Music

With Multicultural Perspectives in Music Education, you can explore musics from around the world with your students in a meaningful way.

Many can attest to the importance of the self-growth that occurs for young people through the arts and their accompanying communities of support, understanding, and caring.

This book provides rare insights into the difficult and complex dialogues between stakeholders within and outside the music industries in a time of transition.

From 1940 to 1990, new machines and devices radically changed listening to music.

In Stambeli, Richard C.

Will der Protestantismus in einer zunehmend säkularen Gesellschaft anschlussfähig bleiben, so tut er gut daran, sich auf seine liberalen Traditionen zu besinnen und die darin enthaltenen theologischen Einsichten, wissenschaftlichen Fragestellungen und methodischen Ansätze für unsere Zeit fruchtbar zu machen.

Assessment is central to ensemble music.

The most compelling art form to emerge from the United States in the second half of the twentieth century, rock & roll stands in an edgy relationship with its own mythology, its own musicological history and the broader culture in which it plays a part.

This collection analyses the remaking of culture and music spaces during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

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

The Penderyn 2020 Music Book Prize (UK edition)Living Blues Critics Choice Best Blues Book of 2019Living Blues Readers Choice Best Blues Book of 2019Certificate of Merit in the Best Historical Research in Recorded Blues, Soul, Gospel, or R&B category from ARSC (Association for Recorded Sound Collections)An essential story of blues lore, black culture, and American music historyRobert Johnson's recordings, made in 1936 and 1937, have profoundly influenced generations of singers, guitarists, and songwriters.

When the Nicholas Brothers danced, uptown at the Cotton Club, downtown at the Roxy, in segregated movie theatres in the South, and dance halls across the country, audiences cheered, clapped, stomped their feet, and shouted out uncontrollably.

The first comprehensive study of the music of Frederick Delius (1862-1934), from his earliest pieces up to his final compositions, with background information and a complete list of works.

In the 1940s film Now, Voyager, Bette Davis plays a daughter struggling against her mother's stifling repression.

Luther's transformational idea of justification by faith alone was often misunderstood and misrepresented in the early years of the Reformation.

In a lively exploration of Jacques Offenbach's final masterpiece, Heather Hadlock shows how Les Contes d'Hoffmann summed up not only the composer's career but also a century of Romantic culture.

The Enigmatic Founder of Israel: A Nuanced Portrait of David Ben-GurionIn this definitive biography of David Ben-Gurion, Israel's leading journalist-historian Tom Segev draws on previously unreleased archival material to paint a nuanced and startling portrait of Israel's founder.

Jews and Jazz: Improvising Ethnicity explores the meaning of Jewish involvement in the world of American jazz.

Jay-Z: King of America is the first in-depth biography to dissect the life and music of the most successful rapper of all time.

In Off Key, Kay Dickinson offers a compelling study of how certain alliances of music and film are judged aesthetic failures.

An alluring exploration of the people and the legendary craftsmanship behind a single Steinway pianoLike no other instrument, a grand piano melds engineering feats with the magical sounds of great music: the thunder of a full-throated bass, the bright, delicate trill of the upper treble.

This book examines the primary biblical themes in the lyrical theology of Charles Wesley, the master hymn writer and cofounder of the Methodist movement.

Through a series of vivid case studies, Music and Creativity in Healthcare Settings: Does Music Matter?

Originally published in German as Interpreting Mozart on the Keyboard in 1957, this definitive work on the performance of Mozart's works has greatly influenced students and scholars of keyboard literature and of Mozart.

In this immersive ethnography, Tony Tian-Ren Lin explores the reasons that Latin American immigrants across the United States are increasingly drawn to Prosperity Gospel Pentecostalism, a strand of Protestantism gaining popularity around the world.

"e;A rousing, well-researched biography"e; of the Texan piano prodigy who crossed the Iron Curtain at the height of the Cold War (Kirkus, starred review).

John Taverner was the leading composer of church music under Henry VIII.

From the Mormon Church's public announcement of its sanction of polygamy in 1852 until its formal decision to abandon the practice in 1890, people on both sides of the "e;Mormon question"e; debated central questions of constitutional law.

First Published in 1997.

Songs of Seoul is an ethnographic study of voice in South Korea, where the performance of Western opera, art songs, and choral music is an overwhelmingly Evangelical Christian enterprise.

A jazz writer for three decades, W.

Verdi ist neben Mozart und Wagner der populärste Komponist des Musiktheaters.

Teaching Strings in Today's Classroom: A Guide for Group Instruction assists music education students, in-service teachers, and performers to realize their goals of becoming effective string educators.

Ideal for home learning, this simple and inspirational guide helps children understand and appreciate music.

What do the world's most prominent oboists have to say about their musical ideas, performance techniques, and teaching strategies?

Joonas Kokkonen (1921-1996) has been one of the most performed Finnish composers during the past 25 years both within Finland and abroad.

This book supplies detailed explanations for young singers, teachers, and professional singers with "e;troubled"e; voices.

This book explores the web of pitch relations that generates the musical language of non-serialized twelve-tone music and supplies both the analytical materials and methods necessary for analyses of a vast proportion of the 20th century musical repertoire.

It dominates our lives.

Samuel Wesley and the Crisis of Tory Piety, 1685-1720 uses the experiences of Samuel Wesley (1662-1735) to examine what life was like in the Church of England for Tory High Church clergy.

Here at last is a listener's guide to the hidden meanings of western classical music, expressed in accessible, jargon-free language and drawing on universal listening experiences and skills.

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How can a piano tuner obtain such high precision with no other measuring device than their own ears?

Sonic Liturgy: Ritual and Music in Hindu Tradition builds on the foundation of Guy L.

In response to the events following September 11, a number of leading cultural studies and interpretive qualitative researchers write from their own experiences and hearts.

Karen Henson explores a wealth of new historical material about singers and opera performance in the late nineteenth century.