Music-History & Criticism

In Music in Disney's Animated Features James Bohn investigates how music functions in Disney animated films and identifies several vanguard techniques used in them. In addition, he also presents a history of music in Disney animated films, as well as biographical information on several...

Author: Lucien KarhausenISBN-10: 1456850768ISBN-13: 9781456850760Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/28/2011Pages: 788Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.50lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.74d

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

""Chopin The Composer: His Structural Art And Its Influence On Contemporaneous Music"" is a book written by Edgar Stillman Kelley that explores the life and work of the renowned Polish composer Fr�����d�����ric Chopin. The book delves into Chopin's unique compositional style and the ways...

Marcotone: The Science Of Tone Color is a comprehensive guide to understanding the science behind tone color in music. Written by Edward Maryon, this book delves into the intricacies of sound and how it affects the listener's perception of music. The author explores the...

The Rhinegold And The Valkyrie is the first part of Richard Wagner's epic opera cycle, Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung). It was first performed in 1876 and published in 1910. The story is based on Norse mythology and follows the...

Music and Cultural Politics in Greek and Chinese Societies, Volume 1: Greek Antiquity is the first part of a three-volume set that focuses on the intriguing but often underexplored interaction between music and song-making, on the one hand, and practices of cultural politics, on...

A sound track of Germany in the early twentieth century might conjure military music and the voice of Adolf Hitler rising above a cheering crowd. In A National Acoustics, Brian Currid challenges this reductive characterization by investigating the transformations of music in mass culture...

This translation of Robert Springer's Le blues authentique (1985, Editions Filipacchi) surveys the history and development of the blues in the United States. It analyzes its evolution in relation to the history of African Americans in the South during the post-slavery period and during...

This book breaks new ground in the social and cultural history of eighteenth-century music in Britain through the study of a hitherto neglected resource, the lists of subscribers that were attached to a wide variety of publications, including musical works.Author: Simon D. I. FlemingISBN-10:...

Freshly revised and chock-full of new, vibrant stories, Last Night a DJ Saved My Life is the "lively and . . . necessary" (New York Times Book Review), and first and foremost definitive history of the musical outlaws who revolutionized the music industry: the...

Author: Allison Durham, Jon Glass, Jennifer C. ComptonISBN-13: 9798991283700Publisher: Eagg PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/20/2024Pages: 272Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.40lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.74d

Waltz the Hall: The American Play Party by Alan L. Spurgeon A history and songbook of a once widespread but now nearly forgotten folk entertainment. What did young people do for diversion and socialization in communities that banned most dancing and considered the fiddle...

Author: Everleaf BooksISBN-13: 9798227329912Publisher: Everleaf BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/18/2024Pages: 164Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.37lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.35d

Author: Bradley MorganISBN-10: 080718392XISBN-13: 9780807183922Publisher: LSU PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/02/2025Pages: 304Format: Hardcover

Music, Place, and Identity in Italian Urban Soundscapes circa 1550-1860 presents new perspectives on the role music played in the physical, cultural, and civic spaces of Italian cities from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Across thirteen chapters, contributors explore the complex connections between...

The use of historical recordings as primary sources is relatively well-established in both musicology and performance studies and has demonstrated how early recording technologies transformed ways in which musicians and audiences engaged with music.Author: Eva Moreda RodriguezISBN-10: 1032047534ISBN-13: 9781032047539Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/07/2024Pages: 268Format: PaperbackWeight:...

A collection of writings by the mathematician and composer linking notions of continuity and construction across math, minimalist music and contemporary artNoted mathematician and composer Spencer Gerhardt presents Ticking Stripe, a groundbreaking collection of essays linking notions of continuity and construction across the boundaries...

Material Cultures of Music Notation brings together a collection of essays that explore a fundamental question in the current landscape of musicology: how can writing and reading music be understood as concrete, material practices in a wider cultural context? Drawing on interdisciplinary approaches from...

Heinrich Marschner was a prominent German composer of the early 19th century, known for his operas and other theatrical works. In this book, Hans Gaartz provides a comprehensive overview of Marschner's operas, including detailed synopses and analyses of each work, as well as historical...

The state of contemporary music is dizzyingly diverse in terms of style, media, traditions, and techniques. How have trends in music developed over the past decades? Music Composition in the 21st Century is a guide for composers and students that helps them navigate the...

In this book Sara Le Menestrel explores the role of music in constructing, asserting, erasing, and negotiating differences based on the notions of race, ethnicity, class, and region. She discusses established notions and brings to light social stereotypes and hierarchies at work in the...

The Teacher's Guidebook To Piano Literature by Alice M. Kern is a comprehensive guide for piano teachers that focuses on the literature of piano music. The book is designed to help teachers select appropriate pieces for their students based on their skill level, interests,...

John Rice's Music in the Eighteenth Century takes the reader on an engrossing Grand Tour of Europe's musical centers, from Naples, to London, Berlin, Vienna, Prague, and St. Petersburg --with a side trip to the colonial New World. Against the backdrop of Europe's largely...

The early swing era of jazz, from 1930 to 1941, represents both an extension of developments of the previous decade and an introduction of new tendencies that influenced subsequent periods of jazz history. Major big bands and individual artists established important styles that brought...

The composer Erik Satie (1866-1925) came of age in the bohemian sub-culture of Montmartre, with its artists' cabarets and cafés-concerts. These colorful milieux decisively shaped his aesthetic priorities and compositional strategies, from the esoteric Gymnopédies of the 1880s to the avant-garde ballets of the...

In Renegotiating French Identity, Jane Fulcher addresses the question of cultural resistance to the German occupation and Vichy regime during the Second World War. Nazi Germany famously stressed music as a marker of national identity and cultural achievement, but so too did Vichy. From...

Author: Paul RappaportISBN-10: 191682918XISBN-13: 9781916829183Publisher: Jawbone PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2025Pages: 336Format: Paperback

No art form is as widely discussed--or as readily available--as music. With the click of just a few buttons, modern humans can decide what they think of the brand-new Beyonc?, just as quickly as they can form opinions on Brahms or The Beatles or...

Gerald F. Sweeney's new book is titled "US Composers and Poets - The Intersection of American Classical Music and American Literature."The relationship between American composers and American writers has always been close. Creating the music to accompany and enhance the prose and poetry pf...

In Iceland in the 1930s, classical music was only beginning to be seriously practiced, at the same time when musicians of Jewish heritage were fleeing Nazi Germany and Austria. Despite the country's strict immigration policy, three outstanding young musicians were allowed to settle there:...

Beginning with a quick history of film scoring and then taking the reader backstage to interview a dozen major screen composers, Overhearing Film Music represents three generations of movie soundtrack music. Ranging from groundbreaking composers who scored classic 1940s melodramas such as Laura and...

With Universal Mother, Sinead O'Connor explores childhood trauma and her experiences as a woman, mother, target of scorn, and ultimate phoenix. Released in the winter of 1994, Universal Mother was the first recorded work from O'Connor since her duo of protests in 1992 (Saturday...

Author: Fintan VallelyISBN-10: 1782050469ISBN-13: 9781782050469Publisher: Cork University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/06/2025Pages: 380Format: Hardcover

Sounds of Survival tells a story of unexpected musical continuity across some of the twentieth century's most cataclysmic events. It examines an integrated Polish-Jewish musical community as its members contended with antisemitism in the 1930s, were persecuted during the Nazi occupation, and attempted to...

Established in the 1950s by musician and engineer Pierre Schaeffer, the Groupe de Recherches Musicales would become the nerve center for avant-garde artists experimenting with sound and acoustics, as well as the birthplace of a genre of music-making enabled by new recording technologies and...

Established in the 1950s by musician and engineer Pierre Schaeffer, the Groupe de Recherches Musicales would become the nerve center for avant-garde artists experimenting with sound and acoustics, as well as the birthplace of a genre of music-making enabled by new recording technologies and...

Further adventures in psychedelic rock, ball room dancing, performance art, and parenting in 1980s Britain. Further adventures in a post punk wonderland from the author of the acclaimed 69 Exhibition Road. In this new volume, focusing on the 1980s, Dorothy Max Prior recalls her...

A warm-hearted, reflective, musical odyssey through the record labels, bands and music which shaped our lives. 'An instant classic and a required part of the library of anyone fascinated with the record business.' - Danny Goldberg, bestselling author of Serving the Servant: Remembering Kurt...

A devout Catholic, a visionary--and some say prophetic--writer, Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) has gained a growing presence in contemporary popular culture. While O'Connor professed that she did not have an ear for music, allusions to her writing appear in the lyrics and narrative form of...

Vol. 8: 1986 of the comprehensive On Record series captures the British synth-pop duos (Pet Shop Boys) and bombastic hard-rock acts (Europe's "The Final Countdown) making an impression on the charts, the sexiness of Madonna and Berlin, and seminal videos (Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer," Paul...

Traversing London's musical culture, this book boldly illuminates the emergence of Edwardian London as a beacon of musical innovation. The dawning of a new century saw London emerge as a hub in a fast-developing global music industry, mirroring Britain's pivotal position between the continent,...

Serge Gainsbourg is arguably the Francophone songwriter whose contribution to the international appeal of French popular music has been the most significant in the post-war era. Sampled by Beck, De La Soul, Massive Attack and Fatboy Slim, remixed by Howie B. and David Holmes,...

A chronology and overview of the studio albums by the artists known as Kendrick Lamar, Future and Travis Scott. Featuring three additional discographies, the first revisits the studio album output, while the second reviews the additional projects including mixtapes, EPs, collaboration, compilation, soundtracks etc....

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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 writings of David Cairns have played a major part in the relatively recent acceptance of Berlioz as a central figure in western classical music. Discovering Berlioz collects articles, lectures and other texts from several decades of advocacy, throwing new light on this outsize...

The influence of Rome on medieval plainsong and liturgy explored in depth. Containing substantial new studies in music, liturgy, history, art history, and palaeography from established and emerging scholars, this volume takes a cross-disciplinary approach to one of the most celebrated and vexing questions...

Letters I Never Mailed: Clues to a Life, by Alec Wilder, in a new, annotated edition with introduction and supplementary material by David Demsey, foreword by jazz pianist Marian McPartland, and photographs by Louis Ouzer. Letters I Never Mailed: Clues to a Life, by...

How Franz Schubert and his compositions were viewed in nineteenth-century European criticism, literature, and the visual arts, from Schumann to George Eliot to Whistler. In Schubert in the European Imagination, Volume 1: The Romantic and Victorian Eras, Scott Messing examines the historical reception of...