Analyzing Classical Form builds upon the foundations of the author's critically acclaimed Classical Form by offering an approach to the analysis of musical form that is especially suited for classroom use. Providing ample material for study in both undergraduate and graduate courses, Analyzing Classical Form presents the most up-to-date version of the author's "theory of formal functions." Students will learn how to make complete harmonic and formal analyses of music drawn from the instrumental works of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. Part 1 introduces the principal theme-types of classical instrumental music; part 2 provides a methodology for analyzing sonata form, the most important formal type in this style period; and part 3 considers other full-movement forms found in this repertory (such as minuet, rondo, and concerto). The chapters are organized in a way that presents the most basic materials upfront and then leads the student through more details and finer points of theory. Every topic is illustrated with annotated musical examples; as well, the book contains many unannotated examples that can be used for in-class discussion and for out-of-class analytical exercises. A complete glossary of terms and questions for reviewing the theory will help students assimilate the many theoretical concepts employed in the book. A companion website hosted by the author at music.mcgill.ca/acf/ provides audio and musical scores for all of the examples in the book as well as additional examples for the analysis of the simple theme-types presented in part 1.

In July, 19-year-old pianist Benjamin Grosvenor made his debut at the Proms to great acclaim, wowing both audiences and critics with his performance of Liszt's Piano Concerto No 2 in A Major. The youngest ever soloist to perform in the First Night of the Proms, he returns to the Royal Albert Hall on August 6 to take on Britten's Piano Concerto.
In 2005, Imagine discovered this musical prodigy in the making. Alan Yentob talked to the 12-year-old Grosvenor about his success the previous year, in the piano section of The Young Musician of The Year Competition. This is another chance to see that documentary.
Imagine: Being a Concert Pianist gets under the lid of this extreme form of musicianship. Celebrated pianists, including Yevgeny Kissin, Vladimir Ashkenazy and Chinese wunderkind Lang Lang, talk intimately about their lives, their work and their motivation. The film gives a frank and personal perspective on a profession for which the only real qualification is genius, richly illustrated with specially recorded rehearsal and performance.

由于过去的失败经历，索恩（阿奴沏·萨潘彭 Anuchit Sapanpong 饰）的父亲十分反对索恩学习音乐，然而，音乐是索恩最大的梦想，他一直在背地里坚持不懈的练习着。索恩坚定的信念感染了父亲，最终，父亲决定将索恩送往专业的音乐学院深造。
在一场十分重要的比赛中，索恩尝到了失败的滋味，打败他的是名叫昆（Narongrit Tosa-nga 饰）的选手，这次失败让索恩突然领悟的人生的道理，与此同时，索恩接到了来自皇家剧院的邀请函，请他前去成为首席乐手。战争爆发了，整个世界满目疮痍。战后，泰国政府推行了文化管制政策，这和索恩的理想和初衷背道而驰，个性决绝的索恩甚至和警察产生了冲突。

*首次展现西方古典乐界打造精英演奏家模式
*用法语、俄语、波兰语、英语进行的第一手采访
*访谈了90位小提琴手、建立了339位独奏学生档案
*分剖独奏职业的国际化、天才演奏家的低龄化等
*消除音乐老师和学生、家长之间的认知隔阂
*讲解大师班在晋级、精艺、扩展人脉等方面的运行规则
*关注评委、指挥、伴奏者、音乐会组织者、乐器修理师、音响师、经纪人等少为人知的重要角色
*音乐教育不仅有关乐器技艺的练习与打磨，更是一次社会化过程
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19世纪的意大利曾有这样一则传说：小提琴大师帕格尼尼把自己的灵魂交给魔鬼，由此换得出神入化的演奏技艺。你是否也曾好奇，马友友怎样成功书写他的传奇；朗朗又如何横空出世？本书虽以小提琴界为研究主体，却意在展现整个西方古典乐界打造精英演奏家的模式： 野心勃勃的家长自作主张，引 领孩子走上一条前途未卜的人生道路。他们与老师合作，力图让年幼的孩子克服爱玩天性，苦练乐器。老师带给学生的不只有乐理和演奏技巧，更包括独奏界的处事规则和人脉资源。他们甚至亲自为学生参加比赛、获得演出机会打通关系。指挥、经纪人、小提琴制作师……一个又一个角色在独奏教育中逐渐登场。然而，所有人都小心翼翼地维护着家长和学生时而脆弱、时而炽热的梦想；尽管他们都清楚，绝大多数学生无法走通这条独奏之路。
在近二十年日复一日的高强度乐器训练中，独奏学生不仅需经历自我怀疑和彷徨，更要苦苦寻觅进入古典乐市场的契机——师从一位独奏大师、赢得一场重大比赛，或是一把稀世小提琴…… 没错，他们的成功亦有模式，远非天赋异禀和精通演奏那么简单。
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一流的民族志观察、扎实的社会学分析和一段段引人入胜的故事共同组成了这本书。它向我们讲述了一个复杂、且有些残酷的世界——小提琴表演界；而这与我们从报纸上读到的截然不同。此书没有像如今大量存在的那些社会学著作一样，陷入无止境的文献引用和理论堆砌之中。作者运用另一种方式，将理论分析与事例恰到好处地结合起来。我从书中得知，原来乐器修理师、收藏家、音响师以及资助者都是漫长、曲折的独奏之路上必不可少的力量。只有堪称非凡的田野投入才能带给我们如此丰富、完整的信息。
——霍华德S .贝克 （Howard S. Becker），社会学芝加哥学派代表人物之一，美国越轨社会学、艺术音乐社会学家，“标签理论”奠基人。
这本书显然是迄今为止对于古典音乐表演家们最杰出的研究。如此深度的民族志考察和研究模式，短时间内难有其他学者能望其项背。如果说E.C.休斯（E.C. Hughes）和霍华德•贝克开启了对职业社会化过程予以民族志研究的传统，那么本书作者为该传统做出了重要的贡献和复兴。我相信，此书将吸引类型广泛的读者：那些研究艺术社会学、艺术经济、音乐表演和音乐史等领域的学者自不必说，还包括古典乐从业者——他们将从作者的叙述中看到自己的成长轨迹，以及渴望把孩子送上音乐道路的家长和老师们。
——保罗•狄马乔（Paul DiMaggio），美国普林斯顿大学社会学教授，曾任该系首席教授。

在阿伦黛尔城堡大门打开后的第一个圣诞节前，安娜和艾莎为所有人准备了一个惊喜派对。但王国里的人们都不来参加，而是要根据自己家的传统与家人一起过节。安娜和艾莎多年没有在一起过圣诞节，因此没有家庭传统！为此，雪宝踏上了一场为姐妹俩寻找最棒传统的冒险……
《雪宝的冰雪大冒险》是迪士尼动画电影《冰雪奇缘》（Frozen）的第二部衍生短片，在2017年上映的皮克斯电影《寻梦环游记》（Coco）前贴片放映。

在一个名叫阿着底的所在，美丽的撒尼族姑娘阿诗玛（杨丽坤 饰）心灵手巧，心地善良，歌声甜美，许多年轻小伙和姑娘甚至不辞辛苦千里迢迢赶来，只为一睹阿诗玛的芳容。在这群勇敢憨厚的好小伙中间，最为出众的青年阿黑（包斯尔 饰）赢得了阿诗玛的芳心。他们郎才女貌，情意互属，羡煞旁人，却独独气坏了头人热布巴拉（崔超明 饰）之子阿支（韩非 饰）。阿支垂涎阿诗玛的容颜，千方百计想要将她骗到手，无奈阿诗玛如同一只冷艳带刺的玫瑰，坚决不从。为此阿支使尽各种诡计，企图拆散这对人间眷侣……
本片根据撒尼族历史悠久的民间叙事长诗改编，荣获1982年西班牙桑坦德第一届国际音乐最佳舞蹈片奖。

One evening, not long after ending a stint as the pop music critic at the Montreal Gazette, Eric Siblin attended a recital of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Cello Suites." There, something unlikely happened: he fell deeply in love with the music. So began an epic quest that would unravel three centuries of intrigue, politics, and passion. Part biography, part music history, and part mystery, The Cello Suites weaves together three dramatic narratives: Bach's composition of the suites and the manuscript's subsequent disappearance in the eighteenth century; Pablo Casals's historic discovery of the music in Spain in the late nineteenth century, and his popularization of the suites several decades later; and Siblin's own infatuation with the suites at the dawn of the twenty-first century. His search to learn all he can about the music leads Siblin to Barcelona, where Pablo Casals, just thirteen and in possession of his first cello, roamed the back streets with his father, in search of sheet music. To their amazement, they found Bach's lost "Cello Suites" tucked in a dark corner. Casals would play the suites every day for twelve years before finally performing them in public--and making them his own. As Siblin pursues the mysteries that continue to haunt this music more than 250 years after its composer's death, he asks the questions that have stumped modern scholars: why did Bach compose the suites for the cello, which was considered a lowly instrument in his day? And what happened to the original manuscript of the suites, which vanished after being hastily copied by Bach's second wife? The Cello Suites is a journey of discovery, fueled by the transcendent power of a musical masterpiece--and of the listeners who, like Siblin, have loved it through the ages.

本丛书涵盖了几乎人类全部知识领域和文化领域，只要对某一知识和文化宝库，诸如哲学、宗教、自然、科学、政治、军事、文学和各种艺术门类曾做出卓越贡献，或者对社会的历史进程起过显著影响。
本丛书的两个特点：一是使用第一手材料写成，加强传记的客观性和可靠性。二是所有书中均配有同传记主人公有密切关系的同时代人的肖像，以及他本人经历的历史事件和音乐活动的图片。做到图文并茂。
本丛书还有另外两个特点：一是丛书的单行本在不断更新。另一个特点是前面提到的文字内容和丰富图片文献搭配。
本丛书附带说明：书中若有对我国读者陌生、但对角本文起深作用甚至并键作用的人名、地名、名词和所说的事件、问题，原作者没有加注，但本丛书都作为脚湛主放在当页的下方。本丛书还附有传记主人公的同时代或后代的重要思想家、音乐评论家和同行作曲家们的评价，或带有葳言性的摘要记录。
一、一个精神同路人的青年时代
二、黎恩济，最后的护民官
三、漂泊的荷兰人
四、唐豪瑟
五、罗恩格林
六、革命与革命家
七、歌剧与戏剧
八、引路人叔本华
九、在碧绿的山冈上
十、特里斯坦和伊索尔德
十一、歌手与国王
十二、纽伦堡的工匠歌手
十三、里夏德·瓦格纳在拜罗伊特
十四、尼伯龙人的指环
十五、帕西伐尔，神化与死亡
十六、名人论瓦格纳
十七、瓦格纳年谱

《首演》描述了五位西方音乐巨匠的五部代表作的首演情况，分别是蒙特威尔第的《奥菲俄》、亨德尔的《弥赛亚》、贝多芬的《第九交响曲》、柏辽兹的《幻想交响曲》以及斯特拉文斯基的《春之祭》。作者不仅细致描绘了这几部作品产生的文学背景、社会背景，并且大量引用了首演时的海报、评论文章、音乐家的通信等原始材料，对当时的娱乐场所、剧院形制、人们的欣赏习惯等进行了严谨的人文学研究。

Book Description
Peter Wiliams approaches afresh the life and music of arguably the most studied of all composers, interpreting both Bach’s life by deconstructing his original Obituary in the light of new information, and his music by evaluating his priorities and irrepressible creative energy. How, though belonging to musical families on both his parents’ sides, did he come to possess so bewitching a sense of rhythm and melody, and a mastery of harmony that established nothing less than a norm in western culture? In considering that the works of a composer are his biography, the book's title 'A Life in Music' means both a life spent making music and one revealed in the music as we know it. A distinguished scholar and performer, Williams re-examines Bach’s life as an orphan and a family man, as an extraordinarily gifted composer and player, and an energetic and ambitious artist who never suffered fools gladly.
Review
"Peter Williams is a master of putting question marks where they belong. He is wise enough to admit that definite answers are rarely possible. Nevertheless, guided by the 1754 Obituary, he gives splendid food for thought with his penetrating insights and truly erudite suggestions." --Gustav Leonhardt
"Williams has created a well-rounded portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach that leavens erudition with entertaining turns of phrase.[...]Highly recommended for academic and music collections and for public libraries with a knowledgeable clientele." -- Library Journal

《音乐随笔》收录的各篇文稿都是作者随时想到随时写成的。第一部分内容大体上是对三个方面(民族音乐、作曲技术理论和音乐学)就有关学科写些粗浅的文稿。这些文稿或多或少与音乐创作有关；第二部分是回忆片段。主要记录幼年和青壮年时期音乐生活；第三部分属于纪念人物的文稿。也有为朋友著作或传记所写的序文；部分是受人委托而写成的。

任何音乐学研究在一开始都要面临这样一个问题——如何看待音乐的意义。罗森和所有伟大的音乐学家一样，都承认音乐必定会传达出某种意义。那么，在讨论和理解音乐时，意义是否存在边界，而边界又该如何划分？罗森认为，音乐的意义只存在于音乐本身，必须在音乐语言自身的框架之中来理解音乐，并在本书对这个观点进行了详尽的论述。另外，这本书分析说明了历代学者与理论家们在阐释音乐作品的意义时惯常使用的一些方法究竟有何优势与缺陷，为我们应该如何修正理解角度，更好地欣赏伟大的音乐作品提出了诸多精到且睿智的建议。

本书是著者根据他的理论体系，用散文的笔法，概述音阶、音程、和弦、变化音、曲调、节奏、和声外音、转调、对位、曲式等这些音乐的构成要素或表现手段的一本小书。
著者广泛又细致的分析了欧洲古典音乐作品，归纳成一定的音乐法则，构成一套完整的理论体系。著者在本书中所申述的这个理论体系，主要是和声学方面的，可以归纳为两点。第一点是“五度相生法”的广泛应用。五度相生法在本书中叫做五度连环；即把五度连环作为调的根源，作为和弦关系的准绳，作为调关系的根据，又作为变化音系统的依据。第二点是在音阶体系上采用“一元论”，即认为只有一种音阶并列的“二元论”。这个音阶一元论便是著者的“和声一元论”的基础。
总之，初学者认为繁复的音乐理论，著者把它处理成比较简单，使理论趋于简明，易于学习。这是著者的理论体系的优点。

Many listeners and players are fascinated by Bach's Goldberg Variations. In this wideranging and searching study, Professor Williams, one of the leading Bach scholars of our time, helps them probe its depths and understand its uniqueness. He considers the work's historical origins, especially in relation to all Bach's Clavierubung volumes and late keyboard works, its musical agenda and its formal shape, and discusses significant performance issues. In the course of the book he poses a number of key questions. Why should such a work be written? Does the work have both a conceptual and a perceptual shape? What other music is likely to have influenced the Goldberg and to what extent is it trying to be encyclopedic? What is the canonic vocabulary? How have contemporaries or musicians from Beethoven to the present day seen this work and, above all, how has its mysterious beauty been created?

"I now stand at the gateway to my fortune," Mozart wrote in a letter of 1790. He had entered into the service of Emperor Joseph II of Austria two years earlier as Imperial-Royal Chamber Composer--a salaried appointment with a distinguished title and few obligations. His extraordinary subsequent output, beginning with the three final great symphonies from the summer of 1788, invites a reassessment of this entire period of his life. Readers will gain a new appreciation and understanding of the composer's works from that time without the usual emphasis on his imminent death. The author discusses the major biographical and musical implications of the royal appointment and explores Mozart's "imperial style" on the basis of his major compositions--keyboard, chamber, orchestral, operatic, and sacred--and focuses on the large, unfamiliar works he left incomplete. This new perspective points to an energetic, fresh beginning for the composer and a promising creative and financial future.