The Search For Musical Ecstasy
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The Search For Musical Ecstasy
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Author : Harvey Rosenberg
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
The Search For Musical Ecstasy written by Harvey Rosenberg and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Music categories.
Music The Brain And Ecstasy
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Author : Robert Jourdain
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Music The Brain And Ecstasy written by Robert Jourdain and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Music categories.
Music The Brain And Ecstasy
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Author : R Jourdain
language : en
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
Release Date : 1998-03-01
Music The Brain And Ecstasy written by R Jourdain and has been published by William Morrow Paperbacks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-03-01 with Music categories.
What makes a distant oboe's wail beautiful? Why do some kinds of music lift us to ecstasy, but not others? How can music make sense to an ear and brain evolved for detecting the approaching lion or tracking the unsuspecting gazelle? Lyrically interweaving discoveries from science, psychology, music theory, paleontology, and philosophy, Robert Jourdian brilliantly examines why music speaks to us in ways that words cannot, and why we form such powerful connections to it. In clear, understandable language, Jourdian expertly guides the reader through a continuum of musical experience: sound, tone, melody, harmony, rhythm, composition, performance, listening, understanding--and finally to ecstasy. Along the way, a fascinating cast of characters brings Jourdian's narrative to vivid life: "idiots savants" who absorb whole pieces on a single hearing, composers who hallucinate entire compositions, a psychic who claims to take dictation from long-dead composers, and victims of brain damage who can move only when they hear music. Here is a book that will entertain, inform, and stimulate everyone who loves music--and make them think about their favorite song in startling new ways.What makes a distant oboe s wail beautiful? Why do some kinds of music lift us to ecstasy, but not others? How can music make sense to an ear and brain evolved for detecting the approaching lion or tracking the unsuspecting gazelle? Lyrically interweaving discoveries from science, psychology, music theory, paleontology, and philosophy, Robert Jourdian brilliantly examines why music speaks to us in ways that words cannot, and why we form such powerful connections to it. In clear, understandable language, Jourdian expertly guides the reader through a continuum of musical experience: sound, tone, melody, harmony, rhythm, composition, performance, listening, understanding--and finally to ecstasy. Along the way, a fascinating cast of characters brings Jourdian s narrative to vivid life: idiots savants who absorb whole pieces on a single hearing, composers who hallucinate entire compositions, a psychic who claims to take dictation from long-dead composers, and victims of brain damage who can move only when they hear music. Here is a book that will entertain, inform, and stimulate everyone who loves music--and make them think about their favorite song in startling new ways.
Glenn Gould
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Author : Peter F. Ostwald
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Release Date : 1997
Glenn Gould written by Peter F. Ostwald and has been published by W. W. Norton this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This portrait aims to capture the genius and the tormented life of Glenn Gould.
Tarab
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Author : Carl Cleves
language : en
Publisher: Transit Lounge
Release Date : 2014-02-01
Tarab written by Carl Cleves and has been published by Transit Lounge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
From the Sudan to Northern New South Wales, Tarab is an epic, mesmerising tale of high adventure and the search for meaning. Carl Cleves escapes national service in Belgium to live in South Africa at the height of the apartheid era. So begin the adventures and quests, wanderings and narrow escapes, mishaps and illuminations of a guitar-toting troubadour in his roles as young beat poet, law student, single father, relief worker in India and recording star in Brazil. Cleves’s page turning memoir is no simple music biography, but rather the travel story of an artist’s quest for tarab: a place where music and poetry bestow true bliss upon the lucky one. It’s by turns philosophical, funny, adventurous and insightful. Fully revised and expanded, this new edition of Tarab is a must read for all lovers of travel literature.
Soundtracks Of My Life
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Author : Carl Cleves
language : en
Publisher: Carl Van Hoogenbemt
Release Date : 2022-11-25
Soundtracks Of My Life written by Carl Cleves and has been published by Carl Van Hoogenbemt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-25 with Music categories.
A blended memoir with a sweeping musical world history, enriched with cultural detail and philosophical observations. A must-read book for anyone that loves music and adventurous travel. A wondrous feel of stream-of-consciousness.
Music The Brain And Ecstasy
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Author : Robert Jourdain
language : en
Publisher: William Morrow
Release Date : 1997
Music The Brain And Ecstasy written by Robert Jourdain and has been published by William Morrow this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Music categories.
At the evolution of music and introduces surprising new concepts of memory and perception, knowledge and attention, motion and emotion, all at work as music takes hold of us. Along the way, a fascinating cast of characters brings Jourdain's narrative to vivid life: "idiots savants" who absorb whole pieces on a single hearing, composers who hallucinate entire compositions, a psychic who claimed to take dictation from long-dead composers, and victims of brain damage who.
Dancing With The Bones
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Author : Carl Cleves
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-10-04
Dancing With The Bones written by Carl Cleves and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-04 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A philosophical, funny, lyrical and insightful exploration of roots, ancestry and the search for belonging, leads you on an adventurous journey from Flanders, to Australia, Brazil, Europe and Madagascar.
The Music Of The Other
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Author : Laurent Aubert
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-10-03
The Music Of The Other written by Laurent Aubert and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-03 with Music categories.
We are surrounded by new musical encounters today as never before, and the experience of musics from elsewhere is progressively affecting all arenas of the human conscience. Yet why is it that Western listeners expect a certain cultural and ethnic 'authenticity' or 'otherness' from visiting artists in world music, while contemporary musicians in Western music are no longer bound by such restraints? Should we feel uncomfortable when sacred rites from Asia or Africa are remade for Westerners as musical entertainment? As these thorny questions suggest, the great flood of world musics and of their agents into our most immediate cultural environment is not a simple matter of expanding global musical exchange. Instead, complex processes are at work involving the growth of intercontinental tourism, the development of new technologies of communication and our perceptions both of ourselves and of the new musical others now around us. Elegantly tracing the dimensions of these new musical encounters, Laurent Aubert considers the impact of world musics on our values, our habits and our cultural practices. His discussions of key questions about our contemporary music culture widen conventional ethnomusicological perspectives to consider not only the nature of Western society as a 'global village' but also the impact of current Western demands on the future of world musics and their practitioners.
Black Music
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Author : LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka)
language : pt
Publisher: Sobinfluencia Edições
Release Date : 2023-12-04
Black Music written by LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka) and has been published by Sobinfluencia Edições this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-04 with Music categories.
A maioria dos críticos de jazz até agora são americanos brancos, enquanto os principais músicos não Black Music: free jazz e consciência negra (1959-1967), de Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), é um dos exercícios mais radicais e selvagens de crítica musical que já foi posto em prática. Nestes ensaios, resenhas, entrevistas, encartes, crônicas e impressões pessoais publicados entre 1959 e 1967, Baraka retrata a florescente cena do free jazz, um movimento que envolveu o aprofundamento das inovações sonoras do bebop e a recuperação do jazz como expressão autêntica da cultura afro-estadunidense em uma época em que seu sucesso comercial a tornava um gênero padronizado e palatável para a amérikkka branca. Figura central e unificadora do movimento Beat nos anos 50 e Black Power nas décadas seguintes, Amiri lança mão de uma linguagem elétrica e furiosa que reflete a liberdade de improvisação do free jazz para deixar claro que essa música só pode ser compreendida como parte de um conjunto de experiências, que ao longo do século XX, moldaram uma nova consciência do que significava ser negro nos Estados Unidos. E é por isso que os seus intérpretes, entre os quais se destacam John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Archie Shepp, Sun Ra, Thelonious Monk, Albert Ayler, Pharoah Sanders, Sonny Rollins, Don Cherry, Wayne Shorter e Cecil Taylor, devem ser considerados, além de grandes músicos: "intelectuais ou místicos, ou ambos".