Observe Infinite Beauty: Lectures on Western Classical Music: Spine or cover has flaws

Author: Liu Jiwwei
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Publish Date: 2005-12-01
Features: Distilled from over 2,000 brilliant lectures, the Music Missionary helps you unlock the door to music. The realm of music is vast and eternal, while our devotion to it is boundless and inexplicable, arising from no known cause. This recognition of beauty transcends human forms entirely, yet it is blissful, transcendent, and melancholic. The Daoist temple echoes with flutes, the pine wind whispers; the empty gate is cleansed with bowls, rain flowers flutter. Solitude is a unique and mysterious aesthetic of music, and once it is embraced, it remains unchanging for a thousand autumns. —Liu Jiwwei
No need to read scores, no need to play instruments, no need to worry about creative backgrounds: Explains the correct attitude and methods for appreciating music, teaching you to face music directly and experience pure aesthetic. Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and New Music: Outlines the 500-year history of Western music, establishing a coordinate system for your ears. From Haydn to Mahler, from orchestral music to religious music: Features 10 selected composers and 5 major music categories, with in-depth explanations and exquisite images creating a harmonious resonance between sound and vision.
The Taiwan "Music Appreciation Education Foundation": Two decades of mission in music appreciation education, thousands of lectures as a monastic journey, 8,000 hours of classroom teaching, 30 million words of earnest instruction. Professor Liu has nurtured thousands of music lovers in Taiwan who share a deep connection with music. He is Taiwan's most influential music missionary.
Taiwan's China Times: Like a missionary, Liu Jiwwei holds lectures everywhere, introducing the beauty and charm of classical music to the public. His music appreciation philosophy enables fans to deeply understand the essence of music, leading many to enter the classical realm and even change the course of their lives.
Taiwan's Minsheng Daily: Over the past decade, he has encouraged and guided many people without musical notation skills or instrumental abilities to enter the world of music, finding infinite spiritual fulfillment.
A new aesthetics of observing and contemplating music: Liu Jiwwei's Five Principles:
Music is not language; do not guess its literal meaning, nor prioritize creative backgrounds.
Maintain reverence and focus, simply and sincerely immersing yourself in the living reality of sound, sharing its texture and soul.
High-level music appreciation is built on a foundation of rationality; through analyzing compositions, uncover their logic and experience their absolute beauty.
Learn to be alone with music.
Familiarize yourself with records at home for better effects when listening live.
The book’s five features:
No need to read scores, no need to play instruments, no need to worry about creative backgrounds: Detailed guidance on the correct attitude and methods for appreciating music, teaching you to face music directly and experience pure aesthetic.
Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and New Music: Outlines the 500-year history of Western music, establishing a coordinate system for your ears.
From Haydn to Mahler, from orchestral music to religious music: Features 10 selected composers and 5 major music categories, with in-depth explanations.
Appendix with recommended versions of 143 basic compositions.
Full-color printing, with exquisite images creating a harmonious resonance between sound and vision.