Music Styles category: 7119 books

PJ Harvey’s performances are premised on the core contention that she is somehow causing ’trouble’. Just how this trouble can be theorised within the context of the music video and what it means for a development of the ways we might conceptualise ’disruption’ and think about music video...

Contemporary popular music provides the soundtrack for a host of recent novels, but little critical attention has been paid to the intersection of these important art forms. Write in Tune addresses this gap by offering the first full-length study of the relationship between recent music and fiction....

Christmas Sheet Music For Beginners - Trumpet Big Note Sheet Music With Lettered Noteheads This sheet music book contains 20 popular Christmas carols arranged for Trumpet. Arrangements are very easy and will suit new beginners. Each arrangement features bigger music notes and each note head...

Chamber music includes some of the world's greatest music. It is widely played in homes, without an audience, by players who are mostly amateurs, and much of the repertoire is playable even by those of quite moderate ability. A Player's Guide to Chamber Music gives advice on what music is available...

Troubled urban neighborhoods and jazz-club havens were the backdrop of Gerald Majer's life growing up in sixties and seventies Chicago. The Velvet Lounge, an original hybrid of memoir, biography, and musical description, reflects this history and pursues a sustained meditation on jazz along with a...

In the early 1700s, the Danish administration of the Virgin Islands suppressed African music. Undeterred, Virgin Island minstrels combined the African, European, and Taino music elements that created the eclectic genre quelbe. In The Quelbe Method, Dale Francis offers a comprehensive approach that...

Vanishing Sensibilities examines once passionate cultural concerns that shaped music of Schubert, Beethoven, Schumann, and works of their contemporaries in drama or poetry. Music, especially music with text, was a powerful force in lively ongoing conversations about the nature of liberty, which included...

This path-breaking study of stage works in Italian musical performances reconsiders a crucial period of music history. Through an interdisciplinary examination of the statue animated by music, Ellen Lockhart deftly shows how Enlightenment ideas influenced Italian theater and music, and vice versa....

Timpani Tone and the Interpretation of Baroque and Classical Music explores the nature, production, and evolution of timpani tone and provides insights into how to interpret the music of J. S. Bach, Handel, Haydn, and Mozart. In drawing on 31 years of experience, Steven L. Schweizer focuses on the...

Christmas Sheet Music For Beginners - Flute Big Note Sheet Music With Lettered Noteheads This sheet music book contains 20 popular Christmas carols arranged for Flute. Arrangements are very easy and will suit new beginners. Each arrangement features bigger music notes and each note head has...

Christmas Sheet Music For Beginners - Piccolo Big Note Sheet Music With Lettered Noteheads This sheet music book contains 20 popular Christmas carols arranged for Piccolo. Arrangements are very easy and will suit new beginners. Each arrangement features bigger music notes and each note head...

Christmas Sheet Music For Beginners - Clarinet Big Note Sheet Music With Lettered Noteheads This sheet music book contains 20 popular Christmas carols arranged for Clarinet. Arrangements are very easy and will suit new beginners. Each arrangement features bigger music notes and each note head...

The writings of twentieth-century Polish composer Witold Lutoslawski reveal many important aspects of his approach to music and his viewpoints as an artist and as a man. In Lutoslawski on Music, the first full collection of writings by this famous composer, Zbigniew Skowron has amassed an exciting...

Christmas Sheet Music For Beginners - Trumpet Big Note Sheet Music With Lettered Noteheads This sheet music book contains 20 popular Christmas carols arranged for Trumpet. Arrangements are very easy and will suit new beginners. Each arrangement features bigger music notes and each note head...