Music - Reference

Videos featuring opera singers were initially released in the mid 1980s. This companion volume to Opera Mediagraphy: Video Recordings and Motion Pictures (Greenwood, 1993) indexes opera singers on video and film in concert, recital, and non-operatic feature film and includes VHS videotape, optical video...

Author: Alan GreenwoodISBN-10: 188488315XISBN-13: 9781884883156Publisher: Vintage Guitar Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 12/30/2025Pages: 644Format: Paperback

'The Rhythm Within' is the ideal companion book to your drumming practice sessions. It is filled with practical advice and exercises to help you approach and structure your learning.Unlock your creativity and feel confident in your drumming, following supportive philosophies and creative workflow guides,...

This book and its accompanying website present the selected proceedings of the inaugural, 'The Performer's Voice: An International Forum for Music Performance and Scholarship', directed by Dr Anne Marshman (editor) and hosted by the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, National University of Singapore....

It is clear that the digital age has fully embraced music production, distribution, and transcendence for a vivid audience that demands more music both in quantity and versatility. However, the evolving world of digital music production faces a calamity of tremendous proportions: the asymmetrically...

This is a new release of the original 1930 edition.Author: Hazel Gertrude KinscellaISBN-10: 1494119412ISBN-13: 9781494119416Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2013Pages: 574Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.67lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 1.16d

This is a new release of the original 1948 edition.Author: John ErskineISBN-10: 1494118947ISBN-13: 9781494118945Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2013Pages: 566Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.65lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 1.15d

Shakespeare: His Music and Song is a book written by A. H. Moncur-Sime and originally published in 1917. The book explores the musical and lyrical elements of William Shakespeare's plays and poems, analyzing the ways in which music and song are used to enhance...

Tin Pan Alley: A Chronicle of the American Popular Music Racket is a comprehensive book by Isaac Goldberg that explores the history of the American popular music industry from the late 1800s to the mid-20th century. The book delves into the rise of Tin...

""Yuman and Yaqui Music and the Village of the Great Kivas on the Zuni Reservation New Mexico"" is a book written by Francis Densmore. The book explores the music and culture of the Yuman and Yaqui tribes, as well as the Great Kivas village...

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 Section of the World's Great Madonnas by Cynthia Maus is a comprehensive guide to the iconic depictions of the Madonna in music. The book explores the many musical interpretations of the Madonna, from classical compositions to modern pop songs. Each chapter focuses...

Recent Music And Musicians: As Described In The Diaries And Correspondence Of Ignatz Moscheles (1873) is a book written by Ignatz Moscheles, a renowned musician and composer of the 19th century. The book is a collection of Moscheles' personal diaries and correspondence, which provide...

Shakespeare and Music: With Illustrations from the Music of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries is a book written by Edward Woodall Naylor and first published in 1896. The book explores the relationship between William Shakespeare's plays and the music of his time, specifically the...

Music In Its Relation To Intellectual Life is a book written by Frederic Louis Ritter and published in 1891. This book explores the relationship between music and intellectual life, examining how music can influence and enhance intellectual development. Ritter delves into various aspects of...

""A Treatise On Byzantine Music"" is a comprehensive study of the music of the Byzantine Empire, written by Stephen Georgeson Hatherly and originally published in 1892. The book explores the history, theory, and practice of Byzantine music, including its origins in ancient Greek music,...

The Quantity And Music Of The Greek Chorus Discovered is a book written by William Willis Moseley in 1847. The book is a comprehensive study of the Greek chorus and its role in ancient Greek drama. Moseley explores the quantity and music of the...

This is a deliberately provocative book crossing many disciplinary boundaries and locating music and art education within a context of contemporary social and political problems in a time of growing disruption and authoritarianism. Intended firstly for music teacher educators, practicing music teachers, and graduate...

Music Education for Social Change: Constructing an Activist Music Education develops an activist music education rooted in principles of social justice and anti-oppression, raising the question: amidst racism and violence targeted at people who embody difference, how can music education contribute to changing the...

Explore the rich history of classical music with "Philip Hale's Boston Symphony Programme Notes." This meticulously prepared edition offers a fascinating glimpse into the world of musical analysis as presented to audiences of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Penned by Philip Hale, a renowned figure...

Explore the rich tapestry of American music history with Henry Charles Lahee's "Annals of Music in America: A Chronological Record of Significant Musical Events." This meticulously compiled chronology offers a detailed look at the evolution of music in the United States throughout the 19th...

Unlock the captivating world of opera with "The Standard Operaglass: Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas" by Charles Annesley. This comprehensive guide offers concise and accessible plot summaries of a vast repertoire of beloved operas. Delve into the stories behind the...

Unlock the captivating world of opera with "The Standard Operaglass: Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas" by Charles Annesley. This comprehensive guide offers concise and accessible plot summaries of a vast repertoire of beloved operas. Delve into the stories behind the...

This comprehensive dictionary of music offers an encyclopedic look at the terminology, history, and major figures in the world of music. A must-have resource for musicians, scholars, and anyone interested in the rich and varied world of musical traditions.This work has been selected by...

A Bibliography of Early Secular American Music is a comprehensive collection of early American sheet music. Compiled by Oscar George Theodore Sonneck, this book provides an in-depth look at the development of music in America, making it an essential reference for music scholars, historians,...

A Bibliography of Early Secular American Music is a comprehensive collection of early American sheet music. Compiled by Oscar George Theodore Sonneck, this book provides an in-depth look at the development of music in America, making it an essential reference for music scholars, historians,...

This comprehensive guide provides a detailed survey of the music published by the League of Composers during its heyday in the 1920s and 1930s. With extensive documentation and analysis of each work, it is an essential resource for scholars and performers of modern classical...

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,...

In this volume, sixty-eight of the world's leading authorities explore and describe the wide range of musics of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Kashmir, Nepal and Afghanistan. Important information about history, religion, dance, theater, the visual arts and philosophy as well as their relationship...

Film Music in the Sound Era: A Research and Information Guide offers a comprehensive bibliography of scholarship on music in sound film (1927-2017). Thematically organized sections cover historical studies, studies of musicians and filmmakers, genre studies, theory and aesthetics, and other key aspects of...

A key figure in establishing an identifiable French musical style in the nineteenth century, this annotated biliography catalogs the studies of Saint-Saens' life and works as well as examining the composer's own correspondence and essays. Included are many lesser-known writings on the composer and...

The violin was first mentioned in a book in the sixteenth century. An abundant and diverse literature on the instrument has grown since then, and a complete general guide to these materials has not been produced in the modern era. The last, Edward Heron-Allen's...

Musicians and artists have always shared mutual interests and exchanged theories of art and creativity. This exchange climaxed just after World War II, when a group of New York-based musicians, including John Cage, Morton Feldman, Earle Brown, and David Tudor, formed friendships with a...

First Published in 1998. This book serves as the key to study of Kodaly for an English-speaking audience. The volume presents a biographical outline, a catalog of his compositions according to genre, and over 1,400 annotated primary and secondary sources. Three indexes cover listings...

The Insider's Guide to JoyTunes' Piano Maestro is your definitive go to tech manual. Taking you from login to log out you'll get all the details. Pics, links and contact info at your finger tips. Read it straight through or just read the chapters...

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...

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...

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...

This invaluable resource is a revised edition of an essential index to vocal works composed for at least one solo voice and one instrument (other than piano or guitar) up to twelve solo voices and twelve solo instruments. The book includes a brief introduction...

First published in 2006. This guide is an A to Z trade reference aimed at music students, technophiles and audio-video computer users. The world of music technology has exploded over the last decades thanks to introductions of new digital formats. At the same time...

This book investigates the particular history and social experience by a marginalized society in Mindanao Island, Philippines, through an analysis of the speech, song and dance in spirit possession ritual. Using the concepts of exchange and reciprocity, Buenconsejo connects the performativity of ritual song...

"Masterworks of 20th-Century Music" introduces more than one hundred of the greatest compositions by world-renowned composer that have entered the standard orchestral repertory. The author surveyed dozens of major American orchestras to focus on those works that an average audience member is most likely...

This book explores the web of pitch relations that generates the musical language of non-serialized twelve-tone music and supplies both the analytical materials and methods necessary for analyses of a vast proportion of the 20th century musical repertoire. It does so in a simple,...

Film Music in the Sound Era: A Research and Information Guide offers a comprehensive bibliography of scholarship on music in sound film (1927-2017). Thematically organized sections cover historical studies, studies of musicians and filmmakers, genre studies, theory and aesthetics, and other key aspects of...

This fascinating compendium explains the most unusual, obscure, and curious words and expressions from vintage blues music. Utilizing both documentary evidence and invaluable interviews with a number of now-deceased musicians from the 1920s and '30s, blues scholar Stephen Calt unravels the nuances of more...

Provocative and timely, Disciplining Music confronts a topic that has sparked considerable debate in recent years: how do musicians and music scholars "discipline" music in their efforts to confer order and meaning on it? This collection of essays addresses this issue by formulating questions...

The realm of music creation is undergoing a profound metamorphosis. What once felt like a distant future is now an undeniable present, rapidly reshaping every facet of the industry.How to Write and Self-Publish Music - Using AI is your essential guide through this exhilarating...

Few would deny that Deep Purple were one of the most influential and popular heavy rock bands to emerge from the melting pot of the late 1960s. They went through several line-up changes and stylistic shifts, before splitting up for the first time in...

Machine Music: How AI is Transforming Music's Next Act explores the seismic impact of AI on the music industry - offering a sweeping yet grounded analysis of how AI and generative tools are reshaping what it means to make, monetize, and experience music.Author: Drew...

The story of STEIM and the first sensor instruments in digital music. The STEIM foundation in Amsterdam was a music studio radically dedicated to the live, physical performance of electronic sound. From 1969 to 2021, the Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music supported artists in building...