"The term 'flow' refers to experiences where the musician moves into a consciousness in which time seems to be suspended and perception of reality is blurred by unconscious forces. An essential part of the jazz tradition, which often serves as the foundation of the musician's id…
"The term 'flow' refers to experiences where the musician moves into a consciousness in which time seems to be suspended and perception of reality is blurred by unconscious forces. An essential part of the jazz tradition, which often serves as the foundation of the musician's id…
"The term 'flow' refers to experiences where the musician moves into a consciousness in which time seems to be suspended and perception of reality is blurred by unconscious forces. An essential part of the jazz tradition, which often serves as the foundation of the musician's id…
In welchem Tempo hat Johann Sebastian Bach seine eigenen Musikstücke gespielt und aufgeführt?Das Buch gibt eine Antwort darauf - erstmals ausschließlich auf der Grundlage von Bachs eigenen Aussagen, nämlich den Partituren seiner Kompositionen. Die Analyse von Bachs Werken zeigt,…
The applied theatre reader
"The Applied Theatre Reader is the first book to bring together new case studies of practice by leading practitioners and academics in the field and beyond, with classic source texts from writers such as Noam Chomsky, bell hooks, Mikhail Bakhtin, Augusto Boal, and Chantal Mouffe…
The Original Portrayal of Mozart's Don Giovanni offers an original reading of Mozart's and Da Ponte's opera Don Giovanni, using as a lens the portrayal of the title role by its creator, the baritone Luigi Bassi (1766-1825). Although Bassi was coached in the role by the composer …
Die Orgelwerke Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdys gehören unbestritten zu den Meilensteinen in der Geschichte der Komposition für die "Königin der Instrumente". Ihre klangliche Realisierung aber wirft trotz bester Editionslage zahlreiche Fragen bezüglich der Gestaltung und eng damit z…
Die Orgelwerke Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdys gehören unbestritten zu den Meilensteinen in der Geschichte der Komposition für die "Königin der Instrumente".Ihre klangliche Realisierung aber wirft trotz bester Editionslage zahlreiche Fragen bezüglich der Gestaltung und eng damit zu…
Brecht in practice: theatre, theory and performance
"A re-examination of Bertolt Brecht the theatre practitioner in the light of his theoretical writings and his work in the theatre"
Brecht in practice: theatre, theory and performance
"Bertolt Brecht's reputation as a flawed, irrelevant or difficult thinker for the theatre can often go before him to such an extent that we run the risk of forgetting the achievements that made him and his company, the Berliner Ensemble, famous around the world. David Barnett ex…
"'Objects as Actors' charts a new approach to Greek tragedy based on an obvious, yet often overlooked, fact: Greek tragedy was meant to be performed. As plays, the works were incomplete without physical items - theatrical props. The author shows the importance of objects in the …
Acting from Shakespeare's First Folio examines a series of techniques for reading and performing Shakespeare's plays that are based on the texts of the first 'complete' volume of Shakespeare's works: the First Folio of 1623. Do extra syllables in a line suggest how it might be p…