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Listening as Spiritual Practice in Early Modern Italy
In this volume the author looks at the rise of a cultivated audience whose skill involved listening rather than playing or singing, in the early 17th century.
Beyond Structural Listening?
Rose Subotnik criticized 'structural listening' as an attempt to situate musical meaning solely within the unfolding of the musical structure itself. The authors of this volume take up her challenge, writing on repertoires ranging from Beethoven to MTV.
The Enjoyment of Music
For more than 60 years, this text has led the way in preparing students for a lifetime of listening to great music and understanding its cultural and historical context. The Thirteenth Edition builds on this foundation with NEW coverage of performance and musical style. NEW tools help students share their deepening listening skills and appreciation in writing and conversation.
The Enjoyment of Music
"The Enjoyment of Music, Essential Listening Edition, weaves together a concise text and rich media resources in a compact and affordable package that gives students all they need for an enriched listening experience. The new Fourth Edition features enhanced pedagogy built around new listening objectives and Listening Challenge online activities, a revised repertory that includes popular teaching pieces, and streamlined Listening Guides that make it easier for students to identify the important things to listen for in each selection"--
The Enjoyment of Music
The essential skills for listening to, understanding, and enjoying music
Cesario Gussago. Sonate a quattro, sei, et otti
First Published in 1994. This book contains, previously unpublished, full scores of major works from the Renaissance and Early Baroque; analysing Sixteenth-century Italy, where one of the greatest flowerings of instrumental music in Western culture occurred. The print on which this volume is based, the Sonate a quattro, sei, et otto of 1608, comprises the entirety of Gussago's extant instrumental opus.
Music and Capitalism
iTunes. Spotify. Pandora. With these brief words one can map the landscape of music today, but these aren’t musicians, songs, or anything else actually musical—they are products and brands. In this book, Timothy D. Taylor explores just how pervasively capitalism has shaped music over the last few decades. Examining changes in the production, distribution, and consumption of music, he offers an incisive critique of the music industry’s shift in focus from creativity to profits, as well as stories of those who are laboring to find and make musical meaning in the shadows of the mainstream cultural industries. Taylor explores everything from the branding of musicians to the globalization o...
The Enjoyment of Music
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Industry
Academics -- Horizons -- Festivals -- Funding -- All-Stars -- Lincoln Center -- Record labels.
Deconstructive Variations
Balanced between the traditional and the postmodern, Subotnik (music, Brown U.) deftly and articulately manages to use the philosophies of Kant, Adorno, Bakhtin, and Derrida to review the music of Chopin, Mozart, and Stravinksy. Her discussion of the Magic Flute brings new rigor to the more usual romantic studies, and her exposition on Allan Bloom and Spike Lee in the final essay contextualizes the deconstructive critique she employs. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
