Like Musical Instruments

Like Musical Instruments

Author: Larry Fagin

Publisher: Broadstone Books

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781937968120

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Poetry. Art. Photography. Edited by Larry Fagin, with photography by John Sarsgard. Why portraits of poets? Of all writers, poets are most engaged with the limits and possibilities of language what Nathaniel Mackey has termed "the rickety, imperfect fit between word and world." Like poetry coaxing the word from the world, portraiture is a particularly intimate genre, a dynamic collaboration between subject and artist, a creative tension out of which the resulting image informs our impression of the subject. Photographer John Sarsgard here documents a segment of the American poetry scene, including writers both well-known and emerging. His collaborator Larry Fagin brings an encyclopedic knowledge of poetry to the process of presenting exemplary work by each of the subjects. The result is a book that is both a celebration of the art of photographic portraiture, and an anthology of some of the finest poets at work today. 83 poets / portraits: Kostas Anagnopoulos, Bruce Andrews, Rae Armantrout, Alan Bernheimer, Bill Berkson, Charles Bernstein, Anselm Berrigan, Edmund Berrigan, Michael Brownstein, Reed Bye, Miles Champion, Tom Clark, Jack Collom, Clark Coolidge, Jayne Cortez, Jean Day, Diane di Prima, Casey Drouin, Marcella Durand, Kenward Elmslie, Robert Elstein, Larry Fagin, Mary Ferrari, Michael Friedman, Dick Gallup, Merrill Gilfillan, Michael Gizzi, John Godfrey, Sylvia Mae Gorelick, Ted Greenwald, Carla Harryman, David Henderson, Eileen Hennessy, Anselm Hollo, Erica Hunt, Omar Husain, Lisa Jarnot, Allan Kaplan, Simone Kearney, Jennifer Kietzman, Florence Kindel, Tuli Kupferberg, Joanne Kyger, Steve Malmude, Bernadette Mayer, Elizabeth McDaniel, Gillian McCain, Michael McClure, Duncan McNaughton, David Meltzer, Jennifer Moxley, Harryette Mullen, Susan Noel, Charles North, Alice Notley, Ryan Nowlin, Peter Orlovsky, Ron Padgett, Cassandra Pantuso, Bob Perelman, Annalisa Pesek, Simon Pettet, Michael Roberts, Elizabeth Robinson, Kit Robinson, Emma Rossi, Richard Roundy, Ed Sanders, David Shapiro, Ron Silliman, Aaron Simon, Ann Stephenson, Carol Szamatowicz, Stacy Szymaszek, Susie Timmons, Tony Towle, Mazarine Treyz, Ben Tripp, Paul Violi, Anne Waldman, Lewis Warsh, Jo Ann Wasserman, and Jacqueline Waters."


The Stories of Musical Instruments

The Stories of Musical Instruments

Author: Stěpánka Sekaninová

Publisher: Albatros Media

Published: 2021-05-25

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 9788000059327

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A comprehensive overview of the origin of the world's best-known musical instruments, presenting many fascinating facts along the way. Niccolo the cricket would like to become a musician. But which instrument should he start with? The violin? The guitar? The trumpet? All at once? Well, he does have six limbs, so why not? In any case, Niccolo and his trusty companion Luciano the nightingale travel the world as they learn about musical instruments of all kinds, from simple drums to the most sophisticated church organs. Do you know what didgeridoo, shamisen, or vozembouch are? Would you rather become a member of symphony orchestra or a rock band? Let ́s find out! If you are interested in music at least a little, join Niccolo and Luciano and learn the stories of musical instruments along with them.


The Printed Picture

The Printed Picture

Author: Richard Benson

Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 9780870707216

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Relief printing : woodcut, metal type, and wood engraving -- Intaglio and planographic printing : engraving, etching, mezzotint, and lithography -- Color printing : hand coloring and multiple-impression color -- Bits and pieces : modern art prints, oddities, and photographic precursors -- Early photography in silver : daguerreotypes, early silver paper processes and tintypes -- Non-silver processes : carbon, blueprint, platinum, and a couple of others -- Modern photography : developing-out gelatin silver printing -- Color notes : primary colors and neutrality -- Color photography : separation-based processes and chromogenic prints -- Photography in ink : relief and intaglio printing : the letterpress halftone and gravure printing -- Photography in ink : planographic printing : collotype and photo offset lithography -- Digital processes : binary issues, inkjet, dye sublimation, and digital C-prints -- Where do we go from here? : some questions about the future


Slap Tubes and Other Plosive Aerophones

Slap Tubes and Other Plosive Aerophones

Author: Bart Hopkin

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 9780972731331

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"They can be simple to make, yet they are fully musical and they sound great. This is the category of musical instruments known as plosive aerophones. The category includes the end-struck tubes sometimes called slap tubes, as well as many other instrument types. They're good for kids, requiring only modest tools and skills and having real educational value. For others, young or old, they provide one of the most rewarding instrument-making projects you're likely to find. At the same time, slap tubes and their kin have been central to the performances of serious, top-notch musical groups like Blue Man Group, UAKTE, Urban Strawberry Lunch and From Scratch. This book tells you everything you need to know to make them, with ready-to-build designs as well as the information you need to design your own."--Publisher.


Behind Photographs

Behind Photographs

Author: Tim Mantoani

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 9780982613795

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"Behind Photographs began as the personal quest of photographer Tim Mantoani to document and preserve noted photographers together with their images. "We have come to a point in history where we are losing both photographic recording mediumsphotographic recording mediums and iconic photographers," Mantoani comments. "While many people are familiar with iconic photographs, the general public has no idea of who created them. This book became a means to do that, the photographer and their photograph in one image."--Publisher's website, https://www.channelphotographics.com/behdinphotographs.php, viewed February 6, 2012.


The Musical Instrument Desk Reference

The Musical Instrument Desk Reference

Author: Michael J. Pagliaro

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 2012-08-16

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 081088271X

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In The Musical Instrument Desk Reference, Michael Pagliaro, musical instrument authority extraordinaire, provides the one-stop shop for those in need of a quick, visually-rich reference guide to band and orchestral instruments. Descriptions and illustrations of everything from the physics of sound to detailed discussions of each orchestra and band instrument make this work the ideal desktop reference tool for the working musician. Through its Quick Start and In Depth features, readers can quickly decide how deeply they want to delve into the instrument at hand. Following a contemporary format designed to facilitate what any musician or music instructor needs to know, The Musical Instrument Desk Reference eliminates the need to leaf through multiple method books or trawl through websites to find information. The Musical Instrument Desk Reference includes general information on fingering, the anatomy of musical instruments, sound production, amplification, and control, as well as the science of sound. Readers will find individual chapters on woodwinds, brass instruments, non-fretted string instruments, and percussion instruments. In each category, Pagliaro delves deeper, describing for woodwinds such things as tuning, key systems, fingerings, sound production, tone holes, assembly, materials, embouchures, and reed use; for brass instruments such matters as valve systems, fingering patterns, French horn types, mouthpiece selection, and intonation; for non-fretted string instruments such issues as tuning and fingering, playing position, bowing technique, instrument parts, and materials; and for percussion instruments such elements as instrument types and their classifications, tuning procedures, and accessories. The Musical Instrument Desk Reference is the perfect guide for anyone interested in or responsible for working with varieties of instruments and their players. Teachers, students, teachers in training, music instructors, instrument technicians, and musicians can quickly locate any specific detail related to any band or orchestral instrument.


The Physics of Musical Instruments

The Physics of Musical Instruments

Author: Neville H. Fletcher

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-11-09

Total Pages: 763

ISBN-13: 0387216030

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While the history of musical instruments is nearly as old as civilisation itself, the science of acoustics is quite recent. By understanding the physical basis of how instruments are used to make music, one hopes ultimately to be able to give physical criteria to distinguish a fine instrument from a mediocre one. At that point science may be able to come to the aid of art in improving the design and performance of musical instruments. As yet, many of the subtleties in musical sounds of which instrument makers and musicians are aware remain beyond the reach of modern acoustic measurements. This book describes the results of such acoustical investigations - fascinating intellectual and practical exercises. Addressed to readers with a reasonable grasp of physics who are not put off by a little mathematics, this book discusses most of the traditional instruments currently in use in Western music. A guide for all who have an interest in music and how it is produced, as well as serving as a comprehensive reference for those undertaking research in the field.


The History of Musical Instruments

The History of Musical Instruments

Author: Curt Sachs

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2012-09-19

Total Pages: 562

ISBN-13: 0486171515

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Written by a distinguished musicologist, this comprehensive history of musical instruments traces their evolution from prehistoric times in a fusion of music, anthropology, and fine arts. Includes 24 plates and 167 illustrations.