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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “ernest bloch”
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  • Composition and Cognition

    Reflections on Contemporary Music and the Musical Mind

    by Fred Lerdahl ...
    Series series Ernest Bloch Lectures
    In Composition and Cognition, renowned composer and theorist Fred Lerdahl builds on his careerlong work of developing a comprehensive model of music cognition. Bringing together his dual expertise in composition and music theory, he reveals the way in which his research has served as a foundation for his compositional style and how his intuitions as a composer have guided his cognitively oriented ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Ernest Bloch Studies

    Edited by Alexander Knapp, Norman Solomon ...
    Series series Cambridge Composer Studies
    Ernest Bloch left his native Switzerland to settle in the United States in 1916. One of the great twentieth-century composers, he was influenced by a range of genres and styles - Jewish, American and Swiss - and his works reflect his lifelong struggle with his identity. Drawing on firsthand recollections of relatives and others who knew and worked with the composer, this collection is the most ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Castrato

    Reflections on Natures and Kinds

    by Martha Feldman ...
    Series Book 16 - Ernest Bloch Lectures
    The Castrato is a nuanced exploration of why innumerable boys were castrated for singing between the mid-sixteenth and late-nineteenth centuries. It shows that the entire foundation of Western classical singing, culminating in bel canto, was birthed from an unlikely and historically unique set of desires, public and private, aesthetic, economic, and political. In Italy, castration for singing was ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Reclaiming Late-Romantic Music

    Singing Devils and Distant Sounds

    by Peter Franklin ...
    Series Book 14 - Ernest Bloch Lectures
    Why are some of the most beloved and frequently performed works of the late-romantic period—Mahler, Delius, Debussy, Sibelius, Puccini—regarded by many critics as perhaps not quite of the first rank? Why has modernist discourse continued to brand these works as overly sentimental and emotionally self-indulgent? Peter Franklin takes a close and even-handed look at how and why late-romantic ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • The Secular Commedia

    Comic Mimesis in Late Eighteenth-Century Music

    by Wye Jamison Allanbrook ...
    Series Book 15 - Ernest Bloch Lectures
    Wye Jamison Allanbrook’s The Secular Commedia is a stimulating and original rethinking of the music of the late eighteenth century. Hearing the symphonies and concertos of Haydn and Mozart with an ear tuned to operatic style, as their earliest listeners did, Allanbrook shows that this familiar music is built on a set of mimetic associations drawn from conventional modes of depicting character and ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

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    by Mark Willenbrink ...
    This e-book contains nine detailed step-by-step demonstrations on composition, texture, perspective and storytelling and includes a glossary of common art terms. It is based on Drawing for the Absolute Beginner (North Light 2006) by Mark and Mary Willenbrink. ... Read more

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  • Ladies Drawing Night

    Make Art, Get Inspired, Join the Party

    by Julia Rothman, Leah Goren, Rachael Cole ...
    Speaking directly to today's explosion of creativity, Ladies Drawing Night is for women looking to deepen their creative connections and expressions. Join rock star illustrators Julia Rothman, Leah Goren, and Rachael Cole for ten evenings of fun and art-making. Each night is led by a talented guest artist and themed around a particular topic, from large-scale ink painting to making art with kids. ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Drawing in Color - Animals

    by Lee Hammond ...
    Series series Drawing in Color
    This, the fourth book in the Drawing in Color series, teaches readers how to draw realistic animals with colored pencils. Lee Hammond's amazing easy-to-follow techniques enable you to render a variety of wonderful animals, from cats and dogs to horses, squirrels, tigers and more. These skills can be used to draw any kind of mammal accurately. Hammond's special graphing system makes all the ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Artist's Photo Reference - Reflections, Textures & Backgrounds

    by Gary Greene ...
    Series series Artist's Photo Reference
    There's no better way to add interest to any piece of artwork than with reflections, textures and backgrounds. This unique photo reference helps both fine and decorative artists tackle these subjects with ease.You will find stunning photos of a wide variety of scenes and objects, including:• the textures of nature, such as autumn leaves, stones, fruits, weathered wood and sand• man-made textures ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Glimpses of the French Illustrators, Illustrated.

    by F N Doubleday ...
    This is a brief outline of the works of some of the French illustrators and Artists turned illustrators who were popular during the 1890's. ... Read more

    $2.10 CAD

  • The Unicorn Wore Purple Tap Shoes: 31 Prompts For Breaking The Writer's Block.

    by Brooke Warra ...
    The Unicorn Wore Purple Tap Shoes is an adventure in writing outside of your comfort zone in order to bust the writer's block and promote creativity. In it you will find 31 prompts such as "Your key no longer works for your apartment door. A voice from inside insists you have the wrong place. What now?" and many others. Discover characters from mischievous water nymphs, to zombies, to train ... Read more

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    by David W. Galenson ...
    From Picasso's Cubism and Duchamp's readymades to Warhol's silkscreens and Smithson's earthworks, the art of the twentieth century broke completely with earlier artistic traditions. A basic change in the market for advanced art produced a heightened demand for innovation, and young conceptual innovators – from Picasso and Duchamp to Rauschenberg and Warhol to Cindy Sherman and Damien Hirst – ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD