Word and Music Studies: Essays on Music and the Spoken Word and on Surveying the Field.9042018976Word and music studies; essays on music and the spoken word Music and the Spoken Word is a weekly 30-minute radio and television program of inspiring messages and music produced by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with music performed by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir (often accompanied by the Salt Lake Tabernacle organ and on surveying the field. Ed. by Suzanne M. Lodato and David Francis David Francis can refer to:
Editions Rodopi 2005 200 pages $55.00 Paperback Word and music studies; 7 ML146 Lodato and Urrows compile nine essays by international scholars in a variety of fields from the Fourth International Conference on Word and Music Studies in 2003 in Berlin, which was sponsored by the International Association for Word and Music Studies (WMA (Windows Media Audio) An audio compression method from Microsoft. Known originally as MSAudio, this proprietary format competes with the MP3 and AAC methods. WMA encodes rapidly and is known to be especially effective at low bit rates. ). The first section surveys new research that uses philosophy and critical theory to understand the connection between music and literature. These essays discuss the philosophies of Deleuze and Guattari, Wagner's Parsifal and the film The Fisher King, Dominick Argento's The Aspern Papers, and the lieder of Schubert and Strauss. The second section analyzes the element of melody in detail, Samuel Beckett's radio play Words and Music, and short films about Glenn Gould. Lodato is vice-president of WMA and on the staff at the Scholarly Communications program at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is a foundation endowed with wealth accumulated by the late Andrew W. Mellon. It is the product of the 1969 merger of the Avalon Foundation and the Old Dominion Foundation. ; Urrows is professor of music at Hong Kong Baptist University Upon the retirement of Dr. Tse in 2001 after 30 years of educational and social services to the University and Hong Kong, Prof. Ng Ching-fai was appointed as the third president of the University. The chairman of the University Council and Court is Mr. WONG Ying Wai, Wilfred. . The book is not indexed. ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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