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Проблема наказания зла и жестокости правосудия в знаменитой опере Моцарта.

Высокоморальная опера о том, что распутник должен быть наказан, но месть надо доверить высшим силам.

Паганини, Крейслер, Вивальди – гениальные композиторы и виртуозы. Их жизненный путь – мечта и образец для многих юных дарований, которые с ранних лет вступают в гонку за привилегированные позиции, пытаясь построить карьеру профессиональных солистов-скрипачей. Страсть, стремление к идеалу и к исполнению, высокие амбиции и исключительная конкуренция – все это лишь немногие аспекты жизни талантливых детей, того мира музыкальной элиты, с которым знакомит нас Изабелла Вагнер. Ее книга – удивительное исследование длительного процесса воспитания высококлассного скрипача, основанное на изучении десятков реальных людей, чьи судьбы не оставляют равнодушным никого.

Учебное пособие организовано по тематическому принципу: включает теоретический материал 12 тем, упражнения и задания. Приводятся ритмические упражнения, произведения для слухового анализа.

Впервые на русском! Самая подробная и откровенная биография легендарного вокалиста группы Queen – Фредди Меркьюри. К премьере фильма «Богемская рапсодия! От прилежного и талантливого школьника до звезды мирового масштаба – в этой книге описан путь одного из самых талантливых музыкантов ХХ века. Детские письма, архивные фотографии и интервью самых близких людей, включая мать Фредди, покажут читателю новую сторону любимого исполнителя. В этой книге переплетены повествования о насыщенной, яркой и такой короткой жизни великого Фредди Меркьюри и болезни, которая его погубила. Фредди Меркьюри – один из самых известных и обожаемых во всем мире рок-вокалистов. Его голос затронул сердца миллионов слушателей, но его судьба известна не многим. От его настоящего имени и места рождения до последних лет жизни, скрытых от глаз прессы. Перед вами самая подробная и откровенная биография великого Фредди Меркьюри. В книге содержится множество ранее неизвестных фактов о жизни певца, его поисках себя и трагической смерти. Десятки интервью с его близкими и фотографии из личного архива семьи Меркьюри помогут читателю проникнуть за кулисы жизни рок-звезды и рассмотреть невероятно талантливого и уязвимого человека за маской сценического образа.

A complete Pro Tools reference – from recording to mixing to mastering Pro Tools has long been the recording industry's leading solution for capturing, mixing, and outputting audio. While it was once a tool known and used exclusively by engineers in pro studios, it is now readily available to anyone wishing to create their own recording. This updated edition of Pro Tools All-in-One For Dummies covers the features you’ll encounter in both Pro Tools | First as well as the versions designed for next-level recording. It guides you through the very basics of recording, capturing both live and digital instruments, how to sweeten your sound in mixing, and how to tweak and output your final master. Now get ready to make some beautiful sounds! Get up to speed with recording basics Pick the Pro Tools version that works for you Record acoustic audio Get to know MIDI Discover how to set compression and EQ Sweeten your final product with mastering Create a final file you can stream online Assuming no past experience with audio recording, this book shares the basics of recording and how to capture both live and digital instruments using Pro Tools.

Spend less time learning and more time recording Logic Pro X offers Mac users the tools and power they need to create recordings ready to share with the world. This book provides the know-how for navigating the interface, tweaking the settings, picking the sounds, and all the other tech tasks that get in the way of capturing the perfect take. Written by a Logic Pro X trainer who’s used the software to further his own music career, Logic Pro X For Dummies cuts back on the time needed to learn the software and allows for more time making amazing recordings. Record live sound sources or built-in virtual instruments Arrange your tracks to edit, mix, and master Discover tips to speed the process and record on an iPad Make sense of the latest software updates A favorite among Logic Pro X beginners, this book is updated to reflect the ongoing changes added to enhance Logic Pro X’s recording power.

This is a chapter from Alex Ross’s groundbreaking history of twentieth-century classical music, ‘The Rest is Noise’. Further extracts are available as digital shorts, accompanying the London Southbank festival programme.Profiling Debussy and Schoenberg, two of the century’s earliest innovators, Ross traces the development of atonality, and with it the reinvention of Western harmonic tradition.Now a major festival running throughout 2013 at London’s Southbank, The Rest is Noise is an intricate commentary not just on the sounds that defined the century, but on art’s troublesome dance with politics, social and cultural change.Alex Ross is the New Yorker’s music critic, and the winner of the Guardian First Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award for The Rest is Noise, which was also shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson and Pulitzer prizes for non-fiction.

A behind-the-scenes, in-depth look at the making of one of the greatest sonic masterpieces and most commercially successful albums of all time.Over three decades after its release, Pink Floyd’s ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’ remains one of the most acclaimed albums of all time. Its sales total around 30 million copies worldwide. In its first run, it took up residence in the US charts for a mind-boggling 724 weeks. According to recent estimates, one in five British households owns a copy.This, however, is only a fraction of the story. ‘Dark Side’ is rock’s most fully realised and elegant concept album, based on themes of madness, anxiety and alienation that were rooted in the band’s history – and particularly in the tragic tale of their one – time leader Syd Barrett.Drawing on original interviews with bass guitarist and chief songwriter Roger Waters, guitarist David Gilmour, and the album’s supporting cast ,‘The Dark Side of the Moon’ is a must-have for the millions of devoted fans who desire to know more about one of the most timeless, compelling, commercially successful, and mysterious albums ever made.

Stephen Davis’s brilliantly-written personal account of criss-crossing America with Led Zeppelin on their 1975 tour. A warts-and-all snapshot of the world’s biggest hard-rock band at their peak.As a young rock writer Stephen Davis landed the ultimate commission – touring America with Led Zeppelin.This is a personal account by Davis of his journey, which saw him crossing the country with the band on board the Starship, their famous Boeing passenger jet, complete with deep shag purple carpet, electric pianos, girlfriends and star-struck hangers-on.This is also the story of one of the hardest-living bands in the world at their peak. For Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and John Bonham, the most beautiful women in America tear their spangled jackets from them and riots start outside their gigs.LZ-75 captures a few perfect months in rock, when Led Zeppelin epitomised the free-living rock dream, but, like Icarus, their wings were already beginning to melt. It wouldn't be long before John Bonham died of a vodka overdose, and punk killed their brand of monumental rock.With it's up-close-and-personal accounts of band members, managers, groupies, fans and drug-dealers, there's a lot of Almost Famous about this book – Led Zep's 1975 tour is in fact the very one on which Cameron Crowe's film was based.Stephen Davis was barely twenty in 1975, but now he is recognised as one of the best rock writers in the world. He is the author of the mega-selling Hammer of the Gods – a biography of Led Zeppelin. He recently unearthed his notebooks of the 1975 tour – which he didn't use for Hammer of the Gods – to write LZ-75.LZ-75: Across America with Led Zeppelin is a wonderful and unique thing – a beautifully succinct account of a single moment in rock, when no lyric was too far-fetched, no drink went undrunk and no expense was ever, ever spared. It's a moment that will never be repeated.