Musical Life

Name: Musical Life
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ISBN: 9780877736707

ISBN-10: 0877736707

ISBN-13: 9780877736707

Edition: 1994

Authors: W. A. Mathieu

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Everyone, according to W.A. Mathieu, is musical by nature-it goes right along with being human. And if you don't believe it, this book will convince you. In a series of interrelated short essays, Mathieu takes the reader on a journey through ordinary experiences to open our ears to the rich variety of music that surrounds us but that we are trained to ignore; such as the variety of pitches produced by different objects, like glassware, furniture, drums-anything you can tap; or sounds that hover on the border of music, like laughter, the clinking of glasses in a toast, or the unintentional falsetto produced by yawning. Along the way the author teaches aspects of music theory that…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Shambhala Publications, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/24/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.46" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Preface


Shower Hero


Everyday Rhythm


Everyday Pitch


Bug on a Tamboura


Boundary Events


Electric Bridge


First World Piece


The Mind of Sound


Music versus Words


Listening to Evening


When Cousins Fall in Love


Paper Rope


Central Fish


Be a Movie


Ephemerals


Yawning Confession


Sound Apples


Sound Memory


Name History


Voice Mask


Inner Voice


Breathing Sound


Ultimate Mixer


Some Music Mirrors


Simple Is Complex


Home


Memory Bin


Whatsa Matta wid da Bass?


"You Can't Do Anything Twice"


Consonance and Dissonance (No! No! No!)


Healing Music


Poison Music


Concert Music, Sky Music, Wedding Music


Composition as Self-Expression


Craft


What Is It a Piece Of?


Discovery, Prophecy


Writing It


Pleasure in the Long Cycle


Erased Music


Fighting the Dead


Bach Dying


So That's What We Do


Abundance


Long Tones


Firefly Constellations


Human Unison


Composite Sound


Octave Mystery


The Rope Trick


Duple Nature


Weeny Person


Two Was Good


Triple Nature


A House for Sound


The Powers That Be


Pentamerous Nature


Naming the Tones


Three Ways to Produce Overtones


String Ocean


Timbre Sauce


The Overtones as Musical Infrastructure


Our Harmonious Nature


World Craziness


As If It Were Music


Honeysuckle Breath


Sources and Diversions


Discography