Music-General Books

ContentsChapter 1: The Power of Breath and Posture1.1 Diaphragmatic BreathingChapter 2: Understanding Your Instrument: Vocal Anatomy2.1 The Structure and Parts of Your Vocal Instrument2.2 The Resonance Chambers and Their Role2.3 Protecting Your Voice: Anatomy of Vocal Health2.4 Understanding Vocal Registers: Head Voice vs. Chest...

The aim of this study was to show, how agents of Creative Industries use specific milieus in a context of Creative City to transform Creativity into Cultural Goods and Services. Based on the broad empirical data pool, this investigation contributes to the comprehension of...

Am 24. Apri11984 fand unter Vorsitz von Herbert von Karajan das 15. Salzburger Musikgespdich (Ostersymposion) im Landesstudio des Osterreichischen Rundfunks statt. Die Salzburger Musikgesprache, die von der Herbert von Karajan-Stiftungjeweils im AnschluB an die Oster festspiele veranstaltet werden, stehen unter dem umfassenden Thema "Mensch...

The book opens with a short introduction to Indian music, in particular classical Hindustani music, followed by a chapter on the role of statistics in computational musicology. The authors then show how to analyze musical structure using Rubato, the music software package for statistical...

Author: David IrelandISBN-10: 3030405230ISBN-13: 9783030405236Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/27/2019Pages: 248Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.55d

The book reveals the creative and innovative discoveries made as a result of in depth research, and years of Graduate studies, beginning at the Villa Schifanoia, and Villa I Tatti on Renaissance Art in Florence, Italy. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York...

Affordable and accessible veggie recipes with a soundtrack through the seasons. A narration of 12 months, complete with seasonal vegetarian recipes and matching alternative music recommendations.Author: Seán BrennanISBN-10: 1527269205ISBN-13: 9781527269200Publisher: Sean BrennanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/24/2020Pages: 130Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.54lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.35d

What is sound design? What is its function in the early 21st century and into the future?Sound Worksexamines these questions in four parts: Part 1, "Why This Sound?", presents an overview of the modern history of sound design. Part 2 is highly visual and...

In The Sonic Persona, Holger Schulze undertakes a critical study of some of the most influential studies in sound since the 19th century in the natural sciences, the engineering sciences, and in media theory, confronting them with contemporary artistic practices, with experimental critique, and...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: Johann Sebastian BachISBN-10: 1447476417ISBN-13: 9781447476412Publisher:...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: William J. FinnISBN-10: 1446526232ISBN-13: 9781446526231Publisher:...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: Johann Sebastian BachISBN-10: 1446516644ISBN-13: 9781446516645Publisher:...

Contents Include: Expression Tempo Conventional Alterations of Rhythm Ornamentation Figured Basses Positions and Fingering The Musical Instruments of the PeriodAuthor: Arnold DolmetschISBN-10: 1443733520ISBN-13: 9781443733526Publisher: Pomona PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/04/2008Pages: 508Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.74lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.25d

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: Adele T. KatzISBN-10: 1406757616ISBN-13: 9781406757613Publisher:...

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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

O.E.Deutsch's documentary biography of Mozart, first published in German in 1961 and translated into English in 1965, presented all the contemporary documentation on Mozart then known to scholars. During three decades of research more have come to light, and Dr Eisen himself has substantially...

Liszt, a dominant figure in the Romantic movement, has lately been the subject of a number of scholarly studies. However, many aspects of his intermittent relationship with Britain and with a largely philistine British public have necessarily been overlooked in earlier depictions of the...

By bringing together the most recent scholarship, this book sheds new light on Berg's life and music. The three main sections are each devoted to a particular genre. The first essay in each section surveys Berg's development within the genre concerned, whilst the subsequent...

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,...

What's so special about music? We experience it internally, yet at the same time it is highly social. Music engages our cognitive/affective and sensory systems. We use music to communicate with one another--and even with other species--the things that we cannot express through language....

This readable, practical, classic work covers every aspect of church music from congregational singing to the roles of the choir and church organist, how to select a hymnal, how to plan a worship service with music, and much more. Only by knowing these things...

2009 marked the 75th birthday of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, an occasion that presented an opportunity for reflection upon, and appreciation of, a period of compositional achievement that extends from the 1950s to the present. This book forms part of that reflection through a...

Hungarian-born composer Sigmund Romberg (1887-1951) arrived in America in 1909 and within eight years had achieved his first hit musical on Broadway. This early success was soon followed by others, and in the 1920s his popularity in musical theater was unsurpassed. In this book,...

Neben den Komponistennachlässen der Musikabteilung der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin wurde 2002 bis 2009 das berühmte Notenarchiv der Sing-Akademie zu Berlin mit einigen sensationellen Entdeckungen von bisher nie aufgeführten Werken großer Komponisten verfilmt. Die Sammlung der Sing-Akademie galt nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg jahrzehntelang als vermisst,...

Author: Jaap KunstISBN-10: 9401184690ISBN-13: 9789401184694Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1968Pages: 215Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.72lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.48d

Author: J. KunstISBN-10: 9401080534ISBN-13: 9789401080538Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/04/2011Pages: 251Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.04lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.56d

Author: Susanna Scarparo,Mathias Sutherland StevensonISBN-10: 3319965042ISBN-13: 9783319965048Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/20/2018Pages: 244Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.63d

In Walked Dolphy is a jazz composition composed by Andrew Hanna that embodies the stylings made famous by multi-instrumentalist Eric Dolphy. Arranged for jazz quartet consisting of alto saxophone, piano, bass, and drum set. Author: Andrew HannaISBN-10: 1955144001ISBN-13: 9781955144001Publisher: Andrew HannaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/17/2021Pages: 18Format:...

Steampunk themed Summer 2015 issue includes Art, Entertainment, Fashion, Interviews, Life and Style, Film and Literature, Music, Reviews, and Technology. Steampunk defined, The Art of Tea, Neocore Games, Voltaire, G.D. Falksen, Fractured Fairytales, Natasha Cox, Die Kur, Dark Corner's Poetry, and much more!Author: VariousISBN-10:...

Lovers of Tolkien's works know well his penchant for including song lyrics and verse in his prose. This book offers a thorough reading of every piece of verse in the two best-known works of J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings,...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: Edvard GriegISBN-10: 1447476468ISBN-13: 9781447476467Publisher: Cooper...

The growth of African immigration to France at the end of the Twentieth Century wrought cultural change in this epicentre of the avant-garde in European art and music. James Winders presents the story of African immigrants to France as a unique chapter in the...

Author: Raphael NowakISBN-10: 1349844861ISBN-13: 9781349844869Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/05/2016Pages: 251Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.71lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.56d

R.J.S.Stevens was an organist, composer and singer, active in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century London. His Recollections give a fascinating glimpse of the life of an ordinary musician as he went about his daily business serving as a church organist, singing glees - occasionally...

In this book the author argues that human musical understanding is rooted in the traditions of culture and that experience of music depends crucially on what the individual brings to it.Author: Martyn EvansISBN-10: 1349117382ISBN-13: 9781349117383Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1990Pages: 160Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 8.50h x...

Covers the development of musical life in the great centres of European music - Paris, Vienna, London and the courts of Italy and Germany. The contributions of Handel and Bach, and their lesser colleagues are set in their historical and sociological context.Author: George J....

A detailed survey and catalogue of the life and works of the English organ builder Samuel Green (1740-1796). A short biographical survey traces Green's career to the period when he established himself as the foremost English builder of organs of the late 18th century....

Undergraduate Research in Art: A Guide for Students supplies tools for scaffolding research skills, with examples of undergraduate research activities and case studies on projects in the various areas of the study of art-from art history, art education, and fine art therapy, to studio...

Ray Charles stands as an influential pop musician of the last half of the 20th century. This biography covers his early life of poverty in the deep South and looks at his relationships, professional and romantic, as well as examining his influence on other...

Toward an Urban Cultural Studies is a call for a new interdisciplinary area of research and teaching. Blending Urban Studies and Cultural Studies, this book grounds readers in the extensive theory of the prolific French philosopher Henri Lefebvre.Author: Benjamin FraserISBN-10: 1137498552ISBN-13: 9781137498557Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage:...

This book looks at the historic and contemporary links between music's connection to emotions and men's supposed discomfort with their own emotional experience. Looking at music tastes and distaste, it demonstrates how a sociological analysis of music and gender can actually lead us to...

Along with twentieth-century developments in playing techniques, technologies, and concepts of musical sound, the notations employed by composers have also changed. Composers of what Umberto Eco calls 'open works' often employ intentionally ambiguous music notations. These open notations ask the performer to play a...

In 1893, the English composer and director of the Royal College of Music C. Hubert H. Parry published Summary of the Development of Medieval and Modern European Music, an overview of European music from the middle ages to the work of Schubert and Brahms....

The publisher John Sainsbury produced this two-volume biographical dictionary of musicians in 1824. The book, as he acknowledges on his title page, borrows from the previously published works of Choron and Fayolle (in French), Gerber (in German), Orloff (Russian, writing in French), and his...

This 1874 account of the music of ancient Greece, Egypt and Rome was the only volume of the author's proposed history of music to be published. William Chappell, eldest son of the founder of Chappell's the music publishers, was noted for his interest in...

The British composer John Stainer (1840-1901) was organist at St Paul's Cathedral from 1872 to 1888, and in 1889 became Professor of Music at Oxford. In this third edition of A Theory of Harmony he ceased to call it a theory founded on the...

The publisher Novello was hugely influential in making music affordable for a wider section of the Victorian public. A Short History of Cheap Music, published in 1887, focuses on Novello's role. It begins with the establishment of the house in 1811, when the founder,...

The Philharmonic Society ('Royal' from 1912) is one of the oldest music societies in the world. Founded in 1813 to provide regular concerts of new music in London, it is famous for its commission of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. This detailed account by George Hogarth,...

A. B. Marx (1795-1866) was a scholar, teacher and critic of music, for many years Professor of Music at the University of Berlin, and a close friend - before a falling-out over the libretto of an oratorio - of Mendelssohn. This influential book, published...

This illustrated dictionary, written by the prolific Victorian composer Sir John Stainer (1840-1901) - best remembered today for his oratorio The Crucifixion - and W. A. Barrett, was first published by Novello in 1876. It provides definitions for 'the chief musical terms met with...