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In several decades as a distinguished classical pianist, Susan Tomes has found that there are some issues which never go away. Here she takes up various topics of perennial interest: how music awakens and even creates memories, what 'interpretation' really means, what effect daily practice has on the character, whether playing from memory is a burden or a liberation, and why the piano is the right tool for the job. She pays homage to the influence of remarkable teachers, asks what it takes for long-term chamber groups to survive the strains of professional life, and explores the link between music and health. Once again, her aim is to provide insight into the motives and experiences of classical performers. In this fourth book she also describes some of the challenges facing classical musicians in today's society, and considers why this kind of long-form music means so much to those who love it. SUSAN TOMES has won a number of international awards as a performer and recording artist, and in 2013 was awarded the Cobbett Medal for distinguished services to chamber music. For fifteen years she was the pianist of Domus, and for seventeen years she was the pianist of the Florestan Trio, one of the world's leading piano trios. She is the author of three previous books: Beyond the Notes (2004) and Out of Silence (2010), both published by Boydell, and A Musician's Alphabet (2006). She gives masterclasses, writes and presents radio programmes on music, and sits on international competition juries. Her blog on www.susantomes.com has a loyal following.
Music --- History and criticism. --- Pianists --- Tomes, Susan. --- Fortepianists --- Piano players --- Keyboard players --- Chamber Groups. --- Classical Music. --- Classical Musicians. --- Classical Pianist. --- Interpretation. --- Music and Health. --- Music. --- Musicians' Experiences. --- Society.
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Professional musicians who perform in hospitals, retirement homes, and prisons, creatively stimulated by the residents; babies crawling over exercise mats, enjoying classical music together with their parents; concert-goers who take their seats between the musicians in order to experience music with all their senses up close - the opportunities to make and experience music are almost unlimited. Various actors in the field of classical music have taken this as a chance to develop a wide range of new artistic and educational practices over the last two decades, aiming to facilitate in-depth aesthetic experiences, to bond with new audiences, and to encourage active cultural participation. The contributors focus on the innovative potentials of Musikvermittlung as a social bridge-builder for concert life, (higher) music education, research, and social life.
MUSIC / History & Criticism. --- Audience Engagement. --- Classical Musicians. --- Community Engagement. --- Concert Studies. --- Cultural Education. --- Cultural and Social Participation. --- Culture. --- Education. --- Educational Research. --- Innovation. --- Music Education. --- Music Management. --- Music. --- Musicology. --- New Audiences. --- New Concert Formats. --- Music --- Social aspects. --- Philosophy and aesthetics. --- Hermeneutics (Music) --- Musical aesthetics --- Aesthetics --- Music theory --- Music and society --- Philosophy --- Musikvermittlung --- Music Education --- Innovation --- Classical Musicians --- Concert Studies --- New Concert Formats --- Community Engagement --- Audience Engagement --- New Audiences --- Cultural and Social Participation --- Education --- Culture --- Musicology --- Cultural Education --- Educational Research --- Music Management
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"What can be done about the state of classical music?" Lawrence Kramer asks in this elegant, sharply observed, and beautifully written extended essay. Classical music, whose demise has been predicted for at least a decade, has always had its staunch advocates, but in today's media-saturated world there are real concerns about its viability. Why Classical Music Still Matters takes a forthright approach by engaging both skeptics and music lovers alike. In seven highly original chapters, Why Classical Music Still Matters affirms the value of classical music-defined as a body of nontheatrical music produced since the eighteenth century with the single aim of being listened to-by revealing what its values are: the specific beliefs, attitudes, and meanings that the music has supported in the past and which, Kramer believes, it can support in the future. Why Classical Music Still Matters also clears the air of old prejudices. Unlike other apologists, whose defense of the music often depends on arguments about the corrupting influence of popular culture, Kramer admits that classical music needs a broader, more up-to-date rationale. He succeeds in engaging the reader by putting into words music's complex relationship with individual human drives and larger social needs. In prose that is fresh, stimulating, and conversational, he explores the nature of subjectivity, the conquest of time and mortality, the harmonization of humanity and technology, the cultivation of attention, and the liberation of human energy.
Music --- Musical analysis. --- Analysis, Musical --- Analytical guides (Music) --- Hermeneutics (Music) --- Music analysis --- Music theory --- Music appreciation --- Musical aesthetics --- Aesthetics --- Philosophy and aesthetics. --- Analysis, appreciation --- Analytical guides --- Instruction and study --- Philosophy --- 18th century. --- academic. --- apologists. --- chopin. --- classical composers. --- classical music. --- classical musicians. --- composers. --- gershwin. --- human nature. --- johann sebastian bach. --- johannes brahms. --- love song. --- media. --- mozart. --- music lovers. --- music performance. --- music studies. --- musical composers. --- musical history. --- musicians. --- piano music. --- popular culture. --- ravel. --- scholarly. --- schubert. --- schumann. --- technology.
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In this groundbreaking, historically-informed semiotic study of late eighteenth-century music, Stephen Rumph focuses on Mozart to explore musical meaning within the context of Enlightenment sign and language theory. Illuminating his discussion with French, British, German, and Italian writings on signs and language, Rumph analyzes movements from Mozart's symphonies, concertos, operas, and church music. He argues that Mozartian semiosis is best understood within the empiricist tradition of Condillac, Vico, Herder, or Adam Smith, which emphasized the constitutive role of signs within human cognition.--Publisher description.
Enlightenment. --- Music --- Aufklärung --- Eighteenth century --- Philosophy, Modern --- Rationalism --- Semiotics --- Semiotics. --- History and criticism. --- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, --- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus --- Mozart, Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Enlightenment --- History and criticism --- Musique --- Sémiotique et musique --- Siècle des lumières --- Histoire et critique --- Mot︠s︡art, Volʹfgang Amadeĭ, --- Mōtsaruto, --- Mot︠s︡art, Iogann-Krizost Volʹfgang Gotlib, --- Mozart, Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Amadeus, --- Mozart, W. A. --- Mozart, Wolfgango Amadeo, --- Mot︠s︡art, V. A. --- Mocartas, V. A., --- Motsart, Volphnkank Amedaios, --- Mot︠s︡art, Volfang Amadeus, --- Mozzart, Apollo, --- Mozart, Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Amadeus, --- Mozart, Johannes Chrisostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus, --- Mozhate, --- Моцарт, Вольфганг Амадей, --- מוצרט, --- מוצרט, וולפגנג אמדאוס, --- 莫札特, --- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeusz, --- Mozart, W.A. --- Mot︠s︡art, Volʹfgang Amadeĭ --- Mot︠s︡art, Iogann-Krizost Volʹfgang Gotlib --- Mozart, Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Amadeus --- Mozart, Wolfgango Amadeo --- Mocartas, V. A. --- Motsart, Volphnkank Amedaios --- Mot︠s︡art, Volfang Amadeus --- Mozzart, Apollo --- Mozart, Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Amadeus --- Mozart, Johannes Chrisostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus --- Mozhate --- Моцарт, Вольфганг Амадей --- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeusz --- 18th century composers. --- 18th century europe. --- 18th century music. --- 18th century symphonies. --- beethoven. --- church music history. --- classical composers. --- classical music. --- classical musicians. --- classical period. --- composers. --- concertos. --- european music. --- european scholars. --- famous composers. --- famous operas. --- history of music. --- history. --- italian writings. --- literary movements and periods. --- music icons. --- music scholars. --- musical semiotics. --- musicians. --- musicology. --- neoclassical music. --- renaissance humanism. --- the enlightenment period. --- theater.
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