Fundamental Counterpoint

Arts & Photography

Norden, Hugo

Music

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The wit of music

Ayre, Leslie

Zoltán Kodály; his life and work

Eősze, László

Instrumental music in the public schools,: Organization and administration,

Weidensee, Victor J

ABC of church music,

Rhys, Stephen

The Soul of Man Under Socialism Oscar Wilde "The Soul of Man under Socialism" is an 1891 essay by Oscar Wilde in which he expounds a libertarian socialist worldview and a critique of charity. The writing of "The Soul of Man" followed Wilde's conversion to anarchist philosophy, following his reading of the works of Peter Kropotkin. In "The Soul of Man" Wilde argues that, under capitalism, "the majority of people spoil their lives by an unhealthy and exaggerated altruism—are forced, indeed, so to spoil them": instead of realising their true talents, they waste their time solving the social problems caused by capitalism, without taking their common cause away. Thus, caring people "seriously and very sentimentally set themselves to the task of remedying the evils that they see in poverty but their remedies do not cure the disease: they merely prolong it" because, as Wilde puts it, "the proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible."

The soul of man under socialism

Politics & Social Sciences

Oscar, Wilde

Politics & Government

<p>From the Foreword: "Over the years the study of Harmony has accumulated and subsequently has become encumbered with a considerable number of minutiae in the form of rules, restrictions and cliches that have but little relevance to the creative problems confronting the composer of today. These venerable academic teachings, many of which bear only a distant relationship to the actual music of any period, can cause the conscientious student to be burdened with something akin to the sin of supererogation, often hindering rather than stimulating creative enterprise. Yet, they do represent well certain facets of a neatly packaged combinatorial system which is the wellspring of all musical composition, regardless of style or period....Therefore, in keeping with the artistically venturesome spirit of the present day it seems more relevant to look at Harmony in its relationship first to actual practical music and, secondly, to the broad creative availabilities of this all-encompassing and pregnant combinatorial system. Thus, the present volume is intended more to serve as a sort of 'launching pad' whereby the young composer will give wings to his musical ideas rather than to provide him with a catechism of outdated and all too often inhibiting theories. Thus, some matters are touched upon only lightly while still others are presented in a sequence that knowledgable connoisseurs of Harmony textbooks may not normally expect. This book is meant merely to serve as a beginning for the inquisitive and questioning student. The music of the masters is his source of enlightenment. To this end, and again for a beginning, he is urged to take as his constant companion during these studies Johann Sebastian Bach's 371 Four-Part Chorales. Herein is to be found one of the most technically sophisticated and artistically superlative exercises in harmonic organization of all time up to the present."</p>

Fundamentals of Harmony

Hugo Norden

Vocal truth; some of the things I teach

Herbert-Caesari, Edgar F

The night people;: Reminiscences of a jazzman,

Wells, Dicky

A guide to good singing and speech

Gardiner, Julian

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