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by Nicole V. Gagné
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
In the last decade of the 19th century, modernist sensibilities reached a critical mass and emerged more frequently in music as composers began employing dissonance, polyrhythm, atonality, and densities. Conversely, many 20th-century composers eschewed modernist devices and wrote accessible works...
Orchestral "Pops" Music
A Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
In this second edition of Orchestral “Pops” Music: A Handbook, Lucy Manning brings forward to the present her remarkable compendium of information about this form of orchestral music. Since the appearance of the first edition in 2008, this work has proven critical to successful “pops” concert...
The Tennessee Tech Tuba Ensemble and R. Winston Morris
A 40th Anniversary Retrospective
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
The Tennessee Tech Tuba Ensemble (TTTE) is one of the most successful performing collegiate ensembles in history, with an enviable record of 25 recording projects, seven Carnegie Hall appearances, two World's Fairs performances, numerous national and international conference engagements, and a performance...
Women Singer-Songwriters in Rock
A Populist Rebellion in the 1990s
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2009
In Women Singer-Songwriters in Rock: A Populist Rebellion in the 1990s, Ronald D. Lankford Jr. argues that women singer-songwriters formed a substantial movement within popular music during the 1990s, making a significant social and aesthetic contribution that pushed feminism into mainstream American...
Singing
The First Art
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2006
The Italian singing technique Bel Canto instructs, "He who knows how to breathe and how to pronounce, knows how to sing." Singing: The First Art incorporates the techniques of Bel Canto along with those of masters like Berton Coffin and Manuel Garcia to promote and facilitate vocal excellence....
The Ballad Collectors of North America
How Gathering Folksongs Transformed Academic Thought and American Identity
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Much has been written about the songs gathered in North America in the first half of the 20th century. However, there is scant information on those individuals responsible for gathering these songs. The Ballad Collectors of North America: How Gathering Folksongs Transformed Academic Thought and American...
Music and Displacement
Diasporas, Mobilities, and Dislocations in Europe and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
The grand narratives of European music history are informed by the dichotomy of placements and displacements. Yet musicology has thus far largely ignored the phenomenon of displacement and underestimated its significance for musical landscapes and music history. Music and Displacement: Diasporas,...
Bach's Testament
On the Philosophical and Theological Background of The Art of Fugue
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
Written late in his life, J. S. Bach’s The Art of Fugue has long been admired—in some quarters revered—as one of his masterworks. Its last movement, Contrapunctus 14, went unfinished, and the enigma of its incompleteness still preoccupies scholars and musical conductors alike. In 1881, Gustav...
David Craighead
Portrait of an American Organist
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
American organist David Craighead's influence in the United States and abroad is widespread and extensive: 37 years as professor of organ at the Eastman School of Music, 48 years as church organist at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Rochester, New York, and 64 years performing in over 275 cities as...
by Victoria Etnier Villamil
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2004
New in Paperback 2004.
Probably the most comprehensive work on the American art song ever available, this book considers the lives and contributions of 144 significant composers in the field, including many for whom information has been extremely scarce. Most composers' entries consist of a biographical...
by Jonathan D. Green
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1994
Now in paperback. This innovative survey of large choral-orchestral works written between 1900 and 1972 and containing some English text examines eighty-nine works, from Elgar's Dream of Gerontius to Bernstein's Mass. For each work, the author provides a biography of the composer, complete instrumentation,...
Maestros in America
Conductors in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2008
Maestros in America: Conductors in the 21st Century provides short biographical and critical essays of over 100 American conductors-and conductors in America-in the twenty-first century. Roderick L. Sharpe and Jeanne Koekkoek Stierman made their selections based on three categories of persons: American-born;...
Experiencing Stravinsky
A Listener's Companion
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Hear the name “Igor Stravinsky” and the first thing that comes to mind is a composer of ponderous, “serious” music. But did you know that Stravinsky lived much of his life in Hollywood? That he collaborated on musical projects with Pablo Picasso and George Balanchine? That his work subtly...
by Joseph P. Swain
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Although it lies far back, running roughly from about 1600 to 1750, the Baroque period is far from forgotten and Baroque music is played widely today as well, exercising numerous musicians and attracting rather substantial audiences. It experienced the emergence of a new sort of music, increasingly...