Author: Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1434968650
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Author: Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1434968650
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Making Music and Having a Blast!
Author: Bonnie BlanchardPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253003350
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
In her follow-up to Making Music and Enriching Lives: A Guide for All Music Teachers, Bonnie Blanchard offers students a set of tools for their musical lives that will help them stay engaged, even during the challenging times in their musical development. Blanchard discusses issues such as finding an instructor, selecting the right instrument, and choosing a college or conservatory. The book includes lessons on music theory and history as well as a guide to finding additional materials in print and online. Blanchard's strategies for making practice productive and preparing for auditions are useful tips students can return to again and again.
The Granta
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cambridge (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Dwight's Journal of Music
Author: John Sullivan DwightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Dwight's Journal of Music
Author: John S. DwightPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375162189
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1857.
Are We There Yet?
Author: Roberta AustinPublisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 164544774X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
"Are we there yet?" The answer should always be "Yes!" because the stated destination is a small part of the trip. Wherever we are, there is much to see and do and learn. We are always "there." Such it is with life. The author has written about being "there" for almost nine exciting decades from 1930 to 2020.
Myself When I Am Real
Author: Gene SantoroPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190287241
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Charles Mingus was one of the most innovative jazz musicians of the 20th Century, and ranks with Ives and Ellington as one of America's greatest composers. By temperament, he was a high-strung and sensitive romantic, a towering figure whose tempestuous personal life found powerfully coherent expression in the ever-shifting textures of his music. Now, acclaimed music critic Gene Santoro strips away the myths shrouding "Jazz's Angry Man," revealing Mingus as more complex than even his lovers and close friends knew. A pioneering bassist and composer, Mingus redefined jazz's terrain. He penned over 300 works spanning gutbucket gospel, Colombian cumbias, orchestral tone poems, multimedia performance, and chamber jazz. By the time he was 35, his growing body of music won increasing attention as it unfolded into one pioneering musical venture after another, from classical-meets-jazz extended pieces to spoken-word and dramatic performances and television and movie soundtracks. Though critics and musicians debated his musical merits and his personality, by the late 1950s he was widely recognized as a major jazz star, a bellwether whose combined grasp of tradition and feel for change poured his inventive creativity into new musical outlets. But Mingus got headlines less for his art than for his volatile and often provocative behavior, which drew fans who wanted to watch his temper suddenly flare onstage. Impromptu outbursts and speeches formed an integral part of his long-running jazz workshop, modeled partly on dramatic models like Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre. Keeping up with the organized chaos of Mingus's art demanded gymnastic improvisational skills and openness from his musicians-which is why some of them called it "the Sweatshop." He hired and fired musicians on the bandstand, attacked a few musicians physically and many more verbally, twice threw Lionel Hampton's drummer off the stage, and routinely harangued chattering audiences, once chasing a table of inattentive patrons out of the FIVE SPOT with a meat cleaver. But the musical and mental challenges this volcanic man set his bands also nurtured deep loyalties. Key sidemen stayed with him for years and even decades. In this biography, Santoro probes the sore spots in Mingus's easily wounded nature that helped make him so explosive: his bullying father, his interracial background, his vulnerability to women and distrust of men, his views of political and social issues, his overwhelming need for love and acceptance. Of black, white, and Asian descent, Mingus made race a central issue in his life as well as a crucial aspect of his music, becoming an outspoken (and often misunderstood) critic of racial injustice. Santoro gives us a vivid portrait of Mingus's development, from the racially mixed Watts where he mingled with artists and writers as well as mobsters, union toughs, and pimps to the artistic ferment of postwar Greenwich Village, where he absorbed and extended the radical improvisation flowing through the work of Allen Ginsberg, Jackson Pollock, and Charlie Parker. Indeed, unlike Most jazz biographers, Santoro examines Mingus's extra-musical influences--from Orson Welles to Langston Hughes, Farwell Taylor, and Timothy Leary--and illuminates his achievement in the broader cultural context it demands. Written in a lively, novelistic style, Myself When I Am Real draws on dozens of new interviews and previously untapped letters and archival materials to explore the intricate connections between this extraordinary man and the extraordinary music he made.
The Romantic World of Puccini
Author: Iris J. ArnesenPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786454342
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Giacomo Puccini, composer of some of the world's most popular operas, including La Boheme, Tosca, and Madama Butterfly, was also a highly literary person who based his librettos on existing works of literature. This work explores that literary inheritance in an effort to enhance the listener's appreciation of the operatic experience. The author argues that the majority of Puccini's operas compose a grand cycle that finds its roots in the romance genre of 12th century France, serving to celebrate the strong, independent heroine. Via a close examination of the source works, the librettos, and the scores, this book offers fresh perspective on Puccini's legacy.
Richard Wagner's Women
Author: Eva RiegerPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1843836858
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
A well-researched and exhaustive analysis of the role of women in Wagner's operas.
Creative Is a Verb
Author: Patti DighPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0762768711
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
A guidebook for all who call themselves artists and those who need permission to re-insert creativity into their lives.
