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The Listener Aspires to the Condition of Music: Poems

The Listener Aspires to the Condition of Music: Poems

Barry Goldensohn

Fomite
2011
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On the Poems in The Listener Aspires to the Condition of Music"They couple words and music as surely as Schubert and Irving Berlin. But Goldensohn's poems aren't song lyrics; rather, they are intense reflections on music as experienced, by ear and by mind. The essence of listening is his key topic. For the Bach cello suites, it's the inviting conundrum of one voice being several. For Schumann's Dichterliebe it's the clarity and purity of the piano in contest with the "groping," "searching," "laboring," "huffing" voice. Broader issues matter, too: Don Giovanni's "comic murderous lust" and its absurd end, he and his "phallus errant cursing through the trap door and stage flames." The people making the music enrich the experience: "The first violinist, all of him, follows his arm... The cellist grinds his teeth, clenches his face in spasms of control." Blues and jazz are there with the classics: we hear Bessie Smith, "with the whole world's sorrow in her voice" and see Thelonius Monk "doing a march time heavy footed non-dance dance." Eros is often up front: "the girls forget themselves, skirts / above their breasts as they flash their white unsunned asses and the house is all meat, / shrieks and hair." Mainly, we are led to open our ears wider and to abandon the filters that steer our hearing by custom. Immediacy is Goldensohn's great gift in this brilliant collection."Lewis Spratlan, composer, Pulitzer Prize for his opera Life is a Dream
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The Listener

The Listener

Robert McCammon

Lividian Publications
2023
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1934. Businesses went under by the hundreds, debt and foreclosures boomed, and breadlines grew in many American cities. In the midst of this misery, some folks explored unscrupulous ways to make money. Angel-faced John Partlow and carnival huckster Ginger LaFrance are among the worst of this lot. Joining together, they leave their small time confidence scams behind to attempt an elaborate kidnapping-for-ransom scheme in New Orleans.In a different part of town, Curtis Mayhew, a young black man who works as a redcap for the Union Railroad Station, has a reputation for mending quarrels and misunderstandings among his friends. What those friends don't know is that Curtis has a special talent for listening...and he can sometimes hear things that aren't spoken aloud.One day, Curtis Mayhew's special talent allows him to overhear a child's cry for help (THIS MAN IN THE CAR HE'S GOT A GUN), which draws him into the dangerous world of Partlow and LaFrance.This gritty depression-era crime thriller is a complex tale enriched by powerfully observed social commentary and hints of the supernatural, and it represents Robert McCammon writing at the very top of his game.
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The Listener

The Listener

Ana Montgomery

Outskirts Press
2024
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Deliciously dark, twisted fate disguised as a beautiful woman. Masterfully, Heather balances the sweet seduction of revenge and justice. Who would have thought that the two could seamlessly coexist together? What started out as revenge has manifested into a craving for the metallic taste of vigilante war. Luring her victims with a seductive dance of lust to trust, she will methodically convince you that what she's doing is right, because in her mind, it is. Enjoying the benefits of being the wife of a cop in one of the most challenging police departments in Los Angeles, her confidence rises. She is the least suspected in a ring of murders that's been terrorizing the city for months. The voices in her head terrorize her more than the fear of getting caught. Nightly, fear-driven messages from her victims fall on listening ears as debilitating insomnia plagues her. In an act of ultimate betrayal, a copycat killer emerges from the darkness, exposing it for what it is. With a diary-documented confession, her next move will send emotionally charged shockwaves to the darkest corners of your psyche. It's dark, it's disturbing, it's designer DNA.
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A Listener

A Listener

Christopher Norris

Tankebanen forlag dr Torgeir Fjeld
2023
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These poems are the result of a lifetime of highly active involvement with music on the part of a writer best known for his work in philosophy, literary theory (especially deconstruction), and the history of ideas. In this collection he has chosen a great range of verse forms, among them sonnet, terzanelle, quatrain, terza rima, ottava rima, and pantoum. The poems treat individual composers, Purcell to Shostakovich and Philip Glass, and themes such as the tritone, or 'devil in music'. Spanning ten years of intensive creativity these poems mark Norris's sustained attempt to assert a more expansive and challenging conception of poetry's present-day prospects.
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The Listener's Guide to Music

The Listener's Guide to Music

Percy Scholes

Living Book Press
2026
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Music is more than sound-it is thought, feeling, and design woven together. The Listener's Guide to Music invites readers to step inside that design. From simple melodies to complex orchestral works, Percy Scholes explains how to recognize themes, follow development, and listen with intelligence and delight. No dry textbook, his guide brims with clarity and enthusiasm, empowering readers to hear more, feel more, and love more of the world's greatest music. An indispensable companion for any music lover
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The Dog Listener: Learn How to Communicate with Your Dog for Willing Cooperation

The Dog Listener: Learn How to Communicate with Your Dog for Willing Cooperation

Jan Fennell

William Morrow Company
2004
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In The Dog Listener Jan Fennell shares her revolutionary insight into the canine world and its instinctive language that has enabled her to bring even the most delinquent of dogs to heel. This easy-to-follow guide draws on Jan's countless case histories of problem dogs--from biters and barkers to bicycle chasers--to show how you can bridge the language barrier that separates you from your dog.This edition includes a new 30-Day Training Guide to further incorporate Jan's powerful method into every element of pet ownership, including: Understanding what it means to care for a dog Choosing the right dog for you Introducing your dog to its new home Overcoming separation anxiety Walking on a leash Dealing with behavioral problems Grooming And much more
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The Night Listener

The Night Listener

Armistead Maupin

HarperCollins Publishers
2001
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"I'm a fabulist by trade," warns Gabriel Noone, a late-night radio storyteller, as he begins to untangle the skeins of his tumultuous life: his crumbling ten-year love affair, his disaffection from his Southern father, his longtime weakness for ignoring reality. Gabriel's most sympathetic listener is Pete Lomax, a thirteen-year-old fan in Wisconsin whose own horrific past has left him wise and generous beyond his years. But when this virtual father-son relationship is rocked by doubt, a desperate search for the truth ensues. Welcome to the complex, vertiginous world of The Night Listener....
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The Secret Listener

The Secret Listener

Yuan-tsung Chen

Oxford University Press Inc
2022
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A personal account of life in the orbit of Mao and Zhao En-Lai and one woman's effort to tell what it was like to be at the center of the storm. The history of China in the twentieth century is comprised of a long series of shocks: the 1911 revolution, the civil war between the communists and the nationalists, the Japanese invasion, the revolution, the various catastrophic campaigns initiated by Chairman Mao between 1949 and 1976, its great opening to the world under Deng, and the Tiananmen Square Massacre. Yuan-tsung Chen, who is now 90, lived through most of it, and at certain points in close proximity to the seat of communist power. Born in Shanghai in 1929, she came to know Zhou En-Lai-second only to Mao in importance--as a young girl while living in Chongqing, where Chiang Kai--Shek's government had relocated to, during the war against Japan. That connection to Zhou helped her save her husband's life in Cultural Revolution. After the communists took power, she obtained a job in one of the culture ministries. While there, she frequently engaged with the upper echelon of the party and was a first-hand witness to some of the purges that the regime regularly initiated. Eventually, the commissar she worked under was denounced in 1957, and she barely escaped being purged herself. Later, during Cultural Revolution, she and her husband were purged and sent to live in a rough, poor area. She and her husband finally moved to Hong Kong, with Zhou's special permission, in 1971. A first-hand account of what life was like in the period before the revolution and in Mao's China, The Secret Listener gives a unique perspective on the era, and Chen's vantage point provides us with a new perspective on the Maoist regime-one of the most radical political experiments in modern history and a force that genuinely changed the world.
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Music and the Skillful Listener

Music and the Skillful Listener

Indiana University Press
2013
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For Denise Von Glahn, listening is that special quality afforded women who have been fettered for generations by the maxim "be seen and not heard." In Music and the Skillful Listener, Von Glahn explores the relationship between listening and musical composition focusing on nine American women composers inspired by the sounds of the natural world: Amy Beach, Marion Bauer, Louise Talma, Pauline Oliveros, Joan Tower, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Victoria Bond, Libby Larsen, and Emily Doolittle. Von Glahn situates "nature composing" among the larger tradition of nature writing and argues that, like their literary sisters, works of these women express deeply held spiritual and aesthetic beliefs about nature. Drawing on a wealth of archival and original source material, Von Glahn skillfully employs literary and gender studies, ecocriticism and ecomusicology, and the larger world of contemporary musicological thought to tell the stories of nine women composers who seek to understand nature through music.
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The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Blues

The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Blues

David G. Evans

Tarcher
2005
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Examining the changing face of the genre from its beginnings at the end of the 19th century to its international popularity today, this book traces the social climate that inspired the blues and takes a look at the unmistakable influences that blues had on 20th-century music. Includes information on performances from Muddy Waters to Eric Clapton.
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The Good Listener

The Good Listener

Neil Belton

Faber Faber
2012
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'Essential reading... A horrifying account of the worst that human beings can do to each other. Neil Belton's synthesis of biography and history is masterly.' Anthony Storr, Sunday TimesHelen Bamber went to Belson in 1945 to work with survivors of the camp. She was just twenty. Since then her life has been involved with the worst side of the last half-century. In 1985, at the age of sixty, she set up an organisation devoted to helping victims of torture and to bearing witness against the fact of torture. This is her story. It is also a haunting unusual narrative of the post-war world. This 2012 edition offers a new introduction by the author.'The story of Bamber's life acts as a framework or prism through which some of the worst events of this century of horrors are addressed.' Times Literary Supplement'[Belton] writes beautifully about an ugly subject... with compassion but also with clarity.' Scotsman
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