Tyranny and Music

2017-12-26 Music

Author : Joseph E. Morgan
Release : 2017-12-26
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 812/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Tyranny and Music written by Joseph E. Morgan. This book was released on 2017-12-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approaching the topic from several subdisciplinary points of view within music studies, this edited collection addresses the role that music plays in opposing tyranny or solidifying tyrannical power around the world.

Tyranny and Music

2017-12-26 Music

Author : Joseph E. Morgan
Release : 2017-12-26
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 82X/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Tyranny and Music written by Joseph E. Morgan. This book was released on 2017-12-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tyranny and Music is an edited collection of essays that explore how musical artists respond to cruel or oppressive governments and ruling regimes. Its primary strength and unique quality lies in its diversity, presenting a postmodern collage of scholarship that reaches across the divides of classical, popular and traditional musics just as it connects musical resistance of the past with the present and the near (Western) with the far (non-Western). Contemporary topics include Chosan’s analysis of blood diamonds in the Sierra Leonean Civil War, and collective memory in the Persian Gulf War songs. Historical topics include the image of John Wilkes Booth in the popular imagination, censorship in the Soviet Union, Victor Ullman’s song setting at Terezín, artistic restrictions in Maoist China, anti-inquisition propaganda in the outbreak of the Dutch revolt, Revolutionary Era Anthems in the United States and much more. These essays, while remarkable in their scholarly erudition, also provide intimate glimpses of the resiliency of the individual artist. From Cherine Amr’s Heavy Metal resistance to the Muslim Brotherhood to Hanns Eisler’s battle with the United States House on Un-American Activities Committee, stories of human struggle and perseverance arise from each of these narratives.

Elizabithia

2022-04-06 Fiction

Author : Denis Durham
Release : 2022-04-06
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 015/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Elizabithia written by Denis Durham. This book was released on 2022-04-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabithia: The War Against Musical Tyranny and the Search for Lost Music Trees By: Denis Durham Elizabithia is a musical kingdom where seven varieties of trees known as Harmonic Timbers grow. Each of the seven types of trees emits their own unique frequencies making seven notes on which all of their music is based. With the discovery of an ancient scroll, Evanis, a renowned archeaologist, learns that there may be other Harmonic Timbers that produce other frequencies not known to the citizens of Elizabithia. Evanis enlists the help of his sister Ellithia, and his good friend Dionysius, and together they are known as the Trio. Following the information learned from the ancient scroll, the Trio search for the lost music trees in a land known as Cymatigonia. The knowledge gained will shake up the music world, but the fight against musical tyranny will not be easy. It puts them on a collision course with the Elizabithian authorities who resist them at every turn. With courage to pursue the truth, the Trio must contend with long held musical prejudices. They seek to show that there is far more to music than what anyone had realized. The Trio knows the truth, but convincing the citizens of Elizabithia and the authorities will not be easy. They embark on a journey that will change the history of music forever.

The Courage of Composers and the Tyranny of Taste

2017 Composers

Author : Bálint András Varga
Release : 2017
Genre : Composers
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Book Rating : 935/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Courage of Composers and the Tyranny of Taste written by Bálint András Varga. This book was released on 2017. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bálint András Varga is perhaps the world's most respected interviewer of living composers. For The Courage of Composers and the Tyranny of Taste: Reflections on New Music, Varga has confronted thirty-three composers with quotations carefully chosen to elicit their thoughts about an issue that is crucial for any serious creative artist: How can one find courage to deal with the sometimes tyrannical expectations of the outside world? The result is an imaginary roundtable at which we encounter fresh, revealing, previously unpublished statements from such world-renowned composers as John Adams, Friedrich Cerha, George Crumb, Sofia Gubaïdulina, Georg Friedrich Haas, Giya Kancheli, György Kurtág, Helmut Lachenmann, Libby Larsen, Robert Morris, and Wolfgang Rihm. Also represented are composers who are becoming more prominent with the passing years -- Chaya Czernowin, Pascal Dusapin, and Rebecca Saunders -- as well as conductor-composer Michael Gielen, festival director Nicholas Kenyon, and music critics Paul Griffiths and Arnold Whittall. In The Courage of Composers and the Tyranny of Taste, composers and other insightful individuals comment on choices made, traps avoided, unforeseen consequences, proud accomplishments, occasional regrets: the whole range of experiences central to artistic creativity. Bálint András Varga isthe acclaimed author of György Kurtág: Three Interviews and Ligeti Homages; Three Questions for 65 Composers; and From Boulanger to Stockhausen: Interviews and a Memoir (all available from University of Rochester Press).

Tyranny of the Textbook

2012 Curriculum planning

Author : Beverlee Jobrack
Release : 2012
Genre : Curriculum planning
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Book Rating : 423/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Tyranny of the Textbook written by Beverlee Jobrack. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Tyranny of the Textbook, a retired educational director, gives a fascinating look behind-the-scenes of how K-12 textbooks are developed, written, adopted, and sold. Readers will come to understand why all the reform efforts have failed. Most importantly, the author clearly spells out how the system can change so that reforms and standards have a shot at finally being effective"--

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