Why Music Moves Us

Why Music Moves Us
Author: J. Bicknell
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2009-04-08
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 023023383X

Music has extraordinary power to move us, but how and why does it affect us? What is going on, emotionally, physically and cognitively when listeners have strong emotional responses to music? This is a highly readable, original and philosophically important book for anyone who has ever been moved by music.

Twelve Little Preludes

Twelve Little Preludes
Author: Johann Sebastian Bach
Publisher: Alfred Music
Total Pages: 16
Release: 1996-02-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781457472008

A collection of piano solos composed by Johann Sebastian Bach.

Peer Gynt Suite, Op. 46 (Plus Solveig's Song)

Peer Gynt Suite, Op. 46 (Plus Solveig's Song)
Author: Edvard Grieg
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications
Total Pages: 25
Release: 2010-10-07
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1609743822

The Peer Gynt Suite may be Edvard Grieg's most famous composition. Its melodies have insinuated themselves into our culture so that they are now universally familiar. the movements are: Morning Song, Asa's Death, Anitra's Dance, and In the Hall of the Mountain King. This edition presents, for the first time, the entire suite in a version for solo guitar. This is a substantial work for the guitarist that, while requiring solid technique, is quite rewarding for both the player and the audience. Also included is a transcription of Grieg's beautiful Solveig's Song.

Illinois Women Artists

Illinois Women Artists
Author:
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 72
Release: 1999
Genre: Art, American
ISBN: 9780252068553

Illinois Women Artists: The New Millennium showcases fifty pieces that celebrate the wit, conviction, and creativity of women artists in Illinois. The honesty and energy of these pieces--paintings, sculptures, lithographs, etchings, woodcuts, collages, quilts--emanate from the pages of this beautiful full-color book that serves as the exhibition catalog. The show travels from Chicago to the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D. C., and then throughout Illinois.