Music category: 21679 books
Performing Music History
Musicians Speak First-Hand about Music History and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2018
Performing Music History offers a unique perspective on music history and performance through a series of conversations with women and men intimately associated with music performance, history, and practice: the musicians themselves. Fifty-five celebrated artists—singers, pianists, violinists, cellists,...
Sing Me Back Home
Southern Roots and Country Music
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
For over fifty years, Bill C. Malone has researched and written about the history of country music. Today he is celebrated as the foremost authority on this distinctly American genre. This new collection brings together his significant article-length work from a variety of sources, including essays,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
(Meredith Music Resource). The music performance library is the heart of a musical ensemble, supplying music to performers and information to an entire organization. This essential resource provides step-by-step directions on how to purchase and rent music, catalog new works, distribute and collect parts,...
Music 3.0
A Survival Guide for Making Music in the Internet Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Music 3.0: A Survival Guide for Making Music in the Internet Age is a completely updated edition of the original best seller, featuring the latest music business and social media concepts as well as brand-new interviews with a variety of the industry's top movers and shakers.
The book not only...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
Community Music Today highlights community music workers who constantly improvise and reinvent to lead through music and other expressive media. It answers the perennial question “What is community music?” through a broad, international palette of contextual shades, hues, tones, and colors. With...
Music, Education, and Diversity
Bridging Cultures and Communities
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book provides important insights for educators in music, the arts, and other subjects on the role that music can play in the curriculum as a powerful bridge to cultural understanding. The author documents key ideas and practices that have influenced current music education, particularly through...
Discovering Classical Music: Liszt
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...
Reconceiving Structure in Contemporary Music
New Tools in Music Theory and Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
This bookstudies recent music in the western classical tradition, offering a critique of current analytical/theoretical approaches and proposing alternatives. The critique addresses the present fringe status of recent music sometimes described as crossover, postmodern, post-classical, post-minimalist,...
Music, Sound and Space
Transformations of Public and Private Experience
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Music, Sound and Space is the first collection to integrate research from musicology and sound studies on music and sound as they mediate everyday life. Music and sound exert an inescapable influence on the contemporary world, from the ubiquity of MP3 players to the controversial use of sound as an...
by John Street
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
It is common to hear talk of how music can inspire crowds, move individuals and mobilise movements. We know too of how governments can live in fear of its effects, censor its sounds and imprison its creators. At the same time, there are other governments that use music for propaganda or for torture....
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Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2019
An essential part of human expression, humor plays a role in all forms of art, and humorous and comedic aspects have always been part of popular music. For the first time, The Routledge Companion to Popular Music and Humor draws together scholarship exploring how the element of humor interacts with...
Soul Music
The Pulse of Race and Music
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
Can music change lives, and classical music in particular? In Soul Music, novelist and former activist of African descent, Candace Allen asks whether the pitched battles between 'our' music and 'their' music of her youth are alive among young people engaged in music study. She follows the beat of...
A Church Music Director's Handbook: Volume 1
Theology, Vision and Team Building
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
You are a music director. Maybe you are paid a few days a week; probably you are doing this for the love. Either way, it’s a huge job. And it’s an important job – one which requires you to have your head around both the contentious theology of worship music, and the musical and relational challenges...
The Joys of Barnyard Music
Finding the Music That Is in Your Heart
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2009
So, what in thunder is Barnyard Music, anyway? Simply put, it is music for funmusic for amateursmusic for people who love music, but think they have no talent for singing or playing an instrument. Here comes Barnyard Music, to get you past the idea that because you think you have no talent, you cannot...