Music-History & Criticism

In People Get Ready, musicians, scholars, and journalists write about jazz since 1965, the year that Curtis Mayfield composed the famous civil rights anthem that gives this collection its title. The contributors emphasize how the political consciousness that infused jazz in the 1960s and...

Nick Cave is now widely recognized as a songwriter, musician, novelist, screenwriter, curator, critic, actor and performer. From the band, The Boys Next Door (1976-1980), to the spoken-word recording, The Secret Life of the Love Song (1998), to the recently acclaimed screenplay of The...

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. Wide too is the range...

A wide variety of essays by colleagues and former students reflect Professor Strunk's particular role as music historian, teacher, and a pre-eminent musicologist. Donald Grout provides the introduction and outlines the problems confronting musicology today. Other essays are devoted to early Christian music, Renaissance...

From Please Please Me to Abbey Road, this collection of essays tells the fascinating story of the Beatles - the creation of the band, their musical influences, and their cultural significance, with emphasis on their genesis and practices as musicians, songwriters, and recording artists....

18th-Century Piano Music focuses on the core composers of the 18th century repertoire. The book begins with an overview of the keyboard instruments that were in use during the period, and a chapter on performance practice. Then, the book proceeds through each major composer,...

Music in Ancient Greece and Rome provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of music from Homeric times to the Roman emperor Hadrian, presented in a concise and user-friendly way. Chapters include: * contexts in which music played a role * a detailed discussion...

The #1 text and digital media package helps students understand rock first and foremost as music, emphasizing concepts while building listening skills. New to the Sixth Edition is a carefully curated collection of licensed hits across all chapters and Listening Activities powered by InQuizitive....

Aimed at lay, student, and academic readers alike, this book concerns the imagination and, specifically, imagination in music. It opens with a discussion of the invalidity of the idea of the creative genius and the connected view that ideas originate just in the individual...

Andrei Tarkovsky's Sounding Cinema adds a new dimension to our understanding and appreciation of the work of Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986) through an exploration of the presence of music and sound in his films.The first comprehensive study in English concentrating on the soundtrack...

Made in Hong Kong: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of twentieth- and twenty-first century popular music in Hong Kong. The volume consists of essays by leading scholars in the field, and it...

Even after acquiring the Doctor of Laws degree from both the University of Berlin and the Sorbonne (discussed in a letter, along with the effects of living in Europe during the Nazi era), Konrad Wolff's enthusiasm for music was so overwhelming that he became...

Contents--What is Modern Music--and Why have People Never Liked It, at First?; Music has Always Told How People Think and Act; Dissonance--the Salt and Pepper of Music; Acoustics and the Development of Harmony; Impressionism--Debussy and His Followers; Schoenberg and Atonality; Music Written in Two...

Troubled urban neighborhoods and jazz-club havens were the backdrop of Gerald Majer's life growing up in sixties and seventies Chicago. The Velvet Lounge, an original hybrid of memoir, biography, and musical description, reflects this history and pursues a sustained meditation on jazz along with...

The metaphor of marriage often describes the relationship between poetry and music in both medieval and modern writing. While the troubadours stand out for their tendency to blur the distinction between speaking and singing, between poetry and song, a certain degree of semantic slippage...

Author: Eric BarrettISBN-13: 9798895151198Publisher: Diversion BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/04/2026Pages: 304Format: Hardcover

Out of the ruins of the South Bronx disaster came an artistically rich and deeply influential street culture: hip hop. From the start, hip hop coalesced around its music. Revered everywhere for its sound, style, force, rawness, and honesty, hip hop/rap music is one...

"It wasn't meant to make sense - it was meant to be everything."In 1968, The Beatles released a record that defied every rule they had written. The White Album - stark in appearance, sprawling in scope - was both an explosion and a revelation....

How the act of listening--whether overtly or covertly--fosters transdisciplinary connections and knowledge bases by way of an acoustic approachFollowing an iteration of the Listening Academy held in Bergen, the second volume of The Listening Biennial Reader is dedicated to the creative yet critical methodology...

The story of the making and legacy of Paul Simon's Graceland, drawn from exclusive interviews with musicians, producers, record label staff, and more, written by an award-winning journalist who was a member of the Graceland tour management team. In 1984, Paul Simon was at...

The irresistible story of a one-man cultural phenomenon. Minister for the Counterculture, Mancunian mainstay and alternative national treasure John Robb has lived a life in music. In this book he charts his adventures on the cultural frontline, chronicling the making of a DIY icon....

Step into Paradise with Elvis Presley's Most Beloved SoundtrackWhen Blue Hawaii hit cinemas in 1961, it wasn't just another Elvis movie - it was a cultural event. The soundtrack spent an astonishing 20 weeks at No. 1 in the U.S. charts, sold millions worldwide,...

Iconic Albums - Paul McCartney & Wings - Back to the EggBy Richard WardStep inside the final flight of Wings-Paul McCartney's most daring and underrated project.In Iconic Albums - Paul McCartney & Wings - Back to the Egg, Richard Ward offers a vivid, in-depth...

This book focuses on three aspects in Glenn Gould's (1932-1982) musical thought and practice: Gould's embrace of music technology, his notions of the ontology of music and musical interpretation, and the place of his thought in Canadian intellectual history. Focusing not only on Gould's...

This book shows how the model of singing poets becomes then an organizing principle for a system of national popular music. It responds to the growing call for the teaching of the textual networks of popular music within the domains of literary and cultural...

James Gibbons Huneker was born in 1857 in Philadelphia. He began his life with a career in law, in order to please his parents. At 21, he abandoned the path, and fled to Paris to learn piano, with his pregnant girlfriend. He only spent...

A perfect resource for students and music enthusiasts alike, this expansive three-volume set provides readers with multidisciplinary perspectives on the music of countries and ethnic groups from around the globe. Students will find Music around the World: A Global Encyclopedia accessible and useful in...

What do pop songs have to say about love? Surprisingly, this book shows that most popular love songs express much more about alienation, infatuation, estrangement, jealousy, and heartbreak than about love. Scheff takes the reader on a tour of popular lyrics from 80 years...

Encounter the trailblazers whose recordings expanded the boundaries of technology and brought "popular" music into America's living rooms!Popular American Recording Pioneers: 1895--1925 (winner of the 2001 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award of Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research) covers the lives and careers...

A Guide to Library Research in Music introduces the process and techniques for researching and writing about music, providing concrete examples and offering a thorough introduction to music literature. This second edition addresses new matters in digital technology and the expansion in musical genres...

In his 1985 book The Idea of Music: Schoenberg and Others, Peter Franklin set out a challenge for musicology: namely, how best to talk and write about the music of modern European culture that fell outside of the modernist mainstream typified by Schoenberg, Berg,...

The Speculum musicae of the early fourteenth century, with nearly half a million words, is by a long way the largest medieval treatise on music, and probably the most learned. Only the final two books are about music as commonly understood: the other five...

This book takes its departure from an experiment presented by Vincenzo Galilei before his colleagues in the Florentine Camerata in about 1580. This event, namely the first demonstration of the stile recitativo, is known from a single later source, a letter written in 1634...

This volume of essays brings together a selection of the most significant and representative writings on Mendelssohn from the last fifty years. Divided into four main subject areas, it makes available twenty-two essays which have transformed scholarly awareness of this crucial and ever-popular nineteenth-century...

This volume contains three classic articles on the subject of church organs which primarily deal with 'registration' and general technique. They include: "The Organ - Its Total Structure and Registration, by Cecil Clutton", "The Organ Student's Gradus ad Parnassum - Book I. The Elements...

""Expression In Music: How To Obtain It"" by Hale Ascher VanderCook is a comprehensive guide to understanding and achieving musical expression. The book covers a range of topics including dynamics, phrasing, tempo, rhythm, and articulation, all of which are essential components of musical expression....

Vocal Reinforcement: A Practical Study Of The Reinforcement Of The Motive Power Or Breathing Muscles (1891) by Edmund John Myer is a comprehensive guide for singers and vocalists who wish to improve their voice and control over their breathing muscles. The book is divided...

This volume of original essays is dedicated to Owen Wright in recognition of his formative contribution to the study of music in the Islamic Middle East. Wright's work, which comprises, at the time of writing, six field-defining volumes and countless articles, has reconfigured the...

Kevin Korsyn is a renowned music theorist, musicologist, and pedagogue who has taught at the University of Michigan since 1992. He has published widely and influentially in areas as diverse as Beethoven and Brahms studies, chromatic tonality, disciplinarity and metatheory, history of theory, musical...

Explore the rich history of the violoncello with Wilhelm Joseph von Wasielewski's "The Violoncello and Its History." This meticulously prepared edition delves into the fascinating story of this beloved stringed instrument, tracing its evolution and significance in the world of music. A vital resource...

Introduce young listeners to the captivating world of opera with Mary Schell Hoke Bacon's "Operas Every Child Should Know." This timeless volume offers accessible descriptions of the text and music of some of the most famous operatic masterpieces. Designed as an introduction to classical...

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,...

Starting from the late Renaissance, efforts to make vocal music more expressive heightened the power of words, which, in turn, gave birth to the modern semantics of musical expression. As the skepticism of seventeenth-century science divorced the acoustic properties from the metaphysical qualities of...

Celluloid Symphonies is a unique sourcebook of writings on music for film, bringing together fifty-three critical documents, many previously inaccessible. It includes essays by those who created the music-Max Steiner, Erich Korngold, Jerry Goldsmith, Elmer Bernstein and Howard Shore-and outlines the major trends, aesthetic...

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Author: Nicolas SlonimskyISBN-10: 0415968682ISBN-13: 9780415968683Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/27/2004Pages: 398Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.46lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.26w x 1.05d

Pieces of the Musical World: Sounds and Cultures is a fieldwork-based ethnomusicology textbook that introduces a series of musical worlds each through a single "piece." It focuses on a musical sound or object that provides a springboard from which to tell a story about...

This volume brings together the work of social scientists and music scholars examining the role of migrant and migrant descended communities in the production and consumption of popular music in Europe and North America. The contributions to the collection include studies of language and...

This book examines the origin, content, and development of the musical thought of Heinrich Schenker and Arnold Schoenberg. One of the premises is that Schenker's and Schoenberg's inner musical lives are inseparable from their inner spiritual lives. Curiously, Schenker and Schoenberg start out in...

The composer and pianist Michael Finnissy (b. 1946) is an unmistakeable presence in the British and international new music scene, both for his immeasurable generosity as prolific composer for many different types of musicians, major advocate for the works of others, and performer and...

A timely addition to Routledge's Criticism and Analysis of Early Music series, this collection of essays examines the common compositional practice of borrowing or imitation in fifteenth-and sixteenth-century music, addressing how and why borrowing was used, the significance of borrowing, the techniques of borrowing,...