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Author: Kathleen Marie Higgins
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780739120859
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKathleen Higgins argues that the arguments that Plato used to defend the ethical value of music are still applicable today. Music encourages ethically valuable attitudes and behavior, provides practice in skills that are valuable in ethical life, and symbolizes ethical ideals.
Author: Jonathan L. Friedmann
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2014-12-17
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 1476618968
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMusic research has entered something of a Golden Age. Technological advances and scholarly inquiry have merged in interdisciplinary studies--drawing on psychology, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, anthropology and other fields--that illuminate the musical nature of our species. This volume develops, supports and challenges that body of research, examining key issues in the field, such as the difficulty of writing about music, the formation of musical preferences, the emotional impact of musical sounds, the comparison of music and language, the impulse for making music and the connection between music and spirituality.
Author: Gary E. McPherson
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2012-03-15
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 0191625809
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy do some children take up music, while others dont? Why do some excel, whilst others give up? Why do some children favour classical music, whilst others prefer rock? These are questions that have puzzled music educators, psychologists, and musicologists for many years. Yet, they are incredibly difficult and complex questions to answer. 'Music in our lives' takes an innovative approach to trying to answer these questions. It is drawn from a research project that spanned fourteen years, and closely followed the lives of over 150 children learning music - from their seventh to their twenty second birthdays. This detailed longitudinal approach helped the authors probe a number of important issues. For example, how do you define musical skill and ability? Is it true, as many assume, that continuous engagement in performance is the sole way in which those skills can be developed? What are the consequences of trends and behaviours observed amongst the general public, and their listening consumption. After presenting an overview and detailed case study explorations of musical lives, the book provides frameworks and theory for further investigation and discussion. It tries to present an holistic interpretation of these studies, and looks at their implications for musical development and education. Accessibly written by three leading researchers in the fields of music education and music psychology, this book makes a powerful contribution to understanding the dynamic and vital context of music in our lives.
Author: Inayat Khan
Publisher: Suluk Press
Published: 1998-09
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780930872380
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTeachings on sound presenting a vision of the harmony which underlies and infuses every aspect of life. Science of breath, law of rhythm, the creative process, healing power and psychological influence of music.
Author: Clive Davis
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2013-02-19
Total Pages: 585
ISBN-13: 1476714789
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe chief creative officer of Sony Music presents a candid assessment of his life and the past half-century of popular music from an insider's perspective, tracing his work with a wide array of stars and personalities.
Author: Jonathan L. Friedmann
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2015-01-02
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 0786497599
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMusic research has entered something of a Golden Age. Technological advances and scholarly inquiry have merged in interdisciplinary studies--drawing on psychology, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, anthropology and other fields--that illuminate the musical nature of our species. This volume develops, supports and challenges that body of research, examining key issues in the field, such as the difficulty of writing about music, the formation of musical preferences, the emotional impact of musical sounds, the comparison of music and language, the impulse for making music and the connection between music and spirituality.
Author: Artur Schnabel
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 1988-01-01
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 0486255719
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A clear picture of a musician of rare integrity." — The Musical Times. Highly readable reminiscences, musical philosophy of great pianist: his experiences as a child prodigy in turn-of-the-century Vienna, concert career, thoughts on great conductors and composers of the day, preferences in the repertoire, much more. Also includes "Reflections on Music," address delivered at University of Manchester, 1933. Introduction by Edward Crankshaw. 20 illustrations. Index.
Author: Charles Fowler
Publisher:
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780026421225
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: S. Porter
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 1988-03
Total Pages: 74
ISBN-13: 9780935016963
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Holly Gleason
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2017-09-20
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 1477314903
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFull-tilt, hardcore, down-home, and groundbreaking, the women of country music speak volumes with every song. From Maybelle Carter to Dolly Parton, k.d. lang to Taylor Swift—these artists provided pivot points, truths, and doses of courage for women writers at every stage of their lives. Whether it’s Rosanne Cash eulogizing June Carter Cash or a seventeen-year-old Taylor Swift considering the golden glimmer of another precocious superstar, Brenda Lee, it’s the humanity beneath the music that resonates. Here are deeply personal essays from award-winning writers on femme fatales, feminists, groundbreakers, and truth tellers. Acclaimed historian Holly George Warren captures the spark of the rockabilly sensation Wanda Jackson; Entertainment Weekly’s Madison Vain considers Loretta Lynn’s girl-power anthem “The Pill”; and rocker Grace Potter embraces Linda Ronstadt’s unabashed visual and musical influence. Patty Griffin acts like a balm on a post-9/11 survivor on the run; Emmylou Harris offers a gateway through paralyzing grief; and Lucinda Williams proves that greatness is where you find it. Part history, part confessional, and part celebration of country, Americana, and bluegrass and the women who make them, Woman Walk the Line is a very personal collection of essays from some of America’s most intriguing women writers. It speaks to the ways in which artists mark our lives at different ages and in various states of grace and imperfection—and ultimately how music transforms not just the person making it, but also the listener.
