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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837198750Author Rudolph Richard RetiFormat HardbackPage Count 362Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674731660Author Howard Mayer BrownFormat HardbackPage Count 559Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 1102g

Internationally known Welsh composer Alun Hoddinott has played a major role in the promotion of contemporary music in his country through his own prolific compositions--operas; orchestral, chamber, band, and solo instrumental pieces; choral music; songs;...

African Music is devoted to ethnographic, anthropological, musicological, and popular studies of sub-Saharan African music from the 1890s to the present. The bibliography is organized into six basic sections. Section one covers works on cultural policy...

Fidler and James have edited a guide that characterizes and evaluates, in depth, the leading journals throughout the musical professions. The listings number some 170 titles, selected for their historical as well as contemporary significance. . . ...

One of the most prolific composers of the 20th century, Heitor Villa-Lobos' influence on the music of Latin America was enormous. This bio-bibliography, published to coincide with the centennial celebration of the composer's birth, contains comprehensive...

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Steve Reich was considered a fringe experimentalist. His work consisted largely of repeating, slowly changing patterns unlike either the serialism or the aleatory that predominated at that time. Today, however, Reich is...

The first book of its kind, this discography covers the history of steel band and pan music on recordings from their beginnings. In more than 775 entries, it comprises all known recordings on phonograph records, cassettes, and compact disks in which one...

Frank Sinatra's influence on American popular culture has been wide reaching and long lasting. This diverse collection of essays written by historians, music critics, and popular culture personalities offers a myriad of perspectives and commentaries on...

Covers the life and works of classical music composer, Peter Schickele, who is probably best known for his humorous alter ego, P.D.Q. Bach. Schickele has walked the line between a professional composer and musical satirist for over 35 years, and his...

This reference provides a new perspective on the work of music's great composers from Bach to Stravinsky, by compiling the comments and criticism offered by other composers, such as Mahler, Wagner, Ravel, Tchaikovsky, and many others. Holmes presents an...

This book addresses a highly complex and elusive matter: why the Christian Church was able to contribute so generously to music from its earliest days through the 18th century and why it has suffered since that time from a creeping artistic paralysis...

Does one need to know the rules of harmony to be considered a musician? Throughout A la recherche du temps perdu, and particularly ' Swann in Love', Proust displays a surprising sensitivity to the way music is heard, a sensitivity to which we owe some of...

Richard Strauss's tone poem Also sprach Zarathustra is one of his most controversial works. Its greatest popularity has been achieved when its connection with Nietzsche's book of the same name has seemed less relevant than its associations with Kubrick's...

Orlando di Lasso was probably the most famous and most popular composer of the second half of the 1500s. This book of essays written by leading scholars from Europe and the United States is a survey of a broad spectrum of Lasso's music. The essays...

The music of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven forms a cornerstone of the modern repertoire, but very little is known about the context in which these composers worked. This volume of twelve essays by leading international scholars considers some of the...

This practical guide is intended for all clarinettists with a desire to investigate music of earlier periods. It contains practical help on both the aquisition and playing of historical clarinets, while players of modern instruments will find much advice...

Brahms' First Symphony has been hailed as Beethoven's Tenth. Its controversial status and relationship in the Beethovenian tradition is considered alongside other important issues in the early reception history of this key work in the symphonic repertory...

The Quatuor pour la fin du temps (Quartet for the End of Time) is among the best-known compositions by Olivier Messiaen (1908-92). Like virtually all of his works, it combines the striking technical achievement of Messiaen's rich and attractive musical...

Why do singers sing in the way they do? Why, for example, is western classical singing so different from pop singing? How is it that Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballe could sing together? These are the kinds of questions which John Potter, a singer...

In the World War II era, big bands and swing music reached the heights of popularity with soldiers as well as friends and loved ones back home. Many entertainers such as Glenn Miller also served in the military, or supported the war effort with bond...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780951752449Author Richard MicoFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Fretwork PublishingPublisher Fretwork PublishingWeight(grams) 210g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781008992535Author Hanson AsieduFormat HardbackPage Count 102Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986787928Author Senior Conservator Ethnology Robert BarclayFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Loose Cannon PressPublisher Loose Cannon...

Popular music may be viewed as primary documents of society, and America's Musical Pulse documents the American experience as recorded in popular sound. Whether jazz, blues, swing, country, or rock, the music, the impulse behind it, and the reaction to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996686600Author Jai HudsonFormat HardbackPage Count 534Imprint Cre8ive PublishingPublisher Cre8ive PublishingWeight(grams) 862g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837188836Author James W. PruettFormat HardbackPage Count 286Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837194332Author Hyman H. TaubmanFormat HardbackPage Count 267Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837198729Author Homer UlrichFormat HardbackPage Count 257Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Analysis of the elements of musical expression, correlating musical theme with the nervous tension and impulses which characterize human emotion.Book InformationISBN 9780837169811Author Donald Nivison FergusonFormat HardbackPage Count 198Imprint Praeger...

Emma Lou Diemer--a composer who successfully combines a classicist's interest in form with a fresh, contemporary, harmonic vocabulary--has produced a diverse, sophisticated, and largely unheralded opus, including 350 works composed for orchestra,...

Tristram Cary's remarkable encyclopedia is the first comprehensive book on the technology of music. Its 600 copiously illustrated main entries and 200 subsidiary ones cover an immense musical field. Included are entries on traditional and electronic...

Product information not available.Book InformationISBN 9780313250842Author Norbert CarnovaleFormat HardbackPage Count 350Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher ABC-CLIO

Although somewhat more specialized than the Atlantic set because of Prestige's emphasis on jazz, this work is valuable for record collectors and researchers. American Reference Books AnnualBook InformationISBN 9780313220197Author Michel RuppliFormat...

Kenneth Leighton, best known for his organ and sacred choral music, was a composer of great depth and talent who wrote a significant body of works. Many of those works were written for large orchestras and a significant number of pieces of chamber music...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578287683Author Jennifer KerrFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Jennifer KerrPublisher Jennifer KerrWeight(grams) 222g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984767984Author Mark EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 572Imprint Cultural ConservationPublisher Cultural ConservationWeight(grams) 830g

Once a thriving body of innovative and fluid music, jazz is now the victim of destructive professional and artistic forces, says Eric Nisenson. Corruption by marketers, appropriation by the mainstream, superficial media portrayal, and sheer lack of skill...

Demonstrating the vibrant nature of current research on Maurice Ravel, one of the most significant figures in twentieth-century French music, a team of distinguished international scholars provides new interdisciplinary perspectives and insights. Through...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674732902Author Carlos ChavezFormat HardbackPage Count 126Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 263g