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Brecht, Music and Culture

Hanns Eisler in Conversation with Hans Bunge

By: Hans Bunge,Hanns Eisler

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Brecht, Music and Culture

Hanns Eisler in Conversation with Hans Bunge

By: Hans Bunge,Hanns Eisler

The Austrian composer Hanns Eisler was Bertolt Brecht's closest friend and most politically committed collaborator. In these conversations with Hans Bunge which took place over a period of four years, from 1958 until his death in 1962, Eisler offers a compelling and absorbing account of his and Brecht's period of exile in Europe and the USA between 1933 and 1947, and of the quality of artistic, social and intellectual life in post-war East Germany. Brecht, Music and Culture includes a discussion of a number of Brecht's principal plays, including Life of Galileo and The Caucasian Chalk Circle, considers the place of music in Brecht's work and discusses the time that Brecht was brought before The House of Un-American Activities Committee. It includes lively accounts of Brecht's meetings with key cultural figures, including Arnold Schönberg, Charlie Chaplin and Thomas Mann, and offers throughout a sustained response to the question of the purpose of art in a time of political turmoil. Throughout the conversations, Eisler provides illuminating and original insights into Brecht's work and ideas and gives a highly entertaining first-hand account of his friend's personality and attitudes. First published in Germany in 1975, and now published in English for the first time, the conversations provide a fascinating account of the lives and work of two of the twentieth century's greatest artists.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472531590

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9781472531599

The Brecht-Eisler Song Book

By: Bertolt Brecht,Hanns Eisler

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The Brecht-Eisler Song Book

By: Bertolt Brecht,Hanns Eisler

Here are 42 poems by Bertolt Brecht, including several from various plays, with musical settings by Hanns Eisler. Eric Bentley has compiled the collection, created singable English translations (which appear along with the German), and supplied historical notes on the songs. Earl Robinson has supervised the editing of the music, supplied piano arrangements where necessary, and added guitar accompaniments for all songs.

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192

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Oak Publications

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1783234415

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9781783234417

Composing for the Films

By: Theodor W. Adorno,Hanns Eisler

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Composing for the Films

By: Theodor W. Adorno,Hanns Eisler

This classic account of the nature of film music aesthetics was first published in 1947. Its value comes from a unique combination of talents and experience enjoyed by the book's authors. Eisler's time at Hollywood gave him a particular insight on the technical questions which arise for composers when music is used in the production of films, while Adorno was able to contribute on wide aesthetic and sociological matters as well as specifically musical questions. Above all, the authors envisaged the book as a contribution to the study of modern, industrialized culture; and, in this respect, it has a particular importance to the whole area of cultural studies. With an introduction by Graham McCann.

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A&C Black

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0826480160

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9780826480163

Brecht, Music and Culture

Hanns Eisler in Conversation with Hans Bunge

By: Hans Bunge,Hanns Eisler

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Hanns Eisler in Conversation with Hans Bunge

By: Hans Bunge,Hanns Eisler

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The Brecht-Eisler Song Book

By: Bertolt Brecht,Hanns Eisler

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By: Bertolt Brecht,Hanns Eisler

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Oak Publications

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Music and Fuzzy Logic

The Dialectics of Idea and Realizations in the Artwork Process

By: Hanns-Werner Heister

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Music and Fuzzy Logic

The Dialectics of Idea and Realizations in the Artwork Process

By: Hanns-Werner Heister

This book unfolds the manifold, complex and intertwined relations between Fuzzy Logic and music in a first comprehensive overview on this topic: systematically as an outline, as completely as possible, in the aspects of Fuzzy Logic in this relation, and especially in music as a process with three main phases, five anthropological layers, and thirteen forms of existence of the art work (Classics, Jazz, Pop, Folklore). Being concerned with the ontological, gnoseological, psychological, and (music-) aesthetical status and the relative importance of different phenomena of relationship between music and Fuzzy Logic, the explication follows the four main principles (with five phenotypes) of Fuzzy Logic with respect to music: similarity, sharpening 1 as filtering, sharpening 2 as crystallization, blurring, and variation. The book reports on years of author’s research on topics that have been only little explored so far in the area of Music and Fuzzy Logic. It merges concepts of music analysis with fuzzy logical modes of thinking, in a unique way that is expected to attract both specialists of music and specialists of Fuzzy Logic, and also non-specialists in both fields. The book introduces the concept of dialectic between sharpening and – conscious – “blurring”. In turn, some important aspects of this dialectic are discussed, placing them in an historical dimension, and ending in the postulation of a 'musical turn' in the sciences, with some important reflections concerning a “Philosophy of Fuzzy Logic”. Moreover, a production-oriented thinking is borrowed from fuzzy logic to musicology in this book, opening new perspectives in music, and possibly also in other artistic fields.

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724

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Springer Nature

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3662629070

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9783662629079

Composing for the Films

By: Theodor W. Adorno,Hanns Eisler

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By: Theodor W. Adorno,Hanns Eisler

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Book's by Hanns Eisler

Brecht, Music and Culture

Brecht, Music and Culture

The Brecht-Eisler Song Book

The Brecht-Eisler Song Book

Composing for the Films

Composing for the Films

Brecht, Music and Culture

Brecht, Music and Culture

The Brecht-Eisler Song Book

The Brecht-Eisler Song Book

Music and Fuzzy Logic

Music and Fuzzy Logic

Composing for the Films

Composing for the Films

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