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Author : Peter Kivy
Release : 1989
Genre : Music
Kind : eBook
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.
Author : Steven Feld
Release : 2012-10-02
Genre : Music
Kind : eBook
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 : Charles Rosen
Release : 2010-06-29
Genre : Music
Kind : eBook
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 : Steven Feld
Release : 1990
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
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 : Neil Young
Release : 2019-09-10
Genre : Music
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 637/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis To Feel the Music by : Neil Young
Download or read book To Feel the Music written by Neil Young. This book was released on 2019-09-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neil Young took on the music industry so that fans could hear his music—all music—the way it was meant to be heard. Today, most of the music we hear is com-pressed to a fraction of its original sound,while analog masterpieces are turning to dustin record company vaults. As these record-ings disappear, music fans aren't just losing acollection of notes. We're losing spaciousness,breadth of the sound field, and the ability tohear and feel a ping of a triangle or a pluckof a guitar string, each with its own reso-nance and harmonics that slowly trail off intosilence. The result is music that is robbed of its original quality—muddy and flat in sound compared to the rich, warm sound artists hear in the studio. It doesn't have to be this way, but the record and technology companies have incorrectly assumed that most listeners are satisfied with these low-quality tracks. Neil Young is challenging the assault on audio quality—and working to free music lovers from the flat and lifeless status quo. To Feel the Music is the true story of his questto bring high-quality audio back to musiclovers—the most important undertaking ofhis career. It's an unprecedented look insidethe successes and setbacks of creating thePono player, the fights and negotiationswith record companies to preserve master-pieces for the future, and Neil's unrelentingdetermination to make musical art availableto everyone. It's a story that shows how muchmore there is to music than meets the ear. Neil's efforts to bring quality audio to his fans garnered media attention when his Kickstarter campaign for his Pono player—a revolutionary music player that would combine the highest quality possible with the portability, simplicity and affordability modern listeners crave—became the third-most successful Kickstarter campaign in the website's history. It had raised more than $6M in pledges in 40 days. Encouraged by the enthusiastic response, Neil still had a long road ahead, and his Pono music player would not have the commercial success he'd imagined. But he remained committed to his mission, and faced with the rise of streaming services that used even lower quality audio, he was determined to rise to the challenge. An eye-opening read for all fans of Neil Young and all fans of great music, as well as readers interesting in going behind the scenes of product creation, To Feel the Music has an inspiring story at its heart: One determined artist with a groundbreaking vision and the absolute refusal to give up, despite setbacks, naysayers, and skeptics.
