Music-General Books

Contemporary popular culture is engaged in a rich and multi-levelled set of representational relations with austerity. This volume seeks to explore these relations, to ask: how does popular culture give expression to austerity; how are its effects conveyed; how do texts reproduce and expose...

This selective annotated bibliography places Alma Mahler with three other female composers of her time, covering the first generation of active female composers in the twentieth century. It uncovers the wealth of resources available on the lives and music of Mahler, Florence Price, Yuliya...

This title was first published in 2000. This text analyzes the problems of managing large-scale technology projects. It addresses the contrast between projects' hoped-for benefits and the optimism with which they are promoted, and the high human, economic or environmental costs of their operation....

England in the fifteenth century was the cradle of much that would have a profound impact on European music for the next several hundred years. Perhaps the greatest such development was the cyclic cantus firmus Mass, and scholarly attention has therefore often been drawn...

Music has long been a way in which visually impaired people could gain financial independence, excel at a highly-valued skill, or simply enjoy musical participation. Existing literature on visual impairment and music includes perspectives from the social history of music, ethnomusicology, child development and...

Uses popular music in the United States and United Kingdom in the years between 1970 and 2000 as the entrepôt to historical theory, and examines the history of popular music through alternative, or non-mainstream artists Fills a pedagogical gap for instructors teaching courses on...

This book explores how transformations and translations shape musical meanings, developments and the perception of music across cultures. Starting with the concept of music as multimodal text, the author understands translation as the process of transferring a text from one language - verbal or...

This book explores the formation and continuance of Nashville, Tennessee as a music place, the importance of the fans (tourists) in creating Nashville's multifaceted musical identity, and the music and city's influence on the formation and performance of the individual and collective identities of...

A collection of poems by British nobleman and poet George James Finch-Hatton. The poems cover a range of themes, including nature, love, loss, and religion.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...

This collection of poems by James Thomson showcases the lyrical beauty of the Doric dialect spoken in Scotland. Thomson captures the essence of a people and a culture through his vivid descriptions of nature, love, loss, and the joys and sorrows of everyday life.This...

In this poetic work, Waldo Richards explores the beauty of the natural world through the lens of music. Each chapter is accompanied by sheet music that represents the sounds of the earth, from the babbling brook to the rustling leaves. This book is a...

A collection of poems by British nobleman and poet George James Finch-Hatton. The poems cover a range of themes, including nature, love, loss, and religion.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...

This stirring dramatic poem by Adam Lindsay Gordon tells the tragic tale of a doomed romance between an angel and a mortal. With vivid language and haunting imagery, Gordon creates a powerful meditation on love, death, and the eternal struggle between good and evil.This...

This collection of poetry transports the reader to a bygone era of the American south, evoking the sights and sounds of nature and the joys and sorrows of rural life. Visscher's verses celebrate the beauty and simplicity of the world around us, reminding us...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

Author: Spaeth,Sigmund Gottfried SpaethISBN-10: 0837198623ISBN-13: 9780837198620Publisher: PraegerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/05/1978Pages: 306Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.75d

Author: Karl Ekman,UnknownISBN-10: 0837160278ISBN-13: 9780837160276Publisher: PraegerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/23/1972Pages: 358Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.23lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.81d

Author: Henry PrunieresISBN-10: 0837139961ISBN-13: 9780837139968Publisher: PraegerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/18/1973Pages: 302Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.17lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.81d

Music videos are available on more channels, in more formats, and in more countries than ever before. While MTV--the network that introduced music video to most viewers--is moving away from music video programming, other media developments signal the longevity and dynamism of the form....

First published in 2005. The Victorian and Edwardian music hall ballet has been a neglected facet of dance historiography, falling prey principally to the misguided assumption that any ballet not performed at the Opera House or 'legitimate' theatre necessarily meant it was of low...

The purpose of this series is to provide a large repertory 17th century Italian sacred music in clear modern editions that are both practical and faithful to the original sources.Author: Anne SchnoebelenISBN-10: 0815323638ISBN-13: 9780815323631Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/1996Pages: 324Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.59lbsSize: 10.98h x 8.68w x...

This volume is part of a series of 25 full-score volumes of 17th-century Italian sacred music, a repertoire that has largely been unavailable for study or performance. It includes a comprehensive historical and biographical introduction, focuses on composers significant in their own time, and...

Music was integral to the daily life of ancient Israel. It accompanied activities as diverse as manual labor and royal processionals. At key junctures and in core institutions, musical tones were used to deliver messages, convey emotions, strengthen communal bonds and establish human-divine contact.This...

This is a new biography of the German composer Richard Wagner, 200 years after his birth, re-examining his life in light of new documents and new sensibilities. Since World War II Wagner has often been wrongly associated with Adolf Hitler because Hitler liked Wagner's...

Musical accompaniment was an important feature of the early moviegoing experience. The quality of a musical score could easily make or break silent films, and the songs sometimes became more popular than the films. At the same time, interestingly, the silent cinema became itself...

This volume offers a comprehensive range of approaches to the work of Mark E. Smith and his band The Fall in relation to music, art and politics. Mark E. Smith remains one of the most divisive and idiosyncratic figures in popular music after a...

This book explores how people may use music in ways that are helpful for them, especially in relation to a sense of wellbeing, belonging and participation. The central premise for the study is that help is not a decontextualized effect that music produces. The...

Understanding the Classical Music Profession is an essential resource for educators, practitioners and researchers who seek to understand the careers of classically-trained musicians, and the extent to which professional practice is reflected within existing classical performance-based music education and training. Taking Australia as a...

Giulio Cesare Brancaccio was a Neapolitan nobleman with long practical experience of military life, first in the service of Charles V and later as both soldier and courtier in France and then at the court of Alfonso II d'Este at Ferrara. He was also...

Alfred Mathis-Rosenzweig (1897-1948) was a Viennese musicologist and critic who studied at the universities of Budapest and Vienna. From 1933 he embarked on producing a large-scale study of Mahler but at the time of his death the manuscript was left unfinished. Although it was...

The Idea of Music in Victorian Fiction seeks to address fundamental questions about the function, meaning and understanding of music in nineteenth-century culture and society, as mediated through works of fiction. The eleven essays here, written by musicologists and literary scholars, range over a...

'En France, tout finit par des chansons' is the well-known phrase which sums up the importance of chanson for the French. A song tradition that goes back to the Middle Ages and troubadours of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, chanson is part of the...

This book gives an account of how migrant women, whose lives and experiences have heretofore been neglected in the pages of academic scholarship, dance and sing the vibrant and expressive musical style of kiba. In so doing, they build an identity as autonomous breadwinners...

Gothic Music traces the sound of the Gothic from the eerie echoing footsteps that haunt gothic novels to the dark soundscapes that give contemporary goth nightclubs their dark atmosphere. This broad perspective enables Isabella van Elferen to widen the scope of gothic music--which includes...

Charles François Gounod: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography concerning both the nature of primary sources related to the composer and the scope and significance of the secondary sources which deal with him and his compositions.Author: Timothy FlynnISBN-10: 0415973511ISBN-13: 9780415973519Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage:...

Xenakis: His Life in Music is a full-length study of the influential contemporary composer Iannis Xenakis. Following the trajectory of Xenakis's compositional development, James Harley, who studied with Xenakis, presents the works together with clear explanations of the technical and conceptual innovations that shaped...

Harry B. Smith was the most prolific writer of librettos for the American musical theatre in history, with nearly half of his 300 works actually opening in New York City. In addition, Smith was instrumental in adapting and popularizing foreign musicals in America, significantly...

David Bowie: Critical Perspectives examines in detail the many layers of one of the most intriguing and influential icons in popular culture. This interdisciplinary book brings together established and emerging scholars from a wide variety of backgrounds, including musicology, sociology, art history, literary theory,...

Both professionals and students are increasingly committed to achieving high-performance metrics in the design, construction and operation of residential buildings. This book responds to this demand by offering a comprehensive guide which features: architectural innovations in building skin technologies which make lighter more transparent...

Most music we hear comes to us via a recording medium on which sound has been stored. Such remoteness of music heard from music made has become so commonplace it is rarely considered.Musical Performance: A Philosophical Study considers the implications of this separation for...

Examines the tension between intuitive and analytical ways of making sense of the world by exploring musical knowledge and experience.Author: Keith SwanwickISBN-10: 0415100976ISBN-13: 9780415100977Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/31/1994Pages: 208Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.59lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.48w x 0.67d

Earshot: Perspectives on Sound awakens an understanding of the decisive role that sound has played in history and culture with the primary focus being the changing status of sound and hearing in Western culture over the last six hundred years, covering the transition from...

Scoring the Hollywood Actor in the 1950s theorises the connections between film acting and film music using the films of the 1950s as case studies. Closely examining performances of such actors as James Dean, Montgomery Clift, and Marilyn Monroe, and films of directors like...