Music category: 21679 books
The Music Business Advice book
150 Immediately Useful Tips From The Pros
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
The music business can prove to be a difficult career road when you’re first starting out, but it can be traveled a lot easier with some helpful guidance from a pro who’s willing to share a few hard-earned hints. The Music Advice Book is a compilation of the pearls of experience from 130 top music...
by Heather MacLean
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
This book is about teaching the joy and understanding of classical music to young children. It is about enhancing intelligence and building self-confidence through music. It is about leading the child into a journey of self-discovery and many joyful experiences, through music, that should last a lifetime....
Berlioz on Music
Selected Criticism 1824-1837
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
The quintessential Romantic artist of his century, Hector Berlioz impressed Paganini and Liszt as "Beethoven's only heir" and dazzled the young Wagner as a composer, orchestra conductor, and critic. To Paris and all Europe, Berlioz was known as much for his writings as for his music, yet there has...
by Pierre Dubois
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
Music was an essential aspect of life in eighteenth-century Britain and plays a crucial role in the literary strategies of Georgian novels. This book is the first to investigate the literary representation of music in these works and explores the structural, dramatic and metaphorical roles of music...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Music in the Post-9/11 World addresses the varied and complex roles music has played in the wake of September 11, 2001. Interdisciplinary in approach, international in scope, and critical in orientation, the twelve essays in this groundbreaking volume examine a diverse array of musical responses to...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
This collection of fourteen essays provides a rich and detailed history of the relationship between and music and image in documentary films, exploring the often overlooked role of music in the genre and its subsequent impact on an audience’s perception of reality and fiction. Exploring examples...
The Classic Rock and Roll Reader
Rock Music from Its Beginnings to the Mid-1970s
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
The Classic Rock and Roll Reader: Rock Music from Its Beginnings to the Mid-1970s is chock full of entertaining essays to inform and delight you about an era that shaped our culture and future musical trends. This unique book will surprise and enchant even the most zealous music buff with facts and...
Angelic Music
The Story of Benjamin Franklin's Glass Armonica
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
“Fascinating, insightful, and, best of all, great fun…with spirited charm, Mead weaves history, music, science, and medicine into the story” (The Washington Post) of Ben Franklin’s favorite invention: the glass armonica.
Benjamin Franklin is renowned for his landmark inventions, including...
Made in Spain
Studies in Popular Music
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Made in Spain: Studies in Popular Music will serve as a comprehensive and rigorous introduction to the history, sociology and musicology of 20th century Spanish popular music. The volume will consist of 16 essays by leading scholars of Spanish music and will cover the major figures, styles and social...
by Tim Wall
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
That rare thing, an academic study of music that seeks to tie together the strands of the musical text, the industry that produces it, and the audience that gives it meaning... A vital read for anyone interested in the changing nature of popular music production and consumption"
- Dr Nathan Wiseman-Trowse,...
The Quelbe Commentary 1672-2012
Anthropology in Virgin Islands Music
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Explore the rich heritage, contemporary culture, and society of the Virgin Islands by delving into its wonderful music.
Dale Francis, a resident of the Virgin Islands whose ancestry there dates back to the early 1700s, examines what Africans, Europeans, and Tainos contributed to Virgin Islands...
by Chester Music
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2005
Piano Music of Spain: Volumes One to Three is a bumper edition containing over 40 of the most quintessential Piano solos that characterise the music of nineteenth and twentieth century Spain.
Thirteen featured composers are included in this anthology, including Manuel De Falla, Isaac Albeniz,...
The Music Profession in Britain, 1780-1920
New Perspectives on Status and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Professionalisation was a key feature of the changing nature of work and society in the nineteenth century, with formal accreditation, registration and organisation becoming increasingly common. Trades and occupations sought protection and improved status via alignment with the professions: an attempt...
Downhome Gospel
African American Spiritual Activism in Wiregrass Country
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
Jerrilyn McGregory explores sacred music and spiritual activism in a little-known region of the South, the Wiregrass Country of Georgia, Alabama, and North Florida. She examines African American sacred music outside of Sunday church-related activities, showing that singing conventions and anniversary...