Music Styles category: 7119 books
Five Operas and a Symphony
Word and Music in Russian Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
In this eagerly anticipated book, Boris Gasparov gazes through the lens of music to find an unusual perspective on Russian cultural and literary history. He discusses six major works of Russian music from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, showing the interplay of musical texts with their literary...
by SHER Music, Hal Galper
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2011
The same notes can sound square or swinging, depending on how the music is phrased. This revolutionary book shows how many people misunderstand jazz phrasing and shows how to replace stiff phrasing with fluid lines that have the right jazz feeling. In this book, master pianist Hal Galper also shows how...
The Product of Our Souls
Ragtime, Race, and the Birth of the Manhattan Musical Marketplace
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
In 1912 James Reese Europe made history by conducting his 125-member Clef Club Orchestra at Carnegie Hall. The first concert by an African American ensemble at the esteemed venue was more than just a concert--it was a political act of desegregation, a defiant challenge to the status quo in American...
by Mark Tucker, Travis Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
An historical survey of jazz. This ebook is a static version of an article from Grove Music Online, a continuously updated online resource, offering comprehensive coverage of the world’s music written by leading scholars. For more information, visit www.oxfordmusiconline.com.
Beethoven's Piano Music
A Listener's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Beethoven's works for solo piano – the sonatas, variations, and bagatelles – and the five concertos for piano and orchestra stand at the heart of the repertory. Beethoven's Piano Music: A Listener's Guide, by Victor Lederer, will help the motivated reader understand this popular but often knotty...
Brahms
A Listener's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
"Elegant, thought-provoking, often outrageous but always stimulating, this book will fascinate those who know a lot about Brahms as well as those who know little." — Stephen Hough, pianist and composer.
Hailed in his lifetime as Beethoven's successor and a powerful symbol of musical classicism,...
by Maurice Ratcliff
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
The indispensable consumer's guide to the music of Leonard Cohen
A track by track analysis of every song recorded on officially released
albums by Cohen, from his 1968 Songs Of Leonard Cohen to his most
recent studio and live sets from the 21st Century.
Features include:
An up to date...
by Paul Andrews
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2012
How well do you know your 60's Pop Music? This Quiz book will test even the most avid fan, with questions that span the 60's bands and songs! Test yourself and your friends with this 60's Pop Music Quiz Book.
Funky Nassau
Roots, Routes, and Representation in Bahamian Popular Music
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
This book examines the role music has played in the formation of the political and national identity of the Bahamas. Timothy Rommen analyzes Bahamian musical life as it has been influenced and shaped by the islands’ location between the United States and the rest of the Caribbean; tourism; and Bahamian...
by Lucien Jenkins
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
The Middle Ages began with the collapse of the Roman world. This left a military and political system in ruins but a cultural world-view largely intact. Artistically rich and varied in themselves, the medieval centuries also sparked both the artistic Renaissance and the religious Reformation that followed....
K-Pop
Popular Music, Cultural Amnesia, and Economic Innovation in South Korea
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
K-Pop: Popular Music, Cultural Amnesia, and Economic Innovation in South Korea seeks at once to describe and explain the emergence of export-oriented South Korean popular music and to make sense of larger South Korean economic and cultural transformations. John Lie provides not only a history of South...
Gestures of Music Theater
The Performativity of Song and Dance
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Gestures of Music Theater: The Performativity of Song and Dance offers new, cutting-edge essays focusing on song and dance as performative gestures that not only entertain but also act on audiences and performers. The chapters range across musical theater, opera, theater, and other artistic practices,...
Experiencing Bessie Smith
A Listener's Companion
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Experiencing Bessie Smith, John Clark chronicles Bessie Smith’s vital contribution to and influence on music, the music industry, and the recording industry. While her recording career lasted only a decade, she toured long before setting her music to vinyl, with much of her early career amply documented....
Got to Be Something Here
The Rise of the Minneapolis Sound
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Beginning in the year of Prince’s birth, 1958, with the recording of Minnesota’s first R&B record by a North Minneapolis band called the Big Ms, Got to Be Something Here traces the rise of that distinctive sound through two generations of political upheaval, rebellion, and artistic passion.
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