The definitive oral history of heavy metal,LouderThan Hellby renowned music journalists Jon Wiederhorn and Katherine Turman includeshundreds of interviews with the giants of the movement, conducted over the past 25 years.
Auf der Suche nach der verlorenen MusikGraeme Lawson nimmt uns mit auf eine fesselnde Reise durch die Geschichte der Musik, die tief in die Vergangenheit der Menschheit eintaucht: Er erkundet die magische Welt der Jagdgemeinschaften vor vierzigtausend Jahren, beleuchtet die Bedeutung der antiken Musik für unsere Vorfahren und zieht Vergleiche zu modernen Popfestivals und Streaming-Musik.
The renowned treatise on music, by an eleventh-century monk, in a critical edition with annotated English translation, introduction, and detailed indexes.
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.
Gerald Abraham's reputation as an authority on Russian music has tended to obscure his deep interest in the music of Poland and Czechoslovakia, and of the nineteenth-century generally.
This book focuses on the relationships between underground urban music cultures in Los Angeles and specific urban imaginaries related to music practices, far away and sometimes in stark opposition to the commodified image of the city crafted by urban planners and associated urban stakeholders.
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 world-renowned musicologist Richard Taruskin devoted much of his career to helping listeners appreciate Russian and Soviet music in new and sometimes controversial ways.
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.
As one of the most influential and popular genres of the last three decades, rap has cultivated a mainstream audience and become a multimillion-dollar industry by promoting highly visible and often controversial representations of blackness.
Master chords and start strumming with this updated edition of The Everything Guitar Chords Book that features over 2,000 chords, perfect for every style of music, making it a must-have for beginners and seasoned guitarists alike.
Exotic venues, sold-out concerts, and the companionship of the world's most powerful people have given classical guitarist Liona Boyd a lifestyle that, like her music, is one in a million.
No one can read far in the Old Testament without encountering numerous acts of violence that are sanctioned in the text and attributed to both God and humans.
Carlos Chavez (1899-1978) is the central figure in Mexican music of the twentieth century and among the most eminent of all Latin American modernist composers.
This volume delves into the vibrant world of 18th-century sociable music, presenting a curated selection of glees, catches, canons, and rounds that were central to the eras artistic and social fabric.
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.
Established in the 1950s by musician and engineer Pierre Schaeffer, the Groupe de Recherches Musicales would become the nerve center for avant-garde artists experimenting with sound and acoustics, as well as the birthplace of a genre of music-making enabled by new recording technologies and sound pioneers: musique concrete.
A bold application of the concept of "e;canonical"e; works to the development of French operatic and concert life in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
The first full length study of Sir George Thomas Smart (1776-1867), musical animateur and early champion of the music of BeethovenSir George Thomas Smart (1776-1867) was a significant musical animateur of the early nineteenth century, who earned his living primarily as a conductor but was also significant as an organist, composer and recorder of events.
All-new interviews with 33 of the world's leading composers--from Adams and Crumb to Gubaidulina and Rihm--give unique insights into the creative process.
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.
This book introduces the topics of Enlightenment, Counter-Enlightenment, and social demography in Western art musics and demonstrates their historical and sociological importance.
This book focuses on the relationships between underground urban music cultures in Los Angeles and specific urban imaginaries related to music practices, far away and sometimes in stark opposition to the commodified image of the city crafted by urban planners and associated urban stakeholders.
This volume delves into the vibrant world of 18th-century sociable music, presenting a curated selection of glees, catches, canons, and rounds that were central to the eras artistic and social fabric.
In its seventeenth-century heyday, the English broadside ballad was a single large sheet of paper printed on one side with multiple woodcut illustrations, a popular tune title, and a poem.
