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Experiencing Progressive Rock
A Listener's Companion
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2018
In Experiencing Progressive Rock: A Listener's Companion, Robert G. H. Burns brings together the many strands that define the "prog rock" movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s to chart the evolution of this remarkable rock tradition over the decades.
Originating in the 1960s...
by Dan Dietz
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
In the first decade of the twenty-first century, Broadway was notable for old-fashioned, feel-good shows (Hairspray, Jersey Boys), a number of family-friendly musicals (Little Women, Mary Poppins), plenty of revivals (Follies, Oklahoma!, Wonderful Town), a couple of off-the-wall hits (Avenue Q, Urinetown),...
The Musical Theater of Stephen Schwartz
From Godspell to Wicked and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
As the composer/lyricist for Godspell, Pippin, Wicked, and other musicals, Stephen Schwartz has enjoyed one of the mostsignificant careers in American musical theater for more than four decades. Schwartz has also achieved success on the big screen, contributing to such films as Enchanted, The Prince...
by Dan Dietz
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
Despite the stock market crash of October 1929, thousands of theatregoers still flocked to the Great White Way throughout the country’s darkest years. In keeping with the Depression and the events leading up to World War II, 1930s Broadway was distinguished by numerous political revues and musicals,...
Elmer Bernstein's The Magnificent Seven
A Film Score Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
The Magnificent Seven was a Western reimagining of the 1954 Japanese film Seven Samurai. Despite such stars as Steve McQueen, Yul Brynner, and Charles Bronson, the film was not terribly successful when it premiered. However, in the years since, the film has become recognized as a classic of the genre....
The Alexander Scriabin Companion
History, Performance, and Lore
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
This unique collaboration between a musicologist and two pianists – all experts in Russian music – takes a fresh look at the supercharged music and polarizing reception of the Russian composer Alexander Scriabin. From his Chopin-inspired miniatures to his genre-bending symphonies and avant-garde...
Chamber Music
An Extensive Guide for Listeners
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
In Chamber Music: An Extensive Guide for Listeners,Lucy Miller Murray transforms her decades of program notes for some of the world’s most distinguished artists and presenters into the go-to guide for the chamber music novice and enthusiast. Offering practical information on the broad array of chamber...
The Music of William Schuman, Vincent Persichetti, and Peter Mennin
Voices of Stone and Steel
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
William Schuman, Vincent Persichetti, and Peter Mennin were three of the most significant American composers of the 20th century, yet their music has largely disappeared from view since their respective deaths. Because they each spent the majority of their careers working at the Juilliard School and...
Singing in Czech
A Guide to Czech Lyric Diction and Vocal Repertoire
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
Timothy Cheek’s revised edition of Singing in Czech: A Guide to Czech Lyric Diction and Vocal Repertoire, with its accompanying audio accessible online, builds on the original pioneering work of 2001 that set “a new and very welcome high standard for teaching lyric diction,” according to Notes:...
Jenufa
Translations and Pronunciation
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Jenůfa is a harrowing tale of forbidden love, abandonment, hypocrisy, desperation, and tragic infanticide. As today’s second most frequently performed Czech opera (following Dvorák’s Rusalka), Jenůfa holds a prominent place in international opera repertoire and continues to draw the attention...
Singing in Polish
A Guide to Polish Lyric Diction and Vocal Repertoire
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Singing in Polish: A Guide to Polish Lyric Diction and Vocal Repertoire stands as the first book-length resource for non-Polish–speaking singers, voice teachers, and vocal coaches that offers the essential tools for learning how to sing in Polish. Scholar and singer Benjamin Schultz offers a rich...
Joseph Holbrooke
Composer, Critic, and Musical Patriot
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
This is the first scholarly work to document the musical life of Joseph Holbrooke, one of Britain’s most prolific and controversial composers during the first half of the twentieth century. Holbrooke was outspoken on many issues, including the maligned fortunes of British composers, which he believed...
Looking and Listening
Conversations between Modern Art and Music
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Looking and Listening: Conversations between Modern Art and Music invites the art and music lover to place these two realms of creative endeavor in conversation with one another. In Looking and Listening, conductor and art connoisseur Brenda Leach explores unique pairings of well-known visual art...
Irony in The Twilight Zone
How the Series Critiqued Postwar American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Rod Serling’s pioneering series The**Twilight Zone (1959 to 1964) is remembered for its surprise twist endings and pervading sense of irony.While other American television series of the time also experimented with ironic surprises, none depended on these as much as Serling’s. However, irony was...