Book Description
An epic of life in New Zealand during the nineteenth century explores the relationship between two newlyweds as they encounter the harsh realities of their chosen home in the South Pacific.
Author : Rose Tremain
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 15,29 MB
Release : 2004-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780312423100
An epic of life in New Zealand during the nineteenth century explores the relationship between two newlyweds as they encounter the harsh realities of their chosen home in the South Pacific.
Author : Heather Dixon Wallwork
Publisher :
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 35,88 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Imaginary places
ISBN : 9781732831520
A retelling of The Nutcracker Ballet with a dash of The Pied Piper. Clara Stahlbaum has her future perfectly planned: to marry the handsome pianist, Johann Kahler (ah!) and settle down to a life full of music. But all that changes on Christmas Eve, when Clara receives a mysterious and magical nutcracker. Whisked away to his world--an enchanted empire of beautiful palaces, fickle fairies, enormous rats, and a prince--Clara must face a magician who uses music as spells...and the future she thought she wanted.
Author : Jennifer Bryant
Publisher : Eerdmans Publishing Company
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 33,9 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0802852297
Presents the story of how French composer Olivier Messiaen was able to overcome the desolation of a World War II prison camp through the power of music.
Author : Mary Kathleen Hunter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 47,46 MB
Release : 2012-07-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107015146
Haydn is enjoying renewed appreciation: this book explores fresh approaches to his music and the cultural forces affecting it.
Author : Kenneth Gloag
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 16,18 MB
Release : 2013-01-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1107021979
This Companion provides a wide ranging and accessible study of one of the most individual composers of the twentieth century. A team of international scholars shed new light on Tippett's major works and draw attention to those that have not yet received the attention they deserve.
Author : Jodi Picoult
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 46,61 MB
Release : 2011-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1439102724
Ten years of infertility issues culminate in the destruction of music therapist Zoe Baxter's marriage, after which she falls in love with another woman and wants to start a family, but her ex-husband, Max, stands in the way.
Author : Thomas Wolf
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 17,80 MB
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1643131621
*Winner of the Sophie Brody Medal* A moving and uplifting history set to music that reveals the rich life of one of the first internationally renowned female violinists. Spanning generations, from the shores of the Black Sea to the glittering concert halls of New York, The Nightingale's Sonata is a richly woven tapestry centered around violin virtuoso Lea Luboshutz. Like many poor Jews, music offered an escape from the predjudices that dominated society in the last years of the Russian Empire. But Lea’s dramatic rise as an artist was further accentuated by her scandalous relationship with the revolutionary Onissim Goldovsky. As the world around them descends in to chaos, between revolution and war, we follow Lea and her family from Russia to Europe and eventually, America. We cross paths with Pablo Casals, Isadora Duncan, Emile Zola and even Leo Tolstoy. The little girl from Odessa will eventually end up as one of the founding faculty of the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music, but along the way she will lose her true love, her father, and watch a son die young. The Iron Curtain would rise, but through it all, she plays on. Woven throughout this luminous odyssey is the story is Cesar Franck’s “Sonata for Violin and Piano.” As Lea was one of the first-ever internationally recognized female violinists, it is fitting that this pioneer was one of the strongest advocates for this young boundary-pushing composer and his masterwork.
Author : Emily I. Dolan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 42,14 MB
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 0190637250
Despite its importance as a central feature of musical sounds, timbre has rarely stood in the limelight. First defined in the eighteenth century, denigrated during the nineteenth, the concept of timbre came into its own during the twentieth century and its fascination with synthesizers and electronic music-or so the story goes. But in fact, timbre cuts across all the boundaries that make up musical thought-combining scientific and artistic approaches to music, material and philosophical aspects, and historical and theoretical perspectives. Timbre challenges us to fundamentally reorganize the way we think about music. The twenty-five essays that make up this collection offer a variety of engagements with music from the perspective of timbre. The boundaries are set as broad as possible: from ancient Homeric sounds to contemporary sound installations, from birdsong to cochlear implants, from Tuvan overtone singing to the tv show The Voice, from violin mutes to Moog synthesizers. What unifies the essays across this vast diversity is the material starting point of the sounding object. This focus on the listening experience is radical departure from the musical work that has traditionally dominated musical discourse since its academic inception in late-nineteenth-century Europe. Timbre remains a slippery concept that has continuously demanded more, be it more precise vocabulary, a more systematic theory, or more rigorous analysis. Rooted in the psychology of listening, timbre consistently resists pinning complete down. This collection of essays provides an invitation for further engagement with the range of fascinating questions that timbre opens up.
Author : Alexandra Silber
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 50,3 MB
Release : 2017-07-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1681774879
A sweeping historical novel in the grand tradition of Russian literature that imagines what happens to the characters of Fiddler on the Roof after the curtain falls. The world knows well the tale of Tevye, the beloved Jewish dairyman from the shtetl Anatevka of Tsarist Russia. In stories originally written by Sholem Aleichem and then made world-famous in the celebrated musical Fiddler on the Roof, Tevye, his wife Golde, and their five daughters dealt with the outside influences that were encroaching upon their humble lives. But what happened to those remarkable characters after the curtain fell? In After Anatevka, Alexandra Silber picks up where Fiddler left off. Second-eldest daughter Hodel takes center stage as she attempts to join her Socialist-leaning fiancé Perchik to the outer reaches of a Siberian work camp. But before Hodel and Perchik can finally be together, they both face extraordinary hurdles and adversaries—both personal and political—attempting to keep them apart at all costs. A love story set against a backdrop of some of the greatest violence in European history, After Anatevaka is a stunning conclusion to a tale that has gripped audiences around the globe for decades.
Author : Beatrice Harrison
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 22,51 MB
Release : 2024-05-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1805300199
In 1924, Beatrice Harrison broadcast a miracle to the world: a wild nightingale singing with her cello. Over a million people tuned in to hear the nightingale that night, and the BBC went on to broadcast their duet worldwide every spring until 1942. This transformed the public interest in nightingales – a species already in decline. If Beatrice’s duets with the nightingales touched a chord with the world, her own life proved to be as musical, free-spirited and inspiring. From her early years as a musical prodigy to recording with the most important composers of the day or playing for the wounded in the Second World War, Beatrice’s warmth and love for sharing music are as endearing now as they were to her original audiences.