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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

The Blushful South And Hippocrene: Being Songs is a collection of poems written by American poet Robert Loveman and published in 1909. The book consists of 55 poems, each offering a unique perspective on life in the American South. Loveman's writing is...

The Bohemian Girl is an opera written by Michael William Balfe and first performed in 1843. The story follows the life of a young woman named Arline who is kidnapped as a child and raised by a group of gypsies. When she grows up, she falls in love with a...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

Tambourinado est un livre �����crit par Amable Richier et publi����� en 1896. Le livre raconte l'histoire d'un jeune gar�����on nomm����� Tambourinado qui grandit dans une famille pauvre dans les montagnes fran�����aises. Malgr����� les difficult�����s...

Tales, Songs and Sonnets (1866) is a collection of literary works by John Watson Dalby. The book comprises a variety of genres, including short stories, poems, and songs. The tales in the book are written in a narrative style and touch upon different...

Das Buch ""Stefan Fadinger: Ein Deutsches Bauernlied Auf Fliegenden Blattern (1885)"" von Franz Keim ist eine historische Erz�����hlung, die sich auf die Ereignisse des Bauernaufstandes von 1626 in Ober������sterreich konzentriert. Der Protagonist,...

Sun-Ways Of Song (1910) is a book of poetry written by Alonzo Leora Rice. The poems in this collection explore themes such as love, nature, and spirituality, and are written in a lyrical and imaginative style. The title of the book refers to the way that...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

""Poems And Songs, Mostly Scotch"" is a collection of poems and songs written by Andrew Wanless and published in 1873. The book features a wide range of themes, including love, nature, and Scottish culture. Many of the poems are written in traditional...

Motor, Visual and Applied Rhythms is a book written by James Burt Miner and published in 1903. The book explores the concept of rhythm in various aspects of life, including music, dance, and everyday movements. The author emphasizes the importance of...

Footlight Rhymes is a collection of poems written by Earle Remington Hines and published in 1910. The poems are inspired by the world of theater and the performing arts, with subjects ranging from actors and actresses to the stage itself. The book...

Folksongs and Partsongs: With Preparatory Exercises for Choral Classes is a musical textbook written by Frank Damrosch in 1896. The book is designed to provide choral classes with a comprehensive collection of folk songs and partsongs, along with...

""Florinda Or The Moors In Spain"" is a grand opera written by Sigismond Thalberg in 1851. The story takes place in medieval Spain during the time of the Moorish occupation. The protagonist, Florinda, is a young woman who is torn between her love for the...

Facts About Violins And Violin Making (1904) by Hans Tietgen is a comprehensive guide to the history and construction of violins. The book provides a detailed account of the development of the instrument from its early origins in the 16th century to the...

Das Lehrbuch der Musikalischen Komposition V2 (1855) von Johann Christian Lobe ist ein umfassendes Werk, das sich mit der Kunst der Komposition von Musikst�����cken auseinandersetzt. Es richtet sich an angehende Komponisten und Musiker und behandelt...

Die Componisten Der Neueren Zeit ist ein Buch von William Neumann, das 1855 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Das Buch beschreibt die Komponisten der neueren Zeit und ihre Werke. Es enth�����lt Informationen �����ber ber�����hmte Komponisten wie Beethoven,...

Die Grundverh�����ltnisse der Musik (1853) von Theodor Wilhelm Richter ist ein bahnbrechendes Werk der Musiktheorie, das sich mit den grundlegenden mathematischen und physikalischen Prinzipien der Musik besch�����ftigt. Richter untersucht die Beziehung...

""Schlaglichter und Schlagschatten aus der Musikwelt und aus allen Tonarten"" ist ein Buch von Heinrich Ehrlich, das im Jahr 1888 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Das Werk beinhaltet Studien �����ber Musik und gibt Einblicke in die Welt der Musik. Ehrlich...

Liederen (1868) is een boek geschreven door Frans De Cort. Het is een verzameling van liederen die in de 19e eeuw werden gezongen. Het boek bevat verschillende soorten liederen, waaronder volksliederen, liefdesliederen en religieuze liederen. De teksten...

""Abhandlung �����ber Die Musik Des Alten �����gyptens"" ist ein Buch des franz������sischen Musikwissenschaftlers Guillaume Andr����� Villoteau aus dem Jahr 1821. Das Buch untersucht die Musik des antiken �����gyptens und beschreibt die Instrumente, die...

De La Mauvaise Influence Du Piano Sur L�������Art Musical (1885) est un livre �����crit par Louis Pagnerre qui explore l'influence n�����gative du piano sur la musique classique. L'auteur soutient que l'omnipr�����sence du piano a entra�����n����� une...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...

Britten Experienced is a response to two recent studies of the composer, and offers alternative critical readings of some of his major works. The author frames his proposals with episodes of musicological autobiography that attempt to illustrate how...

This book approaches opera fantasias - instrumental works that use themes from a single opera as the body of their virtuosic and flamboyant material - both historically and theoretically, concentrating on compositions for and by woodwind-instrument...

The manuscript Seville, Biblioteca Colombina y Capitular 5-2-25, a composite of dozens of theoretical treatises, is one of the primary witnesses to late medieval music theory. Its numerous copies of significant texts have been the focus of substantial...

Carl Schachter is the world's leading practitioner of Schenkerian theory and analysis. His articles and books have been broadly influential, and are seen by many as models of musical insight and lucid prose. Yet, perhaps his greatest impact has been...

One of the most beloved film musicals of all time, The Wizard of Oz represents an enduring family favorite and cultural classic. Yet there is much more to the story than meets the eye, and the MGM movie is just one of many ways in which it has been...

Classical composers seeking to create an American sound enjoyed unprecedented success during the 1930s and 1940s. Aaron Copland, Roy Harris, Howard Hanson and others brought national and international attention to American composers for the first time in...

"[A] magical, profound, and elegant look at the continued need for high quality in our throw away society." --Douglas Brinkley, HistorianThis intensely human story, which moves from an ageless workshop in Brooklyn to the rehearsal rooms of Carnegie Hall...

The book also provides a plethora of examples and analytical samples, drawn from the celebrated fugues of Johann Sebastian Bach. It walks students through different elements of fugal counterpoint and their mechanisms, offering a list of exercises and...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the...

Ian Maxwell s sophisticated story of Australia s hip-hop scene follows the lives of a small, influential group of rappers from Sydney s Westside in the early 1990s. Maxwell conveys the excitement of the scene and the struggles of the white musicians to...

Selected as one of the best books of the year by:Uprooted Music RevueEngine 145Uncut"Has a great narrative velocity. Even though we know how this story is going to end--tragically, of course--Kealing keeps us turning the page as we follow Gram Parsons...

Topics are musical signs developed and employed primarily during the long eighteenth century. Their significance relies on associations that are clearly recognizable to the listener with different genres, styles and types of music making. Topic theory,...

A History of Baroque Music is an exhaustive study of the music of the Baroque period, with particular focus on the 17th century. Individual chapters consider the work of significant composers, including Monteverdi, Corelli, Scarlatti, Schütz, Purcell,...

The poignant memoir of forgotten Beatle Stuart Sutcliffe, and a remarkable chronicle of the early days of the world's most influential pop group.

Exploring how music is used to portray the past in a variety of media, this book probes the relationship between history and fantasy in the imagination of the musical past.

This book develops an innovative approach for understanding the relationship between music and words in the works of five major composers of the English Renaissance: John Taverner, Christopher Tye, John Sheppard, Thomas Tallis, and William Byrd.

Roy Johnston and Declan Plummer provide a refreshing portrait of Belfast in the nineteenth century. Before his death Roy Johnston, had written a full draft, based on an impressive array of contemporary sources, with deep and detailed attention...

Hamish MacCunn's career unfolded amidst the restructuring of British musical culture and the rewriting of the Western European political landscape. Having risen to fame in the late 1880s with a string of Scottish works, MacCunn further highlighted his...

Simple songs or airs, in which a male poetic voice either seduces or excoriates a female object, were an influential vocal genre of the French Baroque era. In this comprehensive and interdisciplinary study, Catherine Gordon-Seifert analyzes the style of...

Classical music permeates contemporary life. Encountered in waiting rooms, movies, and hotel lobbies as much as in the concert hall, perennial orchestral favorites mingle with commercial jingles, video-game soundtracks, and the booming bass from a...

Approaches to Meaning in Music presents a survey of the problems and issues inherent in pursuing meaning and signification in music, and attempts to rectify the conundrums that have plagued philosophers, artists, and theorists since the time of...

Much music was written for the two most important dances of the 18th and 19th centuries, the minuet and the waltz. In Decorum of the Minuet, Delirium of the Waltz, Eric McKee argues that to better understand the musical structures and expressive meanings...

Claudia R. Jensen presents the first unified study of musical culture in the court and church of Muscovite Russia. Spanning the period from the installation of Patriarch Iov in 1589 to the beginning of Peter the Great's reign in 1694, her book offers...