Music-Ethnic

12 Studies for Classical Guitar by Thodoris Panagopoulos.Author: Thodoris PanagopoulosISBN-13: 9798328030731Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/09/2024Pages: 40Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.26lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.08d

Suitable for amateurs and more experienced bouzouki players, this book will quickly become your go-to companion: all the chords and scales you'll (most likely) ever need at an arm's reach. ►16 chords for each key - 192 in total! (major, minor, seventh, minor seventh,...

â ~Ethnicâ (TM) piano rolls are an important part of a still-neglected musical heritage. Having come to prominence in the first part of the twentieth century, they encapsulate the musical life of several continents and various ethnic communities based in the USA. This volume...

A study of race, gender, religion, and affect in postwar Croatian musicPlaying It Dangerously questions what happens when feelings attached to popular music conflict with expressions of the dominant socio-cultural order, and how this tension enters into the politics of popular culture at various...

Popular music has come to play a significant role in the political and cultural history of the Nordic countries. Research on the region's culture has largely followed national narratives created by political and economic institutions, even as cultural life in the region--which spans a...

A Road Memoir by John Allaire (writing as fictional character Jimmy Piston)OverviewMotel Matchbooks is a raw, funny, and deeply human road memoir tracing a month-long North American tour by Ottawa singer-songwriter Jimmy Piston - a stand-in for the author, veteran musician John Allaire. It...

(BH Piano). Explore the rich musical landscape of Asia with 14 preludes based on native themes from China, India, Japan, Korea, Mongolia, Thailand and more. Ideal for intermediate to advanced-level keyboard players, with historical information and maps for each piece. Includes CD of full...

Ms. Hebert's World Songbook includes 21 original songs in 21 languages, a music curriculum that covers K through 4th grade, 21 lesson plans including Objectives, Standards, Procedures, and Virtual Learning and Diversified Instruction Strategies to use in the General Music setting that include approved...

Famous Musicians Of A Wandering Race is a book written by Gdal Saleski that explores the history and achievements of Jewish musicians throughout the ages. The book delves into the lives of famous Jewish musicians such as Felix Mendelssohn, Gustav Mahler, and George Gershwin,...

This is a new release of the original 1942 edition.Author: Frances DensmoreISBN-10: 1258980886ISBN-13: 9781258980887Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2013Pages: 32Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.13lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.07d

The Study of Indian Music by Frances Densmore is a comprehensive guide to the music of India. The book explores the history, culture, and traditions of Indian music, and provides a detailed analysis of the various instruments, rhythms, and styles used in Indian music....

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

(Music Sales America). Manuel de Falla's music perfectly reflects the full-blooded passion and intellectual aspirations of early 20th century Spanish culture. His personal life seemed to echo the spirit of his times and the broad range of his music. From his sensual treatment of...

The Study of Indian Music is a comprehensive book written by Frances Densmore. The book delves into the intricacies of Indian music, exploring its history, theory, and practice. It covers a wide range of topics, including the different genres of Indian music, the instruments...

(Piano Duet). This classic Schirmer edition has been enhanced with a companion audio. Each of the four movements is recorded three times. First is a full performance for listening, followed by a Primo only recording, and then a Secondo only recording for play-along.Author: Wolfgang...

This rare collection of more than a hundred songs from the end of the nineteenth century contains the largest number of Hawaiian political and patriotic songs ever printed in one place. Also included in the collection are nonpolitical songs that reflect other personal and...

This book, based on fieldwork spanning a decade, gives a comprehensive analysis of the musical life of a unique Polynesian community whose geographical isolation, together with a local ban on missionaries and churches, combine to allow its 600 members to maintain a level of...

During the 19th century, the authors recorded the music of the slaves from what was actually heard on plantations during, and immediately following, the Civil War. Direc-tions for singing and musical scores are provided.Author: William AllenISBN-10: 1565545931ISBN-13: 9781565545939Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)Language: EnglishPublished: 07/31/1999Pages: 168Format:...

Song from the Land of Fire explores Azerbaijanian musical culture, a subject previously unexamined by American and European scholars. This book contains notations of mugham performance--a fusion of traditional poetry and musical improvisation--and analysis of hybrid genres, such as mugham-operas and symphonic mugham by...

This book is designed to be a music performer's companion, informing the performer's decisions as they prepare performances. It describes some of the situations in which performers will find themselves and also the techniques which work for performers while performing in community venues.Author: Isabel...

"Half a Century of Music in England, 1837-1887: Essays Towards a History" offers a detailed exploration of the musical landscape of England during the Victorian era. Authored by Francis Hueffer, this collection of essays provides insights into the evolution of English music over a...

Seven Etudes & Reflections is a captivating collection of 14 piano pieces blending elements of jazz, classical music, South American folklore, rock, and American minimalism. This book serves as a sequel to Tides and Other Works for Piano, offering shorter, more accessible pieces designed...

The Music of India is a comprehensive guide to the rich and diverse musical traditions of India, written by Atiya Begum Fyzee-Rahamin. The book explores the historical and cultural context of Indian music, tracing its roots back to ancient times and examining how it...

From the oldest surviving Japanese manuscripts in tablature (ninth- fourteenth-centuries) the book provides transcripts into staff-notation of (largely) entertainment-music, played at banquets at the Chinese Court in the Tang period, borrowed by the Japanese not later than 841. The music has never been transcribed...

During the two centuries before 841, the Japanese Court borrowed a large amount of secular entertainment music from China, chiefly music of the Sui and Tang Courts. This music, known as 'Tang Music' is preserved in manuscripts written between the eighth and thirteenth centuries...

Author: Jane Dominguez,Lido PublishingISBN-13: 9798245845258Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/06/2026Pages: 120Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.25d

"The Book of German Songs" is a comprehensive collection spanning musical compositions from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Compiled by Henry William Dulcken, this volume offers a curated selection of German-language songs, reflecting the rich musical heritage of the era. This collection preserves...

Offering innovative approaches to thinking about orchestras, Global Perspectives on Orchestras: Collective Creativity and Social Agency adopts ethnographic, historical and comparative perspectives on a variety of traditions, including symphony, Caribbean steel, Indonesian gamelan, Indian film and Vietnamese court examples. The volume presents compelling analyses...

(E-Z Play Today). This folio provides a comprehensive collection of over 120 Irish favorites. Songs include: Avondale * Black Velvet Band * Cliffs of Doneen * Cockles and Mussels (Molly Malone) * Danny Boy * Down by the Salley Gardens * Finnegan's Wake *...

From the late-1970s to the late-1980s rock music in Yugoslavia had an important social and political purpose of providing a popular cultural outlet for the unique forms of socio-cultural critique that engaged with the realities and problems of life in Yugoslav society. The three...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

Brazilian Research on Creativity Development in Musical Interaction focuses on creativity that involves interactive musical activities, with different groups, such as professional musicians, students, and student teachers. Author: Rosane Cardoso de AraújoISBN-10: 0367471418ISBN-13: 9780367471415Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/08/2021Pages: 216Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.06lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x...

Eudaimonia: Perspectives for Music Learning asserts the fertile applications of eudaimonia-an Aristotelian concept of human flourishing intended to explain the nature of a life well lived-for work in music learning and teaching in the 21st century.Author: Gareth Dylan SmithISBN-10: 0367210290ISBN-13: 9780367210298Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/28/2020Pages:...

First published in 1998. As a cultural entity of over five thousand years of history, Chinese music is a multi-faced phenomenon consisting of diverse regional and transregional traditions. Two large categories of Chinese music can be distinguished: music(s) of the Han nationality and music(s)...

A perfect resource for students and music enthusiasts alike, this expansive three-volume set provides readers with multidisciplinary perspectives on the music of countries and ethnic groups from around the globe. Students will find Music around the World: A Global Encyclopedia accessible and useful in...

"Djelimady Tounkara has powerful hands. His muscled fingers and palms seem almost brutish to the eye, but when he grasps the neck of the guitar and brushes the nail of his right index finger across the strings, the sound lifts effortlessly, like dust in...

A unique, comprehensive guide to Danish music, this book furnishes an extensive annotated bibliography and a directory of all organizations, institutions, and facilities in the world pertaining to 20th century Danish music. The bibliography includes printed media of composers, music, music theories, musical developments,...

In this provocative book, Yahya Jongintaba offers a new paradigm for the study of African American music. Proceeding from the proposition that Black culture in America cannot be considered apart from its religious and philosophical roots, Jongintaba argues that "theology and musicology serving together"...

Intonations tells the story of how Angola's urban residents in the late colonial period (roughly 1945-74) used music to talk back to their colonial oppressors and, more importantly, to define what it meant to be Angolan and what they hoped to gain from independence....

What is Jewish Music? What makes a song "sound Jewish?" What is the place of music in Jewish history and philosophy?The author writes, "What is known to us as Jewish music is actually a compilation of styles and rhythms gathered over centuries and obtained...

This work represents the first comparative study of the folk revival movement in Anglophone Canada and the United States and combines this with discussion of the way folk music intersected with, and was structured by, conceptions of national affinity and national identity. Based on...

Elisabeth Lutyens (1906-1983), Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994) and Grace Williams (1906-1977) were contemporaries at the Royal College of Music. The three composers' careers were launched with performances in the Macnaghten-Lemare Concerts in the 1930s - a time when, in Britain, as Williams noted, a woman...

Beginning with Ravi Shankar and Ali Akbar Khan, Indian art music is renowned internationally for its improvised raga performance. This ancient tradition has for centuries been transmitted orally within the seclusion of hereditary families. Few such families remain today, and not enough is known...

In Roots of the Revival: American and British Folk Music in the 1950s, Ronald D. Cohen and Rachel Clare Donaldson present a transatlantic history of folk's midcentury resurgence that juxtaposes the related but distinct revivals that took place in the United States and Great...

Joanna Newsom, Will Oldham (a.k.a. 'Bonnie Prince Billy'), and Devendra Banhart are perhaps the best known of a generation of independent artists who use elements of folk music in contexts that are far from traditional. These (and other) so called 'new folk' artists challenge...

In nineteenth-century British society music and musicians were organized as they had never been before. This organization was manifested, in part, by the introduction of music into powerful institutions, both out of belief in music's inherently beneficial properties, and also to promote music occupations...

When considering the role music played in the major totalitarian regimes of the century it is music's usefulness as propaganda that leaps first to mind. But as a number of the chapters in this volume demonstrate, there is a complex relationship both between art...

In this collection of essays, interviews, and profiles, William Banfield reflects on his life as a musician and educator, weaving together pieces of cultural criticism that pay homage to artists who have created and sustained Black music for more than 40 years.Author: Bill BanfieldISBN-10:...

In the past fifty years, the bodhrán, or traditional Irish circular frame drum, has undergone a rapid evolution in development. Traditionally, it is a shallow drum ranging from ten to twenty-six inches in diameter, covered in goatskin on the top (or drum) side and...

When the socialist politician Salvador Allende dramatically won Chile's presidential election in 1970, a powerful cultural movement accompanied him to power. Folk singers emerged at the forefront, proving that music could help forge the birth of a new society. As the CIA actively funded...