Music-General Books

The Spanish colonial project in Latin America from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries was distinctly urban in focus. The impact of the written word on this process was explored in ngel Rama's seminal book The Lettered City, and much has been written by...

What is Gregorian chant, and where does it come from? What purpose does it serve, and how did it take on the form and features which make it instantly recognizable? Designed to guide students through this key topic, this book answers these questions and...

Jean-Michel Nectoux's important biography of Gabriel Faur is the most comprehensive study yet of this central figure of fin de siecle France. It traces the composer's life and the rich cultural milieu in which he lived and worked: the world also of Saint-Saens, Flaubert,...

Franz Schubert's tragically short life was lived in one of Europe's most richly musical cities: a Vienna that worshipped Beethoven and where Rossini and Paganini drew crowds. Christopher Gibbs considers how and what Schubert composed, taking a fresh look at this misunderstood composer, particularly...

Richard Strauss' successful conducting and composing career spanned one of the most fascinating stretches of modern German history, from oil lamps to atomic energy, from a young empire to a divided Germany. This biography covers Strauss' early musical development, his emergence as a tone...

As a leading European conductor and the composer of enormous and controversial symphonies, Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) inspired mythologizers in his own lifetime. Some of them were personal friends, concerned with countering biased criticism of him in which German-nationalist, hide-bound traditionalist or anti-Semitic elements were...

The Mass in B Minor is arguably Bach's greatest single work. This short guide considers the work from many angles, offering the reader basic information in a concise and accessible form. John Butt gives an absorbing account of the work's genesis, its historical context,...

Emphasising the creative aspect of music technology, this introduction sets out an overview of the field for music students in a non-scientific and straightforward way. Engaging and user-friendly, the book covers studio concepts: basic audio and the studio workflow, including audio and MIDI recording....

The composer Witold Lutostawski (born 1913) is one of the outstanding musical personalities of the twentieth century. In this critical biography Steven Stucky traces Lutostawski's development from the Stravinsky-influenced music of his student days to his emergence in the 1960s as a leading avant-gardist....

Earth Sound Earth Signal is a study of energies in aesthetics and the arts, from the birth of modern communications in the nineteenth century to the global transmissions of the present day. Douglas Kahn begins by evoking the Aeolian sphere music that Henry David...

This book teaches how to develop children's musical skills through a unique compilation of songs, arts and crafts, stories, instrument building, musical activities, illustrations, acting, and dance. Nowadays, with art and music programs removed from many public schools, we need a book like this....

This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted,...

From Begum Akhtar to Bhimsen Joshi, Enayat Khan to Ravi Shankar, Bismillah Khan to Shiv Kumar Sharma, Indian classical music is as varied as it can be, from the pure traditional gharanas to more recent blends and fusions. Young sarod players Amaan and Ayaan...

This book explores the narratives of a group of four-year-old children in a composition project in an Australian early learning centre. The participants, centre staff and a composer, Stephen Leek, contributed a number of music sessions for the children, including five original songs. The...

Becca Whitla uses liberationist, postcolonial, and decolonial methods to analyze hymns, congregational singing, and song-leading practices. By way of this analysis, Whitla shows how congregational singing can embody liberating liturgy and theology. Through a series of interwoven theoretical lenses and methodological tools--including coloniality, mimicry,...

Undergraduate Research in History offers a blend of theory and practice for undergraduate researchers in history, relevant to new routines of the digital age. Author: Molly ToddISBN-10: 0367456842ISBN-13: 9780367456849Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/31/2022Pages: 216Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.88lbsSize: 9.90h x 6.90w x 0.60dReview Citation(s): Choice 09/01/2023

Kurztext The book is devoted to questions of modern instrumentation. The subject of analysis is chamber works by Western European and American composers of the 1960s and 1980s. It covers in detail such aspects as an expanded interpretation of instrumental technique and the phenomenon...

Do: Notes about Action in the Creation of Musical Performance with Data-driven Instruments is a work that examines aspects of real-time performance of electroacoustic music. While technical discussions are unavoidably necessary when examining a technology-centric topic such as musical performance with digital musical instruments,...

Tony Sanchez worked for Keith Richards for eight years buying drugs, running errands and orchestrating cheap thrills. He records unforgettable accounts of the Stones' perilous misadventures racing cars along the Cote d'Azur; murder at Altamont; nights with the Beatles at the Stones - owned...

This book explores the history of keyboard instruments from their fourteenth-century origins to the development of the modern piano. It reveals the principles of their design and describes structural and mechanical developments through the medieval and renaissance periods and eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries, as well...

Drawing on the analogy between musical meaning-making and human subjectivity, this book develops the concept of the acoustic self, exploring the ways in which musical characterization and structure are related to issues of subject-representation in the modernist English novel. The volume is framed around...

Issue IX of Half Mystic Journal is a constellation of contemporary art, lyrics, poetry, and prose celebrating music in all its forms. This issue showcases the theme of synaesthesia: the blue undressing of voice-the song-scent wafting on wind-the tongues of memory and light. Examining...

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This longitudinal study weaves the complex stories of many disparate musics into an account of quests for identities that illuminates Lombok's history, its complex religious and ethnic composition, and its current political circumstances. It focuses on agents, musicians and leaders on the ground, and...

This book explores the influence of geographical isolation and peripherality on the functioning of music industries and scenes which operate within and from such locales. As is explored, these sites engage dynamic practices to offset challenges resulting from geographical isolation and peripherality.Author: Christina BallicoISBN-10:...

When music therapist Bob starts working with people at the end of their lives, he realises they all have an important story to tell. But how can they say the unsayable, particularly when they are dying? In his therapy room, people tell their stories,...

Author: Robin de BuckISBN-10: 8730570212ISBN-13: 9798730570214Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2021Pages: 36Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.18lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.09d

I originally thought of the idea of writing a book whilst I was off work sick, I wanted to write about my life as a drummer, whilst recollecting about the bands I've played with, memories from my childhood began to surface, I realised I...

Beach Boys Archives Volume 3 offers even more reprint articles, public relations materials and other artifacts dating from the 1960s through the 1990s, including trade ads used to market their music. Almost 200 pages of material cheaper than you could make the copies or...

Following their entry into Austria and the Sudetenland in the late 1930s, the Germans attempted to impose a policy of cultural imperialism on the countries they went on to occupy during World War II. Almost all music institutions in the occupied lands came under...

This book is essential reading for those working in the fields of music psychology or music education research. A novel applied-musicological approach is applied to the analysis of data, which enables genuinely musical insights to emerge in a range of real-life contexts in which...

Why is music so important to most of us? How does music help us both in our everyday lives, and in the more specialist context of music therapy? This book suggests a new way of approaching these topical questions, drawing from Ansdell's long experience...

Drawing on the culture's history before and after the birth of rap music, this book argues that the values attributed to Hip Hop by 'postmodern' scholars stand in stark contrast with those that not only implicitly guided its aesthetic elements, but are explicitly voiced...

Al Basile's poems have style, joy, and - above all - verve. Sometimes they unfold with the lyric expansiveness of great jazz solos. Sometimes they shine as beautifully jeweled miniatures. What a pleasure to read a book of poems with such unabashed energy. Al...

Musical Sincerity and Transcendence in Film focuses on the ways filmmakers treat music reflexively-that is, draw attention to what it is and what it can do. Examining a wide range of movies from recent decades including examples from Indiewood, teen film, and blockbuster cinema,...

A second volume of artifacts including photographs, article reprints, tour books and other memorabilia related to the Beach Boys. Nearly 200 pages of materials related to the band from their start to the mid 1970s.Author: Torrence BerryISBN-10: 1941028993ISBN-13: 9781941028995Publisher: White Lightning PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/12/2013Pages:...

The Oxford Handbook of Cinematic Listening explores the place of cinema in the history of listening. It looks at the ways in which listening to film is situated in textual, spatial, and social practices, and also studies how cinematic modes of listening have extended...

This book examines the unique poetics of Shao Xunmei 邵洵美 (1906-1968), a Chinese poet who has long been marginalized by contemporary criticism. Shao aspires to reach the condition of music in poetry, which bears a resemblance to three Anglophone writers whom he applauds: Algernon...

This book charts the growth of the Indonesian nationalistic musical genre of lagu seriosa in relation to the archipelago's history in the 1950s and 1960s, examining how folk songs were implemented as a valuable tool for promoting government propaganda. The author reveals how the...

This book addresses the gap between formal music education curricula and the knowledge and skills necessary to enter the professional music industry. It uses extensive data from a long-running research project where high school students were invited to start their own business venture, Youth...

In this book, Ludovica Grassi explores the importance of music in psychoanalysis, arguing that music is a basic working tool for psyche, as words are composed of sound, rhythm and intonation more than lexical meaning. Starting from ethnomusicological, evolutionary, neurodevelopmental, psychological and psychoanalytical perspectives,...

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as...

Elizabeth Bishop and the Music of Literature brings together the latest understandings of how central music was to Bishop's writing. This collection considers Bishop's reworking of metrical and rhythmic forms of poetry; the increasing presence of prosaic utterances into speech-soundscapes; how musical poetry intones...

12 traditional Christmas songs. 3 piano versions of each song. 36 total arrangements to play and enjoy for intermediate level pianists. Volume 2. EnjoyAuthor: Michael Kravchuk, Polly BekasovaISBN-10: 855444633XISBN-13: 9798554446337Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2020Pages: 86Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.49lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.18d

Want To Teach Guitar?Don't Know Where To Start?Learn the ropes from someone who has been doing it successfully for over 35 years Many guitarists think they can teach guitar just because they play guitar, and play better than their potential student. This isn't so....

Have you always been interested in learning to play an instrument? Have you always wanted to get beyond the bare basics of the piano but don't know where to get started? Are you ready to start sight reading music like a pro, but don't...

DCD is often an overlooked developmental problem by the clinical practitioners. There is extensive evidence that focuses on the difficulties that these children face to organize ADL, they experience highest trouble to plan and organize themselves in accordance to a new and unfamiliar as...

Music and Sound in the Life and Literature of James Joyce: Joyces Noyces offers a fresh perspective on the Irish writer James Joyce's much-noted obsession with music. This book provides an overview of a century-old critical tradition focused on Joyce and music, as well...

Understand Music Theory An easy-read, educational beginners' guide to learning musicHave you wanted to learn more about music?Are you considering pursuing it as a passion? Are you lost on what to do and where to start?If even one of these questions was yes from...

Reading for the Contemporary Guitarist, Volume 3 is intended for guitarists who are preparing for a professional career in music. Assuming you are already familiar with the materials in Volumes 1 and 2, this book will arm you with the tools you need to...