shenanigans, and sex lives of
Fleetwood Mac are presented in intimate detail and illustrated with
never-before-seen photographs. With the exception of one brief
interview, Carol Ann Harris has never before spoken about her time
with Fleetwood Mac.
for B flat clarinet and viola Composed in 1941, this is the first
publication of this work.
This excellent addition to the tuba repertoire allows this
oft-neglected instrument to demonstrate its more versatile side.
Concert Piece explores a 3-octave range, allowing the tuba to
combine fast-paced passages (even including fierce glissandi) with
lyrical contemplative melodies before returning to the exuberant
tone of the opening.
Performing Music History offers a unique perspective on music
history and performance through a series of conversations with
women and men intimately associated with music performance,
history, and practice: the musicians themselves. Fifty-five
celebrated artists-singers, pianists, violinists, cellists,
flutists, horn players, oboists, composers, conductors, and jazz
greats-provide interviews that encompass most of Western music
history, from the Middle Ages to contemporary classical music,
avant-garde innovations, and Broadway musicals. The book covers
music history through lenses that include "authentic" performance,
original instrumentation, and social context. Moreover, the
musicians interviewed all bring to bear upon their respective
subjects three outstanding qualities: 1) their high esteem in the
music world as immediately recognizable names among musicians and
public alike; 2) their energy and devotion to scholarship and the
recovery of endangered musical heritages; and 3) their considerable
skills, media savvy, and showmanship as communicators. Introductory
essays to each chapter provide brief synopses of historical eras
and topics. Combining careful scholarship and lively conversation,
Performing Music History explores historical contexts for a host of
fascinating issues.
In this unique text, ten cases of music therapy with autistic
children (tamariki takiwatanga) are critiqued through the eyes of
family members and other autism experts. Rickson uses her wealth of
experience to contextualise their rich observations in a thorough
review of research and practice literature, to illustrate the ways
music therapists engage autistic children in the music therapy
process, highlight the various ways music therapy can support their
health and well-being, and demonstrate how music therapy processes
align with good practice as outlined in the New Zealand Autism
Spectrum Disorder Guideline.
New, insightful essays from musicologists, historians, art
historians, and literary scholars reconsider the relationship of
Debussy, Gauguin, Zola, and other great French creative artists to
cultural and political trends during the Third Republic. This
collection of new essays examines the relationships between
discourses of French national and regional identity, political
alignment, and creative practice during one of France's most
fascinating eras: the Third Republic. The authors, from a variety
of disciplinary backgrounds, explore the ways in which the
architects of the Third Republic [re]constructed France culturally
and artistically, in part through artful use of the press and [at
the 1889Paris World's Fair] new technologies. The chapters also
investigate changing attitudes toward Debussy's opera Pelleas et
Melisande, attempts by composers and critics to define a musical
canon, and the impact of religious education, spirituality, and
exoticism for Gauguin and Jolivet. Tensions between the center and
region are seen in celebrations for the national musical
figurehead, Rameau, and in the cultural regionalism that flourished
in the annexed territories of Alsace and Lorraine. Contributors:
Edward Berenson, Katharine Ellis, Annegret Fauser, Didier
Francfort, Brian Hart, Steven Huebner, Barbara L. Kelly, Detmar
Klein, Deborah Mawer, James Ross, Marion Schmid, and Debora
Silverman. Barbara L. Kelly is Professor of Musicology at Keele
University.
for SATB and piano or orchestra Let's begin again is the finale
from John Rutter's 'musical fable' The Reluctant Dragon, and makes
a perfect gentle encore or leave-taking piece. Also available in
Encores for Choirs 1. Instrumental material is available on hire.
Including the finale from The Wind in the Willows, this arrangement
is for separate performance for SATB choir and piano or orchestra.
for unaccompanied SATB choir with divisions A medieval carol-text
set as a stomping dance of rejoicing in a faux-medieval vein.
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.
Wallace Stevens's musicality is so profound that scholars have only
begun to grasp his ties to the art of music or the music of his own
poetry. In this study, two long-time specialists present a
polyphonic composition in which they pursue various interlocking
perspectives. Their case studies demonstrate how music as a
temporal art form may affect a poetic of ephemerality, sensuous
experience, and affective intensification. Such a poetic, they
argue, invites flexible interpretations that respond to poetry as
an art of textual performance. How did Stevens enact the relation
between music and memory? How can we hear his verse as a form of
melody-making? What was specific to his ways of recording birdsong?
Have we been missing the latent music of Richard Strauss, Gustav
Mahler, and Claude Debussy in particular poems? What were the
musical poetics he shared with Igor Stravinsky? And how is our
experience of the late poetry transformed when we listen to a
musical setting by Ned Rorem? The Poetic Music of Wallace Stevens
will appeal to experts in the poet's work, students of Modernism in
the arts, and a wider audience fascinated by the dynamics of
exchange between music and poetry.
Anthem for the Feast of any Apostle, for SATB soli, SATB choir, and
organ or orchestra Orchestral material is available on hire.
Holy Roller is a revival sermon captured in the sounds of the alto
saxophone and piano. It is inspired by classical revival preaching
and the music seeks to represent the language: cajoling and
incanting, with the intention of magnetizing and mesmerizing the
listener through the usage of what Larsen describes as "musical
masterpieces of rhythm, tempo and extraordinary tension and
release." A version for alto saxophone and concert band is
available on hire.
Five songs for SATB chorus and piano on texts by twentieth-century
women poets. Each has a unique perspective on love, ranging from
reflections on loss, to the delights of everyday familiarity, and
the thrill of spring and new passions.
Over the last three decades Slavoj Zizek has become an iconic
figure of intellectuel engage and his works have engendered ongoing
reflection within as different academic disciplines as philosophy,
literature or cultural, gender, postcolonial and film studies. But
when it comes to music, things look different. With an emphasis on
the German modernist tradition from Wagner to Schoenberg, a whole
range of references to music are scattered throughout Zizek's
copious body of works. However, these efforts seem to go almost
unnoticed within academia - at least on first glance. Looking more
closely, one notices a subtle but nevertheless consistent adoption
of Zizek's theories within musicology, spreading across a broad
range of topics and approaches. So, Zizek has become part of
musicology, even if his presence is still uncharted territory. The
present volume, which appeals to musicologists and philosophers
alike, intends to map different ways in which Zizek's philosophy
has been adopted in order to approach many of musicology's core
questions, from musical analysis to the opera studies, from
contemporary music to the history of the discipline itself. At the
same time it both reflects on and questions Zizek's positions on
musical aesthetics as expressed in his writings. Last but not
least, the volume also features two essays by Zizek himself,
reflecting his different approaches to writing about music.
This is the true story of a standout artist in the field of pop and
sentimental song; a star entertainer who rose to fame in Cape Town,
South Africa. The world reflected in this book has several
genealogical strands reaching back to other histories – to the
nineteenth century theatre, to the rise of racism in South Africa,
and the ways people were forced to negotiate the contradictions of
being human against impossible odds. We encounter a biographer with
a subject which is close to him, and which he has meticulously
researched over a course of time. The book offers insights into the
musical world of the phonograph, of the global popular culture
after the Second World War and how this was absorbed into Cape
Town’s popular culture.
A setting of a melancholy text by Phineas Fletcher for
unaccompanied SATB voices.
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.
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