Music Styles and Genres Books

Le livre ""24 Etudes De Concert: Dans Tous Les Tons Majeurs Et Mineurs, Pour Piano (1867)"" de Kruger, Wilhelm est un recueil de 24 �����tudes de concert pour piano. Chaque �����tude est �����crite dans un ton majeur ou mineur diff�����rent, offrant...

Das Buch ""Welche Einfl�����sse hatte die Wiederbelebung V1-2: der �����lteren Musik im 19. Jahrhundert auf die deutschen Komponisten?"" von Richard Hohenemser wurde im Jahr 1900 ver������ffentlicht. Das Werk untersucht den Einfluss der Wiederbelebung...

Das Buch ""Wegweiser Zum Componiren Fur Musik-Dilettanten, Welche Sich In Kurzer Zeit Und Ohne Hulfe Eines Lehres Befahigen Wollen"" von Heinrich Wohlfahrt wurde im Jahr 1877 ver������ffentlicht. Es ist ein Leitfaden f�����r Musik-Laien, die in kurzer...

Das Buch ""Systematische Modulationslehre als Grundlage der Musikalischen Formenlehre"" wurde im Jahr 1887 von Hugo Riemann ver������ffentlicht. Es handelt sich um eine umfassende Abhandlung �����ber die systematische Modulation in der Musik und ihre...

Das Buch ""Reihenlehre oder Begr�����ndung des musikalischen Rhythmus aus der allgemeinen Zahlenlehre: Mit Tabellen"" wurde 1834 von Joseph Gersbach ver������ffentlicht. Es behandelt die Theorie des musikalischen Rhythmus und erkl�����rt, wie er aus der...

Liber intitulatus ""Preces Ante Et Post Missam Ex Missali Romano (1831)"" editus est a L. Bukaert Van Beesen Publisher. Hic liber continet preces quae a sacerdotibus et fidelibus ante et post Missam recitari solent, secundum Missale Romanum anno 1831...

Das Neujahrsblatt der Allgemeinen Musikgesellschaft Z�����rich (1813) ist ein Buch, das von der Allgemeinen Musikgesellschaft Z�����rich ver������ffentlicht wurde. Es enth�����lt eine Sammlung von Artikeln, die sich mit verschiedenen Aspekten der Musik...

Jazz and Death: Reception, Rituals, and Representations critically examines the myriad and complex interactions between jazz and death, from the New Orleans "jazz funeral" to jazz in heaven or hell, final recordings, jazz monuments, and the music's own...

Both in opera studies and in most operatic works, the singing body is taken for granted. Jelena Novak reintroduces an awareness of the physicality of the singing body to opera studies. Arguing that the body-voice relationship itself is a producer of...

This book locates music education within the contexts of global politics and economics, exploring the tensions between neoliberal globalization and democratic deconsolidation. A liberal music education can contribute to the revitalization of liberal...

Music Education for Social Change: Constructing an Activist Music Education develops an activist music education rooted in principles of social justice and anti-oppression, raising the question: amidst racism and violence targeted at people who embody...

Since the first series of Pop Idol aired in the UK just over a decade ago, Idols television shows have been broadcast in more than forty countries all over the world. In all those countries the global Idols format has been adapted to local cultures and...

Dedicated to the late Gerard Béhague (1937-2005), whose pioneering work in Latin American music, popular culture, and performance studies contributed extensively to ethnomusicological discourse in the 1970s-1990s, this anthology offers comparative...

Music of Latin America and the Caribbean, Second Edition is a comprehensive textbook for undergraduate students, which covers all major facets of Latin American music, finding a balance between important themes and illustrative examples. This book...

Macca in the Long Noughties reviews Paul McCartney's musical renaissance in the 2000s, when, at a time of personal challenges, he released some of his strongest and most innovative works: Chaos and Creation in the Backyard (2005); Memory Almost Full...

Become a Competent Music Producer in 365 Days is a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to the fundamentals of music production. Over the course of a year, this book takes the reader through ten chapters covering mixing, equalization, compression, reverb,...

Backstage, on the bus, or in the studio, saxophonist Jon Gordon, winner of the prestigious Thelonious Monk International Jazz Saxophone competition, chats with several generations of great musicians. From Jay McShann to Renee Rosnes, Jazz Dialogues lets...

If musicians wrote career books, what might they be titled? (Doctor Doctor? Physical?)If Kajagoogoo wrote a book, why would they decline an author interview? (They’re Too Shy!)Which music video from Toto has the band playing atop a stack of books?...

CDs, Records, & Tapes is a nostalgic Hip Hop essay collection. Told from the perspective of a creative writer who came of age with the culture, it revisits posse tracks, release dates, and classic albums. Each entry captures love for the culture,...

This book focuses on queer fans, performers, and spaces within the heavy metal sphere, and demonstrates the importance and subcultural significance of queerness to the heavy metal ethos. Heavy metal scholarship has until recently focused on the...

On summer nights on downtown Los Angeles's Bunker Hill, Grand Performances presents free public concerts for the people of the city. A hip hop orchestra, a mariachi musician, an Afropop singer, and a Chinese modern dance company are just a few examples...

The diary of Anton Reiff Jr. (c. 1830-1916) is one of only a handful of primary sources to offer a firsthand account of antebellum riverboat travel in the American South. The Pyne and Harrison Opera Troupe, a company run by English sisters Susan and...

The year 2019 marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of the death of Kurt Cobain, an artist whose music, words, and images continue to move millions of fans worldwide. As the first academic study that provides a literary analysis of Cobain's creative...

Born into poverty in Mississippi at the close of the nineteenth century, Charley Patton and Jimmie Rodgers established themselves among the most influential musicians of their era. In Tune tells the story of the parallel careers of these two pioneering...

Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) has been called the father of the symphony and the string quartet. A friend of Mozart and a teacher of Beethoven, "Papa" Haydn composed an amazing variety of music -- symphonies, string quartets, concerti, masses,...

Erroll Garner (1921-1977) was an inimitable jazz pianist and composer who enjoyed international recognition performing for audiences in concert halls and clubs throughout the world. He released many of his own compositions as well as popular songs on...

The Beatles made music within a virtuous circle, together reaching heights that none of them could alone. Then, in a flash, that circle collapsed, and the solo years which followed were patchy, indeed.But a secret has been hiding in plain sight ever...

Conducting is an act of internal acceptance. We change what we can with each of our groups, and we accept when we can't.How do we plan a choir rehearsal? How do we keep our singers coming back? Can we create that sense of belonging that...

For everyone in the music industry-record labels, managers, music publishers, and the performers themselves-it is important to understand the world music marketplace and how it functions. Yet remarkably little has been written about the music business...

Acoustic Blues Guitar Styles is an introduction to fingerstyle acoustic blues guitar, the style made popular by Robert Johnson, Bill Broonzy, and Mance Lipscomb. Following the success of the popular Acoustic Guitar Styles, Larry Sandberg's Acoustic Blues...

THE LURE OF PERFECTION: FASHION AND BALLET, 1780-1830 offers a unique look at how ballet influenced contemporary fashion and women's body image, and how street fashions in turn were reflected by the costumes worn by ballet dancers. Through years of...

For nearly a century, the training of ballet and modern dancers has followed two divergent paths. Modern practitioners felt ballet was artificial and injurious to the body; ballet teachers felt that modern dancers lacked the rigorous discipline and...

Based on lengthy interviews with Ellington's bandmates, family and friends, Duke Ellington and His World offers a fresh look at this legendary composer, tracing his life and career in terms of the social, cultural, political and economic realities of his...

In Songs in the Key of Black Life, acclaimed cultural critic Mark Anthony Neal turns his attention to Rhythm and Blues. He argues that R&B-often dismissed as just a bunch of love songs, yet the second most popular genre in terms of sales-can tell us much...

Southwest Shuffle documents an important period in country music history. During the '30s and early '40s, hundreds of thousands of "Okies," "Arkies," and other rural folks from around the Southwest resettled in California, in search of work. A country...

This book considers and discuss aspects of the management of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in the twentieth century since the death of its founder Richard D'Oyly Carte and concentrate on key events which contributed to its demise in 1982.

Music in Conflict studies the complex relationship of musical culture to political life in Palestine-Israel, where conflict has both shaped and claimed the lives of Palestinians and Jews. In the context of the geography of violence that characterizes the...

Digital Scenography in Opera in the Twenty-First Century is the first definitive study of the use of digital scenography in Western opera production.

Ben Green investigates the phenomenon of peak music experiences from a social and cultural perspective, including discussions on it as sources of inspiration; as a core motivation for ongoing musical and social activity; the significance of live music...

The mention of the term "melodrama" is likely to evoke a response from laymen and musicians alike that betrays an acquaintance only with the popular form of the genre and its greatly heightened drama, exaggerated often to the point of the ridiculous. Few...

Building a Career in Opera from School to Stage: Operapreneurship provides early-career singers with an overview of the structure of the opera industry and tools for strategically approaching a career within it. Today's voice students leave the...