Music-History & Criticism

Wide-ranging discussion of culture, consciousness, and music from a unique artist's perspectiveFeedback is a wide-ranging meditation on music, sound, artificial intelligence, consciousness, contemporary culture and politics, and the life of the touring musician. Author Elliott Sharp is considered one of the central figures in...

Written by a composer long immersed in new and experimental music, this book provides a tour of the music, technologies and people that have transformed how we make, hear and think about sound over the past fifty years. As both a participant and critical...

The turn of the millennium has heralded an outgrowth of culture that demonstrates an awareness of the ephemeral nature of history and the complexity underpinning the relationship between location and the past. This has been especially apparent in the shifting relationship between landscape, memory...

British progressive rock band Pink Floyd released 15 studio albums between 1967 and 2014. This project focuses on the five albums released between 1973 and 1983, and simply pairs the alphabet with 26 songs selected from these albums. These selections begin with 1973's THE...

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,...

Public commemorations of various kinds are an important part of how groups large and small acknowledge and process injustices and tragic events. Performing Commemoration: Musical Reenactment and the Politics of Trauma looks at the roles music can play in public commemorations of traumatic events...

The story about songs with Sex, or sexual meanings, besides the overlooked albums, from there artist Jerry.Author: Jeremiah SemienISBN-10: 1976565715ISBN-13: 9781976565717Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/18/2017Pages: 28Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.11lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.06d

The renowned treatise on music, by an eleventh-century monk, in a critical edition with annotated English translation, introduction, and detailed indexes. Long recognized as one of the most important medieval treatises on music, the Musica of Hermannus Contractus is here presented in a newly...

Introduction to Musicology: A Survey of the Fields, Systematic and Historical, of Musical Knowledge and Research is a comprehensive guide to the academic study of music. Written by Glen Haydon, this book provides an overview of the various branches of musicology, including historical musicology,...

Bells and Bellringers is a book written by Benjamin Lomax in 1879. It is a comprehensive guide to the history, construction, and ringing of bells. The book covers a wide range of topics related to bells, including their origins, the different types of bells,...

A Catechism For The Pianoforte Student is a book written by John Hiles and originally published in 1882. This book is designed to serve as a comprehensive guide for students learning to play the piano. It is divided into several chapters, each of which...

Volume 3 of 3. This monumental three-volume work on the Italian madrigal from its beginnings about 1500 to its decline in the 17th century is based on the research of 40 years, and is a cultural history of the development of Italian music. Mr....

Volume 2 of 3. This monumental three-volume work on the Italian madrigal from its beginnings about 1500 to its decline in the 17th century is based on the research of 40 years, and is a cultural history of the development of Italian music. Mr....

The Hollywood careers of Aaron Copland and Hanns Eisler brought the composers and their high art sensibility into direct conflict with the premier producer of America's potent mass culture. Drawn by Hollywood's potential to reach--and edify--the public, Copland and Eisler expertly wove sophisticated musical...

Mozart's Ghosts traces the many lives of this great composer that emerged following his early death in 1791. Crossing national boundaries and traversing two hundred years-worth of interpretation and reception, author Mark Everist investigates how Mozart's past status can be understood as part of...

Author: John R. DavisISBN-10: 1647126355ISBN-13: 9781647126353Publisher: Georgetown University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2025Pages: 264Format: Paperback

'Chinese' or 'Any other Asian'. The boxes that people of vastly varied East and South East Asian heritage have to tick when declaring their ethnicity on many forms in the UK. This represents a shameful sweeping together of a diverse heritage and experience. East...

Byrd Studies in the Twenty-First Century demonstrates current approaches to Byrd studies in the twenty-first century and represents the sole major print effort to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the composer's death in 2023. The volume's chapters, by both early-career and established scholars, cover...

Author: John MayerISBN-10: 1495017230ISBN-13: 9781495017230Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/15/2015Pages: 64Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 11.70h x 8.80w x 0.30d

The subject of this book is the semantics of symphonic music from Beethoven to Mahler. Of fundamental importance is the realization that this music is imbued with non-musical, literary, philosophical and religious ideas.Author: Constantin FlorosISBN-10: 3631626894ISBN-13: 9783631626894Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der WLanguage:...

Aesthetics of Musical Art - Or, the beautiful in music. Second Edition is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1880. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition,...

For the first, Dr. David Whitwell presents a thorough study of the performance of music in society together with the philosophical views on art versus entertainment, the role of performance in education and character formation and how earlier philosophers viewed the interplay among Reason,...

OPEN YOUR EARS THINK OF A NUMBER From his bar stool on New York's Lower East Side, surrounded by a colorful crew of locals, David Klein sets out on a quest for the infinite,
hidden somewhere -everywhere?- in songs featuring
numbers in their titles. The book...

Wars have dominated the history of the United States since its founding, but there has also been a long history of antiwar activity. Peace songs have emerged out of every military conflict involving the United States. "Singing for Peace" vividly portrays this rich antiwar...

Bill Reed has been active in various fields of journalism from the time he was barely out of short pants and Buster Brown Shoes. He has seldom experienced writer's block and is unaware of time passing when he is engaged in scribbling, to employ...

The Essentials of Aesthetics in Music, Poetry, Painting, Sculpture and Architecture is a comprehensive book written by George Lansing Raymond. The book provides a detailed account of the key concepts and principles of aesthetics in various art forms, including music, poetry, painting, sculpture, and...

This is the first book to provide an introduction to music editing, including the history of the field, and the issues and problems encountered. The preparation of editions for performance and study is one of the most important activities and contributions of the music...

This handbook offers new ways to read the audiovisual. In the media landscapes of today, conglomerates jockey for primacy and the internet increasingly places media in the hands of individuals-producing the range of phenomena from movie blockbuster to YouTube aesthetics. Media forms and genres...

This book gives an account of the individual works of one of the greatest composers. The first volume of a two-volume study of the music of J. S. Bach covers the earlier part of his composing career, 1695-1717. By studying the music chronologically a...

Opera After the Zero Hour: The Problem of Tradition and the Possibility of Renewal in Postwar West Germany presents opera as a site for the renegotiation of tradition in a politically fraught era of rebuilding. Though the "Zero Hour" put a rhetorical caesura between...

The sound of New Wave pop music and the early days of MTV were defined by the work of a handful of iconic musicians, and few stood taller in that era than Ric Ocasek, frontman and primary songwriter for The Cars. The band charted...

Revolution is a detailed exploration into the era of Prince's most prolific and groundbreaking music made with considerable inspiration and performed by a unique cadre of musicians he gathered and relentlessly drove to be the sonic, visual, and ideological reflection of his evolving vision....

During the 1960s--a juncture in history when music was the meeting place for the ideas of the young and questioning--Bob Dylan stood head and shoulders in influence above all others. In telling the story of his first calendar decade as a recording artist, Decade...

Arguably the greatest soul album ever made, What's Going On established Motown star Marvin Gaye as a unique and maverick musical talent. His determination and vision resulted in inspirational and pioneering works that, in the era of Vietnam and the civil rights protests, asked...

Author: John RobbISBN-10: 0008751366ISBN-13: 9780008751364Publisher: HarpernorthLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/02/2025Pages: 416Format: Hardcover

This book explores the application of Heinrich Schenker's groundbreaking theory of tonal music to the field of fugue, with special reference to J. S. Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier. It covers the tonal structure of subjects and answers, the tonal patterns of fugal expositions, sequences, strettos,...

In the 1960s, brothers Brian, Carl and Dennis Wilson, their cousin Mike Love and friend Al Jardine created the California Sound through contagious riffs and songs about hot rods, surfers and blossoming romance. Then, in the mid-1960s, a youthful Brian Wilson changed the face...

Other than 'I Me Mine' and some minor overdubs, The Beatles' entire EMI/Apple catalogue was recorded in fewer than seven years: from 4 September 1962 through to 20 August 1969. Twelve albums, twenty-two singles, two standalone EPs, 213 songs. That in itself is remarkable...

Author: Jonathan CottISBN-13: 9798200067978Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/12/2013Format: MP3 CD

The first title in a planned series of classic texts, written and published in Africa, on the history and culture of the Niger Delta. Long out of print, this book brings together oral traditional evidence and all other available historical material including the work...

The book ""The Belief of the Indian in a Connection between Song and the Supernatural"" by Frances Densmore explores the cultural and spiritual significance of music in Native American communities. Densmore, an ethnomusicologist, draws from her extensive fieldwork and research to examine the role...

Nicole Grimes provides a compellingly fresh perspective on a series of Brahms's elegiac works by bringing together the disciplines of historical musicology, German studies, and cultural history. Her exploration of the expressive potential of Schicksalslied, N nie, Gesang der Parzen, and the Vier ernste...

Carousel (1945), with music by Richard Rodgers and the book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, was their second collaboration following the surprising success of Oklahoma! (1943). They worked again with Theresa Helburn and Lawrence Langner of the Theatre Guild (producers), Rouben Mamoulian (director),...

Author: Stephen DavisISBN-10: 0063354594ISBN-13: 9780063354593Publisher: Dey Street BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/15/2024Pages: 432Format: Paperback

Music and Encounter at the Mediterranean Crossroads: A Sea of Voices explores the musical practices that circulate the Mediterranean Sea. Collectively, the authors relate this musical flow to broader transnational flows of people and power that generate complex encounters, bringing the diverse cultures of...

Author: Rokiba ChaiseISBN-13: 9798348572105Publisher: Book Writing GenieLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/28/2025Pages: 364Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.07lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75dLarge Print

Authoritatively written and lavishly illustrated, Fender Telecaster 75 Years is the officially licensed anniversary celebration of this legendary guitar. Embraced for its simplicity and adaptability, the Fender(R) Telecaster(R) guitar is a musical icon around the world and across musical genres, its distinctive design as...

This book examines Luigi Dallapiccola's groundbreaking works created alongside the masterpieces of many Florentine artists and literati who guided his daily steps and his embrace of twelve-tone serialism as a spiritual dogma.Author: Mario Ruffini Mario Ruffini, Franco SciannameoISBN-10: 1666948683ISBN-13: 9781666948684Publisher: Lexington BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/23/2025Pages:...

Starting in the late 1930s, writer Anne and her husband and musician Frank Warner traveled along the Eastern Seaboard, from the Adirondacks to the Outer Banks of North Carolina, collecting folk songs they would perform, document, research, and lecture on. This decade-spanning work led...

A sinister treatise on black metal featuring interviews with Rex Ebvleb of ABYSSVM/NIGROMANTE & Brett Stevens of DLA/DMUAuthor: D. a. R. G.ISBN-13: 9798224251933Publisher: Yperion PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/21/2024Pages: 124Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.31lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.29d