Music-History & Criticism

This book is a music-theoretical and critical-theoretical study of late tonal music, and, in particular, of the music of Wagner's Götterdämmerung.Author: J. P. E. Harper-Scott,Oliver ChandlerISBN-10: 1032025069ISBN-13: 9781032025063Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/26/2025Pages: 90Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.28lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.21d

Leos Janácek (1854-1928) occupied a pre-eminent position in Moravian (and wider Czech) culture, not only as a composer but also as a folksong collector, journalist, educator and nationalist. One of the greatest and most original composers of the early twentieth century, Leos Janácek (1854-1928)...

In What Music Did, experimental filmmaker and violinist Tony Conrad explores in depth the relationship between music and mathematics. A work of decades that was left unfinished at the time of his death in 2016, Conrad's expansive history of the interrelationship of music and...

A study of the deep history of the Wagnerian environmental imagination. Richard Wagner's operas are bursting with environmental imagery, from tittering birds to flowing rivers to towering trees. In Richard Wagner's Political Ecology, Kirsten S. Paige asks where Wagner's environmental imagination came from, how...

This book establishes the cultural background to the productions of Milton's Comus that were staged in the 1740s by Baptist Noel, 4th Earl of Gainsborough, at Exton Hall, his country seat in the East Midlands of England. The author reveals that Handel's visit in...

Riding the Rollercoaster tells the story of how artists and bands carve out long and successful careers in the music business, despite the numerous pitfalls and pratfalls. Who lasts in the music industry -- and why? The music business is defined by volatility. For...

This book explores five of Hopper's films to show how this deep engagement with music to build character and setting continued throughout his career, as Hopper used folk, punk, hip-hop, and jazz to shape the worlds of his films in ways that influenced other...

In the period between the Second World War and the present, there has been an extraordinary rise in the production of medievalist fantasy literature and film. This has been accompanied by the revival, performance and invention of medieval music. In this enterprise modern fantasies...

From Johnny Cash to Jay-Z, musicians have long used their voices to challenge the injustices of the prison system. Prison Song: Music and Incarceration in the United States reveals how musicians have confronted the prison system by telling the life stories of imprisoned individuals,...

Iconic Albums - John Lennon - John Lennon/Plastic Ono Bandby Richard WardDiscover the raw, uncompromising story behind one of the most emotionally powerful albums ever recorded. Iconic Albums - John Lennon - John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band is a deep, track-by-track exploration of John Lennon's...

Pianoforte Music - Its History, with Biographical Sketches and Critical Estimates of its ... is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1896. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking...

The Hymns and Songs of the Church - With an Introduction by Edward Farr is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1895. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking...

Songs and Ballads of the Southern People. 1861-1865 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1886. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres....

The Standard Cantatas - Their Stories, their Music, and their Composers is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1887. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine,...

Old English Popular Music - Vol. II is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1893. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As...

Richard Wagner and the Music of the Future - History and aesthetics is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1874. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition,...

Great Musical Composers - German, French and Italian is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1887. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres....

Violins and violin makers - Biographical dictionary of the great Italian artistes is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1866. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition,...

On Purity in Musical Art is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1877. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher...

Musical Notes - An annual critical record of important musical events. Fourth Edition (Jan. - Dec. 1889) is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1890. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel...

The Great Tone-Poets - Being short memoirs of the greater musical composers is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1874. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition,...

Music and Manners in the classical Period is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1898. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As...

Anecdotes of Great Musicians - three hundred anecdotes and biographical sketches of famous composers and performers is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1896. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and...

This volume contains a fascinating collection of observations by ancient writers as they were attempting to understand Music in its relationship with the world around them. The book begins with a discussion of Pythagoras (570-495 BC) who perceived a kinship between Music and astronomy,...

Comedy has been a feature of cinema since its inception. From mickey-moused accompaniments to slapstick scenes, ironic musical statements, clever musical allusions and jokes, well-worn sound effects, and even laugh tracks, sound has been integral to the development of the comedy on screen. This...

British composers were preoccupied with Germanic principles of sonata writing, despite also being influenced by late romantic music, French impressionism, Russian nationalism, Scriabin, British folk music, African-American music and neo-classicism. This study offers detailed commentary on key works, revealing influences and techniques and demonstrating...

Blue Öyster Cult On Track is a song-by-song analysis of the discography of Long Island's greatest sons, the Blue Öyster Cult. Dubbed "the thinking man's heavy metal band" and celebrated by critics, fans and musicians since their debut album in 1972, the band carved...

As well as providing a very readable and comprehensive study of the life and music of John Buckley,　Constellations also offers an up-to-date and informative catalogue of compositions, a complete discography, translations of set texts and the full libretto of his chamber opera, making this...

A pioneering study of the Shaker west's opening generation and an analytical reconstruction of the first Ohio Shaker hymnal The arrival of the Shakers in Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana in the decades after 1805 saw a substantial escalation in the movement. In Richard McNemar,...

Player Piano Treasury brings to the reader the story of the vast player piano industry in America which at one point was almost a necessity in the household. Now, as a result of endless technological advances in home entertainment, it is all but forgotten....

Originally published 25 years ago, Watermelon Wine was praised for its honest, unsentimental examination of the compassion as well as the passion behind authentic country music. Author Frye Gaillard looked at the commercialization of the Grand Ole Opry; the tradition-minded rebels such as Hank...

By the middle of the nineteenth century Lowell Mason (1792-1872) was probably the most famous native-born musician in America. Concentrating almost exclusively on vocal music, he built a spectacular reputation as a choir director and teacher. He published many collections of sacred music that...

The Stepford Five were a rock band from Columbus, Ohio featuring Keith Jenkins (vocals, guitar) Jason Dziak (guitar, keyboards, vocals), Tim Minneci (bass, vocals) and Mark Kovitya (drums). TS5 originally formed in 1998, the band stopped playing shows in early 2007 and later stopped...

Author: Robert Ignatius LetellierISBN-10: 1527534812ISBN-13: 9781527534810Publisher: Cambridge Scholars PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/2019Pages: 353Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.95lbsSize: 11.40h x 8.10w x 0.90d

The treatment of life's most difficult problem by classical composers. Includes, as well, a large set of quotations on mortality. Readers say: "strangely comforting." "Takes on a taboo and breaks it down." "Helped me get past the loss of a loved one." Additionally, provides...

Author and film documentarian Abraham Santiago, unveils the definitive history of contemporary acappella within the confines of rhythm and blues vocal group singing. Santiago captures the spirit of the 1960s, and beyond revealing the birth of acappella as a new contemporary pop genre. With...

Eurock - Music & the Second Culture CrashIn the past few years, there has been a paradigm shift in the role music plays in society. In the beginning blues, jazz folk and rock for the most part reflected a particular cultural tendency and appealed...

Musical and artistic systems have continuity, growth, and depth, or layers (strata) of elements involved in their implementation. Philosophical questions arise during the creative process that prove to be unavoidable to both the artist during performance, as well as to the analyst later on,...

Music is a means of unifying and a means of distinguishing; a means of establishing and a means of revolting; a means of being intensely present and a means of escape. This book, with its several stories of the musical occasion in extreme diversity...

An Anthology of Australian Albums offers an overview of Australian popular music through the lens of significant, yet sometimes overlooked, Australian albums. Chapters explore the unique qualities of each album within a broader history of Australian popular music. Artists covered range from the older...

The lead singer on Supercell's eponymous first album is Hatsune Miku-a Vocaloid character created by Crypton Future Media with voice synthesizers. A virtual superstar, over 100,000 songs, uploaded mostly by fans, are attributed to her. Supercell is a Japanese creator music group with the...

The Process That Is the World grapples with John Cage not just as a composer, but as a philosopher advocating for an ontology of difference in keeping with the kind posited by Gilles Deleuze. Cage's philosophy is not simply a novel method for composition,...

The first book of its kind in English, Beyond No Future: Cultures of German Punk explores the texts and contexts of German punk cultures. Notwithstanding its "no future" sloganeering, punk has had a rich and complex life in German art and letters, in German...

It has been sixty years since Rock 'n' Roll exploded into the mainstream, yet we remain limited in our understanding of how its bawdy excesses absorbed into the annals of mass popularity in such a short amount of time. Mickey Vallee asks: what if...

Popular music, today, has supposedly collapsed into a 'retromania' which, according to leading critic Simon Reynolds, has brought a 'slow and steady fading of the artistic imperative to be original.' Meanwhile, in the estimation of philosopher Alain Badiou, a significant political event will always...

"Southerness" has become less and less about being born and raised in the southeastern United States and more about embracing the pride and protest long central to The South. This book explores this contemporary southern identity through an ethnographic analysis of southern rock music...

Eurock - Music & Second Culture Post Millennium Archie Patterson's wonderful fanzine, EUROCK, is unique in the world of rock fanzines, not only for its breadth and depth, but also for its incredible 20-year run. Music and words are different mediums, and it isn't...

Author: Milton E. BrenerISBN-10: 1493189344ISBN-13: 9781493189342Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/03/2014Pages: 202Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.67lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.46d

The NiteKings is a biography of the legendary Detroit Sounds cover band. They have been singing for over five decades and have spent the last thirty years performing in Las Vegas Hotels and casinos. The story gives a history of the the world of...

In Musicophilia in Mumbai Tejaswini Niranjana traces the place of Hindustani classical music in Mumbai throughout the long twentieth century as the city moved from being a seat of British colonial power to a vibrant postcolonial metropolis. Drawing on historical archives, newspapers, oral histories,...