Music: styles and genres

Hymns and Constructions of Race: Mobility, Agency, De/Coloniality examines how the hymn, historically and today, has reinforced, negotiated, and resisted constructions of race.

First published in 1999, this volume is the first full-length study to deal with the life and music of Orlando Gibbons since E.

This series presents the music of early American composers of sacred music psalmody, as it was called in collected critical editions.

Keywords in Remix Studies consists of twenty-four chapters authored by researchers who share interests in remix studies and remix culture throughout the arts and humanities.

Covering famous operas from 14 Italian, French and German composers, this handbook is designed to help listeners understand and appreciate the special skills required to sing famous operatic songs.

Comprehensive and richly illustrated, Close Harmony traces the development of the music known as southern gospel from its antebellum origins to its twentieth-century emergence as a vibrant musical industry driven by the world of radio, television, recordings, and concert promotions.

The artist's impact on country music and how his death changed the genre A beloved member of the country music community, David "e;Stringbean"e; Akeman found nationwide fame as a cast member of Hee Haw.

Berlioz was one of the towering figures of Romanticism: not only was he a great and revolutionary composer, but also the finest composer of his day and an outstanding critic and writer.

Granddaughter of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn and sister of the composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Fanny Hensel (1805-1847) was an extraordinary musician who left well over four hundred compositions, most of which fell into oblivion until their rediscovery late in the twentieth century.

Fela Anikulapo Kuti was the Afrobeat music maestro whose life and time provide the lens through which we can outline the postcolonial trajectory of the Nigerian state as well as the dynamics of most other African states.

Following the 1960's sexual revolution, rock and pop have continued to map the societal understanding of sexuality, feminism, and gender studies.

American Musicals in Context: From the American Revolution to the 21st Century gives students a fresh look at history-based musicals, helping readers to understand the American story through one of the country's most celebrated art forms: the musical.

America tells its stories through song.

The living practice of Daoist ritual is still only a small part of Daoist studies.

The first book-length study of romance novels to focus on issues of sexuality rather than gender, Historical Romance Fiction moves the ongoing debate about the value and appeal of heterosexual romance onto new ground, testing the claims of cutting-edge critical theorists on everything from popular classics by Georgette Heyer, to recent 'bodice rippers,' to historical fiction by John Fowles and A.

Rodgers and Hammerstein's Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical "e;South Pacific"e; has remained a mainstay of the American musical theater since it opened in 1949, and its powerful message about racial intolerance continues to resonate with twenty-first century audiences.

A performing edition of nineteenth century Russian choral pieces by a range of composers in a variety of styles, this volume was prepared to accompany the book The Russian Court Chapel Choir by Carolyn C.

Studies in English Organ Music is a collection of essays by expert authors that examines key areas of the repertoire in the history of organ music in England.

A deep dive into the history and retro appeal of musical exotica, including the Orientalism, Hawaiianesque, and Afro-tropicalism sub-sets.

The Sounds of the Silents in Britain explores the sonic dimension of film exhibition in Britain from the emergence of cinema to the introduction of synchronized sound.

We were all equal, but sometimes the band could be led by whoever shouted the loudest.

Opera often seems to arouse either irrational enthusiasm or visceral dislike.

A new method of music theory education for undergraduate music students, Harmony, Counterpoint, Partimento is grounded in schema theory and partimento, and takes an integrated, hands-on approach to the teaching of harmony and counterpoint in today's classrooms and studios.

Castelvecchi presents a critical re-evaluation of the operatic genre system and the cult of sensibility in the age of Mozart.

This almanac of sound words important to artists and scholars highlights words that expand the way we speak (and write) about sonic experiences.

This element examines the annotated scores of Mozart''s Symphony No.

This comprehensive bibliography and research guide details all the works currently available on Vincenzo Bellini, the Italian opera composer best known for his work Norma, which is still regularly performed today at Covent Garden and by regional opera companies.

Throughout Africa, artists use hip-hop both to describe their lives and to create shared spaces for uncensored social commentary, feminist challenges to patriarchy, and resistance against state institutions, while at the same time engaging with the global hip-hop community.

The definitive no-holds-barred biography of John Entwistle, The Who's legendary bass guitaristIt is an unequivocal fact that in terms of rock bands, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and the Who represent Year Zero; the beginning of all things, ground-breakers all.

"e;God Bless America"e; is a song most Americans know well.

This accessible introduction is the first English-language book in a generation to cover program music as idea and repertoire.

Andrei Tarkovsky's Sounding Cinema adds a new dimension to our understanding and appreciation of the work of Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986) through an exploration of the presence of music and sound in his films.

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';This brave new musical, haunting and electrifying by turns, restores the mystery, the thrill to that shattering transformation that stirs in all our souls.

Music in the Baroque World: History, Culture, Performance offers an interdisciplinary study of the music of Europe and the Americas in the seventeenth and first half of the eighteenth centuries.

French Music Since Berlioz explores key developments in French classical music during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

This is not just an important music book; it is an important history book.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Altkaschubisches Gesangbuch" verfügbar.

This is a music autobiography to remember.

PètalsPètals es una obra formada por tres movimientos:I.

The opera singer Giusto Ferdinando Tenducci was one of the most famous celebrities of the eighteenth century.

This book examines how popular music is able to approach subjects of bio-politics, climate change, solastalgia, and anthropomorphisation, alongside its more common diet of songs about love, dancing, and break-ups - all while satisfying its primary remit of being entertaining and listenable.

This book explores the transformation of ideas of the material in late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century musical composition.

First Published in 1994.

The Routledge Companion to Music, Autoethnography, and Reflexivity represents a substantial contribution to the field of writing reflexively about an individual's practice within music studies.

Samuel Babcock was an active Boston-area composer who made a significant contribution to the repertory of American psalmody.