Music-History & Criticism

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...

Recorded in 1949, "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" changed the face of American music. Earl Scruggs's instrumental essentially transformed the folk culture that came before it while helping to energize bluegrass's entry into the mainstream in the 1960s. The song has become a gateway to bluegrass...

DO NOT BUY THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT IT IS Seriously, just don't do it. This book is full of poor grammar, highly irregular spelling, and pointless descriptions of terrible music on an outdated medium. If you DO know what this is then OMG...

Author: Lucien KarhausenISBN-10: 1456850776ISBN-13: 9781456850777Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/28/2011Pages: 788Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.87lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.88d

Throughout the western classical tradition, composers have influenced and been influenced by their students and teachers. Many musicians frequently add to their personal acclaim by naming their teachers and the lineage through which they were taught. Until now, the relationships between composers have remained...

The Monastic Diurnal Noted V2 is a book that contains religious music for Sunday and Ferial Lauds, as well as Matins of the Triduum and of the Dead. The book is authored by Winfred Douglas and is part of a series of books that...

That 'll Be The Day - The Birth of Rock & Roll takes you on a musical journey through the first decade of this extraordinary genre that has influenced popular music to the present day. The book features the stories of the biggest rock...

Singer SZA has released two studio albums, the first in 2017, and the second in 2022 (as of early 2023). These were preceded by 3 EPs in 2012, 2013, and 2014 respectively. This project simply pairs the alphabet with 26 corresponding songs from her...

The Letters Of A Leipzig Cantor V2 is a book that contains a collection of letters written by Moritz Hauptmann, a famous cantor from Leipzig, to his fellow musicians including Franz Hauser and Ludwig Spohr. The book was first published in 1892 and is...

Organ Accompaniment Of The Choral Service: Practical Suggestions To Organists As To The Selection And Treatment Of Church Music is a book written by J. Frederick Bridge in 1885. The book provides a comprehensive guide to organists on how to select and perform church...

Venue Stories is an anthology of creative non-fiction that remembers, celebrates and reinvigorates our complex and plural relationship with small and independent music spaces. Written by musicians, promoters, fans and academics who have a shared passion for small music venues and musical cultures in...

Missing Music: Voices from Where the Dirt Roads End details Grammy-winning music producer and author Ian Brennan's ongoing quest to provide musical platforms for underrepresented nations and populations around the world.In a compact and quick-read format, Missing Music collects the latest narratives from Brennan's...

The Elements of Musical Composition and Thorough-Base is a comprehensive guide to music composition and arrangement, written by Isaac Baker Woodbury and published in 1845. The book covers a wide range of topics, including the principles of harmony, melody, rhythm, and form, as well...

The White Stripes were one of the breakout bands of the early 2000s 'rock revival'. They produced some of the most indelible songs of the 21st Century and reintroduced a sense of mystery and panache to the staid indie rock scene of the era....

This illuminating study of the development of musical notation offers a detailed exploration of the work of early reformers in the field. From the ancient Greeks to the medieval monks to the Renaissance masters, the author maps the evolution of Western music and the...

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...

This is the candid, mesmerizing, and often intimate account of how four young people--Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Mimi Baez Farina, and Richard Farina--gave rise to a modern-day bohemia and created the enduring sound and style of the 1960s. Even before they became lovers in...

The transformation of Vienna and the Habsburg Empire at the end of the nineteenth century was accompanied by the development of a new musical genre, Viennese operetta, and no composer was better suited than Johann Strauss to express his native city's pride and anxiety...

World Music: A Global Journey, Fifth Edition, explores the diversity of musical expression around the world, taking students across the globe to experience cultural traditions that challenge the ear, the mind, and the spirit. It surveys world music within a systematic study of the...

Compositional Choices and Meaning in the Vocal Music of J. S. Bach collects seventeen essays by leading Bach scholars. The authors each address in some way such questions of meaning in J. S. Bach's vocal compositions--including his Passions, Masses, Magnificat, and cantatas--with particular attention...

In this definitive deep dive into Ummagumma, Scott Meze reveals a band and an industry poised on the edge of the prog rock that will change everything. It shows how the album was fundamental to developments inside Pink Floyd, and had an inestimable influence...

Described in the Radio Times (27 July 2015) as 'A remarkable, unique institution lying at the heart of British life', the Three Choirs Festival celebrated its three-hundred-year anniversary in 2015. Described in the Radio Times (27 July 2015) as 'A remarkable, unique institution lying...

Stereo is everywhere. The whole culture and industry of music and sound became organized around the principle of stereophony during the twentieth century. But nothing about this-not the invention or acceptance or ubiquity of stereo-was inevitable. Nor did the aesthetic conventions, technological objects, and...

Song & Social Change in Latin America offers seven essays from a diverse group of scholars on the topic of music as a reflection of the many social-political upheavals throughout Latin America from the 20th century to the present. Topics covered include: the Tropic疝ia...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: George Thornton EdwardsISBN-10: 1406739197ISBN-13: 9781406739190Publisher:...

Margot E. Fassler's richly documented history--winner of the Otto Kinkeldey Award from the American Musicological Society and the John Nicholas Brown Prize from the Medieval Academy of America--demonstrates how the Augustinians of St. Victor, Paris, used an art of memory to build sonic models...

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,...

Modulation Theory by Harold S. Black is a comprehensive guide to understanding the principles of modulation and demodulation. The book covers a range of topics related to modulation theory, including amplitude modulation, frequency modulation, phase modulation, and pulse modulation. The author provides detailed explanations...

A History Of Military Music In America is a comprehensive account of the evolution of military music in the United States, written by William Carter White. The book covers the period from the Revolutionary War to the present day, tracing the development of military...

Venue Stories is an anthology of creative non-fiction that remembers, celebrates and reinvigorates our complex and plural relationship with small and independent music spaces. Written by musicians, promoters, fans and academics who have a shared passion for small music venues and musical cultures in...

Pedaling In Pianoforte Music is a book written by Algernon H. Lindo and published in 1922. The book is a comprehensive guide to pedaling techniques in piano music. It covers various aspects of pedaling, including the different types of pedals, their functions, and how...

African Drums is a book written by Fred Puleston that explores the rich and diverse world of African drumming. The book delves into the history, culture, and significance of drumming in African societies, as well as the different types of drums used and the...

Authorship is a pertinent issue for historical musicology and musicians more widely, and some controversies concerned with major figures have even reached wider consciousness. Scholars have clarified some of the issues at stake in recent decades, such as the places of borrowing and arranging...

Music of Latin America and the Caribbean, Second Edition is a comprehensive textbook for undergraduate students, which covers all major facets of Latin American music, finding a balance between important themes and illustrative examples. This book is about enjoying the music itself and provides...

When Crowded House arrived with their debut album and hit single 'Don't Dream It's Over' in 1986, the seed of a unique musical journey was planted into our collective musical consciousness. The Aussie/Kiwi trio created a sound as playful as Split Enz - out...

The Legacy of Johann Strauss examines constructions of Austrian identity through the reception of Johann Strauss Jr.'s waltzes in the twentieth century. Zo Lang argues that the music of Strauss Jr. remained popular because it continued to be revitalized by Austrians seeking to define...

The conception, creation, recording, and significance of the Beatles' "Penny Lane" and "Strawberry Fields Forever" John Lennon wrote "Strawberry Fields Forever" in Almer?, Spain, in fall 1966, and in November, in response to that song, Paul McCartney wrote "Penny Lane" at his home in...

The Isley Brothers' 3+3, dissects The Isleys' 50-year-old undisputed masterwork, an album that firmly established their music dynasty on a global scale, as well as heralding the boldest run of genre-defiant albums of their 67-year career. The 1973 watershed was their first multiplatinum release...

This classic work by John Hawkins provides a thorough overview of the history of music and its practice, from the ancient Greeks to the 18th century. Featuring detailed analyses of important musical works and insightful commentary on the evolution of musical theory, this book...

This book is a comprehensive history of the science and practice of music, providing insight into its development over time. It includes discussions of musical theory, the lives of famous composers, and the evolution of musical instruments, providing a broad overview of this fascinating...

The MC5's 1969 live album Kick Out the Jams was a new measure of the relationship between music and cultural and political change. As the "house band" and central organizing force for the White Panther Party, which advocated an end to capitalism and supported...

The Synergy of Music and Image in Audiovisual Culture: Half-Heard Sounds and Peripheral Visions asks what it means to understand music as part of an audiovisual whole, rather than separate components of music and film. Bringing together revised and updated essays on music in...

The blues was born in the Mississippi Delta, and since that fateful night in 1903 when W. C. Handy heard the mournful sound of a pocketknife sliding over the strings of an acoustic guitar and the plaintive song of a long-forgotten musician in the...

An extraordinarily gifted musician and writer, Charles Rosen is a peerless commentator on the history and performance of music. Critical Entertainments brings together many of the essays that have established him as one of the most influential and eloquent voices in the field of...

Welcome to the first volume in an exciting new annual series that celebrates the year's best American writing about music and its culture, as selected by one of the genre's preeminent practitioners. Covering the gamut of contemporary styles--rock, pop, rap, jazz, blues, country--Guralnick has...

Praised by the Washington Post as a "tough, unblinkered critic," James Lincoln Collier is probably the most controversial writer on jazz today. His acclaimed biographies of Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Benny Goodman continue to spark debate in jazz circles, and his iconoclastic articles...

The Everly Brothers--aka Don and Phil to fans with an intimate appreciation for them--seemed to exist almost as an apparition. Emerging within the formative era for young Baby Boomers during the blandly regimented '50s, they were a ubiquitous presence, clad in snug suits and...

The music reviews of Robert Schumann and Richard Wagner are central documents of 19th-century German musical culture. This book takes a closer look at the way these texts were written and explores the significant contributions Schumann and Wagner made to the discourse of musical...

Women, Music, Culture: An Introduction, Third Edition is the first undergraduate textbook on the history and contributions of women in a variety of musical genres and professions, ideal for students in Music and Gender Studies courses. A compelling narrative, accompanied by 112 guided listening...

Author: Martin E. HornISBN-10: 1587216493ISBN-13: 9781587216497Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/20/2000Pages: 372Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 8.08h x 5.07w x 0.92d