Music - Reference

""A Musical Triad From Shakespeare: The Clown In Twelfth Night, Autolycus, The Lord Of Amiens (1872)"" is a book written by Alfred Thomas Roffe. The book explores the musical elements found in the characters of three of William Shakespeare's plays: ""Twelfth Night"", ""The Winter's...

Advice To Young Musicians is a book written by the renowned German composer and music critic, Robert Schumann, in 1860. The book is a collection of essays and letters written by Schumann to aspiring musicians, offering them guidance and advice on how to succeed...

Songs and Excerpts from It Happened in Nordland: A Musical Extravaganza (1905) is a collection of musical pieces written by Mac Donough and Glen. The book features songs and excerpts from the musical extravaganza, It Happened in Nordland, which was first performed in 1905....

The Wizard of the Nile is a comic opera in three acts, first performed in 1895. The book was written by Harry Bache Smith, an American playwright and lyricist. The story is set in Egypt and follows the adventures of an American tourist named...

In Dahomey: A Negro Musical Comedy is a book written by Jesse A. Shipp in 1902. It tells the story of two African American men who travel to Dahomey, a country in West Africa, in search of wealth and adventure. The book is a...

The Boston Music Company Digest Of Piano Pieces: For The Left Hand Alone is a book of sheet music compiled by Felix Fox and originally published in 1917. The book contains a collection of piano pieces that are meant to be played using only...

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 does so in a simple,...

Music Education for Social Change: Constructing an Activist Music Education develops an activist music education rooted in principles of social justice and anti-oppression. Based on the interviews of 20 activist-musicians across the United States and Canada, the book explores the common themes, perceptions, and...

Wonderland: A Musical Extravaganza is a book written by Glen MacDonough and first published in 1905. The book is a musical extravaganza that tells the story of a young girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole and enters a magical world filled...

The expanded and updated third edition of this acclaimed Companion provides an accessible, broadly based survey of one of the liveliest and most popular forms of musical performance. It ranges from the American musical of the nineteenth century to the most recent productions on...

Frog Opera, With Pollywog Chorus is a musical extravaganza written by Charles Thurber Miller in 1880. The story is based on the classic nursery tale and old song ""A Frog He Would A Wooing Go."" The book features a cast of frog characters who...

"Was there life before Contemporary Christian Music?" is a question that few under the age of 40 are able to answer with any certainty today. The so-called "worship wars" of recent years have polarised opinion and split congregations. Not that this should surprise us....

Whether it's rhythm & blues, hip-hop, rap, jazz, soul, blues or gospel, each genre is covered in the pages of On This Day in Black Music History. A book in a calendar format, it covers over 60 years of mind-tickling trivia, history and events...

A group of resourceful kids start solution-seekers.com, a website where cybervisitors can get answers to questions that trouble them. But when one questioner asks the true meaning of Christmas, the kids seek to unravel the mystery by journeying back through the prophecies of the...

ACOUSTIC GUITAR - AN HISTORICAL LOOK AT THE COMPOSITION CONSTRUCTION AND EVOLUTIONAuthor: Richard JohnstonISBN-10: 0634079204ISBN-13: 9780634079207Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2005Pages: 400Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.22lbsSize: 8.20h x 6.42w x 0.94d

(Guitar Educational). Conveniently sized to fit in your guitar case, this handy reference provides easy-to-see photos and easy-to-read chord grids for more than 900 guitar chords open and barre, partial chords and broken set forms. Also includes basic chord theory and fingering principles. Over...

The Techno Primer is a complete guide to the world of loop-based music styles. This book/CD pack contains an enhanced CD with techno music tracks in a variety of styles - as well as video clips and a demo version of the ACID(TM) XPress...

Lucien Capet was born in Paris in 1873 and became a renowned violinist in the Capet Quartet. He was a student of Maurin and the pure tradition of French violin technique through Baillot. He was invited to teach chamber music at the Paris Conservatory...

As the music business continues to undergo many dramatic changes, music groups are quickly discovering that to build and sustain a successful career, they must stay on the road and do as many shows as possible each year. Because of this, skilled tour managers...

From Aaliyah to ZZ Top, author Jimmy Correa covers it all in The Trivia Book of Rock 'N' Roll Music: The 80s and 90s-an essential guide to musical factoids. The easy-to-read multiple choice format makes trivia fun while you learn interesting tidbits about all...

Author: Ron SmithISBN-10: 0595206220ISBN-13: 9780595206223Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2001Pages: 168Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.96h x 6.04w x 0.45d

Author: Ron SmithISBN-10: 0595196144ISBN-13: 9780595196142Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/2001Pages: 264Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.94lbsSize: 9.04h x 6.06w x 0.70d

Music Theory: The Essential Guide offers musicians of all ages and levels a practical and relevant guide to music theory today. Written and structured to make content as easily digestible as possible, this indispensable guide introduces key musical concepts such as pitch, tempo, rhythm,...

Having a good ear is vital to becoming a successful musician, and Improve Your Aural is here to help develop your musicianship in easy progressive stages. Through fun listening activities, boxes to fill in, and practice exercises, this interactive workbook and two CDs focus...

Compose Yourself is the indispensable resource for all teachers of composition. Emphasizing a holistic and practical approach to composition, this book offers: fifty lesson plans for the overworked music teacher, and ideas for listening, discussion, notation, improvisation and performance activities. Information is divided into...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

Do you enjoy classical music but wish you knew more about it? Do you buy CDs, tune in to radio programs, go to concerts, and sometimes wonder just what, precisely, all those Italian musical terms mean? In this wonderfully engaging guide, Miles Hoffman demystifies...

From the cylinder to the download, the practice of music has been radically transformed by the development of recording and playback technologies. This Companion provides a detailed overview of the transformation, encompassing both classical and popular music. Topics covered include the history of recording...

This comprehensive, accessible guide to Bart k and his music contains up-to-date research by a new generation of Bart k scholars. Part I sets the cultural, social and political background in Hungary at the beginning of the twentieth century, and considers Bart k's research...

Authored by leading scholars in the field, this collection of fourteen essays surveys the life, work, and posthumous reception of the nineteenth-century German-Jewish composer. Sections cover aspects of biography as well as Felix Mendelssohn's expansive and multi-faceted musical output. Two closing essays confront the...

This guide to the orchestra and orchestral life combines orchestral repertory history with critical thought. It includes topics such as the art of orchestration, scorereading, conducting, international orchestras, recording, and becoming an orchestral musician, educator or informed listener.Author: Colin LawsonISBN-10: 0521001323ISBN-13: 9780521001328Publisher: Cambridge University...

From Robert Johnson to Aretha Franklin, Mahalia Jackson to John Lee Hooker, blues and gospel artists play significant roles in twentieth-century culture. This overview of these genres provides an expression of the twentieth-century black American experience. Histories are questioned; songs and lyrical imagery are...

This innovative collection of articles offers a major comprehensive overview of new developments in cultural theory as applied to Western music. Addressing a broad range of primarily twentieth-century music, the authors examine two related phenomena: musical borrowings or appropriations, and how music has been...

This thorough, well-researched exploration of the origins and development of a rich and varied African American musical tradition features authentic versions of over 40 folk songs. These include such time-honored selections as Wake Up Jonah, Rock Chariot, Wonder Where Is My Brother Gone, Traveling...

MAKE A SOUND INVESTMENT IN CLASSICAL MUSICWho are the ten most important classical composers? Who in the world was Palestrina? Why did Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" cause a riot? Which five of each important composer's works should you buy? What is a concerto and...

Opera: The Basics offers an excellent introduction to four centuries of opera. Its easy to follow sections explore topics including: the origins of opera basic terminology the history of major opera genres including: serious opera, comic opera, semi-serious opera and vernacular opera. With key...

First Published in 2004. 19th-Century Piano Music focuses on the core composers of the 19th-century repertoire, beginning with 2 chapters giving a general overview of the repertoire and keyboard technique of the era, and then individual chapters on Beethoven, Schubert, Weber, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Schumann,...

Nicolas Slonimsky (1894-1995) was an influential and celebrated writer on music. Born in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1894, in his 101 years he taught and coached music; conducted the premieres of several 20th century masterpieces; composed works for piano and voice; and oversaw the...

With an unrivaled freshness, charm, and sense of fun, Wynton Marsalis steps forward not only as a world-renowned jazz and classical performer, but as a great teacher in the tradition of Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts. Using wonderfully appealing examples and analogies--likening the rhythmic...

Provides information on the structure, origin, and playing of musical instruments throughout the world from prehistory to modern times.Author: Sibyl MarcuseISBN-10: 0393007588ISBN-13: 9780393007589Publisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/1975Pages: 628Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.48lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 1.39d

What was the first jazz record? Are jazz solos really improvised? How did jazz lay the groundwork for rock and country music? In Why Jazz?, author and NPR jazz critic Kevin Whitehead provides lively, insightful answers to these and many other fascinating questions, offering...

The Oxford History of Western Music is a magisterial survey of the traditions of Western music by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists of our time. This text illuminates, through a representative sampling of masterworks, those themes, styles, and currents that give...

The universally acclaimed and award-winning Oxford History of Western Music is the eminent musicologist Richard Taruskin's provocative, erudite telling of the story of Western music from its earliest days to the present. Each book in this superlative five-volume set illuminates-through a representative sampling of...

Jazz and its colorful, expansive history resonate in this unique collection of 60 essays specially-commissioned from today's top jazz performers, writers, and scholars. Contributors include such jazz insiders as Bill Crow, Samuel A. Floyd Jr., Ted Gioia, Gene Lees, Dan Morgenstern, Gunther Schuller, Richard...

Heinrich Schutz (1585-1672) was the most important and influential German composer of the seventeenth century. Director of music at the electoral Saxon court in Dresden, he was lauded by his German contemporaries as "the father of our modern music," as "the Orpheus of our...

Topics are musical signs developed and employed primarily during the long eighteenth century. Their significance relies on associations that are clearly recognizable to the listener with different genres, styles and types of music making. Topic theory, which is used to explain conventional subjects of...

**Winner of the Music Library Association's Vincent Duckles Award for the best bibliography or research tool in music** Music Library and Research Skills, Second Edition, introduces the prime concepts of music research, helping students develop a firm understanding of the tools that provide information...

In the music classroom, instructors who hope to receive aid are required to provide data on their classroom programs. Due to the lack of reliable, valid large-scale assessments of student achievement in music, however, music educators in schools that accept funds face a considerable...

It has been reviled, dismissed, attacked, and occasionally been the subject of Congressional hearings, but still, the genre of music known as heavy metal maintains not only its market share in the recording and downloading industry, but also as a cultural force that has...