Music category: 21679 books
To Do This, You Must Know How
Music Pedagogy in the Black Gospel Quartet Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
To Do This, You Must Know How traces black vocal music instruction and inspiration from the halls of Fisk University to the mining camps of Birmingham and Bessemer, Alabama, and on to Chicago and New Orleans. In the 1870s, the Original Fisk University Jubilee Singers successfully combined Negro spirituals...
Discovering Classical Music: Beethoven
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...
Chamber Music
An Extensive Guide for Listeners
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
In Chamber Music: An Extensive Guide for Listeners,Lucy Miller Murray transforms her decades of program notes for some of the world’s most distinguished artists and presenters into the go-to guide for the chamber music novice and enthusiast. Offering practical information on the broad array of chamber...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
France has a long and rich music history that has had a far-reaching impact upon music and cultures around the world. This accessible Companion provides a comprehensive introduction to the music of France. With chapters on a range of music genres, internationally renowned authors survey music-making...
Discovering Classical Music: Puccini
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...
Discovering Classical Music: Bartók
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...
Discovering Classical Music: Janacek
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...
Popular Music Industries and the State
Policy Notes
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
This volume studies the relationships between government and the popular music industries, comparing three Anglophone nations: Scotland, New Zealand and Australia. At a time when issues of globalization and locality are seldom out of the news, musicians, fans, governments, and industries are forced...
This Thing Called Music
Essays in Honor of Bruno Nettl
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
The most fundamental subject of music scholarship provides the common focus of this volume of essays: music itself. For the distinguished scholars from the field of musicology and related areas of the humanities and social sciences, the search for music itself—in its vastly complex and diverse forms...
GARAGE BAND THEORY - TOOLS the PRO'S USE to PLAY BY EAR
music theory-learn to read & play by ear, tab & notation for guitar, mandolin, banjo, ukulele, piano, beginner & advanced lessons, improvisation, chords & scales for jazz and blues
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
This is non-academic, practical, useful theory for living-room pickers and working musicians who want to be able to think coherently about music in order to ask questions and understand answers about the music they want to play.
The stuff in GBT is about understanding The Beatles and The Rolling...
Yellow Music
Media Culture and Colonial Modernity in the Chinese Jazz Age
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2001
Yellow Music is the first history of the emergence of Chinese popular music and urban media culture in early-twentieth-century China. Andrew F. Jones focuses on the affinities between "yellow” or “pornographic" music—as critics derisively referred to the "decadent" fusion...
by Betsey King, PhD MT-BC
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Music is a part of everyone’s lives and many people use music to relax, energize, and comfort. Music Therapy, however, is a specialized health profession and music therapists around the world engage their clients and patients in personalized music experiences to provide specific help with learning...
To Do This, You Must Know How
Music Pedagogy in the Black Gospel Quartet Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
To Do This, You Must Know How traces black vocal music instruction and inspiration from the halls of Fisk University to the mining camps of Birmingham and Bessemer, Alabama, and on to Chicago and New Orleans. In the 1870s, the Original Fisk University Jubilee Singers successfully combined Negro spirituals...
Discovering Classical Music: Wagner
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...