Johann Joseph Fux and the Music of the Austro-Italian Baroque
Johann Joseph Fux and the Music of the Austro-Italian Baroque

Author: Harry White

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 1351561642

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Johann Joseph Fux's reputation as a theorist and the long-term influence of his theoretical and pedagogical work have ensured that his name is widely known in music circles in the West. His pre-eminence as the foremost native-born composer of the Austrian Baroque has resulted in attention being focused on his work as an exemplum of virtually every genre, sacred or secular of Austro-Italian early eighteenth-century music. The publication of the Fux Gesamtausgabe has greatly enhanced the reputation of his music and the essays in this volume will develop our understanding of Fux, his music, and his place in musical history.

All the Shattered Worlds
All the Shattered Worlds

Author: Steve Vance

Publisher: Crossroad Press

Published: 2018-02-19

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13:

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Everyone but Ann thought that Carl Urbanowich was a harmless man who had lost his mind. Ann believes his fantasies of power and tries to stop him from ending the earth. She risks her life to prevent the catastrophe. Can she prevent him from smashing our planet into four individual solar systems?

Lexicon of Musical Invective
Lexicon of Musical Invective

Author: Nicolas Slonimsky

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2000-08

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9780393320091

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An anthology of critical assaults on well-known composers and their works written by the late Nicolas Slonimsky--writer, lexicographer, pianist, composer, conductor, teacher, and in his own words, "legendary...musicologist of manifold endeavors [and] failed wunderkind." It also includes his "Invecticon," an index to the nasty words and phrases found in the book. This is a reprint of the 1953 edition with a new foreword by Peter Schickele who describes the collection as "funny and instructive." c. Book News Inc.

Bleak
Bleak

Author: R.M. Murray

Publisher: Saraband

Published: 2022-04-05

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 1915089727

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Best First Book of the Year, Scotland's National Book Awards 2021. An entertaining Scottish memoir of rain, biting bugs, and minor humiliations, lightened with music, booze, dry humor and an array of eccentric characters. R.M. Murray has a story. Quite a few of them. Of seasickness, hangovers, the wrong kind of weather. Of the joy of woe, and disappointments fairy-lit with hope. From fishing in the endless rain on the Isle of Lewis to performing in a punk band with Craig Ferguson and Peter Capaldi at Glasgow's famous School of Art. A stargazer, looking through the wrong end of the telescope. This is a memoir... of sorts. A join-the-dots journey through a life. A series of vignettes and minor personal fables. If it were a wine it would be very dry with an insolent nose and a desperate finish. Complex but approachable. And affordable.

Emergence
Emergence

Author: Steven Johnson

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-09-11

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0743218264

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In the tradition of Being Digital and The Tipping Point, Steven Johnson, acclaimed as a "cultural critic with a poet's heart" (The Village Voice), takes readers on an eye-opening journey through emergence theory and its applications. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK A VOICE LITERARY SUPPLEMENT TOP 25 FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR AN ESQUIRE MAGAZINE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Explaining why the whole is sometimes smarter than the sum of its parts, Johnson presents surprising examples of feedback, self-organization, and adaptive learning. How does a lively neighborhood evolve out of a disconnected group of shopkeepers, bartenders, and real estate developers? How does a media event take on a life of its own? How will new software programs create an intelligent World Wide Web? In the coming years, the power of self-organization -- coupled with the connective technology of the Internet -- will usher in a revolution every bit as significant as the introduction of electricity. Provocative and engaging, Emergence puts you on the front lines of this exciting upheaval in science and thought.

Howling Symphony
Howling Symphony

Author: Derek Erickson

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2020-09-30

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13:

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Ashley's mom's death was the end of the world as she knew it. The arrival of a father she believed to be dead was her chance for a new one. Before she even had time to grieve, she was whisked away to a tiny mountain town in Montana. A world of surprising beauty and quiet she could escape in. Where the people are friendly and the mountain trails seem to go on for forever. Maybe, just maybe, this new world won't be so bad. But the mountains can be dangerous. In the snow sometimes you don't see the wolf until it's on top of you. Still reeling from the loss of her mother, Ashley is going to have to make friends fast if she wants to survive. Maybe there's a reason that cute boy and his family live so far out of town, where people don't ask questions. Now if she could only stay away from him...

Music's Spell
Music's Spell

Author: Emily Fragos

Publisher: Everyman's Library

Published: 2009-03-31

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0307270920

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Music may be the universal language that needs no words—the “language where all language ends,” as Rilke put it—but that has not stopped poets from ancient times to the present from trying to represent it in verse. Here are Rumi and Shakespeare, Elizabeth Bishop and Billy Collins; the wild pipes of William Blake, the weeping guitars of Federico García Lorca, and the jazz rhythms of Langston Hughes; Wallace Stevens on Mozart and Thom Gunn on Elvis—the range of poets and of their approaches to the subject is as wide and varied as music itself. The poems are divided into sections on pop and rock, jazz and blues, specific composers and works, various musical instruments, the human voice, the connection between music and love, and music at the close of life. The result is a symphony of poetic voices of all tenors and tones, the perfect gift for all musicians and music lovers.

Heartbeat
Heartbeat

Author: Thaddeus Hutyra

Publisher: BookRix

Published: 2016-07-20

Total Pages: 349

ISBN-13: 3739665017

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Anthology of love poems, enriched with sophisticated philosophy of the author on all issues there are in life. From love to romance, from liberty to freedoms, all issues present in this magnificent set of poems.