In Contemporary Rhythm

In Contemporary Rhythm
Author: Peter H. Hassrick
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2008
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780806139487

The definitive retrospective on Ernest L. Blumenschein (1874-1960), one of the founders of the Taos Society of Artists and perhaps the most accomplished of all the painters associated with that organization. Reproducing masterworks from a new exhibit along with additional works and historical photographs, this volume forms the most comprehensive assemblage of his paintings ever published.

Reading Contemporary Rhythms

Reading Contemporary Rhythms
Author: M. T. Szymczak
Publisher: Berklee Press Publications
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1986-11
Genre:
ISBN: 9780634018299

The complete method for music reading, complete with over 450 songs and examples. Covers these topics: notes, rhythms, keys, positions, dynamics, syncopation, chord charts, duets, scale forms, phrasing, odd time, and much more! A collection of 52 harmonized melodies and 31 rhythm exercises designed to increase reading skills. Sixteenth note patterns are emphasized. Notated chords and rhythm guitar accompaniments provide excellent solos and duets.

Contemporary Rhythms Volume Two

Contemporary Rhythms Volume Two
Author: Bruce E. Arnold
Publisher: muse eek publishing
Total Pages: 142
Release: 1999
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1890944289

Contemporary Rhythms Volume Two develops your knowledge of highly syncopated rhythms written with contemporary notation. A serious musician must not only be able to recognize, read and play rhythms fluidly but be aware of alternate notation used especially in contemporary classical music but found more and more in all styles of music. This volume concentrates on sixteenth note rhythms and the rhythmic patterns often associated with that rhythmic level. Each exercise uses one pitch which allows the student to focus completely on time and rhythm. Exercises use modern innovations common to twentieth century notation, thereby familiarizing the student with the most sophisticated systems likely to be encountered in the course of a musical career. Midifiles for all exercises can be downloaded from the the muse-eek.com "Member's Area" to facilitate learning.

The Rhythm Inside

The Rhythm Inside
Author: Julia Schnebly-Black
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2003
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9780739032435

« Rhythm and movement engage our inner creative resources and connect the body, mind, and emotions. Innate musical talent is not necessary to take advantage of these easy-to-learn techniques. All that is required is a willingness to open to the experience. Practicing these exercises with the included recording, you will discover greater body awareness, improve learning and communication skills, feel greater ease and personal integration, and experience instant success - even as a beginner. With the combined goals of comprehending the true nature of music and understanding the inner self, the authors explore the art of harmonizing expressive physical movements to musical improvisation. »--4e de couverture

The Cambridge Companion to Rhythm

The Cambridge Companion to Rhythm
Author: Russell Hartenberger
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 371
Release: 2020-09-24
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1108492924

An exploration of rhythm and the richness of musical time from the perspective of performers, composers, analysts, and listeners.

Experiencing Rhythm

Experiencing Rhythm
Author: Jenny Fuhr
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2014-07-18
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1443864315

How is “rhythm” experienced? What role does “rhythm” play in musicians’ search for a collective musical identity? These questions are answered in this book on the fascinating blend of musical styles and influences within contemporary Malagasy music. Madagascar is the fourth largest island in the world, “the footprint between Africa and Asia,” with a history marked by many waves of migration. Over the centuries, a wide range of styles of music, of instruments and of dance have become a part of the island’s musical palette. Despite this and the resulting diversity of regional musical particularities, musicians claim there is one element they all share: a common rhythmical base. To explore this claim and the meaning of “rhythm” in the Malagasy context, Jenny Fuhr makes use of her dual role as musician and researcher. Self-reflexive field research combined with learning to play and perform Malagasy music enables a profound intercultural dialogue. This book shows how her intense involvement in music-making and a constant dialogue between musical experiences and discourses opens up new paths of understanding. In doing so, it challenges prevalent Western analytical perspectives on music and demonstrates the need for a more performance-based approach to ethnomusicology.

Fascinating Rhythm

Fascinating Rhythm
Author: David Yaffe
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2009-02-09
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1400826802

How have American writers written about jazz, and how has jazz influenced American literature? In Fascinating Rhythm, David Yaffe explores the relationship and interplay between jazz and literature, looking at jazz musicians and the themes literature has garnered from them by appropriating the style, tones, and innovations of jazz, and demonstrating that the poetics of jazz has both been assimilated into, and deeply affected, the development of twentieth-century American literature. Yaffe explores how Jewish novelists such as Norman Mailer, J. D. Salinger, and Philip Roth engaged issues of racial, ethnic, and American authenticity by way of jazz; how Ralph Ellison's descriptions of Louis Armstrong led to a "neoconservative" movement in contemporary jazz; how poets such as Wallace Stevens, Hart Crane, Langston Hughes, and Frank O'Hara were variously inspired by the music; and how memoirs by Billie Holiday, Charles Mingus, and Miles Davis both reinforced and redeemed the red light origins of jazz. The book confronts the current jazz discourse and shows how poets and novelists can be placed in it--often with problematic results. Fascinating Rhythm stops to listen for the music, demonstrating how jazz continues to speak for the American writer.

Rhythm in Art, Psychology and New Materialism

Rhythm in Art, Psychology and New Materialism
Author: Gregory Minissale
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2021-03-11
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 110891246X

This book examines the psychology involved in handling, and responding to, materials in artistic practice, such as oils, charcoal, brushes, canvas, earth, and sand. Artists often work with intuitive, tactile sensations and rhythms that connect them to these materials. Rhythm connects the brain and body to the world, and the world of abstract art. The book features new readings of artworks by Matisse, Pollock, Dubuffet, Tápies, Benglis, Len Lye, Star Gossage, Shannon Novak, Simon Ingram, Lee Mingwei, L. N. Tallur and many others. Such art challenges centuries of philosophical and aesthetic order that has elevated the substance of mind over the substance of matter. This is a multidisciplinary study of different metastable patterns and rhythms: in art, the body, and the brain. This focus on the propagation of rhythm across domains represents a fresh art historical approach and provides important opportunities for art and science to cooperate.

Traditional Afro-Cuban Concepts in Contemporary Music

Traditional Afro-Cuban Concepts in Contemporary Music
Author: ARTURO RODRIGUEZ
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2011-03-11
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1610658884

This course examines the infusion of traditional Afro-Latin and especially Afro-Cuban concepts into contemporary Western music. Upon completion of this book you will have mastered many new skills that will help you become a more accomplished percussionist and, more importantly, a more complete musician. By exploring the role of percussion in traditional Afro-Cuban music, you will understand the important contribution drums make towards a complete musical piece, and that a drum is not merely a rhythmic placeholder but truly a musical instrument worthy of recognition. While this book focuses primarily on hand percussion, its basic principals are also applied to the drum kit. There is no standard notation in this book; rather, the rhythms are illustrated with easily understood charts based on counting out subdivided beats. Two companion CDs offer audio examples of all major points.

The Cambridge Companion to Rhythm

The Cambridge Companion to Rhythm
Author: Russell Hartenberger
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 371
Release: 2020-09-24
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1108604951

One of the defining aspects of music is that it exists in time. From clapping to dancing, toe-tapping to head-nodding, the responses of musicians and listeners alike capture the immediacy and significance of the musical beat. This Companion explores the richness of musical time through a variety of perspectives, surveying influential writings on the topic, incorporating the perspectives of listeners, analysts, composers, and performers, and considering the subject across a range of genres and cultures. It includes chapters on music perception, visualizing rhythmic notation, composers' writings on rhythm, rhythm in jazz, rock, and hip-hop. Taking a global approach, chapters also explore rhythmic styles in the music of India, Africa, Bali, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Indigenous music of North and South America. Readers will gain an understanding of musicians' approaches to performing complex rhythms of contemporary music, and revealing insights into the likely future of rhythm in music.