Author: Graeme Skinner
Publisher: NewSouth
ISBN: 1742242162
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 551
Book Description
Peter Sculthorpe, who died in 2014, remains Australia’s best-known composer and is widely held to be the most important creative musical spirit the country has produced. Beautifully written and fastidiously researched, this authorised biography provides an insight into Sculthorpe’s formation years: his quest for personal voice, and his arrival – through many creative friendships and collaborations – at a place in the collective heart of the nation. It charts the realisation of a youthful vocation to become not merely a composer, but an Australian composer. Graeme Skinner’s biography is also a social history, examining Sculthorpe’s unique role in the creation of Australian musical modernism in the 1960s – an important era in Australia’s cultural evolution.
Earth Dances
Author: Andrew Ford
Publisher: Black Inc.
ISBN: 1925203018
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Minimalism, savagery, the raw and the cooked, the primal and the pre-verbal, Elvis’s hips, The Rite of Spring . . . Earth Dances is an original investigation of how music and primitivism intersect – a dazzling journey through music and culture. With alternating chapters of criticism and interviews, including with Liza Lim and Brian Eno, composer and broadcaster Andrew Ford explores the relationship between primal forms of music and the most refined examples of the art – between passion and control. He looks at the voice, the drum, the drone and the dance, at ‘music that is in touch with something fundamental in our existence, music that seeks and rediscovers the earthy side of our nature, the primitive, the “simple, rude or rough”, and in doing so restores and resets our humanity’. ‘The perfect, knowledgeable, enthusiastic friend . . . I couldn’t put it down!’ —David Robertson ‘Much has been made of the search for the lost chord. But chords are sophisticated structures. Earth Dances documents Andrew Ford’s intrepid quest for the lost thud, and the lost scream . . . Music can’t survive without primitivism. It is the bushfire clearing overgrown and cluttered musical landscapes, paring them to essentials. This results in fresh structures, materials and practices that lead us to the place we belong.’ —Brian Ritchie, Violent Femmes, MONA FOMA ‘Earth Dances is a vivid and rarely less than astute history of the debt modern music simultaneously owes to the inheritances of tradition, and the texture of dissonance.’ —Kill Your Darlings ‘Filled with insightful musical analysis made accessible for a general audience.’ —Sydney Morning Herald
Publisher: Black Inc.
ISBN: 1925203018
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Minimalism, savagery, the raw and the cooked, the primal and the pre-verbal, Elvis’s hips, The Rite of Spring . . . Earth Dances is an original investigation of how music and primitivism intersect – a dazzling journey through music and culture. With alternating chapters of criticism and interviews, including with Liza Lim and Brian Eno, composer and broadcaster Andrew Ford explores the relationship between primal forms of music and the most refined examples of the art – between passion and control. He looks at the voice, the drum, the drone and the dance, at ‘music that is in touch with something fundamental in our existence, music that seeks and rediscovers the earthy side of our nature, the primitive, the “simple, rude or rough”, and in doing so restores and resets our humanity’. ‘The perfect, knowledgeable, enthusiastic friend . . . I couldn’t put it down!’ —David Robertson ‘Much has been made of the search for the lost chord. But chords are sophisticated structures. Earth Dances documents Andrew Ford’s intrepid quest for the lost thud, and the lost scream . . . Music can’t survive without primitivism. It is the bushfire clearing overgrown and cluttered musical landscapes, paring them to essentials. This results in fresh structures, materials and practices that lead us to the place we belong.’ —Brian Ritchie, Violent Femmes, MONA FOMA ‘Earth Dances is a vivid and rarely less than astute history of the debt modern music simultaneously owes to the inheritances of tradition, and the texture of dissonance.’ —Kill Your Darlings ‘Filled with insightful musical analysis made accessible for a general audience.’ —Sydney Morning Herald
Claire Trevor
Author: Derek Sculthorpe
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476630690
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
Claire Trevor (1910-2000) is best remembered as the alluring blonde femme fatale in such iconic noir films as Murder, My Sweet (1944) and Raw Deal (1948). Yet she was a versatile performer who brought rare emotional depth to her art. She was effective in a range of diverse roles, from an outcast prostitute in John Ford's classic Stagecoach (1939) to the ambitious tennis mother in Hard, Fast and Beautiful (1951) to the embittered wife of a landowner in William Wellman's overlooked gem My Man and I (1952). Nominated for three Oscars, she deservedly won Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Gaye Dawn, a gangster's broken-down moll in Key Largo (1948). The author covers her life and career in detail, recognizing her as one of the finest actresses of her generation.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476630690
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
Claire Trevor (1910-2000) is best remembered as the alluring blonde femme fatale in such iconic noir films as Murder, My Sweet (1944) and Raw Deal (1948). Yet she was a versatile performer who brought rare emotional depth to her art. She was effective in a range of diverse roles, from an outcast prostitute in John Ford's classic Stagecoach (1939) to the ambitious tennis mother in Hard, Fast and Beautiful (1951) to the embittered wife of a landowner in William Wellman's overlooked gem My Man and I (1952). Nominated for three Oscars, she deservedly won Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Gaye Dawn, a gangster's broken-down moll in Key Largo (1948). The author covers her life and career in detail, recognizing her as one of the finest actresses of her generation.
Ancestors, Artefacts, Empire
Author: Gaye Sculthorpe
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780714124902
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Using extraordinary Indigenous Australian art and artifacts preserved in museums across Great Britain and Ireland, the authors present a global history that entwines ancestral pasts with epochs of empire and colony leading to the contemporary moment.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780714124902
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Using extraordinary Indigenous Australian art and artifacts preserved in museums across Great Britain and Ireland, the authors present a global history that entwines ancestral pasts with epochs of empire and colony leading to the contemporary moment.
Suburban Songbook
Author: Clinton Walker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780645050417
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780645050417
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
1001 Classical Recordings You Must Hear Before You Die
Author: Matthew Rye
Publisher: Chartwell Books
ISBN: 0785835822
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 963
Book Description
A thick and informative guide to the world of classical music and its stunning recordings, complete with images from CD cases, concert halls, and of the musicians themselves.
Publisher: Chartwell Books
ISBN: 0785835822
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 963
Book Description
A thick and informative guide to the world of classical music and its stunning recordings, complete with images from CD cases, concert halls, and of the musicians themselves.
Peter Sculthorpe
Author: Graeme Skinner
Publisher: NewSouth
ISBN: 1742242162
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 551
Book Description
Peter Sculthorpe, who died in 2014, remains Australia’s best-known composer and is widely held to be the most important creative musical spirit the country has produced. Beautifully written and fastidiously researched, this authorised biography provides an insight into Sculthorpe’s formation years: his quest for personal voice, and his arrival – through many creative friendships and collaborations – at a place in the collective heart of the nation. It charts the realisation of a youthful vocation to become not merely a composer, but an Australian composer. Graeme Skinner’s biography is also a social history, examining Sculthorpe’s unique role in the creation of Australian musical modernism in the 1960s – an important era in Australia’s cultural evolution.
Publisher: NewSouth
ISBN: 1742242162
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 551
Book Description
Peter Sculthorpe, who died in 2014, remains Australia’s best-known composer and is widely held to be the most important creative musical spirit the country has produced. Beautifully written and fastidiously researched, this authorised biography provides an insight into Sculthorpe’s formation years: his quest for personal voice, and his arrival – through many creative friendships and collaborations – at a place in the collective heart of the nation. It charts the realisation of a youthful vocation to become not merely a composer, but an Australian composer. Graeme Skinner’s biography is also a social history, examining Sculthorpe’s unique role in the creation of Australian musical modernism in the 1960s – an important era in Australia’s cultural evolution.
Peter Sculthorpe
Author: Deborah Hayes
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Sculthorpe is one of Australia's most prominent composers and is among the most important composers on the international scene. Although he is a distinguished academic and popular lecturer, Sculthorpe does not fit any ready-made category of composer or teacher. In a body of work that so far includes orchestral and chamber music in many genres and mediums, opera and other theater music, songs and choral music, and music for documentary and commercial films, radio, and television, he has established a personal musical style and public presence that have shaped the history of 20th-century music in Australia and the world. Owing to circumstances of place and time--Australia in the 20th century--he has been defining, or redefining, the role of composer for himself and his audiences. This book is a record of Sculthorpe's work and of its reception by composer colleagues, performers, critics, and audiences.
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Sculthorpe is one of Australia's most prominent composers and is among the most important composers on the international scene. Although he is a distinguished academic and popular lecturer, Sculthorpe does not fit any ready-made category of composer or teacher. In a body of work that so far includes orchestral and chamber music in many genres and mediums, opera and other theater music, songs and choral music, and music for documentary and commercial films, radio, and television, he has established a personal musical style and public presence that have shaped the history of 20th-century music in Australia and the world. Owing to circumstances of place and time--Australia in the 20th century--he has been defining, or redefining, the role of composer for himself and his audiences. This book is a record of Sculthorpe's work and of its reception by composer colleagues, performers, critics, and audiences.
Sculthorpe
Author: Graeme Skinner
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780909168711
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"This education kit ... is designed to enhance the information base and skills of music students at secondary level, focusing on aural and musicological comprehension ... The booklet introduces the composer with a general discussion of his life and career and his musical output, followed by 6 units with background, analyses and discussions of the 7 featured works on the CD"--Foreword, page 2.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780909168711
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"This education kit ... is designed to enhance the information base and skills of music students at secondary level, focusing on aural and musicological comprehension ... The booklet introduces the composer with a general discussion of his life and career and his musical output, followed by 6 units with background, analyses and discussions of the 7 featured works on the CD"--Foreword, page 2.
Mindfulness: the Piano Collection
Author:
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571539543
Category : Piano music
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This collection of beautiful piano pieces provides a unique way for pianists to reach a state of mindfulness by sharpening their musical focus towards their internal and external experiences within the present moment. With the help of Einaudi, Debussy, Beethoven, Vaughan Williams, and Satie, as well as music-themed images to color in, this aid to simple meditation is the perfect musical remedy in an increasingly frantic and pressurized world. Titles: Ambre (Frahm) * Arioso (BMV 156) (J. S. Bach) * Der Dichter Spricht (Schumann) * Earnestly Yours (Henson) * Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis (Vaughan Williams) * Gnossienne, No. 1 (Satie) * I Giorni (Einaudi) * Lento (Scriabin) * Moonlight Sonata (Beethoven) * Morning Prayer (Tchaikovsky) * Pavane, Op. 50 (Fauré) * Pavane pour une infante défunte (Ravel) * Prelude in E Minor (Chopin) * Rêverie (Debussy) * Romanze (Mozart) * Shackleton's Cross (Goodall) * Snowflakes (Glennie) * To a Wild Rose (MacDowell) * Une larme (Mussorgsky) * Winter (Slow Movement) (Vivaldi).
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571539543
Category : Piano music
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This collection of beautiful piano pieces provides a unique way for pianists to reach a state of mindfulness by sharpening their musical focus towards their internal and external experiences within the present moment. With the help of Einaudi, Debussy, Beethoven, Vaughan Williams, and Satie, as well as music-themed images to color in, this aid to simple meditation is the perfect musical remedy in an increasingly frantic and pressurized world. Titles: Ambre (Frahm) * Arioso (BMV 156) (J. S. Bach) * Der Dichter Spricht (Schumann) * Earnestly Yours (Henson) * Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis (Vaughan Williams) * Gnossienne, No. 1 (Satie) * I Giorni (Einaudi) * Lento (Scriabin) * Moonlight Sonata (Beethoven) * Morning Prayer (Tchaikovsky) * Pavane, Op. 50 (Fauré) * Pavane pour une infante défunte (Ravel) * Prelude in E Minor (Chopin) * Rêverie (Debussy) * Romanze (Mozart) * Shackleton's Cross (Goodall) * Snowflakes (Glennie) * To a Wild Rose (MacDowell) * Une larme (Mussorgsky) * Winter (Slow Movement) (Vivaldi).
Dance with Nature
Author: Ross Edwards
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780909168742
Category : Chamber music
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Teacher's resource kit for secondary students based around Ross Edwards' works: Binyang, Marimba dances, More marimba dances, Ecstatic dance II, Water spirit song, Etymalong, Piano trio movt. I, and 'Earth dance' from Nura. Includes transcript of interview with the composer, biographical details and musicology/aural tasks for senior secondary school students, as well as a recording of the works.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780909168742
Category : Chamber music
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Teacher's resource kit for secondary students based around Ross Edwards' works: Binyang, Marimba dances, More marimba dances, Ecstatic dance II, Water spirit song, Etymalong, Piano trio movt. I, and 'Earth dance' from Nura. Includes transcript of interview with the composer, biographical details and musicology/aural tasks for senior secondary school students, as well as a recording of the works.