Black Music
"Baraka writes with the passion and lyricism that can only come from a jazz critic who is uncompromisingly invested in the social and aesthetic dimensions of the music." --WBGO (Newark Public Radio)In 2007, Akashic Books ushered Amiri Baraka back into the forefront of America's literary consciousness with the short story collection Tales of the Out & the Gone. Now, this reissue of Black Music--long out of print--features a highly provocative and profoundly insightful collection of essays on jazz criticism, the creative process, and the development of a new way forward for black artists. Black Music is a book about the brilliant young jazz musicians of the early 1960s: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Archie Shepp, Sun Ra, and others. This rich and vital collection is comprised of essays, reviews, interviews, liner notes, musical analyses, and personal impressions from 1959-1967.
The Complete Barry Manilow Illustrated Discography (hardback)
Barry Alan Pincus, better known as Barry Manilow, was born on June 17, 1943 and raised in Brooklyn, New York. From an early age, music was important to Barry. After high school, he studied at New York College of Music and Juilliard. Around 1964 and continuing on for years, Barry wrote jingles for various companies such as Band-Aid, Pepsi, McDonalds, and others. In 1969, Barry signed with Bell Records and recorded several singles as "Featherbed." None of the releases caused any real chart action. On July 7, 1973, Bell Records released the album "Barry Manilow" (Bell-1129) which was the start of a long and productive career that is still going strong today! Daniel Selby has research and compiled the most up to date discography ever published on this remarkable music icon. Complete with foreign releases and rare photographs. Also includes TV appearances and a decade of tour dates! Career spanning!
Dylan, Lennon, Marx and God
Bob Dylan and John Lennon are two of the most iconic names in popular music. Dylan is arguably the twentieth century's most important singer-songwriter. Lennon was founder and leader of the Beatles who remain, by some margin, the most covered songwriters in history. While Dylan erased the boundaries between pop and poetry, Lennon and his band transformed the genre's creative potential. The parallels between the two men are striking but underexplored. This book addresses that lack. Jon Stewart discusses Dylan's and Lennon's relationship; their politics; their understanding of history; and their deeply held spiritual beliefs. In revealing how each artist challenged the restrictive social norms of their day, the author shows how his subjects asked profound moral questions about what it means to be human and how we should live. His book is a potent meditation and exploration of two emblematic figures whose brilliance changed Western music for a generation.
The Complete Barry Manilow Illustrated Discography
Barry Alan Pincus, better known as Barry Manilow, was born on June 17, 1943 and raised in Brooklyn, New York. From an early age, music was important to Barry. After high school, he studied at New York College of Music and Juilliard. Around 1964 and continuing on for years, Barry wrote jingles for various companies such as Band-Aid, Pepsi, McDonalds, and others. In 1969, Barry signed with Bell Records and recorded several singles as "Featherbed." None of the releases caused any real chart action. On July 7, 1973, Bell Records released the album "Barry Manilow" (Bell-1129) which was the start of a long and productive career that is still going strong today! Daniel Selby has research and compiled the most up to date discography ever published on this remarkable music icon. Complete with foreign releases and rare photographs. Also includes TV appearances and a decade of tour dates! Career spanning!
Incidental and Dance Music in the American Theatre from 1786 to 1923 Vol. 2
Incidental and Dance Music in the American Theatre from 1786 to 1923 constitutes the first three volumes of a critical survey of incidental and dance music arrangers in the American theatre: what they did and how they did it from the early days of the American musical theatre through the musicals of the millennium. Since no book currently exists that chronicles the art of arranging incidental and dance music in the American theatre, it is the aim of this text to fill an important gap in musical theatre scholarship in language that is easily accessible yet rich in descriptive analysis. In addition, since many successful dance music arrangers were also film composers, it is the hope that this book might appeal to a readership that extends beyond libraries, musical theatre aficionados and students.The first series, from 1786 through 1923 treats incidental and dance music through the emergence of jazz on the Broadway stage. Future series include Incidental and Dance Music in the American Theatre from 1924 (No, No, Nanette) to 1966 (Cabaret) and Incidental and Dance Music in the American Theatre from 1967 (Hair) to 2015 (Hamilton). Each three-volume series includes introductory essays, chronologies, biographical and critical commentaries, and musical examples drawn from published and manuscript sources.This is volume 2 of 3.
Music Production 2022+ Edition
Everything You Need To Know About Making Music In One Place!Included in this 2 Book Collection are: Music Production For Beginners 2022+ Edition.Music Production, Songwriting & Audio Engineering, 2022+ Edition: The Professional Guide.If you're serious about taking your Music Skills to a Professional level then keep on reading...Most musicians dream of making professional sounding music. But in order to create great music they need to understand the steps and tools involved. With proper skill development, creativity and knowledge anyone can reach that professional level.This Book Collection will show you howWhether you want to build a studio, work in one, start a label or just make better music. If you are a beginner, this book will lead you in the right direction in the least amount of time. Or if you have some experience you will definitely find new insights.Save yourself months of going through low quality YouTube tutorials and get all the information you need in one place.Here is just a tiny fraction of what you will discover: Everything You Need to Know from Beginner to Advanced Audio, Recording & Music Production in 2022 & Beyond!Music Theory Explained - Without Needing To Study for Years!The Hit Songwriting Formula - Songwriting, Lyrics, Melody & ConstructionProven Guidelines on How to Get your Music Signed + How to Make MoneyStep by Step Guide To Mix + Master Your Music - Even if your not a Technical PersonStudio Setup - Achieve Pro Studio Quality - at Home on a BudgetBest Music Production Software & Equipment in 2022 & BeyondMotivation & Mental Hacks (get your mental game together and your music will go through the roof!)And much, much more...Become the Music Producer you've always wanted to be and make your best music with This Book Collection.
The Martha Graham Dance Company
What is the legacy of Martha Graham and why does it endure? How and why did the philosophy and subsequent canon of Martha Graham flood out into an artistic diaspora that is still a wellspring of inspiration for contemporary artists? How do dancers that have never studied with, or worked under, Martha Graham maintain her vision?All of these questions, and many more, are considered in this fascinating book, authored by one of the Martha Graham Company's ex-principal dancers, which illuminates the ongoing significance of the Martha Graham Dance Company almost 100 years after it was founded. Through doing so, we are offered a study of the history of the Martha Graham Dance Company - the longest-standing modern dance company in America, its international diaspora and the current generation of dancers taking up the mantel. Drawing on extensive interviews conducted for the book, the company's story is told through the experiences, inspirations, motivations and words of performers from Graham's iconic artistic lineage.
The Event of Music History
Brings musicology to the cutting edge of debates in the postmodern philosophy of history. This book presents a new theory of how to write music history, and offers an exemplar of this new theory in action, in a series of four chapter-length reflexions on Beethoven's heroic style. The first book-length theory of music history since Carl Dahlhaus's Foundations of Music History, it brings musicology to the cutting edge of debates in the postmodern philosophy of history. While the book engages with current thinking, it also goes further than the postmodern critique of history writing to find a new and positive basis for the writing of music history. In so doing the book revisits the philosophy of Alain Badiou: in place of a focus on the facts, the objects of history, whose problematic relation to history writing the theorists have demonstrated, the book proposes a focus instead on the subjects of history, the 'faithful', 'reactive, and 'obscure' responses to an 'Event' (a kind of rapture of ontology which brings the actors involved closer to a truth). It sees musical materials (the styles, techniques, and musical 'language' handed down to composers by history) in a dialectical relationship with the human beings who are music's manifold historical actors. Engagingly written, this new short theory of music history will be essential reading for scholars and students of the many area studies within music history. It will also attract those of neighbouring disciplines dealing with the philosophy of history or the history of historiography.
Queering Vocal Pedagogy
This bookpresents a new vision of gender-affirming vocal music education by exploring the experiences and training of trans and genderqueer singers. It presents practical and theoretical knowledge for teachers, choral directors, and educators, addressing topics such as teaching strategies, inclusive language, impacts of gender identity, and more.
Queering Vocal Pedagogy
This bookpresents a new vision of gender-affirming vocal music education by exploring the experiences and training of trans and genderqueer singers. It presents practical and theoretical knowledge for teachers, choral directors, and educators, addressing topics such as teaching strategies, inclusive language, impacts of gender identity, and more.
Theorizing Music Videos of the Late 2010s
The work formulates a status quo of the music video medium in the late 2010s and shows which trends, aesthetics and (new) standards have established themselves. Particularly the role of the prosumer amidst evolved technical conditions is highlighted in this context, which strongly influences the evolution of music video in this period. Moreover, the author understands music videos as socio-political actors and examines the resulting questions of their interaction with culture.
Twentieth-Century Music in the West
This is the first introductory survey of western twentieth-century music to address popular music, art music and jazz on equal terms. It treats those forms as inextricably intertwined, and sets them in a wide variety of social and critical contexts. The book comprises four sections - Histories, Techniques and Technologies, Mediation, Identities - with 16 thematic chapters. Each of these explores a musical or cultural topic as it developed over many years, and as it appeared across a diversity of musical practices. In this way, the text introduces both key musical repertoire and critical-musicological approaches to that work. It historicises music and musical thinking, opening up debate in the present rather than offering a new but closed narrative of the past. In each chapter, an overview of the topic's chronology and main issues is illustrated by two detailed case studies.
Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt (Volume II)
This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies and hence the text is clear and readable.
Music and the Forms of Life
Inventors in the age of the Enlightenment created lifelike androids capable of playing music on real instruments. Music and the Forms of Life examines the link between such simulated life and music, which began in the era's scientific literature and extended into a series of famous musical works by Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. Music invented auditory metaphors for the scientific elements of life (drive, pulse, sensibility, irritability, even metabolism), investigated the affinities and antagonisms between life and mechanism, and explored questions of whether and how mechanisms can come to life. The resulting changes in the conceptions of both life and music had wide cultural resonance at the time, and those concepts continued to evolve long after. A critical part of that evolution was a nineteenth-century shift in focus from moving androids to the projection of life in motion, culminating in the invention of cinema. Weaving together cultural and musical practices, Lawrence Kramer traces these developments through a collection of case studies ranging from classical symphonies to modernist projections of waltzing specters by Mahler and Ravel to a novel linking Bach's Goldberg Variations to the genetic code. The publisher gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the AMS 75 PAYS Fund of the American Musicological Society, supported in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Music and the Forms of Life
Inventors in the age of the Enlightenment created lifelike androids capable of playing music on real instruments. Music and the Forms of Life examines the link between such simulated life and music, which began in the era's scientific literature and extended into a series of famous musical works by Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. Music invented auditory metaphors for the scientific elements of life (drive, pulse, sensibility, irritability, even metabolism), investigated the affinities and antagonisms between life and mechanism, and explored questions of whether and how mechanisms can come to life. The resulting changes in the conceptions of both life and music had wide cultural resonance at the time, and those concepts continued to evolve long after. A critical part of that evolution was a nineteenth-century shift in focus from moving androids to the projection of life in motion, culminating in the invention of cinema. Weaving together cultural and musical practices, Lawrence Kramer traces these developments through a collection of case studies ranging from classical symphonies to modernist projections of waltzing specters by Mahler and Ravel to a novel linking Bach's Goldberg Variations to the genetic code. The publisher gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the AMS 75 PAYS Fund of the American Musicological Society, supported in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Andante sostenuto
Unanimously considered a master of orchestration, even before being a great symphonic composer, Ottorino Respighi was a cosmopolitan musician from a young age. After studying composition with Giuseppe Martucci in Bologna, he had crucial lessons with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. His Sinfonia Drammatica is the only composition he wrote in the form of a symphony (the Roman triptych - Pini di Roma; Fontane di Roma; Feste Romane - it is in fact a series of symphonic poems). It is a large page (lasting about an hour), in three movements completed in 1914, which reflects in itself a series of influences such as those of Rinsky-Korsakov, Scriabin, Franck, Mahler, Wagner, Bruckner, Debussy, Reger and Strauss. The second movement Andante sostenuto, particularly serious and dramatic, reveals a certain familiarity with Debussy and with references to Franck's Trois Chorals. It is the shortest movement (lasting about 17 minutes) of the symphony. Built on three contrasting ideas, it presents, after a cantabile introduction and a second section in pastoral guise, a sort of choral (in the Franck manner) in the low register of trombones and a second time, in the reprise, in the strings section. Then there is an interesting fugue where the choral theme is re-proposed as cantus firmus (with a marked reference to similar treatments made by Reger). For all these reasons I believe that this movement, which moreover I particularly love, is specially linked to the sound and to the world of the organ, hence the desire to elaborate it. The score I created presents only a few indications of a proper registration, however it retains all the dynamic signs of the original (in addition to this there are in the same points the indication of the families of instruments, as in the original score, that are engaged in the specific passage) which will result in allowing the attentive musician to orient oneself in an extremely refined orchestral writing.
John Farnham’s Whispering Jack
The album examined in this book transformed the singer John Farnham from a faded teen pop star into the most popular solo rock performer in Australia, in a career that has lasted for more than 30 years. Whispering Jackremains the top-selling album by an Australian artist in Australia, and constitutes the turning point in Farnham's bid to achieve credibility as an adult contemporary musician. The first single from the album, 'You're the Voice, ' has achieved such iconic status that it is routinely referred to as Australia's unofficial national anthem. The book examines the album, its context and that history in order to recover a crucial conjuncture in the development of Australian rock and popular music, one that has previously been ignored in Australian popular music studies.
Discovering BTS
I first admitted my adoration for BTS in my blog dated August 2019, Honesty is the Best Policy - I love BTS. That's when I fell down the rabbit hole, never to be retrieved again. And later, when a good friend suggested that I write a book about the South Korean K-Pop group, I ran with her idea. The book centers on my personal journey and explains how a) I went from mild intrigue. To b) attempting to learn their names and being able to identify them with various colors of hair. To c) being able to tell who was rapping/singing each part. To d) making long-lasting friends worldwide, studying the Korean language, and expanding my musical horizons. I discuss how seven talented and outstanding human beings influenced and changed my life forever, not only via their music, but through their positive attitudes about life. The full-color, 267-page paperback, also features over sixty stories submitted by ARMY (their fanbase). They (ages teen to seventy-five) share how the group "found them" just when they needed them the most. So, what's up with the title? It simply means that while we may start down one path in life, our journey often takes us stumbling upon roads with numerous unopened doors and unexpected adventures. That sure was the case for me with BTS.
The Heroic in Music
Reconstructs the socio-political history of the heroic in music through case studies spanning the middle ages to the twenty-first century The first part of this volume reconstructs the various musical strategies that composers of medieval chant, Renaissance madrigals, and Baroque operas, cantatas or oratorios employed when referring to heroic ideas exemplifying their personal moral and political values. A second part investigating the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries expands the previous narrow focus on Beethoven's heroic middle period and the cult of the virtuoso. It demonstrates the wide spectrum of heroic positions - national, ethnic, revolutionary, bourgeois and spiritual - that filtered not only into 'classical' large-scale heroic symphonies and virtuoso solo concerts, but also into chamber music and vernacular dance music. The third part documents the forced heroization of music in twentieth-century totalitarian regimes such as Nazi-Germany and the Soviet Union and its consequences for heroic thinking and musical styles in the time thereafter. Final chapters show how recent rock-folk and avant-garde musicians in North America and Europe feature new heroic models such as the everyday hero and the scientific heroine revealing new confidence in the idea of the heroic.
Alan Bush
Born in 1900, Alan Bush, the English composer, conductor and pianist, studied with Corder and Matthay, and privately with John Ireland. He was appointed professor of harmony and composition at the Royal Academy of Music in 1925, a post he held until 1978. In 1929-31, he continued to study at Berlin University and had piano lessons with Moiseiwitsch and Schnabel. The present Source Book documents his works (many of which reflect his Communist sympathies) and the many arrangements of music by other composers. A wealth of detail is provided, including printed scores, CD recordings, bibliographical material and manuscript scores and their locations, the majority of which have been deposited recently in the British Library by the Bush family. A chronology of the composer's life draws on many sources including letters and scrapbooks.
Decline, Renewal and the City in Popular Music Culture: Beyond the Beatles
How is popular music culture connected with the life, image, and identity of a city? How, for example, did the Beatles emerge in Liverpool, how did they come to be categorized as part of Liverpool culture and identity and used to develop and promote the city, and how have connections between the Beatles and Liverpool been forged and contested? This book explores the relationship between popular music and the city using Liverpool as a case study. Firstly, it examines the impact of social and economic change within that city on its popular music culture, focusing on de-industrialization and economic restructuring during the 1980s and 1990s. Secondly, and in turn, it considers the specificity of popular music culture and the many diverse ways in which it influences city life and informs the way that the city is thought about, valued and experienced. Cohen highlights popular music's unique role and significance in the making of cities, and illustrates how de-industrialization encouraged efforts to connect popular music to the city, to categorize, claim and promote it as local culture, and harness and mobilize it as a local resource. In doing so, she adopts an approach that recognizes music as a social and symbolic practice encompassing a diversity of roles and characteristics: music as a culture or way of life distinguished by social and ideological conventions; music as sound; speech and discourse about music; and music as a commodity and industry.
Music in a Word
Music in a Word Volume 1 is an anthology and memoir by veteran American music journalist Ira Robbins. If you've ever wondered how and why anyone becomes a critic, some of the answers are here. Music in a Word is a collection of articles, essays, album and concert reviews, previously unpublished interviews and other writing mingled with colorful recollections of 50 years spent on a musical soapbox. Subjects include Trouser Press magazine, John Lydon, Nirvana, Bruce Springsteen, Ice Cube, the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, the Cure, Liz Phair, Michael Jackson, T. Rex, Depeche Mode, the B-52's, Isaac Hayes, Elvis Presley, Pogues, Jethro Tull, J. Geils, Public Enemy, the Grateful Dead, David Bowie, R.E.M., Linda Ronstadt, Pavement, Kirsty MacColl, Holly Beth Vincent, the Queers, Billy Joel, Phil Collins, Tears for Fears, Julian Cope and Ian McCulloch, Woodstock '94, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Entertainment Weekly and Rolling Stone, as well as movie reviews and much more. Profusely illustrated with images from the author's personal archive.
Musical Theatre for the Female Voice
Female musical theatre singers face a unique and specific set of issues when approaching their craft, from negotiating the registers of their voice, to vocal health challenges. This is the only book that offers a full and detailed guide to tackling those issues and singing with full expression and technical excellence.
Popular Music and Parenting
Popular Music and Parenting explores the culture of popular music as a shared experience between parents and young children. Offering a critical overview of this topic from a popular music studies perspective, this book expands our assumptions about how young audiences and caregivers experience music together.
E.W. Wolf
Among the many works composed in various genres by Ernst Wilhelm Wolf (1735-1792), the solo keyboard works stand out for their accessibility, expressivity, and clear formal unity. They are fine examples of the early classical and rococo style popular in Germany at the time. This edition includes 74 works composed between 1765 and the end of Wolf's life, mostly sonatas, some sonatinas, and one fantasy with variations. A friend and admirer of Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach, Wolf, like C.P.E., clearly favored the clavichord, but most of the sonatas can be played on the fortepiano, as well as the modern piano. An important Foreword to Wolf's 1785 publication, A Guide to Good Performance on the Clavichord, is included here (in Volume 2) in a new translation. It is a valuable treatise that not only details Wolf's specific advice on clavichord technique, but also describes ornamentation, articulation, and other issues applicable to keyboard playing of the period.
The Vocal and Music Artistry
Over the course of the year 2020 and beyond, no one has been untouched by the effects of the global health pandemic. So much of what we presumed was durable proved otherwise. Those of us who long for certainty, consistency, and predictable patterns of routine frequently found ourselves struggling to get our bearings. Cast Your Net Again...For Such a Time as This by Lana Lee Marler (an eclectic collection of scripture, prayer, music, written words, and artistic expressions that afford us gracious gifts of perspective and assurance) provides a steadying, strengthening force for the living of these days. In this companion music book, The Vocal Music Artistry from Cast Your Net Again...For Such a Time as This by Lana Lee Marler, you will find the sheet music and audio hyperlinks for the ten songs offered in Cast Your Net Again. In this music, one can hear and then experience in the song lyrics reflections of the perspectives of fellow pilgrims who seek to live faithfully as followers of Christ. Likewise, by way of the wisdom gleaned from Christian traditions that span the centuries, we receive the assurance that we are not alone. So much of what we have experienced since the onset of the global pandemic has had a disorienting effect on our day-to-day lives, the institutions, and the organizations on which we have counted, and - if we are being honest - on our faith. As you have opportunity to peruse the pages of this companion sheet music book - listen, play, sing the music and linger over the lyrics - you will find there are gifts of faith, hope, and love that sustain and keep us through it all. This collection of music should endure for years to come as a unique resource of inspiration and blessing "For Such a Time as This."
In Tune With God's Word
Enhance your child's musical journey with powerful truth from God's Word. This family devotional can be used alongside any music curriculum, or woven into any child's musical journey, offering parents a variety of teaching tools and activities. Each week includes a Scripture memory verse, word of the week, a Bible story, prayer, and practical application steps to weave spiritual truths into music-making. Enrich your child's musical practice with clear, age appropriate devotions designed to bring awareness to the things of God in your everyday life.
Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt (Volume I)
This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies and hence the text is clear and readable.
12 Bowie Albums In 12 Months
A voyage through time and space via a collection of reviews of 12 classic David Bowie albums from a music fan who'd never heard one before. A unique insight for fans of David Bowie looking for something new in their favourite albums or a first step for those setting out to discover his music for the first time. 12 Bowie Albums In 12 Months is a voyage of discovery from his early 70s ambiguity, through the glam space years, the Berlin Trilogy, post punk and finally as pioneer of the new romantics. This book covers it all from The Man Who Sold The World to Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps).
The War on Music
A fascinating journey into global politics that made classical music a proxy for power, inadvertently creating the "sound of Hollywood," and excluding hundreds of composers "[Mauceri's] writing is more exhilarating than any helicopter ride we have been on."--Air Mail "Fluently written and often cogent."--Barton Swaim, Wall Street Journal John Mauceri offers a lively and passionate reassessment of classical music in the twentieth century, in which he argues that the history of music during the last century was shaped by its three major conflicts: World War I, World War II, and the Cold War. The War on Music unlocks the mystery of why classical music seemingly produced so few eternal works after 1950, whereas other arts--popular music, Broadway, literature, painting, architecture, theater, cinema--have given the world myriad beloved and highly regarded masterpieces; why the composers considered the future of classical music in the 1920s disappeared from being performed after World War II; why the most heard symphonic scores of the century--music for Hollywood films--became the subject of brutal denigration and dismissal; why the avant-garde of the pre-World War I became the new lingua franca of the Cold War period in the West, and any music that veered from its requirements removed from being performed. Mauceri follows the data to demonstrate how the politics of global wars used an artform that many might consider unimportant--classical music--as a potent and effective symbol, target, and weapon. Based on more than a half-century of music making and discovery, The War on Music is a plea to return the suppressed repertory--beautiful and unique expressions of humanity--to our concert halls and opera houses, much as the artwork stolen by the Nazis continues to be returned to its rightful owners.
Various Artists’ Djs Do Guetto
Call it batida, kuduro, Afro house, Lisbon bass: anyone with a keen ear for contemporary developments in global electronic dance music can't fail to have noticed the rise in popularity and influence of Lisbon-based DJs such as DJ Marfox, DJ Nervoso and N穩dia. These DJs and producers have brought the sound of the Lisbon projects to the wider world via international club nights, festival appearances, recordings and remix projects for a range of international artists.This book uses the 2006 compilation DJs do Guetto as a prism for exploring this music's aesthetics and its roots in Lusophone Africa, its evolution in the immigrant communities of Lisbon and its journey from there to the world. The story is one of encounters: between people, sounds, neighborhoods, technologies and cultural contexts. Drawing on reflections by DJ Marfox and others, the book establishes DJs do Guetto as a foundation stone not only for a burgeoning music scene, but also for a newfound sense of pride in a place and a community.
Music, Subjectivity, and Schumann
The concept of subjectivity is one of the most popular in recent scholarly accounts of music; it is also one of the obscurest and most ill-defined. Multifaceted and hard to pin down, subjectivity nevertheless serves an important, if not indispensable purpose, underpinning various assertions made about music and its effect on us. We may not be exactly sure what subjectivity is, but much of the reception of Western music over the last two centuries is premised upon it. Music, Subjectivity, and Schumann offers a critical examination of the notion of musical subjectivity and the first extended account of its applicability to one of the composers with whom it is most closely associated. Adopting a fluid and multivalent approach to a topic situated at the intersection of musicology, philosophy, literature, and cultural history, it seeks to provide a critical refinement of this idea and to elucidate both its importance and limits.
The Holistic Voice
This book sets forth glimpses into the lifelong journey lived by a man who grew to become a truly remarkable teacher of singing. It contains his musings on the art of teaching voice students how to sing freely and beautifully, using a holistic approach to develop the total instrument of body, mind, spirit, and voice. Based upon a thorough knowledge of the mechanics of the vocal instrument, James McDonald used imagery in his teaching. He inspired his students to develop a trust in what their minds and bodies could do to discover and facilitate the expression of their own personalities and their own unique vocal sounds and characteristics.
Francoise Hardy
In the early 1960s a new 'Star' appeared on the pop music scene and burned brightly in the firmament. This was the enchantingly beautiful, French singer-songwriter ('chanteuse'), Francoise Madeleine Hardy. Today, thanks to the wonders of modern technology, Francoise can be resurrected, at any moment of her singing career, simply with a flick of a switch on the television's remote control. And there she is, the epitome of French elegance and style! With Francoise, unlike with many of the popular musicians of the time, there was no blaring music or wild gesticulations. She had no need of devices such as these. Her songs are captivating in their own right, particularly those which tell of love, loneliness, and loss. In fact, she has been described as 'the patron saint of the dispossessed and heartbroken'. By why this focus on personal sadness? Could it be that this French icon, beloved by millions throughout the world and who apparently had the world at her feet, was permanently troubled? And if there was something troubling Francoise, could it be love, or to be more precise, unrequited love?
Beethoven
CONTENTSI. Early PromiseII. The Morning of LifeIII. The New PathIV. Heroic SymphonyV. FidelioVI. The Eternal FeminineVII. Victory from DefeatVIII. Meeting with GoetheIX. Optimistic TrendX. At the Zenith of His FameXI. Methods of CompositionXII. Sense of HumorXIII. Missa SolemnisXIV. Ninth SymphonyXV. Capacity for FriendshipXVI. The Day's TrialsXVII. Last QuartetsXVIII. In the ShadowsXIX. Life's PurportWagner's Indebtedness to Beethoven
Beethoven
CONTENTSI. Early PromiseII. The Morning of LifeIII. The New PathIV. Heroic SymphonyV. FidelioVI. The Eternal FeminineVII. Victory from DefeatVIII. Meeting with GoetheIX. Optimistic TrendX. At the Zenith of His FameXI. Methods of CompositionXII. Sense of HumorXIII. Missa SolemnisXIV. Ninth SymphonyXV. Capacity for FriendshipXVI. The Day's TrialsXVII. Last QuartetsXVIII. In the ShadowsXIX. Life's PurportWagner's Indebtedness to Beethoven
Artist Management for the Music Business
Artist Management for the Music Business gives a comprehensive view of how to generate income through music and how to strategically plan for future growth. The book is full of valuable practical insights. It includes interviews and case studies with examples of real-world management issues and outcomes.
War and Death in the Music of George Crumb
This book studies Crumb's Winds of Destiny and Black Angels as artefacts of collective memory and cultural trauma. It situates these two pieces in Crumb's output and unpacks the complex methodologies needed to understand these pieces as contributions and challenges to traditional narratives of the Civil War and the Vietnam War.
Art-Studies from Nature, as Applied to Design; For the use of architects, designers, and manufacturers
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Devotional Refrains in Medieval Latin Song
Throughout medieval Europe, male and female religious communities attached to churches, abbeys, and schools participated in devotional music making outside of the chanted liturgy. Newly collating over 400 songs from primary sources, this book reveals the role of Latin refrains and refrain songs in the musical lives of religious communities by employing novel interdisciplinary and analytical approaches to the study of medieval song. Through interpretive frameworks focused on time and temporality, performance, memory, inscription, and language, each chapter offers an original perspective on how refrains were created, transmitted, and performed. Arguing for the Latin refrain's significance as a marker of form and meaning, this book identifies it as a tool that communities used to negotiate their lived experiences of liturgical and calendrical time; to confirm their communal identity and belonging to song communities; and to navigate relationships between Latin and vernacular song and dance that emerge within their multilingual contexts.
The Poetics of Noise from Dada to Punk
By reinterpreting 20th-century poetry as a listening to and writing through noise, The Poetics of Noise from Dada to Punk constructs a literary history of noise through poetic sound and performance. This book traces how poets figure noise in the disfiguration of poetic voice. Materializing in the threshold between the heard and the unheard, noise emerges in the differentiation and otherness of sound. It arises in the folding of an "outside" into the "inside" of poetic performance both on and off the page. Through a series of case studies ranging from verse by ear-witnesses to the First World War, Dadaist provocations, jazz modernist song and poetry, early New York City punk rock, contemporary sound poetry, and noise music, The Poetics of Noise from Dada to Punk describes productive failures of communication that theorize listening against the grain of sound's sense.
Face the Fire
The City of Angels is set ablaze when fantasy and reality collide on a journey filled with fiery passions, love and betrayal. From multi-award-winning author Michele Sims, Face the Fire is the 5th book in the Moore Family Saga. A standalone, genre bending, romantic suspense novel with paranormal and magical realism elements. Miles Moore will stop at nothing to make his dreams of a music empire a reality.Fame. Secret powers. Fortune. An unrelenting drive for success. He has all the building blocks he needs. Except for one thing... and the woman he loves holds the keys to his future. Bella Moore, the Chief Marketing Officer of their growing company, wants nothing more than to help her husband realize his goals. But for her, the choice of family over business is a no-brainer. After discovering more about the competitive nature of the music industry, she fears a growing feud with their competitors will result in bloodshed. In this romantic and suspenseful tale filled with the power of magic and ignited by the threat of revealed secrets, Miles and Bella discover that the price of their shared success is too high, if it means endangering their lives and the lives of those they love. Get your copy! Other Books by Michele Sims: MOORE FAMILY SAGA (Standalone Novels)Seed On Fire (Moore Family Saga Book 1)Playing with Fire (Moore Family Saga Book 2)The Fire God Tour (Moore Family Saga Book 3)A Moore Affair (Moore Family Saga Book 4) Love in the Lowcountry (A Winter Holiday Collection Book 1)Enchanted: Volume One (Halloween Anthologies Book 1)Knight of Penn Quarter (Knights of the Castle Book 9)
Woodstock Then and Now
In order to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Woodstock, Berklee College of Music hosted a week-long celebration that included conversations with luminaries from the era. Participants included Woodstock co-founder, Michael Lang; emcee, stage and lighting designer, Chip Monck; audio engineer, Bill Hanley; photographers Henry Diltz and Elliott Landy; public relations officer, Rona Elliot; and Gerardo Velez, drummer for Jimi Hendrix. Woodstock Then and Now commemorates the discussion between these Woodstock luminaries, making available the transcripts of this historic event.
A Friend's Guide to Chamber Music World Trends Since 1900
A Friend's Guide to Chamber Music: World Trends Since 1900, a companion to the earlier guide European Trends From Haydn to Shostakovich, explores international developments of this unique collaborative form. Organized chronologically and by geographical regions, World Trends offers a survey of significant works written for a small group of concert instruments. The book opens at 1900, the approximate moment when musical concepts began to change rapidly during the eventful years before World War 1, and progresses into the post-modernist decades of the early twenty-first century. Intended for performers, listeners, students, and chamber programmers, the guide can be used either as a reference or as a glimpse of cultural history -- which can effectively be viewed through the lens of chamber music, a multi-faceted genre with many fascinating narratives.
"Why Aren't They Talking?"
In the American musical theater, the most typical form of structuring musicals has been the book musical, in which songs interrupt spoken dialogue and add means to depict characters and dramatic situations. After 1980, a form of structuring musicals that expands upon the aesthetic conventions of the book musical came to prominence. Sung-through musicals challenged the balance between talking and singing in musical theater in scripts that are entirely or nearly entirely sung. Although often associated with British musicals, this Element focuses on American sung-through musicals composed and premiered between 1980 and 2019. Their creative teams have employed specific procedures and compositional techniques through which music establishes characterization and expression when either very little or nothing is spoken and thus define how the musical reinvented itself toward and in the twenty-first century.
The Royal College of Music and Its Contexts
Located between the great Victorian museums of South Kensington and the Royal Albert Hall, the Royal College of Music, founded in 1883, has been a central influence on British musical life ever since. This wide-ranging account places the College within its musical and educational environments. It argues that the RCM's significance lies not only in its famous performers and composers, but also the generations of its more anonymous former students who have done so much to improve the musical life of the localities in which they have worked as teachers and animateurs. As a cultural history, this account also captures how significantly society's consumption of music - from new technologies to the altered perspectives of historical and world musics - has changed since the College was founded, and how very different our points of musical reference now are. This study traces the effects of such developments on the College's work.
Music Behind the Iron Curtain
Mieczyslaw Weinberg left his family behind and fled his native Poland in September 1939. He reached the Soviet Union, where he become one of the most celebrated composers. He counted Shostakovich among his close friends and produced a prolific output of works. Yet he remained mindful of the nation that he had left. This book examines how Weinberg's works written in Soviet Russia compare with those of his Polish contemporaries; how one composer split from his national tradition and how he created a style that embraced the music of a new homeland, while those composers in his native land surged ahead in a more experimental vein. The points of contact between them are enlightening for both sides. This study provides an overview of Weinberg's music through his string quartets, analysing them alongside Polish composers. Composers featured include Bacewicz, Meyer, Lutoslawski, Panufnik, Penderecki, G籀recki, and a younger generation, including Szymański and Knapik.
John Cage and Peter Yates
The correspondence between composer John Cage and Peter Yates represents the third and final part of Cage's most significant exchanges of letters, following those with Pierre Boulez and with David Tudor. Martin Iddon's book is the first volume to collect the complete extant correspondence with his critical friend, thus completing the 'trilogy' of Cage correspondence published by Cambridge. By bringing together more than 100 letters, beginning in 1940 and continuing until 1971, Iddon reveals the dialogue within which many of Cage's ideas were first forged and informed, with particular focus on his developing attitudes to music criticism and aesthetics. The correspondence with Yates represents precisely, in alignment with Cage's fastidious neatness, the part of his letter writing in which he engages most directly with the last part of his famous tricolon, 'composing's one thing, performing's another, listening's a third'.
