Estas páginas reúnen semblanzas biográficas de 32 músicos que durante su vida han dado un aporte esencial al desarrollo de las artes musicales en nuestro país.
Una de las óperas más aclamadas del compositor italiano Giacomo Puccini: Madame Butterfly, nos cuenta en este libro de amor y desengaño, de esperanzas y decepciones, de morir y trascender, temas que los niños interpretarán de acuerdo a sus conocimientos y sentimientos.
Basado en el ballet de Piotr Ilich Tchaikovsky, este cuento reúne todos los elementos para que una historia de amor sea inolvidable: engaño, traición, alguien que se interpone entre los amantes y, finalmente, un sacrificio trágico pero esperanzador.
In Search of Soul explores the meaning of ';soul' in sacred and profane incarnations, from its biblical origins to its central place in the rich traditions of black and Latin history.
Breaking down walls between genres that are usually discussed separately-classical, jazz, and popular-this highly engaging book offers a compelling new integrated view of twentieth-century music.
Race, politics, and opera production during apartheid South Africa intersect in this historiographic work on the Eoan Group, a ';coloured' cultural organization that performed opera in the Cape.
The Lombardo Story, Guy Lombardo and The Royal Canadians, the bands life and times, by Beverly Fink Cline, is an eBook re-issue of a 1979 book published by Musson Book Co.
This comprehensive graduate textbook focuses on the full spectrum of long-term care settings ranging from family and community based care through supportive housing options to a variety of institutional long-term care alternatives.
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.
The Top 10 Sunday Times BestsellerNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREOscar Nominated For Best Picture and Best Adapted ScreenplaySet amid the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of NASA's African-American female mathematicians who played a crucial role in America's space program.
The Psychology of Music serves as an introduction to an interdisciplinary field in psychology, which focuses on the interpretation of music through mental function.
El desarrollo de la música en las últimas décadas ha obligado a los artistas a emprender nuevos enfoques y paradigmas sobre la interpretación, para desarrollarse y comunicar desde nuevas técnicas compositivas.
Jazz Guitar Styles is an instruction book designed for the guitarist who already knows the fundamentals but wishes to explore the "e;classic"e; style of swing-era guitar.
From bell ringing to fireworks, gongs to cannon salutes, a dazzling variety of sounds and soundscapes marked the China encountered by the West around 1800.
From the early days of radio through the rise of television after World War II to the present, music has been used more and more to sell goods and establish brand identities.
Arnold Schoenberg’s close involvement with many of the principal developments of twentieth-century music, most importantly the break with tonality and the creation of twelve-tone composition, generated controversy from the time of his earliest works to the present day.
From the author of The History of Rock ’n’ Roll in Ten Songs comes his “Basement Tapes”: the complete “Real Life Rock Top 10” columns For nearly thirty years, Greil Marcus has written a remarkable column called “Real Life Rock Top Ten.
Since the 1960s, British progressive rock band Jethro Tull has pushed the technical and compositional boundaries of rock music by infusing its musical output with traditions drawn from classical, folk, jazz, and world music.
Musicologist Pauline Fairclough explores the evolving role of music in shaping the cultural identity of the Soviet Union in a revelatory work that counters certain hitherto accepted views of an unbending, unchanging state policy of repression, censorship, and dissonance that existed in all areas of Soviet artistic endeavor.
In Louis Armstrong and Paul Whiteman the jazz scholar Joshua Berrett offers a provocative revision of the history of early jazz by focusing on two of its most notable practitioners—Whiteman, legendary in his day, and Armstrong, a legend ever since.
This book offers a comprehensive look at musical representations of native America from the pre colonial past through the American West and up to the present.
A collection of the best music writing and cultural criticism from one of the most influential music journalists of his day The co-founder of Rolling Stone magazine, Ralph J.
In Hoedowns, Reels, and Frolics, old-time musician and flatfoot dancer Philip Jamison journeys into the past and surveys the present to tell the story behind the square dances, step dances, reels, and other forms of dance practiced in southern Appalachia.
A master class on piano performance and pedagogy from the world-renowned concert pianist In this newly revised edition of a comprehensive guide to piano technique, performance, and music interpretation, renowned performing musician, recording artist, and teacher Boris Berman addresses virtually every aspect of musical artistry and pedagogy.
