Glenn Gould, Music and Mind

Arts & Photography

Payzant, Geoffrey

Music

Van Nostrand-Reinhold

When first published in 1972, Survival was considered the most startling book ever written about Canadian literature. Since then, it has continued to be read and taught, and it continues to shape the way Canadians look at themselves. Distinguished, provocative, and written in effervescent, compulsively readable prose, Survival is simultaneously a book of criticism, a manifesto, and a collection of personal and subversive remarks. Margaret Atwood begins by asking: “What have been the central preoccupations of our poetry and fiction?” Her answer is “survival and victims.” Atwood applies this thesis in twelve brilliant, witty, and impassioned chapters; from Moodie to MacLennan to Blais, from Pratt to Purdy to Gibson, she lights up familiar books in wholly new perspectives.

Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature

Literature & Fiction

ATWOOD,MARGARET

History & Criticism

MCCLELLAND STEWART

Glenn Gould was Canada's greatest musician. From his home in Toronto, he rose to be a world-famous concert pianist and recording artist of the very top rank. Gould's eccentric attitudes and behaviours were well known, but the musical world was astonished when, in his mid-20s, he announced that he had permanently retired from the concert hall. Instead, Gould focused on the recording studio, on radio and television, and on exploring his fascination with the relation between audience and performer. Through wide and innovative use of electronic technologies, he was able to reach enormous audiences before his untimely death. Glenn Gould: Music & Mind focuses not on the details of Gould's life but on his ideas, offering unique insights into this remarkable Canadian and his life's work. Includes bibliographies and discographies of Gould's work.

Glenn Gould: Music & Mind (Goodread Biographies)

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Goodread Biography

Key Porter Books

In 1846, Hector Berlioz, one of the most revolutionary of composers, gave six concerts in Prague, at that time one of the most musically conservative cities in Europe. Debate raged in the journals and coffee-houses over whether Berlioz's compositions could rightly be considered music at all. Eduard Hanslick, aged twenty and destined to become the most influential music critic of his day, was in the midst of the excitement in Prague over Berlioz. As Geoffrey Payzant's documentary narrative tells, Hanslick there and then abandoned his youthful romanticism and adopted the formalistic view of the nature of music that characterised his writings for the remainder of his long working life.

Eduard Hanslick and Ritter Berlioz in Prague: A Documentary Narrative (English and German Edition)

Humor & Entertainment

Univ of Calgary Pr

This book is a carefully researched &amp; fascinating study of Canada's most controversial musical mind, Glenn Gould. There are numerous black &amp; white photos throughout the book. Contents: 1. Preface 2. Beginnings 3. Non-Take-Twoness 4. A higher calling 5. Action at a distance 6. Musical mind &amp; the music itself 7. The musical hand &amp; the keyboard 8. Burnished singing tone 9. Creative cheating 10. Radio as music 11. Talking nonsense on anything anywhere 12. Afterword 13. Appendix 14. Notes 15. Bibliography 16. Published compositions 17. Filmography 18. Discography

Glenn Gould Music and Mind

“....the first lengthy examination of the main tenents of Gould’s thought. It remains the only significant volume of Gould scholarship....” - Kevin Bazzana, The Musical Quarterly (1998)

Glenn Gould: Music and Mind

Glenn Gould was one of the most innovative and prophetic musical thinkers of the twentieth century. Few musicians of his time have had as much influence on the way people think about the art of music, its purpose, its effects, its practitioners, its audiences.Glenn Gould, Music and Mind was the first, and for many years the only, study of Goulds work. It is about Gould as a musical thinker, Gould as a literary artist, Gould as a glorious misfit.Geoffrey Payzant taught music at Mount Allison University and philosophy at the University of Toronto. He specialized in musical aesthetics, and was particularly fascinated by Glenn Gould and Eduard Hanslick. No one who takes an interest in performing or listening to music, or in thinking about it, can fail to be informed and delighted by Payzant's exploration of the music and mind of Glenn Gould.

This is the only book that does justice to Gould's virtuosity as both a performer and an intellectual, both someone who could play, from memory, from the whole history of Western music from the Renaissance to the present, and then turn to the camera and explain to amateurs what the music implies, presumes, and requires.

Glenn Gould - Music and Mind

Prospero Books

The sixteen lectures by Geoffrey Payzant in this volume are all about one little book by Eduard Hanslick, Vom Musikalisch-Sch?nen - On the Musically Beautiful. Published at Prague in 1854 and a mere 104 pages, VMS ran to ten German editions and many translations in Hanslick's lifetime (he died in 1904). One may agree or disagree with its arguments and conclusions, but there is no denying that musical aesthetics as we know it has been given shape and direction by this small classic. Payzant's lectures examine aspects of the Hanslick debate which have received less attention than they deserve. In particular, they offer a fresh look at Hanslick's use of the German words Ton (tone) and Gef?hl (feeling).

Hanslick on the Musically Beautiful: Sixteen Lectures on the Musical Aesthetics of Eduard Hanslick

Cybereditions Corp

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Glenn Gould, Music and Mind

Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature

Glenn Gould: Music & Mind (Goodread Biographies)

Glenn Gould, Music and Mind

Eduard Hanslick and Ritter Berlioz in Prague: A Documentary Narrative (English and German Edition)

Glenn Gould Music and Mind

Glenn Gould: Music and Mind

Glenn Gould Music and Mind

Glenn Gould - Music and Mind

Hanslick on the Musically Beautiful: Sixteen Lectures on the Musical Aesthetics of Eduard Hanslick