Tag: Music

Free Download Emily H Green, "Dedicating Music, 1785-1850 "
English | ISBN: 1580469493 | 2019 | 260 pages | AZW3 | 77
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Free Download Nick Crossley, "Connecting sounds: The social life of music "
English | ISBN: 152612601X | 2019 | 224 pages | AZW3 | 815 KB
Nick Crossley argues that music is a form of social interaction, interwoven in the fabric of society and in constant interplay with its other threads. Musical interactions are often also economic interactions, for example, and sometimes political interactions. They can be forms of identity work, for both individuals and collectives, contributing to the reproduction or bridging of social divisions. As such music both shapes and is shaped by the wider network of relations and interactions making up our societies at their local, national and global levels.

Free Download Fred Lerdahl, "Composition and Cognition: Reflections on Contemporary Music and the Musical Mind"
English | ISBN: 0520305094 | 2019 | 160 pages | AZW3 | 358 KB
In Composition and Cognition, renowned composer and theorist Fred Lerdahl builds on his careerlong work of developing a comprehensive model of music cognition. Bringing together his dual expertise in composition and music theory, he reveals the way in which his research has served as a foundation for his compositional style and how his intuitions as a composer have guided his cognitively oriented theories. At times personal and reflective, this book offers an overall picture of the musical mind that has implications for central issues in contemporary composition, including the recurrent gap between method and result, and the tension between cognitive constraints and utopian aesthetic views of musical progress. Lerdahl’s succinct volume provides invaluable insights for students and instructors, composers and music scholars, and anyone engaged with contemporary music.

Free Download Classicism of the Twenties: Art, Music, and Literature by Theodore Ziolkowski
English | January 8, 2015 | ISBN: 022618398X | True EPUB | 224 pages | 3 MB
The triumph of avant-gardes in the 1920s tends to dominate our discussions of the music, art, and literature of the period. But the broader current of modernism encompassed many movements, and one of the most distinct and influential was a turn to classicism.

Free Download Steven Matthews, "Ceaseless Music: Sounding Wordsworth’s The Prelude "
English | ISBN: 1474232787 | 2017 | 248 pages | AZW3 | 688 KB
Through a series of poetic responses and critical reflections, Ceaseless Music explores the afterlives of Wordsworth’s landmark autobiographical poem The Prelude in literature, philosophy and life writing, together with the insights it can offer into the writing of poetry today.

Free Download David Deutsch, "British Literature and Classical Music: Cultural Contexts 1870-1945 "
English | ISBN: 1474235816 | 2015 | 272 pages | AZW3 | 716 KB
British Literature and Classical Music explores literary representations of classical music in early 20th century British writing. Covering authors ranging from T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf to Aldous Huxley, H.G. Wells and D.H. Lawrence, the book examines literature produced during a period of widely proliferating philosophical, educational, and performance-oriented musical activities in both public and private settings. David Deutsch demonstrates how this proliferation caused classical music to become an increasingly vital element of British culture and a vehicle for exploring contentious issues such as social mobility, sexual freedoms, and international political rivalries.

Free Download John T. Lysaker, "Brian Eno’s Ambient 1: Music for Airports "
English | ISBN: 0190497300 | 2018 | 184 pages | AZW3 | 2 MB
Brian Eno’s seminal album Ambient 1: Music for Airports continues to fascinate and charm audiences, not only as a masterpiece of ambient music, but as a powerful and transformative work of art. Author John T. Lysaker situates this album in the context of twentieth-century art music, where its ambitions and contributions to avant garde music practice become even more apparent.

Free Download Alex Ross, "Best Music Writing 2011 (Da Capo Best Music Writing)"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0306819635 | EPUB | pages: 336 | 0.4 mb
Best Music Writing has become one of the most eagerly awaited annuals of them all. Celebrating the year in music writing by gathering a rich array of essays, missives, and musings on every style of music from rock to hip-hop to R&B to jazz to pop to blues, it is essential reading for anyone who loves great music and accomplished writing. Scribes of every imaginable sort-novelists, poets, journalists, musicians- are gathered to create a multi-voiced snapshot of the year in music writing that, like the music it illuminates, is every bit as thrilling as it is riveting.

Free Download Julian Johnson, "After Debussy: Music, Language, and the Margins of Philosophy"
English | ISBN: 0190066822 | 2020 | 396 pages | AZW3 | 7 MB
Classical music shows a close relationship to language, and both musicology and philosophy have tended to approach music from that angle, exploring it in terms of expression, representation, and discourse. This book turns that idea on its head. Focusing on the music of Debussy and its legacy in the century since his death, After Debussy offers a groundbreaking new perspective on twentieth-century music that foregrounds a sensory logic of sound over quasi-linguistic ideas of structure or meaning. Author Julian Johnson argues that Debussy’s music exemplifies this idea, influencing the music of successive composers who took up the mantle of emphasizing sound over syntax, sense over signification. In doing so, this music not only anticipates a central problem of contemporary thought-the gap between language and our embodied relation to the world-but also offers a solution.

Free Download Moodset Music Lo-fi Waves WAV | 14 September 2024 | 316 MB
Elevate your music with the Lo-Fi Waves sample pack by Moodset Music. Dive into a world of nostalgic and laid-back vibes with this meticulously crafted collection of lo-fi sounds and textures. Explore dusty vinyl crackles, warm tape saturation, vinyl-inspired chords, and vintage drum breaks that capture the essence of lo-fi music production.