Music: styles and genres

In this second edition of Orchestral ';Pops' Music: A Handbook, Lucy Manning brings forward to the present her remarkable compendium of information about this form of orchestral music.

While there are many similarities between solo and choral singing, they are not the same discipline, and it is important to realize the different approaches necessary for each.

Do you feel like you are barely holding on?

The most important step is the first one.

Is it possible to be a committed Christian and a rock superstar?

Led Zeppelin, who bestrode the world of rock like a colossus, have continually grown in popularity and influence since their official winding up in 1980.

The son of an 18th century Austrian wheelwright, Haydn is acknowledged for refining the symphony and string quartet and praised for his oratorios and masses.

The Top 10 Sunday Times BestsellerNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREOscar Nominated For Best Picture and Best Adapted ScreenplaySet amid the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of NASA's African-American female mathematicians who played a crucial role in America's space program.

Famously reclusive and secretive, North Korea can be seen as a theatre that projects itself through music and performance.

Famously reclusive and secretive, North Korea can be seen as a theatre that projects itself through music and performance.

This study reassesses Cage's multifaceted practice from a transdisciplinary perspective, using text as a premise for his musical, visual, lingual, and museal compositions.

While much has been said about the nostalgia and historic references of Daft Punk's final album, Random Access Memories, this book reveals its ambition and future-focus, and claims these aspects do not necessarily contradict.

In this unique and hybrid book, cultural and music historian Michael P.

"e;I'd recommend this book to anyone, whether beginner or expert.

In this book, Emily Wilbourne boldly traces the roots of early opera back to the sounds of the commedia dell'arte.

The years between roughly 1760 and 1810, a period stretching from the rise of Joseph Haydn's career to the height of Ludwig van Beethoven's, are often viewed as a golden age for musical culture, when audiences started to revel in the sounds of the concert hall.

Though some dismiss opera as old-fashioned, it shows no sign of disappearing from the world's stage.

A close look at how Taiwanese musicians are using rap music as a creative way to explore and reconcile Taiwanese identity and history.

This book examines the renowned portrait collection assembled by C.

Feasting and Fasting in Opera shows that the consumption of food and drink is an essential component of opera, both on and off stage.

Daniel Albright investigates musical phenomena through the lens of monism, the philosophical belief that things that appear to be two are actually one.

A history of nineteenth-century New Orleans and the people who made it a vital, if unexpected, part of an emerging operatic world.

Das Rheingold, Die Walkure, and Siegfried.

Early seventeenth-century Italy saw a revolution in instrumental music.

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.

In Argentina, tango isn't just the national music-it's a national brand.

From the theatrical stage to the literary salon, the figure of Sappho-the ancient poet and inspiring icon of feminine creativity-played a major role in the intertwining histories of improvisation, text, and performance throughout the nineteenth century.

Ambient Sufism is a study of the intertwined musical lives of several ritual communities in Tunisia that invoke the healing powers of long-deceased Muslim saints through music-driven trance rituals.

Opera was invented at the end of the sixteenth century in imitation of the supposed style of delivery of ancient Greek tragedy, and, since then, operas based on Greek drama have been among the most important in the repertoire.

The Jazz Age.

Any listener knows the power of music to define a place, but few can describe the how or why of this phenomenon.

When thinking of indigenous music, many people may imagine acoustic instruments and pastoral settings far removed from the whirl of modern life.

We seem to see melodrama everywhere we look-from the soliloquies of devastation in a Dickens novel to the abject monstrosity of Frankenstein's creation, and from Louise Brooks's exaggerated acting in Pandora's Box to the vicissitudes endlessly reshaping the life of a brooding Don Draper.

Since its origin, opera has been identified with the performance and negotiation of power.

In 1956 Harry Belafonte's Calypso became the first LP to sell more than a million copies.

A study of the networks of opera production and critical discourse that shaped Italian cultural identity during and after Unification.

This is a groundbreaking study of the prestigious Berlin and Vienna Philharmonics during the Third Reich.

This book explores an important aspect of hip-hop that is rarely considered: its deep entanglement with spiritual life.

Jazz is born of collaboration, improvisation, and listening.

Analyzing the final three decades of Haydn's career, this book uses the composer as a prism through which to examine urgent questions across the humanities.

Arnold Schoenberg’s close involvement with many of the principal developments of twentieth-century music, most importantly the break with tonality and the creation of twelve-tone composition, generated controversy from the time of his earliest works to the present day.

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

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.

Since the 1960s, British progressive rock band Jethro Tull has pushed the technical and compositional boundaries of rock music by infusing its musical output with traditions drawn from classical, folk, jazz, and world music.

How do we speak about jazz?

In New York and London during World War I, the performance of lieder-German art songs-was roundly prohibited, representing as they did the music and language of the enemy.

This year marks the golden anniversary of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, the flagship band of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians.

Haydn's music has been performed continuously for more than two hundred years.

Musicologist Pauline Fairclough explores the evolving role of music in shaping the cultural identity of the Soviet Union in a revelatory work that counters certain hitherto accepted views of an unbending, unchanging state policy of repression, censorship, and dissonance that existed in all areas of Soviet artistic endeavor.

Ben Hecht’s critically acclaimed autobiographical memoir, first published in 1954, offers incomparably pungent evocations of Chicago in the 1910s and 1920s, Hollywood in the 1930s, and New York during the Second World War and after.