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At the dawn of the '70s, in a country still reeling from the aftershocks of World War 2, an underground movement of rock musicians resolved to tear it all up and start again. Welcome to France, 1968. Music fans in the English-speaking world are...

Jazz in Socialist Hà Nội: Improvisations between Worlds examines the germination and growth of jazz under communist rule in the Vietnamese capital of Hà Nội. After disappearing from the scene in 1954 following the end of the First Indochina War, jazz...

Where is the academic study of music today, and what paths should it take into the future? Should we be looking at how music relates to society and constructs meaning through it, rather than how it transcends the social? Can we 'remix' our discipline and...

Das Buch ""Die Hausmusik in Deutschland in dem 16., 17. und 18. Jahrhundert"" von Carl Ferdinand Becker wurde im Jahr 1840 ver������ffentlicht und bietet einen umfassenden Einblick in die Musikpraktiken im h�����uslichen Bereich w�����hrend dieser...

The Musical Scale is a book written by Horace Peters Biddle and originally published in 1867. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the musical scale, including its history, construction, and various applications in music theory and composition...

Brazilian popular music is widely celebrated for its inventive amalgams of styles and sounds. Cariocas, native residents of Rio de Janeiro, think of their city as particularly conducive to musical mixture, given its history as a hub of Brazilian media...

Das Buch ""Das Gemerkbuchlein Des Hans Sachs, 1555-1561, Nebst Einem Anhange: Die Nurnberger Meistersinger-Protocolle Von 1595-1605 (1898)"" von Karl Drescher ist eine Sammlung von Aufzeichnungen des ber�����hmten deutschen Dichters Hans Sachs. Die...

Jorge Benjor é um dos mais originais músicos brasileiros de todos os tempos, criador de uma batida de violão única e irresistível e de algumas das canções mais importantes da música brasileira. "A minha música não era bossa nova. O pessoal nem sabia...

Tom Jobim (1927-1994) fue el autor de una delicada revolución. La transformación que puso en marcha a partir de la bossa nova fue tan sutil que a menudo olvidamos cuán profundamente esta alteró el curso de la música brasileña, como si todo hubiera sido...

Gilberto Gil (1942) no es solo un músico. Desde su juventud como uno de los líderes de la contracultura a su madurez como uno de los ministros de Cultura más respetados a nivel mundial, Gil es la más completa manifestación de lo que significa ser un...

Gilberto Gil (1942- ) não é apenas um músico. De ícone da contracultura a Ministro da Cultura, ele é a manifestação mais pura do que significa ser um artista popular brasileiro. "Com o fazer das canções, você vai descobrindo que pode falar de tudo...

Elza Soares (1937-2022) es el mejor Brasil. Con su voz singularmente ronca Elza se atrevió a darle nombre a las muchas formas de hambre que experimenta la humanidad: hambre no solo de comida, sino también de libertad sexual, de igualdad racial, de arte y...

Unlock. secrets of music genre transformations with this comprehensive guide. Discover the fundamentals of music, explore genre classification, delve into mathematical models, and analyze case studies. From jazz-classical fusion to country-hip-hop...

Pretendemos por medio de "Ahi Le Lo Lai Le Lo Lei, Música Típica de Puerto Rico", resaltar la importancia de la música como el lenguaje universal en la historia del hombre, la importancia de las distintas culturas y su contribución musical al terruno...

Susan Deller grew up in South East Queensland, Australia and became interested in writing at school but never thought of taking it any further, and in 1988 she became an on-call printers' table hand - so Susan made books instead of writing them!...

The Music of the Nineteenth Century and Its Culture: Method of Musical Instruction is a book written by the German musicologist Adolf Bernhard Marx and first published in 1855. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the music of the 19th century,...

This book is the first to explore style and spectacle in glam popular music performance from the 1970s to the present day, and from an international perspective. Focus is given to a number of representative artists, bands, and movements, as well as...

Wassili Leps Op. 15, The Miracle Of Gar-Anlaf: A Cantata For Chorus Of Men�������s Voices And Orchestra (1907) is a musical composition created by Russian composer Wassili Leps. The cantata is written for a chorus of men's voices and orchestra and was...

Schottische Balladen ist ein Buch von Karl Knortz, das 1875 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Es enth�����lt eine Sammlung von Balladen aus Schottland, die ins Deutsche �����bersetzt wurden. Diese Balladen erz�����hlen oft von tragischen oder romantischen...

In questa raccolta, troverai gli spartiti di quasi tutte le Opere dalla 504 alla 561 di Giovanni Correddu, scritte intorno al 1997.

This book, titled ""Songs, Poems And Verses By Helen, Lady Dufferin: Countess Of Gifford (1895)"", is a collection of literary works by Helen Selina Dufferin, who was also known as Lady Dufferin and Countess of Gifford. The book was published in 1895 and...

The collected pieces in this compilation have been arranged from the original scores to be performed as recital pieces for accompanied flute.They are suitable for students studying at grade 4 -5 level, and are ideal pieces to aid sight reading of...

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...

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...

Aficionado e despretensioso, assim é o Arte Ralé, o antigo blog de poesias (de mesmo nome), mantido pelo autor, foi repaginado e se tornou um livro ch

In Queens of Afrobeat, the women of Afrobeat music-a unique blend of jazz, soul, highlife, and West African rhythms-are finally given the recognition they deserve. This extensive study takes a multifaceted view of the storied lives of the women behind...

"Beethoven, A Character Study Together with Wagner's Indebtedness to Beethoven" explores the personality and biography of the well-known German musician Ludwig van Beethoven. Fischer's study, which was published in 1880, attempts to offer readers a...

In questo breve e commosso saggio, l'autore omaggia a breve distanza di tempo dalla scomparsa il grande compositore Ennio Morricone, ricordandone la figura.Un breve viaggio nella carriera di un artista inimitabile, le cui note hanno fatto da colonna...

Situating Salsa offers the first comprehensive consideration of salsa music and its social impact, in its multiple transnational contexts.

Made in Spain: Studies in Popular Music will serve as a comprehensive and rigorous introduction to the history, sociology and musicology of 20th century Spanish popular music. The volume will consist of 16 essays by leading scholars of Spanish music and...

The Music of the Netherlands Antilles: Why Eleven Antilleans Knelt before Chopin's Heart is not your usual musical scholarship. In October 1999, eleven Antilleans attended the service held to commemorate the 150th anniversary of...

The ‘O’ Antiphons: Latin and Greek with Gregorian Chant, Old Hymnary and Scripture References provides readers with the Great Antiphons, the Magnificat antiphons to be used during Vespers of the last seven days of Advent in the Western...

In 2010, master drummer Fidel Morales published his Afro-Cuban Techniques for Drumset and Percussion, Volume 1, in which he illustrated the concept of Latin rudiments, mainly based on the accents used in Cuban music.Now, in his second book, Afro-Cuban...

The Tango Orchestra: Fundamental Concepts and TechniquesBy Julian PeraltaTranslated by Morgan James LukerWritten by one of tango music’s most active contemporary orchestra leaders and composers, this book presents for the first time a comprehensive...

We Declare! Songs, Chants, Dances, and Multimedia Projects by composer and musician Merrill Collins presents a unique melding of music, interactive projects, and learning about musical instruments from around the world. This collection of songs are...

""The Violin And The Art Of Its Construction: A Treatise On The Stradivarius Violin"" is a book written by August Riechers in 1895. This book is a comprehensive guide to the construction and design of the Stradivarius violin, which is widely considered...

Heitor Villa-Lobos's Bachianas Brasileiras demonstrates how the composer achieved his own Brazilian neoclassical style in a group of works, nine suites in total, that is arguably one of the best examples of homage to J.S. Bach's music in the twentieth...

Puerto Rico is often depicted as a "racial democracy" in which a history of race mixture has produced a racially harmonious society. In Remixing Reggaetón, Petra R. Rivera-Rideau shows how reggaetón musicians critique racial democracy's privileging of...

Where Rivers and Mountains Sing takes readers on a journey through the rich sonic world of inner Asia, where the elemental energies of wind, water, and echo, the ubiquitous presence of birds and animals, and the legendary feats of heroes have inspired a...

Music has been part of African women’s lives since time immemorial. Zimbabwean women sang songs to communicate, express their feelings or celebrate life changes. During pasichigare (pre-colonial times) women used the song to cope with the day to...

Japanese popular culture has been steadily increasing in visibility both in Asia and beyond in recent years. This book examines Japanese popular music, exploring its historical development, technology, business and production aspects, audiences, and...

The Music Teacher's Manual is a comprehensive guide written by Julia Ettie Crane in 1915. It is designed to help music teachers develop effective teaching strategies and techniques for teaching music to students of all ages and skill levels. The book...