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Musical Forces
Steve Larson drew on his 20 years of research in music theory, cognitive linguistics, experimental psychology, and artificial intelligence—as well as his skill as a jazz pianist—to show how the experience of physical motion can shape one's musical experience. Clarifying the roles of analogy, metaphor, grouping, pattern, hierarchy, and emergence in the explanation of musical meaning, Larson explained how listeners hear tonal music through the analogues of physical gravity, magnetism, and inertia. His theory of melodic expectation goes beyond prior theories in predicting complete melodic patterns. Larson elegantly demonstrated how rhythm and meter arise from, and are given meaning by, these same musical forces.
Analyzing Jazz
Demonstrates that the theories of Heinrich Schenker can illuminate not only the technical aspects of jazz (such as melody, rhythm, and harmony), but also its artistic content. This book offers an analyses of Larson's transcriptions into musical notation of five recorded performances of Thelonious Monk's classic jazz composition "Round Midnight".
Structure and Meaning in Tonal Music
Introduction -- Expression. The two curious moments in Chopin's E-flat major prelude / Charles Burkhart ; Circular motion in Chopin's late B-major nocturne (op. 62, no. 1) / William Rothstein ; Of species counterpoint, gondola songs, and sordid boons / Poundie Burstein -- Theory. The spirit and technique of Schenker pedagogy / David Gagné and Allen Cadwallader ; Prolongational and hierarchical structures in 18th-century theory / Joel Lester ; Thoughts on Schenker's treatment of diminution and repetition in part III of Free composition, and its implications for analysis / Wayne Petty ; Looking at the Urlinie / Hedi Siegel -- Style. Rhythmic displacement in the music of Bill Evans / Steven La...
Music and Gesture
This volume showcases key theoretical ideas and practical considerations in the growing area of scholarship on musical gesture. The book constructs and explores the relations between music and gesture from a range of differing perspectives, identifying theoretical approaches and examining the nature of certain types of gesture in musical performance. The twelve chapters in this volume are organized into a heuristic progression from theory to practice, from essay to case study. Theoretical considerations about the interpretation of musical gestures are identified and phrased in terms of semiotics, the mimetic hypothesis, concepts of musical force, immanence, quotation and topic, and the work ...
Fortress
Steve E. Larson learns the harsh reality of war, finding himself relieving the past as a youthful American soldier flying combat mission from England in the summer of 1943. As the heated battle over the skies of Germany's Fortress Europe, take their toll on Steve, he finds comfort in the arms of English women. With each mission, life becomes more meaningful. He meets two women that are different as night and day. Captain Ann Toille, harden by the war and as cold as ice, and Cindy Graham a local working girl that he can escape to and enjoy the pleasures of the world. Fate steps in and he gets shot down over Germany. Left with only the clothes on his back he tries to make it back to England before getting captured. He finds out that there is more to this war and to life, then what he is living. He gets befriended on the way by Carolyn only to leave her hanging on deaths doorstep. Returning to England feeling low in heart, he turns to Cindy only to regret being with her. Fate steps in again as he meets Ann. Can Ann's love nourish him back even though it is not her love that he desires?
The Engineer
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INSCOM Journal
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Fastner and Larson's Little Black Book
This is an all-new full colour compendium of cuties, creatures, and cut-throat maniacs, as only F&L can present! Where else are you going to find erotic fantasies and bizarre tales of horror and adventure twisted together in so round and firm a package? Besides breathtaking new illustrations by the team, they've also come up with a new multi-page story entitled, 'The Cursed Kiss'. It's a tale of a modern day archaeologist and her discovery of a lusty lesbian mummy in search of forbidden love! If it's pretty girls being chased, accosted, bothered, frightened, annoyed, or having various parts of their clothes ripped off while running -- it's going to end up in a little black book just like this!
In the Still of the Night
Recounts Barb Thompson's eleven-year fight to prove that her daughter, Ronda Reynolds, did not commit suicide and offers a detailed account of the trial to determine if the coroner's office had been negligent when dealing with Ronda's death.
