Author: George Frederick McKayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Instrumentation and orchestration
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Creative Orchestration
Author: George McKayPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781537236131
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Creative Orchestration by American Composer George Frederick McKay (1899-1970) is highly regarded in academic circles for its direct and uncomplicated approach based on McKay's 40 years of teaching music theory at the University of Washington, Seattle while using experiential methods with small groups of students. McKay himself had his music presented in the concert halls of America by the master conductors Stokowski, Beecham and Arthur Benjamin during his lifetime, along with hundreds of publications and other honors. He taught at Washington, USC, Oregon, Michigan and Drake during his years as a professor, and was the teacher of William Bolcom, Earl Robinson, Goddard Lieberson, John Cage and hundreds of other aspiring composition students. His students have won the Grammy, the Pulitzer, Guggenheim Grants and the National Medal of the Arts. Creative Orchestration contains many fine working examples of music and diagrams explaining technical principles of composition.
Principles of Orchestration
Author: Nikolay Rimsky-KorsakovPublisher: e-artnow
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Principles of Orchestration, with Musical Examples Drawn from His Own Works is a book by a famous Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, member of the group of composers known as The Five. The book presents a notable attempt to show all of the nuances of orchestration. The author describes everything one needs to know about arranging parts for a string or full orchestra. The book is concise, articulate and excels at being both a book of reference and a book of general knowledge.
Creative Harmony
Author: George Frederick McKayPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781537264240
Category : Harmony
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
Creative Harmony is an advanced theory textbook by the famous American composer George Frederick McKay (1899-1970) whose music has been presented by conductors Leopold Stokowski, Sir Thomas Beecham, Leonard Slatkin, Arthur Fiedler, Howard Hanson, Karl Krueger, Frederick Fennell, Arthur Benjamin and John McLaughlin Williams. His students have won the Grammy Award, an Academy Award, The Pulitzer and the National Medal for the Arts, in addition to several Guggenheim Grants. Professor McKay also had several hundred of his works published and is currently recorded on several NAXOS CD recordings which receive extensive playings on radio channels and the internet. McKay developed encouraging and experiential teaching techniques over 4 decades of work at the University of Washington, Seattle, and was honored to be commissioned to compose the Seattle Centennial Symphony in 1951, which was performed and broadcast by the Seattle Symphony for the occasion.
Orchestration Theory
Author: James E. PeronePublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313387893
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Presenting detailed bibliographic information on all aspects of orchestration, instrumentation, and musical arranging with the broadest possible historical and stylistic palette, this work includes over 1,200 citations. The sources range from treatises, dissertations, and textbooks to journal articles and are cross-referenced and indexed. This is the only comprehensive bibliographic reference guide of its kind on the subject of orchestration. It will be of value to the music theory teacher, undergraduate and graduate students of orchestration, and the researcher. The book contains chapters devoted to book-length treatises; a general bibliography of journal articles and books partially related to orchestration; a chronological list of orchestration treatises; a list of jazz-arranging treatises; a list of band-related treatises; a list of treatises dealing with specific instruments or instrumental families; and an index. This is the first in a series of music theory reference books the author is developing.
Professional Orchestration
Author: Peter L. AlexanderPublisher: Alexander University, Incorporated
ISBN: 9780939067930
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 693
Book Description
Alexander details dozens of woodwind and brass writing techniques previously known by only a few top professional film orchestrators, composers, and arrangers which are applicable to both live performance and MIDI mock-ups.
Sounds and Scores
Author: Henry ManciniPublisher: Warner Bros. Publications
ISBN: 9780898986679
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
A practical guide to professional orchestration featuring recorded musical examples performed by Henry Mancini. Included in the book are sections on the woodwinds, brass, the rhythm section and the string section. A recording is included to follow along with the printed scores.
Creativity and Art
Author: Margaret A. BodenPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191639893
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Margaret Boden presents a series of essays in which she explores the nature of creativity in a wide range of art forms. Creativity in general is the generation of novel, surprising, and valuable ideas (conceptual, theoretical, musical, literary, or visual). Boden identifies three forms of creativity: combinational, exploratory, and transformational. These elicit differing forms of surprise, and are defined by the different kinds of psychological process that generate the new ideas. Boden examines creativity not only in traditional fine art, but also in craftworks, and some less orthodox approaches—namely, conceptual art and several types of computer art. Her Introduction draws out the conceptual links between the various case-studies, showing how they express a coherent view of creativity in art.
Logos and Life: Creative Experience and the Critique of Reason
Author: Anna-Teresa TymienieckaPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400939159
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 487
Book Description
It is rare that we feel ourselves to be participating in history. Yet, as Bertrand Russell observed, philosophy develops in response to the challenges of socio-cultural problems and situations. The present-day philosophical endeavor is prompted not by one or two, but by a conundrum of problems and controversies in which the forces carrying life are set against each other. The struggles in which contemporary mankind is fiercely engaged are not confined, as in the past, to economic, territorial, or religious rivalries, nor to the quest for power, but extend to the primary conditions of human existence. They under mine man's primogenital confidence in life and shatter the intimacy of his home on earth. Philosophical reflection today cannot fail to feel the pressure of the current situation within which it unfolds. Since this situation now involves the ultimate conditions of human existence, its demands have at last given to philosophy the impetus and direction needed for conceiving that the first and last of its concerns should be life itself.
Author: Walter Piston