Author : Anna Harwell Celenza
Publisher : Charlesbridge
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 11,48 MB
Release : 2012-07-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1607344629
Depicts the story of how Antonio Vivaldi composed and wrote his famous Four Seasons concertos and the accompanying sonnets.
Author : Juliet Batten
Publisher :
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 17,45 MB
Release : 2017-11
Category : Vacation homes
ISBN : 9780473414214
This memoir spans a time period from the 1960s to 2006. It covers rich themes, including: THE NEW ZEALAND BACH: Its character, changing faces, and its promise of freedom, connection with nature, and leisure. WORKING WITH NATURE: From learning the stars from poet Sam Hunt in the 60s, the author becomes a beach artist and ritual maker, working with sand at the sea's edge, creating collaborative art works and rituals for up to 100 women. She enquires into the seasonal flow and creates a calendar of seasonal celebrations for Aotearoa New Zealand. CREATIVITY: From serving the talent of her mime and theatre director husband, the author claims her own talents after Germaine Greer's visit to Auckland and her initiation into feminism. GIRLS CAN DO ANYTHING: Shifting from traditional female roles and learning to live on the land and survive in a simple bach, the author learns to trap possums, recycle, conserve, deal with power and water shortages, become an environmental activist and build her own cabin. YOUTH AND AGE: With an old love coming into the present, the author learns about forgiveness as she reclaims the freedom and hope of youth, along with the maturity and wisdom of her later years.
Author : Gordon Jones
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 49,23 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781574671803
Johann Sebastian Bach produced a remarkable body of works for chorus. He wrote hundreds of cantatas and many other pieces for choir, including motets, oratorios, passions, and liturgical works in Latin. One of these, the celebrated Mass in B Minor, is considered by many to be the crowning glory not merely of Bach's career but of all music ever written.
Author : Eric Chafe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 11,17 MB
Release : 2003-03-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 0195347552
Bach's cantatas are among the highest achievements of Western musical art, yet studies of the individual cantatas that are both illuminating and detailed are few. In this book, noted Bach expert Eric Chafe combines theological, historical, analytical, and interpretive approaches to the cantatas to offer readers and listeners alike the richest possible experience of these works. A respected theorist of seventeenth-century music, Chafe is sensitive to the composer's intentions and to the enduring and universal qualities of the music itself. Concentrating on a small number of representative cantatas, mostly from the Leipzig cycles of 1723-24 and 1724-25, and in particular on Cantata 77, Chafe shows how Bach strove to mirror both the dogma and the mystery of religious experience in musical allegory. Analyzing Bach Cantatas offers valuable information on the theological relevance of the structure of the liturgical year for the design and content of these works, as well as a survey of the theories of modality that inform Bach's compositional style. Chafe demonstrates that, while Bach certainly employed "pictorialism" and word-painting in his compositions, his method of writing music was a more complex amalgam of theological concepts and music theory. Regarding the cantatas as musical allegories that reflect the fundamental tenets of Lutheran theology as established during Bach's lifetime, Chafe synthesizes a number of key musical and theological ideas to illuminate the essential character of these great works. This unique and insightful book offers an essential methodology for understanding one of the central bodies of work in the Western musical canon. It will prove indispensable for all students and scholars of Bach's work, musicology, and theological studies.
Author : David J Gordon
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 25,70 MB
Release : 2017-05
Category :
ISBN : 9780692878415
The central subject of this richly illustrated book is the life and career of J. S. Bach, but nearly half the pages are devoted to engaging and detailed descriptions of the everyday world that surrounded him in the early 1700s. Both elements contain the unexpected. Written by a master storyteller and renowned performer of Bach's music.
Author : Melvin P. Unger
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 34,51 MB
Release : 1996-04-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 1461659051
The German church cantata of the eighteenth century was the culmination of a long tradition of Lutheran "sermon music" that used the proclamation, amplification, and interpretation of scripture to teach and persuade the listener. Bach's cantatas also served this didactic purpose and typically incorporate numerous allusions to scriptural passages or themes in their librettos. Unfortunately, many of these passages remain obscure to the twentieth-century musician because they demand a much closer familiarity with the Bible than is common today. The Handbook to Bach's Sacred Cantata Texts identifies scriptural references for the wording, imagery, and themes that Bach's listeners would have known. In addition, the religious or literary theme of each text is summarized within the specific context of the cantata as a whole. With interlinear translations and a full complement of indexes.
Author : Paul Elie
Publisher : Union Books
Page : 731 pages
File Size : 33,97 MB
Release : 2013-04-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1908526416
Johann Sebastian Bach – celebrated pipe organist, court composer and master of sacred music – was also a technical pioneer. Working in Germany in the early eighteenth century, he invented new instruments and carried out experiments in tuning, the effects of which are still with us today. Two hundred years later, a number of extraordinary musicians have utilised the music of Bach to thrilling effect through the art of recording, furthering their own virtuosity and reinventing the composer for our time. In Reinventing Bach, Paul Elie brilliantly blends the stories of modern musicians with a polyphonic account of our most celebrated composer’ s life to create a spellbinding narrative of the changing place of music in our lives. We see the sainted organist Albert Schweitzer playing to a mobile recording unit set up at London’ s Church of All Hallows in order to spread Bach’ s organ works to the world beyond the churches, and Pablo Casals’ s Abbey Road recordings of Bach’ s cello suites transform the middle-class sitting room into a hotbed of existentialism; we watch Leopold Stokowski persuade Walt Disney to feature his own grand orchestrations of Bach in the animated classical-music movie Fantasia – which made Bach the sound of children’ s playtime and Hollywood grandeur alike – and we witness how Glenn Gould’ s Goldberg Variations made Bach the byword for postwar cool. Through the Beatles and Switched-on Bach and Gö del, Escher, Bach – through film, rock music, the Walkman, the CD and up to Yo-Yo Ma and the iPod – Elie shows us how dozens of gifted musicians searched, experimented and collaborated with one another in the service of a composer who emerged as the prototype of the spiritualised, technically savvy artist.
Author : Shelby Bach
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 27,96 MB
Release : 2013-07-23
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1442431490
"Rory Landon continues to attend Ever After School and participates in another Fairy Tale"--
Author : Mary Horsfall
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 28,42 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 0643106766
Gardens for All Seasons is a gardening lifestyle book by bestselling author Mary Horsfall, celebrating the role of gardens in our lives and advising on the timing of jobs in the gardening year throughout Australia. Monthly chapters include topics such as planning, bushfire preparation, watering, pot plant care, mulching, weeding, fertilising, pruning, propagating, pest control, what to plant for different climate zones and what garden venues and events to visit. Mary details her own gardening year, including jobs done, fruits and vegetables harvested, food cooked based on the harvest, what was in flower and wildlife observations - all on a month by month basis. Each chapter includes a special topic of the month, such as fun for kids in the garden, biodiversity, manipulating microclimate, and fragrance and first aid.--
Author : Fiona WATT
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,90 MB
Release : 2018-11
Category : Animals
ISBN : 9781474922074
Listen to special arrangements of Vivaldi's Four Seasons concerti for violin while exploring the changing seasons in this stunning book. Each beautifully illustrated scene shows a different season with fingertrails to explore and a button to press to listen to the music. A delightful way for children to discover Vivaldi's much loved music. WARNING! This product contains button or coin cell batteries which are dangerous. Dispose of used batteries immediately. Keep new and used batteries away from children. Batteries can cause serious injuries if they are swallowed or placed inside any part of the body. If you think batteries may have been swallowed or placed inside any part of the body, seek immediate medical attention. Different types of batteries (i.e. Alkaline and Zinc) or new and used batteries are not to be mixed. Only batteries of the same or equivalent type as recommended are to be used. Batteries are to be inserted with the correct polarity. Exhausted batteries are to be removed from the product. The supply terminals are not to be short-circuited. Do not throw batteries into a fire. Batteries should never be left in the product when not in use for long periods of time. Non rechargeable batteries are not to be recharged. Rechargeable batteries are to be removed from the product before being charged. Rechargeable batteries are only to be charged under adult supervision. This product contains batteries and electronics that may be harmful to the environment; they should not be discarded with normal household waste but taken to your local collection centre for recycling. Please retain this information for future reference.Battery removal and installation instructions: With a screwdriver, loosen the captive screw and remove the lid to the battery compartment keeping it away from children. Insert the new button cell batteries as shown in the polarity diagram (+/-) inside the battery compartment. Lower the lid back onto the compartment and re-tighten the captive screw.
