Unfoldings
Author: Carl Schachter
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 0195125908
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntroduction: A Dialogue between Author and Editor I: Rhythm and Linear Analysis.
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Strong Measures
Author: Philip Dacey
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 520
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKSweet Thing
Author: Nicholas Stoia
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2021-01-14
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 0190881984
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs children, many of us learn to sing, "If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands." But despite the familiarity of this tune, few of us realize that what we're singing is actually part of a pervasive - and centuries-old - musical scheme. This particular pattern, the "Sweet Thing" scheme, has generated a large group of songs spanning a broad range of topics, genres, and time periods, but all related through a specific stanzaic form. Early twentieth-century blues songs "My Babe" and "Motherless Children," country songs "Peg and Awl" and "Crawdad Song," and gospel songs "Pure Religion" and "This Train" use this form, along with popular songs like Ray Charles's "I Got a Woman," The Beatles's "One After 909," and the Velvet Underground's "I'm Waiting for the Man." Sweet Thing: The History and Musical Structure of a Shared American Vernacular Form studies one of the most productive and enduring shared musical resources in North American vernacular music. Author Nicholas Stoia offers the most comprehensive examination to date of the long history of the "Sweet Thing" scheme, exploring how it made its way from sixteenth-century Scotland to eighteenth-century British broadside ballads to nineteenth-century American ragtime. Stoia also examines the form in various contexts, including early blues and country music, and moving forward to rhythm and blues, soul, and rock music, connecting these modern forms to their ancient roots. Through this close look at a ubiquitous musical from, Sweet Thing shows us how it has linked listeners and musicians alike across the boundaries of genre, race, and even time.
Cobbett's Weekly Political Register
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Published: 1811
Total Pages: 840
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Unsearchable Riches of Christ: Or, Meat for Strong Men, and Milk for Babes ...
Author: Thomas Brookes (Preacher at Margarets, New Fish Street.)
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Published: 1839
Total Pages: 130
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDevelopments in Language Theory
Author: Nataša Jonoska
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020-05-26
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 3030485161
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book constitutes the proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Developments in Language Theory, DLT 2020, which was due to be held in Tampa, Florida, USA, in May 2020. The conference was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 24 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. The papers present current developments in language theory, formal languages, automata theory and related areas, such as algorithmic, combinatorial, and algebraic properties of words and languages, cellular automata, algorithms on words, etc.
The King's Cup-Bearer
Author: O. F. Mrs. Walton
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2022-05-29
Total Pages: 134
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe King's Cup-Bearer is a story by the British writer Amy Catherine Walton working under the pseudonym Mrs. O. F. Walton. Like most of her books, The King's Cup Bearer was inspired by the Bible's motives and was aimed at a children's audience. This time, Walton rewrites the motif of the biblical Book of Nehemiah (the beginning of the Book of Ezra). The story tells about a Jewish captive, Nehemiah, who served as the cupbearer to the Persian King Artaxerxes during the twentieth year of his reign.
The Jewish Wife and Other Short Plays
Author: Bertolt Brecht
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 1965
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780802150981
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese six plays represent the best and most humorous of Brecht's shorter works. The Jewish Wife is from the Fear and Misery in the Third Reich cycle of one-act plays, which, along with In Search of Justice and The Informer, chromicles the hardships of life in Nazi Germany. The Exception and the Rule, one of Brecht's most popular short works, grimly depicts the consequences of the mutually dependent -- yet inevitable inequitable -- relationship between the priviledged and the poor; it is included here with The Measures Taken and The Elephant Calf. Though all of these ales of horror, ad Eric Bentley calls them, have tragic undertones, they are also infused with farcical absurdities and cosmic irony so characteristic of Brecht's work.
Musical Currents from the Left Coast
Author: Bruce Quaglia
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2009-05-27
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 1443812315
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMusical Currents from the Left Coast, edited by Jack Boss and Bruce Quaglia, presents a timely snapshot of the analytical concerns and methodologies that have proliferated throughout the current moment in North American music theoretical circles. The repertoire spanned within this volume is extensive. It covers music from J.S. Bach through the late 19th Century and continues finally to the modernist, avant garde, and post-modernist repertoire of the past century. Previously neglected aspects of musical structure, such as rhythm and meter, are presented here on equal footing with the traditional preoccupations of harmony and thematic process. Meter in particular is treated in great depth here: it is explored from the perspectives of both listener and performer and treats repertoire as diverse as Bach, Chopin, traditional African music and the popular music throughout the world that has disseminated from that tradition. The music and ideas of composer Arnold Schoenberg are central to many of the essays presented here. Schoenberg’s oft remarked upon masterpiece, Klavierstuck, Op.11, No.1, forms the focus of an entire section of the book. Four notable Schoenberg scholars of the younger generation revisit this seminal work on the eve of its centenary in order to reflect not only upon the work itself, but also upon the prodigious discourse that has surrounded it since nearly the date of its composition. More broadly, Schoenberg’s compositional and analytical concerns resonate through many of the other essays presented here, too. His concepts of “The Musical Idea” and “Developing Variation” are treated extensively in relation to the music of Anton Webern and Johannes Brahms, respectively. Musical Currents from the Left Coast will be of great interest to any individuals and institutions with an investment in the contemporary discourse of music theory and will be of special interest to scholars beyond that field who are also engaged with the work of Arnold Schoenberg.
Rethinking Schumann
Author: Roe-Min Kok
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011-01-19
Total Pages: 488
ISBN-13: 0199813302
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA provocative re-examination of a major romantic composer, Rethinking Schumann provides fresh approaches to Schumann's oeuvre and its reception from the perspectives of literature, visual arts, cultural history, performance studies, dance, and film. Traditionally, research has focused on biographical links between the composer and his music, encouraging the assumption that Schumann was solitary, divorced from reality, and frequently associated with "untimeliness." These eighteen new essays argue from a multitude of perspectives that Schumann was in fact very much a man of his time, informed not only by music but also the culture and society around him. The book further reveals that the composer's reputation has been shaped significantly by, for example, changes in attitudes towards German romanticism and its history, and recent developments in musical scholarship and performance. Rethinking Schumann takes into account cultural and social-institutional frameworks, engages with ongoing and new issues of reception and historiography, and offers fresh music-analytical insights. As a whole, the essays assemble a portrait of the artist that reflects the different ways in which Schumann has been understood and misunderstood over the past two hundred years. The volume is, in short, a timely reassessment of this ultimately non-untimely figure's legacy. While the essays consider some of Schumann's most famous music (Dichterliebe, Kinderszenen and the Piano Quintet), they also provide crucial adjustment to judgments against the composer's later works by explaining their musical features not as the result of diminishing creative capacity but as reflections of the political and social situations of mid-nineteenth-century German culture and technological developments. Schumann is revealed to have been a musician engaged by and responsive to his surroundings, whose reputation was formed to a great extent by popular culture, both in his own lifetime as he responded to particular poets and painters, and later, as his life and works were responded to by subsequent generations.
