In this groundbreaking book, prize-winning pianist and noted educator William Westney helps readers discover their own path to the natural, transcendent fulfillment of making music.
An urgently needed guide to understanding medieval music to be used as a text for the university undergraduate, graduate students in music and interdisciplinary medieval studies, and for the professional musicologist and medievalist.
This book discusses microtonal tunings in the Arabic maqam, prevalent in the Middle East and Central Asia, which employs microtonal intervals from Pythagorean tuning by perfect fifths.
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714 - 1788), was a German Classical period musician and composer, the fifth child and second (surviving) son of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach.
In questa tomba oscura, WoO133, is the result of a musical challenge issued in 1807-1808, when composers were invited to set the poem by Giuseppe Carpani (1752-1825), an Italian poet resident in Vienna.
First published in 1910, "e;Ships, Sea Songs and Shanties"e; is a vintage collection of traditional sailing songs, collected and published in this volume by W.
Blake Set to Music: A Bibliography of Musical Settings of the Poems and Prose of William Blake by Donald Fitch offers an extensive and meticulously compiled reference work detailing the musical interpretations of William Blake's poetry.
In this classic work on music biography, Sacheverell Sitwell narrates Franz Liszt's rapid ascent to European fame - and the effect that this incredible early success as a wonderfully gifted pianist had on his later life - with insight, sympathy and humanity, One of the very first studies of Liszt to be published in English, this remarkable biography uses the full force of Sitwell's poetic talent to bring this brilliant and difficult man's world vividly to life, and captures the artistic mood of the era in extraordinary detail.
El romanticismo es la filosofa, el arte y la ciencia que dejan el campo de la razn pura y se interna en el bello jardn de los sentimientos y de las emociones que slo tienen como razn suprema el embellecimiento, la expresin de la vida en toda su plenitud.