Music category: 21679 books
by Marina Frolova-Walker, Jonathan Walker
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
The October Revolution of 1917 tore the fabric of Russian musical life: institutions collapsed, and leading composers emigrated or fell into silence. But in 1932, at the outset of the "socialist realist" period, a new Stalinist music culture was emerging. Between these two dates lies a turbulent...
The Art of Music Production
The Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
The Art of Music Production is the first book to comprehensively analyze and describe the role of the music producer in creating successful music recordings. Now in its fourth edition, it is the definitive guide to the art and business of music production. Author and producer Richard James Burgess...
Making Your Memories with Rock & Roll and Doo-Wop
The Music and Artists of the 1950S and Early 1960S
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2016
Making Your Memories with Rock & Roll and Doo-Wop: The Music and Artists of the 1950s and Early 1960s digs back through the catalogue of popular music and brings to life the solo artists, duos, and groups whose music once filled the airwaves and turntables with rock & roll and doo-wop. The...
Music In The Seventeenth And Eighteenth Centuries
The Oxford History of Western Music
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2009
The universally acclaimed and award-winning Oxford History of Western Music is the eminent musicologist Richard Taruskin's provocative erudite telling of the story of Western music from its earliest days to the present. Each book in this superlative five-volume set illuminates-through a representative...
Creating Country Music
Fabricating Authenticity
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
In Creating Country Music, Richard Peterson traces the development of country music and its institutionalization from Fiddlin' John Carson's pioneering recordings in Atlanta in 1923 to the posthumous success of Hank Williams. Peterson captures the free-wheeling entrepreneurial spirit of the era, detailing...
Classical Music
The 50 Greatest Composers and Their 1,000 Greatest Works
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
MAKE A SOUND INVESTMENT IN CLASSICAL MUSIC
Who are the ten most important classical composers? Who in the world was Palestrina? Why did Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" cause a riot? Which five of each important composer's works should you buy? What is a concerto and how does it differ from...
Chamber Music
An Essential History
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2012
Intended for the music student, the professional musician, and the music lover, Chamber Music: An Essential History covers repertoire from the Renaissance to the present, crossing genres to include string quartets, piano trios, clarinet quintets, and other groupings. Mark A. Radice gives a thorough...
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...
by Richard L. Crocker
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Style — the distinctive manner of presentation, construction, and execution in any art — is a topic of primary importance in music history. This highly regarded text by noted musicologist Richard Crocker (University of California, Berkeley) takes a much-needed fresh look at the subject and attempts...
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,...
by David Buckley
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
David Bowie: The Music and The Changes is the ultimate guide to the music of the genius, fashion icon and near-mythical rock god. Author, David Buckley, was awarded a PhD on David Bowie so is best placed to guide you through an album by album and track by track exploration of this incredible man's...
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...
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...