Music-History & Criticism

Since the establishment of film music studies, there has been a steady growth of serious analytical work on the film music repertoire. Film Music Analysis: Studying the Score offers the first collection of essays dedicated to the close investigation of musical structure and meaning...

The first book to consider the shellac disc as a global format. With the rise of the gramophone around 1900, the shellac disc traveled the world and eventually became the dominant sound format in the first half of the twentieth century. Format Friction brings...

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,...

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,...

Best known as the story from the 1904 Puccini opera, the compelling modern myth of Madame Butterfly has been read, watched, and re-interpreted for over a century, from Pierre Loti's 1887 novel Madame Chrysanth?me to A.R. Gurney's 1999 play Far East. This fascinating collaborative...

This is a new release of the original 1936 edition.Author: Robbins Music CorporationISBN-10: 1258834898ISBN-13: 9781258834890Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2013Pages: 84Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.63lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.25d

Madam Butterfly: A Japanese Tragedy is a renowned opera written by the Italian composer, Giacomo Puccini. The story is set in Nagasaki, Japan, in the early 20th century and follows the tragic love story of a young geisha named Cio-Cio-San, also known as Madam...

""Favorite Square Dances: Mid-Western Square Dances"" by William A. Foster is a comprehensive guide to the popular American folk dance known as square dancing. The book features a collection of classic square dance routines that are popular in the Midwest region of the United...

The Orchestra And Orchestral Music is a book written by William James Henderson and originally published in 1899. This book provides a comprehensive overview of orchestral music and the workings of an orchestra. It covers the history of orchestral music, the different types of...

The first in-depth study of banda, a Mexican and Mexican American musical practice.Runner-up for the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) - US Chapter Book Award. (2002)Banda music has been performed by traditional brass bands in rural northwestern Mexico for more...

The dramatic untold story of the Weavers, the hit-making folk-pop quartet destroyed with the aid of the United States government -- and who changed the world, anyway Following a series of top-ten hits that became instant American standards, the Weavers dissolved at the height...

Divine Inspirations: Music and Islam in Indonesia brings together the work of 11 international scholars into an unprecedented volume focused on religion and performance in a nation celebrated for its extraordinary arts, religious diversity, and natural beauty. The resulting collection provides a panoramic view...

Toxic Shock Records, Assassin of Mediocrity: A Story of Love, Loss and Loud Music by Bill Sassenberger.This is a story of a lifetime spent in the trenches of the mercantile class. Yes, it's been said before, but punk rock did change our lives. You're...

One of the most important events in modern music remains the late 80s cross-collision of rock and hip hop. Aerosmith/Run DMC, Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique, Public Enemy and Anthrax, Rick Rubin and Russell Simmons, De La Soul and Third Bass, and the 318 hip...

The diva - a central figure in the landscape of contemporary popular culture: gossip-generating, scandal-courting, paparazzi-stalked. And yet the diva is at the epicentre of creative endeavours that resonate with contemporary feminist ideas, kick back against diminished social expectations, boldly call-out casual sexism and...

The Oxford Handbook of the Disney Musical brings together scholars from a range of disciplines to interrogate an enduringly popular and influential cultural phenomenon. Broadening the purview of extant scholarship while also reflecting its methodological multiplicity, this collection takes an expansive approach to the...

A grounded, tender, and mournful reckoning with the catastrophes that launched poor, white Anglos into their role as itinerant foot soldiers for modern imperialism--now in paperback with a new preface Joanna Brooks's ancestors were among the early waves of emigrants to leave England for...

Here is an in-depth exploration of Robert Forster's debut solo album, Danger in the Past (1990), with parallel reflections on the artist's life in Berlin and the author's life in Dublin in the year of the album's release. Dublin, Ireland. That World Cup summer...

Tour Tales Two continues right where Tour Tales One left off. It's now nineteen eighty-eight, and for better or for worse, the Grateful Dead are back in style. Gone are the days of not being able to find your car after a show. In...

Unlock the secrets behind the music you love with Music Theory Mysteries: Sound Science Decoded. This book explores the fascinating intersection of science and art, delving into the fundamental principles that govern music. From the physics of sound waves and the intricacies of harmony...

A history of the Grateful Dead that kaleidoscopes into an examination of the American counterculture through the life of its iconoclastic frontman, Jerry Garcia, and his merry band In early 1960's Palo Alto, Jerry Garcia randomly opened a dictionary to a fable in which...

Documents and illuminates Glenn Gould's groundbreaking radio composition, The Idea of North.Matter of North collects essays and source material related to Glenn Gould's landmark 1967 radio documentary The Idea of North. The most famous product (other than his studio piano recordings) of Gould's 1964...

In 1974, when young music promoters Allan Pepper and Stanley Snadowsky opened their night club the Bottom Line in an industrial area of Greenwich Village that was all but deserted after 6 pm, no one could have foreseen either its long-term success or its...

Musical Portraits: Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format...

Edward MacDowell's European Piano Music is a critical study of the piano music that MacDowell composed during his European sojourn (1876-1888), steeped in reception history and with a special emphasis of programmaticism.The book expands current knowledge of MacDowell's childhood in four of the chapters...

The On Record series presents rare archival images and insightful interviews by long-time popular-music journalist and radio personality G. Brown. "It's always nice when the person interviewing me knows more about music than I do. Every time I've spoken to G. Brown over the...

Stories Behind the World's Great Music is a fascinating exploration of the history and context of some of the world's most celebrated musical works. Sigmund Spaeth provides insights into the lives of the composers, the historical events that influenced their work, and the cultural...

This book offers an insightful analysis of the lives and works of various composers, including Beethoven, Schumann, and Wagner, during the 19th and early 20th century. The author evaluates the historical significance and musical contributions of these composers.This work has been selected by scholars...

Situates the controversial narrative of 'The English Musical Renaissance' within its wider historical context. Throughout the nineteenth century a fierce debate about the future of English music was raging in Britain. Just as English music was appearing to advance in quality, the impact of...

Sirens are sounds that confront us in daily life, from the sounds of police cars and fire engines to, less often, tornado warnings. Ideologies of sirens embody the protective, the seductive and the dangerous elements of siren sounds - from the US Cold War...

Explores the religious, political, and cultural significance attributed to music in early China.Winner of the 2013 Reading Committee Accolade for a Specialist Publication in the Humanities presented by the International Convention of Asia Scholars In early China, conceptions of music became important culturally and...

Dancing and Its Relations to Education and Social Life: With a New Method of Instruction is a book written by Allen Dodworth and originally published in 1885. The book explores the role of dancing in education and social life, and offers a new method...

What does it mean for poetry and music to turn to each other, in the shadow of the Holocaust, as a means of aesthetic self-reflection? How can their mutual mirroring, of such paramount importance to German Romanticism, be reconfigured to retain its validity after...

During the lifetime of Guillaume Du Fay (c. 1400-1474) the motet underwent a profound transformation. Because of the protean nature of the motet during this period, problems of definition have always stood in the way of a full understanding of this crucial shift. Through...

Perspectives on Mozart Performance, published during the Mozart bicentennial year, is the first volume in a new series. It includes essays by distinguished musicologists and performers, each exploring a different aspect of Mozart's music in performance. Several studies consider the eighteenth-century roots of Mozart's...

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: A Research and Information Guide is a valuable tool for any scholar, performer, or music student interested in accessing the most pertinent resources on the life, works, and cultural context of the composer. It is an updated, annotated bibliography of resources...

For the modern West, Bali has long served as an icon of exotic pre-modern innocence. Yet the reality of modern Bali stands in stark contrast to this prevailing and enduring image, a contrast embodied by a movement of local musical experimentation, musik kontemporer, which...

Over the past four decades, the "globalized" aspects of cultural circulation have received the majority of scholarly-and consumer-attention, particularly in the study of South Asian music. As a result, a broad range of community-based and other locally focused performance traditions in the regions of...

Mozart's emergence as a mature artist coincides with the rise to prominence of the piano, an instrument that came alive under his fingers and served as medium for many of his finest compositions. In Mozart's Piano Music, William Kinderman reconsiders common assumptions about Mozart's...

The history of disco and its predecessors is often portrayed as one of glamour and excess. Dancehalls, Glitterballs and DJs expands this history, to encompass tatty but much-loved provincial dancehalls, mobile DJs with home-made light shows and rusty vans, one-hit-wonders on the chicken-in-a-basket circuit,...

Awarded the legion d'Honneur by the French government in 2006 for his services to French culture, acclaimed writer and broadcaster Roger Nichols invites the reader to accompany him on his journey through the century-and-a-half turbulent and fertile period in the history of French music...

Ground breaking and comprehensive reference volume covering an extensive range of Purcell studies, including his life and works, his milieu and the reception of his music to the present. In the 30 years since the Tercentenary of Purcell's death in 1995 research into him...

Sorrow Tears and Blood offers a glimpse into the complicated social, cultural, and political phenomenon that is Nigeria. Though Nigeria is the most populous African country, and sometimes called the "Giant of Africa," Fela's album sheds a sharp light on the reasons why Nigeria...

Since the magazine's first issue in 1964, TeenSet's role in popular music journalism has been overlooked and underappreciated. Teen fan magazines, often written by women and assumed to be read only by young girls, have been misconstrued by scholars and journalists to lack "seriousness"...

This is a comprehensive study of Wagner's music and its influence on the future of music and arts. It explores the philosophical, political, and cultural background of Wagner's music and emphasizes its significance as a transformative and avant-garde force in the history of 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,...

The Beatles were still The Beatles after they broke up...musically speaking. The genius each of them brought into the group they took with them as they went their separate ways. As a result, we still heard a lot of music from The Beatles alone...

Statistically the most performed and listened to contemporary composer in the world, Arvo P rt is a musical and cultural phenomenon. This book is an essential resource for anyone interested in his extraordinarily innovative and uniquely appealing music. Andrew Shenton surveys the full scope...

20th-century music is characterized by a bewildering multitude of trends and movements. Often several movements co-exist in contradiction to each other, in a reflection of the century's intellectual currents and social and political changes, and the reactions they prompted. In this book, renowned musicologist...

The 1965 Project is the story of how historical events in 1965 influenced and changed the music released in 1965. The evolution of music throughout 1965 is stunning. From traditional, bright and simple songs in early-1965 to complex, dark and chaotic sounds in late...