Music-History & Criticism

Like her much-loved heroine Emma Woodhouse, Jane Austen 'played and sang'. Music occupied a central role in her life, and she made brilliant use of it in her books to illuminate characters' personalities and highlight the contrasts between them.Until recently, our knowledge of Austen's...

Jacob Hardesty is Dean of the College of Social Science, Commerce, and Education and Associate Professor of Education at Rockford University.Author: Jacob W. HardestyISBN-10: 1438494645ISBN-13: 9781438494647Publisher: State University of New York PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/02/2024Pages: 222Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.74lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.51d

In this important study, Margaret Seares places Johannes Mattheson's Pi鐵es de clavecin (1714) in the context of his work as a public intellectual who encouraged German musicians and their musical public to embrace a universalism of style and expression derived from contemporary currents in...

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,...

Discover the enthralling world of Ralph J. Gleason, a pioneering music journalist who expanded the possibilities of the newspaper music column, sparked the San Francisco jazz and rock scenes, and co-founded Rolling Stone magazine. Gleason not only reported on but influenced the trajectory of...

An insightful look at how avant-garde musicians of the postwar period in New York explored the philosophical dimensions of music's ineffability. The Musician as Philosopher explores the philosophical thought of avant-garde musicians in postwar New York: David Tudor, Ornette Coleman, the Velvet Underground, Alice...

This ten-chapter book explores how music and society are, and have been, intertwined and mutually influential. It examines the agents behind these connections: who determines musical cultures in society? Which social groups are represented in particular musical contexts? Which social groups are silenced or...

This book is a music-theoretical and critical-theoretical study of late tonal music, and, in particular, of the music of Wagner's Gterd舂merung.Author: J. P. E. Harper-Scott, Oliver ChandlerISBN-10: 1032025050ISBN-13: 9781032025056Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/16/2024Pages: 90Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.31d

This book is about the best 'Headphone Music' ever recorded, at least in the opinion of California writer, Stark Hunter-a baby boomer and old hippie, born in 1952. With a lifetime of listening to all genres of music under his belt, it is his...

Antonio Stradivari (1644--1737) was a perfectionist whose single-minded pursuit of excellence changed the world of music. In the course of his long career in the northern Italian city of Cremona, he created more than a thousand stringed instruments; approximately six hundred survive, their quality...

In the late 1980s, gangsta rap music emerged in urban America, giving voice to--and making money for--a social group widely considered to be in crisis: young, poor, black men. From its local origins, gangsta rap went on to flood the mainstream, generating enormous popularity...

A Broadway classic, a call to action, and an incredibly malleable popular song, "Ol' Man River" is not your typical musical theater standard. Written by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II in the 1920s for Show Boat, "Ol Man River" perfectly blends two seemingly...

WOMEN BEHIND THE MIC: Curators of The Culture Volume Two "The Hip-Hop Edition" Volume Two "The Hip-Hop Edition" from the WOMEN BEHIND THE MIC series contains the stories of 21 veteran executives who were the engines behind the most iconic artists and brands of...

What I didn't know [when starting to research and write this book]: I would become full-on, hopelessly obsessed with finding out every arcane detail about the artists gathered in these pages, whether they are living or long gone. Those myriad facts are puzzle pieces...

"An opinionated, stimulating account of how classical music failed to establish fruitful roots in America," Classical Music in America chronicles "a cultural attitude that has produced many fine artists and striking moments--but no institutional or intellectual support to sustain them" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review)....

Dive into the musical universe of solo Ian Hunter songs like never before with Ian Hunter On Track. We unlock the secrets behind every lyric, riff, and melody in this one-of-a-kind musical journey. From the soul-stirring anthems that defined an era to the hidden...

This history of Jewish musicians who migrated to Australia traces their difficult journey to a distant continent. Drawing on extensive primary sources - including correspondence, travel documents and interviews with the refugees themselves or their descendants - the author depicts in vivid detail the...

Chopin tutored opera stars in the art of singing This new discovery overturns the traditional view that Chopin's teaching was limited to piano playing and that his pupils were mainly high-society ladies in Paris. - The "Bel Canto" booklet was initially presented as a...

Introduction: The Nature of Musical Notation. Part I: The Development of Staff Notation. Part II: Didactic Notations Part III: Tablatures Part IV: Staff Notation since 1600Author: Richard RastallISBN-10: 1904331505ISBN-13: 9781904331506Publisher: Travis and Emery Music BookshopLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2008Pages: 324Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x...

Anton Seidl: A Memorial By His Friends (1899) is a book written by Henry Theophilus Finck in honor of the late conductor Anton Seidl. Seidl was a renowned conductor and close friend of composer Richard Wagner. The book includes personal anecdotes and tributes from...

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...

Ear Training: A Course of Systematic Study for the Development of Musical Perception, written by Arthur E. Heacox, is a comprehensive guide to improving one's ability to perceive and identify musical sounds. The book is designed for musicians of all levels, from beginners to...

""A Practical Course In Ear Training: Or A Guide For Acquiring Relative And Absolute Pitch"" is a book written by Salomon Jadassohn and published in 1899. The book is intended to help musicians develop their ability to identify and reproduce musical pitches, both relative...

Its all about Dr Robinstrum this time. The Art Traveler Series kicks off with book two as a biography of Robinstrum and his most important adventures in time.Author: Jerry M. ThorpeISBN-10: 8387469254ISBN-13: 9798387469251Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/18/2023Pages: 38Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.14lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x...

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...

The Music of the Pilgrims provides a fascinating look at the religious music of the early English settlers in America. Focusing on the psalm-book brought to Plymouth in 1620, this book explores the history of the psalmody sung by the Pilgrims, its sources and...

In 1973, a forty-year-old country musician named Willie Nelson, inspired by a failed music festival the year before, decided he was going to hold his own party. He would stage it in the same remote and rocky field where the previous festival had withered....

Jews have been a major presence in America's jazz, as musicians and as jazz facilitators, and in Kosher Jammers: Jewish Connections in Jazz - The USA, Gerber tells that story with a rigour worthy of academia but with a feature writer's creative flair. Besides...

The fascinating story behind the making of Bruce Springsteen's most surprising album, Nebraska, revealing its pivotal role in Springsteen's career "Brilliant . . . For fans of American music, Deliver Me from Nowhere makes a great ghost story."--The Boston Globe AN NPR BEST BOOK...

On Ruben Slikk: An Manifesto on the Purpose of Art and the Value of Transgression is a philosophical and critical inquiry into the modern musical landscape, using the obscure, prolific, transgressive soundcloud rapper Ruben Slikk as an entrypoint for discussing the interplay of art,...

When a critic pointed out to Brahms that the finale theme in his First Symphony was remarkably similar to the Ode to Joy theme in Beethoven's Ninth, he is said to have replied: "Yes indeed, and what's really remarkable is that every jackass notices...

The eighteenth century saw the creation of a number of remarkable mechanical androids: at least ten prominent automata were built between 1735 and 1810 by clockmakers, court mechanics, and other artisans from France, Switzerland, Austria, and the German lands. Designed to perform sophisticated activities...

A stunning cultural biography of De La Soul, the era-defining hip-hop trio that touched millions of lives and changed rap forever.De La Soul burst onto the scene with the release of their groundbreaking 1989 album 3 Feet High & Rising, an "anything goes" hip-hop...

Depeche Mode's 101 is, at first glance, a curious thing: a live double-album by a synth band. A recording of its "Concert for the Masses," 101 marks the moment when doomy, cultish, electronic Depeche Mode, despite low American album sales and a lack of...

This Is the story of the First Jazz Musician and the birth of a new music we now call Jazz. It begins in New Orleans at the end of the 19th Century and you will learn of the development of Buddy Bolden's music and...

Author: John LinkISBN-10: 1009490265ISBN-13: 9781009490269Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/08/2024Pages: 508Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.77lbsSize: 9.61h x 6.69w x 1.03d

When early settlers came to America they often brought few material items, but they brought many customs, traditions, and music of their homeland here. These things, mainly the music took root in America's soil and grew. These emigrants came for many different reasons. Some...

Combining charming illustrations and kid-friendly, easy to read text, THE STORY OF ABBA by Becky Laine is an unofficial biography of the Swedish pop group ABBA, written specially for the group's youngest fans. Now including four new pages all about ABBA's historic comeback.Author: Becky...

Black Power Music! Protest Songs, Message Music, and the Black Power Movement critically explores the soundtracks of the Black Power Movement as forms of "movement music." That is to say, much of classic Motown, soul, and funk music often mirrored and served as mouthpieces...

In Move On Up, Aaron Cohen tells the remarkable story of the explosion of soul music in Chicago. Together, soul music and black-owned businesses thrived. Record producers and song-writers broadcast optimism for black America's future through their sophisticated, jazz-inspired productions for the Dells and...

Discussion concerning the 'musicality' of Samuel Beckett's writing now constitutes a familiar critical trope in Beckett Studies, one that continues to be informed by the still-emerging evidence of Beckett's engagement with music throughout his personal and literary life, and by the ongoing interest of...

What can music tell us--without words? Can it depict scenes, narrate stories, elucidate beliefs? And can it be an instrument through which we access the inner lives not only of musicians from the past but of ourselves, today? In Ohne Worte five scholars and...

The first English work dealing in detail with the life and musical influences of the Italian composer Luigi Dallapiccola (1904-1975). Luigi Dallapiccola (1904-1975) was one of the most important Italian composers of the twentieth century. As well as writing several operas, he composed a...

In a major expansion of the conversation on music and film history, The Routledge Companion to Global Film Music in the Early Sound Era draws together a wide-ranging collection of scholarship on music in global cinema during the transition from silent to sound films.Author:...

For almost 200 years, wind bands and wind band musicians were the pre-eminent form of large instrumental ensemble performance practice in Canada. From the earliest documented evidence of a "band of music" in 1770 Halifax to the post-World War II explosion of curricular school...

In the period between the Second World War and the present, there has been an extraordinary rise in the production of medievalist fantasy literature and film. This has been accompanied by the revival, performance and invention of medieval music. In this enterprise modern fantasies...

The String Quartet in E flat major (1834) by Fanny Hensel, n馥 Mendelssohn, is one of the most important works by a female composer written in the nineteenth century. Composed at a turning point in her life (as Hensel was not only grappling with...

A vivid, captivating account of the Beatles's musical transformation throughout the pivotal year of 1963, as the world became caught up in the maelstrom of Beatlemania and its far-reaching cultural impact. The Beatles broke up more than half a century ago, yet millions around...

New Edition, revised and updated, with colour illustrations. The previous edition was consulted by Donald Macleod and referenced during his episodes on Rameau for BBC Radio 3's Composer of the Week in 2022. Graham Sadler, Shirley Thompson and Jonathan Williams, editors of The Operas...

What I didn't know [when starting to research and write this book]: I would become full-on, hopelessly obsessed with finding out every arcane detail about the artists gathered in these pages, whether they are living or long gone. Those myriad facts are puzzle pieces...