Music Styles category: 7119 books
Counterpoint
The Polyphonic Vocal Style of the Sixteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
This classic introductory text focuses on the polyphonic vocal style perfected by Palestrina. Unlike many other texts, it maintains a careful balance between theoretical and practical problems, between historical and systematic methodology. The result is an exceptionally useful resource, ideal for...
by Kevin J.H. Dettmar
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Rock and roll's death has been forecast nearly since its birth; the country song "The Death of Rock and Roll" appeared in September 1956, showing that the music had already outraged a more conservative listening audience. Is Rock Dead? sets out to explore the varied and sometimes conflicting...
The Gaithers and Southern Gospel
Homecoming in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
In The Gaithers and Southern Gospel, Ryan P. Harper examines songwriters Bill and Gloria Gaither's Homecoming video and concert series--a gospel music franchise that, since its beginning in 1991, has outperformed all Christian and much secular popular music on the American music market.
The...
O Let Us Howle Some Heavy Note
Music for Witches, the Melancholic, and the Mad on the Seventeenth-Century English Stage
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
In the 17th century, harmonious sounds were thought to represent the well-ordered body of the obedient subject, and, by extension, the well-ordered state; conversely, discordant, unpleasant music represented both those who caused disorder (murderers, drunkards, witches, traitors) and those who suffered...
DADGAD Blues
Easy to Intermediate
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Rob MacKillop presents 20 wonderful fingerstyle blues arrangements and compositions in DADGAD tuning. The styles covered in this book include country blues, boogie woogie left-hand piano blues, early jazz blues, gut-bucket blues and modal blues. Great traditional songs are included such as St. James...
After the Ball
Pop Music from Rag to Rock
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
First published in 1972, Ian Whitcomb's After the Ball is an exuberant account of the origins and explosion of popular music, informed by the author's store of experience in the field as a pop sensation of The Sixties.'Brash, learned, funny and perspicacious.... The author of this free-wheeling,...
Changing the Tune
The Kansas City Women's Jazz Festival, 1978-1985
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Even though the potential passage of the Equal Rights Amendment had cracked glass ceilings across the country, in 1978 jazz remained a boys’ club. Two Kansas City women, Carol Comer and Dianne Gregg, challenged that inequitable standard. With the support of jazz luminaries Marian McPartland and Leonard...
by Roxy Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
The spread of UK music festivals has exploded since 2000. In this major contribution to cultural studies, the lid is lifted on the contemporary festival scene. Gone are the days of a handful of formulaic, large events dominating the market place. Across the country, hundreds of ’boutique’ gatherings...
New York Rock
From the Rise of The Velvet Underground to the Fall of CBGB
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
As a city that represents endless possibilities, New York has been the setting for the dawning of new movements, styles, and genres. In the 20th century, the birth of Rock represented a connection between art forms and the city’s socioeconomic, racial, and sexual variants. New York Rock breaks down...
by Chester Music
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2008
Michael Nyman: Songs & Arias presents sixteen songs and seven arias for high voice and Piano from across Michael Nyman’s varied and exhilarating output: songs from his celebrated film scores, like The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover; from recent operas like Facing Goya; several concert...
Musicality in Theatre
Music as Model, Method and Metaphor in Theatre-Making
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
As the complicated relationship between music and theatre has evolved and changed in the modern and postmodern periods, music has continued to be immensely influential in key developments of theatrical practices. In this study of musicality in the theatre, David Roesner offers a revised view of the...
by Tim Carter
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Opera is often regarded as the pinnacle of high art. A "Western" genre with global reach, it is where music and drama come together in unique ways, supported by stellar singers and spectacular scenic effects. Yet it is also patently absurd -- why should anyone break into song on the dramatic stage?...
National Traditions in Nineteenth-Century Opera, Volume I
Italy, France, England and the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
This volume covers opera in Italy, France, England and the Americas during the long nineteenth century (1789-1914). The book is divided into four sections that are thematically, rather than geographically, conceived: Places-essays centering on contexts for operatic culture; Genres and Styles-studies...
The King of Novelty
Dickie Goodman
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2000
The King of Novelty is Jon Goodmans revisionist epic for posterity of his father, legendary novelty record producer and music sampling pioneer Dickie Goodman, a man contending with internal conflict and familial obligations while entertaining the world; foreword by Dr. Demento, and epigraph from "Weird...