History of music

The study of sacred music under Louis XIII (r.

The study of sacred music under Louis XIII (r.

The Story of Chamber Music is a non-fiction book written by Nicholas Kilburn and published in 1923.

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.

This path-breaking study of stage works in Italian musical performances reconsiders a crucial period of music history.

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.

Louisville native John Jacob Niles (18921980) is considered to be one of our nation's most influential musicians.

In Hymns for the Fallen, Todd Decker listens closely to forty years of Hollywood combat films produced after Vietnam.

Virginia Woolf famously claimed that, around December 1910, human character changed.

After it was announced that the twenty month-old son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh was abducted, the entire world grieved for their loss.

Experiencing Latin American Music draws on human experience as a point of departure for musical understanding.

Katharine Hepburn was the world's greatest screen diva--the most famous actress in American history.

Some would argue that there is no need for yet another biography of Martin Luther.

Ethics is the culmination of Dietrich Bonhoeffers theological and personal odyssey and one of the most important works of Christian ethics of the last century.

Born in Central Europe during the twilight of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, three ';vonderful vimmen'Zsa Zsa, Eva, and Magda Gabortransferred their glittery dreams and gold-digging ambitions to Hollywood.

This biography shatters myths with a controversial closeup of Bogart at the debut of his career, pre-Casablanca, pre-Bacall, and pre-African Queen, revealing for the first time what was under the trench coat of history's most famous male movie star.

Throughout the long nineteenth-century the sounds of liberty resonated across the Anglophone world.

The tempestuous, scandalous love affair of the 20th century's Romeo and Juliet was second in fame and notoriety only to that of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and by many accounts, even more corrupt.

Before the nineteenth century, instrumental music was considered inferior to vocal music.

New perspectives on the greatest Finnish composer of all timePerhaps no twentieth-century composer has provoked a more varied reaction among the music-loving public than Jean Sibelius (1865-1957).

The Routledge Companion to Women and Musical Leadership: The Nineteenth Century and Beyond provides a comprehensive exploration of women's participation in musical leadership from the nineteenth century to the present.

A world-renowned scholar of plainchant, Kenneth Levy has spent a portion of his career investigating the nature and ramifications of this repertory's shift from an oral tradition to the written versions dating to the tenth century.

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A revealing look at French composer and virtuoso Camille Saint-SaensCamille Saint-Saens-perhaps the foremost French musical figure of the late nineteenth century and a composer who wrote in nearly every musical genre, from opera and the symphony to film music-is now being rediscovered after a century of modernism overshadowed his earlier importance.

"Listening to the Beat of the Bomb" UPK author Charles Wolfe discusses his work and his new book Country Music Goes to War in the NEW YORK TIMES.

Victoria Woodhull, Mary Wollstonecraft, Aimee Semple McPherson, Edwina Mountbatten, Margaret Argyll and Chanel were all women who dared.

The 1970s saw a wave of singer-songwriters flood the airwaves and concert halls across the United States.

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.

This book explores dancing from the 1960s to the 1980s; though this period covers only twenty years, the changes during it were seismic.

Unique among the various types of impersonation entertainers, a tribute artist concentrates on only a few of a famous singer's notable characteristics in order to effectively evoke that performer through song.

The printed debut of the canzone villanesca alla napolitana occurred on 24 October 1537, in Naples.

Emotional courage is an underestimated characteristic of successful Black life in the segregated, unjust US south.

El presente libro registra un panorama de la historia institucional de las Bandas Departamentales del Valle del Cauca y Nariño.

The printed debut of the canzone villanesca alla napolitana occurred on 24 October 1537, in Naples.

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

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Die schönsten 20 neuen Kinderlieder-Hits von Detlev Jöcker.

Lisa Snowdon is on a mission to spread the word: growing old just means getting better!

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.

The area whose capital was the southern Lombard city of Benevento developed a culture identified with the characteristic form of writing known as the Beneventan script, which was used throughout the area and was brought to perfection at the abbey of Montecassino in the late eleventh century.

This second selection of studies by Frank D'Accone, again based principally on the documentary evidence, follows the development through the mid 16th century of musical chapels at the Cathedral and the Baptistery of Florence and of musical establishments at the Santissima Annunziata and San Lorenzo.

The essays in Sound Judgment span the full career of Richard Leppert, from his earliest to work that appears here for the first time, on subjects drawn from early modernity to the present concerning music both popular and classical, European and North American.