Author: Arbie Orenstein
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486266336
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The standard Ravel biography by the world's foremost authority — brilliantly detailed and documented, filled with quotations from letters, interviews with the composer's friends, an illuminating analysis of each of his works, a study of his musical esthetics and language, a complete catalog of his works, and a discography. "Highly recommended" — Choice. Includes 48 illustrations.
All Music Guide to Classical Music
Author: Chris Woodstra
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9780879308650
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 1620
Book Description
Offering comprehensive coverage of classical music, this guide surveys more than eleven thousand albums and presents biographies of five hundred composers and eight hundred performers, as well as twenty-three essays on forms, eras, and genres of classical music. Original.
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9780879308650
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 1620
Book Description
Offering comprehensive coverage of classical music, this guide surveys more than eleven thousand albums and presents biographies of five hundred composers and eight hundred performers, as well as twenty-three essays on forms, eras, and genres of classical music. Original.
Lives of the Great Composers 3e
Author: Harold C Schonberg
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393038576
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Schonberg brings the reader closer to an identification with the composers he discusses and thus closer to an understanding of their music. The book consequently places more emphasis on biographical details and less upon technical analysis of the music.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393038576
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Schonberg brings the reader closer to an identification with the composers he discusses and thus closer to an understanding of their music. The book consequently places more emphasis on biographical details and less upon technical analysis of the music.
Jeux d'eau pour les enfants
Author: Marco Casati
Publisher:
ISBN: 9782732868066
Category : Jeux d'eau (Loisirs)
Languages : fr
Pages : 127
Book Description
Vous êtes parent, maître-nageur ou accompagnateur de groupes ? Vous voulez occuper un groupe d'enfants au bord de la mer, au bord d'un lac, pendant les longues journées estivales, ou encore à la piscine ? Ce guide vous fournira plein d'idées de jeux qui raviront les petits comme les grands. Adaptées à chaque tranche d'âge (de trois à cinq ans, de six à huit ans, de neuf à douze ans), répondant à toutes les normes de sécurité et d'hygiène, toutes les activités nautiques proposées permettront aux enfants de s'amuser tout en acquérant de l'aisance dans l'eau, en affinant leur motricité et en développant leur force physique. Avec quelques accessoires simples et faciles à trouver, vous aurez entre les mains tout le nécessaire pour passer d'agréables moments avec les enfants et transformer ces joyeuses heures d'activités ludiques en moments privilégiés de partage et d'expériences nouvelles.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9782732868066
Category : Jeux d'eau (Loisirs)
Languages : fr
Pages : 127
Book Description
Vous êtes parent, maître-nageur ou accompagnateur de groupes ? Vous voulez occuper un groupe d'enfants au bord de la mer, au bord d'un lac, pendant les longues journées estivales, ou encore à la piscine ? Ce guide vous fournira plein d'idées de jeux qui raviront les petits comme les grands. Adaptées à chaque tranche d'âge (de trois à cinq ans, de six à huit ans, de neuf à douze ans), répondant à toutes les normes de sécurité et d'hygiène, toutes les activités nautiques proposées permettront aux enfants de s'amuser tout en acquérant de l'aisance dans l'eau, en affinant leur motricité et en développant leur force physique. Avec quelques accessoires simples et faciles à trouver, vous aurez entre les mains tout le nécessaire pour passer d'agréables moments avec les enfants et transformer ces joyeuses heures d'activités ludiques en moments privilégiés de partage et d'expériences nouvelles.
Details of Consequence
Author: Gurminder Kaur Bhogal
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019979510X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Details of Consequence examines a trait that is taken for granted and rarely investigated in fin-de-siècle French music: ornamental extravagance. Considering why such composers as Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Gabriel Fauré, Igor Stravinsky, and Erik Satie, turned their attention to the seemingly innocuous and allegedly superficial phenomenon of ornament at pivotal moments of their careers, this book shows that the range of decorative languages and unusual ways in which ornament is manifest in their works doesn't only suggest a willingness to decorate or render music beautiful. Rather, in keeping with the sorts of changes that decorative expression was undergoing in the work of Eugène Grasset, Pierre Bonnard, Henri Matisse, and other painters, composers also invested their creative energies in re-imagining ornament, relying on a variety of decorative techniques to emphasize what was new and unprecedented in their treatment of form, meter, rhythm, melody, and texture. Furthermore, abundant displays of ornament in their music served to privilege associations that had been previously condemned in Western philosophy such as femininity, sensuality, exoticism, mystery, and fantasy. Alongside specific visual examples, author Gurminder Kaur Bhogal offers analyses of piano pieces, orchestral music, chamber works, and compositions written for the Ballets Russes to highlight the disorienting effect of musical experiments with ornament. Acknowledging the willingness of listeners to borrow vocabulary from the visual arts when describing decorative music, Bhogal probes the formation of art-music metaphors, and studies the cognitive impetus behind tendencies to posit stylistic parallels. She further illustrates that the rising expressive status of ornament in music and art had broad social and cultural implications as evidenced by its widespread involvement in debates on French identity, style, aesthetics, and progress. Drawing on a range of recent scholarship in the humanities at large, including studies in feminist theory, nationalism, and orientalism, Details of Consequence is an intensely interdisciplinary look at an important facet of fin-de-siècle French music.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019979510X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Details of Consequence examines a trait that is taken for granted and rarely investigated in fin-de-siècle French music: ornamental extravagance. Considering why such composers as Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Gabriel Fauré, Igor Stravinsky, and Erik Satie, turned their attention to the seemingly innocuous and allegedly superficial phenomenon of ornament at pivotal moments of their careers, this book shows that the range of decorative languages and unusual ways in which ornament is manifest in their works doesn't only suggest a willingness to decorate or render music beautiful. Rather, in keeping with the sorts of changes that decorative expression was undergoing in the work of Eugène Grasset, Pierre Bonnard, Henri Matisse, and other painters, composers also invested their creative energies in re-imagining ornament, relying on a variety of decorative techniques to emphasize what was new and unprecedented in their treatment of form, meter, rhythm, melody, and texture. Furthermore, abundant displays of ornament in their music served to privilege associations that had been previously condemned in Western philosophy such as femininity, sensuality, exoticism, mystery, and fantasy. Alongside specific visual examples, author Gurminder Kaur Bhogal offers analyses of piano pieces, orchestral music, chamber works, and compositions written for the Ballets Russes to highlight the disorienting effect of musical experiments with ornament. Acknowledging the willingness of listeners to borrow vocabulary from the visual arts when describing decorative music, Bhogal probes the formation of art-music metaphors, and studies the cognitive impetus behind tendencies to posit stylistic parallels. She further illustrates that the rising expressive status of ornament in music and art had broad social and cultural implications as evidenced by its widespread involvement in debates on French identity, style, aesthetics, and progress. Drawing on a range of recent scholarship in the humanities at large, including studies in feminist theory, nationalism, and orientalism, Details of Consequence is an intensely interdisciplinary look at an important facet of fin-de-siècle French music.