Music: styles and genres

When it was originally published in 1967, this study of J.

What people ultimately want from opera, audience research suggests, is to be absorbed in a story that engages their feelings, even moves them deeply, and that may lead them to insights about life and, perhaps, themselves.

A composer and lyricist of enormous innovation and influence, Marc Blitzstein remains one of the most versatile and fascinating figures in the history of American music, his creative output running the gamut from films scores and Broadway operas to art songs and chamber pieces.

Das Wiener Kärntnertortheater war in der ersten Hälfte des 18.

With its appeal predicated upon what civilized society rejects, there has always been something hidden in plain sight when it comes to the outlaw figure as cultural myth.

Exploring Peru's lively music industry and the studio producers, radio DJs, and program directors that drive it, Gentleman Troubadours and Andean Pop Stars is a fascinating account of the deliberate development of artistic taste.

Sarah Caldwell, the leader of the Opera Company of Boston from 1958-1990, was a groundbreaking and idiosyncratic woman who established her own career as a conductor and stage director in an environment resistant to change.

In the tumultuous decade following World War II, the civil rights movement began transforming Black lives and American society.

For readers of Mozart in the Jungle and Year of Wonder, a new history of and guide to classical music.

Taking seriously the practice and not just the theory of music, this ground-breaking collection of essays establishes a new standard for the interdisciplinary conversation between theology, musicology, and liturgical studies.

The Ramayana, one of the two pre-eminent Hindu epics, has played a foundational role in many aspects of India's arts and social norms.

There can be little doubt that opera and emotion are inextricably linked.

As a young man, American Louis Sarno heard a song on the radio that gripped his imagination.

When Lady in the Dark opened on January 23, 1941, its many firsts immediately distinguished it as a new and unusual work.

From the Foreword by Renee Fleming: "e;Kathryn LaBouff has developed an approach to singing in the English language which is wonderfully user-friendly, and which has surely saved much wear and tear on my voice.

John Antill (1904-1986) was one of the foremost composers of Australia's post-colonial period.

Featuring a foreword by Tricia Rose and an Afterword by Cathy J.

In Feenin, Alexander Ghedi Weheliye traces R&B music's continuing centrality in Black life since the late 1970s.

Music in the Role-Playing Game: Heroes & Harmonies offers the first scholarly approach focusing on music in the broad class of video games known as role-playing games, or RPGs.

From the author of The History of Rock ’n’ Roll in Ten Songs comes his “Basement Tapes”: the complete “Real Life Rock Top 10” columns For nearly thirty years, Greil Marcus has written a remarkable column called “Real Life Rock Top Ten.

In the 1960s and 1970s, a number of British musicians rediscovered traditional folk ballads, fusing the old melodies with rock, jazz, and blues styles to create a new genre dubbed "e;electric folk"e; or "e;British folk rock.

This book visualises key moments in history where ordinary people have risen up and fought governments, corporations, even empires.

The musical tradition of Ma'luf is believed to have come to North Africa with Muslim and Jewish refugees escaping the Christian reconquista of Spain between the tenth and seventeenth centuries.

Who changed Bob Marley's famous peace-and-love anthem into "e;Come to Jamaica and feel all right?

The result of years of research by its authors, this discography strives to identify and trace the recorded development of the musical style now known as western swing from its early years through World War II.

This book is the first to examine in depth the contributions of major British authors such as W.

What did popular song mean to people across the world during the First World War?

Maurice Ravel, as composer and scenario writer, collaborated with some of the greatest ballet directors, choreographers, designers and dancers of his time, including Diaghilev, Ida Rubinstein, Benois and Nijinsky.

While in the Mississippi State Archives tracking down Abbott Ferriss's beautiful photographic portraits of musicians from 1939, author Harry Bolick discovered, to his amazement, a treasure trove of earlier fiddle tunes in manuscript form.

Early '70s Radio focuses on the emergence of commercial music radio "e;formats,"e; which refer to distinct musical genres aimed toward specific audiences.

Compelling inside views of what characterises opera and music theatre in African and African diasporic contexts.

Henri Dutilleux (born 1916) is one of France's leading composers, though until recently his music received more attention in the United States than in Europe.

Punk Pedagogies: Music, Culture and Learning brings together a collection of international authors to explore the possibilities, practices and implications that emerge from the union of punk and pedagogy.

The renaissance flute, with its rich history, stunning repertoire, and mellow tone, has attracted a significant following among flutists, whether they specialize in modern flute or historical instruments.

Tracing Tangueros offers an inside view of Argentine tango music in the context of the growth and development of the art form's instrumental and stylistic innovations.

Robbie Robertson's singular contributions to popular music have made him one of the most beloved songwriters and guitarists of his time.

***This is the story of the great lost Beatles album.

The question of tonality's origins in music's pitch content has long vexed many scholars of music theory.

We know what, say, a Josquin mass looks like but what did it sound like?

Opera for the People is an in-depth examination of a forgotten chapter in American social and cultural history: the love affair that middle-class Americans had with continental opera (translated into English) in the 1870s, 1880s, and 1890s.

Explore the defining musical artists and moments of the punk rock and new wave eras - one of the most transformative times in rock and roll history.

Featuring multidisciplinary research by an international team of leading scholars, this volume addresses the contested aspects of arabesque while exploring its penchant for crossing artistic and cultural boundaries to create new forms.

British blues fan Mike Leadbitter launched the magazine Blues Unlimited in 1963.

What is the relationship between music and culture?

Few musicals have had the impact of Lerner and Loewe's timeless classic My Fair Lady.

The treatise on musica plana and musica mensurabilis written by Lambertus/Aristoteles is our main witness to thirteenth-century musical thought in the decades between the treatises of Johannes de Garlandia and Franco of Cologne.

Leipzig, Germany, is renowned as the city where Johann Sebastian Bach worked as a church musician until his death in 1750, and where Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy directed the famed Gewandhaus orchestra until his own death in 1847.