Music-History & Criticism

Author: Richard WardISBN-13: 9798297229532Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/09/2025Pages: 132Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.41lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.28d

In "The Quantity and Music of the Greek Chorus Discovered," William Willis Moseley and Michael McN. Walsh delve into the intricate relationship between quantity and music in ancient Greek choral performances. This scholarly work offers insights into the rhythmic and melodic structures that underpinned...

Offers the first comprehensive account of a centuries-old tradition of encrypting covert messages into music, from the Middle Ages to the present day. Question: What do J. S. Bach, beef cabbage, coffee, the SATOR Square, and Marlene Dietrich have in common? Answer: Composers have...

In Cahoots, In Asbury Park is the story of one of the most important cities in music history, from the perspective of one band, Cahoots, and their closest counterparts and fans in the Asbury Park music scene. The book begins with the stories of...

Forged on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers during the nineteenth century, jug band music was the early soundtrack for a new nation. Louisville was at the heart of it all. German and Irish immigrants, former slaves en route to Chicago and homesteaders moving into...

Music Under The Moon: A History Of The Berkshire Symphonic Festival, Inc. is a book written by John G. W. Mahanna that provides a comprehensive account of the Berkshire Symphonic Festival, Inc. The festival, which was held annually in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts,...

""A Method of Organ Playing"" by Mario Salvador is a comprehensive guide for learning the art of playing the organ. The book is designed for beginners who have little to no experience playing the organ, as well as intermediate players who want to improve...

Discussions surrounding music and ethical responsibility bring to mind arguments about legal ownership and purchase. Yet the many ways in which we experience music with others are usually overlooked. Musical experience and practice always involve relationships with other people, which can place limitations on...

Down the Road Apiece: The Rolling Stones in LondonThis guide maps the Rolling Stones' journey through the group's hometown, tracing their footsteps from humble beginnings to superstardom. Down the Road Apiece documents nearly 100 significant locations that shaped the band's history and the swinging...

Delve into the life and groundbreaking work of one of history's most influential composers with "Richard Wagner His Life and His Dramas." This biographical study by W. J. Henderson offers a detailed exploration of Richard Wagner, the man, and a comprehensive explanation of his...

As fur traders were driven across northern North America by economic motivations, the landscape over which they plied their trade was punctuated by sound: shouting, singing, dancing, gunpowder, rattles, jingles, drums, fiddles, and - very occasionally - bagpipes. Fur trade interactions were, in a...

Author: Daniel AlbrightISBN-10: 0226012670ISBN-13: 9780226012674Publisher: University of Chicago PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/03/2004Pages: 428Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.51lbsSize: 9.30h x 6.46w x 0.96d

The Damned are a great British rock n' roll institution. They have helped to plot the course of guitar music over the last 45 years, putting UK punk on record for the first time in 1976, and going on to lay the groundwork for...

Thin Lizzy emerged as a four-piece in Dublin as the 1960s drew to a close, when guitarist Eric Bell and keyboard player Eric Wrixon, both from Belfast, encountered a band named Orphanage, which included Dubliners Brian Downey on drums and charismatic front man Philip...

A surprise recital while walking the Camino de Santiago turns into another kind of pilgrimage: to learn to play the cello. George, 71, is nearing completion of this ancient route across Spain when he attends a lecture and cello performance. He becomes enthralled with...

Coast hip hop into the American mainstream and produced the hits that dominated the 80s through early 2000s, with previously unseen material, photos, and exclusive interviews - including the only in-depth, in-person interview with reclusive creator Matt Dike. In 1987, hip-hop was at a...

In 1958, Elvis Presley stood at the height of his fame - and at the crossroads of his career. Just as America's most electrifying star was about to be drafted into the Army, he delivered the finest performance of his Hollywood career in King...

Between 1846 and 1966, in the unlikely creative world of Bartholomew County, Indiana, innovation prevailed and quality of life was pursued. We can't divorce innovation then from what is available now; . The past led to the present, and the present shapes the future....

Carl Nielsen (1865-1931) occupies a prominent place among the European modern composers of the early twentieth century, representing the generation of Richard Strauss, Ferruccio Busoni, Jean Sibelius and Gustav Mahler, and his music is performed throughout the world. Carl Nielsen. A Cultural Biography is...

February 1963 marked the Beatles' breakthrough in Britain, but by December, they hadn't conquered America. Capitol Records signed them in late 1963 after a year of rejection. When the Beatles hit big in the U.S. in February 1964, their manager, Brian Epstein, and Capitol...

"Laura Lynch: Harmonizing Life and Legacy" is an intimate and uplifting journey into the life of one of country music's most revered individuals. This detailed biography goes deep into the heart and soul of Laura Lynch, chronicling her roots in the little town of...

While much has been said about the nostalgia and historic references of Daft Punk's final album, Random Access Memories, this book reveals its ambition and future-focus, and claims these aspects do not necessarily contradict.Random Access Memories will remain the very last Daft Punk album....

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks...

The experimental composer John Cage (1912-1992) is best known for his works in percussion, prepared piano, and electronic music, but he is also acknowledged to be one of the most significant figures in 20th century theatre. In Cage's work in theatre composition there is...

The Process That Is the World grapples with John Cage not just as a composer, but as a philosopher advocating for an ontology of difference in keeping with the kind posited by Gilles Deleuze. Cage's philosophy is not simply a novel method for composition,...

From 1987 to 1995, Bristol, England's Sarah Records was a modest underground success and, for the most part, a critical laughingstock in its native country-sneeringly dismissed as the sad, final repository for a fringe style of music (variously referred to as "indie-pop," "C86," "cutie"...

Inspired by its use in literary theory, film criticism and the discourse of game design, Salomé Voegelin adapts and develops "possible world theory" in relation to sound. David K Lewis' Possible World is juxtaposed with Maurice Merleau-Ponty's life-world, to produce a meeting of the...

This book concerns time relationships between classical music facts and world history, events, and activities. Historic parallels regarding composers and compositions about music are matched with political and economic information and data about worldwide countries. Music is presented as an integral part of a...

Rock 'n' Roll and War and Peace chronicles and examines the relationship between popular music in the Rock era and the politics and ideology of war and peace throughout the past half-century, with emphasis on the Vietnam War and Iraq War, among others. This...

This book explores an album of popular music with a remarkable significance to a violent wave of postcolonial tensions in the Netherlands in the 1970s. Several "actions" were claimed by a small number of first-generation descendants of ca. 12,500 reluctant migrants from the young...

If given another chance to write for the series, which albums would 33 1/3 authors focus on the second time around? This anthology features compact essays from past 33 1/3 authors on albums that consume them, but about which they did not write. It...

Positioned between the psychedelic and counter-cultural music of the late 1960s and the punk and new wave styles of the late 1970s, early 1970s British popular music is often overlooked in pop music studies of the late 20th century, but it was, in fact,...

Popular music, today, has supposedly collapsed into a 'retromania' which, according to leading critic Simon Reynolds, has brought a 'slow and steady fading of the artistic imperative to be original.' Meanwhile, in the estimation of philosopher Alain Badiou, a significant political event will always...

Although there have been many biographical studies about the more well-known music educators, little has been done to investigate what teaching was like for the average teacher, and even less is known about teaching music in the early years of music education in the...

Listening to Noise and Silence engages with the emerging practice of sound art and the concurrent development of a discourse and theory of sound. In this original and challenging work, Salomé Voegelin immerses the reader in concepts of listening to sound artwork and the...

""What We Hear In Music: A Course Of Study In Music Appreciation And History"" by Anne Shaw Faulkner is a comprehensive guide to understanding and appreciating music. The book covers a wide range of topics related to music, including the elements of music, the...

""How To Improve Your Voice: Modern Theory And Practice For Singers And Speakers"" is a comprehensive guide written by Gregory Krasnoff that is designed to help individuals improve their vocal abilities. The book covers a wide range of topics related to voice, including the...

Dissonant Harmony: A New Principle Of Musical And Social Organization is a book written by the philosopher and musician Dane Rudhyar. The book explores the idea of dissonance in music and how it can be used to create a new principle of musical and...

""Celtic Irish Songs and Songwriters: A Selection, with an Introduction and Memoirs"" is a book written by Charles Maccarthy Collins and first published in 1885. The book is a compilation of traditional Irish songs and their composers, with an introduction and memoirs written by...

A Dictionary of Musical Terms is a comprehensive reference book written by Theodore Baker in 1895. This book is a valuable resource for anyone interested in music, whether they are a student, musician, or music enthusiast. It contains an extensive collection of terms and...

Songs of the Celtic Past is a book written by Norreys Jephson O'Conor and published in 1918. The book is a collection of traditional Celtic songs and ballads from Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. The songs are presented in their original language, with English translations...

Music was integral to the profound cultural, social and political changes that swept the globe in 1968. This collection of essays offers new perspectives on the role that music played in the events of that year, which included protests against the ongoing Vietnam War,...

The B-minor Mass has always represented a fascinating challenge to musical scholarship. Composed over the course of the composer's life, it is considered by many to be Johann Sebastian Bach's greatest and most complex work. The fourteen essays assembled in this volume originate from...

The German-Jewish émigré composer Stefan Wolpe was a vital figure in the history of modernism, with affiliations ranging from the Bauhaus, Berlin agitprop and the kibbutz movement to bebop, Abstract Expressionism and Black Mountain College. This is the first full-length study of this often...

The Strachwitz Frontera Collection is the largest repository of commercially produced Mexican and Mexican American vernacular recordings in existence. More than 40,000 recordings, all produced during the first half of the 20th century, have been digitized and are available to researchers and the general...

Twenty-six of the songs discussed in the text are available on a CD produced by Agram Blues (ABCD 2018) to accompany this book. Digitally remastered and featuring full liner notes by the author, the CD is a unique historical document of the Truman and...

Philip D. Beidler, who served as an armored cavalry platoon leader in Vietnam, sees less and less of the hard-won perspective of the common soldier in what America has made of that war. Each passing year, he says, dulls our sense of immediacy about...

Music from the Heart follows Emile Benoit, a fiddler from French Newfoundland, through a rapidly changing musical milieu as he moves from a small rural community to international musical and folk festivals. Seeing himself as a representative of French Newfoundland, Benoit viewed his music...

Music industry insiders on the nature of fame Our cultural darlings make music; we make them mythic. Every musical genre begets a community of listeners, performers, and critics, and quite often those categories are blurred. From the principled punk refusal of celebrity to hip-hop's...

The first book by David Dicaire, Blues Singers: Biographies of 50 Legendary Artists of the Early 20th Century, (McFarland, 1999), included pioneers, innovators, superstars, and cult heroes of blues music born before 1940. This second work covers those born after 1940 who have continued...