Music: styles and genres

Best known for his international hit' Streets Of London', Ralph McTell has recorded over 300 songs in a career that spans more than 50 years.

Francoise Legrand, musicienne eclectique, cheffe d'orchestre engagee et passionnee, a su conjuguer exigence artistique et humanisme durant sa carriere.

Opera is food for the soul.

Opera is food for the soul.

Descobreix el Canconer Nadalenc Catala - un recull de melodies tradicionals adaptades per a violoncel amb acords de guitarra, pensat per fer sonar el Nadal amb emocio i senzillesa.

This two- volume work encourages students, fans, and scholars to take an expansive view of Michael Jackson's art.

This book offers a vital contribution to the study of women in classical music, focusing on composer Maria Hester Park.

This book brings together several decades of research on the topic, including the last two decades of the author's own research.

Joe Jackson is a singer, songwriter, composer, and performer who has twisted and turned his career through numerous genres and continues to release excellent albums forty years after his initial breakthrough success.

Regula Klingler erzahlt die ungewohnliche Lebensgeschichte ihres Grossvaters Adalbert Klingler (1896-1974), dem Wegbereiter des kunstlerischen Handpuppenspiels in der Schweiz.

This book offers a vital contribution to the study of women in classical music, focusing on composer Maria Hester Park.

In extending the traditional field of Word and Music Studies to include research on film and other forms of moving visualizations, this volume focuses on innovative discussions of artistic works showing relationships between three individual communicative media.

Best known for a string of 1980s pop soul classics such as 'Private Eyes', 'Maneater', and 'Out Of Touch', Daryl Hall & John Oates are far more than the much-caricatured image of the tall blonde one and the short one with the moustache.

This book brings together several decades of research on the topic, including the last two decades of the author's own research.

Baptist Hymnody in America is a collection of primary documents on congregational singing among Baptists in the United States from the eighteenth through the early twenty-first centuries.

Das bewegte Leben des Poeten und Liedermachers Konstantin Wecker"Der Liebe zuliebe« – ein Buch über eine lebenslange Suche: nach Sinn, nach dem »mehr als alles«, nach dem großen Geheimnis, nach Liebe, nach Wegen zum inneren und äußeren Frieden.

Sobre el escenario, bajo las luces y frente a su publico, Pastora Soler sintio el silencio y la sombra de la inseguridad.

A poignant and revelatory memoir from acclaimed novelist and actor Denise Nicholas that offers an intimate exploration of her multifaceted life, delving deeply into themes of artistic self-invention, race, and grief.

Poco despues de iniciar su andadura con Jockey Slut -la revista que con los anos se convertiria en uno de los medios mas influyentes y reputados de la actualidad de la musica electronica-, sus creadores, John Burgess y Paul Benney, recibieron la maqueta de un duo frances del todo desconocido formado en Paris por Thomas Bangalter y Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo y que respondia al nombre de Daft Punk.

Foreword by Barry DevlinFive-piece Horslips are arguably the greatest band in Irish rock music history, producing truly special, unique music in the 1970s.

Mention the words' heavy metal' and chances are one of the first names you'll get back is Iron Maiden.

Where previous accounts of the Renaissance have not fully acknowledged the role that music played in this decisive period of cultural history, Laurenz Lütteken merges historical music analysis with the analysis of the other arts to provide a richer context for the emergence and evolution of creative cultures across civilizations.

This book examines the first decade-and-a-half of Lou Reed's work as a solo artist.

El chucu-chucu es un termino onomatopeyico con el que se denomino a la musica tropical bailable colombiana, especialmente aquella que adapto el folclor de la costa norte colombiana en el interior del pais, durante los anos 60 y 70 en Medellin, Colombia, epoca en la que el desarrollo de la industria discografica fue exponencial.

How has the cultural phenomenon of Chinese rock music shaped the identity of a Chinese woman scholar and influenced wider Chinese society?

Wo von Engeln gesprochen wird, ist von Musik die Rede.

Como un homenaje a su vida y su obra, el centenario de su nacimiento, en 2011, fue la ocasion para celebrar la memoria de Carl Dolmetsch, una de las figuras mas influyentes del extraordinario renacimiento de la flauta dulce en el siglo XX.

Status Quo are a British institution with an epic 50-year career.

This book argues that the songs on Bob Dylan’s John Wesley Harding are deeply concerned with the fractures in collective memory and politics contemporary with its composition and recording.

Even in an age of unparalleled innovation and artistic freedom, Spirit stood head and shoulders above their 1960s-era rock 'n' roll contemporaries.

In der Musikgeschichte hat das Wort "Messe" einen besonderen Klang: Vom Spätmittelalter bis zur Gegenwart gibt es eine unübersehbare Fülle von Vertonungen der fünf feststehenden Teile der römischen Messliturgie, darunter von den größten Komponisten wie Bach, Mozart oder Beethoven.

The creative use of indeterminacy, that is, "e;chance,"e; is an often-overlooked design opportunity despite the universality of chance in art, nature, science, and life.

Beethovens sechzehn Streichquartette gehören zu den anspruchsvollsten und weit in die Zukunft weisenden Werken der Musikgeschichte.

This edited volume offers a new perspective on the new objectivity movement in music during the interwar period, challenging the view of it as a solely German or Berlin-based movement.

Was hat Heimat mit Musik zu tun?

The Beatles pioneered so much in the recording studio during their short time together that it's easy to forget that they formed their own record company in April 1968.

Wishbone Ash were formed in London in 1969 by Andy Powell, Martin Turner, Steve Upton and Ted Turner.

In 1985, Suzanne Vega released her debut, garnering platinum status in the UK and this New York-based singer-songwriter's self-titled album claimed the number 80 spot on Rolling Stone magazine's 100 Best Albums of the Eighties.

How have romantic narratives involving Beethovens Moonlight Sonata affected how we hear this famous piece?

As one of the greatest acts to come out of the Motown Record Corporation, the influence of the Temptations cannot be overstated.

The White Stripes were one of the breakout bands of the early 2000s 'rock revival' and reintroduced a sense of mystery and panache to the staid indie rock scene of the era.

This book explores how researchers in music therapy define and engage with reflexivity, and what reflexivity accomplishes.

Sing Vocal Jazz, Teach Vocal Jazz: A Holistic Guide to Vocal Jazz Performance Pedagogy provides a step-by-step, research-based, field-tested set of pedagogical tools specific to vocal jazz.

Sing Vocal Jazz, Teach Vocal Jazz: A Holistic Guide to Vocal Jazz Performance Pedagogy provides a step-by-step, research-based, field-tested set of pedagogical tools specific to vocal jazz.