Book Description
Originally published by Viking Penguin Group, 2003.
Author : M.T. Anderson
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 45,19 MB
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0763687758
Originally published by Viking Penguin Group, 2003.
Author : M. T. Anderson
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 42,54 MB
Release : 2016-03-08
Category :
ISBN : 9781484475560
At first glance, Erik Satie looked as normal as anyone else in Paris one hundred years ago. Beyond his shy smile, however, was a mind like no other. When Satie sat down at the piano to compose or play music, his tunes were strange and dreamlike, his
Author : M. T. Anderson
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 50,62 MB
Release : 2021-01-26
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1536220728
In a brilliant performance worthy of the composer, M. T. Anderson and Petra Mathers present a picture-book biography of the singular Erik Satie. Throughout his life, Erik Satie wanted to make a new kind of music, a kind of music both very young and very old, very bold and very shy, that followed no rules but its own. At first glance, Erik Satie looked as normal as anyone else in Paris one hundred years ago. Beyond his shy smile, however, was a mind like no other. When Satie sat down at the piano to compose or play music, his tunes were strange and dreamlike, his melodies topsy-turvy and discordant. Many people hated his music. Few understood it. But to Erik Satie there was sense in nonsense, and the vibrant, surreal compositions of this eccentric man-child would go on to influence many artists.
Author : Mary E. Davis
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 17,89 MB
Release : 2007-06-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781861893215
A cogent and informative portrait, Erik Satie upends the accepted history of modernist music and restores the composer to his rightful pioneering status.
Author : M. T. Anderson
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 20,27 MB
Release : 2013-09-10
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0763666009
In this biography, the man who would later compose some of the world's most beautiful music is shown to have once been a stubborn little boy with a mind of his own.
Author : Herve Vanel
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 33,21 MB
Release : 2013-11-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 0252095251
Triple Entendre discusses the rise and spread of background music in contexts as diverse as office workplaces, shopping malls, and musical performance. Hervé Vanel examines background music in several guises, beginning with Erik Satie's "Furniture Music" of the late 1910s and early 1920s, which first demonstrated the idea of a music not meant to be listened to and was later considered a precedent to modern, functional background music. Vanel argues that when the Muzak Corporation's commercialized ambient music became a predominant feature of modern life in the 1940s--both as a brand and a genre of background music--it also became a powerful instrument of social engineering in an advanced capitalist society. Different kinds of music were developed to encourage or incite greater productivity in the workplace, more energetic shopping, or more animated socializing. Vanel's discussion culminates in the creative response of the composer John Cage to the pervasiveness and power of background music in contemporary society. Cage neither opposed nor rejected Muzak, but literally answered its challenge by formulating a parallel concept that he called "Muzak-Plus." Forty years after Satie presented his work to general critical puzzlement, Cage saw how background music could be combined with mid-century technology and theories of art and performance to create a participatory soundscape on a scale that Satie could not have envisioned, again reconfiguring the listener's stance to music. By examining the subterranean connections existing between these three formulations of a singular idea, Triple Entendre analyzes and challenges the crucial boundary that separates an artistic concept from its actual implementation in life.
Author : M. T. Anderson
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 17,68 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Composers
ISBN : 9781680657777
Introduces the life of the French composer, Erik Satie, who spent his entire career challenging established conventions in music.
Author : Constant Lambert
Publisher : Rare Treasure Editions
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 29,88 MB
Release : 2021-11-05T11:09:00Z
Category : Music
ISBN : 1774642700
A brilliant analysis of the music of the twenties and thirties, also discusses the music of composers like Stravinsky, Satie, Gershwin, and considers the contributions of jazz and other pop music of the time with classical music.
Author : Alex Ross
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 26,69 MB
Release : 2007-10-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 1429932880
Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007 Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007 A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007 In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between the century's most influential composers and the wider culture. The Rest Is Noise is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music.
Author : Ennio Morricone
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 41,59 MB
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0810892421
With nearly 400 scores to his credit, Ennio Morricone is one of the most prolific and influential film composers working today. He has collaborated with many significant directors, and his scores for such films as The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly; Once Upon a Time in America; Days of Heaven; The Mission; The Untouchables; Malèna; and Cinema Paradiso leave moviegoers with the conviction that something special was achieved—a conviction shared by composers, scholars, and fans alike. In Composing for the Cinema: The Theory and Praxis of Music in Film, Morricone and musicologist Sergio Miceli present a series of lectures on the composition and analysis of film music. Adapted from several lectures and seminars, these lessons show how sound design can be analyzed and offer a variety of musical solutions to many different kinds of film. Though aimed at composers, Morricone’s expositions are easy to understand and fascinating even to those without any musical training. Drawing upon scores by himself and others, the composer also provides insight into his relationships with many of the directors with whom he has collaborated, including Sergio Leone, Giuseppe Tornatore, Franco Zeffirelli, Warren Beatty, Ridley Scott, Roland Joffé, the Taviani Brothers, and others. Translated and edited by Gillian B. Anderson, an orchestral conductor and musicologist, these lessons reveal Morricone’s passion about musical expression. Delivered in a conversational mode that is both comprehensible and interesting, this groundbreaking work intertwines analysis with practical details of film music composition. Aimed at a wide audience of composers, musicians, film historians, and fans, Composing for the Cinema contains a treasure trove of practical information and observations from a distinguished musicologist and one of the most accomplished composers on the international film scene.