Music Lessons marks the first publication in English of a groundbreaking group of writings by French composer Pierre Boulez, his yearly lectures prepared for the Collège de France between 1976 and 1995. The lectures presented here offer a sustained intellectual engagement with themes of creativity in music by a widely influential cultural figure, who has long been central to th...(展开全部)

Music Lessons marks the first publication in English of a groundbreaking group of writings by French composer Pierre Boulez, his yearly lectures prepared for the Collège de France between 1976 and 1995. The lectures presented here offer a sustained intellectual engagement with themes of creativity in music by a widely influential cultural figure, who has long been central to th...(展开全部)

伊戈尔·费奥多罗维奇·斯特拉文斯基（Igor Stravinsky，1882～1971），美籍俄国作曲家、指挥家，西方现代派音乐的重要人物。父为圣彼得堡皇家歌剧院男低音歌手。他曾师从里姆斯基一科萨夫学作曲。1939年定居美国，并先后入法国籍和美国籍。作品众多，风格多变。其创作大致可分为三个阶段。早期作品如管弦乐《烟火》（1908）、芭蕾舞剧《火鸟》（1910）、《披德鲁什卡》（1911）等具有印象派和表现主义风格；中期作品如清唱剧《俄狄浦斯王》（1927）、合唱《诗篇交响曲》（1930）等具有新古典主义倾向，采用古老的形式与风格，提倡抽象化的“绝对音乐”；后期作品如《乌木协奏曲》（1945）、歌剧《浪子的历程》（1951）等则混合使用各种现代派手法如十二音体系、序列音乐及点描音乐等。哑剧《士兵的故事》（1918）包含舞蹈、表演、朗诵和一系列由７件乐器...(展开全部)

伊戈尔·费奥多罗维奇·斯特拉文斯基（Igor Stravinsky，1882～1971），美籍俄国作曲家、指挥家，西方现代派音乐的重要人物。父为圣彼得堡皇家歌剧院男低音歌手。他曾师从里姆斯基一科萨夫学作曲。1939年定居美国，并先后入法国籍和美国籍。作品众多，风格多变。其创作大致可分为三个阶段。早期作品如管弦乐《烟火》（1908）、芭蕾舞剧《火鸟》（1910）、《披德鲁什卡》（1911）等具有印象派和表现主义风格；中期作品如清唱剧《俄狄浦斯王》（1927）、合唱《诗篇交响曲》（1930）等具有新古典主义倾向，采用古老的形式与风格，提倡抽象化的“绝对音乐”；后期作品如《乌木协奏曲》（1945）、歌剧《浪子的历程》（1951）等则混合使用各种现代派手法如十二音体系、序列音乐及点描音乐等。哑剧《士兵的故事》（1918）包含舞蹈、表演、朗诵和一系列由７件乐器...(展开全部)

One of the greatest of contemporary composers has here set down in delightfully personal fashion his general ideas about music and some accounts of his own experience as a composer. Every concert-goer and lover of music will take keen pleasure in his notes about the essential features of music, the process of musical composition, inspiration, musical types, and musical e...(展开全部)

When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, eleven-year-old Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. 2,000 miles from his mother's protective love, stranded at an unusual boarding school, his vulnerability attracts piano teacher Miss Miriam Cornell, leaving scars as well as a memory of love that will never fade. Now, wh...(展开全部)

While the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has descended, young Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. Stranded at boarding school, his vulnerability attracts his piano teacher, Miriam Cornell, leaving scars as well as a memory of love that will never fade. Twenty-five years later, as the radiation from the Chernobyl disaster sp...(展开全部)

The story of a life. The story of the year. 'Lessons shows [McEwan] at the very peak of his powers. He has written his masterpiece' Daily Telegraph When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has descended, young Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. Stranded at boarding school, his vulnerability attracts his piano teacher, Miria...(展开全部)

When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, eleven-year-old Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. 2,000 miles from his mother's protective love, stranded at an unusual boarding school, his vulnerability attracts piano teacher Miss Miriam Cornell, leaving scars as well as a memory of love that will never fade. Now, wh...(展开全部)

Just hearing a few notes from certain songs can bring a movie back to life—whether the Doors’ “The End” from Apocalypse Now, Simon and Garfunkel’s “Mrs. Robinson” in The Graduate, or John Williams’ scores to such blockbusters as Jaws, Star Wars, and Raiders of the Lost Ark. But what is the relationship between film and music—where does the film begin and the music end? Taking o...(展开全部)