Music-History & Criticism

The worlds of new music and historically informed performance might seem quite distant from one another. Yet, upon closer consideration, clear points of convergence emerge. This book addresses the synergies in aesthetics and practices in historical performance and new music. Author: Rebecca CypessISBN-10: 1032291427ISBN-13:...

From the author of The Copper Crown, Strange Days: My Life With and Without Jim Morrison, and The Rennie Stride Murder Series "A treasured collection, the personal voyage of one of the First Ladies of Rock Journalism." -Kathleen Quinlan, Academy Award nominee "ROCK CHICK-including...

This book explains how and why Gluck's historically important and best-loved opera Orfeo came into existence, and shows why it has retained its popularity. The work is placed in its context of Gluck's 'reform of opera', an artistic movement involving actors, dancers, designers, writers...

Just Beyond Listening asks how we might think about encounters with sound that complicate standard accounts of aurality. In a series of essays, Michael C. Heller considers how sound functions in dialogue with a range of sensory and affective modalities, including physical co-presence, textual...

Informed study of composer Olivier Messiaen in light of recent research French composer Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) is probably best known for his Quartet for the End of Time, premiered in a German prisoner-of-war camp in 1941. However, Messiaen was a remarkably complex, intelligent person...

This volume brings together leading voices from the new wave of research on musical instruments to consider how we can connect the material aspects of instruments with their social function, approaches that have been otherwise too frequently separated in musical scholarship. Shaping Sound and...

The Renaissance was not a spontaneous cultural explosion, but rather an evolution and cross-fertilization of artistic, philosophical, and scientific principles. This reference presents and examines the rich and varied world of music in Renaissance Europe. Giulio Ongaro offers an advanced technical knowledge of music,...

Author: Ken EmersonISBN-10: 0143037773ISBN-13: 9780143037774Publisher: Penguin Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2006Pages: 352Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.91lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.79dReview Citation(s): New York Times 11/12/2006 pg. 60

In an era defined by neon lights, cassette tapes, and the birth of grunge, the music scene of the 80's was more than just a trend-it was a revolution. This book whisks readers away to a time when music pulsed through the streets, clubs...

Born of African rhythms, the spiritual "call and response," and other American musical traditions, jazz was by the 1920s the dominant influence on this country's popular music. Writers of the Harlem Renaissance (Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, Zora Neale Hurston) and the "Lost Generation" (Malcolm...

Colm T ib n on Joni Mitchell - James Wood on The Who - Stacey D'Erasmo on Kate Bush - Daniel Handler on Eurythmics - Lisa Dierbeck on the Pretenders - Clifford Chase on the B-52s . . . and other writers on the...

All societies have relied on music to transform the experience of work. Song accompanied the farmer's labors, calmed the herder's flock, and set in motion the spinner's wheel. Today this tradition continues. Music blares on the shop floor; song accompanies transactions in the retail...

It's difficult to imagine Franz Liszt performing in Peoria, but his contemporary and foremost rival, Sigismund Thalberg, did just that. During the mid-nineteenth century, Americans in more than a hundred cities--from Portland, Maine to Dubuque, Iowa to Mobile, Alabama--were treated to performances by some...

Eric Krasno Plus One is an interview-style series that brings listeners backstage and deep into the lives of incredible musicians.After twenty years on the road, Eric Krasno has spent time sharing stories with countless artists -- and these conversations have become some of his...

Seeing Opera Anew offers a "stereo" perspective to opera, adding insights from the sciences closely related to human life, including evolutionary biology, psychology, anthropology, and neuroscience. It has a novel approach, and a "cultural and biological perspective."Author: Joseph ConeISBN-10: 1032184272ISBN-13: 9781032184272Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/19/2023Pages:...

This volume contains a collection of classic essays by various authors that explore and analyse Beethoven's most notable compositions. Contents include: "Beethoven, by Lawrence Gilman", "Beethoven, by Arthur Johnstone", "A Sketch of Beethoven - A Lecture, by Thomas Hanly Ball", "On Hearing A Symphony...

In the mid-seventies, the Sex Pistols, the most controversial rock-and-roll band ever, erupted out of London, offending everyone from members of Parliament to the rock establishment it sought to unseat. With its raw, anarchic sounds, aura of sex and violence, outrageous behavior, and concerts...

Author: Nathaniel WebbISBN-10: 1789520657ISBN-13: 9781789520651Publisher: Sonicbond PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/27/2020Pages: 176Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.60w x 0.60d

Examines the life and compositional oeuvre of prolific eighteenth century musician, composer, and singer Marianna Martines (1744-1813). Marianna Martines (1744-1813) was one of the most accomplished, prolific, and highly honored female musicians of the eighteenth century. She spent most of her life in a...

William Schuman, Vincent Persichetti, and Peter Mennin were three of the most significant American composers of the 20th century, yet their music has largely disappeared from view since their respective deaths. Because they each spent the majority of their careers working at the Juilliard...

The history of Jamaica's music, the people, the country and the machinery that help to put the musical culture into the world of musical entertainment and beyondAuthor: Lou GoodenISBN-10: 1507590857ISBN-13: 9781507590850Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/15/2015Pages: 318Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.94lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x...

These lively, informative essays, all related to music, are as accessible as a chatty bedside reader. A central theme is listener response, and the techniques and structures that mold it. The story starts with sound waves, the ear, and the brain. Did song come...

Once conduits to new music, frequently bypassing the corporate music industry in ways now done more easily via the Internet, record stores championed the most local of economic enterprises, allowing social mobility to well up from them in unexpected ways. Record stores speak volumes...

Keyboard Harmony: A Practical Course For Use In Class Or For Self-Instruction (1916) by Uselma Clarke Smith is a comprehensive guide to learning keyboard harmony. The book is designed for use in a classroom setting or for self-instruction. It covers the basics of music...

""The End of the Road"" is a novel written by Carrie Jacobs-Bond. It is a heartwarming story about a young woman named Ruth who is struggling to find her place in the world. After losing her job and her fianc�����, she decides to take...

Performing Folk Songs is the first full-length volume to explore English folk singing from the perspective of performance studies. Using archival sources, family repertoire and recorded performances of interviewees, this book argues that archives and repertoires are produced in sensory environments and through embodied...

Teaching Violin, Viola, Cello, and Double Bass summarizes three centuries of string pedagogical treatises to create a comprehensive resource on methods and approaches to teaching all four bowed string instruments.Author: Dijana Ihas, Miranda Wilson, Gaelen McCormickISBN-10: 0367724758ISBN-13: 9780367724757Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/23/2023Pages: 422Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.66lbsSize:...

Offering a concise introduction to one of the most important and influential piano concertos in the history of Western music, this handbook provides an example of the productive interaction of music history, music theory and music analysis. It combines an account of the work's...

Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique is a key work in the understanding of romanticism, programme music, and the development of the orchestra, post-Beethoven. It is noted for having a title and a detailed programme, and for its connection with the composer's personal life and loves. This...

Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) is often portrayed as a composer who began as a heart-on-sleeve late Romantic only to evolve during the First World War into an austere, mathematically-obsessed deviser of musical puzzles. Yet to claim that in his music he replaced tonality with its...

Survey of the relationship between music and literature in 14c France, Italy and Britain, with appendix of all songs attributed to Chaucer. An absorbing survey... He is an expert on the French song of the period, consequently his wider view of Chaucer's musical background...

Thinkers like W. E. B. Du Bois and Paul Gilroy have long championed sound as an affective register of Black subjectivity, particularly in the African Atlantic. Prior studies in this vein focus on the phonic contours of slavery and its afterlives in Anglophone or...

Between 1873 and 1935, reformers in Chicago used the power of music to unify the diverse peoples of the metropolis. These musical progressives emphasized the capacity of music to transcend differences among various groups. Sounds of Reform looks at the history of efforts to...

Near the end of his life, Richard Wagner supervised the publication of his collected writings, providing an extensive view of his thoughts about art and politics from his youth to his final period of triumph. After his death, there was still more to be...

Kinyras, in Greco-Roman sources, is the central culture-hero of early Cyprus: legendary king, metallurge, Agamemnon's (faithless) ally, Aphrodite's priest, father of Myrrha and Adonis, rival of Apollo, ancestor of the Paphian priest-kings, and much more. Kinyras increased in depth and complexity with the demonstration...

All too often an incident or accident, such as the eruption in Crown Heights with its legacy of bitterness and recrimination, thrusts Black-Jewish relations into the news. A volley of discussion follows, but little in the way of progress or enlightenment results--and this is...

Uniquely among histories of mediaeval music, this book is specifically devoted to the vast repertory of monophonic music. Too often treated as a preamble to polyphony, this music forms the basis of Europe's musical tradition. (A companion volume by F. A. Gallo, forthcoming in...

Arnold Schoenberg is widely regarded as one of the most significant and innovative composers of the twentieth century. It is commonly assumed that Schoenberg's music divides into three periods: tonal, atonal, and serial. It is also assumed that Schoenberg's atonal music made a revolutionary...

It's time to get "Happy Together" again! Discover the songs and the history of one of the most successful pop rock bands ever, The Turtles, who had many, many Top 40 hits including "It Ain't Me Babe," "Let Me Be," "You Baby," "She'd Rather...

Eric Krasno Plus One is an interview-style series that brings listeners backstage and deep into the lives of incredible musicians.After twenty years on the road, Eric Krasno has spent time sharing stories with countless artists -- and these conversations have become some of his...

Eric Krasno Plus One is an interview-style series that brings listeners backstage and deep into the lives of incredible musicians.After twenty years on the road, Eric Krasno has spent time sharing stories with countless artists -- and these conversations have become some of his...

Eric Krasno Plus One is an interview-style series that brings listeners backstage and deep into the lives of incredible musicians.After twenty years on the road, Eric Krasno has spent time sharing stories with countless artists -- and these conversations have become some of his...

Eric Krasno Plus One is an interview-style series that brings listeners backstage and deep into the lives of incredible musicians.After twenty years on the road, Eric Krasno has spent time sharing stories with countless artists -- and these conversations have become some of his...

Eric Krasno Plus One is an interview-style series that brings listeners backstage and deep into the lives of incredible musicians.After twenty years on the road, Eric Krasno has spent time sharing stories with countless artists -- and these conversations have become some of his...

Eric Krasno Plus One is an interview-style series that brings listeners backstage and deep into the lives of incredible musicians.After twenty years on the road, Eric Krasno has spent time sharing stories with countless artists -- and these conversations have become some of his...

Eric Krasno Plus One is an interview-style series that brings listeners backstage and deep into the lives of incredible musicians.After twenty years on the road, Eric Krasno has spent time sharing stories with countless artists -- and these conversations have become some of his...

Eric Krasno Plus One is an interview-style series that brings listeners backstage and deep into the lives of incredible musicians.After twenty years on the road, Eric Krasno has spent time sharing stories with countless artists -- and these conversations have become some of his...

This work traces the development of jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker from the musical and cultural environment of Kansas City. Interviews with primary sources provide new information and insight concerning the events and chronology of Parker's early life. Transcription and analysis of five early solos...

In the realm of singer songwriters, few have been as influential as Neil Young, whose music has always been creative and relevant throughout six decades. Neil is a chameleon for whom boundaries of genres do not exist. He has delved into folk, country, r&b,...

Selected writings on three decades of popular music from one of the most influential critics of his generation. Spanning three decades worth of astute, acerbic, and overall astounding music writing, Kick Out the Jams is the first large-scale anthology of the work of renowned...