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Author : Steven Feld
Release : 2012-10-02
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 652/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Sound and Sentiment by : Steven Feld
Download or read book Sound and Sentiment written by Steven Feld. This book was released on 2012-10-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new, thirtieth-anniversary edition of the landmark ethnography that introduced the anthropology, or the cultural study, of sound.
Author : Steven Feld
Release : 1990
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 990/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Sound and Sentiment by : Steven Feld
Download or read book Sound and Sentiment written by Steven Feld. This book was released on 1990. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Awarded the J. I. Stanley Prize of the School of American Research.
Author : Charles Rosen
Release : 2010-06-29
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 373/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Music and Sentiment by : Charles Rosen
Download or read book Music and Sentiment written by Charles Rosen. This book was released on 2010-06-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does a work of music stir the senses, creating feelings of joy, sadness, elation, or nostalgia? Though sentiment and emotion play a vital role in the composition, performance, and appreciation of music, rarely have these elements been fully observed. In this succinct and penetrating book, Charles Rosen draws upon more than a half century as a performer and critic to reveal how composers from Bach to Berg have used sound to represent and communicate emotion in mystifyingly beautiful ways.Through a range of musical examples, Rosen details the array of stylistic devices and techniques used to represent or convey sentiment. This is not, however, a listener’s guide to any “correct” response to a particular piece. Instead, Rosen provides the tools and terms with which to appreciate this central aspect of musical aesthetics, and indeed explores the phenomenon of contradictory sentiments embodied in a single motif or melody. Taking examples from Chopin, Schumann, Wagner, and Liszt, he traces the use of radically changing intensities in the Romantic works of the nineteenth century and devotes an entire chapter to the key of C minor. He identifies a “unity of sentiment” in Baroque music and goes on to contrast it with the “obsessive sentiments” of later composers including Puccini, Strauss, and Stravinsky. A profound and moving work, Music and Sentiment is an invitation to a greater appreciation of the crafts of composition and performance.
Author : Mitchell Morris
Release : 2013-04-29
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 993/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Persistence of Sentiment by : Mitchell Morris
Download or read book The Persistence of Sentiment written by Mitchell Morris. This book was released on 2013-04-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we account for the persistent appeal of glossy commercial pop music? Why do certain performers have such emotional power, even though their music is considered vulgar or second rate? In The Persistence of Sentiment, Mitchell Morris gives a critical account of a group of American popular music performers who have dedicated fan bases and considerable commercial success despite the critical disdain they have endured. Morris examines the specific musical features of some exemplary pop songs and draws attention to the social contexts that contributed to their popularity as well as their dismissal. These artists were all members of more or less disadvantaged social categories: members of racial or sexual minorities, victims of class and gender prejudices, advocates of populations excluded from the mainstream. The complicated commercial world of pop music in the 1970s allowed the greater promulgation of musical styles and idioms that spoke to and for exactly those stigmatized audiences. In more recent years, beginning with the “Seventies Revival” of the early 1990s, additional perspectives and layers of interpretation have allowed not only a deeper understanding of these songs' function than when they were first popular, but also an appreciation of how their significance has shifted for American listeners in the succeeding three decades.
Author : Peter Kivy
Release : 1989
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 772/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Sound Sentiment by : Peter Kivy
Download or read book Sound Sentiment written by Peter Kivy. This book was released on 1989. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discussing how music possesses expressive properties, this title incorporates the text of The Corded Shell, answering various criticisms.
