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The Stage Works of Philip Glass by Robert F. Waters
| Title | The Stage Works of Philip Glass |
| Author | Robert F. Waters |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Release | 2022-07-31 |
| Category | Music |
| Total Pages | 335 |
| ISBN | 110704975X |
| Language | English, Spanish, and French |
Book Summary:
Glass's stage works have attracted wide popular acclaim. This book assesses critical approaches to them and explores Glass's creative philosophy.
Shared Meanings in the Film Music of Philip Glass by Tristian Evans
| Title | Shared Meanings in the Film Music of Philip Glass |
| Author | Tristian Evans |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Release | 2016-03-03 |
| Category | Music |
| Total Pages | 240 |
| ISBN | 1317055713 |
| Language | English, Spanish, and French |
Book Summary:
The study of music within multimedia contexts has become an increasingly active area of scholarly research. However, the application of such studies to musical genres outside the 'classical' film canon, or in television and other media remains largely unexplored in any detail. Tristian Evans demonstrates how postminimal music interacts with other media forms, focusing on the film music by Philip Glass, but also taking into account works by other composers such as Steve Reich, Terry Riley, John Adams and others inspired by minimalist and postminimal practices. Additionally, Evans develops innovative ways of analysing this music, based on an interdisciplinary approach, and draws on research from areas that include philosophy, linguistics and film theory. The book offers one of the first in-depth studies of Philip Glass's music for film, considering The Hours and Dracula, Naqoyqatsi, Notes on a Scandal and Watchmen, while examining re-applications of the music in new cinematic and televisual contexts. The book will appeal to musicologists but also to those working in the fields of film music, cultural studies, media studies and multimedia.
Writings on Glass by Richard Kostelanetz
| Title | Writings on Glass |
| Author | Richard Kostelanetz |
| Publisher | Univ of California Press |
| Release | 1999-01-01 |
| Category | Music |
| Total Pages | 372 |
| ISBN | 9780520214910 |
| Language | English, Spanish, and French |
Book Summary:
Philip Glass, composer of symphonies, operas (Einstein on the Beach, Akhnaten, Orphe), film scores (Kundun, Mishima, Koyaanisqatsi), songs, and music for dance is a musician who determined early on that he wanted to compose independently, apart from institutions. That decision has made him a controversial figure among academic musicians, in spite of his rigorous training at Juilliard, and with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. Richard Kostelanetz has gathered a lively and varied collection of writings about Philip Glass's work, along with several interviews and a conversation between Glass and sculptor Richard Serra. The chronology of the works and discography have been updated for the paperback edition. Philip Glass, composer of symphonies, operas (Einstein on the Beach, Akhnaten, Orphe), film scores (Kundun, Mishima, Koyaanisqatsi), songs, and music for dance is a musician who determined early on that he wanted to compose independently, apart from institutions. That decision has made him a controversial figure among academic musicians, in spite of his rigorous training at Juilliard, and with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. Richard Kostelanetz has gathered a lively and varied collection of writings about Philip Glass's work, along with several interviews and a conversation between Glass and sculptor Richard Serra. The chronology of the works and discography have been updated for the paperback edition.
Einstein on the Beach Opera beyond Drama by Jelena . Novak
| Title | Einstein on the Beach Opera beyond Drama |
| Author | Jelena . Novak |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Release | 2019-12-06 |
| Category | Music |
| Total Pages | 314 |
| ISBN | 1317145380 |
| Language | English, Spanish, and French |
Book Summary:
Philip Glass and Robert Wilson’s most celebrated collaboration, the landmark opera Einstein on the Beach, had its premiere at the Avignon Festival in 1976. During its initial European tour, Metropolitan Opera premiere, and revivals in 1984 and 1992, Einstein provoked opposed reactions from both audiences and critics. Today, Einstein is well on the way itself to becoming a canonized avant-garde work, and it is widely acknowledged as a profoundly significant moment in the history of opera or musical theater. Einstein created waves that for many years crashed against the shores of traditional thinking concerning the nature and creative potential of audiovisual expression. Reaching beyond opera, its influence was felt in audiovisual culture in general: in contemporary avant-garde music, performance art, avant-garde cinema, popular film, popular music, advertising, dance, theater, and many other expressive, commercial, and cultural spheres. Inspired by the 2012–2015 series of performances that re-contextualized this unique work as part of the present-day nexus of theoretical, political, and social concerns, the editors and contributors of this book take these new performances as a pretext for far-reaching interdisciplinary reflection and dialogue. Essays range from those that focus on the human scale and agencies involved in productions to the mechanical and post-human character of the opera’s expressive substance. A further valuable dimension is the inclusion of material taken from several recent interviews with creative collaborators Philip Glass, Robert Wilson, and Lucinda Childs, each of these sections comprising knee plays, or short intermezzo sections resembling those found in the opera Einstein on the Beach itself. The book additionally features a foreword written by the influential musicologist and cultural theorist Susan McClary and an interview with film and theater luminary Peter Greenaway, as well as a short chapter of reminiscences written by the singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega.
Musical Portraits by Joshua S. Walden
| Title | Musical Portraits |
| Author | Joshua S. Walden |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Release | 2018-01-04 |
| Category | Art |
| Total Pages | 200 |
| ISBN | 0190653507 |
| Language | English, Spanish, and French |
Book Summary:
Joshua S. Walden's Musical Portraits: The Composition of Identity in Contemporary and Experimental Music explores the wide-ranging but under-examined genre of musical portraiture. It focuses in particular on contemporary and experimental music created between 1945 and the present day, an era in which conceptions of identity have changed alongside increasing innovation in musical composition as well as in the uses of abstraction, mixed media, and other novel techniques in the field of visual portraiture. In the absence of physical likeness, an element typical of portraiture that cannot be depicted in sound, composers have experimented with methods of constructing other attributes of identity in music, such as character, biography, and profession. By studying musical portraits of painters, authors, and modern celebrities, in addition to composers' self-portraits, the book considers how representational and interpretive processes overlap and differ between music and other art forms, as well as how music is used in the depiction of human identities. Examining a range of musical portraits by composers including Peter Ablinger, Pierre Boulez, Morton Feldman, Philip Glass, Gy�rgy Ligeti, and Virgil Thomson, and director Robert Wilson's on-going series of video portraits of modern-day celebrities and his "portrait opera" Einstein on the Beach, Musical Portraits contributes to the study of music since 1945 through a detailed examination of contemporary understandings of music's capacity to depict identity, and of the intersections between music, literature, theater, film, and the visual arts.
A Student s Guide to A2 Performance Studies for the OCR Specification by Alistair Conquer
| Title | A Student s Guide to A2 Performance Studies for the OCR Specification |
| Author | Alistair Conquer |
| Publisher | Rhinegold Publishing Ltd |
| Release | 2005-02-01 |
| Category | |
| Total Pages | |
| ISBN | 1904226493 |
| Language | English, Spanish, and French |
Book Summary:
The Dawn of Indian Music in the West by Peter Lavezzoli
| Title | The Dawn of Indian Music in the West |
| Author | Peter Lavezzoli |
| Publisher | A&C Black |
| Release | 2006-04-24 |
| Category | Music |
| Total Pages | 456 |
| ISBN | 9780826418159 |
| Language | English, Spanish, and French |
Book Summary:
Peter Lavezzoli, Buddhist and musician, has a rare ability to articulate the personal feeling of music, and simultaneously narrate a history. In his discussion on Indian music theory, he demystifies musical structures, foreign instruments, terminology, an
Optimism by Peter Dabbene
| Title | Optimism |
| Author | Peter Dabbene |
| Publisher | Lulu Press, Inc |
| Release | 2013-01-24 |
| Category | Poetry |
| Total Pages | |
| ISBN | 1257550861 |
| Language | English, Spanish, and French |
Book Summary:
Optimism is a collection of poems by Peter Dabbene, each accompanied by a photograph. The book features the work of photographers from 8 countries.
American Opera by Elise Kuhl Kirk
| Title | American Opera |
| Author | Elise Kuhl Kirk |
| Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
| Release | 2001 |
| Category | Music |
| Total Pages | 459 |
| ISBN | 9780252026232 |
| Language | English, Spanish, and French |
Book Summary:
Tired of Tannhuser? Bored with Bohme? Then open your imagination to the unexpected pleasures of American opera.With this generous, accessible overview, Elise K. Kirk provides a lively history of one of America's liveliest arts. A treasure trove of information on a substantial, heretofore neglected repertoire, American Opera sketches musical traits and provides plot summaries, descriptions of sets and stagings, and biographical details on performers, composers, and librettists for more than 100 American operas, many of which have received unjustifiably scant attention since their premieres. From the spectacle and melodrama of William Dunlap's Pizarro in Peru (1800) and the pathos of Caryl Florio's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1882) to the chilling psychological drama of Jack Beeson's Lizzie Borden (1965) and the lyric elegance of John Corigliano's The Ghosts of Versailles (1991), opera in America displays the energy and diversity of the nation itself. Kirk shows that this rich, varied repertoire includes far more than familiar jewels such as Porgy and Bess, Candide, Susannah, and The Consul. Beginning with the English-influenced harlequinade of the revolutionary period, Kirk traces the development of comic opera, the rise of melodramatic romanticism, the emergence of American grand opera and verismo, and the explosion of eclectic forms that characterized American opera in the twentieth century. Devoting particular attention to the accomplishments of women and black composers and librettists, Kirk explores how American operas have incorporated indigenous elements such as jazz, popular song, folk music, Native American motifs, and Hollywood's cinematic techniques. She also discusses the impact of radio and television broadcasting on opera in America, the advent of opera workshops in universities, the integration of multimedia effects into recent opera productions, and innovations such as co-commissioning and joint staging that have helped sustain American opera as federal support has declined.An engaging introduction for neophytes, American Opera also offers an array of welcome surprises for diehard opera fans.
| Title | Vegetarian Times |
| Author | |
| Publisher | |
| Release | 1989-02 |
| Category | |
| Total Pages | 88 |
| ISBN | |
| Language | English, Spanish, and French |
Book Summary:
To do what no other magazine does: Deliver simple, delicious food, plus expert health and lifestyle information, that's exclusively vegetarian but wrapped in a fresh, stylish mainstream package that's inviting to all. Because while vegetarians are a great, vital, passionate niche, their healthy way of eating and the earth-friendly values it inspires appeals to an increasingly large group of Americans. VT's goal: To embrace both.
