History of music

Im März 1842 veranstalteten die Mitglieder des Wiener Hofopernorchesters auf Initiative und unter Leitung ihres ersten Kapellmeisters Otto Nicolai ein Konzert im Großen Redoutensaal in WIen, mit dem die Reihe der "Philharmonischen Konzerte" begann und in dessen weiterer Folge das Orchester die Bezeichnung "Philharmoniker" erhielt.

Chaikovski es, sin duda, uno de los compositores más queridos por los aficionados a la música en todo el mundo, una popularidad que, sin embargo, suele ir acompañada de un difuso conocimiento de su vida, sustentado en lugares comunes y clichés, cuando no en un cierto recelo por parte de ciertos sectores de la crítica, que han acabado por transmitir una imagen distorsionada de su figura.

Kommt dem Dirigieren performative Qualität zu?

DAS GROßE KLAVIERBUCH mit 34 der schönsten und bekanntesten Kinderliederhits von Detlev Jöcker.

Una conexión inspiradora entre personajes y eventos históricos con grandes artistas y canciones del rock¿Qué sorprendente vínculo existe entre determinadas historias y algunas canciones y artistas muy populares como "Losing my Religion" de R.

UN RELATO FASCINANTE E INSÓLITO DE LOS GRANDES HITOS DE LA MÚSICA CLÁSICAEl autor nos acerca –con inusual maestría– a los grandes nombres de la músi­ca clásica a través de un apasionante viaje musical en torno a las curiosidades que encierran las grandes obras y los compositores que las crearon.

Este libro no es un simple manual, ni un tratado de violín al uso.

In Search of Soul explores the meaning of ';soul' in sacred and profane incarnations, from its biblical origins to its central place in the rich traditions of black and Latin history.

As one of the most influential and popular genres of the last three decades, rap has cultivated a mainstream audience and become a multimillion-dollar industry by promoting highly visible and often controversial representations of blackness.

The Treatise on Musical Objects is regarded as Pierre Schaeffer's most important work on music and its relationship with technology.

Race, politics, and opera production during apartheid South Africa intersect in this historiographic work on the Eoan Group, a ';coloured' cultural organization that performed opera in the Cape.

What happened to musical modernism?

Listening for the Secret is a critical assessment of the Grateful Dead and the distinct culture that grew out of the group's music, politics, and performance.

In 1953, the same year that Elvis Presley cut his first demo, Cash Box magazine named the Hilltoppers the top vocal group of the year.

The Music Issue enhanced eBook include all the tracks on our special CD and:The tell-all letter from a teenage girl who kissedand kissedElvis PresleyHow corruption and greed made the Jacksonville music sceneGretchen Wilson, country musics Redneck WomanThe invaluable social spaces of African American record storesBobby Rush, bluesman-plusWhere Opryland resides in hearts, minds, and soulsBackstage with the Avett Brothers, Doc Watson, Tift Merritt, Southern Culture on the Skids, the Carolina Chocolate Drops, Johnny Cash, and more great artists.

Despite its extraordinary popularity and worldwide influence, the world of rap and hip hop is under constant attack.

Few bands in the past three decades have proven as affecting or exciting as the Misfits, the ferocious horror punk outfit that lurked in the shadows of suburban New Jersey and released a handful of pivotal underground recordings during their brief, tumultuous time together.

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Lauri Suurpaa brings together two rigorous methodologies, Greimassian semiotics and Schenkerian analysis, to provide a unique perspective on the expressive power of Franz Schubert's song cycle.

Making Money, Making Musicoffers tools to encourage creative and adaptive entrepreneurship in the music business.

Categorizing Sound addresses the relationship between categories of music and categories of people, particularly how certain ways of organizing sounds becomes integral to how we perceive ourselves and how we feel connected to some people and disconnected from others.

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The Hum of the World is an invitation to contemplate what would happen if we heard the world as attentively as we see it.

Selling Digital Music, Formatting Culture documents the transition of recorded music on CDs to music as digital files on computers.

Nostalgia for the Future is the first collection in English of the writings and interviews of Luigi Nono (19241990).

Charles Mingus is one of the most importantand most mythologizedcomposers and performers in jazz history.

In this innovative book, Gundula Kreuzer argues for the foundational role of technologies in the conception, production, and study of nineteenth-century opera.

Of the many Cold War radio DJs who broadcast to the USSR, Seva Novgorodsev must be near the top of the list.

A tough town like Olean offers a guy only so many job options: sweat in the stench of oil refinery crude, like his immigrant father does, suffer boredom in a factory job, or apprentice in a trade.

This is the first complete survey of the historical pitch standards used by musicians during the last four centuries.

Volume 5 of The Annotated Luther series features Luther's writings that intersect church and state, faith, and life lived as a follower of Christ.

Small-town dance halls once overflowed with people flocking to see their favorite country bands and to dance.

Elvis Presley and his two faithful sidekicks tore up Texas highways, crisscrossing the state, always late for their next high school hop, car dealership opening, or Lion's Club fund raiser.

Innovative sounds in pop, rock and soul in the 1960s and 1970s meant that music appealed to more people than ever before.

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While some film scores crash through theater speakers to claim their place in memory, others are more unassuming.

Jethro Tull was one of the truly innovative rock bands to emerge from the late 1960s.

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The history of Florida State University's Marching Chiefs is chronicled, from early efforts to found a band before the program's 1939 establishment at Florida State College for Women, to the Chiefs' attainment of "e;world renowned"e; status.

Over 400,000 people moved their families in search of a better life in the American West during the Westward Expansion.

Ushering in a new era of confessional music that spoke openly about experiences of trauma, depression, and self-loathing, Nine Inch Nails seminal album, The Downward Spiral, changed popular music foreverbringing transgressive themes of heresy, S&M, and body horror to the masses and taking music technology to its limits.

Even before the Beatnik Riots of 1961, New York Citys Greenwich Village was the epicenter of revolutionary movements in American music and culture.

Many of the architects of rock and roll in the 1950s, including Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Little Richard, were Southerners who were rooted in the distinctive regional traditions of country, blues, and R&B.

This is the story of Fred Taylor, who since 1960 has been bringing entertainers and audiences together in Boston and New England in nightclubs, concert halls, and festival grounds.

Celebrating the One Hundredth Anniversary of Anita O'Day's Birth.

Despite Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s earlier theological achievements and writings, it was his correspondence and notes from prison that electrified the postwar world six years after his death in 1945.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, one of the most influential Christian martyrs in history, bequeathed to humanity a legacy of theological creativity and spirituality that continues to intrigue people from a variety of backgrounds.

Introduce your child to the practice of ending the day with a prayer with this calming bedtime book.

A new, definitive atlas of the European Reformations has been needed for many years.