Present Past: Notes from the Life of a Persian/American Composer, Hormoz Farhat

Автор: Casas Alfonso
Название: Freddie Mercury: An Illustrated Life
ISBN: 1477320636 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781477320631
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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The music of Queen and powerhouse lead singer Freddie Mercury are best experienced with the volume turned all the way up. Alfonso Casas’s Freddie Mercury delivers a sonorous homage to the formidable singer and the turning points that produced a game-changing body of music that continues to inspire fans around the globe.

First published in Spain and now available worldwide, this luminous work covers Freddie's three “births”: his birth as Farrokh Bulsara in Zanzibar; his adoption of the last name of Mercury and the launch of Queen with Brian May and Roger Taylor; and the emergence of the lasting legend after Freddie’s death at the age of forty-five. Casas's evocative illustrations highlight the key moments in the singer’s transformation from child prodigy to superstar, bringing to life the bold innovator who broke free of his conventional upbringing. Chronicling events from Freddie’s marriage to Mary Austin and early fame in London’s 1970s glam scene, to the making of multiple megahits (including the six-minute chart-topper “Bohemian Rhapsody”), to his final years in a lasting relationship with Jim Hutton, Freddie Mercury is an exhilarating, poignant portrait of a creative genius who lived life to the hilt.

Автор: Green Jeffrey
Название: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, a Musical Life
ISBN: 1138661554 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138661554
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Green`s study is more than a biography of an Anglo-African composer.The first comprehensive study of Coleridge-Taylor`s life for almost a century, it reveals how class-ridden Britain could embrace even the most unlikely of cultural icons.

Автор: Mumma Gordon
Название: Cybersonic Arts: Adventures in American New Music
ISBN: 0252081013 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780252081019
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Composer, performer, instrument builder, teacher, and writer Gordon Mumma has left an indelible mark on the American contemporary music scene. A prolific composer and innovative French horn player, Mumma is recognized for integrating advanced electronic processes into musical structures, an approach he has termed ""Cybersonics.""

Musicologist Michelle Fillion curates a collection of Mumma's writings, presenting revised versions of his classic pieces as well as many unpublished works from every stage of his storied career. Here, through words and astonishing photos, is Mumma's chronicle of seminal events in the musical world of the twentieth century: his cofounding the Cooperative Studio for Electronic Music; his role in organizing the historic ONCE Festivals of Contemporary Music; performances with the Sonic Arts Union; and working alongside John Cage and David Tudor as a composer-musician with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. In addition, Mumma describes his collaborations with composers, performers, dancers, and visual artists ranging from Robert Ashley and Pauline Oliveros to Marcel Duchamp and Robert Rauschenberg.

Candid and insightful, Cybersonic Arts is the eye-opening account of a broad artistic community by an active participant and observer.

Автор: Granade S. Andrew
Название: Harry Partch, Hobo Composer
ISBN: 1580464955 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781580464956
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: Examines the impact of Harry Partch`s hobo years from a variety of perspectives, exploring how the composer both engaged and frustrated popular conceptions of the hobo.

Автор: St Pierre Kelly
Название: Bedřich Smetana: Myth, Music, and Propaganda
ISBN: 1580465102 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781580465106
Издательство: Boydell & Brewer
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Описание: This book reveals Czech composer Bedrich Smetana as a dynamic figure whose mythology has been rewritten time and again to suit shifting political perspectives.

Автор: Kitts Thomas M.
Название: John Fogerty: An American Son
ISBN: 0415713471 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415713474
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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This is the first critical biography to explore John Fogerty's life and his music. When inducting Creedence Clearwater Revival into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993, Bruce Springsteen referred to the "music's power and its simplicity... [its] beauty and poetry and a sense of the darkness of events and of history, of an American tradition shot through with pride, fear, and paranoia." This book investigates those aspects and more of Fogerty's songs and life: his Americanism, his determined individualism, and unyielding musical vision which led to conflicts with his band, isolation from his family, constant legal battles, and some of the greatest songs of the 20th century.

Автор: Kitts Thomas M.
Название: John Fogerty: An American Son
ISBN: 0415713463 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415713467
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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This is the first critical biography to explore John Fogerty's life and his music. When inducting Creedence Clearwater Revival into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993, Bruce Springsteen referred to the "music's power and its simplicity... [its] beauty and poetry and a sense of the darkness of events and of history, of an American tradition shot through with pride, fear, and paranoia." This book investigates those aspects and more of Fogerty's songs and life: his Americanism, his determined individualism, and unyielding musical vision which led to conflicts with his band, isolation from his family, constant legal battles, and some of the greatest songs of the 20th century.

Автор: Leach, Elizabeth Eva
Название: Guillaume de machaut
ISBN: 0801479533 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780801479533
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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At once a royal secretary, a poet, and a composer, Guillaume de Machaut was one of the most protean and creative figures of the late Middle Ages. Rather than focus on a single strand of his remarkable career, Elizabeth Eva Leach gives us a book that encompasses all aspects of his work, illuminating it in a distinctively interdisciplinary light. The author provides a comprehensive picture of Machaut's artistry, reviews the documentary evidence about his life, charts the different agendas pursued by modern scholarly disciplines in their rediscovery and use of specific parts of his output, and delineates Machaut's own poetic and material presentation of his authorial persona.

Leach treats Machaut's central poetic themes of hope, fortune, and death, integrating the aspect of Machaut's multimedia art that differentiates him from his contemporaries' treatment of similar thematic issues: music. In restoring the centrality of music in Machaut's poetics, arguing that his words cannot be truly understood or appreciated without the additional layers of meaning created in their musicalization, Leach makes a compelling argument that musico-literary performance occupied a special place in the courts of fourteenth-century France.