History of music

First published in 1955, An Introduction to Musical History is not just another short history of music, but a discussion of its sources and background.

This is a pioneering work on the study of popular music-songs and dances-from the eighteenth to early twentieth centuries.

First published in 1955, An Introduction to Musical History is not just another short history of music, but a discussion of its sources and background.

This is a pioneering work on the study of popular music-songs and dances-from the eighteenth to early twentieth centuries.

Este segundo volumen de los Estudios para Piano de Carl Czerny, cuidadosamente seleccionados y digitados por H.

The Life and Music of John Field offers a deep exploration of one of the most enigmatic and underappreciated figures in Western music history.

The Life and Music of John Field offers a deep exploration of one of the most enigmatic and underappreciated figures in Western music history.

Horizons Circled: Reflections on My Music captures Ernst Krenek's profound insights on his artistic journey, articulated through a series of reflective essays.

Horizons Circled: Reflections on My Music captures Ernst Krenek's profound insights on his artistic journey, articulated through a series of reflective essays.

Established in the 1950s by musician and engineer Pierre Schaeffer, the Groupe de Recherches Musicales would become the nerve center for avant-garde artists experimenting with sound and acoustics, as well as the birthplace of a genre of music-making enabled by new recording technologies and sound pioneers: musique concrete.

Thematic Catalog of a Manuscript Collection of Eighteenth-Century Italian Instrumental Music, by Vincent Duckles and Minnie Elmer, offers a richly detailed survey and contextual study of a uniquely intact body of manuscripts now preserved at the University of California, Berkeley.

Thematic Catalog of a Manuscript Collection of Eighteenth-Century Italian Instrumental Music, by Vincent Duckles and Minnie Elmer, offers a richly detailed survey and contextual study of a uniquely intact body of manuscripts now preserved at the University of California, Berkeley.

Established in the 1950s by musician and engineer Pierre Schaeffer, the Groupe de Recherches Musicales would become the nerve center for avant-garde artists experimenting with sound and acoustics, as well as the birthplace of a genre of music-making enabled by new recording technologies and sound pioneers: musique concrete.

The New York loft jazz scene of the 1970s was a pivotal period for uncompromising, artist-produced work.

The volume presents expanded versions of papers from the symposium "Reassessing Haydn's Sacred Music" co-sponsored by the International Joseph Haydn Private Foundation Eisenstadt and the Haydn Society of North America in Eisenstadt in June 2023.

The New York loft jazz scene of the 1970s was a pivotal period for uncompromising, artist-produced work.

In The Tradition of Western Music, Gerald Abraham distills his Ernest Bloch Lectures at Berkeley into a sweeping meditation on how music both embodies and transforms cultural life.

In The Tradition of Western Music, Gerald Abraham distills his Ernest Bloch Lectures at Berkeley into a sweeping meditation on how music both embodies and transforms cultural life.

Just Beyond Listening asks how we might think about encounters with sound that complicate standard accounts of aurality.

Just Beyond Listening asks how we might think about encounters with sound that complicate standard accounts of aurality.

Fanfare for a City invites us to listen to the sounds of Paris during the Second Empire (18521870), a regime that oversaw dramatic social change in the French capital.

The Italian Ars Nova Music: A Bibliographic Guide to Modern Editions and Related Literature is an essential resource for scholars, students, and enthusiasts of Italian Trecento music.

The Italian Ars Nova Music: A Bibliographic Guide to Modern Editions and Related Literature is an essential resource for scholars, students, and enthusiasts of Italian Trecento music.

An outstanding account of the music business, A riveting story of determination and focus, Musical teenage dream come true, Against all odds musical ups and downs, Defying logic following your heart, Climbing the musical ladder of success, Fearless journey on the road to stardom,   (You won't read about the heads of chickens being bitten off or mounds of drugs being snorted from the naked bodies of sweaty groupies.

This volume asserts that institutional teaching, study, administration, and performance of music should derive from essential goodness: the transcendent value embodied in meaning-making that is manifest through holistic cognitive, creative, kinesthetic, productive, and expressive reality.

Auf der Suche nach der verlorenen MusikGraeme Lawson nimmt uns mit auf eine fesselnde Reise durch die Geschichte der Musik, die tief in die Vergangenheit der Menschheit eintaucht: Er erkundet die magische Welt der Jagdgemeinschaften vor vierzigtausend Jahren, beleuchtet die Bedeutung der antiken Musik für unsere Vorfahren und zieht Vergleiche zu modernen Popfestivals und Streaming-Musik.

Hatte Ludwig van Beethoven afrikanische Wurzeln?

Julius Korngold, critic at the highly influential newspaper Neue Freie Presse, was close to and supportive of Gustav Mahler and, for the first time, essays on the man and his music are made available in English.

Leave it all out on the floor.

This book focuses on the relationships between underground urban music cultures in Los Angeles and specific urban imaginaries related to music practices, far away and sometimes in stark opposition to the commodified image of the city crafted by urban planners and associated urban stakeholders.

This volume analyzes how people of diverse cultural and religious backgrounds living around the "e;Middle Sea"e; perceived, felt, and described homesickness, using a multidisciplinary approach which brings new perspectives to known phenomena and their evolving meanings.

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This collection is a selection of works by Georg Friedrich Handel that will delight every pianist.

Fanfare for a City invites us to listen to the sounds of Paris during the Second Empire (18521870), a regime that oversaw dramatic social change in the French capital.

Black British Music in America 1967-2000: Atlantic Crossover historically examines musical and cultural relationships through popular music recordings, exploring the transatlantic journeys via academic, critical, and commercial reception of the music.

Barocke Musik – geistliche wie weltliche – wurde im Zuge der Kolonialisierung von Europäern nach Südamerika gebracht und verbreitete sich dort in verschiedenen Kontexten.

The articles here deal with liturgical music.

Maurice Ravel, der Meister der Klangfarben, hat die Musik des 20.