Ways of Hearing (eBook)

Reflections on Music in 26 Pieces

Scott Burnham, Dorothea von Moltke, Marna Seltzer (Herausgeber)

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2021
216 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-22597-5 (ISBN)

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An outstanding anthology in which notable musicians, artists, scientists, thinkers, poets, and more-from Gustavo Dudamel and Carrie Mae Weems to Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Paul Muldoon-explore the influence of music on their lives and workContributors include: Laurie Anderson * Jamie Barton * Daphne A. Brooks * Edgar Choueiri * Jeff Dolven * Gustavo Dudamel * Edward Dusinberre * Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim * Frank Gehry * James Ginsburg * Ruth Bader Ginsburg * Jane Hirshfield * Pico Iyer * Alexander Kluge * Nathaniel Mackey * Maureen N. McLane * Alicia Hall Moran * Jason Moran * Paul Muldoon * Elaine Pagels * Robert Pinsky * Richard Powers * Brian Seibert * Arnold Steinhardt * Susan Stewart * Abigail Washburn * Carrie Mae Weems * Susan Wheeler * C. K. Williams * Wu FeiWhat happens when extraordinary creative spirits-musicians, poets, critics, and scholars, as well as an architect, a visual artist, a filmmaker, a scientist, and a legendary Supreme Court justice-are asked to reflect on their favorite music? The result is Ways of Hearing, a diverse collection that explores the ways music shapes us and our shared culture. These acts of musical witness bear fruit through personal essays, conversations and interviews, improvisatory meditations, poetry, and visual art. They sound the depths of a remarkable range of musical genres, including opera, jazz, bluegrass, and concert music both classical and contemporary.This expansive volume spans styles and subjects, including Pico Iyer's meditations on Handel, Arnold Steinhardt's thoughts on Beethoven's Grosse Fuge, and Laurie Anderson and Edgar Choueiri's manifesto for spatial music. Richard Powers discusses the one thing about music he's never told anyone, Daphne Brooks draws sonic connections between Toni Morrison and Cecile McLorin Salvant, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg reveals what she thinks is the sexiest duet in opera. Poems interspersed throughout further expand how we can imagine and respond to music. Ways of Hearing is a book for our times that celebrates the infinite ways music enhances our lives.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.9.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 30 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Schlagworte: Alban Berg • Alice Coltrane • Alison Balsom • Amadeus Quartet • Aria • Ballade (classical music) • Beethoven Quartet • Cavatina • Cavatina (Myers) • Cello • Cesare Siepi • Charles Mingus • Classical music • Claudio Arrau • Composer • Concert • Daniel Barenboim • Der Rosenkavalier • Different Trains • Dmitri Shostakovich • Don Giovanni • Echo • Edward Elgar • Ella Fitzgerald • Esa-Pekka Salonen • Every Sunday • Frank Gehry • Gagaku • George Balanchine • George Frideric Handel • Georg Solti • Gioachino Rossini • grandparent • Guarneri Quartet • Guillaume de Machaut • Gustavo Dudamel • Guzheng • Heiligenstadt Testament • Igor Stravinsky • In My Life • Jake Heggie • Jennifer Higdon • Jessye Norman • Johann Sebastian Bach • Joni Mitchell • Laurie Anderson • Leitmotif • Libretto • Life's Work • Little Bit • long song • Lou Reed • Ludwig van Beethoven • Me and Mrs. Jones • Melodrama • Milton Babbitt • Mitsuko Uchida • Modulation (music) • Motet • musical composition • Musicality • Music Is • My Father • My Favorite • New Simplicity • Opera • Opera Seria • oratorio • orchestra • Palestrina (opera) • Partita • Peter Sellars • Phrase (music) • Piano Phase • Pierre Boulez • Puritans • Refrain • Richard Wagner • Rigoletto • Robert Schumann • Romanticism • Ruth Crawford Seeger • Sam Cooke • Serialism • Seven Early Songs (Berg) • Singing • Sister Act • Slow movement (culture) • song cycle • Spatial Music • syncopation • The Magic Flute • The Merry Wives of Windsor • Thomas Tallis • Tintinnabuli • Van Morrison • violin • Violin Concerto in A minor (Bach) • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-22597-4 / 0691225974
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-22597-5 / 9780691225975