Music

Singing has long been an integral component of Wales's culture, identity, and international reputation; alongside the deep traditions of Welsh folksong, the country's composers have produced a rich body of art music.

The role of the commercial composer has grown to include a wide range of new responsibilities.

'The pages sing in this beautiful book.

A celebration of the four longhaired, oddly dressed chaps who took over America—filled with facts, stories, and photos.

This volume asserts that institutional teaching, study, administration, and performance of music should derive from essential goodness: the transcendent value embodied in meaning-making that is manifest through holistic cognitive, creative, kinesthetic, productive, and expressive reality.

Das Haus der Musik ist ein bezauberndes Kinderbuch, das mit Humor und Herz die Liebe zur Musik feiert.

This book explores some of the various ways in which hip hop has tragically and perilously been misused by scholars and how the study of hip hop often entrenches antiblackness as well as other social problematics.

Distinguished ethnomusicologist Philip V.

A new picture of music at the basilica of St.

Institutions play a crucial role in shaping experiences of end-of-life care, dying, death, body disposal and bereavement.

Les Cahiers Maurice Ravel s'adressent aux musiciens, chercheurs, musicologues et mélomanes attachés à mieux comprendre la vie, l'oeuvre et la personnalité du compositeur.

This study considers the performativity of sound-producing sculptures made in the twenty-first century through a cultural history of certain works.

The volume presents expanded versions of papers from the symposium "Reassessing Haydn's Sacred Music" co-sponsored by the International Joseph Haydn Private Foundation Eisenstadt and the Haydn Society of North America in Eisenstadt in June 2023.

One of this century's most influential musical intellects takes center stage in Taylor Greer's meticulously wrought study of Charles Seeger (1886-1979).

Music has been critical to national identity in Latin America, especially since the worldwide emphasis on nations and cultural identity that followed World War I.

The Ballad as Song is a collection of essays tracing the authors decades-long exploration of the intersection between traditional ballads and their accompanying tunes.

»Don't look back in anger«Dass die zerstrittenen Brüder Noel und Liam Gallagher eines Tages wieder zueinander finden würden, haben Fans nicht zu hoffen gewagt.

Ewald Pfleger, Gitarrist, Musikproduzent, Autor und Komponist von »Live Is Life« ist Gründungsmitglied der Rockband Opus gibt in seinem Buch nicht nur die Antwort auf die Frage »Live Is Life oder Life Is Live?

From the winds of Mars to a babys first laugh, a prolific philosopher-composer reflects on the profound imperative of sound in everyday life.

Fanfare for a City invites us to listen to the sounds of Paris during the Second Empire (18521870), a regime that oversaw dramatic social change in the French capital.

Belle epoque Paris adored dance.

This collection of scholarly essays analyzes how NOFX's aesthetics of punk provocation and discomfort provokes the band's listeners to confront contradictions and conflicts in society concerning politics, identity, authenticity, and decorum.

Chord Transformations in Higher-Dimensional Networks proposes an in-depth formal framework for generalized Tonnetze.

Short Studies in the Nature of Music (1920) examines the origin and nature of music, prompting lines of thought for greater analysis.

Between the Ideal and the Real describes why Iraq state-building and democratic transformation failed by offering a very new, and unusual, perspective, away from the usual blame assigned to the US that has become part of the "e;conventional wisdom"e; about Iraq and the Middle East.

From the winds of Mars to a babys first laugh, a prolific philosopher-composer reflects on the profound imperative of sound in everyday life.

A coming-of-age tale from one of the most successful American producers of our time, Jeffrey Seller, who is the only producer to have mounted two Pulitzer Prizewinning musicalsHamilton and Rent.

Films are the lingua franca of western culture; for decades they have provided viewers with a universal way of understanding the human experience.

In the early second century CE, someone was described as playing a pipe with a bag tucked under his armpit.