The traditions of the Mediterranean island of Corsica have been well preserved and revitalized, yet little has been written about it in scholarly circles.
This book offers a provocative retelling of Palestinian political history through an examination of the international commissions that have investigated political violence and human rights violations.
As a private piano instructor of all ages with beginners as well as transfer students, it was a challenge to match the right student with the appropriate theory book.
By enabling performers to grasp the fundamentals of interpretation, this work allows them to satisfy the requirements of the music and follow their artistic impulse simultaneously.
"e;Russian folk songs are a living history of the Russian people, rich, vivid and truthful, revealing their entire life,"e; wrote the great Russian writer Nikolai Gogol.
The latest volume in the Music Library Association's Index and Bibliography series, Analyses of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Music, 1940-2000, features over 9,000 references to analyses of works by more than 1,000 composers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The traditions of the Mediterranean island of Corsica have been well preserved and revitalized, yet little has been written about it in scholarly circles.
The classical music of Iraq, known as Iraqi Maqam, features classical and vernacular poetry sung by a virtuoso soloist and accompanied by a small instrumental ensemble.
Puerto Rico's rich musical history is chronicled in Donald Thompson's translated texts, a history that is often unavailable to those who do not read Spanish easily.
This book is a basic theory text designed for music majors as well as nonmajors who wish to acquire a working knowledge of musicianship and music theory.
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.
Over the past twenty years, a range of radical developments has revolutionized musicology, leading certain practitioners to describe their discipline as "e;New.
In Musicologia-meaning "e;musical reasoning"e; as distinct from a mere love of music-author and composer Robin Maconie takes aim against the fashionable misconception that music is empty of meaning, or "e;auditory cheesecake.
Written as a music theory text that not only addresses the important fundamental syntax of music in the classical sense but also relates this syntax to current practices and styles, this book should be particularly well-suited to musicians focusing on aspects of the music business and of popular culture.
Music Theory for Musical Theatre is a textbook designed to demystify music theory and analysis to make it more accessible to the musical theatre student.
Unlike most jazz arranging books, which focus on the rudiments of arranging (transposition, ranges, notation, and so forth), this book deals with the real substance of arranging for small jazz ensembles, in addition to the rudiments.
Using landscape as its unifying concept, this engaging book explores orchestral music that represents real and imagined physical and cultural spaces, natural forces, and humans and wildlife.
Over the past twenty years, a range of radical developments has revolutionized musicology, leading certain practitioners to describe their discipline as "e;New.
A first of its kind collection, How to Rap is an insightful and intelligent breakdown of the elements of rap for anyone wanting to learn the art form or understand the principles behind it.
*** Accompanies BBC2's major new TV series and The Story of Music in 50 Pieces on Radio 3 *** In his dynamic tour through 40,000 years of music, from prehistoric instruments to modern-day pop, Howard Goodall leads us through the story of music as it happened, idea by idea, so that each musical innovation harmony, notation, sung theatre, the orchestra, dance music, recording, broadcasting strikes us with its original force.
Contents Include: Accent, Time and Rhythm Phrases and Sentences The Half-Phrase, or Section Rythmic Extension and Contraction The Construction of Complete Movements-The Simple Binary, or Two-Part Form The Simple Ternary, or Three-Part Form The Binary and Ternary Forms(Continued) The Evolution of the Ternary Idea: The Minuet and Trio-The Episodical Form The Evolution of the Trenary Idea(Continued)The Older, Or Simple, Rondo The Evolution of the Trenary Idea(Continued) Sonata-Form-The Exposition-First Subject and Transition Sonita-The Development, or Free Fantasia Form(Continued): Sonita-Form(Continued) The Recapitulation and Coda-The Introduction Departures from the Normal Type of Sonata-Form:(i)modified Sonata-Form (ii) The Modern or Sonata-Rondo The Variation Form The Sonata as a Whole Fugue Canon (i) The Symphony:(ii) The Overture :(iii) Concerted Chamber-Music The Cocerto (i) Dance Forms The Evolution of Sonata-Form Modern Tendencies Programme-Music, The Symphonic Poem, etc Glossary General Index Keywords: Sonata Form Evolution Ternary Minuet And Trio Rondo Recapitulation Chamber Music Dance Forms I Dance Coda Fugue Contraction Departures Fantasia Tendencies Exposition Sentences Accent Rhythm Phrases
