Music By Philip Glass

Music By Philip Glass
Title Music By Philip Glass PDF eBook
Author Philip Glass
Publisher Da Capo Press
Total Pages 0
Release 1995-03-21
Genre Composers
ISBN 9780306806360

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Words Without Music: A Memoir

Words Without Music: A Memoir
Title Words Without Music: A Memoir PDF eBook
Author Philip Glass
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages 288
Release 2015-04-06
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1631490818

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New York Times Bestseller "Reads the way Mr. Glass's compositions sound at their best: propulsive, with a surreptitious emotional undertow." —Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, New York Times Philip Glass has, almost single-handedly, crafted the dominant sound of late-twentieth-century classical music. Yet in Words Without Music, his critically acclaimed memoir, he creates an entirely new and unexpected voice, that of a born storyteller and an acutely insightful chronicler, whose behind-the-scenes recollections allow readers to experience those moments of creative fusion when life so magically merged with art. From his childhood in Baltimore to his student days in Chicago and at Juilliard, to his first journey to Paris and a life-changing trip to India, Glass movingly recalls his early mentors, while reconstructing the places that helped shape his creative consciousness. Whether describing working as an unlicensed plumber in gritty 1970s New York or composing Satyagraha, Glass breaks across genres and re-creates, here in words, the thrill that results from artistic creation. Words Without Music ultimately affirms the power of music to change the world.

Book of Longing

Book of Longing
Title Book of Longing PDF eBook
Author Leonard Cohen
Publisher McClelland & Stewart
Total Pages 242
Release 2008-11-19
Genre Poetry
ISBN 1551991586

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Leonard Cohen is one of the great writers, performers, and most consistently daring artists of our time. Book of Longing is Cohen’s eagerly awaited new collection of poems, following his highly acclaimed 1984 title, Book of Mercy, and his hugely successful 1993 publication, Stranger Music, a Globe and Mail national bestseller. Book of Longing contains erotic, playful, and provocative line drawings and artwork on every page, by the author, which interact in exciting and unexpected ways on the page with poetry that is timeless, meditative, and at times darkly humorous. The book brings together all the elements that have brought Leonard Cohen’s artistry with language worldwide recognition.

Music by Philip Glass

Music by Philip Glass
Title Music by Philip Glass PDF eBook
Author Philip Glass
Publisher New York : Harper & Row
Total Pages 272
Release 1987
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN

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Glass tells in his own words of his growth from obscurity to worldwide fame; of his great teacher, Nadia Boulanger, and his early work with Ravi Shankar; of his beginning associations with the theater through the work of Mabou Mines, La Mama and Robert Wilson. -Book cover.

Four Musical Minimalists

Four Musical Minimalists
Title Four Musical Minimalists PDF eBook
Author Keith Potter
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Total Pages 412
Release 2002-04-25
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780521015011

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Offers the most detailed account yet of the early works of these four minimalist composers.

Shared Meanings in the Film Music of Philip Glass

Shared Meanings in the Film Music of Philip Glass
Title Shared Meanings in the Film Music of Philip Glass PDF eBook
Author Dr Tristian Evans
Publisher Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages 241
Release 2015-10-28
Genre Music
ISBN 1472403576

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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.

Icarus at the Edge of Time

Icarus at the Edge of Time
Title Icarus at the Edge of Time PDF eBook
Author Brian Greene
Publisher Knopf
Total Pages 33
Release 2008
Genre Icarus (Greek mythology)
ISBN 0307268888

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A futuristic reimaging of the classic Greek myth, as a boy ventures through deep space and challenges the awesome power of black holes. The beauty of the book lies in the images, provided by NASA and the Hubble Space telescope, and printed on board rather than paper.