A planning guide for church musicians and clergy for selecting hymns, songs, and anthems, for the three-year liturgical cycle following the Revised Common Lectionary.
Music and the Performing Arts in the Anthropocene offers a series of thought-provoking chapters about music and the performing arts viewed from current Anthropocene-aware perspectives.
In industry circles, musicians from Kentucky are known to possess an enviable pedigreea lineage as prized as the bloodline of any bluegrass-raised Thoroughbred.
Martha Ullman West illustrates how American ballet developed over the course of the twentieth century from an aesthetic originating in the courts of Europe into a stylistically diverse expression of a democratic culture.
Florida Historical Society Charlton Tebeau AwardUniversity of Tampa College of Arts and Letters Outstanding Scholarship or Creative Work AwardWhen recalling the roots of soul music, most people are likely to name Memphis, Detroit, New Orleans, Muscle Shoals, or Macon.
Martha Ullman West illustrates how American ballet developed over the course of the twentieth century from an aesthetic originating in the courts of Europe into a stylistically diverse expression of a democratic culture.
Put your boy band expertise to the test with nearly 500 trivia questions, accompanied by entertaining illustrations capturing your favorite musical moments.
The Annual Review of Jazz Studies (ARJS) is a journal providing a forum for the ever expanding range and depth of jazz scholarship, from technical analyses to oral history to cultural interpretation.
Inside Pierrot lunaire: Performing the Sprechstimme in Schoenbergs Masterpiece is a handbook on the performance and interpretation of the recitation in Arnold Schoenbergs Pierrot lunaire, op.
Mystical Love in the German Baroque: Theology, Poetry, Music identifies the cultural and devotional conventions underlying expressions of mystical love in poetry and music of the German baroque.
In The Contradictions of Jazz, Paul Rinzler takes a new approach to jazz aesthetics and theory by exploring four pairs of opposites present in jazz: individualism and interconnectedness, assertion and openness, freedom and responsibility, and creativity and tradition.
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.
Updated with 3 new songs, this is the intimate, first-person chronicle of the life and work of Jay-Z, born Shawn Carter in Brooklyn's notorious Marcy Projects, now known to many as the greatest rapper alive.
The role music, sound, and voice played in modern knowledge production in the early twentieth centuryDerived from the Latin words circum (round) and ire (to go), a circuit can refer to any bounded area.
Este clásico del repertorio técnico pianístico, compuesto por Hermann Berens, está diseñado específicamente para fortalecer y desarrollar la destreza de la mano izquierda.
This book offers a systematic survey of ethos theory: the theory according to which the right sort of music can have a positive or negative effect on moral development.
Brian Dolan's social and cultural history of the music business in relation to the history of the player piano is a critical chapter in the story of contemporary life.
Discover where it all began in the inspiring story of Stacey Solomon's life before becoming an Instagram cleaning sensation'Very honest and very open .
Discover music that dared to be different, risked reputations and put careers in jeopardy causing fascination and intrigue in some and rejection and scorn in others.
"e;It is [a] fully illuminated story that Richard Taruskin, in the path-breaking essays collected here, unfolds around Modest Musorgsky, Russia's greatest national composer.
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.
The world-renowned musicologist Richard Taruskin devoted much of his career to helping listeners appreciate Russian and Soviet music in new and sometimes controversial ways.
A rare look at the life and music of renowned Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-KorsakovDuring his lifetime, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) was a composer whose work had great influence not only in his native Russia but also internationally.
Though we can no longer hear how it sounded, the written sources that remain provide much information on the music of the medieval Islamic and Jewish worlds, on how it was regarded and on the importance that was attached to it.
A radical new book by journalist, critic and BBC Radio 3 broadcaster Kate Molleson, which fundamentally changes the way we think about classical music and the musicians who made it on a global scale.
A combination of memoir and music history, Distant Melodies takes the reader on a journey of exploration into the related ideas of home, displacement and retreat in the lives and music of four composers whose works Edward Dusinberre has rehearsed and performed as first violinist of the Takacs Quartet: Antonin Dvorak, Edward Elgar, Bela Bartok and Benjamin Britten.
Der Philosoph Jürgen Goldstein geht in diesem zärtlichen Porträt seiner lebenslangen Faszination nach, dem jung verstorbenen und doch durch seine Musik unsterblich gewordenen Nick Drake.
Everyone loves romantic music: the sweet melody of a Schubert song, the heroine dying for love in an Italian opera, the swooning orchestration of a Tchaikovsky symphony.
