Music-History & Criticism

The Multiplicities of Hindustani Music explores the dynamic social and economic world of North Indian raga-based music over the twentieth century and into the present day. By approaching Hindustani music from beyond geographical and social centers, author Anna Morcom challenges the conventional framing of...

From 1981 to 1994, music patron and art collector Betty Freeman (1921--2009) hosted a series of monthly musicales, or salons, in Los Angeles. Most of these salons were held in a room off the den of Freeman's Beverly Hills home--a space she dubbed "the...

Selling England by the Pound is more than just another entry in the Genesis catalog-it is a cornerstone of progressive rock history. Released in 1973, the album marked the pinnacle of the band's classic lineup with Peter Gabriel, Tony Banks, Steve Hackett, Mike Rutherford,...

“Masters of Music; Their Lives and Works” offers a fascinating glimpse into the lives and legacies of some of history's most influential composers. Anna Alice Chapin explores the personal stories and creative processes behind the music that has shaped our cultural landscape. From biographical...

"Wagnerism: A Protest" by Henry William Lovett Hime, originally published in 1882, offers a fascinating glimpse into the early debates surrounding the music and cultural phenomenon of Richard Wagner. This critical work captures the dissenting voices of the time, providing valuable insight into the...

Purcell" is a classic book, that has held significant value throughout history, and to ensure its timeless wisdom is never lost, Alpha Editions has carefully preserved it by republishing it in a modern, accessible format for both present and future generations. Thoughtfully reformatted, retyped,...

The lute's cultural impact throughout the Dutch Golden Age can be compared to that of the piano in the 19th century. It was the universal instrument for solo music-making, as well as in ensembles and to accompany singers, mainly associated with the social elite...

This book concerns the ways in which many different types of nationalism, chauvinism and racism penetrated into musical thought in the interwar period, and how the leading artistic personalities of that period reacted to these ideologies. The concept of "nationalism" is understood broadly in...

Musical rhetoric is an important phenomenon in Polish baroque music. The achievements of old Polish masters were determined by the main trends of the baroque era. Polish music provides examples of almost all rhetorical figures known at that time, largely reflecting the European repertoire...

Perfect Harmony and Melting Strains assembles interdisciplinary essays investigating concepts of harmony during a transitional period, in which the Pythagorean notion of a harmoniously ordered cosmos competed with and was transformed by new theories about sound - and new ways of conceptualizing the world....

This book is an auto-ethnographic account of the development of a charismatic community choir leader. It brings together management literature and a survey of the community choir scene with the development of community choir leadership. It provides a useful introduction to the sustaining of...

This is a facsimile of the first edition, printed for the Author, in Edinburgh in 1721.Author: Alexander MalcolmISBN-10: 1904331564ISBN-13: 9781904331568Publisher: Travis and Emery Music BookshopLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/15/2008Pages: 652Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.08lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.44d

While music lovers from all over the world have tried to recreate the ambience of French cafés by playing music from stars such as Piaf, Trénet and Chevalier, intellectuals, sociologists and policy makers in France have been embroiled in passionate debate about just what...

Based on primary sources, many of which have never been published or examined in detail, this book examines the music of the late seventeenth-century composers, Biber, Schmeltzer and Muffat, and the compositions preserved in the extensive Moravian archives in Kromeriz. These works have never...

Music and religion have, throughout history, walked hand in hand. In the rites and rituals of small tribal religions, great world religions, and more recent New-Age and neo-heathen movements, different kinds of music have been used to celebrate the gods, express belief and help...

Boy choristers have sung the daily liturgy in English cathedrals and collegiate churches for fourteen hundred years. They are treasured as a unique part of our religious and cultural heritage, unmatched anywhere else in the world. Yet their history, in cathedrals and monasteries, in...

In the last few decades, new technologies have brought composers and listeners to the brink of an era of limitless musical possibility. They stand before a vast ocean of creative potential, in which any sounds imaginable can be synthesised and pieced together into radical...

The music Mozart composed in Vienna closely examined, bringing out the processes of re-invention and re-formulation it displays. The stylistic evolution of Mozart's Viennese instrumental repertory as a whole [1781-1791], closely tied to historical and contextual lines of enquiry, has yet to receive systematic...

In the spring of 1862, Lucy McKim, the nineteen-year-old daughter of a Philadelphia abolitionist Quaker family, traveled with her father to the Sea Islands of South Carolina to aid him in his efforts to organize humanitarian aid for thousands of newly freed slaves. During...

Amiri Baraka is unquestionably the most recognized leader of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, and one of the key literary and cultural figures of the postwar United States. While Baraka's political and aesthetic stances changed considerably over the course of...

Traditionally, statistics and music are not generally associated with each other. However, ...intelligent... music software, computer digitization, and other advanced techniques and technologies have precipitated the need for standard statistical models to answer basic musicological questions. Statistics In Musicology presents an unprecedented introduction to...

The Leipzig middle-class evolved with the cooperation and gratitude of an extravagant, greedy, and disinterested absolutist ruler. Bach's Changing World documents how this community and other German communities responded to a variety of religious, social, and political demands that emerged during the years of...

A veteran music journalist explores rock-n-roll's bayou roots in "a jolting 18-track joy ride [that] unlocks secrets and back-stories worth savoring" -- The Wall Street Journal The bayou of the American south -- stretching from Houston, Texas, to Mobile, Alabama -- is a world...

This is a new release of the original 1946 edition.Author: Kitty BarneISBN-10: 1494081334ISBN-13: 9781494081331Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2013Pages: 316Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.93lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.66d

This is a new release of the original 1947 edition.Author: Cynthia Maus,Evelyn Lysle FieldingISBN-10: 1494003139ISBN-13: 9781494003135Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2013Pages: 98Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.31lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.20d

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,...

In this generous collection of book reviews and literary essays, legendary Village Voice rock critic Robert Christgau showcases the passion that made him a critic--his love for the written word. Many selections address music, from blackface minstrelsy to punk and hip-hop, artists from Lead...

Since György Ligeti's death in 2006, there has been a growing acknowledgement of how central he was to the late twentieth-century cultural landscape. This collection is the first book devoted to exploring the composer's life and music within the context of his East European...

In recent years, scholars and musicians have become increasingly interested in the revival of musical improvisation as it was known in the Renaissance and Baroque periods. This historically informed practice is now supplanting the late Romantic view of improvised music as a rhapsodic endeavour--a...

The enigmatic character of The Art of Fugue became apparent as early as in its first edition, printed more than a year after the composer's death. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, who published both the first and the second editions, raised several unsolved questions regarding...

Eroticism in Early Modern Music contributes to a small but significant literature on music, sexuality, and sex in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe. Its chapters have grown from a long dialogue between a group of scholars, who employ a variety of different approaches to the...

Both in opera studies and in most operatic works, the singing body is often taken for granted. In Postopera: Reinventing the Voice-Body, Jelena Novak reintroduces an awareness of the physicality of the singing body to opera studies. Arguing that the voice-body relationship itself is...

TchaikovskyÊ1/4s Sixth Symphony (1893), widely recognized as one of the worldÊ1/4s most deeply tragic compositions, is also known for the mystery surrounding its hidden programme and for TchaikovskyÊ1/4s unexpected death nine days after its premiere. While the sensational speculations about the composerÊ1/4s possible planned...

American composer Louise Talma (1906-1996) was the first female winner of two back-to-back Guggenheim Awards (1946, 1947), the first American woman to have an opera premiered in Europe (1962), the first female winner of the Sibelius Award for Composition (1963), and the first woman...

Dedicated to the late Gerard Béhague (1937-2005), whose pioneering work in Latin American music, popular culture, and performance studies contributed extensively to ethnomusicological discourse in the 1970s-1990s, this anthology offers comparative perspectives on the evolving legacy of performance ethnography in socio-musical analysis. President of...

Peter Philips (c.1560-1628) was an English organist, composer, priest and spy. He was embroiled in multifarious intersecting musical, social, religious and political networks linking him with some of the key international players in these spheres. Despite the undeniable quality of his music, Philips does...

Discussion concerning the 'musicality' of Samuel Beckett's writing now constitutes a familiar critical trope in Beckett Studies, one that continues to be informed by the still-emerging evidence of Beckett's engagement with music throughout his personal and literary life, and by the ongoing interest of...

Writer and musician Chris Wade looks at the first four albums of the legendary and iconic Kate Bush; The Kick Inside (1978), Lionheart (1978), Never For Ever (1980), and The Dreaming (1982). On these records, Bush established her own unique style and evolved into...

Musical Letters From Abroad: Including Detailed Accounts Of The Birmingham, Norwich, And Dusseldorf Music Festivals Of 1852 (1854) is a book written by Lowell Mason. The book is a collection of letters that Mason wrote while he was on a musical tour of Europe...

""Critical and Bibliographical Notes on Early Spanish Music"" is a book written by Juan Facundo Riano and first published in 1887. The book is a comprehensive study of the history and development of Spanish music from the medieval period to the 18th century. The...

Gregorian Chant For Church And School is a comprehensive guide to learning and performing Gregorian chant, a form of plainchant that has been used in the Catholic Church for over a thousand years. Written by Mary Antonine Goodchild, a renowned expert in Gregorian chant,...

""The Letters of Giacomo Puccini: Mainly Connected with the Composition and Production of His Operas"" is a collection of letters written by the renowned Italian composer Giacomo Puccini. The letters cover a period of over forty years, from 1880 to 1924, and provide a...

Shakespeare: His Music and Song is a book written by A. H. Moncur-Sime and originally published in 1917. The book explores the musical and lyrical elements of William Shakespeare's plays and poems, analyzing the ways in which music and song are used to enhance...

Black music is a powerful art form. Artists' creations often go where words cannot. The music is special--sacred. However, it's still frequently shoehorned into the ambiguous categories of secular and sacred. Is God Funky or What?: Black Biblical Culture and Contemporary Popular Music complicates...

Tin Pan Alley: A Chronicle of the American Popular Music Racket is a comprehensive book by Isaac Goldberg that explores the history of the American popular music industry from the late 1800s to the mid-20th century. The book delves into the rise of Tin...

""Yuman and Yaqui Music and the Village of the Great Kivas on the Zuni Reservation New Mexico"" is a book written by Francis Densmore. The book explores the music and culture of the Yuman and Yaqui tribes, as well as the Great Kivas village...

The Standard Opera and Concert Guide V1 is a comprehensive guidebook written by George P. Upton. The book is designed to provide readers with an in-depth understanding of the world of opera and classical music concerts. It includes detailed descriptions of the most famous...

The American West: A Treasury of Stories, Legends, Narratives, Songs and Ballads of Western America is a comprehensive collection of tales and songs that capture the spirit of the American West. Written by William Targ, this book provides a glimpse into the rich history,...

The Music Section of the World's Great Madonnas by Cynthia Maus is a comprehensive guide to the iconic depictions of the Madonna in music. The book explores the many musical interpretations of the Madonna, from classical compositions to modern pop songs. Each chapter focuses...

Cathy Berberian (1925-1983) was a vocal performance artist, singer and composer who pioneered a way of composing with the voice in the musical worlds of Europe, North America and beyond. As a modernist muse for many avant-garde composers, Cathy Berberian went on to embody...