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Music For The (American) People: The Concerts At Lewisohn Stadium, 1922–1964, Jonathan Stern
Music For The (American) People: The Concerts At Lewisohn Stadium, 1922–1964, Jonathan Stern
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Not long after construction began for an athletic field at City College of New York, school officials conceived the idea of that same field serving as an outdoor concert hall during the summer months. The result, Lewisohn Stadium, named after its principal benefactor, Adolph Lewisohn, and modeled much along the lines of an ancient Roman coliseum, became that and much more. Lewisohn Stadium was for over forty years the summer home of America's oldest symphony orchestra, the New York Philharmonic. More importantly, the Lewisohn concerts witnessed a particularly impressive and innovative array of talent, creative as well as interpretive. For …
"A Kind Of Construction In Light And Shade": An Analytical Dialogue With Recording Studio Aesthetics In Two Songs By Led Zeppelin, Aaron Liu-Rosenbaum
"A Kind Of Construction In Light And Shade": An Analytical Dialogue With Recording Studio Aesthetics In Two Songs By Led Zeppelin, Aaron Liu-Rosenbaum
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This dissertation examines how the sound of a recording contributes meaning to the song, working in conjunction with the song’s lyrics, harmonic and rhythmic structures, album artwork, and within its cultural context. Two songs by the rock group Led Zeppelin, “When the Levee Breaks” and “Stairway to Heaven,” are taken as analytical examples in which special attention is paid to the acoustic properties of the recordings, that is, where the instruments are situated within the stereo sound field; how they are timbrally manipulated with effects such as reverb, echo, distortion, and chorus; their relative levels of prominence; and how these …