Music Styles category: 7119 books
by Joel Benjamin
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
The Musical Legacy Of The Beatles is the first part of the research study Beatle Musings –an anthology of scholarship that examines the musical and historical legacy of The Beatles.
The book objectively analyzes the value of the musical contributions each of the four members of group contributed...
by Peter Russell
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
A German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist of the Baroque era, Johann Sebastian Bach is now generally regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time. Celebrated as the creator of the ‘Brandenburg Concertos’, ‘The Well-Tempered Clavier’, the ‘Mass in B Minor’...
Banjo on the Mountain
Wade Mainer's First Hundred Years
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2010
Wade Mainer (b. 1907) is believed to be the longest-lived country entertainer ever. His banjo lessons began in childhood and he played informally into his adult years, when he joined his brother, fiddler J. E. Mainer (1898-1971), in Mainer's Mountaineers. Music became their ticket out of the cotton...
by Johann Sebastian Bach
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
This volume presents the complete score for Johann Sebastian Bach's “Flute Sonata in B Minor”. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750) was a German musician and composer during the Baroque period. He based his work on existing German styles but often adopted and adapted textures, rhythms, and forms...
Experiencing David Bowie
A Listener's Companion
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
In Experiencing David Bowie: A Listener's Companion, musicologist, writer, and musician Ian Chapman unravels the extraordinary marriage of sound and visual effect that lies at the heart of the work of one of the most complex and enduring performers in popular music. Still active in a career now well...
by Gunther Schuller
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 1998
A world-renowned conductor and composer who has lead most of the major orchestras in North America and Europe, a talented musician who has played under the batons of such luminaries as Toscanini and Walter, and an esteemed arranger, scholar, author, and educator, Gunther Schuller is without doubt...
American Bandstand
Dick Clark and the Making of a Rock 'n' Roll Empire
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 1999
"I don't make culture, I sell it" Dick Clark once remarked. Indeed, the man who reigned as host of American Bandstand for nearly four decades may not have invented rock 'n' roll, but he sold it to the American public better than anyone before or since. Before Clark, rock 'n' roll was the...
Sting and The Police
Walking in Their Footsteps
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
During the 1980s, when pop icons like Madonna, Bruce Springsteen, Michael Jackson, and U2 reigned supreme, many regarded The Police as the biggest band in the world. Yet after only five albums—and at the peak of their popularity—The Police disbanded and Sting began a solo career that made him...
Guitar for Kids
First Steps in Learning to Play Guitar with Audio & Video
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
“Gareth has written a really well thought out first book for teaching young children how to play. This one is definitely the one I'll be using.” Bob Lucas - Bob Lucas Guitar Studios (Missouri US)
Guitar For Kids is a fun all-colour guide on the first steps of learning to play Guitar with...
Cuban Flute Style
Interpretation and Improvisation
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Richard Egües and José Fajardo are universally regarded as the leading exponents of charanga flute playing, an improvisatory style that crystallized in 1950s Cuba with the rise of the mambo and the chachachá. Despite the commercial success of their recordings with Orquesta Aragón and Fajardo y...
The Choral Music of Twentieth-Century Women Composers
Elisabeth Lutyens, Elizabeth Maconchy and Thea Musgrave
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2005
This book brings to light the choral works of three contemporary British women composers: Elisabeth Lutyens (1906-1983), Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994), and Thea Musgrave (1928- ). Earning solid reputations in Britain through their varying compositional styles, their music has revealed them to be...
by Stefan Grossman
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1969
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1969
There are many intellectual curiosities about the blues. It has always seemed a phenomenon that the guitar styles that came out of the South during the twenties and thirties could be differentiated by their regional characteristics. On hearing a strange new artist, one can almost pinpoint his city...
by IntroBooks
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Blending music, dance, visual arts and drama seamlessly to create one of the most interesting things that millions of audiences enjoy is what opera is all about. Its 400 year old history is rich with instances of rise and fall of opera.
With its roots in the Renaissance period, opera gradually spread...
Ombra
Supernatural Music in the Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
Ombra is the term which applies to an operatic scene involving the appearance of an oracle or demon, witches, or ghosts. Such scenes can be traced back to the early days of opera and were commonplace in the seventeenth century in Italy and France. Operas based on the legends of Orpheus, Iphigenia,...