Music

Im Kino begegnet uns Ludwig van Beethoven gleich in doppelter Hinsicht: Seine Musik kommt im filmischen Einsatz auf verschiedenste Weise zu Gehör.

In 1950, as Arnold Schoenberg anticipated the publication of a collection of 15 of his most important writings, Style and Idea, he was already at work on a second volume to be called Program Notes.

Iceland is one of the most unique and fascinating countries in the world.

Interest in Pink Floyd remains as intense as ever even 40 years after the release of Dark Side of the Moon, with lavish box-sets collecting demos and out-takes, and Roger Waters' world tours of The Wall playing to packed stadiums.

A critical analysis of issues and approaches in a variety of areas, ranging from the political economy of popular music through its history and ethnography to its semiology, aesthetics and ideology.

Der im märkischen Wachow als Sohn eines Fleischers geborene Jochen Kowalski wusste schon früh, dass er unbedingt Sänger werden wollte.

Contributory volume examining the life and musical works of the composer and conductor Gustav Mahler.

Dance music at the courts of seventeenth-century Germany is a genre that is still largely unknown.

Made in Italy serves as a comprehensive and rigorous introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of contemporary Italian popular music.

This one-of-a-kind reference investigates the music and the musicians that set the popular trends of the last half century in America.

The Harpsichord and Clavichord, An Encyclopedia includes articles on this family of instruments, including famous players, composers, instruments builders, the construction of the instruments, and related terminology.

The music of Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), beloved by musicians and audiences since its debut, has been a difficult topic for scholars.

"e;Voices of the Country"e; presents interviews with innovative musicians, producers, and songwriters who shaped the last fifty years of country music.

Staatsrepräsentation bedient sich häufig musikalischer Elemente.

This book centers on a philosophical analysis of creative acts at the Burning Man Festival and their roles in wider social change.

Filmmakers' fascination with opera dates back to the silent era but it was not until the late 1980s that critical enquiries into the intersection of opera and cinema began to emerge.

At times it appears that a whole industry exists to perpetuate the myth of origin of the Beatles.

_________ Hepworth s knowledge and understanding of rock history is prodigious [a] hugely entertaining study of the LP s golden age The Times_________The era of the LP began in 1967, with Sgt Pepper ; The Beatles didn t just collect together a bunch of songs, they Made An Album.

Alexander Glasunow war eine der prägendsten Figuren der russischen Musikszene des ausgehenden 19.

The two-volume work The New Testament and the Apostolic Fathers offers a comparative study of two collections of early Christian texts: the New Testament; and the texts, from immediately after the New Testament period, which are conventionally referred to as the Apostolic Fathers.

Edvard Hagerup Grieg (1843 - 1907) was a Norwegian pianist and composer.

Taking up questions and issues in early chant studies, this volume of essays addresses some of the topics raised in James McKinnon's The Advent Project: The Later Seventh-Century Creation of the Roman Mass, the last book before his untimely death in February 1999.

This book reviews the 13 songs of Coke Studio's 14th season and highlights how those innovations resulted in a successful reboot of the show.

A collection presenting cutting edge research from music, dance, performance art, fashion and visual arts, written by scholar-practitioners working in Southeast Asia.

Dr Peter Martens provides the first complete edited English translation of, and commentary on, Issac Vossius's De poematum cantu et viribus rythmi, a late seventeenth-century work of Continental musical humanism, all the more interesting for being published in England and dedicated to royalist Henry Bennett, Duke of Arlington.

Ang Lee's The Ice Storm is a film of striking significance, which achieved widespread critical acclaim for its well crafted and superbly acted study of suburban morality in 1970s America.

INDEPENDENT BOOKS OF THE YEARThis completely new edition of the Penguin Guide reviews the 1000 best classical albums issued and reissued over the past five decades, many of which dominate the catalogue because of their sheer excellence, irrespective of recording dates.

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Over 200 works of the well-known Edition Eulenburg series of scores from orchestral and choral literature, chamber music and music theatre are now available in digital format.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

"e;As a composer one forgets, in time, the fine detail of composition processes which produced past work.

Music in Horror Film is a collection of essays that examine the effects of music and its ability to provoke or intensify fear in this particular genre of film.

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.

Baptists are not often thought of as leading theologians and practitioners of worship.

The Art Experience: An Introduction to Philosophy and the Arts takes readers on an engaging and accessible journey that explores a series of fundamental questions about the nature of art and aesthetic value.

Soul Covers is an engaging look at how three very different rhythm and blues performers-Aretha Franklin, Al Green, and Phoebe Snow-used cover songs to negotiate questions of artistic, racial, and personal authenticity.

Now a global and transnational phenomenon, hip hop culture continues to affect and be affected by the institutional, cultural, religious, social, economic and political landscape of American society and beyond.

'Nobody owes us anything, but the Simple Minds story has been too condensed.

Dance Matters Too: Markets, Memories, Identities is a rich intellectual contribution to the growing field of dance studies in India.

Die "Metzler Musik Chronik" informiert über 1000 musikalische Werke vom frühen Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart.

This technical volume is addressed to advanced treble recorder players looking for repertoire that is suited for consistent work on the foundations of their instrumental and musical abilities.

In den letzten Jahren haben sich zwar verschiedene Publikationen den erweiterten Spieltechniken der Holzblasinstrumente gewidmet, doch wurden immer wieder die fehlende Systematik, Unvollstandigkeit und vor allem der fehlende Praxisbezug bemangelt.