David B Knight

Landscapes in Music

Space, Place, and Time in the World's Great Music

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Using landscape as its unifying concept, this engaging book explores orchestral music that represents real and imagined physical and cultural spaces, natural forces, and humans and wildlife. Spanning continents and centuries, David Knight links contrasting forms of music through unifying themes of time and space; waterscapes; imagined and mythic spaces; the search for meaning in extreme landscapes; and realms of death, survival, and remembrance. The author also underscores the importance of the physical spaces in which music is performed. Orchestral works are rarely perceived in geographical terms, but Knight, himself an accomplished geograph… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-7425-4116-0
EAN: 9780742541160
Produktnummer: 1868363
Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
Seitenangabe: 258 S.
Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.5 cm 402 g
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 402

Über den Autor

David B. Knight is a geographer who has been on the faculties of Macalester College, De Paul University, Carleton University, and the University of Guelph. As an orchestral musician, he has performed with groups in the United States, Canada, New Zealand, and Scotland.