Music Styles category: 7119 books
by Dan Van Casteele
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2014
There are techniques to DJ and to become a music producer. There are also methods to organize music events and to promote them. But, few people ever wrote about what truly makes everything awesome, or which criteria an artist should follow to gain success and reach the level of the most famous.
Even...
Neoclassical Music in America
Voices of Clarity and Restraint
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
From the 1920s to the 1950s, neoclassicism was one of the dominant movements in American music. Today this music is largely in eclipse, mostly absent in performance and even from accounts of music history, in spite of—and initially because of—its adherence to an expanded tonality. No previous...
Orchestral "Pops" Music
A Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
In this second edition of Orchestral “Pops” Music: A Handbook, Lucy Manning brings forward to the present her remarkable compendium of information about this form of orchestral music. Since the appearance of the first edition in 2008, this work has proven critical to successful “pops” concert...
Classical Music Top 40
Learn How To Listen To And Appreciate The 40 Most Popular And Important Pieces I
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1995
The quintessential primer for the budding classical music lover.
Millions of people adore classical music. Millions of other people want to, but simply don’t know how or where to start—so many composers, so many pieces, so many versions, so much music! In either case, this book is for you....
Music and Displacement
Diasporas, Mobilities, and Dislocations in Europe and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
The grand narratives of European music history are informed by the dichotomy of placements and displacements. Yet musicology has thus far largely ignored the phenomenon of displacement and underestimated its significance for musical landscapes and music history. Music and Displacement: Diasporas,...
Landscapes in Music
Space, Place, and Time in the World's Great Music
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2006
Using landscape as its unifying concept, this engaging book explores orchestral music that represents real and imagined physical and cultural spaces, natural forces, and humans and wildlife. Spanning continents and centuries, David Knight links contrasting forms of music through unifying themes of...
I Sang the Unsingable
My Life in Twentieth-Century Music
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
American soprano Bethany Beardslee rose to prominence in the postwar years when the modernist sensibilities of European artists and thinkers were flooding American shores and challenging classical music audiences. With her light lyric voice, her musical intuition, and her fearless dedication to new...
by Joseph P. Swain
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Although it lies far back, running roughly from about 1600 to 1750, the Baroque period is far from forgotten and Baroque music is played widely today as well, exercising numerous musicians and attracting rather substantial audiences. It experienced the emergence of a new sort of music, increasingly...
Microgroove
Forays into Other Music
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Microgroove continues John Corbett's exploration of diverse musics, with essays, interviews, and musician profiles that focus on jazz, improvised music, contemporary classical, rock, folk, blues, post-punk, and cartoon music. Corbett's approach to writing is as polymorphous as the music, ranging from...
A Boy Named Sue
Gender and Country Music
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2004
From the smiling, sentimental mothers portrayed in 1930s radio barn dance posters, to the sexual shockwaves generated by Elvis Presley, to the female superstars redefining contemporary country music, gender roles and imagery have profoundly influenced the ways country music is made and enjoyed. Proper...
by Sally Fletcher
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
What Makes Music So Powerful and Healing? Why Does Everyone Love Music? Is Music the Universal Language? You will discover: How great music, carefully selected, changes your mood, energizes you, calms you, improves your mental focus, lifts you up spiritually, and helps you to become healthier.
Fascinating...
by Bertil van Boer
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
When we speak of “classical music” it often refers rather loosely to serious “art” music but at the core is really the music of the classical period running from about 1730 to 1800, give or take. This was truly one of the most glorious periods for both composition and performance and it is...
Music in Vienna
1700, 1800, 1900
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
The image of Vienna as a musical city is a familiar one. Vienna has long been associated with many of the most significant composers in Western music - from Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert, through the Strauss family, Brahms, Bruckner and Wolf, to Mahler, Lehár, Schoenberg and Webern. Today,...
Mozart
An Introduction to the Music, the Man and the Myths
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Mozart: An Introduction to the Music, the Man, and the Myths explores in detail 20 of the composer's major works in the context of his tragically brief life and the turbulent times in which he lived. Addressed to non-musicians seeking to deepen their technical appreciation for his music while learning...