Music and Modernity among First Peoples of North America (Music / Culture)
ISBN10:0819578630ISBN13:
Revisioning Indigenous musicology
Winner of the 2020 Ruth A. Solie Award for Edited Collections from the American Musicological Society (AMS), which honors each year a collection of mu ...
The Sounds of Place: Music and the American Cultural Landscape
ISBN10:155553709XISBN13:
Focusing on instrumental works of high-art music, Von Glahn analyzes thoroughly the soundscapes of fourteen diverse composers who have commemorated American places. Organized chronologically ...
Miracle of The Music Man: The Classic American Story of Meredith Willson
ISBN10:1538154641ISBN13:
The Music Man stands as one of the greatest achievements in American musical theatre, but few know about its rocky beginnings and the against-all-odds success story of its creator Meredith W ...
Words and Music: Confessions of an Optimist
ISBN10:1493065106ISBN13:
From his earliest days as a culture-beat reporter, through a wildly successful four decades in the book business, to his latest philanthropic ventures, Stephen Rubin has witnessed up close t ...
The Musical Thought and Spiritual Lives of Heinrich Schenker and Arnold Schoenberg (Ashgate Studies in Theory and Analysis of Music After 1900)
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This book examines the origin, content, and development of the musical thought of Heinrich Schenker and Arnold Schoenberg. One of the premises is that Schenkers and Schoenbergs inner musical ...
A History of Twentieth-Century Music in a Theoretic-Analytical Context
ISBN10:1138213357ISBN13:
A History of Twentieth-Century Music in a Theoretic-Analytical Context is an integrated account of the genres and concepts of twentieth-century art music, organized topically according to ae ...
The Cambridge Companion to Serialism (Cambridge Companions to Music)
ISBN10:1108492525ISBN13:
What is serialism? Defended by enthusiastic champions and decried by horrified detractors, serialism was central to twentieth-century art music, but riven, too, by inherent contradictions. T ...
Bach and the Meanings of Counterpoint (New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism, Series Number 10)
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This book offers new interpretations of many of Bach’s late compositions which include complex musical techniques such as canon. These techniques held great significance for Bach and h ...
The Psychology of Teaching and Learning Music
ISBN10:0367481774ISBN13:
The Psychology of Teaching and Learning Music introduces readers to the key theoretical principles, concepts, and research findings about learning and how these concepts and principles can b ...
Singing Soviet Stagnation: Vocal Cycles from the USSR, 1964 1985 (Slavonic and East European Music Studies)
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Singing Soviet Stagnation: Vocal Cycles from the USSR, 19641985 explores the ways in which the aftershock of an apparent crisis in Soviet identity after the death of Stalin in 1953 can be de ...