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Skill Building Sequence for Choral Ensembles

Teacher’s Guide for Children’s Choir

by Jennifer Miceli
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015

The ability to bring meaning to music notation without the assistance of an accompanist playing choral parts is a requisite skill on a musician’s journey to self-reliance and full artistic expression. Despite its importance, high performance expectations pose a challenge for choir directors to allocate...
Cover of Cry Till You Laugh — The Part That Ain't Art
by Terri Hendrix
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2010

Terri Hendrix has always preferred to celebrate the light rather than wallow in the blues — but she’s no stranger to facing the dark head-on. On her new album, Cry Till You Laugh, the award-winning Texas songwriter spins sorrow into joy and wrings wisdom from the blues with the poetic grace and uplifting...
Cover of Grunge: Music and Memory
by Catherine Strong
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016

Grunge has been perceived as the music that defined 'Generation X'. Twenty years after the height of the movement there is still considerable interest in its rise and fall, and its main figures such as Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love. As a form of 'retro' music it is even experiencing a resurgence,...
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Popular Music in Eastern Europe

Breaking the Cold War Paradigm

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Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016

This book explores popular music in Eastern Europe during the period of state socialism, in countries such as Poland, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Romania, Czechoslovakia, the GDR, Estonia and Albania. It discusses the policy concerning music, the greatest Eastern European stars, such as Karel Gott, Czesław...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017

Explores key themes in African music that have emerged in recent years-a subject usually neglected in country-by-country coverage emphasizes the contexts of musical performance-unlike studies that offer static interpretations isolated from other performing traditions presents the fresh insights and...
Cover of Making Congregational Music Local in Christian Communities Worldwide
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Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018

What does it mean for music to be considered local in contemporary Christian communities, and who shapes this meaning? Through what musical processes have religious beliefs and practices once ‘foreign’ become ‘indigenous’? How does using indigenous musical practices aid in the growth of local...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017

How do people use music to heal themselves and others? Are the healing powers of music universal or culturally specific? The essays in this volume address these two central questions as to music‘s potential as a therapeutic source. The contributors approach the study of music healing from social,...
Cover of Music, National Identity and the Politics of Location
by Vanessa Knights
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016

How are national identities constructed and articulated through music? Popular music has long been associated with political dissent, and the nation state has consistently demonstrated a determination to seek out and procure for itself a stake in the management of 'its' popular musics. Similarly,...
Cover of 20 Easy Christmas Carols For Beginners Piccolo: Book 1
by Michael Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016

Christmas Sheet Music For Beginners - Piccolo Big Note Sheet Music With Lettered Noteheads This sheet music book contains 20 popular Christmas carols arranged for Piccolo. Arrangements are very easy and will suit new beginners. Each arrangement features bigger music notes and each note head...
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Singing Death

Reflections on Music and Mortality

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Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017

Death is an unanswerable question for humanity, the question that always remains unanswered because it lies beyond human experience. Music represents one of the most profound ways in which humanity struggles, nevertheless, to accommodate death within the scope of the living by giving a voice to death...
Cover of Music in The Girl's Own Paper: An Annotated Catalogue, 1880-1910
by Judith Barger
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016

Nineteenth-century British periodicals for girls and women offer a wealth of material to understand how girls and women fit into their social and cultural worlds, of which music making was an important part. The Girl's Own Paper, first published in 1880, stands out because of its rich musical content....
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Music and Coexistence

A Journey across the World in Search of Musicians Making a Difference

by Osseily Hanna
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014

*Music and Coexistence:*A Journey across the World in Search of Musicians Making a Difference is both study and travelogue, as author Osseily Hanna explores the courageous work of musicians who compose and perform with their ostensible enemies or in extraordinary social situations. He documents the...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017

This pioneering text/reference explores how innovative new modes of computation may provide exciting new directions for future developments in the music industry, guiding the reader through the latest research in this emerging, interdisciplinary field. This work includes coverage of electronic music...
Cover of The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Popular Music
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Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Popular Music is the first comprehensive analysis of the most important themes and concepts in this field. Drawing on contemporary research from religious studies, theology, sociology, ethnography, and cultural studies, the volume comprises thirty-one specifically...
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