Music-History & Criticism

Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber (1782-1871), the most amiable French composer of the 19th century, came to his abilities late in life. After a stalled commercial career, he studied with Cherubini. His first works were not a success, but La Bergere Chateleine (1820), written at the age...

Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber (1782-1871), the most amiable French composer of the 19th century, came to his abilities late in life. After a stalled commercial career, he studied with Cherubini. His first works were not a success, but La Bergere Chateleine (1820), written at the age...

Music Made Easy: The Rudiments Of Music, Explained In A Concise And Novel Manner (1879) is a book written by Robert Challoner that aims to provide a clear and easy-to-understand introduction to the basics of music theory. The book covers a wide range of...

""Love's Invention Or The Recreation In Vogue: An Excellent New Ballad Upon The Masquerades"" is a book written by Alexander Pope in 1718. The book is a ballad that explores the theme of love and the popular trend of masquerades during the time period....

Five Thousand Musical Terms: A Complete Dictionary of Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, French, German, Spanish, English is a comprehensive reference book for musicians, music students, and music enthusiasts. Written by John Stowell Adams and originally published in 1861, this book provides an extensive list...

Hints On Singing is a comprehensive guide to vocal technique and performance, written by renowned singing teacher Manuel Garcia in 1894. The book covers a wide range of topics, including breathing, tone production, articulation, phrasing, and interpretation, and is designed to help singers of...

""The Folk Song and Dance and the Voice as a Solo Instrument"" by Conway Walker is a comprehensive guide to the traditional music of the British Isles. The book explores the rich history and cultural significance of folk songs and dances, as well as...

Spanish-American Folk-Songs is a book written by Eleanor Hague that explores the rich cultural heritage of traditional folk songs from Spanish-speaking countries in the Americas. The book is a collection of lyrics and translations of over 50 songs, including popular tunes from Mexico, Puerto...

Russian Folk-Songs As Sung By The People And Peasant Wedding Ceremonies Customary In Northern And Central Russia is a book written by Eugenie Lineff. The book is a collection of traditional Russian folk songs and descriptions of the wedding ceremonies that are customary in...

Ceremonial Songs of the Creek and Yuchi Indians with Music Transcribed by Jacob D. Sapir is a book that explores the musical traditions of two Native American tribes, the Creek and Yuchi. The book is written by Frank G. Speck and includes music transcribed...

Northern Ute Music is a book by Frances Densmore that explores the music of the Northern Ute tribe in North America. The book provides a detailed account of the traditional songs and dances of the tribe, as well as the instruments used to create...

""How Theodore Thomas Brought The People Nearer To Music"" is a book written by Orison Swett Marden that chronicles the life and career of Theodore Thomas, a renowned conductor and music educator in the late 19th century. The book explores the ways in which...

(Boosey & Hawkes Chamber Music). Retracing is excerpted from Asko Concerto (2000). First performed by Peter Kolkay at Weill Recital Hall, New York, in 2002. Duration: 3 minutes.Author: Elliott CarterISBN-10: 142341036XISBN-13: 9781423410362Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes IncLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2006Pages: 8Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 11.70h x 8.70w...

(Vocal Collection). Four songs on texts by Toni Morrison. Composed for Jessye Norman.Author: Richard DanielpourISBN-10: 1423408683ISBN-13: 9781423408680Publisher: Associated Music Publishers, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 10/22/2012Pages: 20Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 11.70h x 8.80w x 0.30d

""Carols Their Origin, Music and Connection with Mystery Plays"" by William J. Phillips is a comprehensive book that explores the origins and evolution of Christmas carols, their music, and their connection with mystery plays. The book delves into the history of carols, tracing their...

""Choctaw Music"" is a comprehensive study of the music and culture of the Choctaw people, written by Frances Densmore. The book explores the history, traditions, and musical practices of the Choctaw, a Native American tribe from the southeastern United States. Densmore's research includes interviews...

First published in 2004, this book demonstrates that while Britain produced many fewer instrumental virtuosi than its foreign neighbours, there developed a more serious and widespread interest in the cultivation of music throughout the nineteenth century. Taking a predominantly historical approach, the book moves...

Books on Handel written by musicians already abound, but musicians as a rule take more interest in the means by which an end is attained than the end itself. They tell us a great deal about the methods by which a composer expresses himself,...

This innovative book continues David Damschroder's radical reformulation of harmonic theory, presenting a dynamic exploration of harmony in the compositions of Mendelssohn and Schumann, two key figures of nineteenth-century classical music. This volume's introductory chapters creatively introduce the basic tenets of the system, with...

This book examines the succession of events towards the potential standardization of the music for "The Star-Spangled Banner" from an initial letter to President Roosevelt in 1907 to the 1958 congressional hearings on the National Anthem, and the later work of the Swiss-Born American...

Discover the early life and musical journey of George Frideric Handel in Thomas Tapper's "Child's Own Book of Great Musicians: Handel." This engaging juvenile biography explores the formative years of one of history's most celebrated composers. Journey back in time and learn about Handel's...

Henry C. Lahee's classic survey of pianists and their music is a must-read for anyone interested in classical music history. From Bach and Beethoven to Liszt and Rachmaninoff, Famous Pianists of To-Day and Yesterday covers the lives, works, and legacies of the great pianists...

Did you know that a composer signed the Declaration of Independence? America has a rich musical heritage, but it is in danger of falling into an undeserved oblivion. Classical music, jazz, film scores, and the masterpieces of musical theater are an essential part of...

The fourth biennial conference of the Society for Eighteenth-Century Music was held at St. Francis College in Brooklyn Heights, New York, April 8-11, 2010. This volume contains a selection of ten papers read at the conference.Author: Margaret R. Butler,SecmISBN-10: 098198505XISBN-13: 9780981985053Publisher: Steglein Publishing, IncorporatedLanguage:...

Hermeticist Fabre d'Olivet's classic study of music as sacred art and its profound effects on the soul. Ever since Pythagoras demonstrated the mathematical basis of music and its profound effect on the soul, the Western esoteric tradition has been deeply involved with the science...

This book is the first comprehensive study of the neo-Gregorian chants for the Proper of the Mass that circulated in the Beneventan region between the tenth and the thirteenth centuries. This extensive repertory demonstrates in extraordinary ways the struggles of local cantors to mediate...

This collection includes previously published and unpublished essays on modern music, postmodern musicology and literary theory, and analytical studies of Haydn and Schubert, written by the distinguished composer and Columbia University professor emeritus George Edwards.Author: George EdwardsISBN-10: 0810862034ISBN-13: 9780810862036Publisher: Scarecrow PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/15/2008Pages: 188Format:...

The importance of the troubadour Raimon Vidal as poet and grammarian has been recognized since the thirteenth century. This volume presents Vidal's long poem on the decline of the jongleur's art, along with a prose translation, notes, and an index of names mentioned in...

The writing down of music is one of the triumphant technologies of the West. Without writing, the performance of music involves some combination of memory and improvisation. Isidore of Seville famously wrote that "unless sounds are remembered by man, they perish, for they cannot...

Using landscape as its unifying concept, this engaging book explores orchestral music that represents real and imagined physical and cultural spaces, natural forces, and humans and wildlife. Spanning continents and centuries, David Knight links contrasting forms of music through unifying themes of time and...

Race, politics, and opera production during apartheid South Africa intersect in this historiographic work on the Eoan Group, a "coloured" cultural organization that performed opera in the Cape. The La Traviata Affair charts Eoan's opera activities from the group's inception in 1933 until the...

In this book, Susan McClary examines the mechanisms through which seventeenth-century musicians simulated extreme affective states--desire, divine rapture, and ecstatic pleasure. She demonstrates how every major genre of the period, from opera to religious music to instrumental pieces based on dances, was part of...

In 1949, immigrant recording engineer Moses Asch embarked on a lifelong project: documenting the world of sound produced by mankind, via a small record label called Folkways Records. By the time of his death in 1986, he had amassed an archive of over 2,200...

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:...

Who inspired Johannes Brahms in his art of writing music? In this book, Jacquelyn E. C. Sholes provides a fresh look at the ways in which Brahms employed musical references to works of earlier composers in his own instrumental music. By analyzing newly identified...

Departing from the traditional German school of music theorists, Michael Klein injects a unique French critical theory perspective into the framework of music and meaning. Using primarily Lacanian notions of the symptom, that unnamable jouissance located in the unconscious, and the registers of subjectivity...

Spanning over 1,000 separate performances, The Music of Bill Monroe presents a complete chronological list of all of Bill Monroe's commercially released sound and visual recordings. Each chapter begins with a narrative describing Monroe's life and career at that point, bringing in producers, sidemen,...

A lively and revelatory exploration of the history of the countertenor by Anthony Roth Costanzo, the Grammy Awardwinning star of Philip Glass's Akhnaten and "one of opera's biggest stars" (The New York Times). The sound of a countertenor, often described as ethereal and otherworldly,...

How does a man who once adored music beyond measure come to revile it as a form of tyranny? Throughout Pascal Quignard's distinguished literary career, music has been a recurring obsession. As a musician he organized the International Festival of Baroque Opera and Theatre...

From music journalist and cochief content officer at Billboard Jason Lipshutz, a captivating cultural history of the boy band sensation One Direction, featuring exclusive new interviews with their key collaborators. Over 70 million records sold worldwide. Multiple sold-out tours played to millions of screaming...

Growing sales numbers for cassette tapes in the Global North since the early 2010s have led mass media outlets to repeatedly proclaim a tape revival. Yet, the grassroots projects of devotees in niche punk, noise and hip-hop DIY music scenes have continuously upheld the...

In the heart of 1890s New Orleans, where music spilled from every street corner, a group of boys with paper-and-comb instruments, a homemade bass fiddle, and more energy than resources began to draw crowds. They called themselves the Razzy Dazzy Spasm Band.At the center...

Roky Erickson was a musical pioneer whose voice and vision helped define psychedelic rock and inspired generations of artists. From his early years as a Texas prodigy to fronting the groundbreaking 13th Floor Elevators, Roky created a sound that challenged conventions and left an...

Track Changes: The Origin Story of Canadian Music on the Internet (1990-2010) is the first book of its kind to document a cultural revolution in Canada, one now buried under broken URLs, corrupted hard drives, and discarded cell phones.Long before streaming services, viral hits,...

THE INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER Moving and powerful, this is a vivid portrait of the women who came together to form an orchestra in order to survive the horrors of Auschwitz. New York Times bestselling author of Les Parisiennes and That Woman: A Life...

The Doobie Brothers On Track tells the story of a band that helped define one of the most transformative decades in popular music. Formed in California in 1970, The Doobie Brothers blended blues, folk and R&B with tight harmonies and road-tested musicianship. Their early...

The life of an icon, in her own words. Joni Mitchell had a unique relationship with the BBC, making appearances on 'the beeb' throughout her career. An anonymous talent, a blossoming starlet, a white-hot star and a bona fide legend: the BBC had the...

This book is the first study of John Zorn's 'file card' works, with special focus made on the pieces Godard (1985), Spillane (1986), Interzone (2010), and Liber Novus (2010).Author: Maurice WindleburnISBN-10: 1032342889ISBN-13: 9781032342887Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/26/2025Pages: 140Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.33d

This unforgettable and in-depth exploration of The Beach Boys' incredible output during their early to peak years, from 1961 to 1967, interweaves recollections by group members, family, friends, and musical colleagues. David Beard compiles a wide range of fascinating and eye-opening conversations and original...

Author: Corey a. Washington (M Ed)ISBN-10: 179346233XISBN-13: 9781793462336Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/23/2019Pages: 532Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.55lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.07d