Music

Useful work has been done in recent years in the areas of music psychology, philosophy and education, yet this is the first book to provide a wide assessment of what practical benefits this research can bring to the music practitioner.

First published in 1988.

Zwischen den amerikanischen Südstaaten und dem heimatlichen Bayern bewegt sich Martin Wimmer in seinem akrobatischen Text, der uns bisher ungeahnte deutsch-amerikanische Verflechtungen vor Augen führt.

How might performance serve as a means for facing ubiquitous trauma and pain, in humans and ecologies?

Martin Luthers life was too exciting not to be written for teens and younger readers!

Used from Broadway to Britain's West End, QLab software is the tool of choice for many of the world's most prominent sound, projection, and integrated media designers.

This book uncovers how music experience-live and recorded-is changing along with the use of digital technology in the 2000s.

In September 1969, the Beatles released their final recorded work, Abbey Road, using a variety of progressive musical ideas that expressed the group's approach to multi-track recording and offering songs that constituted a highpoint in the Beatles' musical corpus.

Preaching to the Choir imparts practical and pastoral wisdom to church musicians in their vocation as choir directors.

Have you ever wanted to learn more about hymns, but weren't sure where to start?

Excursions in World Music is a comprehensive introductory textbook to the musics of the world, creating a panoramic experience for students by engaging the many cultures around the globe, and highlighting the sheer diversity to be experienced in the world of music.

Born in 1916, Henri Dutilleux is one of France's leading composers, enjoying an international reputation for his beautifully crafted works.

In conversations on regional blues, the traditions of the Mississippi Delta, the Carolina Piedmont, Chicago, Houston, Memphis, New Orleans, and Los Angeles are frequently lauded.

The story of a revolution in music and technology, told through a century of recordings of the music of Johann Sebastian BachIn Reinventing Bach, his remarkable second book, Paul Elie tells the electrifying story of how musicians of genius have made Bach's music new in our time, at once restoring Bach as a universally revered composer and revolutionizing the ways that music figures into our lives.

In an age when students come to class with more varied music listening preferences and experiences than ever before, music educators can find themselves at a loss for how to connect with their students.

The Pogues injected the fury of punk into Irish folk music and gave the world the troubled, iconic, darkly romantic songwriter Shane MacGowan.

At the height of the Enlightenment, four conservatories in Naples stood at the center of European composition.

The Versatile Clarinet gives a wide-ranging look at the clarinet and the music that has been played on it.

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

»Was berühmte Frauen und Männer einst geschrieben, gereimt, gesagt haben: es ist quicklebendig für uns«.

Transforming Performance Anxiety Treatment: Using Cognitive Hypnotherapy and EMDR offers a much needed and different approach to this issue, using two psychodynamic therapies which work to bring about rapid and long-lasting change.

Have you ever dreamed of playing lead guitar like John Lee Hooker, Carlos Santana, Jimmy Page, Slash, and Eric Clapton?

Celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Backstreet Boys with the ultimate tribute bookfilled with amazing tour photography, band-member profiles, fan memories, and more.

The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Kinks, the Who, and numerous other groups put Britain at the center of the modern musical map.

Winner of the Wallace Berry Award, Society for Music TheoryWinner of the Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award, ASCAPWhat is it about the music you love that makes you want to hear it again?

Study of ''characteristic'' symphonies, discussing works by Beethoven, Haydn and Dittersdorf.

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.

This volume is the masterpiece of Chao Gejin, one of the best-known Chinese scholars of epic studies, during the last several decades between the 20th and 21st centuries.

Newly-discovered evidence underpins this comprehensive account of the creation and staging of the earliest surviving ''opera'', Euridice.

Transnational Memory and Popular Culture in East and Southeast Asia explores the significance of transnational popular culture in the formation and mediation of collective memories across the region.

Testing Hearing: The Making of Modern Aurality argues that the modern cultural practices of hearing and testing have emerged from a long interrelationship.

The story of American popular music is steeped in social history, race, gender and class, its evolution driven by ephemeral connection to young audiences.

René Frank richtet sich mit seinem Buch an alle Chorleiter und Musiklehrer, die ihren Chor in die Mehrstimmigkeit führen möchten.

"e;If Doughty Deeds, May Lady Please"e; is a song composed by Arthur Sullivan in 1866.

This is the first comprehensive treatment of the remarkable music and influence of Carla Bley, a highly innovative American jazz composer, pianist, organist, band leader, and activist.

Ende der 1960er / Anfang der 1970er kam es zu einem nachhaltigen Wandel in der Rockmusik.

In the aftermath of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Crawford F.

As one of the foremost composers, conductors, and pianists of the nineteenth century, Felix Mendelssohn played a fundamental role in the shaping of modern musical tastes through his contributions to the early music revival and the formation of the Austro-German musical canon.

Music therapy is growing internationally to be one of the leading evidence-based psychosocial allied health professions, meeting needs right across the lifespan.

Scattered in archives and historical societies across the United States are hundreds of volumes of manuscript music, copied by hand by eighteenth-century amateurs.