Music Universe, Music Mind
Author: Robert E. Sweet
Publisher: Arborville Publishing
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 226
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Robert E. Sweet
Publisher: Arborville Publishing
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 226
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Christoph Wolff
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2020-03-24
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 0393651797
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A concentrated study of Johann Sebastian Bach’s creative output and greatest pieces, capturing the essence of his art. Throughout his life, renowned and prolific composer Johann Sebastian Bach articulated his views as a composer in purely musical terms; he was notoriously reluctant to write about his life and work. Instead, he methodically organized certain pieces into carefully designed collections. These benchmark works, all of them without parallel or equivalent, produced a steady stream of transformative ideas that stand as paradigms of Bach’s musical art. In this companion volume to his Pulitzer Prize–finalist biography, Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician, leading Bach scholar Christoph Wolff takes his cue from his famous subject. Wolff delves deeply into the composer’s own rich selection of collected music, cutting across conventional boundaries of era, genre, and instrument. Emerging from a complex and massive oeuvre, Bach’s Musical Universe is a focused discussion of a meaningful selection of compositions—from the famous Well-Tempered Clavier, violin and cello solos, and Brandenburg Concertos to the St. Matthew Passion, Art of Fugue, and B-minor Mass. Unlike any study undertaken before, this book details Bach’s creative process across the various instrumental and vocal genres. This array of compositions illustrates the depth and variety at the essence of the composer’s musical art, as well as his unique approach to composition as a process of imaginative research into the innate potential of his chosen material. Tracing Bach’s evolution as a composer, Wolff compellingly illuminates the ideals and legacy of this giant of classical music in a new, refreshing light for everyone, from the amateur to the virtuoso.
Author: Edward W. Sarath
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2013-04-02
Total Pages: 491
ISBN-13: 143844723X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Jazz, America's original art form, can be a catalyst for creative and spiritual development. With its unique emphasis on improvisation, jazz offers new paradigms for educational and societal change. In this provocative book, musician and educator Edward W. Sarath illuminates how jazz offers a continuum for transformation. Inspired by the long legacy of jazz innovators who have used meditation and related practices to bring the transcendent into their lives and work, Sarath sees a coming shift in consciousness, one essential to positive change. Both theoretical and practical, the book uses the emergent worldview known as Integral Theory to discuss the consciousness at the heart of jazz and the new models and perspectives it offers. On a more personal level, the author provides examples of his own involvement in educational reform. His design of the first curriculum at a mainstream educational institution to incorporate a significant meditation and consciousness studies component grounds a radical new vision.
Author: Marvin Bram
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2010-09-29
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0557464633
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Long ago, an unusually fulfilling way to live was widely practiced. Knowledge of that way to live was suppressed, and so it remained -- until now. Long ago, it was possible to put all one's thoughts down in writing. The way to do that was forgotten -- until now. This book restores the ancient meaning of community and it brings back the technique for revealing one's thoughts fully. THE ART OF FUGUE does these two things in works of the imagination and of interdisciplinary scholarship.
Author: Robert E. Sweet
Publisher:
Published: 2016-04-04
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ISBN-13: 9780965043816
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →All Kinds of Time is a celebration of the creative spirit of Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso and the expansive Creative Music Studio family, which has enabled CMS to remain vital, forty-three years after its founding. This book is a sequel to Music Universe, Music Mind: Revisiting the Creative Music Studio, Woodstock, New York, (Arborville Publishing, 1996, ISBN 0-9650438-4-3), The first book is a history of the Creative Music Studio, which covers the period when Karl Berger met Don Cherry and joined his band in Paris in the middle 1960s to the year 1984, when the Creative Music Studio ceased to exist as a viable facility with a home of its own. All Kinds of Time picks up where Music Universe, Music Mind left off and relates events in CMS history that have led to its current state of vitality in 2016.
Author: David Borgo
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2005-12-12
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780826417299
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Provides a study of musical improvisation, using theories from cultural and cognitive studies. The author presents a systemic view, with chapters funneling outward in scope from the perspective of a solo improviser to that of a group interacting in performance, to the long-term dynamics of an improvising group from formation to dissolution.
Author: Ed Sarath
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2018-08-15
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1538111713
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Black Music Matters: Jazz and the Transformation of Music Studies is one of the first books to promote the reform of music studies with a centralized presence of jazz and black music to ground American musicians in a core facet of their true cultural heritage. Ed Sarath applies an emergent consciousness-based worldview called Integral Theory to music studies while drawing upon overarching conversations on diversity and race and a rich body of literature on the seminal place of black music in American culture. Combining a visionary perspective with an activist tone, Sarath installs jazz and black music in as a foundation for a new paradigm of twenty-first-century musical training that will yield an unprecedented skill set for transcultural navigation among musicians. Sarath analyzes prevalent patterns in music studies change discourse, including an in-depth critique of multiculturalism, and proposes new curricular and organizational systems along with a new model of music inquiry called Integral Musicology. This jazz/black music paradigm further develops into a revolutionary catalyst for development of creativity and consciousness in education and society at large. Sarath’s work engages all those who share an interest in black-white race dynamics and its musical ramifications, spirituality and consciousness, and the promotion of creativity throughout all forms of intellectual and personal expression.
Author: David Borgo
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2022-02-10
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 1501368850
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The revised edition of Sync or Swarm promotes an ecological view of musicking, moving us from a subject-centered to a system-centered view of improvisation. It explores cycles of organismic self-regulation, cycles of sensorimotor coupling between organism and environment, and cycles of intersubjective interaction mediated via socio-technological networks. Chapters funnel outward, from the solo improviser (Evan Parker), to nonlinear group dynamics (Sam Rivers trio), to networks that comprise improvisational communities, to pedagogical dynamics that affect how individuals learn, completing the hermeneutic circle. Winner of the Society for Ethnomusicology's Alan Merriam prize in its first edition, the revised edition features new sections that highlight electro-acoustic and transcultural improvisation, and concomitant issues of human-machine interaction and postcolonial studies.
Author: Jeanne Bamberger
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013-04
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 0199589836
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Following her distinguished earlier career as a concert pianist and later as a music theorist, Jeanne Bamberger conducted countless case studies analysing musical development and creativity within the classroom environment. 'Discovering the musical mind' draws together these classic studies, and offers the chance to revisit and reconsider some of the conclusions she drew at the time.
Author: Daniel Fischlin
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 2004-03-30
Total Pages: 461
ISBN-13: 0819566829
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Scholars, composers and performers write about the art of jazz improvisation.