Music Styles category: 7119 books
Tempesta
Stormy Music in the Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
Tempesta is a term coined in this book applying to music that exhibits agitated or violent characteristics in order to evoke terror and chaos, involving ideas like rapid scale passages, driving rhythmic figurations, strong accents, full textures, and robust instrumentation including prominent brass...
Globalization and Popular Music in South Korea
Sounding Out K-Pop
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
This book offers an in-depth study of the globalization of contemporary South Korean idol pop music, or K-Pop, visiting K-Pop and its multiple intersections with political, economic, and cultural formations and transformations. It provides detailed insights into the transformative process in and around...
Discovering Classical Music: Prokofiev
His Life, The Person, His Music
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
"I recommend this book wholeheartedly to new music lovers" – Sir Charles Groves CBE
Thanks to Nigel Kennedy and Pavarotti, millions of people have recently discovered that classical music is a highly enjoyable experience, perhaps contrary to their expectations. But the world of...
Discovering Classical Music: Schumann
His Life, The Person, His Music
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
"I recommend this book wholeheartedly to new music lovers" – Sir Charles Groves CBE
Thanks to Nigel Kennedy and Pavarotti, millions of people have recently discovered that classical music is a highly enjoyable experience, perhaps contrary to their expectations. But the world of...
Discovering Classical Music: Ravel
His Life, The Person, His Music
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
"I recommend this book wholeheartedly to new music lovers" – Sir Charles Groves CBE
Thanks to Nigel Kennedy and Pavarotti, millions of people have recently discovered that classical music is a highly enjoyable experience, perhaps contrary to their expectations. But the world of...
Discovering Classical Music: Gluck
His Life, The Person, His Music
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
"I recommend this book wholeheartedly to new music lovers" – Sir Charles Groves CBE
Thanks to Nigel Kennedy and Pavarotti, millions of people have recently discovered that classical music is a highly enjoyable experience, perhaps contrary to their expectations. But the world of...
Classical Listening
Two Decades of Reviews from The American Record Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
The classical record business gained a new lease on life in the 1980s when period instrument performances of baroque and classical music began to assume a place on the stage. This return to the past found its complement in the musical ascension of the American minimalists, in particular the music...
Beautiful Politics of Music
Trova in Yucatán, Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
An exploration into the history and practice of trova, a genre of music that is the soul of Yucatán.
Yucatecan trova is a music genre comprising a type of romantic song that is considered “the soul of Yucatán and Yucatecans.” This first book on Yucatecan trova offers an insider’s view...
by Andrew Killick
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Anyone who knows anything of Korean music probably knows something of Hwang Byungki. As a composer, performer, scholar, and administrator, Hwang has had an exceptional influence on the world of Korean traditional music for over half a century. During that time, Western-style music (both classical...
by Dona Omanoff, Fureus
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
We wrote Island Voices Reggae & New Jamaican Music for the tourist and visitor to Jamaica who uses a smartphone or digital reading device. It links to over 300 songs and 200 artists so the reader/listener can sample the song or buy immediately via the Internet. We promise you'll have more...
by Victoria Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Critical of technologically determinist assumptions underpinning current educational policy, Victoria Armstrong argues that this growing technicism has grave implications for the music classroom where composition is often synonymous with the music technology suite. The use of computers and associated...
by Nicholas Cook
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Until recently, ideas of creativity in music revolved around composers in garrets and the lone genius. But the last decade has witnessed a sea change: musical creativity is now overwhelmingly thought of in terms of collaboration and real-time performance. Music as Creative Practice is a first attempt...
Communicating Music
Festschrift fuer Ernst Lichtenhahn zum 80. Geburtstag Festschrift for Ernst Lichtenhahns 80th Birthday
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Ernst Lichtenhahn ist ohne Übertreibung ein Doyen der schweizerischen Musikforschung. Als einer der wenigen Musikwissenschaftler im deutschsprachigen Raum hat er unterschiedliche sprachkulturelle und disziplinäre Forschungstraditionen zusammengeführt. In seinem Wissenschaftsverständnis sind historische...
Cosmic Music
Musical Keys to the Interpretation of Reality
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1989
The idea that the universe is created out of sound or music (and therefore is music) is a very ancient one. In this book, Joscelyn Godwin brings together three contemporary German thinkers who exemplify this tradition in its modern variants: Marius Schneider, Rudolf Haase, and Hans Erhard Lauer. The...