Author: N/A Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Alan Lomax (1915-2002) began working for the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress in 1936, first as a special and temporary assistant, then as the permanent Assistant in Charge, st...
Author: N/A Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Alban Berg and His World is a collection of essays and source material that repositions Berg as the pivotal figure of Viennese musical modernism. His allegiance to the austere rigor of Arnold Schoenbe...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: How do we 'know' music? We perform it, we compose it, we sing it in the shower, we cook, sleep and dance to it. Eventually we think and write about it. This book represents the culmination of such sha...
Author: Dayan, Peter Publisher: Ashgate Format: Adobe PDF
Description: An extraordinary fraternity of poets, painters and composers in Paris, between 1885 and 1945, built our modern notion of 'great art' on the principle that we must always think about the value of a wor...
Author: BUTT, JOHN Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Providing a detailed analysis of Bach's Passions, this book represents an important contribution to the debate about the culture of 'classical music', its origins, priorities and survival. The angles ...
Author: Thompson, Dave Publisher: ECW Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Permeating the shadows and the darkness of the bayou-a world all its own that stretches from Houston, Texas, to Mobile, Alabama-this study of marsh music leaves New Orleans to discover secret legends ...
Author: Mojapelo, Max Publisher: African Minds Format: Adobe PDF
Description: South Africa possesses one of the richest popular music traditions in the world - from marabi to mbaqanga, from boeremusiek to bubblegum, from kwela to kwaito. Yet the risk that future generations of ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Since its first publication in 1990, Brahms and His World has become a key text for listeners, performers, and scholars interested in the life, work, and times of one of the nineteenth century's most ...
Author: Holman, Peter Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Dowland's Lachrimae (1604) is perhaps the greatest but most enigmatic publication of instrumental music from before the eighteenth century. This new handbook, the first detailed study of the collectio...
Author: N/A Publisher: Ashgate Gower Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Digital interactive audio is the future of audio in media - most notably video games, but also web pages, theme parks, museums, art installations and theatrical events. Despite its importance to conte...
Author: Polin, Antoine Publisher: For Dummies Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Whether you're playing blues, rock, classical, or folk-all the chords you'll need are hereEven Eric Clapton started with a few basic chords. And Guitar Chords For Dummies offers guitarists of every am...
Author: Payzant, Geoffrey Publisher: Cybereditions Corporation Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The sixteen lectures by Geoffrey Payzant in this volume are all about one little book by Eduard Hanslick, Vom Musikalisch-Schönen - On the Musically Beautiful. Published at Prague in 1854 and a mere ...
Author: Sullivan, Denise Publisher: Lawrence Hill Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Author Denise Sullivan explores the bond between music and social change and traces the evolution of protest music over the past five decades. The marriage of music and social change didn't originate ...
Author: Broyles, Michael Publisher: Yale University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: From colonial times to the present, American composers have lived on the fringes of society and defined themselves in large part as outsiders. In this stimulating book Michael Broyles considers the tr...
Author: Jones, Roben Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Memphis Boys chronicles the story of the rhythm section at Chips Moman's American studios from 1964, when the group began working together, until 1972, when Moman shut down the studio and moved the en...
Author: Horowitz, Joseph Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Joseph Horowitz writes in Moral Fire: "If the Met's screaming Wagnerites standing on chairs (in the 1890s) are unthinkable today, it is partly because we mistrust high feeling. Our children avidly spe...
Author: Bonds, Mark Evan Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Before the nineteenth century, instrumental music was considered inferior to vocal music. Kant described wordless music as "more pleasure than culture," and Rousseau dismissed it for its inability to ...
Author: Garratt, James Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Challenging received views of music in nineteenth-century German thought, culture and society, this book provides a radical reappraisal of its socio-political meanings and functions. Garratt argues th...
Author: Bowie,Andrew Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Modern philosophers generally assume that music is a problem to which philosophy ought to offer an answer. Andrew Bowie's Music, Philosophy, and Modernity suggests, in contrast, that music might offer...
Author: Moreno, Jairo Publisher: Indiana University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Jairo Moreno adapts the methodologies and nomenclature of Foucault's "archaeology of knowledge" and applies it through individual case studies to the theoretical writings of Zarlino, Descartes, Rameau...
Author: N/A Publisher: University of Queensland Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The ultimate music fan's bible packed with insight into the world of rock 'n' roll. Off the Record brings together the best interviews and articles from Australia's music street press, about bands on ...
Author: Garratt, James Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Focusing on the reception of Palestrina, this bold interdisciplinary study explains how and why the works of a sixteenth-century composer came to be viewed as a paradigm for modern church music. It ex...
Author: BUTT, JOHN Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Why do we feel the need to perform music in a historically informed style? Is this need related to wider cultural concerns? In the most ambitious study of the topic to date, John Butt sums up recent d...
Author: N/A Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Richard Wagner (1813-1883) aimed to be more than just a composer. He set out to redefine opera as a "total work of art" combining the highest aspirations of drama, poetry, the symphony, the visual art...
Author: Knittel, K.M. Publisher: Ashgate Gower Format: Adobe PDF
Description: No one, of course, doubts that Gustav Mahler's tenure at the Vienna Court Opera from 1897-1907 was made extremely unpleasant by the antisemitic press. Unfortunately, the focus on blatant references to...
Author: N/A Publisher: Ashgate Gower Format: Adobe PDF
Description: French, British and American research into popular music has coexisted - with considerable cross-fertilization - for many years, but the barriers of language and different academic traditions have mad...
Author: Wondrich, David Publisher: Chicago Review Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The early decades of American popular music-Stephen Foster, Scott Joplin, John Philip Sousa, Enrico Caruso-are, for most listeners, the dark ages. It wasn't until the mid-1920s that the full spectrum ...
Author: Bindas, Kenneth J. Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe PDF
Description: It was for stage bands, for dancing, and for a jiving mood of letting go. Throughout the nation swing re-sounded with the spirit of good times. But this pop genre, for a decade America's favorite, ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This comprehensive overview of music in the nineteenth century draws on the most recent scholarship in the field. It avoids mere repertory surveys, focusing instead on issues which illuminate the subj...
Author: Lawson, Colin / Stowell, Robin Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Offering students and performers a concise overview of historical performance, this book takes into account the many significant developments in the discipline, particularly during the last decade. It...
Author: Gelbart,Matthew Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: We tend to take for granted the labels we put to different forms of music. This study considers the origins and implications of the way in which we categorize music today. Whereas earlier ways of clas...
Author: Cumming, Julie E. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: During the lifetime of Guillaume Du Fay (c. 1400-1474) the motet underwent a profound transformation. Because of the protean nature of the motet during this period, problems of definition have always ...
Author: Ripani, Richard J. Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Rhythm & blues emerged from the African American community in the late 1940s to become the driving force in American popular music over the next half-century. Although sometimes called "doo-wop," "sou...
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