Scarecrow Press imprint: 1180 books
by Daniel Jaffé
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
Russian music today has a firm hold around the world in the repertoire of opera houses, ballet companies, and orchestras. The music of Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, Sergey Rachmaninov, Sergey Prokofiev, and Dmitri Shostakovich is very much today’s lingua franca both in the concert...
by John Bell, Steven R. Chicurel
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2008
Music Theory for Musical Theatre is a textbook designed to demystify music theory and analysis to make it more accessible to the musical theatre student. It aims to equip the student with a basic skill set that he or she can directly apply to the art form. John Bell and Steven R. Chicurel explore...
The Musical Instrument Desk Reference
A Guide to How Band and Orchestral Instruments Work
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
In The Musical Instrument Desk Reference, Michael Pagliaro, musical instrument authority extraordinaire, provides the one-stop shop for those in need of a quick, visually-rich reference guide to band and orchestral instruments. Descriptions and illustrations of everything from the physics of sound...
by Thomas Donahue
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
In A Style and Usage Guide to Writing About Music, Thomas Donahue presents a collection of guidelines to help express through the written word the special notations, terms, and concepts found in the discipline of music. It concentrates on questions of style and format in the interest of good formal...
The American Soccer League
The Golden Years of American Soccer 1921-1931
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 1998
It was the " American Menace" according to the Scottish and English newspapers of the 1920s. The best players in the Scottish leagues were being drawn to American companies that offered good jobs in return for playing on the company soccer team. The resulting squads, many of them ethnic,...
Recent American Art Song
A Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2008
Recent American Art Song: A Guide is a reference source devoted to songs with English texts by American composers, written for solo voice and piano. The book focuses exclusively on art song since 1980, a substantial period largely ignored by scholars. This is the first study to examine this repertory...
Orchestral Music
A Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2005
Also Available: Orchestral Music Online
This fourth edition of the highly acclaimed, classic sourcebook for planning orchestral programs and organizing rehearsals has been expanded and revised to feature 42% more compositions over the third edition, with clearer entries and a more useful system...
Jesús María Sanromá
An American Twentieth-Century Pianist
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2008
Puerto Rican born Jesús María Sanromá (1902-1984) was one of the leading pianists in the United States. After graduating from the New England Conservatory, he embarked on an enviable concert career as official pianist for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, as well as soloist with other leading American...
Andre Kostelanetz on Records and on the Air
A Discography and Radio Log
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
Andre Kostelanetz On Records and On the Air is a comprehensive discography of the commercial recordings of the Russian/American conductor and radio personality, Andre Kostelanetz. James H. North has collected all his recordings, spanning the range from popular to classical. Organized chronologically...
A History of Performing Pitch
The Story of 'A'
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2002
This is the first complete survey of the historical pitch standards used by musicians during the last four centuries. Written from a practical perspective and addressed to performers it is the first book to attach frequency values to pitch names and describe where, when, and why various historical...
The Beatles' Abbey Road Medley
Extended Forms in Popular Music
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2007
In September 1969, the Beatles released their final recorded work, Abbey Road, using a variety of progressive musical ideas that expressed the group's approach to multi-track recording and offering songs that constituted a highpoint in the Beatles' musical corpus. Of particular interest is the concluding...
Music and the Creative Spirit
Innovators in Jazz, Improvisation, and the Avant Garde
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2006
Like most ground-breaking art forms, contemporary creative music is rarely understood or accepted in its own time, and for those reasons, can largely go unheard. Music and the Creative Spirit: Innovators in Jazz, Improvisation, and the Avant Garde aims to give today's brightest music innovators due...
What Makes Music European
Looking beyond Sound
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011
We seldom consider how much we mistakenly presume in hewing to definitions of music that differ dramatically from the standpoint of other cultures. In What Makes Music European, Marcello Sorce Keller examines the limitations of accepted wisdom about the concept of music in Euro-Western culture. His...
Workbook for Harmony Through Melody
The Interaction of Melody, Counterpoint, and Harmony in Western Music
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2000
This workbook is designed to accompany the text Harmony Through Melody***.*** The graded assignments in writing and analysis for each chapter include formatted music manuscript as tear-out sheets. For this reason, many assignments continue on the reverse page and in some cases onto a third and fourth...