Musical Myths and Facts (Vol. 1&2)
Musical Myths and Facts (Vol. 1&2)

Author: Carl Engel

Publisher: e-artnow

Published: 2020-07-03

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13:

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"Musical Myths and Facts" in 2 volumes is one of the best-known works by a German author Carl Engel. This carefully crafted e-artnow ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents._x000D_ Volume 1:_x000D_ A Musical Library_x000D_ Elsass-Lothringen_x000D_ Music and Ethnology_x000D_ Collections of Musical Instruments_x000D_ Musical Myths and Folk-lore _x000D_ The Studies of our Great Composers_x000D_ Superstitions concerning Bells _x000D_ Curiosities in Musical Literature_x000D_ The English Instrumentalists_x000D_ Musical Fairies and their Kinsfolk _x000D_ Sacred Songs of Christian Sects…_x000D_ Volume 2:_x000D_ Mattheson on Handel_x000D_ Diabolic Music _x000D_ Royal Musicians_x000D_ Composers and Practical Men_x000D_ Music and Medicine_x000D_ Popular Stories with Musical Traditions _x000D_ Dramatic Music of Uncivilized Races_x000D_ A Short Survey of the History of Music_x000D_ Chronology of the History of Music_x000D_ The Musical Scales in Use at the Present Day...

Dr. Dave's Cyberhood
Dr. Dave's Cyberhood

Author: David Walsh

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2001-08-22

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0743213971

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You wouldn't let your children wander off into an unfamiliar neighborhood alone -- nor should they be left to explore the vast world of electronic media by themselves. You may have read about the effects violent television shows and video games can have on children, but you know the solution isn't simply to unplug everything. The key for parents, says Dr. David Walsh, founder and president of the nonprofit National Institute on Media and the Family, is to be informed and involved when choosing the electronic environments where kids play and learn. Dr. Dave's Cyberhood helps parents take stock of the growing number of films, TV shows, video games, music, and web sites that stream into their homes every day. With Dr. Dave as a guide, you can Teach kids how to interact with media responsibly -- whether they're playing alone or with friends Evaluate the content of videos, electronic games, and web sites to help you decide if they are appropriate for your family Talk openly with your kids about the kinds of media they like and map out cyberhoods that everyone can agree on Complete with hands-on activities and positive recommendations for a variety of media products, Dr. Dave's Cyberhood gives parents the tools they need to find cyberhoods that their kids can enjoy -- and that they can trust.

Musica Ficta
Musica Ficta

Author: Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780804723855

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This is a pioneering attempt to rearticulate the relationship between music and the problem of mimesis, of presentation and re-presentation. Four "scenes" compose this book, all four of them responses to Wagner: two by French poets (Baudelaire and Mallarme), two by German philosophers (Heidegger and Adorno). It is difficult today to realize how profoundly Wagner affected the cultural and ideological sensibilities of the nineteenth century. Wagnerism rapidly spread throughout Europe, partly because of Wagner's propagandizing talent and the zeal of his adherents. But the main reason for his ascendance was the sudden appearance of what the century had desperately tried to produce since the beginnings of Romanticism - a work of art on the scale of great Greek and Christian art. Finally, here it was, the secret of what Hegel called the "religion of art" rediscovered. The first two scenes of the book, contemporary with the European triumph of Wagnerism, inscribe themselves in a historical sequence that is punctuated by the Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune, in which the universal unbridling of nations and classes is prefigured. The second two register certain effects of Wagnerism that are not just ideological but make themselves felt in a new political configuration that solidifies a confusion between the "national" and the "social." Art and politics are both at play here, but as neither a politics of art nor, even less, an art of politics. Instead, what is at stake, more gravely, is the aestheticization, the figuration, of the political. The four scenes frame and clarify the "true scene" that sanctioned Nietzsche's rupture with Wagner, the major philosophical event that Heidegger, in1938, said it was imperative to understand as a turning point in Western history.

The Gesualdo Hex: Music, Myth, and Memory
The Gesualdo Hex: Music, Myth, and Memory

Author: Glenn Watkins

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 0393071022

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A riveting investigation of one of the most provocative musicians of the Renaissance, who continues to captivate composers, artists, and audiences today. In this vivid tale of adultery and intrigue, witchcraft and murder, Glenn Watkins explores the fascinating life of the Renaissance composer Carlo Gesualdo—a life suffused with scandal and bordering on the fantastical. An isolated prince, Gesualdo had a personal life that was no less eccentric and bewildering than the music he composed; his biography has often clouded our perception of his oeuvre, which music scholars have periodically dismissed as a late Renaissance deformation of little consequence. Today, however, Gesualdo’s music, once deemed so strange as to be unperformable, stands as one of the most vibrant legacies of the late Italian Renaissance with an undeniable impact on a host of twentieth-century musicians and artists. The incendiary details of Gesualdo’s life recede, and his grip on our musical imagination comes to the fore. Watkins challenges our preconceptions of what has become a nearly mythic persona, weaving together the cumulative experience of some of the most vibrant artists of the past century from Stravinsky and Schoenberg to Abbado and Herzog. Beyond questions of mere influence, however, The Gesualdo Hex offers a profound meditation on cultural memory and historical awareness: how composers attempt to shape the legacy they will bequeath to the world, and how music and history inevitably take on a new guise as they are revisited by subsequent generations and reinterpreted in light of contemporary experience. In examining Gesualdo’s life, music, myth, and memory intertwine with one another to reveal an uncanny affinity with our own time. With his elegant and engaging prose, Watkins asks us to grapple with our understanding not only of art and the artists who create it but also of history itself.