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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837178561Author Andrey Vasilyevich OlkhovskyFormat HardbackPage Count 427Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780970981134Author Kurt Johann EllenbergerFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Assayer PublishingPublisher Assayer PublishingWeight(grams) 227g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674282599Author John R BrydenFormat HardbackPage Count 358Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 1125g

Product information not available.Book InformationISBN 9780313229213Author Judith Lang ZaimontFormat HardbackPage Count 355Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher ABC-CLIO

Worth and Cartwright have compiled a comprehensive discography documenting this exceedingly long career. In a chapter devoted to `The Art of John McCormack and the Phonograph,' McCormack's vocal technique is examined, and his artistic development...

Tawa considers the musical and social ramifications influencing the American composer between 1950 and 1985. He draws information from composers, music reviewers, and from his own listening experiences. Tawa's common theme is the gulf between what the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313238000Author Malcolm S. ColeFormat HardbackPage Count 441Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Grammy winner for Can You Feel the Love Tonight from Disney's 1994 blockbuster movie ^The Lion King, Elton John is a musician who has transcended generations. Since his U.S. debut 26 years ago, E.J. has had a top-40 hit every year. This first reference...

Collected here for the first time are more than 2,000 wise and witty quotations on every type of music and musicians, from Plato to Igor Stravinsky, Duke Ellington, Frank Sinatra, John Lennon, and a host of other luminaries. What they have to say about...

The six string quartets dedicated to his friend Joseph Haydn represent a turning point in Mozart's compositional development. In addition to providing a full synopsis of each quartet this book examines the music in relation to Mozart's earlier quartets,...

Schumann's Late Style is devoted to the study of Robert Schumann's little-known music from the 1850s. The reason most often given for these works having been considered lesser achievements than the earlier song and piano cycles is that Schumann's mental...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313205613Author Brian RustFormat HardbackPage Count 327Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837168739Author Leon VallasFormat HardbackPage Count 283Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

This collection provides English translations for the Propers of the Mass-those portions of the Roman Catholic Mass which change from day to day throughout the Liturgical Year. Since the Middle Ages, these texts were set to music in the form of chant,...

Product information not available.Book InformationISBN 9780313229909Author John L. HolmesFormat HardbackPage Count 734Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837186658Author Wilhelm Furtw AnglerFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

This annotated chronology of western music is the third in a series of outlines on the history of music in western civilization. It contains a 120-page annotated bibliography, followed by a detailed, documented outline that is divided into ten chapters...

Choral music is now undoubtedly the foremost genre of participatory music making, with more people singing in choirs than ever before. Written by a team of leading international practitioners and scholars, this Companion addresses the history of choral...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674729230Author Warren D AndersonFormat HardbackPage Count 306Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 621g

This volume is designed as an introduction to the science of music for advanced students of music and psychology, music teachers, professional musicians, and general readers interested in the scientific approach to the understanding and appreciation of...

This is the first book in English about Domenico Cimarosa, his more than 65 operas and his sacred and secular vocal music, his keyboard music, and his various works for solo instruments and ensembles. This is also the first authoritative book on Cimarosa...

This reference guide to the life and work of the prolific American wind band composer, Alfred Reed, includes a brief biography followed by detailed bibliography and discography sections. The biography traces Reed's life and those experiences that helped...

This book contains the bulk of Dr. Vaughan Williams' writings on music. The topics of the paper range from Bach to Holst, and all are illuminated by the author's comments.Book InformationISBN 9780313230493Author Vaughan Ralph WilliamsFormat HardbackPage...

Product information not available.Book InformationISBN 9780313234675Author Joan SwanekampFormat HardbackPage Count 141Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher ABC-CLIO

Exploring the parallel development of the brass band movement and religious fervor in late 19th-century America, this work includes illustrations from original materials as well as scores for 22 works. While the choral tradition has remained strong in...

This book offers an evocative cross-cultural exploration into the everyday lives and music practices of young people from their own broad social, cultural and ethnic perspectives. Youth from seven urban locales in Australia, the UK, the US and Europe...

Carole King's early compositional work in the 1970s paved the way for many women songwriters of popular music. Among her best-known compositions are You've Got a Friend, Up on the Roof, Will You Love Me Tomorrow? and (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural...

Aladdin and Imperial, two independent recording labels, emerged on the West Coast following World War II. They were hugely successful with their recordings of popular music based on jazz and blues. For Aladdin, the blues and rhythm and blues fields were...

The works of the 17th-century French harpsichord composers, the clavecinistes, are among the principal treasures of the harpsichord repertoire. It is a commmonplace of music histories that their style was strongly influenced by contemporary lutenists,...

What makes a classical song a song? In a wide-ranging 2004 discussion, covering such contrasting composers as Brahms and Berberian, Schubert and Kurtag, Jonathan Dunsby considers the nature of vocality in songs of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries...

Charles Ives's massive Concord Sonata, his second sonata for piano, named after the town of Concord in Massachusetts, is central to his output and clearly reflects his aesthetic perspective. Geoffrey Block's wide-ranging 1996 account of the work thus...

This study explores the relationship between the poetic language of Donne, Herbert, Milton and other British poets, and the choral music and part-songs of composers including Tallis, Byrd, Gibbons, Weelkes and Tomkins. The seventeenth century was the...

The world of Alban Berg is full of paradoxes, secrets and allusions, but he was able to handle emotional and moral issues at a distance and with profound sympathy. His unhurried, almost aristocratic attitude to life and his extreme self-criticism in...

Product information not available.Book InformationISBN 9780313205545Author Anmar Faruqi ElzeinFormat HardbackPage Count 511Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher ABC-CLIO

By the mid-1920s, the Harlem Renaissance was underway. As an effort to secure economic, social, and cultural equality with white citizens, the Renaissance years were a proving period for black composers and performers. Black Music in the Harlem...

More than any other part of Bach's output, his keyboard works conveyed the essence of his inimitable art to generations of admirers. The varied responses to this repertory - in scholarly and popular writing, public lectures, musical composition and...

This second anthology of Russian writing on Russian music begins in 1880 (where the first volume concluded) and ends in 1917. It brings the thoughts of leading Russian music critics to an English-speaking readership as they react to the Russian music...

This comprehensive collection of 492 songs constitutes a body of work surprisingly large in proportion and revealing in scope. Drawn from a wide selection of sources, it is the only collection of antislavery songs currently in print. The songs are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780557945948Author Blake RichardsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 216g

The first in a projected series of idiom-specific bibliographies in black music, this work treats classical music. It is a comprehensive index to newspaper and periodical indexes, biographical dictionaries, bibliographies, dissertations and theses, music...