Singing has long been an integral component of Wales's culture, identity, and international reputation; alongside the deep traditions of Welsh folksong, the country's composers have produced a rich body of art music.
Choreomusicology: Dialogues in Music and Dance is a distinguished collection of chapters by leading scholars presenting research that redefines and rethinks the question of what dance and music are, together and apart, and which promotes new ideas and voices in the discipline.
This Element explores a detailed consideration of West Side Story''s reception in Spain, including comparison of two Spanish adaptations of book and lyrics.
This "e;monumental"e; portrait of the man, his music, and the world in which he lived is "e;a truly remarkable biography"e; (The Christian Science Monitor).
JOS RAFAEL VILARVIAJE A TRAVS DE LA HISTORIA DE LA DANZAEste pequeo libro surgi de la falta de un texto, accesible y en castellano, para que mis alumnos de historia de la danza pudieran ampliar sus conocimientos, por lo que ste podr servir a muchos lectores, artistas en formacin o profesionales o slo nefitos con inters en este hermoso arte, para conocer y disfrutarlo mejor, porque cuando se conoce de dnde surge una obra o cmo era su entorno, se la disfruta mejor.
In Music for the Millions, author Van Allen Bradley tells the story of a firm which, at the time of this book's original publication in 1962, had endured for 100 years.
In this collection of academic essays, award-winning pianist and music professor Yaokun Yang shares her carefully compiled analyses of classical music and aesthetics during several different periods, focusing particularly on the aspect of piano performance practice.
Since the thirteenth century, the sitara stringed, plucked instrument of Indiahas transformed into an instrument beloved by millions in its country of origin as well as all over the world.
A 1959 New Yorker profile captured the inspired risk-taking and raw creative spark of a Budapest String Quartet rehearsal: "e;Sasha leaped from his chair and with violin held aloft, played the passage with exaggerated schmalz, like a street fiddler in Naples.
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.
"La Msica de Haydn en la "Creacin" no es pattica como la deHaendel en sus Oratorios: tiene siempre ese verdor de primavera,esa sutileza que entrega la lnea ondulante en la danza de la Corte,esa inspiracin de frescura y optimismo que slo se encuentra enalgunos pintores del Renacimiento y en los poetas buclicos de laHlade y del Lacio.
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.
It was the five young men who called themselves The Original Dixieland Jazz Band who raised jazz from being a curious, local, and peculiarly Negro phenomenon into the greatest popular artform in history.
This book, which was first published in 1895, is a wonderful collection of some 300 anecdotes and biographical sketches of famous composers and performers since time began.
Published to mark the beginning of the Britten centenary year in 2013, Paul Kildea's Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century is the definitive biography of Britain's greatest modern composer.
The beloved and iconic singer-songwriter and three-time Grammy winner opens up about her traumatic childhood in the Deep South, her years of being overlooked in the music industry, and the stories that inspired her enduring songs.
La cerimònia del Cant de la Sibil·la era celebrada, durant l'edat mitjana, amb variants més o menys locals i, sense dubte, amb diferències provinents de la tradició de cada lloc, des de Barcelona fins a l'Alguer, tot passant per Mallorca i Tarragona.
In these three librettos, Philippe Quinault turns from classical opera to medieval legends--Renaud and Armida, Amadis and Oriana, and Angelica and Roland--exploring the tensions between love and glory.
In these three librettos, Philippe Quinault turns from classical opera to medieval legends--Renaud and Armida, Amadis and Oriana, and Angelica and Roland--exploring the tensions between love and glory.
