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The Singer's Repertoire, Part V
Program Notes for the Singer's Repertoire
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2005
NOW IN PAPERBACK! Designed for use by professional singers, amateurs, teachers, coaches, and students; contains annotations for more than 1,000 songs in the basic vocal repertoire. Invaluable for those who must prepare program notes.
The Singer's Repertoire, Part III
Lyric and Dramatic Tenor
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2005
Now in paperback!
A timeless classic. Includes 8,200 songs in 818 lists for nine voice classifications; indexed by composer, title, vocal range, and publisher. The complete work represents the living song repertoire of today drawn from recital programs, recordings, broadcasts, telecasts, and...
The Synergy of Film and Music
Sight and Sound in Five Hollywood Films
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
Although writers on film music frequently allude to specific parts of scores, comprehensive examinations of entire scores are rare. In addition, most analyses of scores composed for the screen are discussed outside their cinematic context. To best understand the role music plays in the production...
by Jeremy Montagu
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2002
For everyone who's read the Bible and wondered what David's harp, or Nebuchadnezzar's sackbut and cornett really were, Jeremy Montagu, retired curator of Oxford's Bate Collection of Historical Instruments, has composed an astoundingly thorough investigation and explanation of the musical instruments...
Opera at the Bandstand
Then and Now
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
In Opera at the Bandstand: Then and Now, George W. Martin surveys the role of concert bands during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in making contemporary opera popular. He also chronicles how in part they lost their audience in the second half of the twentieth century by abandoning operatic...
Altman and After
Multiple Narratives in Film
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
In American cinema, films with multiple plots can be traced back to Grand Hotel in 1932, but the form was used only sporadically in subsequent decades. However, filmmakers of the 1970s and 80s, notably Robert Altman and Woody Allen, repeatedly employed complex narratives to weave sprawling stories...
African Americans and the Oscar
Decades of Struggle and Achievement
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2008
At the 2007 Academy Awards® ceremony, an unprecedented number of Black performers received acting nominations, and two of the statues awarded that evening went to Forest Whitaker and Jennifer Hudson. Indeed, since 2000, more African Americans have received Oscars than in the previous century. While...
by Jan Sjåvik
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2008
One of the smallest countries in Europe, Norway has created for itself a position in the world community, which is completely out of proportion to the size of its population. Originally the home of sub-Arctic hunters and gatherers, then of ferocious Vikings, it lost perhaps half of its population...
Handbook to Bach's Sacred Cantata Texts
An Interlinear Translation with Reference Guide to Biblical Quotations and Allusions
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 1996
The German church cantata of the eighteenth century was the culmination of a long tradition of Lutheran "sermon music" that used the proclamation, amplification, and interpretation of scripture to teach and persuade the listener. Bach's cantatas also served this didactic purpose and typically...
Border Visions
Identity and Diaspora in Film
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
Over the last several decades, the boundaries of languages and national and ethnic identities have been shifting, altering the notion of borders around the world. Borderland areas, such as East and West Europe, the US/Mexican frontera, and the Middle East, serve as places of cultural transfer and...
by Karyl Charna Lynn
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
Italian Opera in the 18th and 19th centuries was an experience unequaled anywhere else in the world. The unique emotion, flavor, and passion that existed have yet to be attained in any other country. Opera houses in Italy are the birthplace of this great art form. They represent its beauty and richness....
Reading Mystery Science Theater 3000
Critical Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
First broadcast in the not too distant past on a television station in Minnesota, Mystery Science Theater 3000 soon grew out of its humble beginnings and found a new home on cable television. This simple show about a man and two robots forced to watch bad movies became a cult classic, and episodes...
An American Organist in Paris
The Letters of Lee Orville Erwin, 1930-1931
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Growing up in Huntsville, Alabama, during the first quarter of the 20th century, Alabama-born organist and composer Lee Orville Erwin, like many of the 20th century’s great American composers, spent time studying in Paris. From 1930 until 1931 Erwin studied in France with organist André Marchal...
by Robert Elsie
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
As the seventh and probably last state to arise from the ruins of the former Yugoslavia, Kosovo is the newest country in Europe. For centuries, Kosovo, also known as Kosova, was part of the Ottoman Empire, and for most of the 20th century, it was a province of what was once Yugoslavia. After the military...