History of music

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

In 1517, Martin Luther set off what has been called, at least since the nineteenth century, the Protestant Reformation.

This book explores intermedial compositional processes in later Byzantium, building on the Akathistos Hymnos.

The Italian Ars Nova Music: A Bibliographic Guide to Modern Editions and Related Literature is an essential resource for scholars, students, and enthusiasts of Italian Trecento music.

WhateverTom Piazza writes is touched with magic.

An anthology featuring the most astute commentators and participants of the underground rise of punk, in this nuanced portrait of the era.

An innovative study of the ways in which theological themes related to earthly and heavenly 'treasures' and Bach's own apparent attentiveness to the spiritual values related to money intertwined in his sacred music.

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Der Thesenanschlag Martin Luthers jährte sich 2017 zum 500.

Gabriel Faure's melodies offer an inexhaustible variety of style and expression that havemade them the foundation of the French art song repertoire.

Examines the genesis of Ernest Newman's major publications in the context of prevailing intellectual trends in history, criticism and biography.

What happened to musical modernism?

Can a Lutheran be sociopolitically radical?

The New York loft jazz scene of the 1970s was a pivotal period for uncompromising, artist-produced work.

Situates the controversial narrative of 'The English Musical Renaissance' within its wider historical context.

Challenges the longstanding perception that modernist composers made art, not money, and that those who made money somehow failed to make art.

Learn about the world's greatest classical compositions and musical traditions in The Classical Music Book.

Essays dealing with the controversial concept of the "e;work"e;, and how far social and cultural practices are integral to it.

NOMINATED FOR THE JAZZ JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 WINNER OF THE PRESTO JAZZ BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020An articulate, scrupulously researched account based on first-hand information, this book presents Brubeck's contribution to music with the critical insight that it deserves - ***** BBC Music Magazine This is the writing about jazz that we've been waiting for - Mike WestbrookThe sheer descriptive verve, page after page, made me want to listen to every single musical example cited.

Maurice Ravel, der Meister der Klangfarben, hat die Musik des 20.

The tonadilla, a type of satiric musical skit popular on the public stages of Madrid during the late Enlightenment, has played a significant role in the history of music in Spain.

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.

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This book introduces the topics of Enlightenment, Counter-Enlightenment, and social demography in Western art musics and demonstrates their historical and sociological importance.

Hyper, Hyper: Alles über den Sound der 90erDie 90er lassen uns nicht los.

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.

From different perspectives this book studies the role of Reformation theology in the shaping of Danish society and the social dimensions of Lutheran confessional culture.

Reveals how Aaron Copland's complex relationship with the music of Gustav Mahler shaped his vision for American music in the twentieth century.

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.

Essays on important topics in early music.

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.

In the late 1970s, aggressive, young bands are forming across Britain.

Jan Ladislas Dussek, einer der herausragendsten Pianisten und Komponisten des 18.

How does the Christian produce good works in service of her neighbor after justification?

Der charismatische Künstler Ferruccio Busoni (1866–1924) war als Pianist und Pädagoge in der Welt unterwegs.

Cheap grace is the mortal enemy of our church.

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

Who are the folk in folk music?

This collection of nine essays investigates the consumption of music during the long eighteenth century, providing insights into the activities of composers, performers, patrons, publishers, theorists, impresarios, and critics.

Con il catalogo I libretti italiani a stampa dalle origini al 1800, pubblicata dal 1990 al 1994 da Bertola & Locatelli a Cuneo, Claudio Sartori ha donato alla ricerca sulla storia dell'opera e dell'oratorio una base completamente nuova.

During the Cold War, thousands of musicians from the United States traveled the world, sponsored by the U.