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This man and music asks two central questions: what can literature
contribute to the art of composition, and how can music influence
the writer? Anthony Burgess, famed novelist, journalist, and
composer, answers these questions and many more. As a person
uniquely qualified to look at the interconnectivity of music and
literature from both sides, Burgess provides fascinating insights,
drawing on his deep knowledge of both disciplines. The book
contains eleven interconnected essays that touch on philosophical
conundrums of art and adaptation, questions of meaning, and the
author's own personal experience. It is a must-read for fans of
Burgess who want to understand how music influenced the author's
craft of writing. Part autobiography and part literary and musical
analysis, This man and music is a unique artefact in the stunning
output of a prolific artist. -- .
Written in 1991 to commemorate the bicentennial of Mozart's death,
Burgess's novella-length piece is a compendium of themes, genres
and even art-forms revolving around the one central preoccupation
of the entire Burgess oeuvre: the reconcilability of life and art.
This is a kaleidoscope of a book, which stretches even the bounds
of even Anthony Burgess's fiction in an attempt to understand
Mozart through celestial dialogue, an opera libretto, and fragments
of a film script. As gracefully witty as it is daringly
experimental, Mozart and the Wolf Gang is one of Burgess's late,
great works, often overlooked due to its experimental form, which
nevertheless remains accessible, entertaining and yet refreshingly
original to this day. This new critical edition with analysis from
noted musicologist and a first-class literary critic Alan Shockley
enables this work's significance to be assessed by a new generation
of readers and scholars. -- .
The musical scores of Stanley Kubrick's films are often praised as
being innovative and forward-looking. Despite playing such an
important part in his productions, however, the ways in which
Kubrick used music to great effect is still somewhat mysterious to
many viewers. Although some viewers may know a little about the
music in 2001 or A Clockwork Orange, few are aware of the
particulars behind the music in Kubrick's other films. In Listening
to Stanley Kubrick: The Music in His Films, Christine Lee Gengaro
provides an in-depth exploration of the music that was composed for
Kubrick's films and places the pre-existent music he utilized into
historical context. Gengaro discusses the music in every single
work, from Kubrick's first films, including the documentary shorts
The Flying Padre and Day of the Fight, through all of his feature
films, from Fear and Desire to Eyes Wide Shut. No film is left out;
no cue is ignored. Besides closely examining the scores composed by
Gerald Fried for Kubrick's early works, Gengaro pays particular
attention to five of the director's most provocative and acclaimed
films-2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, The
Shining, and Eyes Wide Shut. For each film, she engages the reader
by explaining how the music was excerpted (and changed, in some
cases), and how the historical facts about a musical piece add
layers of meaning-sometimes unintended-to the films. Meant for film
lovers, music lovers, and scholars, Listening to Stanley Kubrick is
a thoroughly researched examination into the musical elements of
one of cinema's most brilliant artists. Appropriate for a cinema
studies or music classroom, this volume will also appeal to any fan
of Kubrick's films.
The musical scores of Stanley Kubrick's films are often praised as
being innovative and forward-looking. Despite playing such an
important part in his productions, however, the ways in which
Kubrick used music to great effect is still somewhat mysterious to
many viewers. Although some viewers may know a little about the
music in 2001 or A Clockwork Orange, few are aware of the
particulars behind the music in Kubrick's other films. In Listening
to Stanley Kubrick: The Music in His Films, Christine Lee Gengaro
provides an in-depth exploration of the music that was composed for
Kubrick's films and places the pre-existent music he utilized into
historical context. Gengaro discusses the music in every single
work, from Kubrick's first films, including the documentary shorts
The Flying Padre and Day of the Fight, through all of his feature
films, from Fear and Desire to Eyes Wide Shut. No film is left out;
no cue is ignored. Besides closely examining the scores composed by
Gerald Fried for Kubrick's early works, Gengaro pays particular
attention to five of the director's most provocative and acclaimed
films-2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, The
Shining, and Eyes Wide Shut. For each film, she engages the reader
by explaining how the music was excerpted (and changed, in some
cases), and how the historical facts about a musical piece add
layers of meaning-sometimes unintended-to the films. Meant for film
lovers, music lovers, and scholars, Listening to Stanley Kubrick is
a thoroughly researched examination into the musical elements of
one of cinema's most brilliant artists. Appropriate for a cinema
studies or music classroom, this volume will also appeal to any fan
of Kubrick's films.
Fryderyk Chopin's career is intricately entwined with the piano.
Although he made forays into orchestral and chamber work, the vast
majority of Chopin's pieces feature the piano. While his relatively
brief life shortened his potential contribution as a composer, the
originality, richness, and quality of his work is undeniable. His
harmonies were often surprising, the rhythms flexible, and the
music dramatic. In Experiencing Chopin: A Listener's Companion,
Christine Lee Gengaro surveys Chopin's position as a composer at a
time when the piano stood at the center of musical and social life.
Throughout, she shines a spotlight on Chopin and his music, which
illuminated the Romantic period in which he lived, the social and
artistic climate that surrounded him, and the importance of the
individual artist at a time of political foment. Gengaro considers
the different genres among Chopin's works, linking each to the
historical, social, and biographical issues that shaped them.
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