Music reviews and criticism

The Beatles produced five films during their time together: A Hard Day's Night, Help!

The universally acclaimed and award-winning Oxford History of Western Music is the eminent musicologist Richard Taruskin's provocative, erudite telling of the story of Western music from its earliest days to the present.

An exploration of the production, transmission, and mutation of affective tonality—when sound helps produce a bad vibe.

Documents counterimperialism in Chilean music since the 1960s Gringos Get Rich: Anti-Americanism in Chilean Music examines anti-Americanism in Latin America as manifested in Chilean music in recent history.

On a sweltering Sunday evening in August 1965, 56,000 people traveled by plane, car, bus, ferry, and subway train to pack New York's Shea Stadium.

A study of John Sangster's jazz suite The Lord of the Rings contextualized with biographical and cultural studies of the composer in the 1970s.

This collection situates the North-East within a developing nationwide account of British musical culture.

This title was originally published in 1961.

The Royal Conservatory of Music, founded in 1886, is rich in history and genius.

This first volume of Music in Black American Life collects research and analysis that originally appeared in the journals American Music and the Black Music Research Journal, and in the University of Illinois Press's acclaimed book series Music in American Life.

Richard Wagner (1813-1883) aimed to be more than just a composer.

It's difficult to imagine Franz Liszt performing in Peoria, but his contemporary and foremost rival, Sigismund Thalberg, did just that.

Experiencing Alice Cooper: A Listener's Companion takes a long overdue look at the music and stage act of rock music's self-styled arch-villain.

Listen to Psychedelic Rock!

Classical music was central to German national identity in the early twentieth century.

Virginia Woolf famously claimed that, around December 1910, human character changed.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

In When Rock Met Reggae, Steven Blush takes a spirited, cross-genre perspective in this "e;illuminating chronicle"e; (Booklist) of the crossover of Jamaican, British, and American sounds that changed the face of popular music.

This essential summation of Palisca's life work was nearly finished by his death in 2001, and it was brought to completion by Thomas J.

The days of poets moping around castle steps wearing black capes is over.

The Oratorio in the classical Era is the third volume of Howard Smither's monumental History of the Oratorio, continuing his synthesis and critical appraisal of the oratorio.

Concerto Grosso no.

Watkins presents a cultural history of metaphors of musical depth in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century German criticism and analysis.

Film has shaped modern society in part by changing its cultures of memory.

Study of musical manuscripts from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, opening a window on piety, liturgy and musical life in late medieval society.

Written by a fan, about the fans, and for the fans, this book is about Beatles fandom and excitement for the band as it continues, undiminished, in the 21st century.

The Beatles produced five films during their time together: A Hard Day's Night, Help!

A Secret Acoustic History of the 20th Century

Volumes 3 and 4 of the The Encyclopedia of More Great Popular Song Recordings provides the stories behind approximately 1,700 more of the greatest song recordings in the history of the music industry, from 1890 to today.

A thematic exploration of Schubert''s style, applied in readings of his instrumental and vocal literature by international scholars.

The historical significance of music-makers, music scenes, and music genres has long been mediated through academic and popular press publications such as magazines, films, and television documentaries.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Neidharts Sangweisen I" verfügbar.

Exposes the roots of 18th-century musical cosmopolitanism through an investigation of exchanges and collaborations between musicians and dancers from the two major national musical traditions in the early years of the century.

Today, jazz is considered high art, America's national music, and the catalog of its recordings-its discography-is often taken for granted.

When did Russia become "e;modern?

Following the creation of the United States, profound disagreements remained over how to secure the survival of the republic and unite its diverse population.

The complex relationship between myths and music is here investigated.

Chico Buarque comprises a critical appreciation of the self-titled album (1978), which is one of the Brazilian artist's most representative.

This book is a convenient, alphabetized reference work that deals comprehensively with the demands of caring for historic musical instruments.

In Another World is a unique trip through Belfast, mapped into the mystic through the timeless music of Van 'the Man' Morrison.

An insightful look at the urban sensibility that gives the Great American Songbook its pizzazz.

In 2007, the great Bach scholar Anne Leahy died at the age of 46.

Folklorists and lovers of folk songs will delight in this collection of the lyrics of songs sung by settlers of western New York in the middle of the nineteenth century.

The English musician and member of the rock band The Who shares stories from his career in this New York Times-bestselling memoir.

A study of the networks of opera production and critical discourse that shaped Italian cultural identity during and after Unification.

A Creative Duet: Mentoring Success for Emerging Music Educators offers new insights into music education mentoring.