This book brings audiences the enchanting melodies passing down from generation to generation in the Zhuang community, which are on the brink of extinction.
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.
Stravinsky in the Americas explores the ';pre-Craft' period of Igor Stravinsky's life, from when he first landed on American shores in 1925 to the end of World War II in 1945.
Der deutschsprachige Schlager der 1920er und 1930er Jahre war auch in Wien ein Fixpunkt in den Unterhaltungsetablissements und eroberte die damals "neuen Medien" Tonfilm, Rundfunk und Schallplatte.
Obwohl es in Salzburg nach dem Ende des Ersten Weltkriegs, in Vergleich zu Wien, kaum Dance Halls, Varietés und Tanzpaläste gab, war die Sehnsucht nach leichter Muse auch dort enorm.
Der Wiener Musikwissenschaftler Herbert Seifert (* 1945) hat mit seinen Studien, in denen akribische Quellenarbeit eine intensive Verbindung mit der Edition und Analyse von Libretti und Partituren eingeht, die Geschichte der Musikdramatik nördlich der Alpen, insbesondere unter Marcus Sitticus Graf von Hohenems, Fürsterzbischof von Salzburg, sowie im Herrschaftsgebiet der Habsburger für das 17.
This book focuses on the transformative journey of Methodism and tackles a profound question: How did a radical revival movement evolve into an established mainstream Church?
This monograph investigates the promotion and consumption of high musical culture among leisured society in Victorian London, by focusing on the activities of the concert manager John Ella and his Musical Union.
Noch vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg begann Georg Kinsky einen Katalog der Blasinstrumente für das Heyer'sche Museum in Köln, der nie fertig wurde, nie gedruckt wurde, aber in Auszügen doch die Runde machte und so die Organologie prägte.
The prequel to Bob Stanley's universally acclaimed Yeah Yeah Yeah, Let's Do It is the only book that brings together all genres to tell the definitive story of the birth of Pop, from 1900 to the mid-fifties.
In this innovative book, Gundula Kreuzer argues for the foundational role of technologies in the conception, production, and study of nineteenth-century opera.
David Martin is a pioneer of a political sociology of religion that integrates a combined analysis of nationalism and political religions with the history of religion.
Monument der solistischen Violinmusik, Prüfstein für jeden Geiger mit Anspruch – diese Superlative werden den "Sei Solo", besser bekannt als "Sonaten und Partiten für Violine solo" von Johann Sebastian Bach, beigegeben.
Vor 500 Jahren erschütterte Martin Luther mit seinen 95 Thesen die Macht der katholischen Kirche und löste eine grundlegende Veränderung des christlichen Glaubens aus.
The Night Circus meets Lonely Castle in the Mirror in this multi-award-winning Japanese bestseller, available finally in an English translation by Philip Gabriel, a translator of Murakami- AN FT BEST SUMMER READ 2023- OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD IN JAPAN- WINNER OF THE NAOKI PRIZE AND THE JAPAN BOOKSELLERS' AWARD- A MAJOR MOVIE RELEASE IN JAPAN'A thrilling and often nail-biting depiction of music, friendship, and personal demons' OBSERVER'Propulsive and poetic' KIRKUS______________________Welcome to a magical world of music, friendship and rivalry .
Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR and GQJoining the ranks of the classics Please Kill Me, Our Band Could Be Your Life, and Cant Stop Wont Stop, an intriguing oral history of the post-9/11 decline of the old-guard music industry and rebirth of the New York rock scene, led by a group of iconoclastic rock bands.
The dramatic unfolding of events after Martin Luther's revolutionary act led to the ultimate, and seemingly irreparable, fissure with Roman Catholicism: excommunication and schism.
In Music in Disney's Animated Features James Bohn investigates how music functions in Disney animated films and identifies several vanguard techniques used in them.