Music Styles category: 7119 books
by Richard King
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Recording Orchestra and Other Classical Music Ensembles explores techniques and methodologies specific to recording classical music. Whether a newcomer or a seasoned engineer looking to refine their skills, this book speaks to all levels of expertise and covers every aspect of recording symphonic...
by Liz Doherty, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Celtic music scholar and musician Liz Doherty is no stranger to Cape Breton music – in fact, she has made a study of it. Doherty’s exposure to, and research of, the island’s music traditions was the germination for this compendium on the Cape Breton fiddle: its history, its people, the tunes,...
Making Your Memories with Rock & Roll and Doo-Wop
The Music and Artists of the 1950S and Early 1960S
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2016
Making Your Memories with Rock & Roll and Doo-Wop: The Music and Artists of the 1950s and Early 1960s digs back through the catalogue of popular music and brings to life the solo artists, duos, and groups whose music once filled the airwaves and turntables with rock & roll and doo-wop. The...
River of Tears
Country Music, Memory, and Modernity in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2009
River of Tears is the first ethnography of Brazilian country music, one of the most popular genres in Brazil yet least-known outside it. Beginning in the mid-1980s, commercial musical duos practicing música sertaneja reached beyond their home in Brazil’s central-southern region to become national...
by Maggie Cotton
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Are you a fan of classical music? Can you name all the well-known composers, conductors and the compositions they are associated with? Or perhaps, you would like to learn more about them? If so, you are certain to enjoy the quotes and musical miscellany in 101 Quirky Observations on Classical Music....
by Timothy Rice
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2013
Ethnomusicologists believe that all humans, not just those we call musicians, are musical, and that musicality is one of the essential touchstones of the human experience. This insight raises big questions about the nature of music and the nature of humankind, and ethnomusicologists argue that to...
Pat Metheny
The ECM Years, 1975-1984
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
The guitarist and composer Pat Metheny ranks among the most popular and innovative jazz musicians of all time. In Pat Metheny: The ECM Years, 1975-1984, Mervyn Cooke offers the first in-depth account of Metheny's early creative period, during which he recorded eleven stunningly varied albums for the...
Creating Country Music
Fabricating Authenticity
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
In Creating Country Music, Richard Peterson traces the development of country music and its institutionalization from Fiddlin' John Carson's pioneering recordings in Atlanta in 1923 to the posthumous success of Hank Williams. Peterson captures the free-wheeling entrepreneurial spirit of the era, detailing...
Stomp and Swerve
American Music Gets Hot, 18431924
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2003
The early decades of American popular music-Stephen Foster, Scott Joplin, John Philip Sousa, Enrico Caruso-are, for most listeners, the dark ages. It wasn’t until the mid-1920s that the full spectrum of this music-black and white, urban and rural, sophisticated and crude-made it onto records for...
Austin City Limits
A History
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Austin City Limits is the longest running musical showcase in the history of television, and it still captivates audiences forty years after its debut on the air. From Willie Nelson's legendary pilot show and his fourteen magical episodes running through the years to Season 35, to mythical performances...
Classical Music
The 50 Greatest Composers and Their 1,000 Greatest Works
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
MAKE A SOUND INVESTMENT IN CLASSICAL MUSIC
Who are the ten most important classical composers? Who in the world was Palestrina? Why did Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" cause a riot? Which five of each important composer's works should you buy? What is a concerto and how does it differ from...
Language of the Spirit
An Introduction to Classical Music
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
A preeminent composer, music scholar, and biographer presents an engaging and accessible introduction to classical music
For many of us, classical music is something serious--something we study in school, something played by cultivated musicians at fancy gatherings. In Language of the Spirit,...
Chamber Music
An Essential History
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2012
Intended for the music student, the professional musician, and the music lover, Chamber Music: An Essential History covers repertoire from the Renaissance to the present, crossing genres to include string quartets, piano trios, clarinet quintets, and other groupings. Mark A. Radice gives a thorough...
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Manchester, Music and Me!
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
As the only person with a camera attending the first Sex Pistols gig outside London at the Lesser Free Trade Hall in Manchester on Friday June 4th 1976, I unwittingly captured a piece of musical history which still intrigues people to this day. I was covering the event for the magazine that I was producing...