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Michael Tippett’s Fifth String Quartet A Study in Vision and Revision

Michael Tippett’s Fifth String Quartet A Study in Vision and Revision

Thomas Schuttenhelm provides a detailed account of the events leading up to and throughout the compositional process associated with Michael Tippett’s Fifth String Quartet and a comprehensive analysis of the entire quartet. The commentary discusses this work in the context of Tippett’s creative development and places it within the historical context of the genre of the string quartet. The commentary includes interviews with the members of the Lindsay String Quartet who premiered the work as well as previously unpublished letters from the composer and interviews with Tippett in which he discusses the quartet in detail. Special attention is given to Tippett’s preliminary attempts which were only recently discovered (2011) and to the evidence that suggests he altered the original ending. Included are images from the composer’s sketchbooks and manuscripts as well as the original beginning and the altered ending. | Michael Tippett’s Fifth String Quartet A Study in Vision and Revision

GBP 18.99
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Teaching Strings in Today's Classroom A Guide for Group Instruction

Teaching Strings in Today's Classroom A Guide for Group Instruction

Teaching Strings in Today’s Classroom: A Guide for Group Instruction assists music education students in-service teachers and performers to realize their goals of becoming effective string educators. It introduces readers to the school orchestra environment presents the foundational concepts needed to teach strings and provides opportunities for the reader to apply this information. The author describes how becoming an effective string teacher requires three things of equal importance: content knowledge performance skills and opportunities to apply the content knowledge and performance skills in a teaching situation. In two parts the text addresses the unique context that is teaching strings a practice with its own objectives and related teaching strategies. Part I (Foundations of Teaching and Learning String Instruments) first presents an overview of the string teaching environment encouraging the reader to consider how context impacts teaching followed by practical discussions of instrument sizing and position chapters on the development of each hand and instruction for best practices concerning tone production articulation and bowing guidelines. Part II (Understanding Fingerings) provides clear guidance for understanding basic finger patterns positions and the creation of logical fingerings. String fingerings are abstract and thus difficult to negotiate without years of playing experience—these chapters (and their corresponding interactive online tutorials) distill the content knowledge required to understand string fingerings in a way that non-string players can understand and use. Teaching Strings in Today’s Classroom contains pedagogical information performance activities and an online virtual teaching environment with twelve interactive tutorials three for each of the four string instruments. ACCOMPANYING VIDEOS CAN BE ACCESSED VIA THE AUTHOR'S WEBSITE: www. teachingstrings. online | Teaching Strings in Today's Classroom A Guide for Group Instruction

GBP 42.99
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Reconceiving Structure in Contemporary Music New Tools in Music Theory and Analysis

Reconceiving Structure in Contemporary Music New Tools in Music Theory and Analysis

This book studies recent music in the western classical tradition offering a critique of current analytical/theoretical approaches and proposing alternatives. The critique addresses the present fringe status of recent music sometimes described as crossover postmodern post-classical post-minimalist etc. and demonstrates that existing descriptive languages and analytical approaches do not provide adequate tools to address this music in positive and productive terms. Existing tools and concepts were developed primarily in the mid-20th century in tandem with the high modernist compositional aesthetic and they have changed little since then. The aesthetics of music composition on the other hand have been in constant transformation. Lochhead proposes new ways to conceive musical works their structurings of musical experience and time and the procedures and goals of analytic close reading. These tools define investigative procedures that engage the multiple perspectives of composers performers and listeners and that generate conceptual modes unique to each work. In action they rebuild a conceptual methodological and experiential place for recent music. These new approaches are demonstrated in analyses of four pieces: Kaija Saariaho’s Lonh (1996) Sofia Gubaidulina’s Second String Quartet (1987) Stacy Garrop’s String Quartet no. 2 Demons and Angels (2004-05) and Anna Clyne’s Choke (2004). This book defies the prediction of classical music’s death and will be of interest to scholars and musicians of classical music and those interested in music theory musicology and aural culture. | Reconceiving Structure in Contemporary Music New Tools in Music Theory and Analysis

GBP 38.99
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Differential Geometry of Manifolds

Differential Geometry of Manifolds

Differential Geometry of Manifolds Second Edition presents the extension of differential geometry from curves and surfaces to manifolds in general. The book provides a broad introduction to the field of differentiable and Riemannian manifolds tying together classical and modern formulations. It introduces manifolds in a both streamlined and mathematically rigorous way while keeping a view toward applications particularly in physics. The author takes a practical approach containing extensive exercises and focusing on applications including the Hamiltonian formulations of mechanics electromagnetism string theory. The Second Edition of this successful textbook offers several notable points of revision. New to the Second Edition:New problems have been added and the level of challenge has been changed to the exercisesEach section corresponds to a 60-minute lecture period making it more user-friendly for lecturersIncludes new sections which provide more comprehensive coverage of topicsFeatures a new chapter on Multilinear Algebra

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Reification and the Aesthetics of Music

Reification and the Aesthetics of Music

This innovative study re-evaluates the philosophical significance of aesthetics in the context of contemporary debates on the nature of philosophy. Lewis's main argument is that contemporary conceptions of meaning and truth have been reified and that aesthetics is able to articulate why this is the case with important consequences for understanding the horizons and nature of philosophical inquiry. Reification and the Aesthetics of Music challenges the most emphatic and problematic conceptions of meaning and truth in both analytic philosophy and postmodern thought by acknowledging the ontological and logical primacy of our concrete practice-based experiences with aesthetic phenomena. By engaging with a variety of aesthetic practices including Beethoven's symphonies and string quartets Wagner's music dramas Richard Strauss's Elektra the twentieth-century avant-garde Jamaican soundsystem culture and punk and contemporary noise this book demonstrates the aesthetic relevance of reification as well as the concept's applicability to contemporary debates within philosophy.

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Language Acquisition The Basics

Language Acquisition The Basics

Language Acquisition: The Basics is an accessible introduction to the must-know issues in child language development. Covering key topics drawn from contemporary psychology linguistics and neuroscience readers are introduced to fundamental concepts methods controversies and discoveries. It follows the remarkable journey children take; from becoming sensitive to language before birth to the time they string their first words together; from when they use language playfully to when they tell stories hold conversations and share complex ideas. Using examples from 73 different languages Ibbotson sets this development in a diverse cross-cultural context as well as describing the universal psychological foundations that allow language to happen. This book which includes further reading suggestions in each chapter and a glossary of key terms is the perfect easy-to-understand introductory text for students teachers clinicians or anyone with an interest in language development. Drawing together the latest research on typical atypical and multilingual development it is the concise beginner's guide to the field. | Language Acquisition The Basics

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Dying to be Ill True Stories of Medical Deception

Dying to be Ill True Stories of Medical Deception

Most of us can recall a time when we pretended to be sick to reap the benefits that go along with illness. By playing sick we gained sympathy care and attention and were excused from our responsibilities. Though doing so on occasion is considered normal there are those who carry their deceptions to the extreme. In this book Dr. Marc Feldman describes people’s strange motivations to fabricate or induce illness or injury to satisfy deep emotional needs. Doctors family members and friends are lured into a costly frustrating and potentially deadly web of deceit. From the mother who shaves her child’s head and tells her community he has cancer to the co-worker who suffers from a string of incomprehensible tragedies to the false epilepsy victim who monopolizes her online support group disease forgery is ever-present in the media and in many people’s lives. In Dying to be Ill: True Stories of Medical Deception Dr. Feldman with the assistance of Gregory Yates has chronicled this fascinating world as well as the paths to healing. With insight developed from 25 years of hands-on experience Dying to be Ill is sure to stand as a classic in the field. | Dying to be Ill True Stories of Medical Deception

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Indian Ocean and Maritime Security Competition Cooperation and Threat

Indian Ocean and Maritime Security Competition Cooperation and Threat

This book provides a synoptic view of the Indian Ocean and maritime security in its contested waters. Using a historical approach it reveals vital links to events in the present day. The volume: Highlights the competition between major Asian powers to control the ‘String of Pearls’ — a reference to the Chinese attempts at controlling the Indian Ocean periphery. Shows that cooperation amongst the major powers of the region could abate the threat of the potential of conflict becoming global and inviting external intervention. Discusses India’s Look-East policy and the deepening relation between India and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Argues for the need of Indian Ocean states and particularly the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) members of the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) to look afresh at their political and security issues and common interests. Suggests measures for evolving a robust mechanism of maintaining the Indian Ocean as a sustainable zone of commerce energy security and peace rather than threat. A major contribution on a critical area in Asian geopolitics this volume will be useful to scholars and researchers of international relations politics defence studies and maritime security studies along with strategic affairs experts and think tanks. | Indian Ocean and Maritime Security Competition Cooperation and Threat

GBP 34.99
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A Language of Contemporary Architecture An Index of Topology and Typology

A Language of Contemporary Architecture An Index of Topology and Typology

As a way to understand the contemporary project in architecture this book provides an index of ideas theories projects and definitions that string into a methodology for evaluating the contemporary language of architecture described as “contemporism” through a review of topology (form) and typology (system and elements). The contemporary project has been trying to answer the postmodern question of how to move beyond modernism through a thread of architectural styles that tried to respond to deficiencies from the modern promise and contextual changes. Yet the question remains should this ongoing struggle to move beyond modernism be a stylistic battle? Has the present architectural practice ever left the modernist tendencies and is there a structure for a contemporary language in architecture? This book presents a collection of highly illustrated projects that have worked under these parameters to break away from modernism in order to present a holistic integration of topology and typology as a language for “contemporism. ” The index is illustrated with individual spreads which can be read sequentially or independently and encourages the reader to make their own connections. It also includes interviews and contributions from Toyo Ito Anthony Vidler Ben van Berkel Christian Kerez and Greg Lynn. This book is essential reading for undergraduate and graduate students in architecture. | A Language of Contemporary Architecture An Index of Topology and Typology

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Rethinking Medieval and Renaissance Political Thought Historiographical Problems Fresh Interpretations New Debates

Rethinking Medieval and Renaissance Political Thought Historiographical Problems Fresh Interpretations New Debates

This collection of essays written by leading experts showcases historiographical problems fresh interpretations and new debates in medieval and Renaissance history and political thought. Recent scholarship on medieval and Renaissance political thought is witness to tectonic movements. These involve quiet yet considerable re-evaluations of key thinkers such as Thomas Aquinas and Machiavelli as well as the string of lesser known political thinkers who wrote in western Europe between Late Antiquity and the Reformation. Taking stock of thirty years of developments this volume demonstrates the contemporary vibrancy of the history of medieval and Renaissance political thought. By both celebrating and challenging the perspectives of a generation of scholars notably Cary J. Nederman it offers refreshing new assessments. The book re-introduces the history of western political thought in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to the wider disciplines of History and Political Science. Recent historiographical debates have revolutionized discussion of whether or not there was an Aristotelian revolution in the thirteenth century. Thinkers such as Machiavelli and Marsilius of Padua are read in new ways; less well-known texts such as the Irish On the Twelve Abuses of the Age offer new perspectives. Further the collection argues that medieval political ideas contain important lessons for the study of concepts of contemporary interest such as toleration. The volume is an ideal resource for both students and scholars interested in medieval and Renaissance history as well as the history of political thought. | Rethinking Medieval and Renaissance Political Thought Historiographical Problems Fresh Interpretations New Debates

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Strategic Responses to Domestic Contestation The EU Between Politicisation and Depoliticisation

Strategic Responses to Domestic Contestation The EU Between Politicisation and Depoliticisation

How have EU-level actors responded to the increase in salience and contestation across the member states? This volume explores and explains the actors’ strategic responses and emphasises that domestic pressure has triggered both depoliticisation and politicisation. Long gone are the times when EU decisions left citizens indifferent and when the supranational was largely irrelevant for public opinion and electoral politics across the member states. Instead a string of existential crises has struck and unsettled the Union over more than a decade. These crises have politicised Europe tested the endurance of the supranational system to its core and put EU-level actors under unprecedented pressure. This volume explores how and why EU-level actors respond to the various sometimes competing ‘bottom-up’ demands and challenges the view that domestic contestation necessarily limits EU-level room for manoeuvre. Instead contributions show that domestic pressure can be perceived as either constraining or enabling with responses therefore ranging from the restrained to the assertive. Driven by the survival of the Union by the preservation of their own powers and by different perceptions of domestic demands actors will choose to politicise or depoliticise decision-making behaviour and policy outcomes at the supranational level. The volume concludes that whilst domestic pressure triggers supranational responses such responses should not be assumed to be restraining; they may equally be empowering including for European integration itself. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy. | Strategic Responses to Domestic Contestation The EU Between Politicisation and Depoliticisation

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