In 1960s and 1970s singer-songwriter music, some artists used malleable metric settings alongside other features of self-expression in performance. This resulted in songs with extremes of self-expressive timing flexibility that cannot be accounted for using a single conception of meter. This book proposes a theory of flexible meter that recasts metric structure as encompassing the variety of metric scenarios presented by the self-expressive performance practice of singer-songwriters, from metric regularity to metric ambiguity, and vacillations between these two possibilities. Author Nancy Murphy explores performances by Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Paul Simon, and Cat Stevens to investigate the individual metric style of each artist and how their flexible metric techniques contribute to the self-expressive rhetoric of the singer-songwriter performance tradition.

Times A-Changin': Flexible Meter as Self-Expression in Singer-Songwriter Music (OXFORD STUDIES IN MUSIC THEORY)

Arts & Photography

Murphy, Nancy

Music

Oxford University Press

Walk about Nenagh

Relay

A Trip Through Tipperary Lakeside: From Nenagh to Ballina-Killaloe & from Nenagh to Portumna by the River Shannon's Lough Derg Scenic Routes

I'm a Peacock

This book is about the unique adventures of a young Indian Blue peacock and his new life on a farm with a first time peacock owner. It's the perfect book for anyone who ever wanted to learn about the unusual mannerisms and characteristics of peafowl kept as a pet, as well as many fun facts about the species!

Children's Books

Animals

Gatekeeper Press

Solenova, Kate

Burning into Womanhood"I want to tell her/ it takes a woman / a lifetime to know / if she is real / or only appears so / in a mirror." Those are the words of the speaker in this debut collection from Nancy Murphy. At times melancholy, at times fierce, and always lyrical, these poems explore the various roles that women shift into and out of in their lives. From marriage to divorce, from having a mother to being a mother, to sending a daughter off to college, these poems explore the way women center the world, and what can happen when we lose that center and are forced to grapple with the realization that maybe "there is no mother now." This book is for women and poetry lovers at every stage of their lives. A deeply personal and enjoyable read, this collection is one to revisit over and over again.-Tresha Faye Haefner, Author of Take This Longing. Founder of The Poetry SalonMoving, accomplished, pulled cleanly through the lens of its title, The Space Carved by the Sharpness of Your Absence hums with the dense flesh of memory, its beating heart. This chapbook, Nancy Murphy's first, betrays the grace and mastery of a later full-length work; for all its distillation, it encompasses the sweep, the scope and self-examination of a bildungsroman femme-a dance of revelation and restraint, finely balancing the shade, the light of ache, regret, and joy. Even the ekphrastic feels inhabited. These poems feel cinematic, as if moments of life are "stretching in our hands / like the wonder of boardwalk taffy / that never breaks."-Sarah Maclay, author of Nightfall Marginalia

The Space Carved by the Sharpness of Your Absence

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Gyroscope Press

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