Music category: 21679 books
Voicing Girlhood in Popular Music
Performance, Authority, Authenticity
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
This interdisciplinary volume explores the girl’s voice and the construction of girlhood in contemporary popular music, visiting girls as musicians, activists, and performers through topics that range from female vocal development during adolescence to girls’ online media culture. While girls’...
Kodály in the Third 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...
The Journey from Music Student to Teacher
A Professional Approach
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
From Music Student to Teacher: A Professional Approach helps prospective music educators begin their transition from music student to professional music teacher. The text uniquely works to build upon the individual’s personal experience to enhance their approach to the profession. The authors help...
Music in the Social and Behavioral Sciences
An Encyclopedia
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
This first definitive reference resource to take a broad interdisciplinary approach to the nexus between music and the social and behavioral sciences examines how music affects human beings and their interactions in and with the world. The interdisciplinary nature of the work provides a starting place...
The Work of Music Theory
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
This collection brings together an anthology of articles by Thomas Christensen, one of the leading historians of music theory active today. Published over the span of the past 25 years, the selected articles provide a historical conspectus about a range of vital topics in the history of music theory,...
by Virgil Thomson
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
**An unprecedented collection of polemical and autobiographical writings by America’s greatest composer-critic. **Following on the critically acclaimed 2014 edition of Virgil Thomson's collected newspaper music criticism, The Library of America and Pulitzer Prize–winning music critic Tim Page...
Expressiveness in music performance
Empirical approaches across styles and cultures
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
What does it mean to be expressive in music performance across diverse historical and cultural domains? What are the means at the disposal of a performer in various time periods and musical practice conventions? What are the conceptualisations of expression and the roles of performers that shape expressive...
Music Autoethnographies
Making Autoethnography Sing/Making Music Personal
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Autoethnography is an autobiographical genre that connects the personal to the cultural, social, and political. Usually written in the first-person voice, autoethnographic work appears in a variety of creative formats; for example, short stories, music compositions, poetry, photographic essays, and...
The Circle and the Diamond
The Odyssey of Music
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
In The Circle and the Diamond, the authors disaffection with the shortcomings of music analysis leads to the creation of an original contribution to understanding our Western musical heritage. Composer Roland Trogan explicates Susanne Langers notion that music consists of patterns of sentience by...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Advancing Music Education in Northern Europe tells the story of a unique organization that has contributed in profound ways to the professional development of music teachers in the Nordic and Baltic nations. At the same time, the book offers reflections on how music education and approaches to the...
Jewish Religious Music in Nineteenth-Century America
Restoring the Synagogue Soundtrack
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2019
In Jewish Religious Music in Nineteenth-Century America: Restoring the Synagogue Soundtrack, Judah M. Cohen demonstrates that Jews constructed a robust religious musical conversation in the United States during the mid- to late-19th century. While previous studies of American Jewish music history...
Excellence in Music Ministry
An Inward Foundation For An Outward Expression
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
Grammy Award winner and trumpeter, Phil Driscoll says, “Excellence in Music Ministry should be a must in the curriculum of anyone serious about pursuing their gift and calling before God. Really, if “caught,” it will change the life of any musician or singer who takes the time to read its words.”...
by Mark McKnight
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2002
Due to the distinctive nature of music as a separate "language" that non-musicians are often unable to read or understand, the cataloging and classification of music materials frequently present special challenges. In response to this often problematic situation, this volume is designed...
by Sarah Bryan, Beverly Patterson, Michelle Lanier
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Thelonius Monk, Billy Taylor, and Maceo Parker--famous jazz artists who have shared the unique sounds of North Carolina with the world--are but a few of the dynamic African American artists from eastern North Carolina featured in The African American Music Trails of Eastern North Carolina. This first-of-its-kind...