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Learn and remember djembe rhythms the easy way, with visual box notation. Whether you are a beginning drummer mystified by complex traditional polyrhythms, or an advanced drummer seeking a ready resource of new rhythm inspirations, Roots Jam 4 provides you with an essential and...

Questions, more than anything, have fueled this book: What is music? How far back can we trace its history? Why does music affect us so profoundly? Who are the people who have shaped the course of music through the ages? Müller pursues these questions...

Beatbox for Beginners: Unlock Your Voice, Find Your Flow, and Join the Rhythm RevolutionHave you ever felt the urge to create music using nothing but your voice? To turn everyday sounds into rhythmic masterpieces? Welcome to the world of beatboxing-a vibrant, expressive art form...

The EPMOW Genre volumes contain entries on the genres of music that have been or currently are popular in countries and communities all over the world. Included are discussions on cultural, historical and geographic origins; technical musical characteristics; instrumentation and use of voice; lyrics...

Gamelan and American academic institutions have maintained their close association for more than sixty years. Elizabeth A. Clendinning illuminates what it means to devote one's life to world music ensemble education by examining the career and community surrounding the Balinese-American performer and teacher I...

Author: Thierry PecouISBN-13: 9798350176445Publisher: SchottLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2026Pages: 24Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.17lbsSize: 11.75h x 8.25w x 0.08d

Three of the five movements of the Requiem memorialize specific catastrophes of the 20th century. The first movement mourns the life, times and brutal murder of Steven Biko, the South African leader of the Black Consciousness Movement. Movement II addresses the unspeakable losses of...

The Musical Heritage of Al-Andalus is a critical account of the history of Andalusian music in Iberia from the Islamic conquest of 711 to the final expulsion of the Moriscos (Spanish Muslims converted to Christianity) in the early 17th century. This volume presents the...

Embark on a Melodic Expedition Across the Globe Imagine a journey that not only takes you around the world but also lets you experience the heart and soul of every destination through its music and festivals. World Beats: Your Passport to Music and Festivals...

Spain's musical history has often resided on - or been consigned to - the margins of historical narratives about mainstream European culture. As a result, Spanish music is universally popular but seldom well understood outside Iberia. This volume offers, for the first time in...

French Music Since Berlioz explores key developments in French classical music during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This volume draws on the expertise of a range of French music scholars who provide their own perspectives on particular aspects of the subject. Déirdre Donnellon's introduction...

Eurovision's evolution from a 1956 broadcast experiment to Europe's defining musical spectacle, tracing politics, technology, performances, and the contest's enduring cultural appeal.Seventy years after its debut, the Eurovision Song Contest finally receives a full, detailed biography. In Eurovision: The Story of Europe's Greatest Show,...

The political control of music in the Third Reich has been analysed from several perspectives, and with ever increasing sophistication. However, music in Germany after 1945 has not received anything like the same treatment. Rather, there is an assumption that two separate musical cultures...

During the last twenty years, the rest of the world has come to focus on the music of Finland. The seemingly disproportionate creative energy from this small country defies prevalent trends in the production of classical music. Tim Howell provides an engaging investigation into...

Little is known outside of Russia about the nation's musical heritage prior to the nineteenth century. Western scholarship has tended to view the history of Russian music as not beginning until the end of the eighteenth century. Marina Ritzarev's work shows this interpretation to...

Popular World Music, Third Edition introduces students to popular music genres and artists from around the world. Andrew Shahriari discusses international music styles familiar to most students--reggae, salsa, K-pop, and more--with a comprehensive listening-oriented introduction to mainstream musical culture emanating primarily from the United...

Warlpiri songs hold together the ceremonies that structure and bind social relationships, and encode detailed information about Warlpiri country, cosmology and kinship. Today, only a small group of the oldest generations has full knowledge of ceremonial songs and their associated meanings, and there is...

Across a century of colonial encounters, cultural awakenings, and political revolutions, Ugandan musicians blended diverse traditions to create a sound as expansive as the Equator itself. Echoes of the Pearl follows the fascinating journey of Uganda's music, from the Kabaka's royal courts to rumba...

Chinese composers have a growing presence on international stages, and Mandarin-language vocal repertoire is becoming richer and more prevalent. Singing in Mandarin is the definitive guide for singing in Mandarin. The first part focuses on the sounds of the Chinese language while the second...

This book considers the activities and writings of early song collectors and proto-ethnomusicologists, memoirists, and other "musical travelers" in 19th-century France. Each of the book's discrete but interrelated chapters is devoted to a different geographic and discursive site of empire, examining French representations of...

An oral history chronicling Scotland's vibrant and transformative indie music scene from 1983 to 1995By 1983, many of Scotland's post-punk bands had broken up or moved south to chase the major labels in London. That vacuum was filled by an influx of young musicians...

In this pioneering, erudite study of a pivotal era in the arts, Walter Frisch examines music and its relationship to early modernism in the Austro-German sphere. Seeking to explore the period on its own terms, Frisch questions the common assumption that works created from...

Designing Eurovision is the first book-length study of the visual and design elements of the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC).As a unique visual phenomenon and commonly associated with spectacle performances, the scenography of Eurovision is in reality far more nuanced and layered, balancing acts of...

Music of Japan Today examines cross-cultural confluences in contemporary Japanese art-music through multiple approaches from twenty international composers, performers, and scholars. Like the format of the MOJT symposia (1992-2007) held in the United States, the book is in two parts. In Part I, three...

Author: Michaël AbecassisISBN-10: 1527503542ISBN-13: 9781527503540Publisher: Cambridge Scholars PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/24/2017Pages: 688Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.05lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.90w x 1.80d

Proceedings of the International Conference of Composers attended by SCEG at the Stratford Festival, Stratford, Ontario in August 1960.Author: John BeckwithISBN-10: 1442651776ISBN-13: 9781442651777Publisher: University of Toronto PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/15/1978Pages: 188Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.69lbsSize: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.40d

(Schott). Why was Orff-Schulwerk created? What are its founding principles? How do these shape our understanding of Elemental Music and Dance Pedagogy? This handbook for both students and teachers provides the answers. It includes: The genesis of Orff-Schulwerk; Development of Orff instruments; Educational principles...

(Willis). Eight delightful stories in song for piano students to play (and sing)! Titles: A Is for Apple * Daniel in the Lions' Den * Esther's Plea * Joseph's Dreams * Let My People Go * Noah and the Ark * The Pharaoh's Daughter...

Paris, the City of Light, is one of the most romantic cities in the world. The millions of visitors which flock to the French capital every year follow in the footsteps of countless artists, writers and composers who for centuries have been drawn to...

Popular Music of the Olden Time is a book that contains a collection of ancient songs, ballads, and dance tunes that are illustrative of the national music of England. This book was written by William Chappell and is the first volume in a series....

Compiled by one of New Zealand's most popular music columnists, this listing will delight pop music fans everywhere. The choices included cover a broad range and present an eclectic taste. Each entry is accompanied by some of the most entertaining writing about music and...

Author: Irish Academic Pre Irish Academic PressISBN-10: 0716524309ISBN-13: 9780716524304Publisher: Irish Academic PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/1988Pages: 1Format: Hardcover

Programming the Absolute discusses the notorious opposition between absolute and program music as a true dialectic that lies at the heart of nineteenth-century German music. Beginning with Beethoven, Berthold Hoeckner traces the aesthetic problem of musical meaning in works by Schumann, Wagner, Liszt, Mahler,...

Vincent and the Givnology Charmony Division team have combined over half a century of expert experience in performing, composing, arranging and teaching. From this comes practical tips and techniques for a diverse array of musical and cultural uses. World Music Class is a very...

The north-east of England in the Eighteenth century was a region where many different kinds of musical activity thrived and where a wide range of documentation survives. Such activities included concert-giving, teaching, tuning and composition, as well as music in the theatre and in...

Originally published in 1999, this volume seeks to expand and reassess our current knowledge of musical life in Britain during the nineteenth century, as well as to challenge the preconceptions of earlier attitudes and scholarship. Author: Bennett ZonISBN-10: 0367146223ISBN-13: 9780367146221Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/05/2019Pages: 324Format:...

A group of resourceful kids start "solution-seekers.com," a website where "cybervisitors" can get answers to questions that trouble them. But when one questioner asks the true meaning of Christmas, the kids seek to unravel the mystery by journeying back through the prophecies of the...

Niemen Enigmatic is the fourth album in the career of Czeslaw Niemen, arguably one of the greatest Polish musicians of all time (from pop and rock to jazz-rock and avant-garde). The book asks how significant was this album? How enduring is its popularity? Has...

Melbourne, 1971: radical counterculture, hippies, opposition to the Vietnam War and consumerism. The birth of Oz blues rock. Influenced by American blues after Robert Johnson, parallel to developments with Paul Butterfield, the Bluesbreakers and Canned Heat, Chain's music also developed in distinct ways, taking...

As a measure of individual and collective identity, music offers both striking metaphors and tangible data for understanding societies in transition-and nowhere is this clearer than in the recent case of the Eastern Bloc. Retuning Culture presents an extraordinary picture of this phenomenon. This...

Musicscapes: The Multiple Emotions of Indian Music is a visual diary, comprised of 30 years of photo documentation. It explores Indian music through the lens of the passionate photographer Shobha Deepak Singh. Shobha is a chronicler, dedicated to representing the musical zeitgeist of modern...

The extraordinary rise of musicology in Ireland over the last 20 years has generated an increased interest in the sister discipline of music theory and analysis. Irish Musical Analysis highlights this development and presents a substantial cross-section of the current state of the discipline...

The seventeenth century was a period of profound change in the history of music. In this volume Lorenzo Bianconi considers the radical developments of the century as long-lived musical traditions died out and others were created in response to new social functions. This period...

This volume of essays on Spanish music in the eighteenth century covers stage genres, orchestral and instrumental music and vocal music (both sacred and secular). Traditional musicology has tended to see the Spanish eighteenth century as a period of decline, but this volume shows...

The first thorough exploration of musical life in nineteenth-century New York City, with topics ranging from military bands and immigrant impresarios to visits from operatic diva Adelina Patti. The musical scene in mid-nineteenth century New York City, contrary to common belief, was exceptionally vibrant....

A quarter of a century ago, glasnost opened the door for a new look at Russian emigre culture unimpeded by the sterile concepts of Cold War cultural politics. Easier access to archives and a comprehensive approach to culture as a multi-faceted phenomenon, not restricted...

The word 'kaiso' is an acclamation, like Bravo! Rooted in African customs, the word was used to express satisfaction about powerful expression of literary and performing art. The Caribbean is the birthplace of Calypso. In fact, since Calypso landed on the West, following the...

Includes many beautifully prepared scores, extensive music glossaries, classical scores made easy and step by step Afro-Latin / Caribbean percussion. Scores Included: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star / Baa Baa Black Sheep / ABCs - Form Figure #1 Resolmilafatimila elegant sequence circle of 5ths -...

This book challenges commonplace conceptions of musical conservatism during Germany's Weimar Republic (1918-1933). Its primary goal is to offer scrutiny of uncritical links often made by musicologists and historians between musical conservatism and political conservatism of the era. It does so through a critical...

The chronological range covered by the individual essays is more than two hundred years, from the Classical Enlightenment to the early twenty-first century. Some of the studies encompassed by this volume undertake the analysis of one composer's settings of a particular poet's work -...