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Marking the 250th anniversary of the composer's birth, this volume
presents twenty-one completely new essays on aspects of Beethoven's
personal life, his composing process, his manuscripts, and his
greatest works. Beethoven's music stands as a universal symbol of
personal and artistic achievement. As we reach and then surpass the
250th anniversary of the composer's birth, Jeremy Yudkin has
commissioned a collection of new essays from some of the most
insightful writers on Beethoven's accomplishments and brought them
together in this remarkable volume. Filled with careful
explanations, this book gives us completely new insights into music
known and loved by people around the world. Ordinary music lovers
as well as scholars will find countless new discoveries about
Beethoven and his music. Listeners will hear his compositions
afresh, and scholars will find new results of research and analysis
and new avenues for discovery. Topics include Beethoven's cultural
milieu, his personal life, his friends, his publishers, his
instruments, his working methods, his own handwritten scores, and,
of course, his music. Many works are carefully discussed and
explained in ways that reveal fascinating and previously unknown
aspects of compositions that we thought we knew well. A landmark
publication for all who admire some of the greatest music of our
civilization.
This Element investigates the balance and interaction of
imagination (visions) and technique (decisions) in the composition
of music and includes current scientific research on dreams, the
hypnagogic state, emotions, and feelings. It also includes thoughts
of composers past and present, and examines how works start from
visions in a range of music, comparing musical ideas and techniques
to models in other creative disciplines. The Element elucidates
aspects of musical discourse by imagining how Haydn, Mozart, and
other composers would order falafel for takeout. This unorthodox
approach emphasizes parallels between music and theater that are
central to this Element.
The Mind's Ear offers a unique approach to stimulating the musical
imagination and inspiring creativity, as well as providing detailed
exercises aimed at improving the ability to read and imagine music
in silence, in the "mind's ear." Modelling his exercises on those
used in theatre games and acting classes and drawing upon years of
experience with improvisation and composition, Bruce Adolphe has
written a compelling, valuable, and practical guide to musical
creativity that can benefit music students at all levels and help
music teachers be more effective and inspiring. This expanded
edition offers 34 new exercises inspired by improv comedy, hip-hop
sampling and loops, robots, and AI as well as a new section based
on Mr. Adolphe's Piano Puzzlers segment on public radio's
Performance Today. The book provides provocative ideas and useful
tools for professional performers and composers, as well as
offering games and exercises to serious listeners that can increase
their musical understanding and level of engagement with music in a
variety of ways.
The exhilarating mix of humour, philosophy, fact and whimsy that
marks these essays derives from more than 200 lectures Bruce
Adolphe has given over more of the past decade, at the Chamber
Music Society of Lincoln Centre and at music festivals around the
States. The composer of four operas as well as chamber music,
concertos and orchestral works, Adolphe has written for Itzhak
Perlman, David Shifrin, the Beaux Arts Trio, the Orpheus Chamber
Orchestra and many other renowned musicians. His essays, however
divergent their apparent subjects, all serve a common purpose: to
deepen our understanding of how music comes to be and how it may be
enjoyed.
(Limelight). With disciplined lyricism and entirely devoid of
technical jargon, Bruce Adolphe's book probes into the heart of
such matters as the role of memory and imagination in creative
expression, the meaning of inspiration, spirituality in music, the
challenge of arts education and how music communicates.
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