The Creative Worlds of Joseph Joachim
Examines Joseph Joachim's vital legacy through a range of philological, philosophical and critical approaches. Joseph Joachim (1831-1907), violinist, composer, teacher, and founding director of Berlin's Royal Academy of Music, was one of the most eminent and influential musicians of the long nineteenth century. Born in a tiny Jewish community on the Austro-Hungarian border, he rose to a position of unsurpassed prominence in European cultural life. This timely collection of essays explores important yet little-known aspects of Joachim's life and art. Studies of his Jewish background, early assimilation into Christian society, Felix Mendelssohn's mentorship, and the influence of Hungarian vernacular music on the formation of his musical style elucidate the roots of Joachim's identity. The later chapters focus on his personal and creative responses to the contentious and rapidly evolving cultural milieu in which he lived: his choice of instruments as his musical "voice," his performances as sites of (re)enchantment in the modern age, his pathbreaking British career, his calling and sway as a quartet player, his pedagogical legacy, his influence on the establishment of the musical canon, and several of his most distinctive and original compositions. With a wide variety of approaches-analytical, philological, archival, philosophical, and critical-this collection will prove enlightening to scholars, performers, and others interested in this brilliant artist and the musical aesthetics, culture, and styles of his time.
My Melancholy Baby
Ten songs, from "Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home" (1902) to "You Made Me Love You" (1913), ignited the development of the classic pop ballad. In this exploration of how the style of the Great American Songbook evolved, Michael G. Garber unveils the complicated, often-hidden origins of these enduring, pioneering works. He riffs on colorful stories that amplify the rising of an American folk art composed by innovators both famous and obscure. Songwriters, and also the publishers, arrangers, and performers, achieved together a collective genius that moved hearts worldwide to song. These classic ballads originated all over the nation--Louisiana, Colorado, Illinois, Michigan--and then the Tin Pan Alley industry, centered in New York, made the tunes unforgettable sensations. From ragtime to bop, cabaret to radio, new styles of music and modes for its dissemination invented and reinvented the intimate, personal American love ballad, creating something both swinging and tender. Rendered by Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, and a host of others, recordings and movies carried these songs across the globe. Using previously underexamined sources, Garber demonstrates how these songs shaped the music industry and the lives of ordinary Americans. Besides covering famous composers like Irving Berlin, this history also introduces such little-known figures as Maybelle Watson, who had to sue to get credit and royalties for creating the central content of the lyric for "My Melancholy Baby." African American Frank Williams contributed to the seminal "Some of These Days" but was forgotten for decades. The ten ballads explored here permanently transformed American popular song.
The Hum of the World
The Hum of the World is an invitation to contemplate what would happen if we heard the world as attentively as we see it. Balancing big ideas, playful wit and lyrical prose, this imaginative volume identifies the role of sound in Western experience as the primary medium in which the presence and persistence of life acquires tangible form. The positive experience of aliveness is not merely in accord with sound, but inaccessible, even inconceivable, without it. Lawrence Kramer's poetic book roves freely over music, media, language, philosophy, and science from the ancient world to the present, along the way revealing how life is apprehended through sounds ranging from pandemonium to the faint background hum of the world. This warm meditation on auditory culture uncovers the knowledge and pleasure waiting when we learn that the world is alive with sound.
Musical Meaning
Ranging widely over classical music, jazz, popular music, and film and television music, Musical Meaning uncovers the historical importance of asking about meaning in the lived experience of musical works, styles, and performances. Lawrence Kramer has been a pivotal figure in the development of new resources for understanding music. In this accessible and eloquently written book, he argues boldly that humanistic, not just technical, meaning is a basic force in music history and an indispensable factor in how, where, and when music is heard. He demonstrates that thinking about music can become a vital means of thinking about general questions of meaning, subjectivity, and value. First published in 2001, Musical Meaning anticipates many of the musicological topics of today, including race, performance, embodiment, and media. In addition, Kramer explores music itself as a source of understanding via his composition Revenants for piano, revised for this edition and available on the UC Press website.
Wagner’s Ring and the Germanic Tradition
In this remarkable book, Collin Cleary defends Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen against the claim that it "distorts" Germanic mythology. Wagner was a serious student of the myths and sagas of Northern Europe, and the Ring is surprisingly faithful to them. Wagner retells the traditional stories, revealing new layers of meaning. Indeed, of all the works that have preserved Germanic mythology, Wagner's Ring is the most beautiful and the most profound. Cleary includes a detailed account of the composer's use of the traditional sources. In addition, he offers a complete interpretation of the Ring, demonstrating Wagner's synthesis of German myth and German philosophy.
Blank Sheet Music Notebook
Great quality manuscript paper notebook for music composition, learning and creative songwriting. You can use it on school, college or university, in the studio, at home or anywhere for songwriting, suitable for all musical instruments, practice lessons, study, or transcribing music.The notebook contains lined pages on both sides with large spaces between staves for lyrics. This musician's notebook contains: 100 pages of Lined and Staff Paper, 10 staves per page with thin lines, Simple, modern, stylish, cover paperback, Enough space between staves for lyrics, No clefs written and no measures are included to allow maximal flexibility when composing. Detailed features of Blank Sheet Music Manuscript: Size: (This is the American Standard A4 size)In inches: 8.5" x 11" inchIn cm: 21.59 x 27.94 cm The ideal gift for your favorite composer! Enjoy!
FM
"It was all so honest, before the end of our collective innocence. Top Forty jocks screamed and yelled and sounded mightier than God on millions of transistor radios. But on FM radio it was all spun out for only you. On a golden web by a master weaver driven by fifty thousand magical watts of crystal clear power . . . before the days of trashy, hedonistic dumbspeak and disposable three-minute ditties . . . in the days where rock lived at many addresses in many cities."-from FM As a young man, Richard Neer dreamed of landing a job at WNEW in New York-one of the revolutionary FM stations across the country that were changing the face of radio by rejecting strict formatting and letting disc jockeys play whatever they wanted. He felt that when he got there, he'd have made the big time. Little did he know he'd have shaped rock history as well. FM: The Rise and Fall of Rock Radio chronicles the birth, growth, and death of free-form rock-and-roll radio through the stories of the movement's flagship stations. In the late sixties and early seventies-at stations like KSAN in San Francisco, WBCN in Boston, WMMR in Philadelphia, KMET in Los Angeles, WNEW, and others-disc jockeys became the gatekeepers, critics, and gurus of new music. Jocks like Scott Muni, Vin Scelsa, Jonathan Schwartz, and Neer developed loyal followings and had incredible influence on their listeners and on the early careers of artists such as Bruce Springsteen, Genesis, the Cars, and many others. Full of fascinating firsthand stories, FM documents the commodification of an iconoclastic phenomenon, revealing how counterculture was coopted and consumed by the mainstream. Richard Neer was an eyewitness to, and participant in, this history. FM is the tale of his exhilarating ride.
Henry VIII’s Motorcycle
An analysis of current practice in trumpet-playing in the baroque orchestra, with emphasis upon the promotion and dissemination of a false narrative regarding the authenticity of the instruments. Discussion of historical methods of manufacture, creating reproductions, and preservation and use of historic instruments.
The Music Teacher’s Little Guide to Big Motivation
Have you ever had a student who was a challenge to motivate? Do you know the unique motivational styles of each of your students? Does your studio or classroom use tools that activate every motivational style? As music teachers, we often try to spark enthusiasm in our students using the methods that captivate us. But...we are each motivated in our own unique way. Discover which of the eight motivational styles are key to your students' engagement using the quiz included in this book and have tons of practical tools at your fingertips to use in your music studio or classroom.
Hearing Luxe Pop, 2
Hearing Luxe Pop explores a deluxe-production aesthetic that has long thrived in American popular music, in which popular-music idioms are merged with lush string orchestrations and big-band instrumentation. John Howland presents an alternative music history that centers on shifts in timbre and sound through innovative uses of orchestration and arranging, traveling from symphonic jazz to the Great American Songbook, the teenage symphonies of Motown to the "countrypolitan" sound of Nashville, the sunshine pop of the Beach Boys to the blending of soul and funk into 1970s disco, and Jay-Z's hip-hop-orchestra events to indie rock bands performing with the Brooklyn Philharmonic. This book attunes readers to hear the discourses gathered around the music and its associated images as it examines pop's relations to aspirational consumer culture, theatricality, sophistication, cosmopolitanism, and glamorous lifestyles.
Spiritual Quest of Hindi Film Music
This book is an attempt to delve into the deep questions of how music evolves from the roots of public consciousness, how it lives, transforms itself over the generations and appeals to the entire humanity, segregated by choice, ranging between the classical, folk and popular genres. We discuss here the music tradition of the Indian Sub-continent. We reveal its historical evolution. We discover the relativity between Indian Classical Music and Popular Film Music. We unveil the links between Indian film music and the Raagas, which are rooted in the spiritual tradition of the Vedas. The Book discovers the balance and equation between these two traditions of music, their nature and the connection between two traditions. When we talk of the Indian way, we find that 'classical' means that music, which has been taken from the Shastra's (Sacred Text's) and should follow the same scientific pattern as ordained by the Shastra's. It has arithmetic, system, discipline and dignity. The book reveals the nature, balance, and harmony between these two traditions of music.
Hearing Luxe Pop, 2
Hearing Luxe Pop explores a deluxe-production aesthetic that has long thrived in American popular music, in which popular-music idioms are merged with lush string orchestrations and big-band instrumentation. John Howland presents an alternative music history that centers on shifts in timbre and sound through innovative uses of orchestration and arranging, traveling from symphonic jazz to the Great American Songbook, the teenage symphonies of Motown to the "countrypolitan" sound of Nashville, the sunshine pop of the Beach Boys to the blending of soul and funk into 1970s disco, and Jay-Z's hip-hop-orchestra events to indie rock bands performing with the Brooklyn Philharmonic. This book attunes readers to hear the discourses gathered around the music and its associated images as it examines pop's relations to aspirational consumer culture, theatricality, sophistication, cosmopolitanism, and glamorous lifestyles.
Classical Music in a Changing World
In recent years classical music has become a test case for debates over the future of culture. As times have changed, the value traditionally placed on this music has been challenged on social rather than aesthetic grounds. Lovers of classical music have been asked how its privileged history can be reconciled with growing demands for social justice and social inclusiveness. They have been asked how the music's standing as one of the great accomplishments of the West can be reconciled with the many injustices on which those accomplishments in part depended. How can the future of classical music escape the darker shadows of its past?'Classical Music in a Changing World: Crisis and Vital Signs' addresses the crisis provoked by such questions in two complementary ways. Several of the chapters show how the classical music world is already grappling with the crisis, and finding vital signs beyond the borders of the music's traditional European strongholds: in Turkey from Ottoman times to the present, in Colombia, and in a Black American film. Other chapters identify areas that still need improvement, especially on behalf of female and LGBTQ+ musicians, and suggest how advances can be made both on concert stages and in schools. This volume, which opens with an introduction by Alberto Nones that contextualizes the book and outlines the main arguments of its chapters, contains an essay by Lawrence Kramer that examines the place of classical music in the history of consciousness-a history now changing rapidly-and concludes with a Postscript written by the two editors.The writing in this volume will be accessible to a wide audience, including scholars and students, professionals and amateurs, performers and listeners. Teachers will find it a source of lively classroom debate, and scholars a source of learning outside the usual arenas. The book's "vital signs" include the accompanying audio tracks (available for download at: https: //vernonpress. com/book/1281), which feature vibrant music-making from a diverse range of performers and composers.
Again With One Voice
1768 saw the birth of a century of struggle for democracy by the working people of Great Britain; it was also the golden age of the broadside ballad - inexpensive songsheets sold on the street, often spotlighting popular figures and spreading the word of reform efforts. This collection traces the history of this tumultuous period with 120 songs from historical sources, all with appropriate tunes, extensive commentary, and rich illustrations from contemporary publications. Here are songs about Wilkes and Liberty, the United Irish, the anti-slavery movement, Luddites, Captain Swing, the Naval Mutiny, antiwar movements, the Tolpuddle Martyrs, and the Chartist movement; songs that bring to life important figures like John Wilkes, Major Cartwright, Thomas Paine, Thomas Muir, Wolfe Tone, Henry Hunt, William Cobbett, Feargus O'Connor, and William Gladstone.
Restorative Justice
Restorative Justice is understood as a set of principles, values and methods that preach the culture of peace, non-violent communication, and is concerned with observing and meeting the needs of the victims, not only aiming at punishing the offender. Moreover, like traditional retributive justice, it has an international scope, being applied in various areas, such as education, due to its restorative and preventive social function of new conflicts. Firstly, a historical-evolutionary approach of Restorative Justice was carried out, followed by a critical analysis of its current context in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, with emphasis on the central region. In a second moment, an approach was developed about the concept, the principles, values and procedures applied by Restorative Justice, with emphasis on the Peace Circles and Restorative Circles procedures. And finally, an analysis of the application, the importance and the effectiveness of Restorative Justice in the resolution of school conflicts, in the central region of Rio Grande do Sul in the years from 2014 to 2016, based on data obtained in the field research, carried out through the application of two questionnaires in a
Don’t Leave
Author Anthony "Tony" Brown is a native of Portsmouth Virginia who between the years 1990 and 1998 worked for super-producer Teddy Riley, founder of NEW JACK SWING as an A&R and Studio Manager at Riley's Future Recording Studios. Tony worked with Riley in his heyday and during this time witnessed the metamorphosis of one of R&B's most impact groups "BLACKSTREET" The story recounts Brown's years managing Future Recording Studio and his interaction with the many iconic celebrities who passed through the doors. Brown shares his interactions with celebrities such as Pattie Labelle, Whitney Houston, Bobby Brown, Jay Z, LL COOL J, Old Dirty Bastard, Pharrell Williams, PuffY, J-LO, New Kids on the Block, and the King of Pop Michael Jackson. The story also recalls the many challenges of running a recording studio owned by one of the biggest producers in the music business, managing studio employees, scheduling sessions, and the turmoil between Teddy and the members of Blackstreet who by the time their third album was released had already been through 5 members. Brown touches on legal issues that caused a rift between him and Riley and some of the violent incidents that happened during his time as studio manager. The most magical moments come through Brown's description of the song creation process as he describes witnessing a song being created from the idea stage to being a certified hit. Brown's story hits on the music industry sex, violence, jealousy, envy, cheating and greed everything you need to make this book a good read.
Billy Joel - Greatest Hits, Volume I & II - Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook
(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). Billy Joel's keyboardist and musical director David Rosenthal has carefully arranged all the tracks from the Piano Man's iconic "Greatest Hits Volume I & II," combining the piano parts and vocal melodies into playable arrangements with accurate transcriptions of those classic piano parts that are integral to each song. All 26 hit songs from the double album are in this collection, including: Allentown * Big Shot * The Entertainer * Honesty * It's Still Rock and Roll to Me * Just the Way You Are * The Longest Time * Movin' Out (Anthony's Song) * New York State of Mind * Only the Good Die Young * Piano Man * She's Always a Woman * Tell Her About It * Uptown Girl * You May Be Right * and more. This souvenir folio also includes a foreword by Rosenthal plus great photos of Billy.
Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Miles Davis
This book examines Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Miles Davis as distinctively global symbols of threatening and nonthreatening black masculinity. It centers them in debates over U.S. cultural exceptionalism, noting how they have been part of the definition of jazz as a jingoistic and exclusively American form of popular culture.
R. Murray Schafer
This is authoritative biography of R. Murray Schafer--a preeminent Canadian composer, artist, educator, and activist--incorporates insights from the composer himself and his family to explore his entire opus from groundbreaking work in acoustic ecology to early, lesser known projects.
Sound Judgment
The essays in Sound Judgment span the full career of Richard Leppert, from his earliest to work that appears here for the first time, on subjects drawn from early modernity to the present concerning music both popular and classical, European and North American. Noted for his path-breaking interdisciplinary scholarship on music and visual culture, the collection includes key essays on music's visualization in art practices in virtually all visual media, including film. The fourteen essays comprising this volume demonstrate Leppert's many contributions to critical musicology, particularly in the areas of aesthetics as well as social and intellectual history, all of it grounded in a heterodox body of critical and cultural theory, with the work of Theodor W. Adorno particularly noteworthy. The collection is preceded by an introduction in which Leppert traces his intellectual development, defined in large part by the social, cultural, and political upheavals of the 1960s and their aftermath both in the academy and in society at large.
Poets and Singers
Extant manuscripts are the principal medieval testimony to the art of monophonic song. Literary texts and archival materials, a few theoretical works, and numerous visual representations provide helpful perspective, but our path to the poets and singers lies through the efforts of scribes, and the myriad problems in interpreting what they tell us cast a long shadow over all research on monophonic song. The essays gathered here represent the principal themes and issues that have occupied scholars of late medieval monophonic songs over the last half century: their place in history and society, the role of women as composers and performers, poetic and musical structures, styles, and genres, relationships between poems and melodies, written and oral transmission, and performance practices. Studying how each of these themes is played out across repertoires, cultures, decades, and locations offers a rich and variegated panorama of the practice of song in late medieval Europe.
Critical Musicology and the Responsibility of Response
Why does music move us? Lawrence Kramer suggests we should ask this old question in a different way: what is responsible for our response to music, and to what is our response responsible? The essays in this outstanding collection explore this question amongst many others, and by finding cultural meaning in music they exemplify the critical turn in musicology. Sixteen essays have been selected, most of them previously published, from the late 1980s to the present day. These are prefaced by an excellent introduction which traces the intellectual development of critical musicology and discusses the part these essays have had to play in that movement.
Past Passed
Kurt Cobain. Michael Stipe. Gord Downie. What do all of these artists have in common? They have all been major influences on the author and her poetry. This book contains over 100 original poems written in the author's own poetic language that explore love, mental health, relationships, and good ol' rock and roll. With titles such as 'Lyrical Spaghetti', 'Electric Kiss' and 'Past Passed' each poem captures a moment in time, a feeling, a dream, or a series of events. Some poems sound like songs. Some songs sound like poems. You get to interpret it any way you want. Hang on for the ride!
Past Passed
Kurt Cobain. Michael Stipe. Gord Downie. What do all of these artists have in common? They have all been major influences on the author and her poetry. This book contains over 100 original poems written in the author's own poetic language that explore love, mental health, relationships, and good ol' rock and roll. With titles such as 'Lyrical Spaghetti', 'Electric Kiss' and 'Past Passed' each poem captures a moment in time, a feeling, a dream, or a series of events. Some poems sound like songs. Some songs sound like poems. You get to interpret it any way you want. Hang on for the ride!
Strike The Right Chord
Many guidebooks show you how to distribute your music online, but nothing will happen if it just sits in cyberspace without an effective promotional strategy.Strike the Right Chord is different than other guides: it enables you to achieve global success from your home computer. It allows you to take a do-it-yourself approach to establish yourself in the music world and get you started on the right path to reach your goals.Learn how to copyright, upload, and distribute your music online - and how to sell it. Included are tips on how to automate the promotion of your music, how to name your songs in a way that accesses music fans who might not normally listen to certain musical styles, and gain them as fans anyway.In the global music industry, the ability to connect with music fans and companies worldwide from a home computer-and knowing where to go online-is what it truly means to Strike The Right Chord.Those who are brand-new to the industry will find everything here to get started. Already established and looking to do more? This book gives you all the information and resources needed to take everything to the next level. You can jump in anywhere you'd like - Strike The Right Chord will have you covered.This is the large print edition of Strike The Right Chord, with a larger font / typeface for easier reading.
Strike The Right Chord
Many guidebooks show you how to distribute your music online, but nothing will happen if it just sits in cyberspace without an effective promotional strategy.Strike the Right Chord is different than other guides: it enables you to achieve global success from your home computer. It allows you to take a do-it-yourself approach to establish yourself in the music world and get you started on the right path to reach your goals.Learn how to copyright, upload, and distribute your music online - and how to sell it. Included are tips on how to automate the promotion of your music, how to name your songs in a way that accesses music fans who might not normally listen to certain musical styles, and gain them as fans anyway.In the global music industry, the ability to connect with music fans and companies worldwide from a home computer-and knowing where to go online-is what it truly means to Strike The Right Chord.Those who are brand-new to the industry will find everything here to get started. Already established and looking to do more? This book gives you all the information and resources needed to take everything to the next level. You can jump in anywhere you'd like - Strike The Right Chord will have you covered.
The Beatles Collection: 40 Fab Four Hits Arranged for Really Easy Piano
(Really Easy Piano). This volume features 40 Fab Four hits, including: All You Need Is Love * Blackbird * Can't Buy Me Love * Eleanor Rigby * Here Comes the Sun * Hey Jude * I Want to Hold Your Hand * Let It Be * Penny Lane * Twist and Shout * Yesterday * and more. The songs in this collection have been specially arranged for really easy piano with chords and lyrics. Each song includes background notes as well as handy hints and tips to help you improve your performance.
Strike The Right Chord
Many guidebooks show you how to distribute your music online, but nothing will happen if it just sits in cyberspace without an effective promotional strategy.Strike the Right Chord is different than other guides: it enables you to achieve global success from your home computer. It allows you to take a do-it-yourself approach to establish yourself in the music world and get you started on the right path to reach your goals.Learn how to copyright, upload, and distribute your music online - and how to sell it. Included are tips on how to automate the promotion of your music, how to name your songs in a way that accesses music fans who might not normally listen to certain musical styles, and gain them as fans anyway.In the global music industry, the ability to connect with music fans and companies worldwide from a home computer-and knowing where to go online-is what it truly means to Strike The Right Chord.Those who are brand-new to the industry will find everything here to get started. Already established and looking to do more? This book gives you all the information and resources needed to take everything to the next level. You can jump in anywhere you'd like - Strike The Right Chord will have you covered.This is the large print edition of Strike The Right Chord, with a larger font / typeface for easier reading.
Music at the Intersection of Brazilian Culture
Music at the Intersection of Brazilian Culture takes an interdisciplinary approach by utilizing several aspects of Brazilian music, race, and food as a window to understanding Brazilian culture, with music at the core.
The New Age of Electronic Dance Music and Club Culture
This book offers a comprehensive overview of electronic dance music (EDM) and club culture. To do so, it interlinks a broad range of disciplines, revealing their (at times vastly) differing standpoints on the same subject. Scholars from such diverse fields as cultural studies, economics, linguistics, media studies, musicology, philosophy, and sociology share their perspectives. In addition, the book features articles by practitioners who have been active on the EDM scene for many years and discuss issues like gender and diversity problems in general, and the effects of gentrification on club culture in Berlin. Although the book's main focus is on Berlin, one of the key centers of EDM and club culture, its findings can also be applied to other hotspots. Though primarily intended for researchers and students, the book will benefit all readers interested in obtaining an interdisciplinary overview of research on electronic dance music.
Singing for Dummies
Go from singing in the shower to taking your audience's breath away Whether you picture yourself as the next Ariana Grande or just feel like picking up a new hobby, Singing For Dummies walks you through the surprisingly straightforward steps you'll need to take to develop your voice. It's a practical guide to every important aspect of singing, from vocal techniques to performance tips. You'll learn exercises and practice songs that gradually improve your craft and receive instruction on the latest technology and recording devices to capture and play back your songs. Singing For Dummies also shows you how to: Understand and use important singing techniques, improve your tone, upgrade your posture, and maximize your breath Maintain your voice with preventative self-care that keeps your vocal cords in tiptop shape Sing with instrumental accompaniment or with a partner in a duet Perfect for men, women, boys, and girls, Singing For Dummies is the most intuitive and accessible resource on the market for anyone who hopes to find their voice.
Poems Of A Musical Flavour
This book features lyrics I wrote in 1991 when I was 17 years old and not doing much so what else would I do but write 131 songs. I was listening to more artists, grunge was in, and times were changing but my lyrics stayed the same. Lyrics from a young, na簿ve seventeen-year-old. The book also contains some witty one liners and anecdotes about what was happening, who I wanted to be, or who I had a crush on.They are not perfect, nor meant to be, they're just the musings of a young teenage girl with crushes and dreams.Enjoy!
Poems Of A Musical Flavour
1993 part 2 is 101 songs to read and enjoy. Covering a wide range of topics, mostly love, and quite plagiarised by myself. Life in general had changed, the world, the people in it, the ways, the whys, the whats. What the hell were we doing to the world? If only we had kept things the way they were because they changed, and not for the better.1993 is split into two parts because I beat my previous year's record and wrote 201 songs, so cutting it into two parts makes for easier reading.The book also contains some witty one-liners and anecdotes about what was happening, who I wanted to be, or who I had a crush on.They are not perfect, nor meant to be, they're just the musings of a young teenage girl with crushes and dreams. Here's 1993 part 2.Enjoy!
Poems Of A Musical Flavour
This book features lyrics I wrote in 1992 when I was 18 years old. 1992 was a good year musically. Indecent Obsession came out with their second album, Indio, and I was still crazy for the keyboardist. I watched them on every show I could and even won a prize pack from a radio station. I wrote 133 songs, so beat my record from the year before. But there was more to come.The book also contains some witty one liners and anecdotes about what was happening, who I wanted to be, or who I had a crush on.They are not perfect, nor meant to be, they're just the musings of a young teenage girl with crushes and dreams.Enjoy!
Poems Of A Musical Flavour
This book is the last in the series and covers years 1994 to 1996 and 2002.I was 20, 21 and 22 and my life was a little more...meh...and so much happened I guess I didn't have enough time to write, but I certainly had the ideas. I was legally an adult, technically an adult, but mentally still a teenager. With everything going on in my life I wrote less and less. Clearly the endeavour was waning. Or I just needed a holiday. I did start line dancing and that grew into a full blown love for three years. It was music, after all...so clearly my love of music was now leaning toward the dancing side of things.In 2002 I wrote 1 song. That's all I wrote. And I'm surprised I wrote that because I hadn't written in six years. I was 28, still living at home as I had taken on the chore of being a care-giver for my mother and I had moved into other things. Line dancing had stopped but my love of music hadn't and never will.That was the last song I wrote and all of them were my practice for storytelling in four verses, a chorus, and a bridge for much bigger and better things. And now I've honoured them with these publications.The book also contains some witty one liners and anecdotes about what was happening, who I wanted to be, or who I had a crush on.They are not perfect, nor meant to be, they're just the musings of a young woman with crushes and dreams.Enjoy!
Poems Of A Musical Flavour
In 1989 I was 15 and started writing song lyrics. Why? Because I wanted to be the Australian version of Debbie Gibson, on whom I was also majorly crushing. I thought I was hot and wrote prolifically, although I started writing late in the year. I was also playing drums in my music class's end-of-year musical.In 1990 I was 16 and out of school, listening to more, doing more, and reading more. So more artists were in my life and I was starting to analyse song lyrics, which I guess led me to analyse books...Little did I know over the seven and a bit years I wrote that it was setting me up for bigger and better scribblings, namely novels over 500 pages and 100,000 words, and now novellas and short stories.This book features lyrics I wrote from 1989 to 1990 and contains some witty one liners and anecdotes about what was happening, who I wanted to be, or who I had a crush on.They are not perfect, nor meant to be, they're just the musings of a young teenage girl with crushes and dreams.Enjoy!
Poems Of A Musical Flavour
In 1993 I was 19 years old and still living in South Australia, but then, what else was I going to be doing? 1993 is split into two parts as, well, I beat my previous year's record and wrote 201 songs, so cutting it into two parts makes for easier reading.The book also contains some witty one liners and anecdotes about what was happening, who I wanted to be, or who I had a crush on.They are not perfect, nor meant to be, they're just the musings of a young teenage girl with crushes and dreams. Here's 1993 part 1.Enjoy!
The Lyrics of Syd Barrett
The complete lyrics of Syd Barrett - 52 songs written for Pink Floyd and during his subsequent solo career - are presented together for the first time, along with rare photos and artwork, to form this beautifully illustrated book. Despite just a three-year tenure with the band, co-founder Syd Barrett's influence on Pink Floyd was profound and long-lasting. If his guitar gave the early Pink Floyd a distinctive hallucinatory sound, his often obscure and surreal lyrics were perhaps even more intoxicating. Compiled in collaboration with the Syd Barrett estate, and featuring a foreword from former Pink Floyd manager Peter Jenner and a comprehensive introduction by biographer Rob Chapman, The Lyrics of Syd Barrett delves deep into one of rock'n'roll's most imaginative and searing minds.
Songbooks
In Songbooks, critic and scholar Eric Weisbard offers a critical guide to books on American popular music from William Billings's 1770 New-England Psalm-Singer to Jay-Z's 2010 memoir Decoded. Drawing on his background editing the Village Voice music section, coediting the Journal of Popular Music Studies, and organizing the Pop Conference, Weisbard connects American music writing from memoirs, biographies, and song compilations to blues novels, magazine essays, and academic studies. The authors of these works are as diverse as the music itself: women, people of color, queer writers, self-educated scholars, poets, musicians, and elites discarding their social norms. Whether analyzing books on Louis Armstrong, the Beatles, and Madonna; the novels of Theodore Dreiser, Gayl Jones, and Jennifer Egan; or varying takes on blackface minstrelsy, Weisbard charts an alternative history of American music as told through its writing. As Weisbard demonstrates, the most enduring work pursues questions that linger across time period and genre-cultural studies in the form of notes on the fly, on sounds that never cease to change meaning.
The Power of Pastiche
In eighteenth-century England, "variety" became a prized aesthetic in musical culture. Not only was variety--of counterpoint, harmony, melody, and orchestration--expected for good composition, but it also manifested in cultural mediums such as songbook anthologies, which compiled miscellaneous songs and styles in single volumes; pasticcio operas, which were cobbled together from excerpts from other operas; and public concerts, which offered a hodgepodge assortment of different types and styles of performance. I call this trend of producing music through the collection, assemblage, and juxtaposition of various smaller pieces as musical miscellany; like a jigsaw puzzle (also invented in the eighteenth century), the urge to construct a whole out of smaller, different parts reflected a growing desire to appeal to a quickly diversifying England. This book explores the phenomenon of musical miscellany in early eighteenth-century England both in performance culture and as an aesthetic. Chapters offer analyses of concert programming, early music criticism, the compilation of pasticcio operas and songbook miscellanies, and even the ways in which composers and performers shaped their freelancing careers. Musical miscellany, in its many forms, juxtaposed foreign and homegrown musical practices and styles in order to stimulate discourse surrounding English musical culture during a time of cosmopolitan transformation as the eighteenth century unfolded.
Virtual Music
Virtuality has entered our lives making anything we desire possible. We are, as Gorillaz once sang, in an exciting age where 'the digital won't let [us] go...' Technology has revolutionized music, especially in the 21st century where the traditional rules and conventions of music creation, consumption, distribution, promotion, and performance have been erased and substituted with unthinkable and exciting methods in which absolutely anyone can explore, enjoy, and participate in creating and listening to music. Virtual Music explores the interactive relationship of sound, music, and image, and its users (creators/musicians/performers/audience/consumers). Areas involving the historical, technological, and creative practices of virtual music are surveyed including its connection with creators, musicians, performers, audience, and consumers. Shara Rambarran looks at the fascination and innovations surrounding virtual music, and illustrates key artists (such as Grace Jones, The Weeknd), creators (such as King Tubby, Kraftwerk, MadVillain, Danger Mouse), audiovisuals in video games and performances (such as Cuphead and Gorillaz), audiences, and consumers that contribute in making this musical experience a phenomenon. Whether it is interrogating the (un)realness of performers, modified identities of artists, technological manipulation of the Internet, music industry and music production, or accessible opportunities in creativity, the book offers a fresh understanding of virtual music and appeals to readers who have an interest in this digital revolution.
Virtual Music
Virtuality has entered our lives making anything we desire possible. We are, as Gorillaz once sang, in an exciting age where 'the digital won't let [us] go...' Technology has revolutionized music, especially in the 21st century where the traditional rules and conventions of music creation, consumption, distribution, promotion, and performance have been erased and substituted with unthinkable and exciting methods in which absolutely anyone can explore, enjoy, and participate in creating and listening to music. Virtual Music explores the interactive relationship of sound, music, and image, and its users (creators/musicians/performers/audience/consumers). Areas involving the historical, technological, and creative practices of virtual music are surveyed including its connection with creators, musicians, performers, audience, and consumers. Shara Rambarran looks at the fascination and innovations surrounding virtual music, and illustrates key artists (such as Grace Jones, The Weeknd), creators (such as King Tubby, Kraftwerk, MadVillain, Danger Mouse), audiovisuals in video games and performances (such as Cuphead and Gorillaz), audiences, and consumers that contribute in making this musical experience a phenomenon. Whether it is interrogating the (un)realness of performers, modified identities of artists, technological manipulation of the Internet, music industry and music production, or accessible opportunities in creativity, the book offers a fresh understanding of virtual music and appeals to readers who have an interest in this digital revolution.
Poems Of A Musical Flavour
***This is the Deluxe Edition hardcover consisting of all 6 volumes of Poems of a Musical FlavourIn 1989 I was 15 years old and started writing song lyrics. Why? Because I wanted to be the Australian version of Debbie Gibson. I also started analysing lyrics, which I guess led me to analyse books...Little did I know over the seven and a bit years I wrote songs that they were my practice for story-telling and much bigger and better scribblings, such as short stories, novellas, and mega novels.Covering a wide range of topics from 1989 to 2002, I plagiarise myself a lot, so have a good laugh, especially over the witty one-liners and anecdotes about what was happening, who I wanted to be, or who I had a crush on. They are not perfect, nor meant to be; they're just the musings of a young teenage girl with crushes and dreams.Enjoy!
Songbooks
In Songbooks, critic and scholar Eric Weisbard offers a critical guide to books on American popular music from William Billings's 1770 New-England Psalm-Singer to Jay-Z's 2010 memoir Decoded. Drawing on his background editing the Village Voice music section, coediting the Journal of Popular Music Studies, and organizing the Pop Conference, Weisbard connects American music writing from memoirs, biographies, and song compilations to blues novels, magazine essays, and academic studies. The authors of these works are as diverse as the music itself: women, people of color, queer writers, self-educated scholars, poets, musicians, and elites discarding their social norms. Whether analyzing books on Louis Armstrong, the Beatles, and Madonna; the novels of Theodore Dreiser, Gayl Jones, and Jennifer Egan; or varying takes on blackface minstrelsy, Weisbard charts an alternative history of American music as told through its writing. As Weisbard demonstrates, the most enduring work pursues questions that linger across time period and genre-cultural studies in the form of notes on the fly, on sounds that never cease to change meaning.
A Critical Companion to Medieval Motets
First full comprehensive guide to one of the most important genres of music in the Middle Ages. Motets constitute the most important polyphonic genre of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Moreover, these compositions are intrinsically involved in the early development of polyphony. This volume - the first to be devotedexclusively to medieval motets - aims to provide a comprehensive guide to them, from a number of different disciplines and perspectives. It addresses crucial matters such as how the motet developed; the rich interplay of musical, poetic, and intertextual modes of meaning specific to the genre; and the changing social and historical circumstances surrounding motets in medieval France, England, and Italy. It also seeks to question many traditional assumptions and received opinions in the area. The first part of the book considers core concepts in motet scholarship: issues of genre, relationships between the motet and other musico-poetic forms, tenor organization, isorhythm, notational development, social functions, and manuscript layout. This is followed by a series of individual case studies which look in detail at a variety of specific pieces, compositional techniques, collections, and subgenres.
John Gunn: Musician Scholar in Enlightenment Britain
Examines the life and work of Scottish cellist and antiquarian John Gunn (1766-1824) through newly discovered sources. The Scottish cellist and antiquarian John Gunn (1766-1824) is unique among British writers on music in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Learned and practical, at home in classical and modern languages, knowledgeable in a wide range of musical topics and with even wider-ranging interests, and committed to the ideal of progress through rational thought, he typified the Enlightenment. His published output was large and diverse: a cello treatise in two quite different editions; two books on the flute and one on the piano; a treatise on figured bass; a history of the harp in the Highlands; and a translation of a French work of music theory. The list of his unrealised publications is even longer, including a proof of the oriental origins of the Scots. He married Anne Young, a well-known Edinburgh piano teacher, and his letters cast new light on the circumstances and date of her death. Taking account of Gunn's diverse experiences as a musician-scholar in Cambridge, London and Edinburgh, studying his sundry occupations, and exploring his social connections through a recently unearthed cache of his letters, this study moves away from 'treatise archaeology' and offers a broader view than is usually possible with such figures. The book will be of interest to those studying historical performance practice, music education in Enlightenment Britain, and the dissemination of Enlightenment thought.
The Cambridge Companion to Women in Music since 1900
This Companion explores women's work in music since 1900 across a broad range of musical genres and professions, including the classical tradition, popular music, and music technology. The crucial contribution of women to music education and the music industries features alongside their activity as composers and performers. The book considers the gendered nature of the musical profession, in areas including access to training, gendered criticism, sexualization, and notions of 'gender appropriate' roles or instruments. It covers a wide range of women musicians, such as Marin Alsop, Grace Williams, Billie Holiday, Joni Mitchell and Adele. Each thematic section concludes with a contribution from a practitioner in her own words, reflecting upon the impact of gender on her own career. Chapters include suggestions for further reading on each of the topics covered, providing an invaluable resource for students of Feminist Musicology, Women in Music, and Music and Gender.
Redefining Music
What do legendary blues musician Robert Johnson, Black Sabbath, and Billie Eilish have in common? Much more than you might think.Redefining Music: How Artists Continually Change the Musical Landscape will not only change how you view influential artists but reframe the way you view the evolution of music in general. Through painstaking research and a profound thirst for musical discovery across genres, author Jacob Pellegrino began exploring subtle similarities between some of the world's most influential musicians. Tracing direct lines from Nina Simone to Jay-Z and from Bob Dylan to Kanye West, Pellegrino discovered direct evidence that the changes happening throughout music over time were not dictated by the consumer but by a handful of musical icons whose innovations shaped an entire industry.With Redefining Music, Pellegrino not only hopes to change how the history of music is viewed but to shed light on a few of those revolutionary artists who truly redefined music for generations to come.
