Following the creation of the United States, profound disagreements remained over how to secure the survival of the republic and unite its diverse population.
Written by an eminent scholar in a style that represents American musicological writing at its communicative best, A History of the Oratorio offers a synthesis and critical appraisal so exhaustive and reliable that the serious student of the oratorio will be compelled to look to these volumes as an indispensable source.
Following the creation of the United States, profound disagreements remained over how to secure the survival of the republic and unite its diverse population.
Once thought to be a provincial composer of only passing interest to eccentrics, Leos Janacek (1854-1928) is now widely acknowledged as one of the most powerful and original creative figures of his time.
Written by an eminent scholar in a style that represents American musicological writing at its communicative best, A History of the Oratorio offers a synthesis and critical appraisal so exhaustive and reliable that the serious student of the oratorio will be compelled to look to these volumes as an indispensable source.
Howard Smither has written the first definitive work on the history of the oratorio since Arnold Schering published his Geschichte des Oratoriums in 1911.
Howard Smither has written the first definitive work on the history of the oratorio since Arnold Schering published his Geschichte des Oratoriums in 1911.
Once thought to be a provincial composer of only passing interest to eccentrics, Leos Janacek (1854-1928) is now widely acknowledged as one of the most powerful and original creative figures of his time.
Max Kalbeck (1850-1921), Musikschriftsteller, Lyriker, Librettist und enger Weggefahrte von Johannes Brahms, schuf mit seiner achtbandigen Brahms-Biografie (1903-1914) ein einzigartiges Werk zwischen Kunst, Wissenschaft und Kulturpolitik.
La decada de los noventa abrio un momento de transicion en Chile que implico cambios culturales que influyeron en la musica no solo en el mensaje de las bandas y solistas, sino tambien en el desarrollo de la industria musical chilena.
Pioneering metal writer Keith Kahn-Harris presents a moving, visionary exploration of Ozzy Osbourne, and of metal music and culture: the potent legacy Ozzy left us.
Wilhelm Grosz (1894-1939), whose estate has been housed at the Exile Art Center of the mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna since 2018, performed in the grand concert halls of Vienna, the vibrant Berlin of the 1920s, and later in exile in London and New York.
Time and again, the language of collecting and preservation is cloaked in florid rhetoric whenever museums, their purposes and their holdings are evoked - even though the museum world is scarcely bound by legal definition.
Die Publikation widmet sich einer zentralen, bislang kaum erschlossenen Dimension des traditionellen chinesischen Theaters ('xiqu') - dem Gesang als asthetischem und grundlegendem Prinzip.
'The definitive story' Q MAGAZINE'I can't recommend this marvellous piece of work enough' IRVINE WELSHUPDATED WITH BRAND-NEW MATERIALLong revered as the definitive work on Ecstasy and dance culture in the late 1980s and 1990s, Altered State follows the UK scene from its euphoric beginnings through to the worst of its commercial excesses as MDMA became a mass-market drug.
A brand-new look at the life and music of renowned composer Erich Wolfgang KorngoldErich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957) was the last compositional prodigy to emerge from the Austro-German tradition of Mozart and Mendelssohn.
A brand-new look at the life and music of renowned composer Erich Wolfgang KorngoldErich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957) was the last compositional prodigy to emerge from the Austro-German tradition of Mozart and Mendelssohn.
What began as an underground 60s Mod scene in unlicensed, no-frills clubs in the North West of England became a youth craze that has long surpassed all others.
A Rough Trade Book of the YearThe Sunday Times bestsellerThe much-anticipated first book from Black Sabbath bassist Geezer ButlerWith over 70 million records sold, heavy metal pioneers Black Sabbath are one of the most influential bands of all time.
Shortlisted for the Theatre Book Prize; former prime minister John Major takes a remarkable journey into his own unconventional family past to tell the richly colourful story of the British music hall.
The story of a remarkable time and place: Los Angeles from the dawn of the singer-songwriter era in the mid-Sixties to the peak of The Eagles' success in the late Seventies.
The first major account of the history of reggae, black music journalist Lloyd Bradley describes its origins and development in Jamaica, from ska to rock-steady to dub and then to reggae itself, a local music which conquered the world.
**MiCannes Award Music Book of the Year**The first full-length biography of Mal Evans, the Beatles' beloved roadie, assistant, confidant and friendA towering figure in horn-rimmed glasses, Malcolm 'Mal' Evans was an invaluable member of the Beatles' inner circle.
El presente estudio implico concretar los fundamentos teoricos, conceptuales, practicos y didacticos que estan en la base del pensamiento de cinco pedagogos musicales representativos del siglo XX: Edgar Willems, Carl Orff, Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, Zoltan Kodaly y Maurice Martenot; ellos interesan porque sus metodos abarcan todos los aspectos de la educacion musical y recogen el pensamiento en diferentes areas del saber de pensadores y humanistas de la epoca, anticipandose a desarrollos posteriores dados en los campos del constructivismo y la teoria de las inteligencias multiples.
Hoy, que esta sobre la mesa y con una condicion de urgencia preguntarse sobre la ensenabilidad de nuestras musicas populares y tradicionales, asi como la influencia secular y aun dominante de las logicas de estudio centroeuropeas, este trabajo de la artista y pedagoga Cindy Gomez Gutierrez nos da una mano de cara anuestra actitud respecto al relacionamiento que nuestros instrumentos debieran tener con la academia.
El presente estudio implico concretar los fundamentos teoricos, conceptuales, practicos y didacticos que estan en la base del pensamiento de cinco pedagogos musicales representativos del siglo XX: Edgar Willems, Carl Orff, Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, Zoltan Kodaly y Maurice Martenot; ellos interesan porque sus metodos abarcan todos los aspectos de la educacion musical y recogen el pensamiento en diferentes areas del saber de pensadores y humanistas de la epoca, anticipandose a desarrollos posteriores dados en los campos del constructivismo y la teoria de las inteligencias multiples.
Fur Matthias Huff ist Gospelmusik die wohl grote Bereicherung des Christentums in den letzten Jahrhunderten - und ein Quell faszinierender Geschichten.
Der Name des osterreichischen Pianisten Friedrich Gulda (1930-2000) steht, dank eines klaren, schnorkellosen Klavierspiels und einer charismatischen wie polarisierenden Personlichkeit, fur einen der herausragendsten und wirkmachtigsten Vertreter seiner Zunft in der zweiten Halfte des 20.
No es del interes de esta investigacion describir el instrumento como tal, tampoco sus elementos de construccion, su configuracion, ni hacer un recorrido descriptivo por la musica que se asocia tradicionalmente a su interpretacion o su historia; no se trata de describir el tiple, trabajo que ya se ha realizado en otros espacios, sino su escuela.
