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Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 21,45 MB
Release :
Category : Documentary-style films
ISBN :
Robert Mugge's 1976 film George Crumb: Voice Of The Whale offers a 54-minute portrait of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer George Crumb and a full performance of his 1971 composition, "Vox Balaenae for Three Masked Players." Crumb is interviewed at home by colleague Richard Wernick regarding his influences and compositional and scoring techniques, and Wernick's Penn Contemporary Players perform.
Author : David Cohen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 42,26 MB
Release : 2002-06-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 0313016984
George Crumb is a composer at the forefront of post-World War II American music, and never before has one volume combined a portrait of his life with a catalogue of his extensive work. David Cohen's George Crumb: A Bio-Bibliography corrects this by providing the reader and researcher with an overview of Crumb's life, career, and compositions; and an annotated guide to literature by and about the composer—including not only articles and books, but also album reviews, concert reviews, and interviews. The biographical portion, written in close consultation with the subject, has resulted in perhaps the most complete and accurate biography currently in existence—an irreplaceable resource for anyone seeking a full understanding of 20th-century music.
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Publisher : Edition Peters
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 18,42 MB
Release : 2022-05
Category : Music
ISBN :
Composed in 1971, George Crumb's 'Vox Balaenae' ('The Voice of the Whale') for 'electric' (amplified) flute, cello and piano was inspired by recordings of whale song and considers, in typically theatrical manner, man's relationship to nature. Crumb invites the performers to play wearing black half masks under blue lighting if possible. A contemporary music classic, this Edition Peters score is notable for its presentation of Crumb's famous calligraphy. Three scores are required for performance.
Author : Jessica L. Geels
Publisher :
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 15,2 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Flute music
ISBN : 9781321709681
Abstract: George Crumb's Vox Balaenae (Voice of the Whale) is one of his most well-known works for flute. In this project report, I analyze George Crumb's extra-musical indications, use of quotation, and extensive use of extended techniques and timbre to reveal how they help to tell the story of the piece. Crumb's work is organized in three large sections, the opening "Vocalise (... for the beginning of time)," the "Variations on Sea-Time," and the "Sea-Nocturne (... for the end of time)," and will be examined in order. For each section, I will explain the extended techniques indicated in the score. This will include an explanation of how to perform the technique, a description of the type of timbre it produces, and a summary of how that timbre affects the mood and forward momentum of the piece. I will also explore how the three instrumental lines interact with each other and demonstrate how Crumb layers the lines to bring the piece to its climax. In conclusion, it is only after an in-depth study of Vox Balaenae, such as this, that an informed and exhilarating performance can take place. This work ought to be included in every advanced flutist's list of standard repertoire.
Author : Steven Bruns
Publisher :
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 44,86 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Composers
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Author : David Rothenberg
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 14,62 MB
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1949597261
The marvelous sonic world of whales, from the perspective of music and science. Whale song is an astonishing world of sound whose existence no one suspected before the 1960s. Its discovery has forced us to confront the possibility of alien intelligence—not in outer space but right here on earth. Thoughtful, richly detailed, and deeply entertaining, Whale Music uses the enigma of whale sounds to open up whales' underwater world of sonic mystery. In observing and talking with leading researchers from around the globe as they attempt to decipher undersea music, Rothenberg tells the story of scientists and musicians confronting an unknown as vast as the ocean itself. His search culminates in a grand attempt to make interspecies music by playing his clarinet with whales in their native habitats, from Russia to Canada to Hawaii. This is a revised edition of Thousand Mile Song, originally published in 2008. The latest advances in cetacean science and interspecies communication have been incorporated into this new edition, along with added photographs and color whale scores.
Author : Douglas Kahn
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,3 MB
Release : 2013-08-31
Category : Music
ISBN : 0520956834
Earth Sound Earth Signal is a study of energies in aesthetics and the arts, from the birth of modern communications in the nineteenth century to the global transmissions of the present day. Douglas Kahn begins by evoking the Aeolian sphere music that Henry David Thoreau heard blowing along telegraph lines and the Aelectrosonic sounds of natural radio that Thomas Watson heard through the first telephone; he then traces the histories of science, media, music, and the arts to the 1960s and beyond. Earth Sound Earth Signal rethinks energy at a global scale, from brainwaves to outer space, through detailed discussions of musicians, artists and scientists such as Alvin Lucier, Edmond Dewan, Pauline Oliveros, John Cage, James Turrell, Robert Barry, Joyce Hinterding, and many others.
Author : Don C. Gillespie
Publisher : Conran Octopus
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 49,62 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
I believe that music surpasses even language in its power to mirror the innermost recesses of the human soul" (George Crumb) Essays about and interpretations of the music of George Crumb. With an Introduction by Gilbert Chase - Compiled and edited by Don Gillespie Includes many black and white photographs and selected excerpts of Crumb's printed music (Originally published in 1986) "
Author : William Forde Thompson
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 1350 pages
File Size : 17,1 MB
Release : 2014-07-18
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1452283028
This first definitive reference resource to take a broad interdisciplinary approach to the nexus between music and the social and behavioral sciences examines how music affects human beings and their interactions in and with the world. The interdisciplinary nature of the work provides a starting place for students to situate the status of music within the social sciences in fields such as anthropology, communications, psychology, linguistics, sociology, sports, political science and economics, as well as biology and the health sciences. Features: Approximately 450 articles, arranged in A-to-Z fashion and richly illustrated with photographs, provide the social and behavioral context for examining the importance of music in society. Entries are authored and signed by experts in the field and conclude with references and further readings, as well as cross references to related entries. A Reader's Guide groups related entries by broad topic areas and themes, making it easy for readers to quickly identify related entries. A Chronology of Music places material into historical context; a Glossary defines key terms from the field; and a Resource Guide provides lists of books, academic journals, websites and cross-references. The multimedia digital edition is enhanced with video and audio clips and features strong search-and-browse capabilities through the electronic Reader’s Guide, detailed index, and cross references. Music in the Social and Behavioral Sciences, available in both multimedia digital and print formats, is a must-have reference for music and social science library collections.
Author : James Parsons
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 37,92 MB
Release : 2004-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521804714
Beginning several generations before Schubert, the Lied first appears as domestic entertainment. In the century that follows it becomes one of the primary modes of music-making. By the time German song comes to its presumed conclusion with Richard Strauss's 1948 Vier letzte Lieder, this rich repertoire has moved beyond the home and keyboard accompaniment to the symphony hall. This is a 2004 introductory chronicle of this fascinating genre. In essays by eminent scholars, this Companion places the Lied in its full context - at once musical, literary, and cultural - with chapters devoted to focal composers as well as important issues, such as the way in which the Lied influenced other musical genres, its use as a musical commodity, and issues of performance. The volume is framed by a detailed chronology of German music and poetry from the late 1730s to the present and also contains a comprehensive bibliography.
