Scarecrow Press: 1180 books
The Second Sense
Language, Music, and Hearing
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2002
In a visual culture, hearing is the second sense, and music is the art of hearing. Kandinsky believed that music transcended painting and visual representation because it had the power to act directly and invisibly on the human spirit. Because it is the only art to deal unequivocally with the real...
by Richard Sorce
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1995
Written as a music theory text that not only addresses the important fundamental syntax of music in the classical sense but also relates this syntax to current practices and styles, this book should be particularly well-suited to musicians focusing on aspects of the music business and of popular culture.
Sight Singing Through Melodic Analysis
A Guide to the Study of Sight Singing and an Aid to Ear Training Instruction
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1984
This book is a guide to the study of sight singing and a valuable aid to ear training instruction. Although the book draws upon theoretical concepts it is easy to read and to follow. Readers learn to distinguish between structural and decorative tones within horizontal triad outlines, recognize melodic...
Starting Out Right
Beginning Band Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
Starting Out Right: Beginning Band Pedagogy is the only complete resource for organizing, planning, and teaching beginning woodwind, brass, and percussion students. The book covers every aspect of teaching beginning band students from the first sounds on the instruments through the first full-band...
Pop-Culture Pedagogy in the Music Classroom
Teaching Tools from American Idol to YouTube
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
Teachers the world over are discovering the importance and benefits of incorporating popular culture into the music classroom. The cultural prevalence and the students' familiarity with recorded music, videos, games, and other increasingly accessible multimedia materials help enliven course content...
Communism in Hollywood
The Moral Paradoxes of Testimony, Silence, and Betrayal
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
Much has been written about the history of Communism in America, including the Party's appeal to many in the Hollywood community of the 1930s and 40s. While several books have offered standard accounts of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) hearings and the blacklist in the entertainment...
Revolutionizing Children's Records
The Young People's Records and Children's Record Guild Series, 1946-1977
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2007
Young People's Records and Children's Record Guild were the first commercially significant record clubs in the world. By applying proven book club methods to the field of phonograph records, these two related companies attracted some hundred thousand subscribers at their peak and serviced perhaps...
Representing Black Music Culture
Then, Now, and When Again?
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2011
In this collection of essays, interviews, and profiles, William Banfield reflects on his life as a musician and educator, as he weaves together pieces of cultural criticism and artistry, all the while paying homage to Black music of the last 40 years and beyond. In Representing Black Music Culture:...
A Pete Seeger Discography
Seventy Years of Recordings
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2010
Pete Seeger is one of the most recorded artists in American history, and his recording catalog tells us not just the story of his career but the story of our culture and its political and social history. A Pete Seeger Discography: Seventy Years of Recordings is a comprehensive listing of the 45s,...
Transported by Song
Corsican Voices from Oral Tradition to World Stage
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2007
The traditions of the Mediterranean island of Corsica have been well preserved and revitalized, yet little has been written about it in scholarly circles. This work represents the first treatise on Corsican music in the English language. Transported by Song: Corsican Voices from Oral Tradition to...
A Communion Sunday in Scotland ca. 1780
Liturgies and Sermons
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
Sources for 17th, 18th, and early 19th-century Eucharistic practices in the Church of Scotland are scarce, in part because each minister was free to draw up the form and content of the services he conducted. In addition, many 19th and 20th century liturgical scholars chose to dismiss this form of...
Postmodernism and Globalization in Ethnomusicology
An Epistemological Problem
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2002
Is the music world clinging to an outdated school of thought in ethnomusicology? Nercessian shows how the theory of cultural relativism continues to detrimentally pervade ethnomusicological thought, and then offers a solution that may better serve musical study in today's more globalized world. At...
Masterworks of George Enescu
A Detailed Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
Often considered Romania's greatest musical force and a significant mind of the 20th century, composer George Enescu (1881-1955) achieved international fame and succeeded in incorporating Romanian spirituality into worldwide culture. Masterworks of George Enescu provides a profound and very detailed...
by Michael York
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2009
The decline of institutionalized religion in the increasingly secularized West has been offset by the contemporary spiritual development understood in the form of emerging New Age movements. This reference presents the potpourri of spiritual and psycho-physical therapeutic practices associated with...