Music-History & Criticism

Applied Forms: A Sequel to Musical Form is a book written by Ebenezer Prout and originally published in 1895. The book is a continuation of Prout's previous work on musical form and provides a comprehensive analysis of various musical forms and their applications. The...

""Letters to a Young Lady, On the Art of Playing the Pianoforte"" is a book written by Carl Czerny in 1851. In this book, Czerny provides a comprehensive guide to playing the piano for young women who are interested in pursuing music. The book...

Te Deum is a book written by Francesco Antonio Urio and published in 1902. It is a religious text that explores the history and significance of the Te Deum hymn, which is a traditional Christian hymn of praise and thanksgiving. The book delves into...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

Violin Tone and Violin Makers is a book written by Moya Hidalgo and originally published in 1916. It is a comprehensive guide to the art of violin making and the science of producing the perfect violin tone. The book covers a range of topics,...

""El Capitan: Comic Opera In Three Acts"" is a musical work composed by John Philip Sousa and first performed in 1896. The story follows the adventures of a Spanish nobleman named Don Medigua, who disguises himself as the bandit El Capitan to rescue his...

"The Musical Year Book of the United States Season of 1887-1888, Volume 5" offers a comprehensive snapshot of the American musical landscape during that period. This meticulously compiled yearbook serves as an invaluable resource for historians, musicologists, and anyone interested in the cultural life...

Volume 2 of "Monographien Moderner Musiker" delves into the lives and works of modern musicians. This historical volume offers insights into the composers and performers who shaped the musical landscape of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Exploring the individual contributions and artistic...

"Modern Music: Being a Book Three of a Narrative History of Music" by Edward Burlingame Hill offers a detailed examination of the evolution of music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This volume explores the transition from Romanticism to the diverse styles...

This book presents the most recent findings of twenty of the foremost European and North American researchers into the music of the Middle Ages. The chronological scope of their topics is wide, from the ninth to the fifteenth century. The findings presented in this...

Today, jazz history is dominated by iconic figures who have taken on an almost God-like status. From Satchmo to Duke, Bird to Trane, these legendary jazzmen form the backbone of the jazz tradition. Jazz icons not only provide musicians and audiences with figureheads to...

Music, Piety and Political Power in 17th Century Salzburg traces the role of sacred music in the service of politics at the archbishopric of Salzburg, one of many jurisdictions that made up the Holy Roman Empire in the second half of the seventeenth century....

Delve into the heart of Wagnerian drama with George Ainslie Hight's insightful essay, "Wagner's Tristan und Isolde: An Essay on the Wagnerian Drama." This meticulous print republication explores one of opera's most enduring and influential works: "Tristan und Isolde." Hight's study offers a considered...

This compelling book delves into the world of music, specifically focusing on the great composers, violinists, and the history of the violin. The author provides valuable insights into the world of music and its celebrated masters, making this book an essential resource for music...

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,...

In Listening for Africa David F. Garcia explores how a diverse group of musicians, dancers, academics, and activists engaged with the idea of black music and dance's African origins between the 1930s and 1950s. Garcia examines the work of figures ranging from Melville J....

This book presents composer Richard Wagner's formative ideas in a systematic and coherent manner and examines their development and evolution as reflected in his prose, poetry, letters, and music-dramas.Author: Alan David AberbachISBN-10: 076182524XISBN-13: 9780761825241Publisher: University Press of AmericaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2003Pages: 466Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.31lbsSize: 8.40h...

American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) was formed in Kansas City, Missouri, on February 24, 1959, by 35 choral directors from around the United States. They aimed to create an organization that would meet the professional needs of all choir directors. To achieve this goal,...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

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...

Schumann's Late Style is devoted to the study of Robert Schumann's little-known music from the 1850s. The reason most often given for these works having been considered lesser achievements than the earlier song and piano cycles is that Schumann's mental illness had a detrimental...

This book is a collection of essays on various aspects of the life and work of Brahms. There are three main areas of focus - biographical, documentary and analytical. Some essays concentrate on one element, others blend all three.Author: Robert PascallISBN-10: 0521088364ISBN-13: 9780521088367Publisher: Cambridge...

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...

This volume brings together essays on J. S. Bach and members of his family by a distinguished group of scholars. The essays address Bach's compositions, his knowledge of the musical past, his study of contemporaries, and the cultivation of his own music by later...

This interdisciplinary collection examines musical culture in the towns and cities of Renaissance Europe and the New World. Although musicologists have already investigated such topics, lack of familiarity with (urban) historical methodologies has often resulted in failure to explore fully the ways in which...

"Damage Incorporated" is the first book about the legendary heavy metal band Metallica that provides a detailed exploration of the group's music and its place within the wider popular music landscape. Written with a broad readership in mind, it offers an interdisciplinary study that...

This book theorizes musical aspects of changes that have overtaken major cities in the developed world over past decades. Drawing on musicology, music theory, urban geography and historical materialism, Krims maps changes in how music represents cities and also in how music sounds and...

Distills the work of architects who looked to artistic disciplines for inspiration into seven space types, from metaphorical to digital space.Author: Aarati KanekarISBN-10: 0415898927ISBN-13: 9780415898928Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/22/2015Pages: 190Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.40d

Historically, music was long classified as both art and science. Aspects of music--from the mathematics of tuning to the music of the celestial spheres--were primarily studied as science until the seventeenth century. In the nineteenth century, although scientists were less interested in the music...

A study of the networks of opera production and critical discourse that shaped Italian cultural identity during and after Unification. Opera's role in shaping Italian identity has long fascinated both critics and scholars. Whereas the romance of the Risorgimento once spurred analyses of how...

The German-American relationship was special long before the Cold War; it was rooted not simply in political actions, but also long-term traditions of cultural exchange that date back to the nineteenth century. Between 1850 and 1910, the United States was a rising star in...

Abramo Basevi published his study of Verdi's operas in Florence in 1859, in the middle of the composer's career. The first thorough, systematic examination of Verdi's operas, it covered the twenty works produced between 1842 and 1857--from Nabucco and Macbeth to Il trovatore, La...

The Oxford Handbook of the British Musical provides a comprehensive academic survey of British musical theatre offering both a historical account of the musical's development from 1728 and a range of in-depth critical analyses of the unique forms and features of British musicals, which...

Becoming commercially available in the mid 1960s, video quickly became integral to the intense experimentalism of New York City's music and art scenes. The medium was able to record image and sound at the same time, which allowed composers to visualize their music and...

During the years preceding the composition of Tristan and Isolde, Wagner's aesthetics underwent a momentous turnaround, principally as a result of his discovery of Schopenhauer. Many of Schopenhauer's ideas, especially those regarding music's metaphysical significance, resonated with patterns of thought that had long been...

English comedy from the fifteenth to the early seventeenth century abounds in song lyrics, but most of the original tunes were thought to have been lost--until now. By deducing that playwrights borrowed melodies from songs they already knew, Ross W. Duffin has used the...

Why is classical music predominantly the preserve of the white middle classes? Contemporary associations between classical music and social class remain underexplored, with classical music primarily studied as a text rather than as a practice until recent years. In order to answer this question,...

A comprehensive presentation of the techniques and aesthetics of composition with sound particles.Author: Curtis RoadsISBN-10: 0262681544ISBN-13: 9780262681544Publisher: MIT PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/20/2004Pages: 409Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.72lbsSize: 8.98h x 7.98w x 0.80d

Avenue Breakdown uncovers the rich yet often overlooked legacy of Black music in Shreveport, Louisiana--a city better known for country tunes and the Louisiana Hayride. This compelling history shines a spotlight on the city's vibrant postwar scene, where blues, R&B, jazz, soul, funk, and...

Avenue Breakdown uncovers the rich yet often overlooked legacy of Black music in Shreveport, Louisiana--a city better known for country tunes and the Louisiana Hayride. This compelling history shines a spotlight on the city's vibrant postwar scene, where blues, R&B, jazz, soul, funk, and...

Illuminates how Romantic aesthetic principles manifest themselves through musical sound and structure.In Romantic Voices Douglass Seaton explores the underlying subjectivism whereby nineteenth-century musical works depend on and manifest the ideology and epistemology of Romanticism. Listeners and students have often imagined in a too-casual way...

"This is an irresistible book that will spark a thousand arguments--and that's just on the day it's published. I'm already making my list. I haven't had so much fun with a work of criticism in years."-- Greil Marcus, author of The History of Rock...

Kaleidoscopic culture critic Chuck Klosterman rewrites the history of reality, built off a question that has never been asked or (in all likelihood) even considered: What if Phillip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle was actually about rock music? The Velvet Underground...

Unusual Occurrences on the Road to Unlimited Devotion is a collection of stories, perspectives, poetry, and opinions about the Grateful Dead scene as told by over 750 Deadheads, spanning roughly 30 years of the unique culture of the band and its fans, the Deadheads....

On March 20, 2026, seven voices return.BTS named their comeback album after a six-hundred-year-old Korean folk song - a word that even Korean linguists cannot fully translate. Four million pre-orders in the first week. A world tour spanning thirty-four cities. The entire planet is...

Hip-hop has crossed boundaries in recent years--from comic books (Into the Spiderverse) to Broadway (Hamilton). For over fifty years, hip-hop has grown as a cultural icon. There's no escaping it. How does hip-hop fit within Christianity? Can hip-hop beats be sanctified? Can perverse lyrics...

Hip-hop has crossed boundaries in recent years--from comic books (Into the Spiderverse) to Broadway (Hamilton). For over fifty years, hip-hop has grown as a cultural icon. There's no escaping it. How does hip-hop fit within Christianity? Can hip-hop beats be sanctified? Can perverse lyrics...

We find ourselves at a transitional time in culture, encouraged from the youngest age to apply defining labels to ourselves. Sometimes it seems that everybody is fighting for the smallest pigeonhole. An alternative paradigm, celebrating complexity and multiplicity in personal identity, may be found...

Pink Floyd: Experimentation & Identity Era (1969-1971)How uncertainty forged immortalityBefore The Dark Side of the Moon, there was struggle.Before certainty, there was collapse.Before immortality, there was experimentation.This book explores the most misunderstood and decisive period in Pink Floyd's history - the years between Syd...