Music and the Skillful Listener
Music and the Skillful Listener

Author: Denise Von Glahn

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2013-04-09

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 0253007933

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For Denise Von Glahn, listening is that special quality afforded women who have been fettered for generations by the maxim "be seen and not heard." In Music and the Skillful Listener, Von Glahn explores the relationship between listening and musical composition focusing on nine American women composers inspired by the sounds of the natural world: Amy Beach, Marion Bauer, Louise Talma, Pauline Oliveros, Joan Tower, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Victoria Bond, Libby Larsen, and Emily Doolittle. Von Glahn situates "nature composing" among the larger tradition of nature writing and argues that, like their literary sisters, works of these women express deeply held spiritual and aesthetic beliefs about nature. Drawing on a wealth of archival and original source material, Von Glahn skillfully employs literary and gender studies, ecocriticism and ecomusicology, and the larger world of contemporary musicological thought to tell the stories of nine women composers who seek to understand nature through music.

Music and the Skillful Listener
Music and the Skillful Listener

Author: Denise Von Glahn

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2013-04-09

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 0253006627

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Explores the relationship between listening and musical composition focusing on nine American women composers inspired by the sounds of the natural world

The Sounds of Place
The Sounds of Place

Author: Denise Von Glahn

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2021-09-14

Total Pages: 569

ISBN-13: 0252052951

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Composers like Charles Ives, Duke Ellington, Aaron Copland, and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich created works that indelibly commemorated American places. Denise Von Glahn analyzes the soundscapes of fourteen figures whose "place pieces" tell us much about the nation's search for its own voice and about its ever-changing sense of self. She connects each composer's feelings about the United States and their reasons for creating a piece to the music, while analyzing their compositional techniques, tunes, and styles. Approaching the compositions in chronological order, Von Glahn reveals how works that celebrated the wilderness gave way to music engaged with humanity's influence--benign and otherwise--on the landscape, before environmentalism inspired a return to nature themes in the late twentieth century. Wide-ranging and astute, The Sounds of Place explores high art music's role in the making of national myth and memory.

Listening to Music
Listening to Music

Author: Douglas Moore

Publisher: W. W. Norton

Published: 1963

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 9780393001303

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Here is a book written for all who derive real pleasure from listening to music and want to learn more about it. Its aim is to increase enjoyment through intelligent appreciation. Without presupposing any technical knowledge on the part of the reader, Douglas Moore explains what happens in a piece of music, analyzing familiar compositions as examples.First he discusses music as a language--how it conveys definite thoughts and feelings. Then he takes up in turn the various elements found in all music--tone, rhythm, melody, harmony; finally, he shows why music must have form and traces its development from the simplest folk-song to the complex modern symphony.Douglas Moore's skillful interpretation of musical expression makes this an ideal handbook for those who wish to develop their own taste through a fuller understanding of how music speaks to the listener.

Music: The Art of Listening
Music: The Art of Listening

Author: Jean Ferris

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education

Published: 2013-01-11

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 0077493117

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With Music: The Art of Listening, students practice engaging with music critically, and with an appreciative ear. Presenting music within a broadened cultural and historical context, The Art of Listening encourages students to draw on the relationships between: music and the other arts; musical characteristics of different periods; as well as Western music and various non-Western musics and concepts. Learning to appreciate music is a skill. Together with McGraw-Hill's Connect Music, The Art of Listening helps students develop that skill by encouraging them to be active and thoughtful participants in their own listening experience. Whether listening through headphones or at a live performance, The Art of Listening will develop students' ability to hone the skills required to listen to, reflect upon, and write about music.

Skillful Listening & Speaking
Skillful Listening & Speaking

Author: Lida R. Baker

Publisher: Macmillan Elt

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 109

ISBN-13: 9780230431911

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Every student needs top class listening and speaking skills to succeed at an academic level. Skillful focuses on these two skills to give presentation, instant practice and complete immersion in those language skills. It offers students the opportunity to develop language skills by presenting them with ideas from today's world, while bruilding critical thinking skills that are vital for academic success. This is taken even further with a focus on study skills, providing students with rpactical guidance and support, and building confidence for independent learning throughout their university career.

The Cambridge Companion to Amy Beach
The Cambridge Companion to Amy Beach

Author: E. Douglas Bomberger

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-10-31

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 1108997899

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In recent decades, the music of Amy Beach has made an impressive return to concerts, recordings, and the academy. This book introduces Beach's compelling music and life story to those as yet unfamiliar with her work. Drawing on recently uncovered archival sources, it will expand the resources available to students, scholars and listeners.

The Enjoyment of Music
The Enjoyment of Music

Author: Kristine Forney

Publisher: W. W. Norton

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780393912555

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Flexible and integrated, with everything students need to become active listeners.

Handbook of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology
Handbook of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology

Author: Hubert Zapf

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2016-05-10

Total Pages: 768

ISBN-13: 3110394898

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Ecocriticism has emerged as one of the most fascinating and rapidly growing fields of recent literary and cultural studies. From its regional origins in late-twentieth-century Anglo-American academia, it has become a worldwide phenomenon, which involves a decidedly transdisciplinary and transnational paradigm that promises to return a new sense of relevance to research and teaching in the humanities. A distinctive feature of the present handbook in comparison with other survey volumes is the combination of ecocriticism with cultural ecology, reflecting an emphasis on the cultural transformation of ecological processes and on the crucial role of literature, art, and other forms of cultural creativity for the evolution of societies towards sustainable futures. In state-of-the-art contributions by leading international scholars in the field, this handbook maps some of the most important developments in contemporary ecocritical thought. It introduces key theoretical concepts, issues, and directions of ecocriticism and cultural ecology and demonstrates their relevance for the analysis of texts and other cultural phenomena.