Music: styles and genres

Gilbert and Sullivan s operas are some of the world s best-loved musical works, delighting audiences with their joyous wit, topsy-turvy logic and extravagant wordplay.

This book investigates the phenomenon of queering in popular music and video, interpreting the music of numerous pop artists, styles, and idioms.

In these writings, available here in English for the first time, the distinguished Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu reflects on his contemporaries, including John Cage, Olivier Messiaen, and Merce Cunningham; on nature, which has profoundly influenced his composition; on film and painting; on relationships between East and West; on traditional Japanese music; and on his own compositions.

Elisabeth Lutyens (1906-1983), Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994) and Grace Williams (1906-1977) were contemporaries at the Royal College of Music.

Ballet impresario Sergey Pavlovich Diaghilev and composer Sergey Sergeyevich Prokofiev are eminent figures in twentieth-century cultural history, yet this is the first detailed account of their fifteen-year collaboration.

Cuban music is recognized unanimously as a major historical force behind Latin American popular music, and as an important player in the development of US popular music and jazz.

Rebecca Herissone''s study is the first comprehensive investigation of approaches to the creation of music in late seventeenth-century England.

Elegantly and engagingly written, this study demonstrates how opera has communicated with its diverse audiences over time.

This book considers the history of Do It Yourself art, music and publishing, demonstrating how DIY strategies have transitioned from being marginal, to emergent, to embedded.

It s the late 1970s and 20-something Christopher Fowler is a film freak, obsessively watching lousy films in run-down fleapit cinemas.

18th-Century Piano Music focuses on the core composers of the 18th century repertoire.

The musical, whether on stage or screen, is undoubtedly one of the most recognizable musical genres, yet one of the most perplexing.

Popular music is a cultural form much rooted in space and place.

This collection of fourteen essays provides a rich and detailed history of the relationship between and music and image in documentary films, exploring the often overlooked role of music in the genre and its subsequent impact on an audience's perception of reality and fiction.

The experimental composer John Cage (1912-1992) is best known for his works in percussion, prepared piano, and electronic music, but he is also acknowledged to be one of the most significant figures in 20th century theatre.

This annotated chronology of western music is the third in a series of outlines on the history of music in western civilization.

The carole was the principal social dance in France and England from c.

Why is classical music predominantly the preserve of the white middle classes?

Music, Time, and Its Other explores the relation between the enigmatic character of our temporal experiences and music's affective power.

The Sense of Sound is a radical recontextualization of French song, 1260-1330.

Jacques Brel, Georges Brassens and Leo Ferre are three emblematic figures of post-war French popular music who have been constantly associated with each other by the public and the media.

The eleven essays that comprise this volume represent some of the most significant strands of current Schubert research.

This book examines arranging methods and their applications.

'There was a lot that we kept from my mother.

It was as if American television audiences discovered the musical in the early 21st century.

The Italian violinist and composer Giovanni Battista Viotti (1755-1824) is considered today to have been one of the most significant forces in the history of violin playing.

Nikos Skalkottas is perhaps the last great 'undiscovered' composer of the twentieth century.

This new collection is the second in the Global Punk series.

Today's musical theatre world rocks.

First published in 1998.

Our image of Beethoven has been transformed by the research generated by a succession of scholars and theorists who blazed new trails from the 1960s onwards.

Opera is often regarded as the pinnacle of high art.

Scholarship on urban culture and the senses has traditionally focused on the study of literature and the visual arts.

Charlie Byrd, Herbie Mann, and others brought in bags full of discs from a trip to Brazil in 1961.

Rida Johnson Young (ca.

New York City witnessed a dazzling burst of creativity in the 1920s.

Philip Burton explores Augustine's treatment of language in his Confessions - a major work of Western philosophy and literature, with continuing intellectual importance.

DIY House Shows and Music Venues in the US is an interdisciplinary study of house concerts and other types of DIY ("e;do- it- yourself"e;) music venues and events in the United States, such as warehouses, all- ages clubs, and guerrilla shows, with its primary focus on West Coast American DIY locales.

The book comprises a selection of some 750 letters of the composer, Ralph Vaughan Williams, selected from an extant corpus of about 3,300.

Chou Wen-chung is one of the most influential musical figures of our time.

Among the major changes that swept through the music industry during the mid-nineteenth century, one that has received little attention is how musical performances were managed and directed.

This book highlights how the diverse nature of spiritual practices are experienced and manifest through the medium of popular music.

The transition from the valveless natural horn to the modern valved horn in 19th-century Paris was different from similar transitions in other countries.

Over the last century, developments in electronic music and art have enabled new possibilities for creating audio and audio-visual artworks.

Was there a genuine theological consensus about Christ in the early Church?

This work constitutes the largest and most comprehensive research guide ever published about Benjamin Britten.