Music-History & Criticism

Author: Leendert Van Der MiesenISBN-10: 9048564131ISBN-13: 9789048564132Publisher: Amsterdam University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/07/2025Pages: 398Format: Hardcover

Upon the release of Sufjan Stevens' seventh studio album, Carrie & Lowell, two opposing groups found themselves as strange bedfellows: the LGBTQIA+ community and American evangelical Christians. Both were united in praise for Stevens' beautifully melancholic music. Critically acclaimed as one of the best...

Factory Records has become the stuff of legend. The histories of the label have been told from many perspectives, from visual catalogues and memoirs to exhibitions. Yet no in-depth history has ever been told from the perspectives of the women who were integral to...

Rāgs Around the Clock is a rich and vibrant compendium for the discovery and study of North Indian classical music. The theory and practice of rāg are explored through two interlinked resources: a handbook of essays and analyses offering technical, historical, cultural and aesthetic...

A detailed and insightful analysis of J.S. Bach's seminal work, 'The Well-Tempered Clavier', offering a fresh perspective on the music, its composition, and its historical context. This book is an essential resource for students and scholars of music theory, history, and performance.This work has...

The UK alternative rock band, Manic Street Preachers, were and remain one of the most interesting, significant, and best-loved bands of the past thirty years. Their third album The Holy Bible (1994) is generally acknowledged to be their most enduring and fascinating work, and...

A groundbreaking new approach proposes answers to many of the opera's unresolved questions. WINNER of the Mozart Society of America 'Marjorie Weston Emerson Award' for 2008 This study proposes a hypothesis to account for some of the opera's long-standing 'problems'. It suggests that Mozart...

The Miserere by Italian composer Gregorio Allegri (1582-1652) is one of the most popular, oft performed and recorded choral pieces of late Renaissance/early Baroque music. Yet the piece known today bears little resemblanceto Allegri's original or to the piece as it was performed before...

The Technique of the Violin, written by Richard Scholz in 1900, is a classic instructional book for violin players. The book is divided into three parts, covering the basics of playing the violin, advanced techniques, and specific exercises for improving one's playing. The first...

Il libro ""Guido D'Arezzo: Monaco Ed Eremita Camaldolese, Ristoratore Dell' Arte Musicale (1882)"" scritto da un monaco camaldolese, narra la vita e le opere di Guido D'Arezzo, un monaco ed eremita camaldolese che ha avuto un ruolo fondamentale nella storia della musica. Il libro...

This groundbreaking collection by the most distinguished musicologists and film scholars in their fields gives long overdue recognition to music as equal to the image in shaping the experience of film. Refuting the familiar idea that music serves as an unnoticed prop for narrative,...

A Gallery Book. Gallery Books has a great book for every reader. Author: Melissa LockerISBN-10: 1668099373ISBN-13: 9781668099377Publisher: Gallery BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2025Pages: 320Format: Hardcover

A frenetic account of Britney Spears's historic rise and equally tragic fall, from Jeff Weiss, LA's Hunter S. Thompson. America, 2003: A country at war, its shiny veneer beginning to crack. Von Dutch and The Simple Life dominate. And on the cover of every...

The author of The Holy or the Broken and former editor-in-chief of Vibe brings his "thoughtful and illuminating" (The New York Times) insight to Fleetwood Mac's iconic album Rumours, celebrating its story, mythology, and enduring impact. On January 1, 1975, struggling young singer-songwriter Lindsey...

This book is the first comprehensive examination of the history and evolution of Fleadh Cheoil na h?ireann (All-Ireland Fleadh Cheoil). As a transformative cultural phenomenon, the Fleadh was central to the revival for Irish traditional music during from 1951 to 1969. Reflecting broader patterns...

This cross-disciplinary collection provides the first comprehensive study of library music practices in the 1960s and 1970s. Library music was inexpensive, off-the-shelf music available to license for a small fee. It was widely used in television and film as a cheaper alternative to commissioned...

Nathalie Weidhase conceptualises the female dandy as a figure that simultaneously embodies and disrupts postfeminist notions of femininity, including maintaining a physique conforming to contemporary beauty standards, constant self-surveillance and self-improvement, and the naturalisation of gender difference and heterosexuality. She examines how music videos...

From The Heart Of A Folk: A Book Of Songs is a collection of folk songs compiled and edited by Waverley Turner Carmichael. Originally published in 1918, the book contains over 100 songs from various regions of the United States, including the Appalachian Mountains,...

It's here: the third and latest volume in the series that you have come to rely upon for your music-reading fix. The 2002 volume will celebrate the year's best writing about music and its culture, as selected by Jonathan Lethem, best-selling novelist, music hound,...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER An unsparing investigation into Spotify's origins and influence on music, weaving unprecedented reporting with incisive cultural criticism, illuminating how streaming is reshaping music for listeners and artists alike. Drawing on over one hundred interviews with industry insiders, former Spotify employees, and musicians,...

What Readers Are Saying..."Dr. Patrick Brill provides thorough and much-needed support for what many traditional-minded Catholics have long known or at least suspected: that St. Pius X's 1903 motu proprio Tra le Sollectitudini still provides the surest guide for the restoration of Catholic sacred...

In 1972, David Ackles's third album, American Gothic, was released to a flurry of press plaudits declaring it to be 'the Sgt Pepper of folk' and one of the greatest records ever made. Yet the album, like its two predecessors, failed to sell, and...

Author: BauerISBN-10: 0190633549ISBN-13: 9780190633547Publisher: Oxford University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/16/2025Format: Hardcover

The volume on a standard amp goes to 10. But, sometimes, that's just not high enough. Sometimes, you need to rock even harder than that--all the way to 11. Goes to 11 books are short, opinionated introductions to the catalogs of major musical acts...

This catalog contains a comprehensive list of music available for the Pianola, Pianola Piano, and Aeriola, all player-piano-like instruments produced by the Aeolian Company. The catalog includes detailed information on pieces of music available, as well as recommendations for specific instruments. Musicians and enthusiasts...

Vincenzo Bellini on Stage and Screen, 1935-2020 offers nine case studies of the history of Vincenzo Bellini's operas on stage, on screen, and in sound, video and performance art. This investigation begins in 1935, the hundredth anniversary of the composer's death and the year...

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,...

How do we explain the globalized musical world in which we find ourselves in the early 21st century and how did we arrive here? This extraordinary book outlines an understanding of the human musical story as an intercultural-and ultimately a transcultural-one, with travel and...

To Arms! Songs Of The Great War (1918) is a book written by Laura E. Richards. The book is a collection of songs that were popular during World War I. The songs are patriotic and were used to boost morale and support for the...

The Documents of Mirecourt is a book written by Gerry L. Prinsen that provides a comprehensive examination of the Mirecourt violin-making tradition. The book is a collection of primary source documents and historical accounts that shed light on the techniques, materials, and processes used...

Music in the Classical World: Genre, Culture, and History provides a broad sociocultural and historical perspective of the music of the Classical Period as it relates to the world in which it was created. It establishes a background on the time span--1725 to 1815--offering...

Carl Dahlhaus was without doubt the premier musicologist of the postwar generation, a giant whose recent death was mourned the world over. Translated here for the first time, this fundamental work on the development of tonality shows his complete mastery of the theory of...

Early Music History is devoted to the study of music from the early Middle Ages to the end of the seventeenth century. It demands the highest standards of scholarship from its contributors, all of whom are leading academics in their fields. It gives preference...

Displaying the broad erudition and intellectual agility that have informed a lifetime of scholarship, Wilfrid Mellers offers a set of diverse reflections on how western art music illuminates the shifting relationship between humankind and the natural world. Beginning with two turn-of-the-century operas--Frederick Delius's A...

A poignant, funny, and lively memoir of sexual awakening, music, and discovering one's true self. Pete Crighton came of age in the early/mid 1980s in the shadow of HIV/AIDS. Growing up in Toronto, he was terrified that his friends and schoolmates would find out...

In 1981, David Bowie and Queen both happened to be in Switzerland: They met and made "Under Pressure." Recorded on a lark, the song broke the path for subsequent pop anthems. In Under Pressure, Max Brzezinski tells the classic track's story, charting the relationship...

An unsparing investigation into Spotify's origins and influence on music, weaving unprecedented reporting with incisive cultural criticism, illuminating how streaming is reshaping music for listeners and artists alikeDrawing on over a hundred interviews with industry insiders, former Spotify employees, and musicians, the author takes...

Discover the Rhythms of Serenity: Dive Into the Heart of the Lofi MovementIn the bustling rhythm of modern life, there exists a sound, a movement, quietly revolutionizing the way we unwind, study, and connect. The Lofi Revolution: Unwinding to the Sound of Now offers...

The genres of classical music and heavy metal music are rarely discussed in the same sentence. This book explores how these two styles of music have many more similarities and connections than most people would think.Author: Michael SeeISBN-13: 9798348218492Publisher: Michael SeeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/24/2024Pages: 196Format:...

This long-awaited book situates the symphonies in their biographical context, offers text-critical investigations, presents matters of performance practice and gives an analytical overview of each work including Brahms's unfinished Fifth Symphony. In Brahms: Symphonist, the late Robert Pascall offers new revelations about Brahms symphonies...

The unlikely story of a bunch of small-town Canadian punks who conquered the global music industry. After punk found commercial success in the '90s, with bands like Green Day, the Offspring, and Blink-182, a new wave of punk bands emerged, each embodying the DIY...

Politics of Feeling in Songs of the Dutch Revolutionary Period sheds new light on the intertwined history of music and politics by exploring Dutch political songs. In the emotionally charged climate of the Dutch revolutionary period at the close of the eighteenth century, songs...

Musical Memories, 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 for present and future generations....

A comprehensive history of music from ancient times to the early twentieth century, covering the development of music across different cultures and regions.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we...

A research-based inquiry into how we process, construct, and perceive auditory stimuliAudio perception is a highly individual phenomenon and there is still much uncertainty about the physics, biology and unconscious processes that contribute to auditory experiences. This book applies artistic research methods to this...

Author: Elijah WaldISBN-10: 1665270780ISBN-13: 9781665270786Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/16/2017Format: CD

As economic, technological and cultural change gathers pace across the world, issues of music heritage and sustainability have become ever more pressing. Discourse on intangible cultural heritage has developed in complex ways in recent years, and musical practices have been transformed by safeguarding agendas....

'A Compendium of Musical Instruments and Instrumental Terminology in the Bible' draws on extensive historical research, comparative linguistic analysis and musical study to offer the first compilation of its kind. The volume examines the entire range of musical instruments in the Bible - stringed,...

This is a story of empire, colonialism and then the new energies released by the movements for freedom and independence of the post second-world-war years; of the movements of peoples across borders; of the flow of music around the triangle that takes in Africa,...

The Austrian composer Hanns Eisler was Bertolt Brecht's closest friend and most politically committed collaborator. In these conversations with Hans Bunge which took place over a period of four years, from 1958 until his death in 1962, Eisler offers a compelling and absorbing account...