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Informationen zum Autor David B. Knight is a geographer who has been on the faculties of Macalester College, De Paul University, Carleton University, and the University of Guelph. As an orchestral musician, he has performed with groups in the United States, Canada, New Zealand, and Scotland. Klappentext Using landscape as its unifying concept, this engaging book explores orchestral music that represents real and imagined physical and cultural spaces, natural forces, and humans and wildlife. Spanning continents and centuries, David Knight links contrasting forms of music through unifying themes of time and space; waterscapes; mythic spaces; extreme landscapes; and realms of death, survival, and remembrance. Orchestral works are rarely perceived in geographical terms, but the author, himself an accomplished geographer and musician, offers a deeply satisfying approach to interpreting and appreciating a wide range of music. Comparing classic masterworks from Europe and Russia alongside more recent compositions from the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Japan, and China, this innovative study offers a fresh understanding of the links between music and the worlds around us. Zusammenfassung Using landscape as its concept! this book explores orchestral music that represents imagined physical and cultural spaces! natural forces! and humans and wildlife. Comparing works from Europe and Russia alongside the compositions from the US! Canada! Japan! and China! it offers an understanding of the links between music and the worlds around us.
