For more than a decade, readers of New York magazine and its Vulture website have been delighted—and occasionally outraged—by Bill Wyman's exhaustive and unapologetically opinionated rankings of the songs of some of the greatest artists in rock and pop history.
El presente libro contribuye a estrechar los lazos regionales en torno a la musica del Caribe, desde disciplinas como la etnomusicologia, la historia cultural y los estudios regionales.
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES TOP 5 BESTSELLER'This affecting exploration of the troubled genius's impact is packed with anecdote, sharp analysis and social context' - The Guardian'A beautiful, frequently extraordinary book.
Glasgow-born Alex Harvey's career began in the 1950s when he won a competition to become Scotland's answer to Tommy Steele (he dubbed himself 'Last of the Teenage Idols').
Making contact this way with the late Christopher Hitchens a prominent atheist, may appear a contradiction to his life's work, however once you hear his words about how this is possible, you may reconsider, or should I say, please consider.
Although opera figured importantly in the French quarrel of the Ancients versus the Moderns and in the English discussions of heroic tragedy, it was in Germany that its role in the development of criticism and aesthetics was most pronounced.
The name John Lennon immediately conjures up thoughts and images of the iconic sixties band 'The Beatles', the 'Let It Be' roof top concert, a pedestrian crossing at Abbey Road Studios, a white room, the song 'Imagine' and Yoko Ono.
A wide variety of essays by colleagues and former students reflect Professor Strunk's particular role as music historian, teacher, and a pre-eminent musicologist.
This book describes a colorful period in French social and cultural history, during which music and science combined to provide the intellectual and aesthetic spirit of the Age of Enlightenment with an enormous vitality.
In a comprehensive work with important implications for tuning theory and musicology, Easley Blackwood, a distinguished-composer, establishes a mathematical basis for the family of diatonic tunings generated by combinations of perfect fifths and octaves.
Well-known for leading audiences to a new appreciation of Verdi as a subtle and elaborate musical thinker, Pierluigi Petrobelli here turns his attention to the intriguing question of how musical theater works.
Focusing on the earliest and most extensive collection of tropes we now possess, those associated with the abbey of Saint Martial de Limoges in the tenth and early eleventh centuries, Professor Evans offers new conclusions about the nature and early development of the trope.
The roots and evolution of two concepts usually thought to be Western in origin-musica mundana (the music of the spheres) and musica humana (music's relation to the human soul)-are explored.
The Lord JESUS CHRIST of Nazareth, just before concluding HIS earthly ministry and service, made a startling announcement to HIS chosen servants and disciples as recorded in the Gospel of St.
Francis James Child's English and Scottish Popular Ballads, published in ten parts from 1882 to 1898, contained the texts and variants of 305 extant themes written down between the thirteenth and nineteenth centuries.
With this volume, incorporating Ballads 244-305, Bertrand Harris Bronson completes his epic task of providing the musical counterpart to Francis James Child's collection of English and Scottish ballads.
This generously illustrated book records the story of Russia's bells--the thousands of awe inspiring instruments that gave voice to the visual splendors of Russian Orthodoxy and to the political aspirations of the tsars.
Perspectives on Schoenberg and Stravinsky is an analytical and historical study of the twentieth century's most influential figures, by Milton Babbitt, Arthur Berger, Edward T.
A Rolling Stone Best Music Book of the Year, this is an electrifying, superb (The Atlantic), and entirely fresh (Rolling Stone) journey through the history of rock and roll, told through the lives of fifteen iconic drummers and their percussion rivalsfrom John Bonham and Charlie Watts to Ringo Starr and Questlove.
As a distinguished scholar of Renaissance music, James Haar has had an abiding influence on how musicology is undertaken, owing in great measure to a substantial body of articles published over the past three decades.
Over the past fifty years Roger Sessions has developed, in articles, lectures, and addresses, various themes that reflect the stages of his own musical and intellectual growth.
After the Mass Ordinary, the Magnificat was the liturgical text most frequently set by Renaissance composers, and Orlando di Lasso's 101 polyphonic settings form the largest and most varied repertory of Magnificats in the history of European music.
Juan Pablo Ordunez, mas conocido como El Pirata, trata de poner sobre la mesa a traves de estas paginas historias, leyendas, informes reales, testimonios directos y tambien misterios sin resolver.
The Courage To Love: From Abuse to Happiness, a Healing Memoir From a childhood marked by abuse and silence, Guy Giard's extraordinary journey spans four continents in search of healing, joy, and true purpose.
We know Robert Schumann in many ways: as a visionary composer, a seasoned journalist, a cultured man of letters, and a genius who, having passed his mantle on to the young Brahms, succumbed to mental illness in 1856.
In this bold recasting of operatic history, Gary Tomlinson connects opera to shifting visions of metaphysics and selfhood across the last four hundred years.
"e;Libretto-bashing has a distinguished tradition in the blood sport of opera,"e; writes Arthur Groos in the introduction to this broad survey of critical approaches to that much-maligned genre.