What to Listen for in the World (Limelight) - Hardcover

Adolphe, Bruce

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0879100850 ISBN 13: 9780879100858

Publisher: LIMELIGHT, 1996

Synopsis

With disciplined lyricism and entirely devoid of technical jargon, Bruce Adolphe's book probes into the heart of such matters as the role of memory and imagination in creative expression, the meaning of inspiration, spirituality in music, the challenge of arts education and how music communicates.

About this title

From the Author:

I wrote this book as a series of related poetic reflections.
The book is a spiritual-intellectual probe of musical thinking and feeling. Composed as brief lyrical stanzas about the nature of music (and the music of human nature), "What to Listen for in the World" falls somewhere between poetry and essay. It is about music as the resonance of action, the shape of memory. It is concerned with musical meaning and values.

From the Back Cover:

What is the nature of music and what is its meaning in our lives? How is it created? How can it be more fully understood and appreciated? These questions are explored here by a composer who has written music for Itzhak Perlman, the Beaux Arts Trio and the National Symphony Orchestra. With disciplined lyricism and entirely devoid of technical jargon, Bruce Adolphe's book probes into the heart of such matters as the role of memory and imagination in creative expression, the meaning of inspiration, spirituality in music, the challenge of arts education and how music communicates. The author, acclaimed for his pre-concert lectures for The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center since 1992, also considers the work of composers such as Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann and Ravel in a way that is both poetic and accessible, designed to get directly to the essence of their art.

About this edition

• Publisher: LIMELIGHT
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0879100850
• ISBN 13: 9780879100858
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 108