Musicologist Pauline Fairclough explores the evolving role of music in shaping the cultural identity of the Soviet Union in a revelatory work that counters certain hitherto accepted views of an unbending, unchanging state policy of repression, censorship, and dissonance that existed in all areas of Soviet artistic endeavor.
The Codex Buranus, compiled, in all likelihood, in South Tyrol in the first half of the thirteenth century, has fascinated modern scholars and performers ever since its rediscovery in 1803.
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Drawing on hundreds of operas, singspiels, ballets, and plays with supernatural themes, Magic Flutes and Enchanted Forests argues that the tension between fantasy and Enlightenment-era rationality shaped some of the most important works of eighteenth-century musical theater and profoundly influenced how audiences and critics responded to them.
This book explores an album of popular music with a remarkable significance to a violent wave of postcolonial tensions in the Netherlands in the 1970s.
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.
Das Klavierlied um 1900, maßgebliches Ausdrucksmittel und Experimentierfeld der Komponisten jener Zeit, steht im Mittelpunkt der in diesem Band versammelten wissenschaftlichen Beiträge.
In recent years, a psychological perspective has gained increasing acceptance in the education provided to musicians: teachers, performers, and "e;creatives"e; alike.
The greatest Southern storyteller of our time tracks down the greatest rock and roller of all time-and gets his own story, from the source, for the very first time.
Building on ideas first advanced by Arnold Schoenberg and later developed by Erwin Ratz, this book introduces a new theory of form for instrumental music in the classical style.
In sieben Kapiteln, deren Spektrum von Biographie und Familie, über Schüler- und Freundeskreis, Aufführungspraxis, Texte und Quellen bis zur Wirkungsgeschichte in den vergangenen drei Jahrhunderten reicht, sind in diesem hervorragenden Band des renommierten Bachkenners Hans-Joachim Schulze mehr als 60 Aufsätze aus fünfzig Jahren zusammengefasst und, soweit erforderlich, durch Nachträge auf den aktuellen Stand der Bach-Forschung gebracht worden.
King of the Queen City is the first comprehensive history of King Records, one of the most influential independent record companies in the history of American 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.
Aaron Copland and His World reassesses the legacy of one of America's best-loved composers at a pivotal moment--as his life and work shift from the realm of personal memory to that of history.
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This Must Be The Place is the first architectural history of popular music performance space, describing its beginnings, its different typologies, and its development into a distinctive genre of building design.
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The enduring achievement and legacy of a rock movementFlorida Book Awards, Bronze Medal for Florida NonfictionThe Allman Brothers Band and Lynyrd Skynyrd helped usher in a new kind of southern music from Jacksonville, Florida.
The once derided musical hybrid that is 1970s Jazz Fusion has since become one of the most influential genres of music in jazz, rock, soul, and hip-hop.
Uncompromising and innovative, hardcore punk in Washington, DC, birthed a new sound and nurtured a vibrant subculture aimed at a specific segment of the city's youth.
In Search of Soul explores the meaning of ';soul' in sacred and profane incarnations, from its biblical origins to its central place in the rich traditions of black and Latin history.
From the earliest days of rock and roll, white artists regularly achieved fame, wealth, and success that eluded the Black artists whose work had preceded and inspired them.
In November 1916, a young Afro-Brazilian musician named Donga registered sheet music for the song "e;Pelo telefone"e; ("e;On the Telephone"e;) at the National Library in Rio de Janeiro.
Few bands in the past three decades have proven as affecting or exciting as the Misfits, the ferocious horror punk outfit that lurked in the shadows of suburban New Jersey and released a handful of pivotal underground recordings during their brief, tumultuous time together.
In this behind-the-scenes look at the making of Fleetwood Mac's epic, platinum-selling double album, Tusk, producers and engineers Ken Caillat and Hernan Rojas tell their stories of spending a year with the band in their new million-dollar studio trying to follow up Rumours, the biggest rock album of the time.
Setting the stage for a most intriguing journey into the world of minimalism, Robert Carl's Terry Riley's In C argues that the work holds its place in the canon because of the very challenges it presents to "e;classical"e; music.
