Musical Marvels of Self

Musical Marvels of Self
Author: Dr. Ujjwala Kakarla
Publisher: Zorba Books
Total Pages: 118
Release: 2017-09-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9386407752

The Book Musical Marvels of Self is a collection of poems on he esoteric wonders of the inner realm, which we look at and react to. It expresses the marvels of life, taking into account unique things in the Universe, splendorous beauty of nature, inner thoughts, emotions, experiences and values reflecting the joyous rays of inner spirit. Every poem inspires to swim in the mystical silence of peace and bliss defending and elevating one’s self from chaos, sorrow and mundane desires, realizing the lost persona.

Musical Youth

Musical Youth
Author: Joanne C. Hillhouse
Publisher: Cas
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2019-07-15
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 9781733829953

Award winning title-2nd place in the 2014 Burt Award for Caribbean Literature.#12 in Amazon Hot New Releases - Teen and Young Adult Performing Arts Fiction - in its first month of releaseFeatured in Essence Magazine February 2016There are no missteps in this tender coming-of-age romance, only an enthusiasm for love and life that reverberates triumphantly, as both Shaka and Zahara battle their demons with hope's persistent chorus.-CaribbeanBeat Magazine."Musical Youth is a beautifully crafted novel with the leitmotiv of music running throughout it. This is a powerful and credible story of young love between two likeable heroes.-Burt Award for Caribbean literature.Musical Youth is a compelling read because Hillhouse has managed to make readers really care about the characters and their struggles.-Trinidad Guardian.Music, Discovery, Love. Can one summer make the difference of a lifetime?Zahara is a loner. She's brilliant on the guitar but in everyday life she doesn't really fit in. Then she meets Shaka, himself a musical genius and the first boy who really gets her. They discover that they share a special bond, their passion for music, and Zahara finds herself a part, not just of Shaka's life, but also that of his boys, the Lion Crew. When they all get roles in a summer musical, Zahara, Shaka, and the rest of the Lion Crew use the opportunity to work on a secret project. But the Crew gets much more than they bargained for when they uncover a dark secret linking Shaka and Zahara's families and they're forced to confront some uncomfortable truths about class, colour, and relationships on the Caribbean island of Antigua.

Modal Subjectivities

Modal Subjectivities
Author: Susan McClary
Publisher: University of California Press
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2019-10-22
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0520314255

In this boldly innovative book, renowned musicologist Susan McClary presents an illuminating cultural interpretation of the Italian madrigal, one of the most influential repertories of the Renaissance. A genre that sought to produce simulations in sound of complex interiorities, the madrigal introduced into music a vast range of new signifying practices: musical representations of emotions, desire, gender stereotypes, reason, madness, tensions between mind and body, and much more. In doing so, it not only greatly expanded the expressive agendas of European music but also recorded certain assumptions of the time concerning selfhood, making it an invaluable resource for understanding the history of Western subjectivity. Modal Subjectivities covers the span of the sixteenth-century polyphonic madrigal, from its early manifestations in Philippe Verdelot's settings of Machiavelli in the 1520s through the tortured chromatic experiments of Carlo Gesualdo. Although McClary takes the lyrics into account in shaping her readings, she focuses particularly on the details of the music itself—the principal site of the genre's self-fashionings. In order to work effectively with musical meanings in this pretonal repertory, she also develops an analytical method that allows her to unravel the sophisticated allegorical structures characteristic of the madrigal. This pathbreaking book demonstrates how we might glean insights into a culture on the basis of its nonverbal artistic enterprises.

Musical Vitalities

Musical Vitalities
Author: Holly Watkins
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2018-11-21
Genre: Music
ISBN: 022659484X

Does it make sense to refer to bird song—a complex vocalization, full of repetitive and transformative patterns that are carefully calculated to woo a mate—as art? What about a pack of wolves howling in unison or the cacophony made by an entire rain forest? Redefining music as “the art of possibly animate things,” Musical Vitalities charts a new path for music studies that blends musicological methods with perspectives drawn from the life sciences. In opposition to humanist approaches that insist on a separation between culture and nature—approaches that appear increasingly untenable in an era defined by human-generated climate change—Musical Vitalities treats music as one example of the cultural practices and biotic arts of the animal kingdom rather than as a phenomenon categorically distinct from nonhuman forms of sonic expression. The book challenges the human exceptionalism that has allowed musicologists to overlook music’s structural resemblances to the songs of nonhuman species, the intricacies of music’s physiological impact on listeners, and the many analogues between music’s formal processes and those of the dynamic natural world. Through close readings of Austro-German music and aesthetic writings that suggest wide-ranging analogies between music and nature, Musical Vitalities seeks to both rekindle the critical potential of nineteenth-century music and rejoin the humans at the center of the humanities with the nonhumans whose evolutionary endowments and planetary fates they share.

Musical Boxes and Other Musical Marvels

Musical Boxes and Other Musical Marvels
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 463
Release: 1987
Genre:
ISBN:

This is a collection of articles from the MBSI Technical Bulletin concerning musical boxes, large organs, small organs, pianos, strings, self-playing toys, and other musical marvels.

The Functional Unity of the Singing Voice

The Functional Unity of the Singing Voice
Author: Barbara M Doscher
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 399
Release: 2023-04-15
Genre:
ISBN: 1538178885

This expanded edition of Barbara Doscher's seminal vocal pedagogy work includes a new introduction by John Nix as well as a new appendix with reflections and practical insights from singing teachers. This classic text describes the anatomy and physiology of breathing and phonation and examines acoustics for an understanding of resonation.

Music

Music
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 796
Release: 1902
Genre: Music
ISBN:

The Etude

The Etude
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 456
Release: 1911
Genre: Music
ISBN:

A monthly journal for the musician, the music student, and all music lovers.