Music-History & Criticism

Illustrated with fifty-four photographs and featuring a comprehensive discography and sessionography, this book traces Eddy Arnold's origins from a cotton farm in western Tennessee to his legendary status in the world of country music. Michael Streissguth covers Arnold's success as a top-selling artist in...

Wilbur C. Sweatman (1882-1961) is one of the most important, yet unheralded, African American musicians involved in the transition of ragtime into jazz in the early twentieth century. In That's Got 'Em!, Mark Berresford tracks this energetic pioneer over a seven-decade career. His talent...

Andrew Mueller is Australian by birth, a Londoner by choice, a wanderer by nature, and a journalist by profession. Unable to decide between being a rock critic, travel writer, or foreign correspondent, he hit upon the novel, if time-consuming, solution of trying to be...

In the seventeenth century, like today, the guitar was often used for chord strumming ("battuto" in Italian) in songs and popular dance genres, such as the ciaccona or sarabanda. In the golden age of the baroque guitar, Italy gave rise to a unique solo...

Bohuslav Martinu (1890-1959) was one of the most productive and frequently performed composers of the mid-twentieth century, renowned for such works as his opera Julietta; the Double Concerto for Two String Orchestras, Piano, and Timpani; and Symphony no. 6 ("Fantaisies symphoniques"). History books, however,...

In Javanese Gamelan and the West, gamelan performer and scholar Sumarsam explores the concept of hybridity in performance traditions that have developed in the context of Javanese encounters with the West. The book begins by looking at the "domestication" of Western music in Java...

This collection of essays examines the diverse ways in which music -- and ideas about music -- have been disseminated in print and other media from the sixteenth century onward. Contributors look afresh at unfamiliar facets of the sixteenth-century book trade and the circulation...

This study represents the first substantial assessment of Italian comic operas composed during the central years of the Risorgimento -- the period during which upheavals, revolutions, and wars ultimately led to the liberation and unification of Italy. Music historians often view the period as...

Focusing on the operas of Mozart, Gluck, and Rameau, Building the Operatic Museum examines the role that eighteenth-century works played in the opera houses of Paris around the turn of the twentieth century. These works, mostly neglected during the nineteenth century, became the main...

Wagner and Wagnerism in Nineteenth-Century Sweden, Finland, and the Baltic Provinces explores how Wagner's operas were performed and received in the theaters of Stockholm and other cities of the region and how excerpts from them were arranged for amateur performances in private homes. Wagner's...

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1894 Edition.Author: David MonroISBN-10: 1497965306ISBN-13: 9781497965300Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2014Pages: 158Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.48lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.34d

"George Frideric Handel; his Personality & his Times" offers a detailed exploration of the life and times of the renowned Baroque composer. Newman Flower delves into Handel's personal journey, revealing the character and experiences that shaped his musical genius. From his early beginnings to...

Modern Metrical Technique: As Illustrated By Ballad Meter, 1700-1920 (1922) by George Rippey Stewart Jr. is a comprehensive study of the use of ballad meter in poetry from the 18th to the early 20th century. The book explores the technical aspects of ballad meter,...

How To Write Music: Musical Orthography (1917) by Clement Antrobus Harris is a comprehensive guide to writing music notation. The book covers the basics of musical notation, including the staff, clefs, notes, rests, and time signatures. It also delves into more advanced topics such...

Explore the captivating world of the cello with Olga Racster's "Chats on Violoncellos," a timeless exploration of this beloved string instrument. Delve into the history, technique, and enduring appeal of the violoncello, as Racster shares her insights on its construction, playing, and place in...

Explore the vital connection between "Shakespeare and Music" in this insightful study by Christopher Wilson. Delve into the world of Elizabethan England to discover how music permeated Shakespearean plays and the broader cultural landscape of the 17th century. This exploration of music and literature...

Explore the life and legacy of one of history's most beloved operatic composers with Wakeling Dry's "Giacomo Puccini." This biography delves into the world of Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924), the Italian master behind some of the most enduring and emotionally resonant operas ever written. A...

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,...

Author: Norman DemuthISBN-10: 0837168961ISBN-13: 9780837168968Publisher: PraegerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/24/1975Pages: 394Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.42lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.00d

Weimar Germany - the age of Bauhaus and Brecht - was a time of significant activity in all areas of the artistic avant-garde. Musicologist Susan Cook explores this intriguing period in a look at Zeitoper (topical opera) and its primary exponents, Ernst Krenek, Kurt...

Sounding the Color Line explores how competing understandings of the U.S. South in the first decades of the twentieth century have led us to experience musical forms, sounds, and genres in racialized contexts. Yet, though we may speak of white or black music, rock...

Rich in quality and diversity, the history of music in Georgia is a long one by American standards, spanning the better part of three centuries. This volume explores the musical landscape of Georgia's colonial period, from traditional ballads and operatic productions to John Wesley's...

Sounds American provides new perspectives on the relationship between nationalism and cultural production by examining how Americans grappled with musical diversity in the early national and antebellum eras. During this period a resounding call to create a distinctively American music culture emerged as a...

Written by an eminent scholar in a style that represents American musicological writing at its communicative best, A History of the Oratorio offers a synthesis and critical appraisal so exhaustive and reliable that the serious student of the oratorio will be compelled to look...

In the hands of the state, music is a political tool. The Banda de Música del Estado de Oaxaca (State Band of Oaxaca, BME), a civil organization nearly as old as the modern state of Oaxaca itself, offers unique insights into the history of...

This study examines the migration of African American jazz musicians to other parts of the world from 1919 to the present. It provides evidence that African American jazz musicians fared better in the diaspora than they did in America where jazz and its inventors...

Explains how Handel's operas are outstanding expressions of the opera tradition as it had developed to the late 18th century. Contains detailed consideration of Handel's work between 1705 and 1741.Author: Hugo MeynelISBN-10: 0773408282ISBN-13: 9780773408289Publisher: Em TextsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1986Pages: 308Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w...

Each essay (presentations at the International Liszt Symposium in Stockholm, by leading scholars and specialists) illuminates aspects of the Symposium's theme while encompassing Liszt's evolutionary path from the late middles ages to us. Well-documented revelations about music, the other arts, Liszt's circle, contemporary and...

The song cycle was one of the most important musical genres of the nineteenth century. Famous examples by Schubert, Schumann and Mahler have received a great deal of attention. Yet many other cycles - by equally famous composers, from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries...

This new book builds on Whittall's Music since the First World War. It updates and reshapes the original text and places it in the wider context of twentieth-century serious music before 1918 and after 1975, surveying the immense variety of technical developments in twentieth-century...

This new book builds on Whittall's Music since the First World War. It updates and reshapes the original text and places it in the wider context of twentieth-century serious music before 1918 and after 1975, surveying the immense variety of technical developments in twentieth-century...

Neil Young, also known as The Godfather Of Grunge, acquires this title by releasing...a mellow, mostly acoustic album name-checking his most famous, middle of the road singer-songwriter effort from two decades earlier. Meanwhile, before almost anyone ever heard the term "grunge," a little revolutionary...

From Polish jazz to Iberian punk--a colossal record of the underground music that soundtracked protest movements across Europe from 1950 to 2000This monumental volume is the analog component of an international project initiated in Portugal, an online archive for experimental and underground protest sounds...

From the award-winning filmmaker and graphic novelist, comes the untold origin story of the multi-million-dollar AFROPUNK festival--beginning not with big stages or brand sponsorship, but with one mixed-race teenager's search for belonging in the nineties New York City punk scene. In 1991, fifteen-year-old James...

In Back to Bach: From Mozart to Moog George Michell explores the story of Bach's impact on composers from Mozart and Beethoven to Stravinsky and Shostakovich, as well as on jazz pianists, rock guitarists and pop singers, all of whom set off on their...

The vinyl record as an artistic medium: a contemporary sequel to the 1989 definitive guide on sound works and records by artistsFollowing Ursula Block's groundbreaking 1989 exhibition "Broken Music: Artists' Recordworks" and the accompanying publication, which was reproduced in facsimile by Pioneer Works in...

How has the internet changed the way we listen to, and love, the music that shapes our lives? Award-winning musician Rollie Pemberton (Cadence Weapon) interrogates our current musical landscape. Ways of Listening is a love letter to music, a sharp analysis of our current...

"Golland leaves no stone unturned in this fine-grained chronicle of the rock group Journey.... Golland's passion and precision make this a pleasure." - Publishers Weekly, Starred Review "A welcome study of one of rock's most enduring musical fusions." - Salon Since exploding on the...

Iconic Albums - Bob Dylan - Street-LegalA powerful deep dive into Bob Dylan's most misunderstood album - reexamined, rediscovered, and finally revered.Part of the Iconic Albums series, Iconic Albums - Bob Dylan - Street-Legal is a compelling, full-length exploration of one of Bob Dylan's...

Indiana entertainers have seen many changes through the years, but one universal truth unites them: They are all...Reaching for the High NoteMusic truly does make the world go around. It affects our moods and adds to everything we do. Can you imagine a film...

""On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music"" is a book written by Hermann von Helmholtz, a German physicist and physician, and published in 1863. The book explores the science behind the perception of sound and the relationship...

J. A. Fuller Maitland (1856-1936), whose Schumann in the Novello 'Great Musicians' series is also reissued in this series, had a wide-ranging interest in music. He was music critic of The Times for 22 years, was the editor of the second edition of Grove's...

George Bernard Shaw's "The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring" offers a compelling and insightful analysis of Richard Wagner's epic opera cycle. Shaw, renowned for his sharp wit and critical acumen, delves into the social and political themes embedded within the "Nibelung's...

Delve into the formative years of one of history's most influential composers with "My Life, Volume I," the autobiography of Richard Wagner. This meticulously prepared print edition offers a rare glimpse into the personal journey of the German composer, chronicling his experiences and influences...

Commemorating the centenary of Tchaikovsky's death, these essays reassess the life and work of the composer from a variety of perspectives, ranging from the musicological and biographical to broader ones addressing his place in the development of the arts in Europe and America. As...

In the contemporary world, voices are caught up in fundamentally different realms of discourse, practice, and culture: between sounding and nonsounding, material and nonmaterial, literal and metaphorical. In The Voice as Something More, Martha Feldman and Judith T. Zeitlin tackle these paradoxes with a...

A definitive study of Janáček's Sinfonietta, tracing its creation, reception, and rise to international prominence. This book provides a musical 'biography' of Leos Janáček's (1854-1928) most famous orchestral piece - his Sinfonietta - by analysing its sources, composition, reception history, recordings and musical component...

How the iconic publication's unruly first decade rewrote the rules of journalism. Rolling Stone's first decade was truly rock and roll: chaotic, wild, and unpredictable. Brand New Beat charts the origins and evolution of the magazine during its formative early years in San Francisco....

The story of an unexpected group of performing artists who led one of the most influential artistic movements in contemporary American history. After World War II, personal fulfillment emerged as a defining American cultural ideal. Self-realization--the quest to become our authentic selves--remains a powerful...

Closing Time (1973) marked the world's first introduction to Tom Waits-an intimate, piano-driven debut that revealed a songwriter capable of transforming late-night loneliness into poetry. With its mix of tender ballads, nostalgic storytelling, and barroom atmosphere, the album quickly became a cult favorite and...