- Title : The Language of Music (Clarendon Paperbacks)
- Author : Deryck Cooke
- Rating : 4.83 (762 Vote)
- Publish : 2014-4-20
- Format : Paperback
- Pages : 304 Pages
- Asin : 0198161808
- Language : English
"One of the most important publications of post-war English musicographyits honesty, its individualism, and its empiricism reflect the best intellectual traditions of English literature."--Music and LettersThe earl is not only their neighbor, he's handsome, young, wealthy, and Serena would love nothing more than to have h
"One of the most important publications of post-war English musicographyits honesty, its individualism, and its empiricism reflect the best intellectual traditions of English literature."--Music and LettersThe earl is not only their neighbor, he's handsome, young, wealthy, and Serena would love nothing more than to have his aid in stopping the smugglers that are veritably crawling the coast by their homes. Felix, whose only child and subsequently his wife, had died, leaving him with mostly painful memories of a happy marriage,is deposed from his directorship, with his production of The Tempest cancelled, and withdraws into a kind of self-imposed exile following Tony's successful takeover of the festival, and "finds" that his daughter, Miranda, already dead for several years, has become his imaginary companion in the hovel he has chosen for his hermitage.It is only when Felix applies to take over a "literacy project" in a nearby prison, disguising himself as "Mr. Here is your five for that. These two sets of exercises are making a huge difference in my energy level. All in all I was very pleased and finished it in a night. Read Dr. Great book. Perfect for ages 4+. Mr. "Shaker Songs" is a beautifully produced, meticulously researched, and creatively conceived volume that combines the most appealing aspects of musical collection, descriptive text, and artwork.As you'd expect from the curator of Hancock Shaker Village, the body of work as a collection of Shaker music is informative, entertaining, and thought-provoking. The writing and the setting were great but the story just seemed to go round and round with no discerniblThe book's final section analyzes two symphonies, Mozart's Fortieth and Vaughan Williams's Sixth, to explore the nature of musical inspiration and the process whereby the notes actually convey emotion from composer to listener.. First published in 1959, this original study argues that the main characteristic of music is that it expresses and evokes emotion, and that all composers whose music has a tonal basis have used the same, or closely similar, melodic phrases, harmonies, and rhythms to affect the listener in the same ways. He supports this view with hundreds of musical examples, ranging from plainsong to Stravinsky, and contends that music is a language in the specific sense that we can identify idioms and draw up a list of meanings
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