History of music

The Course of Mexican Music provides students with a cohesive introductory understanding of the scope and influence of Mexican music.

The Course of Mexican Music provides students with a cohesive introductory understanding of the scope and influence of Mexican music.

The Principles and Practice of Tonal Counterpoint is a comprehensive textbook that combines practical, "e;how-to"e; guidance in 18th-century techniques with extensive historical examination of contrapuntal works and genres.

The Principles and Practice of Tonal Counterpoint is a comprehensive textbook that combines practical, "e;how-to"e; guidance in 18th-century techniques with extensive historical examination of contrapuntal works and genres.

Jazz and Totalitarianism examines jazz in a range of regimes that in significant ways may be described as totalitarian, historically covering the period from the Franco regime in Spain beginning in the 1930s to present day Iran and China.

'A Compendium of Musical Instruments and Instrumental Terminology in the Bible' draws on extensive historical research, comparative linguistic analysis and musical study to offer the first compilation of its kind.

'A Compendium of Musical Instruments and Instrumental Terminology in the Bible' draws on extensive historical research, comparative linguistic analysis and musical study to offer the first compilation of its kind.

This book, first published in 1934, contains the recollections of the varied and coloured life of a great pianist and composer, who is one of the most striking figures of the musical world.

This book, first published in 1934, contains the recollections of the varied and coloured life of a great pianist and composer, who is one of the most striking figures of the musical world.

Made in the Low Countries: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of twentieth and twenty-first century popular music of the Dutch-speaking region comprising the Netherlands and Flanders as a region of federal Belgium.

Music in Contemporary Indian Film: Memory, Voice, Identity provides a rich and detailed look into the unique dimensions of music in Indian film.

Music in Contemporary Indian Film: Memory, Voice, Identity provides a rich and detailed look into the unique dimensions of music in Indian film.

This selective annotated bibliography places Alma Mahler with three other female composers of her time, covering the first generation of active female composers in the twentieth century.

This selective annotated bibliography places Alma Mahler with three other female composers of her time, covering the first generation of active female composers in the twentieth century.

Presenting the latest research in the area, this volume explores the fundamental concept of qupai ?

Presenting the latest research in the area, this volume explores the fundamental concept of qupai ?

Antonio Salieri war in seiner langen Karriere am Wiener Kaiserhof in vielen Rollen aktiv: Er leitete die italienische Oper und die Hofkapelle; er schrieb Kirchenmusik und schuf glänzende Bühnenwerke; er verwaltete ein großes Ensemble, leitete Wohlfahrtseinrichtungen für Musikerfamilien und gründete ein Konservatorium.

The word motreb finds its roots in the Arabic verb taraba, meaning 'to make happy.

The word motreb finds its roots in the Arabic verb taraba, meaning 'to make happy.

Originally published in 1969.

Originally published in 1969.

The Enlightenment era saw European thinkers increasingly concerned with what it meant to be human.

The Enlightenment era saw European thinkers increasingly concerned with what it meant to be human.

As Spain encountered economic and political crises in the seventeenth century, the imagery of musical performance was invoked by the state to represent the power of the monarch and to denote harmony throughout the kingdom.

As Spain encountered economic and political crises in the seventeenth century, the imagery of musical performance was invoked by the state to represent the power of the monarch and to denote harmony throughout the kingdom.

Horgan analyses the importance of songs in British eighteenth-century culture with specific reference to their political meaning.

Horgan analyses the importance of songs in British eighteenth-century culture with specific reference to their political meaning.

This is the first history of the harp in Scotland to be published.

This is the first history of the harp in Scotland to be published.

For decades, scholars have been trying to answer the question: how was colonial Burma perceived in and by the Western world, and how did people in countries like the United Kingdom and United States form their views?

Made in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of twentieth-century popular music of Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand.

Made in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of twentieth-century popular music of Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand.

Jews and Jazz: Improvising Ethnicity explores the meaning of Jewish involvement in the world of American jazz.

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.

David Amram has been described as "e;the Renaissance man of American Music.

David Amram has been described as "e;the Renaissance man of American Music.

Music Sociology explores 16 different genres to demonstrate that music everywhere reflects social values, organisational processes, meanings and individual identity.

Music Sociology explores 16 different genres to demonstrate that music everywhere reflects social values, organisational processes, meanings and individual identity.

Although music is known to be part of the great social movements that have rocked the world, its specific contribution to political struggle has rarely been closely analyzed.

Although music is known to be part of the great social movements that have rocked the world, its specific contribution to political struggle has rarely been closely analyzed.

Wars have dominated the history of the United States since its founding, but there has also been a long history of antiwar activity.

Wars have dominated the history of the United States since its founding, but there has also been a long history of antiwar activity.

Rolland's biography attempts to provide an overview of Handel's life and works from his early lessons in music to the classical context in which he is commonly placed.

Rolland's biography attempts to provide an overview of Handel's life and works from his early lessons in music to the classical context in which he is commonly placed.

This book, first published in 1982, shows that jazz and blues are music forms that are about individualism, experiment, expression and feeling.

This book, first published in 1982, shows that jazz and blues are music forms that are about individualism, experiment, expression and feeling.

When rock 'n' roll began its ascendancy in the 1950s the older generation saw it as dangerous, renegade, threatening the moral stability of a nation.

When rock 'n' roll began its ascendancy in the 1950s the older generation saw it as dangerous, renegade, threatening the moral stability of a nation.

In Tin Pan Alley we see the beginnings of the pop world as we now know it: commercial, constantly capturing, exploiting or even occasionally creating a public mood.

In Tin Pan Alley we see the beginnings of the pop world as we now know it: commercial, constantly capturing, exploiting or even occasionally creating a public mood.