Music category: 21679 books
With Passionate Voice
Re-Creative Singing in Sixteenth-Century England and Italy
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Musicians in the 16th century had a vastly different understanding of the structure and performance of music than today's performers. In order to transform inexpressively notated music into passionate declamation, Renaissance singers treated scores freely, and it was expected that each would personalize...
by Timothy J. Cooley
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
This first major examination the interrelationships of music and surfing explores different ways that surfers combine surfing with making and listening to music. Tim Cooley uses his knowledge and experience as a practicing musician and avid surfer to consider the musical practices of surfers in locations...
Global Glam and Popular Music
Style and Spectacle from the 1970s to the 2000s
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
This book is the first to explore style and spectacle in glam popular music performance from the 1970s to the present day, and from an international perspective. Focus is given to a number of representative artists, bands, and movements, as well as national, regional, and cultural contexts from around...
Discovering the musical mind
A view of creativity as learning
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Following her distinguished earlier career as a concert pianist and later as a music theorist, Jeanne Bamberger conducted countless case studies analysing musical development and creativity the results of which were published in important scientific journals. Discovering musical mind draws together...
Applied Musicology
Using Zygonic Theory to Inform Music Education, Therapy, and Psychology Research
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Although research in music psychology, education and therapy has expanded exponentially in the 21st century, there is something of a 'black hole' around which much of the discourse circles: music itself. While writers have largely been occupied with what people think about musical engagement, the...
Musical Portraits
The Composition of Identity in Contemporary and Experimental Music
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
Joshua S. Walden's Musical Portraits: The Composition of Identity in Contemporary and Experimental Music explores the wide-ranging but under-examined genre of musical portraiture. It focuses in particular on contemporary and experimental music created between 1945 and the present day, an era in which...
Heinrich Scheidemann's Keyboard Music
Transmission, Style and Chronology
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
One of the most remarkable tales of recent resurrections in the field of early keyboard music concerns the music of Heinrich Scheidemann (c. 1595-1663). Long considered a minor master overshadowed by such figures as his teacher Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck or his fellow student Samuel Scheidt, a number...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
This edited volume explores how selected researchers, students and academics name and frame creative teaching and learning as constructed through the rationalities, practices, relationships, events, objects and systems that are brought to educational sites and developed by learning communities. The...
by Steve Levine
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
2nd edition: A complete guide to the growing phenomenon of internet-based music distribution and the art of downloading, with details of the programs, products and websites and what they can do for you.
Using clear terms and concise language, Steve Levine's book is a one-stop resource for everybody...
Women, Music, Culture
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Women, Music, Culture: An Introduction, Second Edition is the first undergraduate textbook on the history and contribution of women in a variety of musical genres and professions, ideal for students in courses in both music and women's studies. A compelling narrative, accompanied by over 50 guided...
by Larry Crook
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Focus: Music of Northeast Brazil examines the historical and contemporary manifestations of the music of Brazil, a country with a musical landscape that is layered with complexity and diversity. Based on the author’s field research during the past twenty years, the book describes and analyzes the...
Kodály in the Fifth Grade Classroom
Developing the Creative Brain in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Since the mid-twentieth century, Zoltán Kodály's child-developmental philosophy for teaching music has had significant positive impact on music education around the world, and is now at the core of music teaching in the United States and other English speaking countries. The Kodály Today handbook...
Kodály in the Fourth Grade Classroom
Developing the Creative Brain in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Since the mid-twentieth century, Zoltán Kodály's child-developmental philosophy for teaching music has had significant positive impact on music education around the world, and is now at the core of music teaching in the United States and other English speaking countries. The Kodály Today handbook...
by Doris Leibetseder
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Queer Tracks describes motifs in popular music that deviate from heterosexual orientation, the binary gender system and fixed identities. This exciting cutting-edge work deals with the key concepts of current gender politics and queer theory in rock and pop music, including irony, parody, camp, mask/masquerade,...