Programme of Mademoiselle Jenny Lind's Grand Concert, for This Evening
Here Beside the Rising Tide
A kaleidoscopic history of the Grateful Dead that explores the American counterculture through the life of iconoclastic frontman Jerry Garcia, and his merry band "By writing this book, Jim Newton informs the rest of the world what Deadheads have known for years: that Jerry Garcia was more than a world-class musician, he was an American icon."--Trixie Garcia In 1965, in Palo Alto, Jerry Garcia opened a dictionary to a fable in which an appreciative soul repays the generosity of a traveler, a "gift of the grateful dead." After a traumatic car accident that injured him and killed a close friend, Garcia had resolved to build his life around music. He had practiced relentlessly and caromed across the northern California folk and bluegrass scene. He had gathered up some fellow musicians and formed a band. Now they had their name. Following the history of the Grateful Dead means tracking American cultural history through a period of radical reconsideration. The Dead played at the Acid Tests and the Human Be-In and Woodstock, at the occupation of Columbia and the Bail Ball for People's Park. They performed at the base of the Pyramids during a lunar eclipse, at Madison Square Garden to defend the rainforests, in San Francisco to sound the alarm over AIDS and at Huey Newton's birthday party. For three decades, the band explored the meaning and limits of freedom. The radical message of the Dead, to reject the mainstream and build a bohemian community, radiated across the world, manifesting itself in art, music, business, and politics. Here Beside the Rising Tide tells the story of those disparate shafts of light, putting Garcia into a broader context while tracing his eventful life. Nearly a century after his birth, Garcia's influence stretches onward, expressed in guitar licks and a gentle way of life, one of excellence and gratitude, chasing freedom, living moment to moment, guided by song--the gift of the Grateful Dead.
Kodaly: Eight (8) Little Duets After the Bicinia Hungarica Soprano and Tenor and Piano
Score Study Passes
This book outlines Lawrence Golan's renowned, thorough and systematic approach to preparing scores for rehearsal and performance. It describes, step by step, the process through which he studies scores and includes not only the how, but also the why for each step. This approach, and the explanation thereof, may be used for preparing to conduct musical scores of any type, from Baroque to Contemporary, Classical to Pops and Orchestral to Opera. In addition, it is a very effective tool for the teaching of conducting.
Viennese medley
Step into the enchanting world of "Viennese Medley," a timeless exploration of the rich tapestry of 19th-century music that has been out of print for decades and is now reborn by Alpha Editions. This beautifully restored edition is not just a reprint; it s a collector s item and a cultural treasure, meticulously crafted for today s and future generations of music lovers. Delve into the heart of Vienna s classical music scene as you uncover the stories behind the Austrian composers who shaped the sound of an era. "Viennese Medley" offers a captivating blend of musical history and appreciation, showcasing symphonic works and orchestral compositions that resonate with both casual readers and dedicated classical music enthusiasts. Each page invites you to experience the emotional depth and historical significance of these masterpieces, providing insights that enrich your understanding of Vienna s cultural heritage. Whether you re a music aficionado or a curious newcomer to the world of classical music literature, this book serves as an inspiring introduction to the symphonic wonders of the past. Embrace the legacy of these extraordinary composers and celebrate the beauty of their contributions to the musical landscape. Rediscover "Viennese Medley" today and let its melodies echo through your heart and home.
Elton John Album by Album
Guides readers through Elton John's extensive discography, revealing the stories, musical intricacies, and hidden meanings behind his legendary albums.In 1969, Elton John and Bernie Taupin gave the world Empty Sky, a heady mix of rock, folk, rhythm and blues, jazz, psychedelia, and classicism that announced the arrival of one of the most potent creative teams in the history of popular music. In the fifty-five years since that release, Elton's astounding output of thirty-one studio albums, nine soundtrack albums (ten if you count the unreleased Lestat!), and three collaboration albums has enchanted new generations, as grandparents who grew up with "Your Song" and "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" on their turntables have shared their love of Elton with parents who played "Sacrifice" and "The One" on their cd players who in turn are sharing it with their children who know The Lion King soundtrack by heart and dance to "Cold Cold Heart" in their bedrooms through Spotify playlists and YouTube remixes.Elton John: Album by Album takes you on a guided journey through those forty-four albums that have engaged three full generations of music lovers, exploring the history behind the production of each, uncovering the hidden stories and meanings of each track, and delving into the musical nuts and bolts of Elton John's unique gift for conveying the meaning of Bernie Taupin's lyrics through his unrivalled and almost otherworldly sense of tonal architecture.Whether you have been spinning Elton records since the days of "Lady Samantha", or found your way to his work in the post-Rocketman revival of appreciation for his legendary career, Elton John: Album by Album has what you need to navigate your way through the vast richness of his recorded catalogue, allowing you to answer such questions as "How did Ray Cooper make a gong sound like a spaceship?", "Why is "Ego" in Lokrian mode anyway?" and "Just what is the Pilot, and why would anybody want to be taken there?"
The Spirit of Polyphony
This book re-examines how Bonhoeffer employs musical patterns of thought and language to a theological end. It outlines how the significance of Bonhoeffer's musico-theology has not been sufficiently recognised, and sets the stage for a rigorous re-examination. It becomes clear that through the lens of his musical metaphor of polyphony, Bonhoeffer demonstrates how his account of Christian formation contains a latent pneumatology. Tarassenko demonstrates that incorporation of this pneumatology is key in deepening one's understanding of Bonhoeffer. It allows the relationship between Christology and Christian formation in Bonhoeffer's thought to become fully realised. The appeal to polyphony articulates this pneumatology, as an indirect but nevertheless exceedingly successful means of contouring an account of the Spirit's work.
Nirwana - Reggae Vibes of Wisdom and Peace
Whether you are meditating, moving, loving, or letting go - these songs are companions on the inward path. Their roots stretch into ancient spiritual traditions, yet their heartbeat is alive in the now. Drawing from reggae, dub, tribal and ambient soundscapes, this music is earthy and transcendent, sensual and serene. This songbook contains not just lyrics, but portals of reflection. Let it guide you deeper into each song - into the silence between the lines, into the meaning behind the melodies, into your own living truth. For the seeker and the lover, the mystic and the wanderer - Nirwana is a gentle whisper: So take a breath. Open this book. Let the music meet you where you are. And enter. 1. Come out, Leave Your Cave 2. Buddha Buddha 3. Cool Runnings 4. Laugh At Yourself (The Holy Joke) 5. Let It Go 6. Go Another Round (Children of Light) 7. Livity 8. Inner Temple Dub (Journey to the Self) 9. Ocean Mystica (Dub of the Deep Blue) 10. The Fool 11. Samadhi (Dance Version) 12. Nirwana additional: Sacred Herb
Concert ?€ L'honneur De L'entr?(c)e De ... Jean Baptiste Louis De Castillion
Louise Lecavalier
As principal dancer with Montr矇al-based company La La La Human Steps, Louise Lecavalier was among the most iconic dancers of her generation: strong, muscled, androgynous, punk. Moving with spectacular speed, precision and an athletic physicality, her commitment to dancing would ultimately transform the potential of what bodies within Western concert dance could do. Drawing on extensive oral history accounts and archival material, the book follows Lecavalier's impact on the evolving aesthetic of La La La Human Steps, via the development of its early repertoire, and offers the first sustained account of her 1982 solo Non, Non, Non, je ne suis pas Mary Poppins. More, it tracks diverse influences and sources for the repertoire, complicating understandings of nationalism in Qu矇bec, while marking the significance of the collective in generating new aesthetics. What emerges is a portrait of the dancer as artist, icon, labourer and mover of cultural discourse. Featuring an expansive set of photos and ephemera, including performance documentation by photographer/activist Linda Dawn Hammond, production images by choreographer ?douard Lock and street photography by key players in the 1980s Montr矇al scene, this study offers a critical and celebratory appraisal of Lecavalier's unique contribution and the role of the dancer more broadly as a producer of culture.
Formulating Foster
Decades after his death, Stephen C. Foster's (1826--64) family and fans seized upon his birth on the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and his role in the burgeoning US music industry to mythologize him as a founding father in American cultural history. Hailing him as the father of American music and symbol of US democracy at the end of the nineteenth century required the collective forgetting of certain facts of his life, particularly his initial rise to fame through controversial minstrel songs depicting nostalgia for enslavement. In Formulating Foster, musicologist and librarian Christopher Lynch re-examines the myth of the founding of American music, drawing upon previously unknown archival materials and oral histories to uncover the myth's origins and expose the deliberate work of the Foster family and the wealthy philanthropist Josiah K. Lilly in embedding it in American institutions. By gathering and contextualizing all the remembrances written by acquaintances of the composer, Lynch lays out a roughly ninety-year process following Foster's death that gradually engrained the myth in American popular consciousness. Stripping away the myth's artificiality, Formulating Foster presents a richer, more humanizing portrait of the composer, illuminating important aspects of his life and character and proposing new ways to understand his music.
Tomorrow's World
Tomorrow's world is an environmental musical play for children. The production is suitable for a class or even a whole school if desired. There is an opportunity for a choir, percussionists, a recorder group and dancers. The songs are easy to learn, great fun to sing, and not too difficult for a pianist to play. It is humorous in places and also very emotive, creating a huge awareness of the problems of our world today and how our children, who are the future, can help to make a difference.
Performing Folk Songs
Performing Folk Songs is the first full-length volume to explore English folk singing from the perspective of performance studies. Using archival sources, family repertoire and recorded performances of interviewees, this book argues that archives and repertoires are produced in sensory environments and through embodied encounters. Autoethnography, sensory ethnography, life-writing and landscape writing are used to explore the affective and emotional aspects of learning songs 'by heart'. Drawing on her experience as a folk singer, Bennett contributes to discourse on English folk traditions in the 21st century and brings performance scholarship to the contemporary folk song resurgence. In analyzing the performance of English folk songs in the affective context of the archive and the landscape, the book engages with and contributes original insights to scholarship on folk music, performance studies, affect theory, cultural geography and intangible cultural heritage studies.
Alive in the Sound
In Alive in the Sound, Ronald Radano proposes a new understanding of US Black music by focusing on the key matter of value, manifested musically in its seemingly embodied qualities--spirit, soul, and groove. While acknowledging these qualities are always embedded in Black music, Radano shows they developed not simply from performance but from musicians' status as laborers inhabiting an enduring racial-economic contradiction: Black music originated publicly as an exchangeable property owned by people whose subhuman status granted them--as "natural" musicians--indelible properties of sound. As a contradiction of the rules of ownership, where enslaved property was forbidden the right to own, modern Black music emerges after emancipation as a primary possession, moving dialectically into commercial markets and counterhistorically back into Black worlds. Slavery's seminal contests of ownership underlie modern musical sensations of aliveness, which become the chief measure of value in popular music. By reconceiving US Black music history as a history of value, Radano rethinks the music's place in US and global culture.
