Ways of Hearing : : Reflections on Music in 26 Pieces / / ed. by Dorothea von Moltke, Marna Seltzer, Scott Burnham.

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 workWhat happens when extraordinary creative spirits—musicians, poet...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (216 p.) :; 30 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: A Convocation of Keen Spirits and Vivid Voices
  • 1. One, Two, Three . . . Infinity
  • 2. The Joy inside Sorrow
  • 3. Fidelio’s Echo
  • 4. Beethoven Invents the Species Again
  • 5. A Winter Drive
  • 6. Work Song
  • 7. Arvo Pärt’s Tabula Rasa
  • 8. On Chopin’s Ballade No. 2, Op. 38
  • 9. leyelP
  • 10. Jessye Norman Sings “Die Nachtigall”
  • 11. “Wusuli Boat Song” / “Water Is Wide”: History of a Cross- Cultural Duet
  • 12. “ Loud Dreaming”: Of Mothers and Sisters and Lessons in Listening
  • 13. Interval / Notation
  • 14. A Change Is Gonna Come
  • 15. See the Music
  • 16. Edward Elgar, Cello Concerto in E Minor, 1919
  • 17. Opera Is Indivisible
  • 18. Music as a Family Affair
  • 19. Your Brother Called
  • 20. Holy Song of Thanks
  • 21. On Beethoven’s String Quartet in B-flat, Op. 130, with the Grosse Fuge
  • 22. Adagio
  • 23. A Long Song Log: Ten Entries on Seriality, to the Accompaniment of Charles Mingus’s Black Saint
  • 24. Ghazal for the End of Time
  • 25. Spaces for Music
  • 26. Going Spatial
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Contributors
  • Index