Johann Sebastian Bach krönte sein Schaffen geistlicher Musik mit dem Weihnachts-, dem Oster- und dem Himmelfahrtsoratorium sowie mit fünf Messvertonungen – gipfelnd in der monumentalen h-Moll-Messe, die als Vermächtnis angesehen werden kann.
Drei Bücher in einem: Lexikon – Lesebuch – ArbeitsmittelKonzept:"Lexikon": direkter Zugriff auf alle wichtigen Informationen zum Themenfeld "Musiklehre".
Längst gehört es zum guten Ton, sich über den historischen Stil zu informieren, wenn man Musik einer bestimmten Epoche aufführen möchte – nicht mehr nur bei Spezialisten, sondern unabhängig vom Instrumentarium und quer durch alle Ensembles.
Heinrich August Marschners Opern gelten musikgeschichtlich und kompositionstechnisch als "Mittler" zwischen Carl Maria von Weber und Richard Wagner; Marschners Werke galten im 19.
Bernadeta Czapraga gibt in diesem Buch einen Überblick über den Wandel der Interpretationen im Zeitraum zwischen 1965 und 2005, indem sie sechs in dieser Zeit entstandene Videoaufnahmen (Yehudi Menuhin, Roberto Michelucci, Gidon Kremer, Frank Peter Zimmermann, Leonidas Kavakos und Anne-Sophie Mutter) zu Aufführungen von Mozarts A-Dur-Violinkonzert zugrunde legt.
Innerhalb des Lehrplanwerkes des VdM mit Einzellehrplänen für jedes Instrumental- und Ergänzungsfach an Musikschulen ist nun der langerwartete Band für die Klarinette erschienen.
Richard Wagner is mainly known as a music dramatist, but his piano pieces are also worth discovering and allow the voice of the dramatist to be heard in echoes.
In this volume, the folk musician Patrick Steinbach has compiled the most beautiful Irish tunes and, in addition, provides much information on the performance as well as on the style and the cultural background of Irish music.
How popular music reveals deep histories of racial tensions in southern cultureSouthern History Remixed spotlights the key role of popular music in the shaping of the United States South from the late nineteenth century to the era of rock n roll in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s.
This book offers a truly interdisciplinary discussion on the relationship between the vocal and the instrumental in music and other arts and in everyday communication alike.
The familiar history of jazz music in the United States begins with its birth in New Orleans, moves upstream along the Mississippi River to Chicago, then by rail into New York before exploding across the globe.
A beneficiary of the pioneering incorporation of sound and synchronicity into cinema, the Hollywood musical became the most popular film genre in America's thirties and forties.
Comienzos del siglo XX, la calle, el cafetín, el conventillo, Buenos Aires y sus alrededores, las milongas, los sainetes, el tango, el grotesco criollo y la problemática de los sectores populares porteños se ponen de manifiesto en la literatura de Roberto Mariani, Raúl y Enrique González Tuñón, Nicolás Olivari, entre los más destacados de la generación del '22.
For all of its apparent simplicity a few chords, twelve bars, and a supposedly straightforward American character blues music is a complex phenomenon with cultural significance that has varied greatly across different historical contexts.
Yayoi Uno Everett focuses on four operas that helped shape the careers of the composers Osvaldo Golijov, Kaija Saariaho, John Adams, and Tan Dun, which represent a unique encounter of music and production through what Everett calls "e;multimodal narrative.
Departing from the traditional German school of music theorists, Michael Klein injects a unique French critical theory perspective into the framework of music and meaning.
The Music of Tragedy offers a new approach to the study of classical Greek theater by examining the use of musical language, imagery, and performance in the late work of Euripides.
In this new history of music in Zimbabwe, Mhoze Chikowero deftly uses African sources to interrogate the copious colonial archive, reading it as a confessional voice along and against the grain to write a complex history of music, colonialism, and African self-liberation.
