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Music For Pleasure
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Author : Simon Frith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
Music For Pleasure written by Simon Frith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Music categories.
In this book Simon Frith offers a wide-ranging analysis of pop music and the entertainment industry of which it is part. From the BBC in the 1930s to post-punk poseurs in the 1980s, from Gracie Fields and the Shangri-Las to Bruce Springsteen and the Pet Shop Boys, Simon Frith examines the contours and the politics of the modern pop music culture. Combining theoretical argument with detailed discussion of particular pop artists and groups, linking historical research with concert and record reviews, "Music for Pleasure" brings out the complex relations between music, romance, sexuality and class.
Music For Pleasure
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Author : John Cargher
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
Music For Pleasure written by John Cargher and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with Music categories.
Playing The Piano For Pleasure
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Author : Charles Cooke
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2011-07-01
Playing The Piano For Pleasure written by Charles Cooke and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-01 with Music categories.
Skyhorse Publishing is proud to revive Playing Piano for Pleasure. With the wonderful writing one would expect from a longtime New Yorker reporter, Piano aficionado Charles Cooke, offers concrete routines for improving your piano performance. A pleasant and constant cheerleader, Cooke asks readers to practice every day, suggesting that they work through just that section time and again until it is perfect. In addition to his own thoughts, Cooke includes material from his interviews with master pianists, artists, and writers. The result is a book that should be cherished for years to come.
Taking Popular Music Seriously
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Author : Simon Frith
language : en
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date : 2007-01-01
Taking Popular Music Seriously written by Simon Frith and has been published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-01 with Music categories.
As a sociologist Simon Frith claims music is the result of the play of social forces, whether as an idea, an experience, or an activity. The essays in this important collection address these forces, recognising that music is an effect of a continuous proc
Desire And Pleasure In Seventeenth Century Music
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Author : Susan McClary
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2012-03-06
Desire And Pleasure In Seventeenth Century Music written by Susan McClary and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-06 with Music categories.
In this book, Susan McClary examines the mechanisms through which seventeenth-century musicians simulated extreme affective states—desire, divine rapture, and ecstatic pleasure. She demonstrates how every major genre of the period, from opera to religious music to instrumental pieces based on dances, was part of this striving for heightened passions by performers and listeners. While she analyzes the social and historical reasons for the high value placed on expressive intensity in both secular and sacred music, and she also links desire and pleasure to the many technical innovations of the period. McClary shows how musicians—whether working within the contexts of the Reformation or Counter-Reformation, Absolutists courts or commercial enterprises in Venice—were able to manipulate known procedures to produce radically new ways of experiencing time and the Self.
The Pleasure Of Modernist Music
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Author : Arved Mark Ashby
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2004
The Pleasure Of Modernist Music written by Arved Mark Ashby and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Music categories.
The debate over modernist music has continued for almost a century: from Berg's Wozzeck and Webern's Symphony Op.21 to John Cage's renegotiation of musical control, the unusual musical practices of the Velvet Underground, and Stanley Kubrick's use of Ligeti's Lux Aeterna in the epic film 2001. The composers discussed in these pages -- including Bartók, Stockhausen, Bernard Herrmann, Steve Reich, and many others -- are modernists in that they are defined by their individualism, whether covert or overt, and share a basic urge toward redesigning musical discourse. The aim of this volume is to negotiate a varied and open middle ground between polemical extremes of reception. The contributors sketch out the possible significance of a repertory that in past discussions has been deemed either meaningless or beyond describable meaning. With an emphasis on recent aesthetics and contexts -- including film music, sexuality, metaphor, and ideas of a listening grammar -- they trace the meanings that such works and composers have held for listeners of different kinds. None of them takes up the usual mandate of "educated listening" to modernist works: the notion that a person can appreciate "difficult" music if given enough time and schooling. Instead the book defines novel but meaningful avenues of significance for modernist music, avenues beyond those deemed appropriate or acceptable by the academy. While some contributors offer new listening strategies, most interpret the listening premise more loosely: as a metaphor for any manner of personal and immediate connection with music. In addition to a previously untranslated article by Pierre Boulez, the volume contains articles (all but one previously unpublished) by twelve distinctive and prominent composers, music critics, and music theorists from America, Europe, Australia, and South Africa: Arved Ashby, Amy Bauer, William Bolcom, Jonathan Bernard, Judy Lochhead, Fred Maus, Andrew Mead, Greg Sandow, Martin Scherzinger, Jeremy Tambling, Richard Toop, and Lloyd Whitesell. Arved Ashby is Associate Professor of Music at the Ohio State University.
Music For Pleasure
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Author : Monaco
language : en
Publisher: Warner Bros Publications
Release Date : 1997
Music For Pleasure written by Monaco and has been published by Warner Bros Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Music categories.
Monaco is the latest band from Joy Division and New Order bassist Peter Hook. Containing the hit song "What Do You Want from Me?," this debut album-matching folio also features five pages of color photos, complete lyrics, and a biography of the band. Titles are: What Do You Want from Me? * Shine * Sweet Lips * Buzz Gum * Blue * Junk * Billy Bones * Happy Jack * Tender * Sedona.
Music And The Functions Of The Brain Arousal Emotions And Pleasure
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Author : Mark Reybrouck
language : en
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Release Date : 2018-04-12
Music And The Functions Of The Brain Arousal Emotions And Pleasure written by Mark Reybrouck and has been published by Frontiers Media SA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-12 with categories.
Music impinges upon the body and the brain. As such, it has significant inductive power which relies both on innate dispositions and acquired mechanisms and competencies. The processes are partly autonomous and partly deliberate, and interrelations between several levels of processing are becoming clearer with accumulating new evidence. For instance, recent developments in neuroimaging techniques, have broadened the field by encompassing the study of cortical and subcortical processing of the music. The domain of musical emotions is a typical example with a major focus on the pleasure that can be derived from listening to music. Pleasure, however, is not the only emotion to be induced and the mechanisms behind its elicitation are far from understood. There are also mechanisms related to arousal and activation that are both less differentiated and at the same time more complex than the assumed mechanisms that trigger basic emotions. It is imperative, therefore, to investigate what pleasurable and mood-modifying effects music can have on human beings in real-time listening situations. This e-book is an attempt to answer these questions. Revolving around the specificity of music experience in terms of perception, emotional reactions, and aesthetic assessment, it presents new hypotheses, theoretical claims as well as new empirical data which contribute to a better understanding of the functions of the brain as related to musical experience.
Playing The Piano For Pleasure
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Author : Charles Cooke
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 1948
Playing The Piano For Pleasure written by Charles Cooke and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1948 with Music categories.
Here is a book that will be enjoyed by all pianists not only for the stimulating advice it provides, but also for the style with which it is written.
From Perception To Pleasure
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Author : Robert J. Zatorre
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2023
From Perception To Pleasure written by Robert J. Zatorre and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with Education categories.
"Our species has been making music most likely for as long as we've been human. It seems to be an indelible a part of us. The oldest known musical instruments date back to the upper paleolithic period, some 40,000 years ago. Among the most intriguing of these are delicate bone flutes, seen in Figure 1.1, found in what is now southern Germany. (Conard et al. 2009). These discoveries testify to the advanced technology that our ancestors applied to create music: the finger holes are carefully bevelled to allow the musician's fingers to make a tight seal; and the distances between the holes appear to have been precisely measured, perhaps to correspond to a specific musical scale. This time period corresponds to the last glaciation episode in the northern hemisphere -- life could not have been easy for people living at that time. Yet time, energy, and the skills of craftworkers were expended for making abstract sounds "of the least use ... to daily habits of life". So, music must have been very meaningful and important for them. Why would that be?"--