‘Real Sound,’ Readymade, Handmade: MusicalMaterial and the Medium Between Mechanization,Automation, and Digitalization as an Impressionand Expression of RealityAn Implicit Call for Real InterdisciplinarityHanns-Werner HeisterThe point of departure and the central subject of the following considerationsare...
He was a friend, musical promoter and benefactor to many composers of his time, including Frédéric Chopin, Richard Wagner, Hector Berlioz, Robert Schumann, Camille Saint-Saëns, Edvard Grieg, Ole Bull, Joachim Raff, Mikhail Glinka, and Alexander Borodin.A prolific composer, Liszt was one of...
In a career spanning 6 decades, she has been honored with accolades and awards in multiple fields of entertainment, including 9 Golden Globes, 2 Academy Awards, 10 Grammy Awards (two of them include a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and the Grammy Legend Award), 5 Emmy Awards, 4 Peabody ...
S. Eliot's poetry collection, which inspired the famous 'Cats' musical, Mungo Jerry was certainly an odd group of musicians. The British rock band was definitely a one-hit-wonder, but it was an extremely successful hit. Their 1070's single, "In...
The intention of this essay is to explore the development of the Baroque mad song, as well as the musical expression of madness contained within, by deconstructing three songs composed within 50 years of one another: Henry Purcell's Bess o...
Consider, he said, even our notions of musical accuracy — an easy thing to take as a given: Playing the notes correctly is correct. But without the strict right-and-wrong of modern musical notation, there is no perfection, ...
When we say there is no place like home, it’s an invitation to create a home wherever you are, and an expression of the duality that the Jewish people have always had between a physical home and a spiritual home. I think it’s not a coincidence that the rainbow is a symbol of our...
As the name suggests, the song is about a girl on the beaches of California, so it wouldn't be surprising if they were merely trying to imitate the Beach Boys. Still, they added their own classic musical style and a lot of brass."...
This tendency can be traced in the divergence of popular music and styles in the 1960s and the 1970s, as expected by the 'effacement of some key boundaries or separations', which instantly dissolves the former distinctions between mass cultur...